Sentences with phrase «space of the classroom work»

How could adjusting the physical space of the classroom work to meet your learners» needs?

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The space comes with rooms of various sizes that could be used for classrooms, quiet work spaces, or meeting rooms.

In tandem with the 100,000 Opportunity Youth Initiative, Starbucks has opened four stores with classroom and training space as part of its effort to support local economic development in diverse low - to - medium income communities across the U.S.. Each of these stores creates 20 to 25 new jobs with benefits, partners with a local women - and minority - owned supplier and contractor, and works with local nonprofits to provide job - skills training to youth.

In addition to creating new local jobs, Starbucks will work with nonprofit partners like the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis to provide a robust, multi-week job skills training program for local youth, using a specially - designed classroom space within the store.

Montessori classrooms are calm, organized, open spaces where children of various ages work independently and at their own pace.

Plans include a private lobby outfitted with a marketing wall that will be visible to all who enter or pass by, which will display programs, events and stories about those consumers that are assisted and cared for every day; new classrooms; a gym for pre-K and early intervention students; training rooms; breakout, community and education space; new offices and workstations; adaptive technology training program space; a doctor - staffed Low Vision Center; a new boardroom; private conference rooms for interviews and agency work; and displays telling the story of HKS» past and its vision for the future.

I spent most of my weekend working to turn our unused office space into a classroom for my -LSB-...]

Teachers in a startup culture can work together to build the classroom «brand» through activities such as proudly displaying the mission in the students» learning spaces, sharing messages of success on class websites and blogs, or designing a class logo and fun swag like t - shirts, water bottles, stickers, and pens.

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.

I've been helping teachers redesign classroom spaces for the past several years and have seen this process work for projects of all sizes.

Rather than rows of students monotonously copying information from the whiteboard, the modern classroom encourages working together in teams, such as in designs for smart, TEAL, or SCALE - UP learning spaces.

We have the collaborative space which is quite big, it's probably the size of two traditional classrooms, where the furniture and technology is set up so kids can collaborate and work together.

As editor of Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School, Pollock brought together 64 real - life tools and techniques for strategizing classroom practices and work space politics, as well as best practice for readers trying to be constructively conscious and open about race and racism.

For those of you without the luxury of your own classroom or office space to work in during planning periods, make a commitment to stay after school for at least thirty minutes each day.

We've recently worked with YPO to furnish parts of our school, improving our classrooms and learning spaces.

I consider the social dynamic of the classroom and prepare a space for my students to work with different people and to hear different stories.

Nadia Lopez (@TheLopezEffect) shares strategies that revolutionized how her scholars approached learning, including learning spaces «where risks were applauded,» with «co-operative learning to encourage collaboration» and a scholar - centered approach allowing «each individual to contribute to the classroom dialogue and work towards the goal of completing a task collectively.»

And if we understand how this works — if you think about it, if you're in a classroom where you feel psychologically and physically safe and secure because your teacher is doing a great job of leading and developing a space that you feel like you're prepared to have a go and participate, take risks, because we need that to occur in learning.

In this classroom there is a more inviting learning atmosphere, and teachers walk among students, rather than just sitting or standing in front of the room; it is a space where students can choose where to sit, work, and collaborate with their peers; there are round tables, work areas, and even creative elements like beanbags.

Collaborative learning spaces empower students to work with each other and with students in classrooms of the world to assume multiple perspectives, explore alternative solutions, and thoughtfully solve problems.

The active classroom solutions that are coming out of the Future Classroom Lab's work will need more space than traditional content - driven classrooms — and a requirement to shift away from the rectangle: rectangular buildings with rectangular classrooms full of rectangular furniture.

Flexible classrooms give students a choice in what kind of learning space works best for them, and help them to work collaboratively, communicate, and engage in critical thinking.

«Many of the spacious facilities, such as a high - spec wifi and IT system, hygiene room, food room, classrooms with independent access to the outdoor learning environment and additional spaces for working, are far more suitable to inspire, motivate and encourage our pupils to learn than what we had before.

The STEM in Schools event, run by CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, forms part of National Science Week and will see classrooms across the country come alive with science as students participate in a virtual classroom discussion with STEM professionals working in the international space industry.

Working closely with educators, the designers have created a school environment where «the prototypical factory model with its self - contained classrooms is replaced by an environment that features a diversity of spaces that flow into one another.

Internal spaces like hallways, classrooms, and cafeterias — typically separated from each other by opaque structures like walls and doorways — have given way to open layouts that emphasize glass partitions and uninterrupted lines of sight, borrowing from cutting - edge work environments like Google's and Apple's campuses.

