Sentences with phrase «making space for students»

Making space for all students to become meaningfully involved and not just the loudest or best performing students.

She created a collaborative environment in her classroom, making space for her students to solve problems together.

Teachers have captive audiences, but we must remember that the most important work involves making space for students to speak.

What if, instead of making our space for our students, we made it with our students?

It is not enough to expose students to information — deep learning happens when we make space for students to do creative, challenging work in response to meaningful content.

Make a space for each student to play an active role.

Although written cases and analyses of student work samples would achieve similar goals as video analyses, images of classroom lessons provide unique opportunities for novice teachers to see in action how more experienced colleagues make space for student thinking to become visible, probe student thinking to move learning forward, engage students in classroom discourse and learn about students» individual ideas while they teach.

For example, research on teacher participation in video clubs and its effects on teaching practices has reported teachers» increased attention to details of student mathematics thinking, as well as various strategies teachers adopted to make space for student thinking in their instruction.

Not exact matches

Robert Bjork, of the University of California, coined the phrase «desirable difficulties» to describe the counter-intuitive notion that learning should be made harder by, for instance, spacing sessions further apart so that students have to make more effort to recall what they learnt last time.

It's not just the big - name corporations that are making a point to engage the next generation of scientists and innovators — Space Angels - funded Because Learning, previously known as Ardusat, has their own ideas for how to engage students in STEM fields.

Subsequently, I've always felt unsettled in my living spaces; everything has felt temporary and handed down and mismatched (though hey, we were super grateful for all those hand me downs during our grad student days), but I haven't known how to start making changes.

Efforts are underway within sectors of the academy at Oxford, including the push to install baby changing tables in some departments and to make the Middle Common Rooms (MCRs)-- spaces reserved for the comfort, sanity and fraternisation of postgraduate students in their respective colleges — more family friendly.

On Thursday afternoon, shortly after the rally, a spokeswoman for the Education Department said that the department would not meet the Friday deadline, but that it would «continue to assess space requests within a timeline that makes sense for all impacted students and families.»

The governor could also work to change the state's charter law to include a mandate that New York City's charter students should either have access to sufficient space or that funding be made available to ensure that schools have enough money to pay for additional space, Bill Phillips, president of the Northeast Charter School Network, told Capital.

The United Federation of Teachers, in a proposed amendment to a City Council resolution, today called for charter schools seeking free space in New York City public school buildings to be required to make public financial data and political donations, along with student demographics, suspension rates, and teacher and student attrition.

CIVIC CENTER — Mayor Bill de Blasio could potentially use space in New York Public Library branches and New York City Housing Authority buildings to meet his goal of providing full - day universal pre-K to all city students by fall 2015, the mayor's office said Monday as de Blasio headed to Albany to make the case for his plan.

Having a formal «mentoring program, or job adviser,» Ball writes, has the advantage of «creating a safe space for students to make mistakes in the job - search process without feeling like fools in front of their advisers.

Possibly even more important for Weinberg, the organization has made space for teen advocacy, working with high school students from across the United States and Canada on projects to get youth involved in science.

Many graduate programs, for example, are making concerted efforts to recruit students from historically marginalized groups, including African - Americans, Latinos, and students with disabilities, but this approach will only succeed if faculty members, administrators, and the scientific community at large also consider the environment that the students are being recruited into, and how to make those spaces truly inclusive arenas where a diverse group of scholars can thrive.

This makes the turnover in universities faster, liberating space for new graduate students every 3 to 4 years instead of every 7 to 8 years.

This activity makes it easier for students to understand important (but invisible) space science and astrophysics concepts that can sometimes be hard to conceptualize.

She encourages her students to make space for themselves on and off their mats.

My intention is to create a space with both structure and freedom, for my students to explore themselves, honor what they're feeling and make the practice their own.

Her goal is to create a space where her students can let go of the past and make room for the present and the future.

The work sheets have five sample polynomials that he has made up for the students to factor, plus a space for each student to make up five problems.

Make sure there's enough space for you to walk around each table so you're able to check in with every student.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

«It matters more on who is in that space and the kinds of decisions that educators make to set students up to make positive choices for their learning.»

How can we make the space even more comfortable for students?

Of course I fully agree with many of the more accepted goals of the liberal variants of critical pedagogy whose arch-categories include the following — to foment dialogue, to deepen our appreciation of public life, to create spaces of respect and appreciation for diversity, to encourage critical thinking, to build culturally sensitive curricula, to create a vibrant democratic public sphere, to try to change the hardened hearts and minds of our increasingly parasitic financial aristocracy, to build knowledge from the experiences and the histories of students themselves, to make knowledge relevant to the lives of students, and to encourage students to theorize and make sense of their experiences in order to break free from the systems of mediation that limit their understanding of the world and their capacity to transform it, to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, to fight against white supremacy, etc..

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Complete with Edexcel standard mark schemes to make assessment eaiser and space for students to self and peer assess to build meaningful targets for improvment.

Teachers work hard to make warm, inviting learning spaces for students, but let's take a step back.

But the opposite was true after I took a risk: instead of me decorating a classroom for my students, we made a learning space together.

The charts provide spaces for students to make notes about different elements of five holiday celebrations — Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Las Posadas, and Ramadan.

Swanson and the students often wish for more space, but they make every effort to follow wise business practices.

Though Proposition 39 compels districts to provide facilities for students within their boundaries who attend charter schools, districts can make the policy inconvenient for charter operators by offering short - term leases and multiple, separate spaces for a single school.

«As a result of [my mission to Huntsville], classroom learning will be much more activity - based rather than theoretical - things like survivability, the history of space flight, the equipment used... and I will expand on the NASA material to make lesson plans more interesting for the students.»

The hearings have the potential to provide insights for educators into how we can make our classrooms safe spaces for diverse students.

Prompts can shape discussion and spaces provided allow for quick notes to be made and handed to students before they break up for the holiday.

There is also a task to create an environment for Clarence the Llama, using basic shapes, which makes the student work with scale, proportion and space.

Included in this lesson are following: * Keyword Championship Title Screen * Rule of the game * Score card * Unit 1 - How the Market Works Keywords (ready to be cut up) There is space for adding your own keywords and definitions to make the game more fun and suited to your students.

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To prepare for their arrival, though, he's set up a few elements, such as a floating theater with a screen where students can share videos they've made, and a space where participants can post photos such as shots of favorite places in their hometowns.

I also have an exemplar with a space for students to make annotations.

He says that the new climbing wall, in - line skating, hockey, bike riding and safety, and other efforts initiated by Zavacky have made the gym and her class space a central meeting place and hangout for countless students and faculty.

It's our job as designers of our learning spaces to be familiar with some of these key elements where we can make a positive difference for student learning.

We should make space in our classrooms for students to express their concerns and ask questions about our world in a public forum.

Or, as is the case with the collaborative story - writing ideas that we'll be discussing, there is explicit space made for students to first use their own intellectual abilities.

Avoid waiting around for the student to change their behaviour immediately; they may need some time and space to make a better choice.