Sentences with phrase «opened their classrooms on»

A number of teachers opened their classrooms on a daily basis.

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He opened fire in certain classrooms on one floor, the sheriff said on Thursday.

PARKLAND, Fla. — A heavily armed 19 - year - old who had been expelled from a South Florida high school opened fire on campus shortly before classes let out Wednesday, killing 17 people while terrified students barricaded themselves inside classrooms, police said.

After a long day of freezing in school (I am telling you the classrooms are like 40 degrees and then some kid comes strolling in, declares they are so hot, opens all the windows and turns the fans on.

That means if Tech U oversigns and can't deliver a scholarship to a player, for the next five years Tech U's recruits will remain on the open market until the moment they set foot in a classroom at Tech U.

The toolkit opens up with fact sheets on the importance of breakfast, particularly for children; hungry children act out and have difficulty focusing, and breakfast in the classroom is an excellent tool to address those issues.

Hershey Montessori School invites the public to a grand opening celebration and open house for its new Upper School classroom building on Feb. 10 from 3 to 5 p.m..

The center is approximately 17,000 square feet with 10 classroom suites, a cafeteria, a resource room, a large activity gym for before and after school students, and four large play areas separated for age groups.They are open on weekdays from 6:00 am to 6:30 pm.

Families were invited to visit their classrooms, theatre and playground, as well as chat with teachers and administrators on the morning of February 3 at their open house.

There has been a poster on the classroom door for the past few weeks promoting our annual Spring Garden Festival, a fundraising event that is open to the general public.

One potential culprit captured by the study: Faculty may lack the training necessary to take advantage of smaller class sizes, open classroom layouts and other strategies meant to reduce the reliance on conventional lecturing.

There I was, wearing a t - shirt and sandals, sitting in my classroom with my sunglasses propped on the table and the windows wide open, when I got a text announcing that two feet of snow had fallen on the...

There I was, wearing a t - shirt and sandals, sitting in my classroom with my sunglasses propped on the table and the windows wide open, when I got a text announcing that two feet of snow had fallen on the east coast.

They are open to everyone, there's no registration, and participants volunteer to host breakout sessions on topics they are interested in — for example, how to best use technology in the classroom or how to allow students to take charge of their own learning.

I assume these fears are held by those who have not witnessed the power of a well - designed and well - executed classroom - performance task to open wide the doors on new insights, ground young adults on a foundation of sound thinking habits, and engender the confidence that comes from successfully rising to a challenge.

Our goal was for the Open Classrooms concept to catch on naturally, with people inviting and visiting because they wanted to.

Keep classroom lights on, open blinds, lift shades, and look for ways to get the students into outdoor light, especially in the morning (Kripke, Youngstedt, & Elliot, 1997).

Open to 13 -15-year-olds students across the UK, the competition — a collaboration between BBC Learning, BBC Comedy and the National Literacy Trust - called on secondary school students to become classroom jokers and was given backing by some of the UK's top comedy talent, including Charlie Higson, Kerry Howard, Marcus Brigstocke and David Walliams.

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.

A new survey tool — free and open source — goes beyond the basics to shed light on what really matters in the classroom

In our elementary schools, educators capitalized on our existing responsive - classroom model, which has built - in social and emotional conversation time and established routines for safe and open conversations with children.

Once on the ground and in the classroom, the TFA experience opened the eyes of many HGSE students about the drastic inequities among children in the United States.

Care to reflect on a classroom experience that opened your eyes?

Arana is part of the founding team of school designers that opened the Institute's flagship project, Quest to Learn, a New York City public school which focuses on integrating games and game like learning into middle and high school classrooms, where she served as Co-Director of School for 4 years.

Thousands of schools — public and private, from kindergarten to college — are installing webcams in classrooms and streaming live on websites that are open to the public, betting that round - the - clock supervision, even from strangers, will help motivate students.

This dire sequence started, he says, with A Nation at Risk, the 1983 Reagan administration report that launched America on «experiments» such as «open classrooms, national goals, merit pay, vouchers, charter schools, smaller classes, alternative certification for teachers, student portfolios, and online learning, to name just a handful.»

