Sentences with phrase «structures of schools working»

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If «Sunday School and Church» is the formative experience in a congregation, it is very likely that the people of God are being formed by a structure that perpetuates dualistic thinking about Christian faith, about the work of Christians, the nature of the church, and the role of pastors.

Because specialization sets the terms for a faculty member's participation in the life of a school, it is perhaps the most powerful structure at work in faculty life: the faculty member's existence and legitimation are at stake when his or her field is threatened.

In effect, its founders institutionalized «supervised field work» in the very structure of the school.

We found a structured school that is aware of his issues and is committed to working with him rather than jumping to kick him out for the slightest transgression.

We know from our own experience as parents and from the many hundreds of families we have worked with that regulated sleep habits for children makes the whole endeavor of parenting easier and provides an important structure that can carry through all of the school years.

As High school Coordinator at the Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor and Interim Director at the Waldorf Institute of Southeastern Michigan, Sian is another colleague in the movement who started her work in administration and sees clearly that the development of Anthroposophically centered administrative structures is essential to the growth and development of Waldorf education in North Amschool Coordinator at the Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor and Interim Director at the Waldorf Institute of Southeastern Michigan, Sian is another colleague in the movement who started her work in administration and sees clearly that the development of Anthroposophically centered administrative structures is essential to the growth and development of Waldorf education in North AmSchool of Ann Arbor and Interim Director at the Waldorf Institute of Southeastern Michigan, Sian is another colleague in the movement who started her work in administration and sees clearly that the development of Anthroposophically centered administrative structures is essential to the growth and development of Waldorf education in North America.

After doing school work, students will be rotated through a series of structured activities ranging from drama to woodworking to sports.

However, when we hit the pre-teen and teen years, we get so busy with the myriad activities of school, church, or work events that a support group is no longer on our radar — or perhaps we have kept our friends from those early years and don't see a reason to add one more structured activity to our crazy schedules!

Treatment for ADHD includes education of the individual and his or her family about the nature of ADHD and its management; positive and proactive behavioral interventions that provide structure, consistency, predictability, and teach appropriate skills; parent training to teach and support effective parenting approaches for a child with ADHD; and modifications, support, and accommodations to increase success at school or work.

Construction has been completed on the Basketball Arena Construction has been completed on the Copper Box Construction has been completed on the Velodrome Construction has been completed on the Aquatics Centre Construction has been completed on the Lee Valley White Water Centre More than three - quarters of the residential plots are structurally complete, the structure of the Chobham Academy school is nearing completion and work is well underway on the state - of - the - art polyclinic.

Site upgrades to the existing property include general site work to the structures of the house,; thermal, plumbing and electrical work; improved road access for school buses attending the site; and upgrades to the home's electrical systems.

«Patients, family members, and healthcare providers should work together to find solutions to the barriers preventing a patient from participating in a structured exercise programs, because exercise programs can help patients manage their condition,» said Lauren B. Cooper, M.D., lead author of the study and a fellow in cardiovascular diseases at the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina.

Other determinants, including local labor market conditions, parental education and family structure appear to have a greater impact on child poverty levels, according to Myungkook Joo, assistant professor in Rutgers School of Social Work, who authored the study.

Professor Alexandra Gerbasi, Director of the Centre for Leadership and Decision - making at Surrey Business School, commented, «With shifts in organisational structures leading to more collaborative, team - based work, it's often assumed that extraverts have an advantage when it comes to achieving success in the workplace, especially in team - based work.

She received her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder and did her Ph.D. work at Colorado School of Mines focusing on in - depth experimental and modeling studies on high temperature pyrolysis of hydrocarbons and the effects of temperature and fuel structure on conversion, hydrogen production, reactivity, and deposit formation under solid oxide fuel cell operating conditions.

Especially in school and at work places, it exists some kind of code structure for how one should dress.

«My inspectors tell me that much of the good, structured work done in primary schools on understanding and using correct grammar, both when writing and when speaking, is lost when pupils enter the secondary phase.»

Obviously it's a very different system and structure from the way that they were taught and because this current school (and a lot of schools I work with) have quite involved parents, if they don't understand the change or why you're doing it, they can be an obstacle and they can get quite passionate about it and it can impact on the kids coming to school, if their parents are viewing it quite negatively.

«My colleague Thomas Walker and I... worked together to develop an approach to peacemaking that could actually be integrated into the structure of a school.

The beauty of loose - parts play is that it works well alongside existing school play structures, enhancing the flexibility of the systems and available space within a playground.

We encourage school - based, district, and mixed teams that leverage the collective expertise of those who work directly with students and those whose decisions influence the structures and systems that define how teaching and learning happens.

As a result of # 2.8 million of construction work, the school's old buildings have been replaced with a single - storey insulated timber structure, which features modern heating, lighting and ventilation systems to ensure excellent energy efficiency.

Given the widespread existence of choice and competition in K - 12 education, it is demonstrably wrong to suppose, as Forum contributor Frederick M. Hess does («The Work Ahead «-RRB-, that «Efforts to cultivate competition may thus foster a culture of schooling that is alien to our educational heritage and may create an incentive structure that distorts educational priorities.»

Lawrence - Lightfoot was honored for her study of the culture of schools, the patterns and structures of classroom life, the links between adult developmental themes and teachers» work, and the relationship between culture and learning styles.

When Leanne Chesterfield and her team first started planning their own units of work the priority was to deliver it within the existing multi-age class structure at Kimberley Park Primary School (KPPS).

Moving forward, Gray hopes to use his work to further his vision of a school system structured for advancement.

«You know, the educators in the prior - to - school settings and then first years of school, they're working within very different curricular and learning framework structures so opportunities for collaboration of learning experiences might not be feasible.

