Sentences with phrase «most by classroom»

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Training skilled craftspeople requires programs that combine classroom training and on - the - job experience, and are most successful when led or supported by companies invested in training their workforce.

A good start is to help volunteers overcome the «edifice complex» by downplaying the notion that what's most important for the group is the classroom or clinic or house that they're going to build, and emphasizing that the real purpose is pastoral accompaniment.

That the stupid cookie or candy included, or the extra bag of cheetos is going to make them banshees in the classroom where your and my child are trying to focus... I would say that even in most districts that the nutritional value on a reimbursable tray is probably better than the brown bag that is being brought to school by most!

It seems to me that the most promising mechanisms for real change are at the federal level, by influencing Congress at it considers the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, and at the most local of levels — the individual school — where parents and sympathetic principals can work together to, for example, eliminate treats in the classroom or the sale of objectionable a la carte foods.

As Robert learns the most appropriate social behaviors, he is happy to be supported by positive role models in the classroom.

Many a child has surprised everyone by staying dry (most of the time, at least) when inspired by a classroom full of potty - trained peers.

By Jessica O'Dwyer Most days, my six - year - old son, Mateo, takes the bus to his suburban California kindergarten, but sometimes we drive, so we can read together in the classroom before school begins.

Following a three - year study that involved about 3,000 teachers, analysts said the most accurate measure of a teacher's effectiveness was a combination of classroom observations by at least two evaluators, along with student scores counting for between 33 percent and 50 percent of the overall evaluation.

Perhaps having lived in Southern California for most of my life, I tend to think that the screenplay by New York native LaGravenese grossly overstates some of the depictions of the community here as largely violent and filled with racial tensions that cause conflicts on a daily basis in nearly every classroom and city block at all times.

A new, in - depth report takes a look at how states spend education money and finds that the most cost - effective ways of increasing student achievement are by reducing pupil - teacher ratios, providing more prekindergarten programs, and providing teachers with discretionary classroom resources — not by raising teacher pay.

... But I prefer to think of it as simply that we now have choices that our teachers didn't have, and the idea to me of the Flipped Classroom is that by automating the things that are able to be automated, we free up time for the things that can't be automated and those things that can't be automated tend to be the things I think in which teachers bring the most value to their students in the classroom.

Without great school and classroom leaders to make sure reforms are implemented, even the most ambitious and sweeping policy changes can sputter out by the time they hit your children's classrooms.

By empowering students, you can engage them further in learning, provide a more democratic learning experience and, of course, find the most powerful resource in your classroom: us.

One of the most promising sources of free classroom lessons we've seen recently is Curriki, created by the computer giant Sun Microsystems.

Most of the 2,000 pupils facing exams who were affected by the closures are among those heading back to the classroom, after two days away from school.

Throughout his long career as an education journalist for PBS Newshour and NPR, John Merrow, Ed.D.» 73, spoke to many people in education — from policymakers to district leaders to classroom teachers — and he was impressed by the dedication most had to improving the field.

Reports published by the Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University of Connecticut have shown that most general education classroom teachers are poorly equipped to meet the needs of the gifted, and that gifted students can spend as much as half the school repeating curriculum and waiting for classmates to catch up.

Arne Duncan, the Obama administration's secretary of education, having previously served as schools superintendent in Chicago, one of the nation's most troubled school districts, gave back - to - back speeches early in his tenure decrying the state of the field: «By almost any standard, many if not most of the nation's 1,450 schools, colleges, and departments of education are doing a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the realities of the 21st - century classroom,» and «America's university - based teacher preparation programs need revolutionary change, not evolutionary thinking.»

Most obviously, a blended classroom is powered by digital technology, which allows learners to access rich textual, graphic, interactive, video, and audio content unknown to the students of the past.

By 2003, schools were expected to spend around # 65 million on dedicated ICT budgets, but one of the most prominent developments in classroom technology was the investment of around # 200 million in interactive whiteboards, which had reached 58.3 per cent of schools by 2004, and is now the most commonly used piece of AV classroom technology (BESA Historic ICT in UK State Schools, 2015By 2003, schools were expected to spend around # 65 million on dedicated ICT budgets, but one of the most prominent developments in classroom technology was the investment of around # 200 million in interactive whiteboards, which had reached 58.3 per cent of schools by 2004, and is now the most commonly used piece of AV classroom technology (BESA Historic ICT in UK State Schools, 2015by 2004, and is now the most commonly used piece of AV classroom technology (BESA Historic ICT in UK State Schools, 2015).

