The North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey is a tool that gauges NC Educators» perspectives about teaching and learning conditions while providing education stakeholders and policymakers insights on how to improve
school and classroom practices.
Using research findings to change
school and classroom practices: Results of an experimental study.
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.
The summit jumpstarts their year - long dialogue with Secretary Duncan and department officials about
school and classroom practices that advance learning and student achievement.
BERC's research and analysis on these projects between 2008 and 2011 will highlight
school and classroom practices that equip students for success at the elementary, middle grades, and high school levels.
Additionally, we asked them to keep a weekly time log of instructional activities in reading / language arts for a week in February and a week in May, and to complete a questionnaire on
school and classroom practices related to reading.
To accomplish this goal, we investigated
school and classroom practices in effective (unexpectedly high achieving) schools and compared them to what was happening in moderately effective and less effective schools.
In schools, this means collaborating to find ways to improve current
school and classroom practices.
«This is not the time for
schools and classroom practices to be viewed through the rear - view mirror, and a useful start for the panel could be to determine whether The Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians still represents the full compass of our aspirations for educational excellence in schools.»
Not exact matches
What I've learned from my research is that in addition to making sure our
classroom practices are engaging, we also need to talk to students directly about their beliefs about
school, helping them see how disengagement works against them,
and what engagement actually is.
Interesting article:» «Overloaded
and Underprepared» joins an increasing number of voices expressing concern about the future of the stereotypical high
school student of today â $ «the one with the non-stop schedule who is overstressed, anxious,» Anxiety is comorbid with suicide,
and yet PAUSD teachers criminalize anxiety through everyday worst
practices in the
classroom: excessive homework, test stacking, project stacking, inflexible deadlines,
and uncaring response to pleas for relief.
School - wide reforms outside the
classroom may help; but fixing the misunderstandings,
and poor engagement
practices in the
classroom would help a lot more.
Having a principal champion on board to advocate for your alternative breakfast model is a key best
practice we share with
school nutrition directors
and managers seeking to implement breakfast - in - the -
classroom.
My thought is that until society changes, it will be a up - hill battle to convince children that the healthful choices they see at
school cafeterias are great when outside of
school many are seeing
and eating the less - than - healthful choices in many of the ways we've talked about here before:
classrooms, athletic
practices, homes because parents are busy, don't have access to fresh foods
and more.
We will ask them what works
and what doesn't, learn their best
practices for a successful breakfast - in - the -
classroom program,
and learn more about what students want on their
school breakfast menus.
Parent trainer Zweiback recommends that children role - play «
school» at home with dolls
and stuffed animals as a nonthreatening way to
practice being in the
classroom.
While I feel I've made a lot of strides nationally on The Lunch Tray by bringing these issues to the fore
and assisting readers around the country at their children's
schools, at my own son's elementary
school my principal has declined to make any modifications to
practices like birthday cupcakes in the
classroom.
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.
However, even after control for confounding
and selection factors associated with infant feeding
practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability
and achievement, teacher ratings of
classroom performance,
and greater success at high
school.
As program officer for the IES Cognition
and Student Learning research grants program, Dr. Albro oversaw the preparation of an IES
Practice Guide, Organizing Instruction
and Study to Improve Student Learning, which identified a set of instructional principles for use in
schools and classrooms that emerged from basic research on learning
and memory.
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.
The researchers visited
classrooms to observe teacher
practices and student behaviors in both the fall
and spring of a
school year.
«Because we know memory is a crucial cognitive skill for
school learning,
practice at playing games that challenge memory should, in theory, lead to improvements in
classroom behavior
and academic skills,» she says.
The theme of the biennial institute, which is modeled on a similar summer gathering in Europe called the European Science Education Research
School, was connecting research on science education to
classroom practice and policy issues such as the Next - Generation Science Standards.
The Community of
Practice provides professional development opportunities for middle
and high
school teachers across the country to learn more about current heliophysics research
and incorporate it into their
classroom.
Administrators at Bullard Elementary
School in Kennesaw, Georgia, implemented yoga
and other mindfulness
practices in the
classroom to reduce students» stress, but they received an onslaught of complaints from parents who felt they were promoting non-Christian beliefs by «allowing this Far East mystical religion with crystals
and chants to be
practiced under the guise of stress release meditation.»
