Sentences with phrase «of model classrooms»

Using videos of model classrooms from other districts for PD purposes is common today.

When you do encounter the occasional laggard who pushes back, incorporate the use of the model classroom as a professional learning goal or growth plan outcome for them.

The true value of a model classroom is not in the equipment you buy or the use of space.

The creation of a model classroom takes away most, if not all, of these barriers for teachers.

Not exact matches

Everything from teasing, lack of encouragement, lack of role models and subtle biases have recently been proposed as playing a major role in women's decisions to look away from technical careers, but I suspect the answer is more portentous — and follows women from the classroom to the workforce.

Given the dramatic rise of distance learning and new trends such as the flipped classroom model, dispersed student bodies must be able to access online applications and videos as easily as if they were sitting in a classroom.

Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

The dynamics of the classroom thereby models that of the culture, teaching tomorrow's citizens the knowledge and appreciation they need of ancient authorities and fresh sassy pretenders to authority, and also teaching them the dialectical skill of marrying old and new, a skill which they will need if our nation is to long endure.

The form in which the answers to these questions have come is not so much that of systematic treatises as of concretizations of alternative philosophical models: the open classroom, gay marriages, tire commune, house churches.

So the model American classroom would be animated discussion of the cases for and against Roe v. Wade, for and against polygamy, for and against democracy, and for and against a confessional state.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

Through classroom instruction most professors offer some model of the integration of piety and learning.

Rather, the court had struck down the Rhode Island statute primarily because of its own model of church - state separation and its own unsupported views of what was likely to happen in Rhode Island parochial school classrooms — although the record gave no indication that entanglement difficulties would accompany the salary - supplement program.

The building - blocks model is, at present, mostly a theoretical framework, but it gives educators and anyone else concerned with child development a different and valuable lens through which to consider the problems of disadvantaged kids in the classroom.

For many teachers at M.S. 45, the Turnaround coaches told me, embracing this part of the Turnaround model was much more challenging than adopting the new classroom - management strategies.

Peter Poutiatine began teaching 25 years ago in the backcountry of Washington State, and the early lessons he learned about experiential education, the expeditionary model, and real - world connectedness have guided his classroom pedagogy for nearly two decades.

Our passion for the breakfast - in - the - classroom model for school breakfast is rooted in many things, including one point Ellen made in «Kids Need Breakfast to Succeed», excerpted above — when breakfast is moved out of the cafeteria and into the classroom, participation goes up without fail (emphasis ours).

The model has been used effectively in a wide variety of venues and settings: parenting, classroom, special behaviour programs, alternate education settings, therapy, correctional settings, aboriginal communities, adoption, counseling, and the foster system.

Administrators, teachers, and parents are becoming aware of the amazing benefits for students, and school nutrition professionals are amazed at increase in participation when grab - n - go, classroom, and Second Chance models are introduced.

Download NEA's breakfast - in - the - classroom toolkit for information on the benefits of various BIC models, statistics, and more.

One of the keys to success with any breakfast - in - the - classroom program is choosing the delivery model that's right for each school.

Overall the reports indicate that participation in school breakfast programs continues to rise, due in part to the success of breakfast - in - the - classroom and other alternative breakfast models, as well as the growth of the Community Eligibility Program.

One of the most important things to know about breakfast in the classroom is that it is not a «one - size - fits - all» model; it's flexible to make it easier to implement and maintain in the long term.

One of the most frequently asked questions we hear about breakfast - in - the - classroom is in regard to the different delivery models.

When we use the phrase «breakfast - in - the - classroom» (BIC) we're referring to school breakfast eaten in the classroom, regardless of the delivery model.

You can explore many ways to get breakfast in the hands of students — for some, the traditional model works well, for others a classroom delivery, grab - n - go, or Second Chance model may be a better fit.

As a condensed model of our early childhood classrooms, this weekly class serves to familiarize interested families with Waldorf education.

Even inside the classroom, a teacher is using a model or a demo in order to make the student understand the point of the whole thing.

I do think they can be taught in the classroom — I think most of us can think of a teacher in our past who helped us develop one or more of those skills — but I don't think we yet have an ideal model for exactly how to teach them in the classroom.

Both types of courses are professional development workshops that model, teach, and encourage teachers to use inquiry - based, hands - on methods of teaching STEM subjects in their classrooms.

Clever Tykes, a series of three storybooks for primary school children has been bringing positive entrepreneurial role models to the classrooms of over 50

Dr. Anderson thinks of the process as a kind of restructuring of attention in the classroom, away from a conventional model in which there are «good kids» getting a lot of praise and «bad kids» getting reprimanded and scolded.

Whether they are in the classroom taking a nap or out and about on a class adventure, little ones are sure to benefit from the safe and user - friendly designs of our models.

This model gives students a portion of professional full day classroom instruction and a portion of home study days with curriculum provided by the classroom teacher.

«We do several models of breakfast - in - the - classroom, and in some schools we do «hybrids» where [younger students] do breakfast - in - the - classroom, and older grades come through the line and do traditional breakfast,» explained Pettit.

A Westchester school is imploring six high schools on Long Island to abandon their plans to skip a Model Congress event for students in New Rochelle out of fear stemming from a recent classroom stabbing.

«Community schools are a model that works wonders for our children by meeting their needs both inside and outside of the classroom.

«We conclude by challenging the student deficit model, and suggest a course deficit model as explanatory of these performance gaps, whereby the microclimate of the classroom can either raise or lower barriers to success for underrepresented groups in STEM.»

A study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the traditional model of education versus an increasingly popular approach to learning in the health sciences fields — the flipped classroom model — where pre-recorded lectures are viewed outside of the classroom and in - person class time is devoted to interactive exercises, discussions, and group projects.

Negative comments highlighted some of the challenges of a flipped classroom, particularly loss of real - time interaction with lecturers and the perception of the model as a cost - cutting maneuver.

«In the current model of research, we go into a classroom and spend months observing, giving tests and trying to see if changes to a specific model work and how to best implement them,» Lamb said.

The model was revised to incorporate advances in teaching practices and family services and included the opening of full - day preschool classrooms in some sites.

Especially as school districts look at implementing Next Generation Science Standards, and researchers are encouraged to do more outreach for broader impact, a better understanding of the mental models of STEM ed and the value of designing an online classroom can be useful.

The theme of the biennial institute, which is modeled on a similar summer gathering in Europe called the European Science Education Research School, was connecting research on science education to classroom practice and policy issues such as the Next - Generation Science Standards.

They identify five «essential [teaching] acts» that can be analyzed and taught: listening with care; motivating the student; modeling caring by hearing and responding to the pain of others, and by creating a sense of security in their classrooms; evaluating by clarifying, coaching, advising, and deciding on an appropriate challenge for this boy or that girl; and reflecting and renewing.

Other professional development has related to leveraging Twitter to promote student learning, a look at the significance of higher - order questioning, and investigating innovative classroom and school models.

Their new enthusiasm encouraged me to begin experimenting with a «flipped» education model — a form of blended learning that calls for students to learn material outside of the classroom via video presentations and then apply their understanding in class.

If its model wasn't quickly able to outperform traditional classroom instruction, I feared that it would in short order be shoveled off to the ashtray of history as a failed idea.

To create a culture of respect, teachers must respect students, faculty should model respect in how they communicate with each other, and the classroom pedagogy has to value everyone's ideas, adds Louis.

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