Sentences with phrase «started using them in my classroom»

Tomlinson shared with Education World some insights into how differentiated instruction works and how teachers can get started using it in their classrooms.

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At the time I was actively pursuing a BS in Business Management, but the pace was too slow for me — I didn't have another three years to wait and learn, so I started using all the resources available to me on line and in the classroom.

The building, in which the Head Start program used 10 classrooms, was the former Dunton School, which was closed down more than a decade ago.

In 1986, using classroom space rented by the steward of the property, the Threefold Educational Foundation (now, the Threefold Educational Center), classes started, and the next phase of the Waldorf Institute began.

Alleviating Overcrowding: This budget will start to address space conditions in the city's schools, reducing overcrowding and the use of trailers as classrooms with $ 4.4 billion capital investment in new space, including class size reduction.

Attempts by college faculty to use active learning, long popular in K - 12 classrooms, started taking off in the mid-1990s, Freeman said, though lecturing still dominates.

We have experienced this negative phenomenon first - hand by having had a district - wide contract rescinded before the program even started due to fear caused by media attention generated from a single parent in single school who took offense to a classroom teacher leading mandala coloring and using the term, «Namaste,» with her students.

As part of an increased emphasis on technology integration in our district, as well as our mixed device program, we've started using some tools that we have in common to facilitate these connections between classrooms throughout the district.

These three questions are the starting point for conversations - they are not meant to be a complete list, but rather a way of directing the use of technology in the modern classroom.

Chromebooks Rules for the Classroom - If your school is using Google Chromebooks in the classroom, you can use these technology rules for using notebooks in the classroom to get your kids started.

Standing desks — which are starting to appear in offices to help alleviate the health impacts of static, desk - based jobs — can also be used in classrooms.

In my ninth grade classroom, January starts with a video about John Foppe, born with no arms, who excelled as an honor student, drove his own car, and became a successful psychologist and speaker while creatively using his feet.

In the typical mathematics classroom, especially in the middle years of schooling, we tend to use one model to connect maths with the real world; we start by teaching the maths content and skills, we then get students to practice and do some maths, and then we next might apply some of those skills into a real world context by using learning activities such as word problemIn the typical mathematics classroom, especially in the middle years of schooling, we tend to use one model to connect maths with the real world; we start by teaching the maths content and skills, we then get students to practice and do some maths, and then we next might apply some of those skills into a real world context by using learning activities such as word problemin the middle years of schooling, we tend to use one model to connect maths with the real world; we start by teaching the maths content and skills, we then get students to practice and do some maths, and then we next might apply some of those skills into a real world context by using learning activities such as word problems.

We have a set of 15 that we will hopefully be releasing by the end of this school year [in the US], along with accompanying student responses and rubrics, but we're also I think even more critically starting to think about curriculum — so thinking about how to support teachers in using these tasks in their classroom but also to go about teaching students to do a better job of evaluating information online.

This text provides a great information for both the new teacher who has just started using e-learning in the classroom as well as the seasoned veteran looking for new ideas to bring to their students.

Using an arts area in which the classroom teacher is comfortable (for many, this starts with visual arts)

It provides a range of sets that start from small desktop tubes, perfect for use in classrooms, to floor standing tubes that sit perfectly in school receptions and assembly halls.

Though Dillon mentions value - added modeling, he says that the Gates researchers use it «as a starting point,» and spends most of the rest of the piece discussing their use of cameras to capture teachers in action in the classroom — they hope to have 64,000 hours of classroom video by the end of the project and have already begun the process of looking for «correlations between certain teaching practices and high student achievement» and «scoring» the lessons.

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.

Explore videos, resources, and articles to help any educator get started using podcasts in the classroom as a learning tool.

Making best use of TAs is a good starting point for anyone looking to review and reframe the use of TAs in their school or classroom and provides seven practical and evidence - based recommendations.

As you are starting to get excited about ways to use Storybird, here is another great suggestion on how to use it with students in the classroom.

This Five - Minute Film Festival features videos, resources, and articles to help any educator get started using podcasts in the classroom as a learning tool.

Use these tips to retool and jump - start differentiation of instruction in your classroom.

Giving the student the ability to adapt his or her needs around a maths, science, or language problem enables a more holistic, needs based paradigm of learning — one that is starting to be used outside of classrooms, in areas such as health and social care, in wellness and mental health.