For example, when we write a Senior school unit of work, we also build in Year 4 considerations just in case we end up with a Year 4/5 class structure one year.»

And there is a real societal price to pay, as students are sleep - deprived and unhappy, employers question how ready they are for life and work after leaving school — the College Scholastic Aptitude Test incentives memorization at the expense of thinking because of its structure and time limit — and the birth rate has declined markedly in Korea at least in part because of how expensive it is to have children.

This alternative approach, which now educates more than 30 percent of public - school kids in 19 cities, requires a new structure in order to work.

All were geared toward a system in which «elementary students were provided with career awareness integrated into the regular curriculum; middle - school students explored technology anchored in career applications; and high - school students were provided with early career counseling and assessment, and with structured programs of study, including appropriate work experience and seamless postsecondary articulation.»

Teachers and school leaders could facilitate this opportunity by: a) setting aside specific time for students to engage in this form of design - based education, for instance, by establishing design and innovation labs; b) infusing in the curriculum opportunities for students to establish links to this activity; c) structuring opportunities to inspire students to study and solve a problem, for instance showcasing current and past students» exemplary projects; d) providing opportunities for students to present their projects to an authentic audience of peers and members of the community; and e) not telling students what projects to work on by staying hands - off.

The creation of the network will reportedly involve schools, universities and the regional consortia working together and will provide a structured approach for mathematics support for ages three to 18.

Their mission is to protect the jobs of teachers in the regular public schools, and real technological change — which outsources work to distant locations, allows students and money to leave, substitutes capital for labor, and in other ways disrupts the existing job structure — is a threat to the security and stability that the unions seek.

We've constructed a hundred thousand schools that way; we've trained nearly 4 million teachers to do their best in that kind of structure; and we've socialized the families of some 55 million youngsters into believing that «that's what school looks like and that's how it works.»

In the first days of school, my 60 7th and 8th grade students memorized the first stanza of Emily Dickinson's poem «Hope Is the Thing With Feathers» and worked in teams to build a free - standing structure out of string, tape, dry spaghetti, and a marshmallow.

There were a range of social effects as well: children were seen to be negotiating items with other children, which is quite a higher order thinking skill; they were modelling behaviour on others, so they could actually see how children were playing with some of the equipment and then being able to join in (so it was a lot more inclusive, they were able to see how some of the children used some of the equipment); and they were really working together, using teamwork skills and creating these different objects and structures and stations to play around in the school playground.

Through the stated and unstated beliefs promoted by adults, and the structures and rituals of a classroom — or more effectively, throughout a school — students get the message: «We do good work here.»

The way districts serve children best is by working together, regardless of a particular school's governance structure.

Certain techniques were flagged up «no hands rule; use of mini-white boards, Kagan, learning environments that are supporting; bolstering self - esteem; positivity; curiosity; creativity; identify students to lead plenary at end of lesson at the beginning; Get class blogging — quadblogging; tallies for whole class rewards; encouraging independent learning; wait time when questioning; talk about their thinking and reasoning; conversational learning; talk with learning partners before answering any questions; pair and share; Glazer learning model structure for lesson delivery — a good mix of interaction and independent work; offering choice to pupils; cross class working; allowing time to play; list / describe / explain / evaluate; new audiences beyond the school; project based learning and philosopy; swapping age - groups; cross-curricular working; read to them every day; invite varied guests in; learning by discovery using pupils» interests; stand back and watch with purpose.

Green's work to implement a flipped classroom model throughout an entire school — and be able to demonstrate that it resulted in improved test scores and college readiness — paved the way for a nationwide discussion about the efficacy of the current classroom structure.

The complicated structure of federal education policy has thus created an army of Lilliputians who lock in the multitude of grants even though the work of keeping those grants coming often makes it harder to actually run school districts.

By the time you left public school teaching in 1999, you realized the structure of schools was no longer working.

On the surface, it might seem that the teachers unions would play a limited role in public education: fighting for better pay and working conditions for their members, but otherwise having little impact on the structure and performance of the public schools more generally.

Thanks to the unusual structure of math classes at School of One, he says, teachers work with only 9 or 10 students at one time, while at other schools, «the teacher doesn't have time to go over things with every student.»

Rausch noted that certain localities, such as Indianapolis, have had many charter - school leaders of color, but the movement, particularly on the coasts, is mainly the province of white school leaders and organizational heads who tend to hold homogeneous views on test scores, school structure, and «what works.»

Front matter, including Table of Contents and Preface Introduction: The School Zone SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS Chapter One Time to Learn Chapter Two Time, Growth, and Learning Chapter Three Using Time Wisely SECTION TWO: OBSERVATIONS Chapter Four Floating on the Surface in Seventh Grade Chapter Five On Your Mark, Get Set... Seven Years Old in First Grade Chapter Six Working to Be «All There at Once» SECTION THREE: TRANSFORMATIONS Chapter Seven Changing School Time Chapter Eight Changing the Structure of Time in Classrooms Chapter Nine Changing the Use of Time in Classrooms Chapter Ten Time to Teach Afterword: Heros in the Classroom Appendix A: Standards Appendix B: The Responsive Classroom ® Notes References Acknowledgments Index About the Author Northeast Foundation for Children, 1999, 336 pages, paper ISBN: 1 -892989-01-8

District leaders should acknowledge, and begin to reduce, ways in which secondary school principals are limited in their capacity to exercise instructional leadership by the work required of them in their role as it is currently structured.

Experienced practitioners suggested that teacher leaders make the most of the existing structures, routines, and practices already in place within a school to shape their teacher leader work.

We have a process that helps us to do this — the Collaborative Quality Analysis — a structured process of review against the Features of Highly Effective Schools carried out as the first experience of partnership working; school leaders working alongside our Achievement Advisers to create a starting point for collaboration and a robust plan of action.