Sentences with phrase «number of classrooms as»

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In September 2015, children and parents joined the Accolade Wines team to formally open the local pre-primary school following the addition of four new classrooms, two store rooms and a number of toilets, as part of the company's ongoing support of the Kayamandi community in Stellenbosch.

As Peter Gray outlines in his 2013 study of 75 grown homeschoolers, those children with the least number of formal schooling years (either in a classroom or homeschooled), were more likely to go on to post-secondary learning.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

In her current role as senior child nutrition policy analyst, she works with a diverse group of national and state partners to expand the use of the School Breakfast Program among low - income children and increase the number of schools offering breakfast in the classroom free to all students in target states, school districts and schools.

An increasing number of daycare facilities offer parents the piece of mind of being able to check on their child while at daycare as desired through video streaming of classroom activities throughout the day.

Some schools have been forced to convert sick bays and classroom blocks into dormitories as a result of the huge numbers sent to them.

The rise in the number of engineering students also masks a slight drop in the proportion of women (but not the absolute numbers) in the classroom, as computer engineering — the fastest growing specialty — attracts a heavily male enrollment.

Over the period of our funding SPECIFIC has demonstrated their Buildings as Power Stations technology in a number of situations culminating recently in the award - winning classroom at Swansea University's new Bay Campus.

This simple numerical comparison (leaving aside other factors affecting the classrooms in Spanish universities such as the large number of students in many centers and the increase in the type of «unquantifiable» work that this generates for teaching staff) shows that the «civil servant professor» has a significant decrease in availability of time for research compared to members of research - only institutes.

The BAFTA Careers Quiz has been designed so that it can be used in a number of scenarios — as a classroom resource, as an interactive device at options and careers evenings or as an activity a young person can complete independently.

I'm not sure I've seen Twitter yet in all its glory in the classroom, but I'm hearing about it more and more, and it's certainly gaining popularity in numbers — as of now, up to about a million people use it.

The esteemed academic, currently serving as president of Morgan State University in Baltimore, is flooded with memories of hot summer days walking the long miles between the school and his home (often barefoot to save his shoes), of early classroom lessons taught by a strict but caring teacher, of his beloved family members who reside here in great number.

To develop these guidelines, the various international partners created opportunities for representatives from the Ministry of Education to visit schools in the refugee camps as well as schools in Nairobi that have been accommodating significant numbers of refugee learners in their classrooms.

A teacher faces a higher risk of being labelled low - performing (or high - performing) as the number of opt - outs in her classroom increases.

43 % of New Teachers in New Jersey Plan to Leave Classroom Teaching; Nearly Half are Mid-Career Entrants At a time when U.S. schools will need to hire over two million new teachers to serve a growing number of students and replace a large cohort of retiring teachers, new research findings from the Harvard Graduate School of Education suggest that 43 % of new teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire careers.

In the two schools that had reopened, the Ed School students provided administrative and academic support in a number of areas, including in - classroom support through reading groups, one - on - one tutoring, and substitute teaching; organization and distribution of school uniforms; help to renew the libraries; and organization of after school electives such as Latin dancing, basketball tournaments, soccer games, and chess clubs.

The database includes information about each student's classroom teacher in a given year, which allows us to estimate how much the student learned in that year and to connect that information to such professional characteristics as teacher certification, acquisition of a master's degree, teacher experience, teacher test performance, and the specific school of education the teacher had attended within Florida, if the teacher had attended one of the eleven schools for which adequate numbers of teacher observations were available.

Teachers often come to the classroom with an unclear understanding of attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder, and they are rarely provided with strategies that detail how to work with students who have been diagnosed with ADHD, even though such students make up an increasingly large number of their students — 11 percent and growing as of 2011, according to data gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

They can learn more deeply as well if they're also not being impacted upon by repeated disruptions from, again, those small number of students that might be in your classroom.

Service requirements, known as «vesting» rules, require teachers to stay a certain number of years in the classroom in order to qualify for a pension.

Printable sheets which explain the 10 rules of compositing an amazing photograph - Includes visual and written explanation of each rule - rule of thirds, odd numbers, simplicity, background, framing, lead in line - Clear for students to understand - Can be used as a display within the classroom (sheet can simply be printed and put up) Show your students WHY a good photograph is good.

As part of guaranteeing all young people access to excellent teachers in these subjects we are supporting a number of schools to recruit up to 650 teachers to return to the classroom in September 2016.»

The jury is out but what is clear is that urgent action is needed, and needed now to get more teachers into our classrooms as schools face up to the coming surge in the number of students.

Considering that as little as 15 percent of current middle school instructional reading is expository (Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010d), adoption of the Common Core Standards means middle school teachers will need to increase the number of informational texts read in their classrooms.

