Sentences with phrase «teachers at the classroom level»

The decision makers might be students and teachers at the classroom level; instructional leaders, learning teams, and teachers at the periodic level; or curriculum and instructional leaders and school and community leaders at the annual testing level.

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Not to mention, when around 100 students are «turned loose» at the door by teachers after being in the classroom all morning... well, the sound level & activity isn't exactly conducive to a relaxing meal.

I responded to the reader in a series three posts: Part One offered advice for bringing about change at the classroom level (e.g., teacher rewards and snacks); Part Two dealt with changing the school - wide food culture (fundraisers, wellness programs, etc.); and Part Three talked about change at the district level.

An Upper West Side kindergarten teacher has filed a lawsuit that says she grew seriously ill after drinking from the classroom faucet with elevated lead levels at P.S. 87 William T. Sherman School for eight years.

Voters understood that passage of this proposition would mean more money in their classrooms, better pay for the teachers in their schools, more control at the local level, and more information for parents.

... Things like, I guess, wisdom and experience and being able to link concepts together, ask probing questions that encourage students to think at a deeper level, giving quality feedback... just because a teacher's recorded a video to explain a concept, doesn't necessarily mean that students have to watch that at home - they could be watching that in the classroom while the teacher's working with another student on something that can't be automated.

«This is a chance for the teacher, while still maintaining control of a classroom, to share with students at their level,» says Liz Sullivan, coauthor of the «Teachers Talk» report and education program director at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative.

But in the majority of classrooms, where opt - out appears likely to remain at low levels, the data strongly suggest that students sitting out of standardized testing will have only a trivial impact on the ratings received by their teachers.

«There should be many opportunities for student teachers to be exposed to classroom situations — at different grade levels — during their years in college.»

After being a classroom teacher and a content - area teacher (math and science) at the early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school levels for over 10 years, I wanted to specialize and gain expertise in an area that I was passionate about: literacy.

The issue with that is that if we have students in a classroom who are ranging from below Low, barely able to read and make sense of their text, to students who are reading at this Advanced level, it is very difficult for a teacher to be able to teach to a class with that wide a variety of literacy levels, and the problem is that these children who are not reaching the Low benchmark or are at the Low benchmark are, if you like, starting the race quite a long way behind all of these other kids.

In addition, a survey of English language arts classrooms published by the Fordham Institute found that most elementary - school teachers, at least in the early stages of common core implementation, assigned books based on students» abilities, rather than grade - level complexity, as the standards state.

What was political at a micro-political level when I was a classroom teacher or a person working in a central office expanded tremendously when I became chief of staff in New York and then deputy chancellor.

Written for both pre-service and in - service teachers, the book includes 11 cases, each with an objective to improve the teaching and understanding of mathematics at the 7th - through 12th - grade levels and to provide opportunities to examine classroom...

One criticism leveled at the project is that administrators will see only the very best of what teachers have to offer, not a realistic approximation of what happens in the classroom every day.

The recommendation, exemplified through the worked example of The Brookings Soft Skills Report Card, is to use measures of soft skills that are naturally occurring, easily observed, at low levels of abstraction, relevant to the expressed mission and instructional goals of a teacher or school, and useful as feedback at the classroom and parental levels.

Although there is plenty of data to understand the growth of charter schools or the numbers of students in districts, because blended learning is a phenomenon that doesn't occur at the school level — it instead occurs at the level of individual classrooms and teachers — capturing what's happening is difficult.

At the simplest level, an open resource might be a picture of Abraham Lincoln that a teacher could use in the classroom for free without violating the copyright of the creator of that image.

The new curriculum integrates history, science, and art into daily classroom life, explains Michael Birnbaum in the Washington Post, but some teachers say that the integrated curriculum makes it more difficult to differentiate instruction for students at different levels.

The Instructional Leadership strand is designed for individuals who have taught at least three years, seek to increase their knowledge of instruction and curriculum in their subject area (science, mathematics or social studies) or English Language Arts (ELA) at the elementary and secondary levels, and are interested in finding ways to extend their influence beyond the classroom into areas such as coaching, curriculum development or teacher research.

Teachers claim that cameras in the classroom can help stamp out students» false allegations against them, providing an added level of protection for both their careers and personal integrity while at the same time affording parents full confidence in terms of how their children are being treated while at school.

