Sentences with phrase «model our classroom on»

While it's true that we can not predict the world our students will graduate into, we were able to model our classroom on the way small, successful startups operate in the business community.

Not exact matches

As companies like Coursera, Udacity, and edX struggle to find a business model to accompany their noble cause, they've turned to implementing the flipped classroom on campuses across the country, as well.

The learning model is centered on a global perspective, an integrated approach to management, teamwork, and technology in the curriculum and classroom.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

Having a principal champion on board to advocate for your alternative breakfast model is a key best practice we share with school nutrition directors and managers seeking to implement breakfast - in - the - classroom.

Download NEA's breakfast - in - the - classroom toolkit for information on the benefits of various BIC models, statistics, and more.

Both types of courses are professional development workshops that model, teach, and encourage teachers to use inquiry - based, hands - on methods of teaching STEM subjects in their classrooms.

Whether they are in the classroom taking a nap or out and about on a class adventure, little ones are sure to benefit from the safe and user - friendly designs of our models.

Take a look at our recent blog post on school breakfast and breakfast in the classroom resources for school nutrition professionals to learn more about how alternate delivery models and CEP can help you implement BIC and make it sustainable.

A Westchester school is imploring six high schools on Long Island to abandon their plans to skip a Model Congress event for students in New Rochelle out of fear stemming from a recent classroom stabbing.

The initiative is based on a model that helps motivate the children to stay in school and inspire them to take on responsibility in the community and the classroom.

The theme of the biennial institute, which is modeled on a similar summer gathering in Europe called the European Science Education Research School, was connecting research on science education to classroom practice and policy issues such as the Next - Generation Science Standards.

The program is taught by classroom teachers who train alongside educators from the Carnegie Institution and universities, as well as by «model teachers» who train with BioEYES staff for three years before running the program on their own.

They identify five «essential [teaching] acts» that can be analyzed and taught: listening with care; motivating the student; modeling caring by hearing and responding to the pain of others, and by creating a sense of security in their classrooms; evaluating by clarifying, coaching, advising, and deciding on an appropriate challenge for this boy or that girl; and reflecting and renewing.

While it is not possible to promise students a true one - on - one experience, especially in larger classrooms, a collaborative learning model can make the experience more personalised.

In a random selection of videos, Mrs. Burk — «the rapping math teacher» — models a lesson for students on perimeter and area, Dr. Altman demonstrates magnetic fields, a Utah school district presents a PowerPoint show on incorporating technology in the classroom, and a group of teachers give a detailed lesson on how to run a literature circle.

Instead of focusing solely on social media, connected educators should stay tuned into their classrooms, meet other educators face to face, and model real - world engagement.

Below are the eight procedures for modeling and practicing expectations based on classroom rules.

With micro-chartering, one or more classrooms or individual teachers could receive a charter to provide course access to students beyond the walls of a particular school — or to incubate new charter school models on a small scale before growing them.

In our elementary schools, educators capitalized on our existing responsive - classroom model, which has built - in social and emotional conversation time and established routines for safe and open conversations with children.

«We've had five very successful years with 24 coaches because we built our model on the feeling that teachers know best in deciding what they want to work on and use in their classrooms.»

Much depends on whether the gender impacts are due primarily to interactions within the classroom or more subtle «role - model» effects.

Does your classroom have role models of people of color and / or other cultures on the walls?

«Administrators build their credibility as instructional leaders when they consistently demonstrate classroom expertise by modeling instructional practices, collaborating on curricular initiatives, and enacting the classroom culture they envision for the whole school,» she says.

He has drawn from his experience as a program director and adventure coordinator for Camp Quinapoxet and Brantwood Camp to infuse a model of classroom facilitation based on respect, risk taking, and hard work in his classroom.

Then, in 2011, Rose went on to found a non-profit called New Classrooms, which offers Teach to one, a model similar to the School of One.

In addition to modeling lessons for teachers and working with small groups of students, the skills specialists also regularly analyze student scores on diagnostic, formative, and standardized tests across classrooms, subjects, and grades.

On the basis of these survey results, we created three measures: (1) the principal's overall assessment of the teacher's effectiveness, which is a single item from the survey; (2) the teacher's ability to improve student academic performance, which is a simple average of the organization, classroom management, reading achievement, and math achievement survey items; and (3) the teacher's ability to increase student satisfaction, which is a simple average of the role model and student satisfaction survey items.

