Sentences with phrase «students using it in a classroom»

Below, EdReports.org Executive Director Eric Hirsch discusses the organization's work and its impact on the landscape of tools teachers and students use in the classroom.

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Technologies like DreamBox, a math education software that's used in a number of classrooms across the US, adapts to each student's skill level and lets students learn at a pace best suited to their needs.

Using the case method in the classroom, students can expect to contribute in about every second class and hear from about half the class on each case.

Many teaching tools used in classrooms are granting private companies access to personal student data, including attendance rates, grades and disciplinary records.

The oldest technical research university in the US, Rensselaer Polytechnic is grounded by two principles: Help students apply science to everyday life, and use teaching methods not used in a typical classroom.

In one classroom, a student used the social - media app Snapchat to record his classmates hiding.

For that reason it has been a classroom staple for me as a political science professor... I'll be using it this semester to show American politics students the sort of thing the founders were trying to avoid, and I often use it with political philosophy students as a foil to Aristotle's defense of the democratic element in a polity.

He includes an exercise he has used in a classroom setting in which he isolated the commands from 1 Timothy 2:8 - 15 and then asked his students to discern whether they thought we should or should not practice them today.

Along with her pet lizard «Liz,» the excellently dressed Miss Frizzle was her classroom's intrepid leader, who used moxie and a bit of magic to guide her third - grade students in learning science.

In addition to a nine - lane track, the new design for the stadium will include classrooms, laboratories and research facilities that can be used by students.

They concluded that when it comes to comparing students at one school or in one classroom with students in another, self - assessments just don't work — especially in cases where they are used as tools for accountability.

In American classrooms, by contrast, Stigler found that a unit on adding fractions with unlike denominators would usually begin with the teacher writing on an overhead projector a reliable formula to solve the problem, which students would be expected to copy down, memorize, and use for each subsequent problem.

Other possible changes may include a greater use of technology in the classroom or at home, or increased student responsibility (often the grade levels in preparation before transitioning to middle or high school).

Students who fall behind or miss school can use up a lot of a teacher's classroom time getting make - up lessons or in class help with their work.

While bullying has a long and sordid history in American classrooms, a November 7, 2016 article in The Nation asserts that the current surge is notable in two respects, both for the similarity of its targets - Muslim students, immigrants and children of immigrants, children of color, girls, and Jews - and the language used against them, leading some educators to suggest a link to Donald Trump and the «degraded course of this election season.»

Breakfast - in - the - classroom is designed to increase participation in the federal School Breakfast Program (SBP) using three proven strategies to spur higher participation: (1) Expanding free breakfast to all students (2) Moving breakfast from the cafeteria to the classroom, and (3) Serving breakfast right after the opening bell.

A combination of factors, according to the report's findings, including offering universal breakfast at no cost to all students and state legislation to expand the use of breakfast after the bell / breakfast - in - the - classroom programs.

These are just a few examples of how breakfast - in - the - classroom has been used as a creative tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardiness and absenteeism, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!

Even inside the classroom, a teacher is using a model or a demo in order to make the student understand the point of the whole thing.

I take classes and use data in the classroom to help my students.

Guided by a visiting teacher naturalist in the classroom, students will use bird puppets to experience how natural selection works as they try to survive with their adaptations in the island environments available to them.

And, when research uses standardized tests to measure homework's impact, she continued, it is difficult to gauge how much of the overall improvement or decline in test scores is due to student learning in the classroom context as opposed to student learning from homework.

In Cincinnati Public Schools, a nutrition app is not only changing how students and parents get meal information, it's used in classrooms for morning announcements and by school nurses to tally carb counts and manage student allergy needIn Cincinnati Public Schools, a nutrition app is not only changing how students and parents get meal information, it's used in classrooms for morning announcements and by school nurses to tally carb counts and manage student allergy needin classrooms for morning announcements and by school nurses to tally carb counts and manage student allergy needs.

In her current role as senior child nutrition policy analyst, she works with a diverse group of national and state partners to expand the use of the School Breakfast Program among low - income children and increase the number of schools offering breakfast in the classroom free to all students in target states, school districts and schoolIn her current role as senior child nutrition policy analyst, she works with a diverse group of national and state partners to expand the use of the School Breakfast Program among low - income children and increase the number of schools offering breakfast in the classroom free to all students in target states, school districts and schoolin the classroom free to all students in target states, school districts and schoolin target states, school districts and schools.

Do avoid the temptation to produce more workbooks or worksheets — these are of limited value, and mainly used in the classroom so that the teacher can ensure that all the students have understood.

