Sentences with phrase «on more classroom»

Similarly, the teaching quality indicators effort allows for focus on more classroom - specific measures related to curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

The report also quantified the use of student performance measures known as «student growth objectives» (SGOs) that were based on more classroom - based assessments and not statewide standardized tests.

Not exact matches

But numerous studies have now found that when classroom material is made harder to absorb, pupils retain more of it over the long term, and understand it on a deeper level.

Schools receive points based on the following weighted ranking: 33.5 % reputation (higher is better), 20.5 % classroom experience (student - teacher ratio and cohort diversity), 13 % average GMAT scores (higher is better), 13 % tuition (lower is better), 13 % required work experience (more is better) and 7 % program length (shorter is better).

Acting on this interest in expanded dialogue between Canadian millennials and our peers in Asia will provide us with the types of soft skills that will make us more effective learners in the classroom, better negotiators in the workplace, and more informed citizens.

Other more narrow provisions include tax breaks for film and theater producers, NASCAR race track owners, manufacturers of electric motorcycles, commuters who use public transportation and teachers who spend their own money on classroom supplies.

Becoming a Golden Hawk means more than just cheering on our (really good) varsity teams — it means being a student who cares about your community, who works hard in the classroom, and who takes advantage of all the learning opportunities that can happen outside the classroom, too.

I hope American Atheists will drop this and focus on more important things, like insuring that religious teachings stay out of public school science classrooms.

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

On a more practical level, there is the problem of actually putting philosophical ideas to work in the classroom.

Save the World on Your Own Time by Stanley Fish Oxford University Press, 208 pages, $ 19.95 Here is Stanley Fish, writing Save the World on Your Own Time: «Not only is the genuinely academic classroom full of passion and commitment; it is more interesting than the alternative.

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?

There is more emphasis on community service than on classroom instruction» an emphasis entirely consistent with the belief widely accepted in our society that values, while they may be created and clarified, can be neither true nor false.

One new aim of education must then be to resist imitating the incomparably more interesting and vivid electronic media to distinguish what goes on in the classroom from time - compressed, disjointed, non-sequential presentations of subject matter.

«This organization has given me an opportunity to not only get involved volunteering in my community, but also learn more about how to be a better leader, in my community, classroom and on the soccer field, which I am hoping to bring to the University of Colorado.»

In my classroom, I don't have to serve the needs of someone on an SCD diet, but I do like to share the process with families and make it more accessible to them, so we make it in the crock pot since most families have one or know where to get one.

The trio poured more than $ 1 million in startup costs into the 10 1/2 - acre complex that boasts a dormitory, cafeteria (with a nutritionist), classroom (with a computer lab on the way), MLB - sized ballfield, pitching mounds, batting cages and flowers.

We all expect more from Welbecks output next season and onwards, but is Wenger got an eye on his education right here, right now in the home of his old classroom?

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

Still in the early stages, she is focusing on more than just golf to determine where she might spend four years in the classroom and on the course.

That creates more stress, which often feeds into behavior problems, which leads, in the classroom, to stigmatization and punishment, which keeps their stress levels elevated, which makes it still harder to concentrate — and so on, and so on, throughout elementary school.

And it suggests that school - discipline programs might be more effective if they were to focus less on imposing punishment and more on creating a classroom environment in which students who lack self - regulatory capacities can find the tools and context they need to develop them.

Read her blog for more information on how Texas Instruments is supplying a classroom full of calculators!

As part of the #StaplesForStudents campaign, today Staples announced that every Boston and Metrowest project posted on DonorsChoose.org received full funding as part of Staples» $ 1 million donation to DonorsChoose.org, a charity that has funded more than 700,000 classroom projects for teachers and has positively affected more than 18 million U.S. students.

The classroom sizes at FXW are smaller, which leads to more one on one attention from the teachers and the children have a better chance of academic success.

(For more on the funding issue, check out school food reformer Dana Woldow «s excellent piece on how the new nutrition requirements will effectively force many districts, especially those in which labor and food costs are high, to start (or continue) dipping into classroom funds to pay for school meals.)

