Sentences with phrase «move about the classroom»

The curriculum is individually guided, and children move about the classroom to different centers, working alone and in small groups to achieve their academic goals.

Classroom flow: Find a colleague or student who has a free period when you teach, and ask him or her to come and observe how you and your students move about the classroom.

Before that happens ~ I have them watch me so they can model some techniques ~ such as moving about the classroom ~ how to recognize students ~ how to keep them engaged ~ etc..

This shows in our facial expressions, our demeanor, our tone and posture, and even how we move about the classroom.

This lesson includes a kinesthetic component that asks students to move about the classroom.

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Mitacs researcher Ali Zareian from U of C talks with Danielle Smith about how are PhD's moving out of the classroom and working in Alberta businesses...

She could not safely move about and learn in a classroom where 23 kids were allowed to eat as they please as that would leave contaminated surfaces, manipulatives and carpets.

School decision makers 1) plug in simple information, 2) explore different ways to expand school meals programs like moving breakfast to the classroom or serving afterschool meals, and 3) come out with hard data about costs, number of students served and federal reimbursement dollars.

«The absolute first thing parents need to think about is respecting where their child is in the classroom and very incrementally moving them forward, instead of pushing them,» says Meg Zweiback, a nurse practitioner, family consultant, and associate clinical professor at the University of California at San Francisco.

The full text of the motion is below: WORKLOAD AND THE «VIRAL» INTERVENTIONS PHENOMENON Louis Kavanagh to move, Katherine Carlisle to second: Conference is deeply concerned about the rising, ill - informed and debilitating pressure placed on classroom teachers to do ever more under the catch - all, but misleading, term «interventions».

About Blog The mission of the Montessori Teachers Institute for Professional Studies is to provide experienced Montessori teachers the opportunity to move beyond the initial learning gained from Montessori training courses and the first years of classroom teaching by offering a variety of services that will advance their knowledge, improve their skills as practitioners.

Read more about how schools and districts can move beyond these «pockets of excellence» to create a broad - based approach — and how to support teachers as they expand their classroom practices, as well as their confidence and capacities.

(For more about the Maker movement read How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms.)

It includes stories about classroom product testing, moving from «passive» to «active» technology use, the maker movement, and more.

I've said it myself to grad students and new teachers, thinking I was giving sage advice and comfort: «Your first year in the classroom is about moving from unconscious incompetence — not knowing what you don't know — to conscious incompetence — knowing what you don't know and need to improve.»

Kathryn, a maths teacher at Comberton Village College, explains that any classroom management issues this activity might raise, through pupils moving around the room, are outweighed by its value as a practical and effective lesson that they'll easily remember when they're thinking about graphs and gradients.

We met for tea and spoke online before he came into my classroom, and our little chats soon moved beyond joyously geeking - out about the science of superheroes to more passionate discussions about the vital need for science and writing to co-exist.

Whether you use videos to explore and illuminate core content, or you're teaching about the art and methods of filmmaking and digital storytelling, or you're deconstructing media messages as a key part of learning to think critically, you can find dozens of ways to include the moving image in your classroom.

Bermudez believes that this research could provide teachers more ways of engaging students in productive conversations about controversial issues without reaching a wall because a classroom conversation can't move forward.

This is a chance for your students to get out of your seats and, sensibly, move around the classroom gathering evidence with their classmates to learn about Russia's culture

Now we need to move to a new conversation about implementation: If I'm a teacher, how do I make these standards real in my classroom?

Both presenter tools provide remote control of TurningPoint suite of polling applications and allow teachers to move freely about the classroom while still progressing through their interactive voting presentations.

A builder of tree forts since childhood who trained in architecture and design, Pilloton moved into teaching because she «knew there were things about architecture and design that could have a deep impact in the classroom.»

In the classroom: Have students write about an event from childhood and insert their current self into the narrative as either an ally to their younger self or simply an «explainer» who helps move the story along.

When they debate about mathematics, they employ higher level thinking and move into reasoning, so math conversations must be a regular occurrence in the classroom.