Parkville's first week of school included a good response to the new district uniform policy on opening day and teacher workshops on phonics, themes, and classroom environments.

These are all independent learning lessons as I do not teach in a classroom but rather in big open learning environments where students are expected to work on their own.

Aside from grumblings from the New York City teachers required to work under her system, there has been remarkably little open debate about the basic premises behind Calkins's approach, or even feedback on how the programs are faring in the classroom.

I publish and regularly update a document on my website at www.trimeritus.com that lists vendors of both corporate and education LMS's as well as open source LMS's, course authoring tools, generic courseware, virtual classrooms.

The researchers used the data to create four vignettes of classroom - based experiences, mapped on a continuum from «invisible» (in a flexible, open - ended learning environment, where the intention of the activity is not known to the child and educator input and monitoring is not explicit) to «visible».

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.

To the new teacher who is struggling to get students settled at the beginning of class, he suggests the time - tested «do now,» a silent opening exercise in which the teacher writes an assignment on the board before students enter the classroom.

During the next few weeks, build at home or in your classrooms, then host an open house on or around October 6th.

As national magazines and newspapers debate what it means to be literate in a computer age in which students butcher language in text messages and open books less and less outside the classroom, Greenhow has found a virtual creative writing boom among students spending long hours writing stories and poetry to paste on their blogs for feedback from friends, or creating videos on social issues to bring awareness to a cause.

If we really want to improve student achievement we need to focus on the person who gently closes the classroom door and performs the teaching act — the teacher — but to do that, says Russell Boyle, we need to open those classroom doors.

The following are a few tips that you can use in your district offices, classroom learning spaces, special classrooms, and open learning areas to make a positive impact on education.

If we really want to improve student achievement we need to focus on the person who closes the classroom door and performs the teaching act — the teacher - but to do that we need to open classroom doors.

Download the PowerPoint file to your hard drive for use on your laptop or a classroom computer; open and run the PowerPoint file just as you would any other PowerPoint presentation.

With the abundance of online learning providers, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), online universities, and so on, it's clear that learning is no longer confined to the classroom.

Getting Down to Business — in Uniform Parkville's first week of school included a good response to the new district uniform policy on opening day and teacher workshops on phonics, themes, and classroom environments.

2017 Rosenthal Prize for Innovation and Inspiration in Math Teaching Deadline: Opens in January The Rosenthal Prize, from the National Museum of Mathematics, recognizes «hands - on math teaching in upper elementary and middle school classrooms.»

It was not only assessment that changed in these classrooms, but also the nature of mathematical tasks; students were working on more open - ended, cognitively complex problems, and teachers were providing them with opportunities to really think those problems through.

A spot had opened up in a third - grade classroom, and her 8 - year - old son, Lucas, was first on the waiting list.

Searching for Voices Care to reflect on a classroom experience that opened your eyes?

On Open House night at Orchard Hill, teachers typically lay out their requests for help and parents sign up for the classroom activities in which they would like to participate.

And here are a few examples of teachers» goals: to more consistently draw on student data to inform my teaching; to employ high standards for all of my students, not just the ones I easily relate to; to be more open to experimenting with the new technologies in my classroom; to working more collaboratively; to getting better at saying «no»; to giving supportive and constructive feedback to my colleagues; to be more open to my colleagues» feedback about my teaching.

The paper, by researchers Christopher Dede, Tina Grotzer, Amy Kamarainen, and Shari Metcalf, describes the ways in which EcoXPT can support classroom practices that the NRC connects with deeper learning: case - based approaches; self - directed, open - ended, and collaborative inquiry; apprenticed learning; interdisciplinary learning; and learning that's embedded with diagnostic assessments based on many sources.

Through this project, the feds are promoting open resources both in classroom practice and by awarding grants for research projects focused on the development of open resources.

It has become a common problem in our school district that our substitute positions are not filling on a daily basis.With opening new schools every year, new classroom openings are collecting all of past years substitutes or recent college graduates.