Sentences with phrase «significant changes in our classrooms»

During three years at The Southport School in Queensland, Australia, my colleagues and I managed to produce significant changes in classroom practice via the use of Moodle and the staged introduction of mobile devices to the classroom.

Rural schools, as noted in the example of Betsy Layne High School, can effect significant changes in classroom practice by creating a culture that supports experimentation.

Cohort 2 participants reported statistically significant changes in their classroom behavior management effectiveness after the first year of implementation.

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Many times a significant event such as the birth of a new sibling, a divorce or separation or a change in classrooms or teachers at daycare can set your child back a few steps.

The company believes that the USDA's new «Smart Snacks in School» rule, which is the first change to competitive food guidelines in more than 30 years, will lead to significant improvements in student health, happiness and overall performance — both in the classroom and on the athletic field.

Apple made significant changes to the iOS platform with its announcement of iOS 9.3 which bought several education specific features such as allowing for the sharing of devices across several students, a classroom application which will provide in class control of devices, and managed Apple IDs which can be created in bulk and managed by the school district.

January 2011 had marked the 27th successful year of BETT, where once again the significant role that technology plays in the classroom and in the school as a whole was clear to see, even in a time of ongoing change and austerity in the sector.

A study suggests that many states» own perspectives on how close they are to meeting the federal requirement for a «highly qualified» teacher in every classroom is a little too rosy, and that significant policy changes may be required to meet the goal.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed legislation that will make some significant changes in the state's accountability system and budgeting requirements for schools, including tougher high school graduation standards and elimination of a requirement that school districts must spend 65 percent of their operating budgets on classroom instruction.

Despite significant changes in schools» ethnic make - up — particularly recently — high schools are very much the same as they were 50 years ago in the way classrooms are organized and instruction is delivered.

From abolishing the SAT to calling for project - based learning in the classroom, we're fighting for significant changes.

Evaluations of the impact of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) in four multiracial, multiethnic school districts in New York City showed that 84 percent of teachers who responded to a survey reported positive changes in classroom climate, 71 percent reported moderate or significant decreases in physical violence in the classroom, and 66 percent observed less name - calling and few verbal insults.

Over the last couple of decades, we've experienced significant changes in the use of different levels of technologies, implemented throughout schools to ultimately enhance everyday teaching in the classroom and assist with back office administrative functions, writes CEO of IG3 Education, Tony Church.

By contrast, classrooms that performed one standard deviation above the average experienced no significant change in cheating in response to these two policies.

Kentucky has partially met that goal, a report from a state think tank says, but it still needs to invest in significant changes to put better teachers in the classroom.

«While the last five plus years have seen most states make significant changes to their teacher evaluation policies, California has not been part of the national movement to connect teacher evaluation to classroom effectiveness,» Sandi Jacobs, senior vice president for state and district policy for NCTQ, said in an email to LA School Report.

Ranking colleges of education will have little effect — changing principal education in ways that accentuate a focus on learning, curricular analysis and classroom instruction offer significant promise.

Though the test has undergone some changes, a 2007 study of North Carolina teachers found significant overlap in the effectiveness distributions of elementary teachers who did and did not pass the Praxis II Subject Assessment Test, while large numbers of teachers who did not pass the exam achieved the same or greater levels of effectiveness in the classroom.7

Among the most significant changes is that schools must now have an English language teacher — like the woman drawing pictures at P.S. 160 — in the classroom for part of each week if even one student is learning English.

We are already at work on significant changes to App distribution, Apple ID, and Apple Deployment Programs that we are planning to deliver next year to make using iPad in the classroom even better.