In addition, a survey of English language arts classrooms published by the Fordham Institute found that most elementary - school teachers, at least in the early stages of common core implementation, assigned books based on students» abilities, rather than grade - level complexity, as the standards state.

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.

Technical support is most often provided by a person trained as a classroom teacher but released from one or two classes during the day to provide technical support for the building.

If basic literacy is in fact necessary for a teacher to be effective in the classroom, the victims of this policy will be the students; in New York City, minority students will be its primary victims, as most students taught by minority teachers are of the same background.

Most teachers have used these to create a calming and inspirational atmosphere in their classrooms by displaying the finished sheets on the walls, which students love.

In spite of the fact that reading difficulties are part and parcel of the modern classroom, most of the technology that benefits students affected by dyslexia is not designed for this purpose.

They were contributed by educators from Edutopia's community in response to a discussion by blogger Larry Ferlazzo asking users to share their most valuable classroom management advice.

Andrew Douch:... The idea to me of the Flipped Classroom is that by automating the things that are able to be automated, we free up time for the things that can't be automated, and those things that can't be automated tend to be the things I think in which teachers bring the most value to their students in the classroom.

The final report on the Early Reading First program, conducted by outside researchers under contract to the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, found the program has had the most significant effect in improving classroom activities and materials, as well as teacher practices related to literacy development.

Of, by, and for the classroom: Most of these folks started as teachers, were frustrated by something, and started an initiative to fix it.

Though Dillon mentions value - added modeling, he says that the Gates researchers use it «as a starting point,» and spends most of the rest of the piece discussing their use of cameras to capture teachers in action in the classroom — they hope to have 64,000 hours of classroom video by the end of the project and have already begun the process of looking for «correlations between certain teaching practices and high student achievement» and «scoring» the lessons.

A school with a fixed number of classrooms and teachers can increase efficiency by rearranging students in the most effective way possible.

Most Head Start classroom teachers would be required to earn an associate's or a bachelor's degree by 2003 under a bill that extends the program for five years.

You wouldn't see it in most classrooms, you wouldn't know it by looking at slumping national test - score averages, but a cadre of American teenagers are reaching world - class heights in math — more of them, more regularly, than ever before.

Even the most impressive AI would still struggle with appropriately analyzing the complex needs and immediate cues communicated by a classroom full of students.

Third, it operates as an alternative to the pro forma classroom evaluations carried out by most principals.

Too often, school leaders get bogged down by disciplinary, administrative, operational, and / or political issues and don't have time to dedicate to the most important part of their school: what goes on in the classrooms.

Ethically, critical pedagogy stresses the importance of understanding what actually happens in classrooms and other educational settings by raising questions regarding what knowledge is of most worth, in what direction should one desire, and what it means to know something.

And it's fair to say, when it comes to managing a classroom, most of what we learn as new teachers is trial by fire.

His practical translations of the most current research and theory into classroom strategies are internationally known and widely practiced by both teachers and administrators.

If Sir Kipling is indeed right and words are the most powerful weapon used by mankind, perhaps we can endeavor to begin with the words we chose in the classroom to create teams, tribes and leaders instead of managing disruption, mitigating damage and controlling our classrooms.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

But, at the very same time, the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) results show that most classrooms in Israel are dominated by very traditional teaching geared to help students reproduce prefabricated subject - matter content.

But this strategy, one celebrated by Chancellor Carmen Fariña, will only exacerbate NYC's failure to serve a large demographic — English Language Learners who benefit most from full inclusion in English - only classrooms.

This report shows that by placing an average ability student in the least effective, rather than the most effective classroom environment could affect their academic progress by as much as the average improvement across a year.

In addition, it seems schools in Ireland are the most relaxed when it comes to allowing children to leave the classroom, with 14 % of parents in Dublin admitting their child goes on over 10 trips a year, followed closely by 11 % in Belfast.

All kids spend most of the day getting challenged at their level, and no one ever sits in a classroom that's entirely segregated by race or class.

This includes developing courses that challenge students with real higher education leadership cases derived from sitting presidents, provosts, and deans; creating opportunities for students to interact with the most noted senior leaders in higher education; developing course structures that allow HGSE students to interact with higher education students at other universities around the nation, in order to compare ideas; and developing opportunities for our students to visit different colleges and universities, exposing them to places and viewpoints otherwise not accessible by simply sitting in the classroom.

Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

Even the most boring film was still surrounded by this specialness, which set it apart from business - as - usual in the classroom.