Sentences with phrase «past classrooms students»

Walking past classrooms students were engaged, teachers were up moving around and professionally dressed.

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This past Friday, students across the country walked out of their classroom to protest gun violence and while students were participating, walking out at Flour Bluff High School three seniors there decided to take another position.

Plans include a private lobby outfitted with a marketing wall that will be visible to all who enter or pass by, which will display programs, events and stories about those consumers that are assisted and cared for every day; new classrooms; a gym for pre-K and early intervention students; training rooms; breakout, community and education space; new offices and workstations; adaptive technology training program space; a doctor - staffed Low Vision Center; a new boardroom; private conference rooms for interviews and agency work; and displays telling the story of HKS» past and its vision for the future.

At the moment, several of its scruffy denizens, including Sam Kendig, 22, are ramming sectional couches down a corridor of classrooms as fast as low - tech human power can, past lab - coated professors and graduate students, none of whom blink an eye.

Over the past 11 years, scientists, astronomers, and engineers have engaged over 50,000 students while visiting over 3,000 classrooms on the Big Island during the annual «Journey» week.

First is an interesting alternate opening (3:33) which cuts immediately from the old Walt Disney Pictures logo into Carol's classroom, where in response to questions from a student (Abigail Breslin) she recaps the past with help from clips of the original movie and a little wooden Tim Allen doll.

This includes funding major renovations to the school's campus, most notably, turning the first floor of Gutman Library into a desperately needed cafe and student center hub that has truly brought the whole school together, and making sure that every classroom renovated during the past few years was done using green, sustainable materials.

I attended UC Irvine (BA) and University of Southampton, UK (MA) and have enjoyed working with students privately and in the classroom for the past 10 years.

We have also learned a lot about the alternatives to value - added measures — especially, classroom observations and student surveys — in the past three years.

I need to provide documentation of what I've learned during the past five years, along with proof (video tapes and actual student work) that I'm applying effective methods in my classroom.

If we look at digital literacy and its implementation in the classroom for the past 10 years, we can see the impact on students» writing and communication skills.

Years ago, a dear friend and Latin teacher was walking past my classroom as I was ushering my students in before the bell.

Most obviously, a blended classroom is powered by digital technology, which allows learners to access rich textual, graphic, interactive, video, and audio content unknown to the students of the past.

To put it another, more shocking, way, according to the American Association of Suicidology, in a typical American high school classroom, an estimated three students attempted suicide in the past year.

Here, Professor Becky Parker, science teacher and director of the Institute for Research in Schools (IRIS) reflects on some of her past students and how working at the cutting edge of science research while in the classroom supports students» interests and engagement with the subject, fostering a continued love of the subject.

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.

If students haven't been involved in this type of team - focused environment in the past, however, it can create real challenges for them and for overall classroom management.

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.

In that survey, nearly 70 percent of classroom teachers reported having at least one student in their class (or classes) who has lost a parent, guardian, sibling, or close friend in the past year.

This is a comprehensive analysis of past and current neurological research that may (or may not) provide policy makers and educators with evidence that impacts on students in a classroom setting.

If we can do it right, I believe that our classrooms can help students find the balance they need — between acknowledging the past and constructing a future.

For instance, just in the past year, Harvard's Tony Wagner coauthored Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era; Richard Milner of U. Pittsburgh authored Rac (e) ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms; and Columbia University's Tom Bailey copublished Redesigning America's Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success.

The belief that teacher - candidates need to demonstrate they can help their future students learn before they enter classrooms as full - fledged educators has gained strength over the past decade, especially among states.

In classrooms where students engage with authentic, rigorous work, strategic support and modeling enable learners to progress past discomfort.

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.

Abstract: «While traditional classrooms wade through indexed text books chapter by chapter in order to pass Friday's test, a torrent of knowledge is streaming past and through the students on their cell phones.

Evidence of past student writing, such as piles of written work and examples of student writing posted on classroom walls.

Over the past eight years, my survey course on Politics and Education in the U.S. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education came to resemble an Internet café more than a classroom, with a laptop perched on nearly every student's desk.

