Sentences with phrase «spend instructional time»

Using an independent study format, students spend their instructional time engaged in online courses with appropriate monitoring and support.

The second result is that teachers and other educators must spend instructional time, sometimes several months - worth, during the fall to work towards students regaining skills that have been lost, or at best, maintained over the summer months.

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Said Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa: «This decision not only reduces the amount of time children will spend taking tests, but also returns valuable instructional time to our teachers.

«This decision not only reduces the amount of time children will spend taking tests, but also returns valuable instructional time to our teachers,» Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa said.

Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn) is an estate agent from Iowa who's addicted to gambling, ever more hopelessly, and who spends a great deal of time sitting in his car listening to an instructional CD called 200 Poker Tells, which lists the signs by which you can gauge an opponent's character and thought processes, and ideally, guess their cards: they might babble at the table, rub their nose, furrow their brow.

As such, they can spend more time digging into your eLearning projects and work samples, instead of trying to figure out how to navigate throughout your Instructional Design portfolio.

About what share of instructional time in high school do you think students should spend receiving instruction independently through or on a computer?

There is a lot of instructional time spent teaching students to memorize words that do not seem to «play fair» or are just plain crazy.

In an effort to ensure that their students will succeed and that their schools will meet AYP goals, many teachers spend virtually all their instructional time on literacy and mathematics, with little attention to science and social studies.

While there may be other mechanisms through which increased school spending improves student outcomes, these results suggest that the positive effects are driven, at least in part, by some combination of reductions in class size, having more adults per student in schools, increases in instructional time, and increases in teacher salaries that may help to attract and retain a more highly qualified teaching workforce.

Teachers must spend precious instructional time on test preparation, despite their conviction that many of the standardized tests they administer inadequately assess what their students know.

We set goals for how much time I would spend on instructional leadership.

Last year, Poores first in four years without a SAM, he spent 50 percent of his time on instructional leadership.

While the rationale is perhaps a bit misguided (some evidence suggests that our students already experience as much instructional time as their peers ~ and other research confirms that teachers in the United States spend more time on instruction than teachers in other nations do) ~ there are certainly reasons to focus on the issue ~ not least of which is the summer learning loss that disproportionately impacts our nations most disadvantaged youth.

After recess, a significant amount of time was spent on solving recess conflicts, which took away from instructional time.»

My lessons and tests must incorporate one or more of of the four Cs to, in my opinion, be worthy of spending precious instructional time in the classroom.

Motivation, interests, and disposition are critical to the encoding process, which is why, as Instructional Designers, we spend a lot of time defining «What's in it for me?»

But the more we utilize the best recorded lectures, documentary films, and instructional technologies to replace live lectures, the more we can free up teachers to spend their time working closely with their students to foster deeper learning.

By design, we move students forward grade by grade based largely on the amount of instructional hours they have spent in class — dubbed «seat time» — rather than their mastery of academic skills and content.

In 2015 and again in 2016 we asked: «About what share of instructional time in high school do you think students should spend receiving instruction independently through or on a computer?»

But as Christopher spent time on the DCPS website, he saw opportunities for high - performing teachers to become instructional coaches — just what he was looking for.

We here at DigitalWits spent the past four months talking with people in large companies, elearning agencies, corporate training departments, human resources, recruiting, edtech - focused venture capitalist firms, staffing agencies, instructional designers (both full - time and freelance) and our own clients over the past year to come up with our 2015 eLearning Trends Forecast.

By moving entry - level information outside the classroom — typically (but not exclusively) through self - paced, scored videos — teachers can reframe learning so that students spend more instructional time engaged in deeper discussions, hands - on applications and project - based learning.

Instructional design is something that our team spends a ton of time thinking about.

Read a book, that's completely irrelevant to your course and instructional design, spend some time outside, try exciting things for the first time, meet new people, re-decorate and de-clutter your office, start a journal, do a research on a topic that interests you.

The MCPS 1st - grade curriculum goals, for instance, contain a number of nonessential topics, such as sorting concrete objects (like Post-its with names of favorite pets on them) into categories, activities that take up instructional time which, critics of the MCPS curriculum argue, could be better spent laying the foundation for algebra in 8th grade.

For instance, a report from the Benjamin Center for Public Policy Initiatives estimated that New York State students spend about 2 percent of instructional time taking standardized tests, though that number has been criticized for being too low.

sorting concrete objects (like Post-its with names of favorite pets on them) into categories, activities that take up instructional time which, critics of the MCPS curriculum argue, could be better spent laying the foundation for algebra in 8th grade.