Word searches - 2 word searches with words and pictures Writing pages - a collection of photocopiable sheets with toy themed borders Writing worksheets - a collection of worksheets with toy pictures and lines below for writing My favourite toy - draw and write about your favourite toy Word mat - an A4 word mat with words and pictures to use for writing activities Number line - a number line to 100 on colourful toys Alphabet line - a colourful alphabet line Flash cards - word and picture cards of lots of different toys Design a toy - a worksheet for your toy design Colouring pictures - a collection of colouring sheets Tracing pictures - pencil control sheets - great for younger children Book cover - a book cover to colour to use to keep all the topic work together Bingo - print and make this colourful toy themed bingo game Matching pairs game - match the toys Number dominoes - a toy themed game Label the toys - label some different toys Counting cards - cards with numbers 1 - 10 and the corresponding number of toys Size ordering - order the Russian dolls in size order - in colour and black and white Literacy worksheets - match labels to toys, write initial sounds, write words to describe different toys Play dough mats - a collection of activity mats to use in the play dough area Old toys posters - colourful posters showing some old toys Old and new posters - compare the old and new versions of some different toys Baby and child toys - an activity to sort the toy pictures into ones you had as a baby and ones you have now and a worksheet to accompany the activity Our favourite toys - find out about and draw your parents favourite toy and grandparents favourite toy when they were little Push and pull - look at some different toys and talk about what force is used to make them move Write a story - a decorated worksheet for writing a story about your toys Make some toys - photocopiable sheets for making 15 different simple toys such as split pin puppets, a jigsaw, a marble maze, a die to use with the snakes and ladders board Toy shop role play pack - a full pack of resources to set up your own toy shop in the classroom Includes display materials, games, Literacy and Maths activities, story telling resources plus much more

JE: So, we've talked about these Kindergarten interactions, then we move to a primary classroom setting — presumably, a year or so down the line — and this is more of a set up thing, the teacher has finished reading a book and for one of the follow - up activities students can play with this puppet theatre.

This book goes well beyond the noise on learning space design that focuses on pretty Pinterest classrooms and moves towards a more sophisticated conversation about how learning spaces support and drive brain - friendly learning.

But as we move into the digital classroom, teachers are beginning to worry more about how students learn, rather than their SAT scores.

This is a chance for your students to get out of your seats and, sensibly, move around the classroom gathering evidence with their classmates to learn about India's culture.

The following resources — some of which are specifically about leading teacher teams and some of which draw from other sectors — provide a range of ideas about how teacher - leaders can lead and improve their own and others» work, expanding their impact on students and peer teachers, without being forced to move out of the classroom.

Traditional learning (i.e., sitting in a classroom) is less effective because learners care about getting the piece of information they need and moving on.

Learning in the 21st Century is about moving beyond teaching facts and more fully integrating complex thinking into our nation's classrooms.

All had one thing in common: a desire to move beyond conventional thinking about classroom design.

This move transformed the way teachers and students think about assessment in the classroom.

Craft Moves is an enduring present to teachers — a way to think about their writing classrooms and support their writers in a journey toward greater independence and success.

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.

Perhaps the most singular truth about providing leadership for differentiated classrooms is that you should often feel as though you are moving backwards rather than forwards!

Presentations include current and timeless research, classroom rituals and routines that support engaging reading communities, classroom and home library development, book recommendations, practical reading and writing workshop strategies and instructional moves, and personal stories about the power of independent reading and student choice.

Bringing policy through the classroom door may be a missing link that brings about the instructional changes needed to really move the needle on student performance.

Kirsten Wright, an educational technology teacher at Desert Sands Unified School District (CA), talks about how making the move to 1 - to - 1 has transformed not only teaching and learning, but the physical design of her districts» classrooms.

In the case of Race to Nowhere (www.racetonowhere.com), however, the filmmakers wanted to move the conversation about schools beyond the movie theaters and into schools, classrooms, and homes.

The second one is concerns about the way accountability pressures in the No Child Left Behind era created pressure to teach to the test, lots of sanctions and the loss of autonomy in the classroom because quite often in central - city schools, where minority teachers are concentrated, they were moved to a scripted, teacher - proof curriculum, geared to test preparation, which is not what people go into teaching for.

It's simply not fair that our schools have to worry about what money they can move from the classroom to instead pay to keep the lights on and the heat running.

Richert and Nicholson have identified 41 moves that teacher leaders use to support their colleagues to deeply focus on learning about students through looking at classroom student learning data.

As we toured classrooms observing the school's highly effective teachers at work, Malka told me about the school's plans for the future - her impending move into a new school facility being developed in collaboration with Pacific Charter School Development and the anticipated opening of a new middle school in response to requests from parents to expand her offerings.

As we transform ESEA — moving it out of its middle age slump and into a productive future — I want to advocate for research, both rigorous studies of school improvement efforts and descriptive studies that give leaders information about how educators in classrooms are reacting to reforms.

Formative assessment creates an environment in a classroom that is fun; students are constantly moving and sharing their learning with peers and adults, while getting feedback about how they are doing and what they need to change.

When I began making almost all of my literacy assignments open - ended and had students do them on the computer, I saw two important benefits: (1) Students» completed assignments told me a lot about them as individuals; and (2) While each learner worked at his or her own computer, I was able to move around the classroom and have one - to - one and small - group conversations.

It's been about six years since Apple's last education - focused event, but the company's upcoming keynote on March 27th could mean more affordable devices and improved educational apps for classrooms and college campuses, a move designed to get more iOS devices in the hands of students.