Sentences with phrase «on classroom control»

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Close to a million students stood up and streamed out of classrooms across the country last week as part of the National School Walkout, which honored the victims of the Parkland shooting one month ago and called on lawmakers to pass gun control legislation.

We will get over it when you stop using your religion to legislate who people can marry, insisting on teaching your mythology into a science classroom, covering up crimes against children, allow birth control in countries that can't feed themselves in the first place... need more?

The results of a recent randomized trial of CSRP showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a CSRP Head Start classroom had, at the end of the school year, substantially higher attention skills, greater impulse control, and better performance on executive - function tasks than did children in a control group.

New teachers graduate college with a background in courses based on things like classroom control, following federal standards, legal issues pertaining to what teachers may and may not do and, possibly, a few classes on a specialty subject.

However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

PHOTO ESSAY BY DONNA ACETO In the first of several nationwide actions initiated by high school students to protest the lack of meaningful legislative action on gun control, young people nationwide walked out of their classrooms on March 14 — some for 17 minutes to commemorate the 17 people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High -LSB-...]

More generally, Pianta has been encouraging the instructors to communicate higher expectations by turning over some of the control in the classroom to the kids: letting them work in teams on independent projects, for instance, instead of simply lecturing.

Although their brain - controlled drone certainly was innovative enough to earn a good grade, Magbagbeola, Kinn and the other students on their project team actually had goals outside the classroom in mind when designing the drone.

In another classroom, decorated with airplane - control diagrams and electric - car schematics, teacher Carl Cripe (a former U.S. Air Force master sergeant) keeps an eye on students putting the final changes on the electric car they hope to enter in a design competition.

Lessons Learned from Howard Gardner and the TV Remote Control Teacher Max Fischer reflects on the eye - opening move from the elementary classroom to the middle school.

Consensus needs to be reached on the focus of the observation (teacher, students or both), the frequency and duration of observations, the structure of pre - and post-observation meetings, who is going to own and control these data (critical with video recordings), and last, but certainly not least, the classroom observation guide to be used.

In this randomized controlled study on the impact of the arts on performance in traditional academic subjects, theater arts were integrated into language arts and social studies curricula for fourth - and fifth - grade students (14 experimental classrooms, 14 control classrooms).

Using whiteboards meant that students could go to the front of the classroom and control the material on the screen, but more recently, mirror image apps have been created that connect devices to the display so that children can view and interact with the material remotely from their desks.

The most difficult part is being a small cog in a system bent on classroom and curriculum control because of high - stakes testing.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

Televic Education, a world leader in the development of digital, wireless and virtualised language labs, interpreter training labs and classroom control management software, can be found on stand H80.

ESSA, however, allows states to focus on what's within the control of educators: how much students learn while in their classrooms.

Since 2010 - 11, students in PBL classrooms have generally performed as well or better on the CST as compared with students in non-PBL control classrooms in all three dimensions of deeper understanding within the discipline (content, reasoning, and scope of learning).

The most important step a principal can take is to control classroom assignments so that students who had been recommended for bilingual education before Prop 227 are in the same classroom, making it easier to convert the entire classroom to bilingual education on the 31st day of school.

In addition to dipping into his private fortune for unlimited campaign ads touting his test score gains, he has total control of a $ 15 billion education empire that doles out jobs and no - bid contracts to potential critics and spends millions on a well - oiled public relations machine, but spends nothing on independent research or evaluation of classroom programs.

Researchers identified a «consistent, positive relationship between student exposure to high - quality intellectual assignments and students» learning gains on the test — even after controlling for race, socioeconomic class, gender, and prior achievement differences among classrooms.»

KM: Due to the adverse affects on the students and teachers, our findings suggest that open - plan classrooms that are unable to control the noise from adjacent classes are unlikely to be suitable learning environments for young children.

Thus, we control for teacher experience (novice or not), and the following four classroom - level variables: percentage of high - achieving students, percentage of low - achieving students, percentage of students on IEPs, and percentage of ELLs.

The researchers developed a hands - on curriculum and professional development lessons teaching basic physics using the popular toys, then conducted a randomized controlled trial in about 60 fourth - grade classrooms in a California school district comparing student learning under the project - based and traditional textbook based instruction over three weeks.

These guidelines included «Steps to Self - Control» that would help children get back on track when they were having trouble following classroom or school - wide rules (see box below).

Kids who out of school control large sums of money and have huge choices on how they spend it have almost no choices at all about how they are educated — they are, for the most part, just herded into classrooms and told what to do and when to do it.

Interactive whiteboards provided the opportunity for students to stand at the front of the classroom and control the material on the screen, but more recently, mirror image apps have been created that connect devices to the display so that children can view and interact with the material remotely from their desks.

All the classrooms were supplied to tight timeframes and with features such as toilets, climate control, access ramps, security and alarm systems, children's sinks, finger guards on doors and projector mountings.

On one hand, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the majority of violent behavior among youth takes place outside of the classroom.

