Sentences with phrase «of classroom seating»

Research areas included identifying the most troublesome disruptive classroom behaviour in Australian primary school classrooms, observing primary teachers» use of approval and disapproval for academic and social behaviour in the classroom, quantifying the effect of classroom seating arrangements on student time spent «on task» and measuring the effect of implementing the strategies of Positive Teaching classroom behaviour management.

• Minted Box, the creators of classroom seating plan, MINTclass, is asking teachers to share their challenges, frustrations and ideas for effective school practice

Now up for re-election, Bill de Blasio wants to add thousands of classroom seats for 3 - year - olds, too.

And Latinos like Esther are the backbone of education reform because their kids will soon fill the majority of classroom seats.

About 41 percent of classroom seats are empty, and projections indicate a continued decrease in enrollment.

Not exact matches

Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home.

«Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home,» Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post announcing his company's purchase of Oculus.

«Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home,» he wrote.

If you prefer a classroom style learning environment, Desire2Learn workshops are held frequently at the Taylor Institute of Teaching and Learning where you can reserve a seat.

You sat in the third row, on the window side of the classroom, four seats from the aisle.»

One practical way to end this type of behavior in the classroom is to assign seats and assign group projects.

De Blasio said his administration has committed $ 4 billion to the creation of new seats, including replacing trailers used as overflow classrooms with brick - and - mortar buildings.

The defendant was also accused of using his office for gratification by awarding the contract for the rehabilitation of a road and parking lot worth N12, 662,590 and the procurement of 1,277 two - seater classroom chairs worth N22, 459,237.50 to Skylight Nigeria Limited, a company of which he was the proprietor.

Withholding seats and robbing kids of classroom space supports neither equity nor excellence.

On topic question topics included the mayor's proposed $ 20 million allocation for arts programs and whether this is all new spending, whether it's typical for elementary schools to have arts teachers, the mayor's proposed $ 4.4 billion capital spending to address classroom overcrowding, how many new classroom seats that spending would produce and where they would be located, whether all trailers used by schools would be eliminated, the definition of «problematic behavior» used in dealing with the Absent Teacher Reserve, what the state funding to be used for middle school after school programs would have otherwise been used for and DoE support for schools that will participate in the program providing increased school autonomy.

CITY HALL — Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a $ 84.67 billion preliminary budget for fiscal year 2018 Tuesday that includes money to pave 1,300 miles of road, adds 40,000 new classroom seats and boosts financial reserves to record levels in case of potential federal funding cuts from the Trump administration.

Imagine, if you will, a classroom in which every seat is occupied by one of the best students in the country — bright, fully engaged, and hungry to know more.

Our 25,000 square foot facility is the starting point for your guided tour of the Green Bank Observatory telescope site and contains the Catching the Wave Exhibit Hall, an 150 - seat auditorium, classrooms, a gift shop, and even a full menu at our Starlight Café.

For the first four months of the 2016 — 17 school year, my 153 Spanish 3 and Spanish 4 students had a traditional seating classroom.

A view of Murray's full classroom, which represents a first - year transition from traditional to flexible seating.

Sutherland, Curts, and Maziarka incorporated a range of tables and seating options to make their classroom comfortable.

Almost all of our K — 8 teachers have dropped seating charts but devote time to modeling appropriate behaviors in their new classrooms.

In classrooms where teachers are effective learning - state managers, students know what to expect and often look forward to getting out of their seats periodically and interacting with others, ultimately refreshing their learning states.

Five seating plans that work for different classrooms, lessons, children and times of year.

The benefit of the iPad is that it can be one size fits each, with boundless opportunities for differentiated, customized and personalized learning that gets kids out of their seats and classrooms, and into open, flexible and modular spaces.

Amy Mileham added a variety of seating options to her classroom, including yoga balls, lap desks, and crate and bucket seats.

«I am in my 13th year of teaching, but this is my first year to incorporate flexible seating into my classroom,» said first - grade teacher Ashley Rice Broomfield, before expressing a common sentiment: «I will never go back to traditional seating.»

Flexible seating is transforming classrooms, enabling new modes of learning, and deepening student — and teacher — engagement.

Logistically, I can seat all students in a circle and focus on the physical space of my classroom.

This classroom was different from anything I had ever experienced; for, it was not a room with rows of seats facing a blackboard, rather it had been organised with a variety of activity settings (Tharp & Gallimore, 1997).

They gripe about the amount of homework, food in the lunchroom, their seat in the classroom, and comments of other students.

Seating charts are a critical component of any classroom.

But to the extent that the stereotype represents what's actually happening in classrooms (which I'm skeptical of), the problem is not the seating arrangement or lack of smartphones; it's the pedagogy.

We are wholly committed to project - based learning that has kids out of their seats and requires them to expand the classroom to the city itself.

The Larsen classroom project undertaken in summer 2009 involved renovating the first and second floors of Larsen Hall into an 80 - seat, tiered classroom with adjacent seating areas on the first floor, as well as a 50 - seat, tiered classroom and breakout space on the second floor.

Participants stressed that limiting the number of seats around a blended and personalized learning design table, in turn, limits the level of teacher buy - in to new classroom models.

• At day's end, there are just three ways of awarding «credit» for work done in (or out) of school (and conferring diplomas or equivalency certificates based on that credit): «seat time» as traditionally measured in Carnegie units; the judgment of classroom teachers; or «demonstrated mastery» based on credible external assessments.

Children are captivated by nature and the nest box cameras quite literally bring the nesting season to life in the classroom and allow us to follow the stories of the nesting birds, giving children a front row seat to the world hidden within the nest box.

History students learning about the American Revolution will surely be engaged as they investigate all of the nooks and crannies on the Smithsonian's Gunboat Philadelphia from their seats in your classroom through this great interactive 3D file.

Many observers might stay seated and off to the side in the attempt to not disrupt the natural flow of the classroom — but their very presence makes it too late for that!

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

When we assessed this objectively in the speech perception task we found that in the enclosed classroom children were achieving around 80 per cent, irrespective of where they were seated in the classroom.

Frustrated by the dull look of seating plans and uninspired shapes we have to work with, I decided to make my own «build your own interactive seating plan» that is realistic, very cute and can be customised to ANY classroom!

I was pretty much prepared to veto any requests that smelled like they were diversions from the classroom routine, except for something along the lines of, «Ms. Delisio, can I please move my seat so more ceiling tiles don't fall on me?»

Mr. White then heightened the excitement by asking everyone to be seated except for the two delegates from each of the fourteen classrooms.

Unfortunately, one of the main criteria by which you are judged as a teacher is your ability to keep «order» in the classroom — quiet; neat rows of seated students; one person speaking at a time after being recognized; and so on.

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»

At the classroom level, education is a pragmatic, seat - of - the - pants enterprise in which teachers tend to throw whatever they have at students, and character educators are no exception.

They gripe about homework, food in the lunchroom, their seat in the classroom, and comments of other students.

Issues like glare can be dealt with simply by seating the child in a shaded area of the classroom, and it may be the case that they need to wear sunglasses of some kind to make them more comfortable.