Sentences with phrase «see kids in the classroom»

Each academic wing features classrooms that connect to a central collaboration space and a teacher design lab — enabling educators to see kids in the classroom, collaboration space, or corridors from virtually any spot in the learning environment.

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During the 1950s and 1960s, when Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds coaxed classrooms full of kids to join them in the singing of folk songs, no one paid much attention, not even those who, in the middle of the Cold War, saw America's «singing left» as a threat to the republic....

I know the temptation to catch up on housework or waste the day away sitting on the computer will be great, but I hope to use some of that time every Wednesday to nurture myself (as well as volunteer in Ava's classroom for two hours every other week — see, I can't give up focusing on my kids that easily).

I've written a lot on this blog (and, really, I mean, a LOT — see the «Related Posts» below) about classroom birthday treats, soccer snacks and the many other ways in which kids are offered junk food by people other than their parents on a regular... [Continue reading]

I know many of us parents say, «If I could be a fly on the wall of their classroom...» While it would be kind of silly to see one of us sitting in an elementary school desk or hiding under our college student's dorm room bed, there are plenty of ways that our kids can «take us with them» to school, or at least the most important advice we can give them.

«And when parents read books with their kids, two things happen: The kids see that what they're learning has interest and value beyond the classroom and kids and parents have shared material to talk about — what they each liked and disliked in the story, what they found boring or engaging, etc..

«Bringing nutrition education and hands - on learning through cooking into classrooms is a really exciting way to see kids go through the learning process and apply what they're learning in the classroom to their everyday lives,» said Cooper.

They will get specific recommendations for food served in the classroom and learn the ins and outs of healthy celebrations, non-food rewards (SEE Why Food Rewards are Bad for Our Kids — and Ideas for Healthy Classroom Alternatives), the importance of physical activity and recess, and more.

«It is good to see that voters across our state support healthy meals in schools as a means to help all kids excel in the classroom.»

In the classroom, kids with special needs are often seen as impositions.

Seeing the universal in - classroom breakfast process up - close and talking to the kids really changed the way I think about, read about, and going forward write about school breakfast.

«I think the most important evaluation is how you do in a classroom when an administrator comes into the classroom and see how the kids are learning,» Rumore said.

«I kept moving it around the classroom and putting it in different hiding spots out of fear that a kid had seen!»

We need to see real - time data on a daily basis to ensure that the way that we are spending our time as teachers is actually meeting the goals of all the kids that are in our classrooms.

«When they put it in our classroom and I saw everything that it could do just playing with it, and my kids were so excited, I could see what a difference it made in a matter of weeks,» says Armstrong.

«I went down the hall one morning and saw that in one classroom, a few kids who needed more practice were reading their scripts to their tablemates,» said Bell.

In one primary mathematics classroom, I did see several kids get the chance to explain their understanding of a newly introduced concept to the class via a document camera in the teacher's workstatioIn one primary mathematics classroom, I did see several kids get the chance to explain their understanding of a newly introduced concept to the class via a document camera in the teacher's workstatioin the teacher's workstation.

The kids themselves said no, they had great social skills and they weren't disruptive and they saw themselves very positively, having lots of friends and enjoying going to school and being in the classroom.

«The common denominator I see in my students is that they're impatient — they realize that they can only affect one wave of kids at a time in the classroom,» says HGSE lecturer on education Robert Schwartz, director of the Education Policy and Management Program.

If the subsystems were separate, as he claims, one should also see the opposite pattern: kids who speak articulately in the classroom, but can not speak informally to their parents and peers.

Nick told Let's Get Cooking: «It is great to see kids who can be a handful in the classroom really show off the meal they have produced, and the interaction between them is great.»

Being a free tool AND collaborative we already see it being a way to better connect kids in the classroom to work together, collaboratively by creating together and bonding.

The kids she saw in Japanese classrooms were happily engaged in mathematics — boisterous, energetic, with arguments abounding about solutions to problems — whereas in the United States, she saw dull classrooms where children unhappily practiced procedures.

14) Twitter in the Classroom on CNN I started using Twitter in the classroom and instantly saw the kids take to it.

But there is something deeply powerful about hearing a classroom of your peers read life into a text by reading it with passion and understanding and inflection and... Instead of thinking when you're reading silently, «I wonder if anyone cares about this book,» seeing that every other kid in the class loves this book, wants to bring it to life, enjoys it, is relishing the fiction and the words in the story.

«So, although they'd seen massive changes in the way the school looked, the way the students presented themselves and their behaviour in the classroom, they hadn't seen the kids academically, in reading, writing and numeracy, change their outcomes.

You might also, in the same classroom, but at a different time, be seeing kids working on much more individualised, or personal investigations into something that they need to work on, or something that they have a strong interest in.

