Sentences with phrase «make classroom work»

It helps crystallize and make classroom work meaningful, it illustrates and illuminates the dynamics of person - to - person relationships....

Professor Thomas Kane, deputy director of education for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks to CNBC on the «rules» for evaluating teachers and what really makes a classroom work.

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That's no longer the case, as social movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo have thrust the power dynamics that she highlights in her own New York City classroom onto a cultural main stage, and made her work more accessible and understandable.

Traction: Suraj Srinivas, a graduate, Ryan McKay - Fleming, a dropout, and William Zhou, currently an undergraduate, make an unconventional trio working on revolutionizing classroom cultures.

«The worst kind of training for the folks we work with is to sit them in classrooms and make them listen to lectures.»

Creative church schools work hard to make everything that occurs in the classroom (worship, problems in interpersonal relationships, teaching - learning, and so forth), laboratories in which religious truths can be brought to life and experienced.

Let the tinies learn what it looks like to be a person, made in the image of God, working — no matter if our work happens on computers or at the laundry or on the job site or the classroom — as unto the Lord.

What I've learned from my research is that in addition to making sure our classroom practices are engaging, we also need to talk to students directly about their beliefs about school, helping them see how disengagement works against them, and what engagement actually is.

Students who fall behind or miss school can use up a lot of a teacher's classroom time getting make - up lessons or in class help with their work.

She loved the idea of serving her students universal breakfast - in - the - classroom, but Purvis wasn't sure how to make the finances work back at LPPS.

These traits (self - awareness, mood management, motivation, empathy, and social skills) can be fostered in children and taught in classrooms, making them powerful strategies for parents and teachers to model when working with children.

Our kids have a reward system that they use in their classrooms at school that seems to work great so the hubby suggested that I make one similar so I designed and cut one using my Cricut Explore.

I drug myself to work yesterday and it suddenly became very apparent to me just how much I do in the morning: get up, shower, dressed, put on makeup, make breakfast, make my decaf pumpkin spice latte, eat breakfast, pack lunches, get kids teeth brushed (hubby got them up, dressed and fed), get kids shoes and coats on, get everyone in the car, drive 45 minutes in traffic, get kids and their stuff out of the car, walk to each kids» classroom, take out lunches and put in the fridges, get kids to put their stuff in their cubbies and wash their hands, go back to the car, drive to my office, get out, walk across the lot, down stairs and through two heavy doors to my office, and finally sit down.

If we can change our policies and our practices in the classroom, and work with researchers devoted to finding ways to help our children, we can «make a tremendous difference, not only in the lives of individual children and their families, but in our communities and our nation as a whole.»

Carter Bayton was asked to work with thirteen 2nd grade boys who were considered so disruptive that they couldn't make in it a «regular» classroom.

«I nurse the baby, prepare bottles for daycare, pack the toddler's lunch, put together the baby's diapers for daycare, pack my lunch, pack pump parts, take juice and vitamin to the toddler, wake the toddler up, get him on the potty, wake the baby, dress the baby, dress the toddler, take the kids downstairs, put the baby in their car seat, make breakfast for the toddler, get dressed, take everything to the car, take the kids to the car, drive to daycare, drop kids off in their classrooms, get to work, prepare my patient lists for the day, greet my first patient or two, pump for 30 minutes, and then it's 9:00 a.m.»

The recent ham and cheese sandwich assembly line recently unfolding in a first grade classroom at this District 36 elementary school reflects the school's four Peace Power principles — recognize, stop put - downs, work together and make peace, said Principal Julie Pfeffer.

Using the bar to introduce children to food in their raw state and educate students palates by offering some special seasonal salads makes fast work of transforming your cafeteria into a classroom enjoyed by all every day.»

If you're working on implementing or expanding breakfast - in - the - classroom in Idaho, make sure you reach out to your state agency for help and resources.

«The reality is the teachers are going to be the ones that make it work in a classroom every day for the kids across the state,» said Elia.

-- Kids and teachers who did make it to school said classrooms were practically empty, and they spent the day watching movies and doing busy work but no schoolwork.

