To this end, advocates have begun to press for changes in state laws to provide parents some degree of
control over classroom placement.
They get to see that you don't want to be running
all over the classroom and bouncing around too much — it's difficult to watch that on a screen.
Although driver's ed courses can be taken in a classroom, many states allow approved online courses that offer advantages
over classroom training.
By designing something well - received by teachers, we realized that winning over one educator could essentially
win over a classroom or even a school.
These differ in the extent to which the teacher retains exclusive control
over classroom interaction as opposed to sharing some of this control with students.
Not having to deal with the noise of other classrooms and hallway distractions is a big attraction for many teachers, and control
over classroom temperature is another plus.
One camera can capture the teacher's actions and the reactions of the pupils — and how that
changes over the classroom session with different methods of presentation, teaching and play.
However, eLearning has seen a rapid growth in popularity over the past decade, offering multiple
benefits over classroom training, and there are several studies to prove this.
I really want that sense of leadership and ability to drive the content and also have the
leadership over classroom management.
While the students don't have total
control over the classroom, they help contribute to a dialogue with their teachers from which the lessons develop.
The Success Academy network is expected to take action today in a dispute with the de Blasio administration
over classroom space in Harlem.
For the first time in many years, the state's two primary policy - making
authorities over classroom issues will hold a joint session to talk about the common core and the future of teacher evaluations.
While HGSE master's and doctoral students were busy wrapping up final projects and making plans for commencement this past May, many in the HGSE faculty were preparing for a whole new set of students to take
over the classrooms of Appian Way through their engagement with Professional Education at HGSE.
Apart from a minor kerfuffle
over classroom discipline in the early grades, there's not a single thing the UFT has wanted from the de Blasio administration that it hasn't gotten.
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.
In both public and private schools, the vast majority of teachers thought that they had a good deal of control
over some classroom practices, for example, evaluating and grading students, determining the amount of homework, and selecting teaching techniques.
What we have observed over the years is that people with these seemingly desirable skills may not always
preside over classrooms that are optimally managed or highly engaged.
Horn blamed the current clash
over classroom size on legislators» willingness to package major policy decisions like this one with the state's overall spending plan, a move that he acknowledged is made to avoid lengthy, sometimes bitter, public discussions and bad publicity for lawmakers.
Other teachers find it difficult to relinquish total control
over the classroom so students can make more choices, but that comes with time.
Here's what she told me: At kindergarten orientation the teacher
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A charter school network's plan to double in size over the next few years could reignite a
war over classroom space in New York City — only this time with the ground rules already tilted against the mayor, thanks to a new law passed in Albany this spring.
The Success Academy network is expected to take action Monday in a dispute with the
city over classroom space in Harlem.
An estimated 2,500 people turned out Wednesday night at Kleinhans Music Hall as stakeholders shared growing
concerns over the classroom focus on standardized tests.
As I could see at the Forum, when teachers feel a sense of
ownership over their classrooms, when students feel a sense of ownership over their learning, that is when productive learning takes place.
A charismatic icon of conservatism who argued against big government, former President Ronald W. Reagan left an education legacy marked by his advocacy of vouchers and school prayer and by his hopes of keeping federal control
over classrooms from growing.
Last year at P.S. 209, a K - 8 school in Brooklyn, New York, principal Howard Leibowitz asked each teacher to select a quotation that would be printed in large type, laminated, and
hung over the classroom doorway.
What's indisputable, however, is that the intellectually vacuous nature of these sessions and the central administration's
tyranny over classroom instruction is demoralizing many excellent and successful teachers.
An addition to the building put the old office space in a spot that was inconvenient to the school's new natural entrance, so Stone took
over a classroom at the front of the building and converted it into the school's main office.
These differences may originate in collective bargaining agreements that make it relatively expensive for pilot schools to expand instructional hours and staffing and that favor teacher
seniority over classroom effectiveness.
Seven out of the state's 15 top - scoring schools on math proficiency tests this year were Success Academy charter schools — the same network targeted by Mayor de Blasio earlier this year in a
fight over classroom space.
However, it has certainly become a more complex one in recent years as kids» interactions
spilled over classroom walls and into social media and other online forums.
Schools would benefit from the extra manpower and the opportunity to determine whether a new teacher is a good fit before
handing over the classroom keys.
Without more proactive oversight, deeply in debt charter schools are forced to prioritize guaranteed payments to
bondholders over classroom resources.