Sentences with phrase «smaller classroom student»

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«These are things any great teacher would be able to do for a small group of students in a particular classroom,» Baker says, but D2L can do it on a massive scale.

With educators better equipped at understanding a student's learning process, classrooms are being formed around small groups, with students who match each other's skill level working together.

In addition to classroom growth methods, schools should develop a variety of other small groups for students, led by qualified teachers, counselors, and school psychologists.

How could I find boxes, load boxes, shuttle boxes to and from my second story classroom to my small car, get the lesson plans finished, grade the 150 - 200 daily worksheets and quizzes (That's basically all the students did — worksheets, quizzes and tests — all day long.)

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

After moving from a small district (1800 students) to a much larger district, with over 15,000 students, Jason was charged with implementing breakfast - in - the - classroom after the program had been approved by his predecessor.

With that small amount of extra one - on - one time, breakfast - in - the - classroom offered teachers the chance to better connect with — and understand — their students, something that translated into a healthier classroom environment.

Sonja Hill from the Children's Hunger Alliance explained that when the program is fully implemented in the fall students in grades Pre-K to 2 will have direct delivery of breakfast to their classrooms, allowing the students to eat together in the room as a small group while beginning their school day.

By making small tweaks to the menu to feature student favorites, and moving assembly to the front of the house, participation at the high school has increased by 100 - 125 breakfasts per day; breakfast - in - the - classroom is increasing participation at the elementary and middle school level as well — it's up 55 percent at Lake Elementary!

In a typical classroom in Finland, students work in small groups.

P.S. 19Q has five smaller trailers that were placed on the school campus in 1994, accommodating 250 students into seven kindergarten and three first - grade «classrooms».

And when he dropped in on some students in a classroom at the State University of New York, he showed he was still working on the art of making small talk with strangers.

Much as a teacher would be amazed to enter a preschool classroom full of college - age students, astronomers were thrown for a loop when they found fully formed galaxies in a distant corner of the universe they thought was populated with relatively small, ragged gatherings of stars.

Thus, on a sunny Saturday afternoon, with the Willamette Valley Music Festival blasting outside (and, frankly, sounding a little bit more fun than the prospect of watching grad students present their research), I positioned myself in the back of a small classroom with the two other judges and tried to look judgelike.

She provides Mary a tour of the school, which stands many stories tall, containing devices as ordinary as elevators (Mumblechook points out that electricity is, after all, a form of magic) and as fantastic as bubbles that carry students to their classrooms (In one of the classes, the filmmakers fit in a small homage / jab at a famous, British child wizard, who's tormented by a flying broomstick that he can't control).

The classroom is an open space that runs the length of the building wing, but is subdivided by bookshelves into workspaces where small groups of students work with the teacher or individually with laptops.

A solar - panel system generates enough electricity to power 24 classrooms, a courtyard greenhouse shelters vegetables and native prairie Illinois grass, a small «living wall» of plants filters air and water in a freshman biology classroom, and a handcrafted biodiesel production facility provides a living lab for chemistry students and fuel for one of Bloom's minibuses.

Some of the schools I work with in Oakland, California, are aspiring to this description of academic discourse in the classroom: «Conversations in whole and small group settings are facilitated by students and consistently involve all students in academic discourse among students.

While there's a place for small activities that allow teachers to gauge understanding, it's more crucial to make conversations with students a core element of classroom practice.

When a student has earned a predetermined number of tallies, he or she can exchange them for small prizes or classroom privileges.

The concept of guest speakers in the classroom is not new ~ but what I am encouraging is connecting students ~ individually or in small groups ~ with professionals and experts in areas of interest.

With micro-chartering, one or more classrooms or individual teachers could receive a charter to provide course access to students beyond the walls of a particular school — or to incubate new charter school models on a small scale before growing them.

You also should ask 5 - 7 additional teachers to help you with this project by allowing a small group of students into their classrooms for a look - around and being available for a five question survey.

Studies also indicate that within the open classroom it is necessary to arrange for individualised instruction with group contingencies and that there can be an increase in academic production, positive social behaviour and interaction with students in smaller, more intimate group clusters.

During the 30 - minute time period, certified teachers visit classrooms and work with small groups of students on skills needed for the CMTs.