The organization aims to reduce or eliminate the use of high stakes testing, increase teacher autonomy in the classroom and work to include teacher and family voices in legislative decision - making processes that affect students.

And when he dropped in on some students in a classroom at the State University of New York, he showed he was still working on the art of making small talk with strangers.

Next Wave profiles two scientists who made the transition from researcher to science educator, but who do most of their work outside the traditional classroom.

And although research can seem abstract compared with the practical work of teaching, Schoenfeld says the theoretical foundations that academics lay eventually make it into classrooms and curricula.

Perhaps they could turn the space into a classroom, study whether lighting can reduce falls among older people or probe whether certain office conditions make it easier for people with traumatic brain injuries to return to work.

ASPB further grants to authors the permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of a work published in Plant Physiology ® or The Plant Cell without fee for personal or classroom use.

It's perfect for commuting to work or the classroom, and is made from durable nylon with a signature tan leather trim.

The Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers report of 2014 made recommendations on how to better prepare graduate teachers in Australia with the practical skills required for classroom work.

«There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.»

Central to this is our work to empower teachers to make more decisions about how their schools are run; ensure schools are funded more fairly; address workload concerns and de-clutter guidance so teachers have more time in the classroom to teach.

On the site, I explain and demonstrate instructional and classroom management strategies; explore technology, books, research and professional development tools that can make us better; help teachers fine - tune the design of their materials; examine the emotional and social forces that impact the way we do our work; and conduct my own little grass - roots studies on topics that I think need more attention.

Although visual literacy methods made art accessible to teachers and students unfamiliar with it, I would have worked more closely with our district's art teachers to bring their expertise into the classroom.

As part of a community of young creators, engineers, problem solvers, designers, collaborators, and dreamers, students can work as a classroom learning team, find inspiration in unanswered questions, and ultimately push ideas forward into a reality to make a positive impact on our world.

Eighth - grade students in Laura Bradley's flexible classroom make themselves comfortable to work.

What makes National Board Certified teachers unique is that they have demonstrated how every element of their work, both inside and outside the classroom, meets high standards and improves student learning.

Through our partnership with the Kusuma Trust UK, the Research Schools Network will work with local schools to break down barriers and make sure that evidence from our guidance reports has a real impact on classroom practice.

Moreover, as director of the Making Creativity Visible initiative, I have the pleasure of working with classroom and museum educators over the next 18 months to develop and disseminate tools that will help teachers to model, foster, and assess creativity and make that learning visible.»

Last spring, the classroom activity, called Care Court, earned Floyd a finalist slot in the Dean's Challenge, a contest where Ed School students worked alongside Making Caring Common to develop simple education ideas that promote empathy.

We do this with differentiated teaching in the classroom, it makes sense to also differentiate our behavioural expectations based on a child's capacity, while we also work on increasing this capacity building skills such as self - regulation and persistence.

What changes could you make today to create a classroom environment that works for you and your students?

Sicat wanted to make the seniors» work visible to their younger peers, a goal that traditional isolated classrooms would not support.

When I initially considered conferencing with each and every student in my classes to reduce the need for written comments, I was apprehensive about the time commitment, but with the help of a colleague who had made it work in his classroom, I recently took the plunge and did writing conferences with my students — and it had a huge impact on my classroom and my students» learning.

This makes work dynamic both in a professional sense and in the classroom.

This year, the Teacher team was lucky to speak to many classroom teachers, school leaders and academics about the work that they are doing and the changes that they are making.

Teachers themselves want to better understand how changes they make to learning design and adaptive delivery can improve their own work and the majority of our students are much more sophisticated judges of effective classroom practice than ever before.

Online tools and access to technology must be coupled with a commitment from teachers to make homework as interesting and engaging as the work students complete in the classroom.

Because traveling between classrooms isn't usually a desirable option, the situation most often is experienced by the newest teachers, those who lack seniority — and the experience to make it work.

I may not be in a classroom myself, but working at the Ed School, I am interacting with a broad range of people to hopefully make their educational experience here positive, knowing that these people are graduating and going out to shape education on many different levels.

For those of you without the luxury of your own classroom or office space to work in during planning periods, make a commitment to stay after school for at least thirty minutes each day.