Sentences with phrase «over some classroom practices»

Unveiled this month, the plan would potentially give the federal government far more influence over classroom practices that traditionally have been left to states, school districts, and individual teachers.

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He / she and I have clashed over the persistant use of junk food in school classrooms, the practice of bringing in birthday cupcakes to school, the improvement of school lunch standards and more.

The Brong - Ahafo Regional Deputy Director of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Kofi Boateng, has expressed worry over the practice where drugs are being sold in classrooms of some basic schools in the Sunyani West District.

Similarly, first - grade INSIGHTS classrooms had higher teacher practices of classroom organization and lower classroom off - task behaviors over the school year compared to control classrooms.

this is a great deal to do with the degree of political control now exerted over the day to day business of the classroom, unrealistic expectations of working practice and also the growing disparity in pay between teaching and the «top» professions.

Here we were, teachers from all over the world meditating together and discussing the myriad intersections between our personal practice and what we've been able to integrate (or not) into our classrooms.

... But elements of the flipped classroom, where you're just identifying things in your teaching and learning practices in the classroom... perhaps maths is a great example even in primary school, where a lot of students just require a particular maths example to be explained over and over and over, using different examples.

Even the most effective attempts to push a government - established curriculum into classroom practice will drag out over a decade, because it just takes so much time to communicate the goals and methods through the different layers of the system, and to build them into traditional methods of teacher education.

That recognition has driven a tidal wave of controversial policy reforms over the past decade, rooted in new evaluation systems that link teachers» ratings and, in some cases, their pay and advancement to evidence of classroom practice and student learning.

As thousands of students were preparing to walk out of their classrooms Wednesday, kicking off a day of youth demonstrations over school shootings, President Donald Trump tweeted about infrastructure and «unfair trade practices.»

As educators who have spent over 20 years researching, observing and studying classroom practice, we are even more convinced that many of the past practices in classroom observation relied on snapshot observations made by supervisors with little professional or academic learning.

The site currently provides; 4700 videos, 560 practice exercises and Computer Science lessons with interactive ability and offered in 28 languages, in 216 countries, in 20,000 + classrooms and reaching over six million students worldwide.

And realistically there's over 30 years of really good research that's been conducted into what effective teachers do and in particular what classroom management practices are effective as well.

Barron and Darling - Hammond describe evidence - based approaches to support inquiry - based teaching in the classroom: (1) clear goals and guiding activities; (2) a variety of resources (e.g., museums, libraries, Internet, videos, lectures) and time for students to share, reflect, and apply resources, while debating over information discrepancies; (3) participation structures and classroom norms that increase the use of evidence and a culture of collaboration (i.e., framing debates as productive conflicts, using public performances); (4) formative assessments that provide opportunities for revision; and (5) summative assessments that are multidimensional and representative of professional practice.

When we asked our community for their best classroom management practices, over 700 ideas rolled in.

Follow - up support over an extended period of time with mentors when teachers return to the classroom and try to implement new practices.

High - quality teaching occurs when teachers come to the classroom with a toolkit of knowledge and skills that they employ based on a set of effective practices and that lead, over time, to student learning.

Daniel Whitt, the coordinator of instructional technology in the Madison City School District in Alabama, says his district started using Seesaw — adopted in more than 25,000 schools, 200,000 U.S. classrooms, and over 150 countries — to showcase learning practices in the schools.

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.

From educational gurus and renowned experts to classroom practitioners keen on sharing their practice, «The Staffroom» provides a platform to share and celebrate success and bring teachers all over the world closer together.

Over time, at least $ 15 million in Gates money was directed both to the state — to train teachers in Common Core practices and purchase classroom materials — and to on - the - ground advocacy and business groups to help build public support.

Designed in partnership with over 250 teachers and administrators, the ultimate goal of the Framework is to create a common language for talking about high - quality teaching and how classroom practice can be improved.

In this new video program, Myron Dueck explores assessment practices and grading policies that allow students the opportunity to really demonstrate their learning, and shows how over time these practices lead to greater student achievement in the classroom and beyond.

School Improvement Network works with thousands of schools and districts in every state and around the world and has visited over 3,000 classrooms to document best practices in action.

Enjoy networking with colleagues from all over the world, learn new approaches to classroom practice and leave full of ideas to inspire your students!

Over the last decade, for example, many states and districts rushed to implement centralized teacher evaluation systems, even though critics warned, for good reason, that they wouldn't provide valid or reliable measures of classroom practice.

By measuring teacher practice, student experience, and change over time using our survey and observation data, we'll be able to better identify indicators of personalization in a classroom.

Researchers examined pre-service teacher perceptions of their reflective practice, classroom teacher observations of the service - learning arrangement, and how the service - learning program contributed to arts activities at the elementary school over the project's five - year period.

Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Reader 360 take over the heavy lifting in supporting this «perfect practice» for teachers, giving them valuable time back to do what they do best - connecting with students and creating phenomenal learning experiences in the classroom.

Effectively insinuating these strategies into classroom practices won't happen over night and won't happen in isolation.

The creative, innovative, and intelligent ways they have used digital media to support their own language and literacy development and burgeoning critical media literacy and social justice awareness have spilled over into their classroom practices during their early teaching experiences.

To create What We Know about Reducing Disproportionate Suspension Rates for Students of Color, a literature summary for the Oregon Leadership Network Research Alliance, we examined over 8,900 articles in search of evidence of school and classroom practices that can help reduce disproportionality in discipline referrals and suspensions for middle and high school students.

A Palm Beach father recently sued his school district over the practice after noticing his child's kindergarten classroom exceeded the 18 student cap.

This week, the Los Angeles Unified School District and the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) announced a tentative contract agreement that creates more autonomy for teachers, giving them greater flexibility in the classroom over curricula, materials, hiring practices, and finances.

Participants will practice with resources used to analyze data, observe classroom teaching, monitor implementation over time, and plan intervention with teachers and students.

We serve millions of students with i - Ready ® (adaptive diagnostic, online instruction, and practice apps for math and reading); Ready ® (standards - based instruction build from scratch for the Common Core); BRIGANCE ® (assessment and instruction for special education, early childhood, and Head Start); and other programs because of our laser focus on educators» needs over our own bottom line and a belief that thoughtful and continuous innovation leads to a positive impact on classrooms and measureable growth for students.

He has worked for over 20 years as a classroom teacher, technology integration coach and administrator and has offered professional development for educators on educational technology, data privacy and In 2013 he published his dissertation Building Social Capital Online: Educators uses of Twitter, which provided valuable insight and much needed research about how educators use Twitter to improve their practice.

Participants practice with resources used to analyze data, observe classroom teaching, monitor implementation over time, and plan intervention with teachers and students.

This mixed - methods study will trace the development of teaching practices in VRS over the course of a two - year teacher preparation program, and analyze the relationship between the skills candidates exhibit in VRS and those they display in real classrooms.

Over a year ago now, I wrote a piece entitled «A Crash Course in Personalization,» in which I emphasized the importance of familiarizing yourself with standards, leveraging the power of the flipped classroom, and mastering formative assessment practices.

Over the coming years, as we provide teachers and schools with data on how teaching practices are tied to students» performance, we plan to investigate the degree to which classroom - and school - level teaching practices shift over time toward practices which have been identified as more effective for enhancing student achievemOver the coming years, as we provide teachers and schools with data on how teaching practices are tied to students» performance, we plan to investigate the degree to which classroom - and school - level teaching practices shift over time toward practices which have been identified as more effective for enhancing student achievemover time toward practices which have been identified as more effective for enhancing student achievement.

A study of Arizona's career ladder program, which requires the use of various methods of student assessment to complement evaluations of teachers» practice, found that, over time, participating teachers demonstrated an increased ability to create locally - developed assessment tools to assess student learning gains in their classrooms; to develop and evaluate pre - and post-tests; to define measurable outcomes in hard - to - quantify areas like art, music, and physical education; and to monitor student learning growth.

Over the next two years, we'll look across a diverse range of schools» PL strategies to learn how early implementation is going in classrooms and to identify the opportunities and challenges — both policy and practice — to expanding these isolated models.

Fordham University; New York, NY $ 365,000 over two years to examine teaching staff characteristics, professional development, and instructional practice and supports provided in classrooms serving varying concentrations of dual language learners in the New York City Universal Prekindergarten program..

New York University; New York, NY $ 355,000 over three years on behalf of the Institute of Human Development and Social Change to analyze how teachers with different levels of teaching qualifications are distributed across NYC UPK classrooms with different compositions and levels of quality, and to examine how administrators and teachers use data about classroom quality to improve professional development and classroom practice.

MDRC; New York, NY $ 180,000 over two years to investigate how specific teacher classroom practices are predictive of child outcomes and how effective professional development supports are for teachers in preschool classrooms implementing the Building Blocks math curriculum in New York City as part of the Making Pre-K Count study.

The proposed system would include requirements for grant - funded classrooms in regards to improvement plans, multiple observations over time to increase program quality, as well as professional development for teachers and administrators to understand and promote quality practices and data use.

Over time, the focus shifted toward classroom practice, with detailed school assessments, support for curriculum development, and training to establish Professional Learning Communities.

However, today many of the over 1,000 members of Coalition of Essential Schools continue to focus on such progressive ideals and the use of non-authoritarian practices originally exemplified by open classrooms.

Over the school year fellows will be expected to experiment with their classroom practice and reflect within the learning cohort.