«Students go from a primary school environment characterised by smaller class sizes and a smaller student cohort... and one main classroom teacher rather than multiple teachers [and specialist staff].

Small comments from students can cause large shifts in my understanding of learners, curriculum, and classroom dynamics.

We all know the student, the one whose stress response goes from zero to 100 at seemingly small triggers; whose defiant moments test the teacher's hourly resolve; and whose initial resistance towards a classroom task can lead to the tanking of an entire school day.

Finn, who established her classroom store as an incentive for students to do their work well and to complete it on time, gives credit for the idea to a teaching assistant who helped with small groups of students in her room.

As more classroom management functionality becomes automated, this frees up time for teachers to spend more of their skills and mental energy on more important things for students and their learning; such as tailoring learning to student needs and focusing more on individual and small group instruction than on managing large classes.

In addition to modeling lessons for teachers and working with small groups of students, the skills specialists also regularly analyze student scores on diagnostic, formative, and standardized tests across classrooms, subjects, and grades.

They can learn more deeply as well if they're also not being impacted upon by repeated disruptions from, again, those small number of students that might be in your classroom.

EW: In most classrooms, teachers need to work with individual students or with small groups of students.

This dire sequence started, he says, with A Nation at Risk, the 1983 Reagan administration report that launched America on «experiments» such as «open classrooms, national goals, merit pay, vouchers, charter schools, smaller classes, alternative certification for teachers, student portfolios, and online learning, to name just a handful.»

Growing interest in «blended learning» and other classroom uses of technology, which help teachers customize and individualize learning by letting some students move at their own pace online while teaching other kids in smaller, perhaps more homogeneous groups.

The Houston - based schools have extended days, learning contracts signed by students and parents, school - issued cell phones for teachers, and classrooms bearing the names of colleges — the now - familiar features of what David Whitman dubbed «New Paternalism» schools in his 2008 book Sweating the Small Stuff (see «An Appeal to Authority,» features, Fall 2008).

REVIEW Science teachers looking to engage their students in a more meaningful way can use case studies in classroom discussions and small group learning, and this site gives you all the information and resources you need to get started.

Essa Academy in Bolton trialled their Brainy Tech service which involved students teaching older adults computing skills in the classroom, and plan to continue to do so (for a small fee).

If, on the other hand, you lovingly confront even the smallest misbehaviors, then it will be clear to students that, inside the four walls of your classroom, things that detract from what you're trying to achieve — even in small ways — just don't fly.

I have always found that small groups of three or four preferably four) students works best for my classroom.

This simple idea can be used to create an engaging classroom activity in which students work individually or in small groups to rewrite a fable.

A meta - analysis comparing small - group work to individual work in K - 12 and college classrooms also found that students working in small groups achieved significantly more than students working individually, and optimal groups for learning tended to be three - to four - member teams with lower - ability students working best in mixed groups and medium - ability students doing best in homogeneous groups.

Using the same technique to examine the gains made by the two groups following the implementation of Prop 227, Bali found that putting these same students in a structured immersion classroom the next year eliminated the small gap between English Learners who had been in bilingual education and those not in bilingual education.

Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on studestudents with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on studeStudents and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on studestudents spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.

«I love the flexibility of working with students individually, in small groups, classrooms, or schoolwide.»

Then, students who are not progressing adequately in the regular, high - quality classroom are provided with some type of intervention — an additional, smaller math or reading class, for example (tier two).

In this four - year longitudinal class - size study, more than 7,000 students in 79 schools were randomly assigned to one of three classroom situations: small class (13 to 17 students per teacher), regular class (22 to 25 students per teacher), or regular class with a full - time teacher's aide.

Aim High offers its students — primarily low - income, first - generation, immigrant youth — small classrooms and a range of curriculum, from STEM courses and environmental education to career exploration and conversations around social justice.

KS3 Statistics Labels, Averages for a Small Set of Data How to get from a Level 6 to a Level 7 This great resource will help you, your students, school managers, and classroom visitors determine where each student is in this part of the maths curriculum and what needs to be done to get to the next level.

The students in the smaller classes continued to achieve at higher rates than their peers in the other groups even after they returned to normal - sized classrooms in grades four and beyond.