Sentences with phrase «other classroom settings»

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So, top managers need a set of cognitive skills not always needed by others, skills that are not easy to learn in the classroom.

Sperry has ADHD, and when he was 12 he came up with the widgets as a way to help him and others focus in the classroom and other social settings.

I picture Christians around the country and around the world sitting in my classroom reading my lessons and setting out to share the truths about God's revealed Word with others.

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.

Helen has been active as a speech artist / educator in Waldorf teacher education and other anthroposophical adult education settings, in Waldorf classrooms, and as a therapeutic speech practitioner f

There are a couple of experimental classroom interventions that I think seem particularly promising, including Tools of the Mind, which uses extended make - believe play and other teaching strategies to develop self - regulation in 4 - and 5 - year - olds, and OneGoal, the Chicago - based high school program that teaches juniors and seniors a particular set of non-cognitive skills designed to help them persist in college.

For example psychiatrist Bruce Perry, who runs the Child Trauma Academy has written extensively for audiences of parents, teachers and other professionals about how early developmental disruptions affect the developing brain, how this manifests in the classroom, and how to effectively address these problems in multiple settings, His Scholastic series is one example.

* If your child bullied others or acted out in the classroom, set up some guidelines for what you expect of him or her socially this year, along with consequences of what will happen if he does not comply.

Your child's case may be talked about in a classroom setting with other trainees as part of their learning.

Children who are friendly, confident, and who can cooperate with others are most likely to succeed in a classroom setting.

This format accommodates working adults and allows for an important give - and - take between your time in a Sunbridge classroom and your time in a Waldorf teaching setting, each enhancing the other.

Similarly, I've gotten so fed up with strangers feeding my children in their school classrooms that I recently pounded out a «manifesto» in protest, whereas when Le Billon sets up a table at her child's school to honor local agriculture, replete with fresh strawberries, crème frâiche, and homemade bread and jam, the other parents actually snap at her for daring to feed their children between meals.

In a classroom setting, teachers help children strengthen their language skills by introducing new vocabulary during art, snack time, and other activities.

Thanks to support from Sparkfactor.org, the knowledge and insight gained from Purdue WIEP and girlSPARC events has been compiled into a Best Practices resource designed to help guide program coordinators in planning and holding successful Raspberry Pi Projects Kit events in out - of - school, classroom, or other group settings.

In response, the CienciaPR has developed a topic guide (Spanish) for the book to help integrating the content to the classroom setting, and has developed a series of workshops for teachers, demostrating how to use the essays as didactic tools, not just for science, but also for Spanish, art, and other subjects.

As we prepare to begin school this year and I set up the classroom, I'm sharing my personal homeschool ideas, so I hope you'll share yours in the comments so we can all learn from each other.

They included providing the British Computer Society (BCS) with more than # 2 million to set up a network of 400 «master teachers» to train teachers in other schools and provide resources for use in the classroom.

Most of the rules, policies and procedures we teachers have set up in the classroom are because of perhaps only one student that made the rule necessary, but in the process of establishing that rule, we typically ignore all of the other well - behaved students

Similarly, in a case study of four middle school math teachers who participated in a yearlong series of ten video club meetings to reflect on their classrooms, teachers in the video club «came to use video not as a resource for evaluating each other's practices, but rather as a resource for trying to better understand the process of teaching and learning» in a supportive, nonthreatening setting (Sherin and Han, 2004).

While other littleBits kits include project booklets, the STEAM set guides were created specifically for classroom integration.

According to a Brandon - Hall study, the average eLearner will spend 40 to 60 percent less time learning the same material compared to someone studying in a traditional classroom setting: When you calculate the time you save by not having to commute, as well as time saved by avoiding other potential distractions that you'd have experienced in a traditional classroom, it becomes clear that one of the biggest advantages of eLearning is that it saves you time.

MET argues for a more balanced set of weights among value added, classroom observations, and feedback from student surveys on other grounds.

The book offers ideas about setting up libraries in classrooms and the value of offering students a wide selection of books, adults reading aloud, and many other things that go into Calkins's idea of helping children live a «richly literate life.»