When teachers engage kids in talking about their particular strengths, weaknesses, interests, and ways of learning — and in developing a classroom where everyone gets the help and support they need to grow as much as possible — I see kids who are very enthusiastic about that approach to teaching and learning.

In classroom observations, I've seen many excellent teachers read kids» faces and listen to their talk, then adjust instruction accordingly.

«I've seen kids who might not have achieved as highly in a regular classroom really achieve at a much higher level because they had the extra help and the extra options of the videos and time in class to talk about what they didn't understand, not just to try to copy down notes as quickly as they could,» Gironda said.

In some charter schools, they had two teachers in a classroom, a tutor for every grade, three social workers instead of one — all of these people were very involved in seeing that kids don't fall off tracIn some charter schools, they had two teachers in a classroom, a tutor for every grade, three social workers instead of one — all of these people were very involved in seeing that kids don't fall off tracin a classroom, a tutor for every grade, three social workers instead of one — all of these people were very involved in seeing that kids don't fall off tracin seeing that kids don't fall off track.

Appleton, which has seen several of its schools receive national recognition for their efforts in this area, is one of the cities participating in Core 4 +, better known by school leaders here as «active kids, active classrooms.»

«When you see the kids and you see what's happening in their classrooms, it doesn't matter if you have to be the custodian or the nurse because you're doing what you set out to do and that's providing children with an education,» McKinsey said.

I did not see a single classroom where the kids were sitting in rows, quietly listening to a lecturing teacher.

At the same time, I know for sure when you have an excellent teacher in a classroom — and I've seen this — that principals will put additional kids in a classroom, up to 40.

With this kind of scoring, you see not only how your child compares to kids across the nation, but also to kids in your local district and classrooms.

If there is no support or training, we will see more in - school suspensions and other ways that teachers will remove kids from the classroom, and the kids won't be much better off as a result.

Maybe you would like to see those kids added to the already large classroom sizes in your public school?

If the principal is an instructional leader in your school, they are going to evaluate you on not just whether kids are getting good grades, but on what they see in that classroom.

«When I'm in my classrooms doing observations or just checking in, I want to see the kids doing all the heavy lifting.»

«I've seen huge disparities, where I've gone into classrooms in urban districts and the paint is peeling and there's not a computer in sight, to very high - end districts where every kid has an iPad they can bring home,» said Lisa Gillis, president of Integrated Educational Strategies, a national nonprofit based in California that helps schools implement digital curricula.

«We will make sure our kids are safe, we will see our way through these issues and our kids will be back in the classroom where they belong,» Emanuel said.

Schools where students are engaged and adults are skilled in positive, preventive discipline see big drops in the frequency with which kids are sent out of the classroom because of misbehavior.

I love watching him work with kids and to see just how much fun they have in his classroom through the joy and challenge he brings to the teaching and learning of science.»

She connects with students in her classroom immensely, handing out hand written notes everyday to kids with a quick «pick me up» which one parent said «goes right above their bed and stays there for them to see everyday.»

What you see in Erin's classrooms is not «better kids» who miraculously behave.

In fact, sometimes when I see a child in my office who is failing or perhaps just floundering in school, I love to rev him up by saying something like this: «Hey, Reginald, when you go back to school on Monday, take a good look around your classroom and pick out a kid you really envy, someone who gets fantastic grades, is good - looking and is a super jock too, you know, a kid who always seems to do everything righIn fact, sometimes when I see a child in my office who is failing or perhaps just floundering in school, I love to rev him up by saying something like this: «Hey, Reginald, when you go back to school on Monday, take a good look around your classroom and pick out a kid you really envy, someone who gets fantastic grades, is good - looking and is a super jock too, you know, a kid who always seems to do everything righin my office who is failing or perhaps just floundering in school, I love to rev him up by saying something like this: «Hey, Reginald, when you go back to school on Monday, take a good look around your classroom and pick out a kid you really envy, someone who gets fantastic grades, is good - looking and is a super jock too, you know, a kid who always seems to do everything righin school, I love to rev him up by saying something like this: «Hey, Reginald, when you go back to school on Monday, take a good look around your classroom and pick out a kid you really envy, someone who gets fantastic grades, is good - looking and is a super jock too, you know, a kid who always seems to do everything right.

Volunteering to help out with a classroom event, whether it be a poetry reading or a class play, is a great way to see your kids in action and witness their behavior.

I always feel inspired and empowered when I leave a classroom (with normally one of my rescued dogs in hand) and the kids see things differently; they see animals differently... they suddenly realize that animals need many of the same things that the kids need and feel the same feelings the kids feel... it is that change in understanding that is needed to change the future of animal welfare.

«We see [Pets in the Classroom] as a way to engage kids in elementary and middle schools with having a classroom pet.