Sentences with phrase «of instructional time»

While we are concerned about the amount of instructional time students receive each week, we are also concerned about the quality of learning while in the classrooms.

With only 5 hours of instructional time in front of the computer we are the shortest course allowed by law, not to mention the funniest as well.

The school added 20 minutes of instructional time to the regular school day, expanded summer school, and created a study skills class for students who need support.

While this can feel like a loss of instructional time in the beginning, you will quickly regain valuable minutes in your day otherwise spent putting out fires.

They said discipline was the biggest waste of instructional time in the classroom and that they needed tools to help with it.

The state legislature passed a law limiting test prep to 2 percent of instructional time, but it was difficult to enforce.

More and more teachers are now willing to admit that lecture is not a great use of instructional time.

The majority of instructional time at this grade level should be balanced between the four core subject areas.

This year's proposed test took over two weeks of instructional time from classes.

Other researchers have examined impacts of instructional time on learning outcomes in other states, with similar results.

No real student data is being gathered from this colossal waste of instructional time.

The author concludes that teachers deal well with coordinated disruptions of instructional time but poorly with disruptions that affect different students at different times.

The majority of instructional time at this grade level should be devoted to acquiring skills in math and language arts.

The number one concern that I hear from educators is lack of time, particularly lack of instructional time with students.

The impact of instructional time on learning means that one factor determining the ability of schools to meet performance goals is not under the control of administrators and teachers.

Exit routines can also be used as a part of the instructional time by having the students state what they have learned.

Teachers spend the vast majority of their instructional time as the only adult in a classroom full of students, so evaluating their performance is an ongoing challenge.

About what share of instructional time in high school do you think students should spend receiving instruction independently through or on a computer?

It's expensive in terms of instructional time, financial, and stress for students, parents, and teachers.

We should privilege such strategies over others with little or no support to maximize the effectiveness of instructional time.

We also discuss the importance of recognizing the role of instructional time, explicitly, in accountability systems.

She is intent on making sure every bit of instructional time is dedicated to helping children learn the material that will be covered on the statewide tests that will be administered this spring.

Is the amount of instructional time available to American teachers and students in an average school day adequate?

• Effectively designs dance procedures that provide structure to students and maximize the amount and value of instructional time.

By 2008, the district could see that teachers were increasingly spending more of their instructional time addressing student behavioral issues in the classroom.

A minimum of 2 hours and 30 minutes of instructional time is required.

The purpose and goal of formative assessment is for the teacher to know what the students know quickly, without much loss of instructional time.

The primary special education service percent of day reflects the percent of instructional time the student receives special education services for this particular disability.

A child with an attention deficit can pose serious management problems for the classroom teacher and, if not managed successfully, can take up a considerable amount of instructional time.

Explore new ways to move lecture out of the classroom, and make more meaningful use of your instructional time.

Each original - credit course is based on 90 hours of instructional time per semester.

But the real waste of instructional time is test prep where you mostly learn how to take a test.

Multiple Topics - Focus on the objectives where teachers spend a majority of instructional time.

In most states, more that 50 % of special education students spend more than 80 % of their instructional time in general education classrooms.

«Yet, they still result in a loss of instructional time for students.»

REALTORS ® are required to complete ethics training of not less than 2 hours, 30 minutes of instructional time within two - year cycles.

[7] Because the majority of students with disabilities spend most of their instructional time in a general education classroom, at least 80 percent of teachers will have one or more students with a disability in their classrooms.

I know who should be held accountable when tests cause undue duress in students, students are put into unrealistic pressure - cooker, toxic learning environments, student needs go unmet due to diverting finances to untested standards, students lose months of instructional time due to state - imposed distraction — all this to the full knowledge and concern of school superintendents, etc, etc

All of Connecticut's children are harmed by the narrow and inappropriate content of the Common Core Standards and by the amount of instructional time lost to preparing for and taking standardized tests to measure acquisition of that content.

This shift not only cut down on meaningless homework, it also significantly impacted the quality of instructional time and use of assessments to monitor student progress.

There is a lot of instructional time spent teaching students to memorize words that do not seem to «play fair» or are just plain crazy.

Spelling instruction should take up approximately one hour of instructional time during the school week and should be broken into time slots throughout the week.

Not, at least, without a radical upgrading of teachers and wholesale expansion of instructional time.

For instance, a report from the Benjamin Center for Public Policy Initiatives estimated that New York State students spend about 2 percent of instructional time taking standardized tests, though that number has been criticized for being too low.

As a result, Connecticut public school students are losing hundreds of hours of instructional time so that they can prepare for the testing by taking practice tests and engaging in test prep.

Goodman notes that: «Teachers may feel more obligated during math instructional time to try to catch up students who have been absent, thus depriving the rest of the class of instructional time.»