Teams can be comprised of classroom teachers, instructional leaders, school leaders, administrators, and other educators in a variety of settings (e.g. museums, after - school programs, and other informal learning contexts, etc.).

Two documents offering a template for a Pupil Observation in a classroom setting and the other a tempalte for a pupil interview.

The Online Books Page This site offers over one million legal, free books of all types including classics, reference books and other books that would be useful in a classroom setting.

Informal learning is learning that occurs outside the classroom, online course, or other formal setting.

A teacher can set up a classroom where students are able to view each other's bookmarks in much the same way as our file folders grant access to a certain level of transparent research.

Ethically, critical pedagogy stresses the importance of understanding what actually happens in classrooms and other educational settings by raising questions regarding what knowledge is of most worth, in what direction should one desire, and what it means to know something.

The assets available to the Henry Ford Academy are not available in every community, yet this model can inspire other school districts to look at local institutions with new eyes and imagine classrooms in settings where they've never been before, as was done recently in New Orleans, which will incorporate a new school on the grounds of the Louisiana SuperDome.

For example, past Specialized Studies candidates have included physicians interested in understanding the education of medical students, a career military officer interested in translating classroom practices into training, social entrepreneurs leading innovative educational ventures in the U.S. and abroad, teachers and administrators interested in implementing cutting edge reform in unique settings, as well as so many others who have benefited from designing their own courses of study.

And through a set of debrief questions, «teachers and students can think together about how to use these skills at other times of day, connecting «brain powers» to work ethic in the classroom, teamwork and relationships, and successful behavior in school and beyond.»

The missing link is the assimilation by teachers and others close to the classroom's work of the conceptual shifts that undergird the reform initiatives: the dynamic sets of whys and hows that determine the process of change.

In these ways, we can help set the stage for engagement and excitement, for original observations and deepening interest and understanding — in history and other subject matters — in public school classrooms.»

Misunderstanding the Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching Project Education Next, January 10, 2013 «MET argues for a more balanced set of weights among value added, classroom observations, and feedback from student surveys on other grounds.

This kind of CPD is important, as it gives classroom teachers and Computing Coordinators a taste of what is out there, and of what other practitioners are achieving in their own settings.

When students learn integrity in classroom settings, it helps them apply similar principles to other aspects of their lives.

This resource includes an engaging set of activities which has been tried and tested in the classroom in upper KS2, but could be used with other age groups.

Therefore investments in eLearning should be taken partially and depreciated each year against the savings made on classroom training and other productivity parameters set.

And these other collaborations that have happened that normally you wouldn't have exposure to, or students would just never experience in a traditional classroom setting.

Aggregate child - level assessment data means the data collected by an agency on the status and progress of the children it serves that have been combined to provide summary information about groups of children enrolled in specific classrooms, centers, home - based or other options, groups or settings, or other groups of children such as dual language learners, or to provide summary information by specific domains of development.

Internships are limited to classroom teachers because their firsthand experiences with children and investment in helping their own students will be most valuable in translating aspects of CTL's program to other settings.

The Nature of Learning: Using Research to Inspire Practice is essential reading for all those interested in knowing what research has to say about how to optimise learning in classrooms, schools and other settings.

This comprehensive book will help early childhood practitioners consider the «why» and «how» of setting up classrooms and other learning spaces to create environments that are most conducive to child development.

Whether you complete your initial teacher education (ITE) in a school, university or other setting, your time in the classroom should be an exciting and stimulating part of your ITE programme.

Within school i, form the set of classrooms such that for each one there is at least one other with the same teacher.

The old tradition of sitting among other students in the impersonal setting of a classroom, coupled by the leer of a professor as students rush to copy down text - heavy slides is quickly becoming an obsolete form of learning.

The small number of specially qualified teachers — and the fact that they must work their schedules around literacy blocks, lunchtimes, and other set schedules — forces many schools to group special - needs students rather than to spread them out evenly among all the classrooms.

Although learning styles are developmental, teachers can help current learning styles by giving them the freedom to move within the classroom setting to think or talk things out with others.

Prekindergarten teachers who work in schools and other publicly operated settings are better - qualified, get higher pay, and stay in their jobs longer than those who work in classrooms operated by private organizations, a study concludes.