Sentences with phrase «support more classroom»

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Proceeds from the event support culinary arts education in California through fieldtrips, demos, classroom equipment, job - readiness training and more.

If your school is located in a high - need area and currently has low breakfast participation, grant funding may be available to help support your implementation of breakfast in the classroom, please visit Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom to learn more.

As longtime readers know, since starting TLT I've moved more in favor of totally food - free classrooms, and here I am supporting an in - class food program!

For instance, in a study of American children (aged 9 - 11 years), researchers found that kids with secure attachment relationships — and greater levels of maternal support — showed «higher levels of positive mood, more constructive coping, and better regulation of emotion in the classroom.»

Working as a classroom teacher (and as a parent of three of my own), I know that some children are better able to adapt to and cope with new or different situations while others need to be supported and taught more intentionally how to manage their feelings.

«It's easier to go to the taxpayers and get them to support more science labs or classrooms than one big cafeteria,» said Paul Gillette, associate principal at Barrington High School, where lunch starts at about 10 a.m.

Neither he nor most of the group's major donors would comment on their support, though Mr. Jones said in a statement, «Maintaining the status quo is unacceptable, and that's why StudentsFirstNY and others are fighting for reforms that can give parents more choices, ensure that only the best teachers are in the classroom and make sure that the best interests of the children in the system are put first.»

DonorsChoose.org, which was founded in 2000 and has funded more than 328,000 projects proposed by more than 137,000 teachers in more than 46,000 schools around the country, Wednesday launched a new donor site — DonorsChoose.org/Newtown — to support classroom efforts of teachers in Newtown.

They each called for easing overcrowding in classrooms in the neighborhood, the need for new school buildings and support for creating more permanent affordable housing.

In addition, the Budget puts forward the state's largest investment in education to date, including an increase of more than 5 % in school aid; statewide, universal full - day Pre-k; a bond act to modernize classrooms; as well as signature reforms to fix Common Core implementation and protect students from unfair high stakes test results; and strengthen and support Charter Schools.

She added that the school would continue to have more full - size classrooms for its support services.

In INSIGHTS classrooms, the researchers saw an increase from fall to spring in teacher practices of emotional support to students — essentially, teachers were more sensitive to student needs, created better classroom climates, and showed respect for student interests.

A classroom program that helps teachers adapt their interactions with students based on individuals» temperaments may lead to more student engagement in kindergarten, more teacher emotional support to kindergarten and first grade students, and better classroom organization and less off - task behavior in first - grade classes, according to research by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

With current national and state science education standards emphasizing hands - on and applied science learning, teachers need, more than ever before, materials they can use with students to foster and support active learning, but finding funding to pay for supplemental classroom science materials can be difficult.

Through development and support of career profiles and hands - on student science projects and classroom activities related to cybersecurity and computer programming, Science Buddies and Symantec are hoping to encourage more students to consider these critical, in - demand 21st century STEM fields.

With new tools and content designed specifically for teachers, Science Buddies is lending even more support to teachers looking for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) activities to do in the classroom with students.

As such, decisions to «give» teachers more devices tend to originate from the wrong starting place; teachers should be designing their classrooms and schools and then discussing, with leaders and technologists, what devices can best support that design.

Read more about how schools and districts can move beyond these «pockets of excellence» to create a broad - based approach — and how to support teachers as they expand their classroom practices, as well as their confidence and capacities.

If they need more support academically, this may require more help in the classroom or with their college essays.

A powerful way to support the development of growth mindsets among teachers is for them to experience a positive impact in their classrooms, and teachers have shared with us the positive impact they have seen when they have an opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and work on projects, such as creating more effective lessons.

There are many teachers not using technology as a true teaching tool in the classroom and more for creation and curation but if you are tapping into this gift of technology by using the tools that support your classroom teaching, make sure you are not lazy with the way your are utilizing it.

CLOtC can support you in integrating more learning outside the classroom into the curriculum including free online guidance, LOtC resource packs, LOtC Mark and CPD.

• Somers Elementary School faculty report less classroom bullying than before the program was initiated, more time in class for academic work, and strong family support.

Help can include targeted, high - quality professional development; curriculum improvements; additional time for student learning after school or in the summers; establishment of wraparound services, including community school models; redesign of schools to support personalization and more authentic work in classrooms and internships; or pairing of struggling schools with successful ones serving similar students.

Research driven approach It was therefore heartening that the headline finding of the survey of 500 UK schools (190 primary, 310 secondary) showed that the majority of schools are adopting a research - driven approach to tablet take - up, and want more evidence before supporting the adoption of tablets in the classroom (72 per cent).