Several studies, including our own, clearly demonstrate that teacher evaluation systems that are based on a number of components, such as classroom observation scores and test - score gains, are already much more effective at predicting future teacher performance than paper credentials and years of experience.

A number of editiable resources which can be used as displays around your classroom or school.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «The number and quality of teachers in our classrooms is at an all - time high but as the economy strengthens we recognise that recruitment can be challenging — particularly in some areas of the country.

Formal competition, tryouts, and practices are part of the everyday grind, as ever - increasing numbers of American children are being raised to play to win both inside and outside of the classroom.

But, as the popularity of virtual pets — or «virtual pests,» as some principals call them — grows, so does the number of principals forced to deal with distractions the digital dogs and dinosaurs can cause in U.S. classrooms.

With different challenges in education among institutions, as well as with the availability of large number of eLearning solutions, institutions need to choose a Learning Management System that works in and beyond the classroom.

From posters for your classroom wall to games to practice fractions of shape, fractions of a set and fractions as a number on a number line.

As students enter the classroom, give them a baggie of three items and a number.

Cameras in the classroom can be used to help address and deter a number of day - to - day issues such as bullying, smoking, drug use, theft and violence towards staff.

As a classroom teacher, I have worked with a large number of identified special - needs students.

Students include the number of likes in Spanish as well, and makes for a great display in your classroom revolving around a food unit.

The rise in the number of non-traditional superintendents can be tied, in part, to the rise of standardized tests as a measure of what is happening in the classroom, according to the AASA's Jay Matthews.

At a time when U.S. schools will need to hire over two million new teachers to serve a growing number of students and replace a large cohort of retiring teachers, new research findings from the Harvard Graduate School of Education suggest that 43 % of new teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire careers.

It's a dilemma facing a growing number of teachers as they tackle the subject of global warming in the classroom: How do you make students understand the urgency of the issue without paralyzing them with fear?

Teaching in the online environment is quite different from teaching in the classroom and as such has a number of...

However a government spokesperson argued: «Teaching has a lower turnover rate than the economy as a whole — 90 per cent of teachers in state schools stay in the profession from one year to the next while the number of teachers returning to the classroom continues to rise year after year.»

However, it is important to realize there is uncertainty in VA measures, which are estimates that may be based on only a few classrooms of students, so the gains from removing teachers identified as ineffective based on a limited number of years of data are smaller.

For example, since last year's election, there has been a notable increase in female candidates in Massachusetts, as well as record numbers of teachers in Oklahoma leaving the classroom for the campaign trail.

By applying more creative thinking, where pupils are receiving targeted provision which is all about closing the gaps and where this is common for many of the pupils in the school, it should lead to a reduction in the number of pupils registered as having SEN; finally addressing the nagging sense SENCOs have had that really what is required is the best provision at the classroom level.

This included: attendance levels (studies show a positive relationship between participation in sports and school attendance); behaviour (research concludes that even a little organised physical activity, either inside or outside the classroom, has a positive effect on classroom behaviour, especially amongst the most disruptive pupils); cognitive function (several studies report a positive relationship between physical activity and cognition, concentration, attention span and perceptual skills); mental health (studies indicate positive impacts of physical activity on mood, well - being, anxiety and depression, as well as on children's self - esteem and confidence); and attainment (a number of well - controlled studies conclude that academic achievement is maintained or enhanced by increased physical activity).

The possibilities are endless: Count off for lining up or for any number of classroom needs that require movement, do morning stretches while counting the duration, count during jumping rope, count the blocks as towers are built, and use fingers to tap out and count the beats in words during literacy activities.

A factor model can provide predictive effects that condition on averages over many classrooms, with and without the same teacher, and can provide a limit as the number of such classrooms tends to infinity.

As long as schools were required to provide a certain number of years of a subject matter, a certain number of days of teacher training, a certain number of kids in the classroom, the bureaucracy was contenAs long as schools were required to provide a certain number of years of a subject matter, a certain number of days of teacher training, a certain number of kids in the classroom, the bureaucracy was contenas schools were required to provide a certain number of years of a subject matter, a certain number of days of teacher training, a certain number of kids in the classroom, the bureaucracy was content.

Alongside these factors, there is also a practical limitation on how quickly learning can be rolled out with classroom - based instruction, as the capacity to deliver is limited by the number of available classrooms and trainers.

This projection varies depending on the percent of newly prepared teacher that actually enter the profession and the number of former teachers who return to classroom as re-entrants.

I would like to have predictive effects that condition on averages over many classrooms, with and without the same teacher, and consider a limit as the number of such classrooms tends to infinity.