Like classrooms, these outdoor spaces are designated for instruction, presentations, or independent and group work, but they provide a fresh perspective for students who spend most of the school days indoors.

Outdoor spaces have also been linked to an improved Ofsted rating; A Natural Connections school Ofsted report in 2014 said: «Pupils also enjoy an increasing range of opportunities for outdoor education, which broadens their horizons and enhances their progress in classroom work.

WTTW in Chicago takes a look at Intrinsic Schools, a Chicago charter school that uses blended learning and puts lots of students in one big pod, a large classroom with flexible furniture that a teacher can reorganize to create spaces for independent work, collaboration, instruction, and 1 - on - 1 time with teachers.

Many in the education policy space are drawn to the idea that students» motivational beliefs about their capacities could boost their engagement in the classroom.21 Specifically, if teachers can reframe students» beliefs about their ability, then students are less likely to fear or refrain from taking on a challenging task and will instead approach their work with optimism, in spite of its apparent difficulty.

Even in classrooms that aren't overcrowded, teachers would do well to consider the importance of space as an ecological variable and help modify the classroom space to work in favor of kids who are labeled ADD / ADHD.

Although written cases and analyses of student work samples would achieve similar goals as video analyses, images of classroom lessons provide unique opportunities for novice teachers to see in action how more experienced colleagues make space for student thinking to become visible, probe student thinking to move learning forward, engage students in classroom discourse and learn about students» individual ideas while they teach.

As part of my work this year, I've created this online space and this Twitter account where teachers can find student voice resources and classroom spotlights where student voice is a powerful driving force in both teacher and student growth.

Parents are integral to the school's «School - Family Council» that strengthens the connections between the work of the partners and the classroom and this is just one space that gives them a voice.

We've done what we can to make it work — converted industrial kitchens into classrooms, sinks into tables, refrigerators into closets, and walk in freezers into storage space, but there's still not sufficient room for all of the students we want to teach.

Teams of 150 - 180 students work with teachers in shared learning spaces with cutting - edge technologies that shift between traditional classrooms, Makeries, Collaboratories, The Gallery, and The Loft to support a student - centered approach to instruction.

The Winston Society — or «Winsoc,» in Orwell's newspeak — played on these associations in constructing the wiki as a space for classroom teachers to join the likes of Winston Smith and «fight big brother» — that is, work against NCLB and its test - based accountability measures — and cultivate alternative visions for education that involved more progressive politics and pedagogies.

In each setting, she made a point of modeling her practices, often encouraging other teachers to observe her work — not only to demonstrate specific teaching strategies but also to highlight the ways she interacted with students and made the classroom a safe space for them.

Throughout my career, across all of the education spaces in which I've served — from the classroom and to technology development — I've continually seen areas where we can engage more deeply in the equity work that we do.

This month MK Gallery Project Space presents Creative Classrooms, an exhibition of work by pupils ages 7 - 11 from Two Mile Ash School, Milton Keynes.

Our facilities include 25 apartments, 14 large working studios and classrooms, state - of - the - art print shop, digital media lab, student lounge, computer lab, auditorium, art gallery, communal outdoor space and administrative offices.

The annual student exhibition at the end of the school year — referred to colloquially as the End of the Year Show — is mounted throughout the school's exhibition, studio and classroom spaces and features the work of art, architecture and engineering students at all levels.

The annual Senior Show & Celebration uses all of the main gallery and much of the classroom space within the college to display the work of graduating seniors.

Private Studio (raw studio space, classroom studios not available) Private room Meals Access to visiting artists and faculty for studio visits Evening artist lectures Opportunities to share work: slide presentations and / or readings and open studios We are happy to announce that in 2016 Ox - Bow will be furthering our commitment to the needs of artists by no longer charging fees for the residency program (including application, room & board, and residency fees).

The work weaves in and out of classrooms and communal spaces, creating an episodic presence as visitors move through the building.

HIGHLIGHTS • Over 7 years» experience working as a lead teacher • Hands one experience in organizing classroom space in a manner conducive to functionality • Track record of effective implementation of summer school programs • In depth knowledge of managing organization centered responsibilities through information systems and notifications

We highlight: (a) purposefully and systematically encouraging activities inside and outside of the classroom that allow students to make choices, exchange points of view, solve problems and make value based decisions; (b) creating time and space within schools for students to act freely and responsibly; (c) when evaluating student learning, valorizing work arising from students» free initiative, and encouraging their positive actions within the school and the community (Martins et al., 2017, p. 18).