Teachers will appreciate the optional Acer Smart Pen, which can be used for on - screen writing and remote control for up to two users to encourage classroom interaction.

In contrast to traditional classroom instruction, this requires that we put students at the center and empower them to take control of their own learning by providing flexibility on several dimensions.»

There is this huge responsibility on our shoulders to have students meet high expectations and that accountability causes us to want to control most aspects of student learning in our classroom.

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).

Avoid having blinds down and lights on; a familiar scene in classrooms and offices is the use of blinds to control glare when it is bright outside.

Teach for America trainers defend the program's reliance on «no excuses» discipline, saying it is the fastest way for corps members to learn to control a classroom, and that they are free to expand their disciplinary toolkit as their practice improves over time.

For instance, a 2010 National Bureau of Economic Research study concluded, on the basis of a controlled experiment to compare online and face - to - face enrollment in a microeconomics course, that «much more experimentation is necessary before one can credibly declare that online education is peer to traditional live classroom instruction, let alone superior....»

After a classroom discussion about the flu pandemic of 1918 and the avian flu of 2005, students take on the role of medical and scientific advisers to the government, suggesting how to control the spread of avian flu.

A randomized controlled trial of My Teaching Partner — Secondary — a Web - mediated approach focused on improving teacher - student interactions in the classroom — examined the efficacy of the approach in improving teacher quality and student achievement with 78 secondary school teachers and 2237 students.

For instance, if you adopt a new reading program that requires students to be more active, and possibly make more noise in the classroom, the support personnel, if uninformed of the program, might report that students are out of control and money has been wasted on a new idea.

First, we made a straightforward comparison of the average test - score gains in classrooms run by TFA and non-TFA teachers, controlling for a variety of factors known to influence academic achievement, including students» backgrounds, the students» previous performance on the TAAS, characteristics of their schools, and characteristics of their classmates.

Word searches - 2 word searches with words and pictures Writing pages - a collection of photocopiable sheets with toy themed borders Writing worksheets - a collection of worksheets with toy pictures and lines below for writing My favourite toy - draw and write about your favourite toy Word mat - an A4 word mat with words and pictures to use for writing activities Number line - a number line to 100 on colourful toys Alphabet line - a colourful alphabet line Flash cards - word and picture cards of lots of different toys Design a toy - a worksheet for your toy design Colouring pictures - a collection of colouring sheets Tracing pictures - pencil control sheets - great for younger children Book cover - a book cover to colour to use to keep all the topic work together Bingo - print and make this colourful toy themed bingo game Matching pairs game - match the toys Number dominoes - a toy themed game Label the toys - label some different toys Counting cards - cards with numbers 1 - 10 and the corresponding number of toys Size ordering - order the Russian dolls in size order - in colour and black and white Literacy worksheets - match labels to toys, write initial sounds, write words to describe different toys Play dough mats - a collection of activity mats to use in the play dough area Old toys posters - colourful posters showing some old toys Old and new posters - compare the old and new versions of some different toys Baby and child toys - an activity to sort the toy pictures into ones you had as a baby and ones you have now and a worksheet to accompany the activity Our favourite toys - find out about and draw your parents favourite toy and grandparents favourite toy when they were little Push and pull - look at some different toys and talk about what force is used to make them move Write a story - a decorated worksheet for writing a story about your toys Make some toys - photocopiable sheets for making 15 different simple toys such as split pin puppets, a jigsaw, a marble maze, a die to use with the snakes and ladders board Toy shop role play pack - a full pack of resources to set up your own toy shop in the classroom Includes display materials, games, Literacy and Maths activities, story telling resources plus much more

Yes, teachers must vigorously teach; however, teachers can not control what goes on outside of the classroom.

A 2011 judicial brief described out - of - control classrooms, incidents where students engaged in sexual activity on campus, and student violence toward teachers.

Similarly, involving all learners to create common classroom rules in the eLearning environment places the locus of control for behavior and attitude on the learners.

Establishing order in your classroom early on ensures maintaining control during those trying times throughout the year When you think of D's and F»...

Based on 40 years of collected research and five years of real - classroom experimental / control studies

Punitive or «To» Sector: When schools or classrooms are solely focused on control, setting strong limits, and / or incorporating punitive discipline, yes, they are holding kids accountable for actions.

Students» emotions have an impact on their academics, and students» emotions are impacted by many factors beyond any teacher's control such as homelessness, marital stress in their home or divorce, loss of employment of a caregiver, physical or emotional abuse, mental illness, bullying outside of their classroom, personal illness or illness of a loved one and many other factors too numerous to list.

IMPACT was designed to control for variables like the class's income level and English - language proficiency, and scores teachers on two major factors: classroom skill, as determined by multiple evaluations, and results, based on students» improvement on standardized tests.

I'm using this back - to - school column to focus on classroom management because establishing order in your classroom early on is infinitely easier than regaining control once it has been lost.