Participants will examine their personal strengths, fears
and cultural histories in relation to their role as a teacher, understand the needs of students
and schools, learn
classroom management techniques, write lesson plans
and practice teaching Bent On Learning's yoga curriculum for primary, middle
and high
school students.
Trainees will explore their motivations for teaching, understand the needs of students
and schools, learn
classroom management techniques
and practice teaching Bent On Learning's yoga lessons for primary, middle
and high
school students.
Many of our students have been
practicing with our yoga program throughout their time in
school and enjoying the benefits yoga brings to their
classroom experience
and their daily lives.
Regular mindfulness
practices and skills reduce negative thinking, negative emotional reactivity,
and thus negative
classroom and school climate.
These challenges need to be met via regular mindfulness
practices as norms in the following areas:
school administrators,
school union leadership,
school structure
and process, teacher
and classroom structure
and climate, effective mindfulness curriculum
and QUALIFIED trainers, effective teaching skills,
and optimal motivated learning by students.
So when administrators at Bullard Elementary
School in Kennesaw, Ga., implemented yoga
and other mindfulness
practices in the
classroom to reduce students» stress, they probably envisioned peace
and relaxation in their future.
Read more about how
schools and districts can move beyond these «pockets of excellence» to create a broad - based approach —
and how to support teachers as they expand their
classroom practices, as well as their confidence
and capacities.
Following are just three of the claims I've heard from
schools and classrooms that don't fully invest in this
practice:
We liked that other
schools that had created similar
practices used signs
and charts to indicate which
classrooms were open to visitors.
It's a lot to ask of a child, to have him walk out of the
classroom, shut the door behind him,
and deny himself the wonderful enjoyment of
practicing his wind sprints up
and down the corridors of the
school.
In this context, the responsibility of
schools is to ensure high quality assessment of
classroom practice as part of accreditation
and registration as well as developing a growing understanding of the use of
classroom observation
and feedback as key tools for improving the quality of teaching
and learning
practice for individual teachers, teams
and schools.
In this second of two Responsive Classroom articles, Education World looks at how Responsive Classroom
practices play out in
schools and 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.
In seeking to extend learning beyond the
classroom and school it became the case that a system of badging for providers who service the educational demand elsewhere ought to have some form of accreditation to safeguard
schools, their students
and teachers
and confirm that acceptable standards of good
practice are being applied at those learning venues.
On December 12, 2014, The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education brought together leading scholars, practitioners,
and policymakers to engage with the latest thinking, research,
and practice in building
and sustaining high - quality pre-K systems,
schools,
and classrooms.
For academically at - risk students who have been enrolled in U.S.
schools since kindergarten
and who have experienced educational opportunities that are basically similar in design
and practice, research suggests that a
classroom - wide, universal approach focused on building up academic vocabulary
and conceptual knowledge would be appropriate.
While
classroom - based teaching continues to dominate as the most preferred
practice in
schools, colleges,
and organizations, another form of learning...
Through our partnership with the Kusuma Trust UK, the Research
Schools Network will work with local schools to break down barriers and make sure that evidence from our guidance reports has a real impact on classroom pr
Schools Network will work with local
schools to break down barriers and make sure that evidence from our guidance reports has a real impact on classroom pr
schools to break down barriers
and make sure that evidence from our guidance reports has a real impact on
classroom practice.
In the typical mathematics
classroom, especially in the middle years of
schooling, we tend to use one model to connect maths with the real world; we start by teaching the maths content
and skills, we then get students to
practice and do some maths,
and then we next might apply some of those skills into a real world context by using learning activities such as word problems.
«The Review panellists are ideal advisers on the best evidence - based
practices for our students that will help guide how our
schools and educators focus resources in
classrooms.
There is an expectation among the
school staff that they
practice a culture of continuous improvement
and risk - taking based on a cycle of conversations,
classroom observations, constructive feedback,
and planning
and implementing strategies that aim to directly make a difference to
classroom practices in line with the priorities identified for
school improvement.
They argued that there is a growing professional
and academic understanding of the use of
classroom observation
and feedback as key tools for improving the quality of teaching
and learning
practice for individual teachers, teams
and schools.
It includes opportunities to observe real - world
classrooms, where participant teams apply protocols, build their observational skills,
and consider how to integrate such
practices in their own
schools and districts.
Schools are looking for ways they can use the kindergarten entry tools to tailor
classroom practices with children's academic, social,
and physical development needs in mind.