Sentences with phrase «of classroom conditions»

Often he or she wields a checklist of classroom conditions and teacher behaviors that don't focus directly on the quality of instruction.

The typical teacher evaluation in public education consists of a single, fleeting classroom visit by a principal or other building administrator untrained in evaluation who wields a checklist of classroom conditions and teacher behaviors that often don't focus directly on the quality of instruction.

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When, at the same time, church folk in Georgia actively looked with longing and trust to the image of children of all races sitting in the same classrooms, their vision of the feast without end conditioned their present and drove them into positions of advocacy and political action in behalf of their dream.

As her report put it: «The research suggests that, while there may be little return to trying to make students more gritty as a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.»

Whilst bringing benefits to teachers, I am also confident that this agreement will modernise their conditions of service in a way that will have a positive impact on pupils in the classroom.»

At 2:30 p.m., de Blasio will visit the High School of Fashion Industries, where he will meet with parents and students to discuss recent investment to install air conditioning in every classroom, 225 W 24th St., # 343, Manhattan.

Malliotakis criticized the DoE as a «bureaucratic nightmare», top heavy with administrators and consuming enormous amounts of money intended for improved classroom conditions.

New spending items include $ 36 million for a plan to expand pre-K to 3 - year - olds as well as funding to install air - conditioning units in thousands of public - school classrooms.

In January, the school — which offers fashion, merchandising and illustration classes along with standard academic courses — launched a GoFundMe page to raise money for the installation of air - conditioning units in the nearly 70 classrooms that don't have them.

Alleviating Overcrowding: This budget will start to address space conditions in the city's schools, reducing overcrowding and the use of trailers as classrooms with $ 4.4 billion capital investment in new space, including class size reduction.

All of the classrooms at the High School of Fashion Industries on West 24th Street will have air conditioning by the fall as part of a plan to install AC units in every classroom throughout the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio said at an event at the school Wednesday.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said, «While we all recognize the state's fiscal condition, the children in New York City's classrooms should not have to bear the brunt of these cuts.»

The students may not be standing for classes, but a Citi News reporter managed to gain access to the classrooms in the school, and the sight that greeted him resembled conditions one would associate with primary schools - under - trees in some of the most deprived areas of the country.

«If thousands upon thousands of children are not learning to read, write, speak and compute, it is not because of overcrowded classrooms, the effects of poverty and social conditions, poorly developed educational programs and materials and inadequately trained teachers.

It appears that education policies related to both compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.

We begin with a prominent question for many school and district leaders: What conditions must we create in order to promote the scaling of identified classroom innovations?

Past successful projects include boiler replacements, roof repairs and the creation of new classroom blocks with efficient air conditioning systems and modern dance studios.

Because the child can exhibit diabetes - related problems in various school settings, from the classroom to the ball field to the cafeteria, school staff who supervise the child will need to be apprised of her medical condition.

The site had a school dating from about the 50s or 60s — a collection of small classroom blocks, singular, traditional, cellular classroom forms, single - storey, in fairly poor condition.

Besides ensuring that all students have compassionate, effective teachers creating classroom conditions and opportunities for these things to occur, a school principal's primary responsibility is to allocate the scarce resources of time, space, and funding to maximize children's positive and productive experiences of school.

While increasing numbers of school districts offer pay incentives to address math and science staff shortages, the authors conclude that «compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.»

Those leaders will no longer be able to maintain the fantasy of high - school educators floating from classroom to classroom like Mary Poppins because of their love of children while at the same time haggling over pay, benefits, and working conditions as if they were automobile workers.

Research conducted by the University of Pennsylvania's Richard Ingersoll, among others, shows that general working conditions, the degree to which teachers have classroom autonomy, and other non-monetary factors are at least as important a consideration as salaries in explaining teacher attrition.

Addressing issues of diversity in the classroom can often be challenging because, as Kim noted, as a society we are conditioned from a young age to make assumptions about things by association and categorization.

Although many teachers understand the importance of students doing the work, few are able to create the conditions for success within a classroom of 30 students.

