Fred Jones: Teaching Rules and Routines «Research has repeatedly shown that teachers with the best
run classrooms spend most of the first two weeks of the semester teaching procedures and routines... A wise teacher knows that spending time on procedures early in the semester saves time and energy in the long run.
Not exact matches
Smartville, they decided, was the answer: If, in addition to
spending time in a
classroom, students have the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of activities, including the
running of a little city, they'll exercise their multiple intelligences on many levels, always in a meaningful way.
But total per
classroom spending in the school
runs to $ 313,268.
He'd
spent weeks in college
classrooms learning business practices and months in KIPP schools seeing how they are
run.
Anyone that has
spent time
running a school or in the
classroom knows that unions are only one of the challenges in terms of improving public education.
Children will never be adequately educated under a system
run by bureaucrats handing out money and the teachers unions (the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers)
spending the money in the
classroom.