The population of students with acknowledged neurological differences has increased greatly in the past decade, and educators are seeing a greater neurodiversity in their classrooms every day.

Once they're comfortable with the way that one thinking routine has worked in their classroom, they can branch out and focus on different kinds of inquiry, like Here Now / There Then, which could be used in a civics class to help students understand how past perspectives change over time; or Parts, Purpose, Complexities, which encourages observation and understanding of art objects or mechanical systems.

The decrease in the number of days spent in suspension might have shifted past some «tipping point» beyond which more presence in the classroom leads to higher grades, while leaving the white students less affected.

Students used RCE as one source among a number of possible sources they were encouraged to draw upon in the course, including (but not limited to) classroom observations, readings, personal experiences, past careers, and video exemplars.

❏ Provide teachers with important information about students they will have in their classrooms (Note: This is not to judge the student for past behaviors; this is so the teacher can be preventive in giving the student a clean slate).

Context of use Students used RCE as one source from a host of possible sources they were encouraged to draw upon in the course, including (but not limited to) classroom observations, readings, personal experiences, past careers, and video.

Over the past decade, we have visited and observed numerous school and classroom Web sites, and have talked to countless students and teachers who have conducted online projects.

Professional development needs to be provided for teachers who may not be comfortable engaging their students using new technologies such as discussion boards in their classrooms, in open discussions of difficult issues (e.g., slavery), or in examining how the video portions of a VFT act as historical sources with values and perspectives from the present as well as the past.

For the past two years, Educators 4 Excellence - New York teachers have led from the classroom by creating recommendations to improve testing for all teachers and students.

I have been teaching high school science (chemistry, physics, and biology) for the past 20 years in Los Angeles County in classrooms filled primarily with students of color.

In the past, every teacher in the building had been using different rubrics for grading students, and there was little consistency between classrooms and no system in place for collaborating on grading practices.

And with the number of poor students growing, families are less able to furnish supplies for classrooms or for their children than they were in the past.

Over the past decade, K - 12 social studies teachers have increasingly integrated technology into their classroom history instruction to improve student - learning outcomes (Berson, 2004; Danker, 2000; Green, Bolick, & Robertson, 2010; Hakes & Eisenwine, 2003; Hernandez - Ramos & De La Paz, 2009; Ray & Shelton, 2004; Shiveley, 2004; VanFossen, 2004).

As teachers, we face the unique challenges of helping each student, in each unique classroom combination, at the same time that we try to advance our own professional learning, support colleagues, address school and district goals, master the curriculum and pedagogy we began learning in the past, and adapt to the newer, better, curriculum and pedagogy that just came along.

Proponents say the new systems are far superior to those of the past and hold teachers accountable for how much students do — or do not — learn in their classrooms.

So I was fascinated when data scientists at Applied Predictive Technology (APT) specifically looked at speed when they analyzed the experience of 1200 students at D.C. Prep, a charter school network in Washington D.C., that was using two educational apps in the classroom this past fall.

With the ability to choose what becomes part of the story, as opposed to fast - forwarding past videotape of students writing quietly at their desks or throwing spitwads at a neighbor, digital storytelling can offer teacher educators a new way to shape narratives about classrooms.

The book summarizes the past two decades of brain research on the teaching of reading and the most neuro - logical classroom strategies for improving student fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and motivation.

In the classroom, she creates lessons that demonstrate how education can be a transformative tool for social justice, and she encourages her students to see themselves as having the power to make change in the world based on lessons from the past.

«Guilty» is a fun classroom game which encourages students to communicate using past tenses.

«With the investments in early education made this past legislative session, Texas is working to build the strongest possible foundation for our students to succeed in the classroom and beyond,» said Governor Abbott in a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas.

Believing that active social studies classrooms can be powerful learning environments (Colman, Pulford, & Rose, 2008; Estes, Mintz, & Gunter, 2011; Levstik & Barton, 2010; National Council for the Social Studies, 2008), PBHI often asks students to deliberate and collaborate with peers to refine understandings of the past (Newmann, Wehlage, & Lamborn, 1992; Saye & Brush, 2004).