Designed to give new managers «the knowledge, confidence, and competence to do their job well», it was based on the flipped classroom pedagogical model where the lecture and homework elements are reversed.

This phenomenon is a less talked about byproduct of our «factory model» of school, but one that places false constraints on the range of adult supports and expertise that students can access inside their classrooms.

Teacher Study Group: Impact of the Professional Development Model on Reading Instruction and Student Outcomes in First Grade Classrooms.

In contrast, because there is rampant nonconsumption in secondary schools — of advanced courses, foreign languages, credit recovery and so on — the disruptive models of blended learning are likely to replace the traditional classroom over the long term.

Now I use a model that allows me to draw on those aspects of mastery that have transformed the maths learning in my classroom, while enabling all children to achieve.

Tech in the Classroom: VIRTmac VIRTmac (Visual Interactive Revolutionary Tactile Magnetic Classroom) is a modeling kit that uses magnets on classroom blackboards to display the structure and processes of cells and molecules.

To describe the model, the reporter drew on a Teacher's College study of Teach to One's efficacy as well as a visit to one classroom implementing the software.

Math VIDS has some great information on modeling in the classroom.

Principals who rotate their faculty by strength during the year, or augment classroom teachers with online lessons, will find their staffing models a poor fit for evaluation systems predicated on linking each student's annual test scores to a single teacher.

The creation of the computer and educational software moved learning away from the classroom to the learning - on - demand model.

The assets available to the Henry Ford Academy are not available in every community, yet this model can inspire other school districts to look at local institutions with new eyes and imagine classrooms in settings where they've never been before, as was done recently in New Orleans, which will incorporate a new school on the grounds of the Louisiana SuperDome.

The question arises, «Have studies shown unequivocally that one - to - one computing has a significantly higher impact on learning than the traditional lab or classroom center model?»

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ITIS Majorana School's classroom model is based on collaborative teaching and learning.

«If we give them good educational games during training, it will be a model for them on how to integrate games into their own classrooms,» he says.

Based on my experience and research ~ I have to confidently say that while there is no one perfect system ~ no holy grail so to speak of gifted delivery models ~ I would recommend some combination of using a separate classroom or pull - out program with...

Large conferences like ASCD have incorporated Edcamp - style sessions, and Edcamp organizers have written both a white paper and a book about the model and its impact on educators and their classrooms.

In recent years, school districts have embraced formal evaluation models based on work created by Marzano, Danielson, and others who have proposed criteria to determine whether teachers are being effective in the classroom.

The pack includes: Display banner - A long banner for a display with pictures Father Christmas - A large picture of Father Christmas for your displays Display lettering - Large letters to spell out «Father Christmas» decorated in red and whte stripes Number line - A number line to 50 on Christmas doors Alphabet line - An alphabet line on Elves Story words - Word cards with words relating to the story - great to include in your writing area Counting cards - Cards from 1 - 10 with different numbers of drinks to count Speech bubble worksheets - Various worksheets to fill in the speech bubbles Word mat - An A4 word mat with pictures to help when writing about the story Face masks - Colour and black and white face masks of Father Christmas and Elves to use for story telling and role play Father Christmas model - Make a model of Father Christmas using split pins Playdough mats - Various colourful mats to use with play dough for counting and Christmas Matching pairs - A colourful matching pairs game to make and play Colour Elves - Different coloured elves with the colour name Worksheet - Design a new drink for Father Christmas Christmas tree game - Spin the spinner and collect different decorations for your tree Banner - A long «Happy Christmas» banner for your classroom decorated with holly leaves Worksheets - Various worksheets to draw different parts of the story, to draw your food and drink for Father Christmas and to design a sleigh for Father Christmas Game - Deliver all the presents in your sleigh first to win the game Maths worksheets - Various worksheets with counting, addition, subtraction and symmettry Design a decoration - Design a new decoration for your Christmas tree Decorations - Various Christmas decorations to cut out and colour Game - Roll a die and cover the numbered star in the night sky - plus a version to use two dice and add the numbers together and cover the number Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves.

Because of my experience in his class, I went on to participate in Model United Nations and study abroad in Italy, just to experience learning outside the four walls of a classroom.

As well as looking at traditional classroom based activities, Daniel challenges his students to model one of the ideas they are working on.

«In a sense we are modeling our discussion and conversation in the classroom on organizing groups, where people have to learn to work together in a community.»