Pupils are more motivated, attention spans increase (especially amongst boys), teachers can tailor a pupil's programme to their specific abilities and needs, learners can be supported outside the classroom as well as during lessons, and pupils are leaving schools with a set of ICT skills that are absolutely vital to the world of work in the 21st century.

More often, if support is provided within state schools, it may well be from a teaching assistant (supporting in the classroom and / or delivering a recommended written language programme, such as in a small group).

«This is an area which does need much greater focus, so while budgetary pressures are the main driver to an ICT support service, freeing up much - needed time to help develop teachers» skills and give them more confidence with technology in the classroom is also becoming a priority.»

When parents and community leaders understand why classroom technology is so important to the future of their children, they are more willing to support it.

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.

So also there it's a matter of making all of this part of a more integral approach to design of instructional systems, to teacher preparation, to the way we support and incentivise the use of technology in classrooms.

A much more productive approach would emphasize soft skills that are specific, contextual, socially observable, easily malleable within the environment of classrooms and schools, and widely accepted as a responsibility of schools to support.

Nearly all classrooms (97 percent) have one or more computers, but half of the nation's teachers say they need training to better integrate technology into classroom instruction — and such support is unevenly distributed across schools.

• Although both treatment and control teachers volunteered to participate in the project, the treatment teachers were more likely to support use of video at the end of the first year, as a replacement for some or all of their in - person classroom observations.

Educational technology can free up teachers from routine aspects of teaching and classroom administration so that they can spend more of their time using their uniquely human skills to better support their students» learning needs.

«It is great to think that our new classroom spaces may do more than support the learning experience of future educators, researchers, and policymakers, but might also impact how they think about the integration of sustainability into the classroom and inspire them to push the limits of this ideal in their endeavors,» Carlson says.

Effective classroom management consists of far more than establishing and imposing rules, rewards and incentives to control behaviour, it involves practices and instructional techniques to create a learning environment that facilitates and supports active engagement in learning, encourages co-operation and promotes behaviour that benefits other people.

With the responsibility to respond in the best way for so many difficulties, having a clear framework with strategies I can understand and which the children become used to across the school, has allowed me to feel more confident in being able to support children who might have big safeguarding challenges, mental health difficulties or the kind of learning needs which make the classroom a tricky place to be.

Looking back on those 2015 sessions, Radden says she can easily remember specific talks and experiences that helped her assess her leadership style, made her more confident in expressing her opinions, and taught her how to transfer the experience to the classroom — skills that can be difficult to hone when you don't have time (or district support) to step away from the day - to - day of teaching.

The world is indeed our classroom, and all the more in a language class, where we support students to connect globally.

Students may learn less than they otherwise might while many new teachers who could have succeeded with more support may leave teaching prematurely because of the overwhelming nature of the work and the pain of failing in the classroom.»

More specifically, we will examine the way an educators understanding of his or her mode of being with young children in the classroom can influence his or her ability to support a diverse population of young learners.

I worked with other faculties across the school to see how they could actually support the maths that had been happening in classrooms through a bit more explicit teaching, a bit more explicit language in their own subjects.

The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom (CLOtC) is the national charity for learning outside the classroom, supporting schools to overcome the barriers & integrate more LOtC into the curriculum.

This article will take a slightly different — and more integrative — approach to the topic of supporting all kinds of learners, by investigating not necessarily specific techniques, but five essential traits, skills, and abilities that allow teachers to work in a diverse classroom.

Back to reformers: If these results stand — and possibly improve as more teachers hold these roles and help one another succeed — can we possibly all work together to change policies and systems to support giving every student access to excellent teaching, and giving every teacher outstanding career opportunities without being forced up and out of the classroom?

«But they were only able to succeed — and were more likely to choose to stay — when those schools provided high - functioning organizational supports that were essential for their success in the classroom, so they could focus on instruction.»

«Rather than following a more traditional professional - development model — where you take teachers out of their school or out of their classroom and «train'them and then send them back without follow - up or support — this is an entirely different process,» said Michael Patron, the headmaster...

... They talked about teachers who went beyond the classroom walls to find out how they're doing, and particularly talked about teachers who they were working with in their homework clubs, more so because the teachers would have one - on - one time and they would support them, they would be able to know what they were struggling with and then support them through that process.

The proof of impact will be in classrooms this year but our participants reported feeling much more prepared to support students through the transition.