Weston's struggle to improve the environmental conditions of her daughter's classroom is not unique.

Any right - thinking school leader would want — and arguably needs — that kind of flexibility so that suspensions (and other forms of discipline) can be tailored and customized to take into account an array of factors regarding individual circumstances and histories, classroom conditions, and the larger school culture.

HG: What this questions registers is how do power, politics and knowledge connect in creating the conditions for the production of knowledge, values, subjectivities, and social relations in both the school and the classroom.

Students of all ages are encouraged to learn by the same favourable classroom conditions, as Stephen Keast and Rebecca Cooper explain.

She discovered that Malawian teacher voices and the official literacy instruction of the country required conditions not being met in the classrooms, especially considering large class size, limited time, as well as insufficient and inadequate reading materials.

There were multiple classrooms / teachers in each condition, making it possible to separate the effects of curriculum from the effect of particular teachers and classrooms.

[Editor's note: Before bringing candy into the classroom, be sure you are aware of any students who might have allergies or conditions that would preclude them from eating those candies.]

Yet we've organized conventional schools in an industrial model and we batch - process students in ways that made sense to «cult of efficiency» experts circa 1920, that lent themselves to uniform teachers delivering a uniform curriculum to groups of twenty to thirty same - age pupils in more - or-less identical classrooms during a six - hour day and 180 - day year that made perfect sense for a country that lacked air conditioning and that wanted to standardize the school year.

If our educational system is to deliver on the promise of high standards for all students, educational leadership must strive to create conditions for high quality instruction in every classroom.

What's clear from Harrison's story is that students of all ages are encouraged to learn by the same favourable classroom conditions.

In addition, as a condition of funding, Reading First schools must administer timely classroom assessments and must adjust instruction as needed for every child based on the results.

The report highlighted that on average, three children in every classroom have a clinically diagnosable mental health condition, while 90 per cent of head teachers have also reported an increase in such problems over the last five years.

«Everything I learned in my courses here only made me more excited to return to the classroom and test out all my new ideas for years to come,» says Nirmalan, who admits that the perks of HGSE life — air conditioning, sleeping in, being able to use the restroom whenever she wants — are somewhat hard to give up.

Safe and orderly environments that encourage and reinforce positive classroom behavior have been identified by research as one of the necessary conditions for academic achievement (Marzano, 2003).

To capture these real - world dynamics requires randomly assigning hundreds of college students to different classroom conditions.

Whilst the increase in the number of learners in our classrooms deemed to have autistic spectrum orders, dyslexia, cerebral palsy, or myriad other conditions is real, the challenge of creating lessons that are meaningful, rich and rewarding for all of them remains the same.

Enforcing good habits A number of factors affect the postural health of children, including their use of classroom furniture, heavy backpacks, underlying health conditions and sitting habits at home.

Despite the smaller (i.e., than for teachers and teaching), yet still significant measured effects on student learning for school - based factors beyond the classroom — Hattie has calculated an effect size of 0.39 for principals / school leaders [3]-- research evidence has confirmed that «school leaders can play major roles in creating the conditions in which teachers can teach effectively and students can learn».

From my research the key stressors described by teaching professions seem to be staff tensions and conflict; time pressures / admin; classroom conditions; and lack of rewards and recognitions.

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.

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.

Teacher shortages are not felt uniformly across all communities and classrooms, but instead affect some states, subject areas, and student populations more than others, based on differences in wages, working conditions, concentrations of teacher preparation institutions, as well as a wide range of policies that influence recruitment and retention.

At any such point, is a random variable with Still conditioning on, consider counterfactual outcomes as varies over, averaging over the conditional distribution of given: There is a structural function interpretation for: within a school with, we can obtain potential expected output for various assigned values of the teacher input, holding constant the distribution of classroom characteristics (at the conditional distribution of given).

Only condition on values for s such that there is at least one pair of classrooms with different teachers, so that.

More than a decade of research, at Harvard and elsewhere, on accountability, school improvement, and school organization has become «increasingly specific,» he said, «about the conditions that promote high - level learning and performance in educational institutions,» within classrooms and in systems as a whole.