They recently started a breakfast - in - the - classroom program that is showing promise in its early stages, and Homedale is also incorporating more farm - to - school foods on their menu.

Summit attendees will learn more about the grant in greater detail; in addition to assessments and action plans, there will be information on stakeholder engagement strategies and staff training for breakfast - in - the - classroom.

Please follow the Partners on Facebook and Twitter for more news, information, and resources on school breakfast and breakfast - in - the - classroom around the country.

In The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom, I address a wide variety of topics including: how wellness policies and the new federal «Smart Snacks» rules relate to classroom junk food; the tricky problem of birthday treats and how to respond to your opponents on that issue; the use of junk food as a classroom reward; the use of candy as a teaching «manipulative;» kids and sugar consumption; and much more.

Student athletes need to know that the «off the field» (in the classroom) efforts are as important or more so then the «on the field» work.

You can follow Austin ISD Nutrition Services on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and make sure you check back to Beyond Breakfast throughout SY 2017 - 18 as Partners for BIC help Austin ISD implement breakfast in the classroom in more classrooms!

As Peter Gray outlines in his 2013 study of 75 grown homeschoolers, those children with the least number of formal schooling years (either in a classroom or homeschooled), were more likely to go on to post-secondary learning.

Though I haven't been able to get an answer from anyone on the exact amount of time allotted for lunch / recess (and I'm told not all classes get a recess — which is another subject, that I will get into more on another day), I am being told once a classroom is scheduled for lunch that they have 20 minutes from there to go through line, eat, clean up, and get out the door — which if a teacher is running behind, a student misbehaves, or God forbid it takes 10 minutes to get through the lunch line, there's a problem.

Breakfast - in - the - classroom has given everyone more one - on - one time: students and teachers, teachers and school nutrition staff, school nutrition staff and custodians, school nutrition staff and students.

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

Learn more about how to apply for Fuel Up to Play 60 funds, and earn money to help you launch a breakfast - in - the - classroom pilot, a physical activity club, and more on the Fuel Up to Play 60 website, and in the Fuel Up to Play 60's 2014 - 15 Playbook.

If you are going to de-school, remember that home schooling, because it is one - on - one training, is much more efficient than learning in a large classroom, with one adult and 20 to 30 children.

We will ask them what works and what doesn't, learn their best practices for a successful breakfast - in - the - classroom program, and learn more about what students want on their school breakfast menus.

In addition, the policy makes clear that the use of treats as classroom rewards is strongly discouraged (more on that below).

If you are out at the playground with other children, or your child is eating lunch in a classroom with his peers, he will be able to get more used to the idea of not always having breast milk on demand.

Most classrooms offer a max classroom size of 10 - 12, which gives your child a more one on one experience.

Thankfully through my blog I have worked on several charitable projects including child hunger, building playgrounds for communities in need, helping to end teacher - funded classrooms, Rwanda's Path To Peace project and more.

There's something about the classroom environment that certain teachers are creating that makes students feel more of a sense of belonging and motivation and the desire to take on challenges.

That piqued my curiosity, so for those of you with children currently in public school in grades K - 12, I'd be so grateful if you'd share more details via this second survey, which focuses exclusively on your children's school food environment: the food offered in the cafeteria, classrooms and campus fundraisers.

Additionally, with the one - on - one educational setting of home education or the traditionally smaller classroom sizes at private schools, children receive more direct help and have more of a chance to learn and grow.

The company believes that the USDA's new «Smart Snacks in School» rule, which is the first change to competitive food guidelines in more than 30 years, will lead to significant improvements in student health, happiness and overall performance — both in the classroom and on the athletic field.

Visit the Partners page via the link below for more information on breakfast - in - the - classroom!

This includes learning to use many more hands - on materials and activities (that are not practical in a large classroom with many children and only one adult), checking the regulations in your area, finding out about home school groups, places to visit for your field trips, etc..

There are generally a lot more children in an elementary school, multiple classrooms where your child will be, and likely a playground that is much further away from the office (where medications may be kept) and less monitoring on the playground.