Of course, streamlining the planning process also saves admins a ton of time — freeing them up to spend more time on instructional leadership, parent communication, and student support.

Observations of child - care settings and pre-K, kindergarten, and 1st - grade classrooms show that some children spend most of their time engaged in productive instructional activities with caring and responsive adults who consistently provide feedback, challenges to think, and social supports.

Other children, even in the same program or grade, spend most of their time passively sitting around, having few if any interactions with an adult, watching the teacher deal with behavior problems, exposed to only boring and rote instructional activities.

Online learning comes in two broad categories: purely online courses, in which a student is never in the same room as an instructor, and «blended courses,» in which students spend time in a physical classroom with an instructor, and, also, time online with instructional videos and digital content.

As the special education staff delved into the IEPs and got to know the students, they realized that some of the teens didn't need to spend so much time in separate classes, called «instructionals.»

As a high school instructional coach who spends much time helping my colleagues implement these standards, I see the positive results of one - on - one support.

Similarly, the average proportion of time that 8th - grade teachers spent on the most basic mathematics concepts — those associated with 1st - through 3rd - grade material (such as simple addition, reading a clock, and multiplication facts) declined from nearly one - quarter of their mathematics instructional time in 1994 to 18 percent in 2001.

The few hours (at most) of annual professional development spent on training teachers to educate gifted students are clearly not sufficient; we need more time and higher - quality training devoted to curricular and instructional differentiation by ability level.

Here are a few examples of what we've heard from principals: to get better at leading an improvement process that is relentlessly focused on just a few critical priorities; to make instructional leadership the center of my work as principal and limit the time and energy that I spend on peripherals; to be a better listener; to being more patient; to communicate my expectations more clearly; to get better at holding others accountable; to get better at having courageous conversations.

Is Andrew Cuomo saying that New Yorkers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year on testing and wasting nearly two weeks of instructional time for «practice»?

Kris Nordstrom, a consultant for the progressive N.C. Justice Center (the parent nonprofit for N.C. Policy Watch) and a former fiscal analyst for the legislature, warned legislators that their efforts would be better spent on proven methods, such as increasing access to pre-K programs, expanding instructional time, recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers, and addressing poverty - related issues such as mental health and child nutrition.

Elementary teachers indicated that 80 percent of instructional time was spent using literature trade books, and the remaining time was distributed among reading or subject basals, workbooks or worksheets, or something else.

Put simply, if it's worth your spending time generating feedback, it's worth taking instructional time to ensure that students respond.

We know that many schools are spending precious dollars on test prep materials, and that instructional time formerly dedicated to field trips, special projects, the arts and enrichment, has been reallocated to test prep, testing, and AIS services.

Just because one has been trained and hired as a school social worker or instructional coach, that doesn't mean one will actually spend the bulk of one's time doing that job.

Have you benefited from increased classroom instructional time because of less time spent helping students who can not independently manage difficult or emotionally charged situations?

The DISS project suggests: «the majority of TAs spend most of their time working in a direct, but informal, instructional role with pupils on a small group and one - to - one basis (both inside and outside of the classroom).

The webinar, jointly sponsored by UCEA and the Wallace Foundation in collaboration with NASSP and NAESP, features a new Wallace Foundation Report, «Making Time for Instructional Leadership» as well as two celebrated principals who will discuss strategies they use to implement instructional leadership behaviors in their schools and lessons they learned for overcoming the obstacles that limit time spent on instructional leadersTime for Instructional Leadership» as well as two celebrated principals who will discuss strategies they use to implement instructional leadership behaviors in their schools and lessons they learned for overcoming the obstacles that limit time spent on instructionaInstructional Leadership» as well as two celebrated principals who will discuss strategies they use to implement instructional leadership behaviors in their schools and lessons they learned for overcoming the obstacles that limit time spent on instructionainstructional leadership behaviors in their schools and lessons they learned for overcoming the obstacles that limit time spent on instructional leaderstime spent on instructionalinstructional leadership.

HSTA also said 64 percent of teachers used instructional time to prepare students for tests, and 56 percent used time they'd otherwise spend teaching art, music and other subjects.

PRODUCT PERKS Multiple Topics - Focus on the objectives where teachers spend a majority of instructional time.

In most states, more that 50 % of special education students spend more than 80 % of their instructional time in general education classrooms.

New limits to ensure that we do not spend more than 5 % of our instructional time on state testing have been established and the use of test results in educator evaluations has been reduced from 50 % to 33 %.