In addition to the regular classroom administrative tasks the students read, review vocabulary and spelling, many teachers use the breakfast time to build community and connectedness and set the tone for the day.

We love the recent post over at the USDA blog by Dr. Robert Lewis of the El Monte School District, in which Dr. Lewis writes about his district's efforts to improve the lives of students using health - promoting messages in the classroom.

Using the bar to introduce children to food in their raw state and educate students palates by offering some special seasonal salads makes fast work of transforming your cafeteria into a classroom enjoyed by all every day.»

That might mean a slower menu roll - out than LAUSD attempted; it might mean more menu - testing and student input; it might mean using Brian Wansink's consumer psychology to encourage better choices; and it most certainly means nutrition education at every possible juncture, from classroom lessons to school gardens to volunteer «food boosters» in the lunch room encouraging experimentation.

First - year students of Adonten Senior High School at Aburi in the Eastern Region, have been forced to use the school's uncompleted assembly hall as their classroom.

«Tedra Cobb also spent the morning pursuing the exhibits, and appeared enthused about discussions with Plattsburgh High students on solar panel installations — including those in classrooms that students use to charge their cell phones.

The organization aims to reduce or eliminate the use of high stakes testing, increase teacher autonomy in the classroom and work to include teacher and family voices in legislative decision - making processes that affect students.

«The state has to restore the trust and confidence of parents in its assessment system and part of that includes assuring parents that tests are being used by teachers to inform instruction so they can better help the students in their classrooms and that the data is used for those purposes.»

The Bond Act, as it reads on the November ballot, would provide access to classroom technology and high - speed internet connections, as well as offer funds to build more pre kindergarten classrooms, and replace the trailers that some overcrowded schools in New York City have been using to teach students.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

As program officer for the IES Cognition and Student Learning research grants program, Dr. Albro oversaw the preparation of an IES Practice Guide, Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning, which identified a set of instructional principles for use in schools and classrooms that emerged from basic research on learning and memory.

In the classroom, these characters can be used to communicate learning objectives to students in an interesting, fun, and accessible manner by taking advantage of student familiarity with these superhero characterIn the classroom, these characters can be used to communicate learning objectives to students in an interesting, fun, and accessible manner by taking advantage of student familiarity with these superhero characterin an interesting, fun, and accessible manner by taking advantage of student familiarity with these superhero characters.

To avoid having classroom discussion dominated by students who feel more confident about the subject, for example, teachers use index cards to call on every student in the class.

In an introduction to the special JSTE issue, editors Joseph Krajcik and Ibrahim Delen call attention to the current challenges posed by NGSS, which calls for a shift from classrooms where ideas are merely presented to students to those where «students grapple with data and ideas and use those ideas to explain phenomena and design solutions to problems.»

Using pre - and post-course surveys, open - ended questions, self - reports of section leader teaching practices, and classroom observations, the researchers compared student examination scores and end - of - course evaluations from 150 Masters - level candidates in the «Principles of Epidemiology» introductory course.

By taking data from Boston schools with admissions lotteries, the scholars have used the random assignment of students to schools to see how similar groups of students fare in different classroom settings.

During the course of the experiment, sixth, seventh and eighth graders learned about science and social studies in one of two ways: 1) material was presented once, then teachers reviewed it with students three times; 2) material was presented once, and students were quizzed on it three times (using clickers like the ones in Bain's current classroom).

Using statistical models, the researchers looked at two factors in kindergarten — children's executive function and exposure to play in the classroom — and how they contributed to the students» participation in different extracurricular activities in 8th grade.

College students who participated in a self - administered intervention prompting them to reflect about their use of classroom resources had final grades that were higher than their peers, according to new findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

When he's covering particularly tricky material in his physics courses, Munsat periodically stops to flash a question in front of the class, asking students to «vote» on the correct answer using a classroom clicker.

A new report on how teachers use video games in classrooms identifies features they find most useful to track student learning, as well as gaps where better tools could help link games more closely to the curriculum.

The papers also describe key decision points in the curriculum development process and how the pilot test data on student and teacher learning and classroom enactment were used to revise and improve the unit.

Elizabeth Hufnagel of Pennsylvania State University, who has been studying how students use emotional language in writing about environmental issues, also is interested in how teachers can use the experiences students bring to the classroom.

The contribution Lew and Leland are making can be seen in some of their designs, including «Classmate» — a computer - based, speech - assisted reading and writing program that students can use for taking notes in the classroom — and an accessible Palm PC prototype.

Computers used in the workplace are not suited for the classroom, because in most cases they're fragile and too big for elementary and middle school students» desks, says Tony Salvadore, a senior principal engineer with Intel who is also a psychologist and anthropologist.