With a six - month hoopla around Periscope, this app gained the affection of many educators who started thinking on using Periscope in classrooms.

It's when you start seeing how science in the classroom is used, within the community and within industry, that they actually begin to see what's possible and I think there really does need to be continued governmental support and funding to support teachers in being able to access and utilise some of those resources in order to redevelop their curriculum.

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

Each cohort of students had to start and end school at a different time in order to maximize classroom use.

This is a great start, but educators should take some of the following next steps to feel even more confident and safe about using games in the classroom.

If you did want to use them in a classroom, with all your students at the same time, then the cost really starts to rack up.

Today's mobile phones provide much more than phone calls, with even the most basic models containing a bundle of fancy extras — but before I got carried away and started exploring all of the potential ways in which these features could be used in a classroom, I decided to survey my students.

Using current events in the classroom as a cross curricular activity... Perhaps ~ your students might want to follow Helen Skelton's attempt to be the first person to bike to the South Pole.She started today on her 500 mile trek using a specially built bike ~ the Hanebrink «ice bike&raUsing current events in the classroom as a cross curricular activity... Perhaps ~ your students might want to follow Helen Skelton's attempt to be the first person to bike to the South Pole.She started today on her 500 mile trek using a specially built bike ~ the Hanebrink «ice bike&rausing a specially built bike ~ the Hanebrink «ice bike».

I think of the Rube Goldberg machines built by engineering students in our makerspace, and I imagine the classroom furniture and prototypes being built by the students in my own Art and Tech elective class, projects that start with 3D models and prototypes and end in functional designs that are in use throughout the school.

Use this resource to start conversations about democracy in your classroom and to challenge your students to be active participants.

Made from decommissioned weapons, these two powerful objects are used as starting points to stimulate cross-curricular classroom work in this presentation and accompanying notes.

Ben Stokes, former program director at the MacArthur Foundation, describes this trend as «really looking at how classroom learning is being done today,» and one that was jump started within the higher academic community in 2006 when then Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Henry Jenkins, now at USC, published The Convergence Culture, which documented how today's youth is using digital media.

Contrary to popular believe, getting started using mobile devices in the classroom is not straight forward and goes far beyond the purchase itself.

Starting with the 2008 - 09 school year, individual districts must meet new size caps in each classroom, robbing school officials of the wiggle room they enjoyed during the phase - in period, when school systems were allowed to use districtwide and then schoolwide averages in calculating class sizes.

We used the team environment (the teachers were already operating in teams) and identified the teacher in each team who was expert; the teacher who showed that capacity to achieve what we wanted and said to them (in that coaching, mentoring, feedback) «start entering classrooms, having a look at what's happening and coach and mentor.»

Daniel Whitt, the coordinator of instructional technology in the Madison City School District in Alabama, says his district started using Seesaw — adopted in more than 25,000 schools, 200,000 U.S. classrooms, and over 150 countries — to showcase learning practices in the schools.

You will walk away with many ideas on how to start and continue using WeDo 2.0 in your classroom.

Visit to learn how to get started with our post on using marketing videos in the classroom.

What combinations of formal (such as preschools, Head Start centers, and pre-K classrooms in public schools) and informal care (such as care from relatives) are families using for their preschool children?

The use of technology in the classroom often starts from passive consumption, when the user or the learner passively takes in content or information from various tech sources, such as from web 2.0 websites, mobile apps, social media, etc..

CLASS ratings in sampled K - 3 classrooms (one of Bob Pianta's classroom observation instruments), or another classroom observation system for primary grades with equal or greater evidence of reliability and validity to judge the quality of classroom interactions, with sampling and observation windows designed to draw school - level (not class - level) inferences — see for example the use of CLASS in the Head Start Designation Renewal System.

Eduscapes is a good starting place for teachers who are just beginning to use this technology in the classroom.

Her publication gives detailed suggestions of how to get started with Reading Workshop, and great literature to use in the classroom to teach strategies for comprehension of text.

This approach is innovative because it starts with teachers» ideas and needs, based on their classroom experience and expertise, and engages them in developing the Framework and fostering its use.

A classroom randomized trial compared the Second Step Early Learning curriculum with the most commonly used curricula in Head Start and community preschools.