Those lessons gave Jin a better understanding of ELL at the national level, while also shaping his concept of working with teachers in the classroom.

«Write» on Target In its weekly «Teacher Feature,» Education World highlights neat activities and classroom practices from educators in all locations and at all levels.

For classroom teachers, the more important question is one of practice: how do we create rich environments where all students learn at a high level?

After earning a Masters Degree in both General and Special Education at Hunter College, where he taught a graduate level course on integrating technology into the special education classroom, Adam became an English teacher at a High School on Long Island for several years.

While it is useful, there are a number of disadvantages, and there is a good number of teachers that are against emails at the classroom level.

Teachers and reading specialists can utilize these strategies to implement RtI and multitier intervention methods at the classroom or school level.

I've witnessed similar elements of greatness firsthand, while spending hours at campuses and in teacher classrooms in all grades levels and in nearly every type of school.

Teacher talks to Kiri Mealings about a new study involving colleagues at Macquarie University and Australia's National Acoustics Laboratories, into noise levels in open plan classrooms.

Prior to becoming a superintendent, she worked in many different facets of education including as classroom teacher at both the elementary and middle school levels, principal at the middle school level, director of the Upward Bound Program for first - generation college - bound students, and director of the Basic Skills Academy for at - risk high school youth.

At JSIS, all teachers participate in weekly Wednesday meetings — which rotate through grade - level meetings, subject - specific meetings, classroom visits (called peer observations), and book - study discussions — and monthly PLC meetings.

Written for both pre-service and in - service teachers, the book includes 11 cases, each with an objective to improve the teaching and understanding of mathematics at the 7th - through 12th - grade levels and to provide opportunities to examine classroom practice and assess student thinking.

Most states have set their student proficiency bars at a low level, and no state — not even Florida, which came the closest — has been able to mandate that teacher pay be calibrated to classroom performance.

I find it encouraging, comforting and not at all surprising that many classroom teachers, school administration and support staff have high levels of awareness concerning student wellbeing.

«You know the material at such a high level that it gives you a real confidence in the classroom,» one teacher stated.

As at any level of K - 12 education, teachers» technology skills and interest also play a major role in how much computers are used in the high school classroom.

Review: Geared to both classroom teachers and administrators, CEP offers opinion and insight into hot - button education topics at the national level.

At the classroom level, education is a pragmatic, seat - of - the - pants enterprise in which teachers tend to throw whatever they have at students, and character educators are no exceptioAt the classroom level, education is a pragmatic, seat - of - the - pants enterprise in which teachers tend to throw whatever they have at students, and character educators are no exceptioat students, and character educators are no exception.

Since the law was signed January 8, 2002, we have had countless conversations at virtually every level of education decision - making in this country — from state to local to classroom, with state officials, local officials, parents, teachers, and students.

The promise of the Common Core included not just multi-state standards but also multi-state assessments, assessments in more - or-less every grade with results at every level of the K - 12 system: The child (though not by name, except to parents and teachers), the school (and, if desired, individual classrooms and, by implication, teachers), the district, the state, and the nation, with crosswalks (in pertinent grades) to international measures as well as to NAEP, the primary external «auditor» of state and national achievement.

At the classroom level, technology helps teachers to gather, analyze, and act upon student feedback more efficiently.

For several days in early January, Michaelis and support staff members met with classroom teachers in grades three to six charged with identifying students in different subgroups (Hispanic, African American, English language learners, special education) at levels 1 and 2 with the best chance of scoring at a higher level on the math, reading, or writing section of the CMTs, if they received intensive, targeted remediation.

Everyone at Parkville — classroom teachers, administrators, reading and math specialists, and music and physical education teachers — is being called on to help students on the brink of proficiency make it to the next level.

In the course of our design, we worked with teachers who were at different levels of readiness for the change, with different learning styles and different ideas of what a classroom should be.

Graham said the pressure put on students to learn literacy and numeracy at a level they are not ready for could cause them to disrupt the classroom, further increasing the strain on teachers.

KP: In relation to all of our qualitative research and all the findings, I think it's really important for teachers, at the face - to - face level, they've got to prioritise building trust and positive relationships with students — that's really cardinal for promoting learning, classroom wellbeing and fellowship.

While this is somewhat controversial, many teachers claim that CCTV cameras in the classroom can help stamp out students» false allegations against them, providing an added level of protection for both their careers and personal integrity, while giving parents full confidence about how their children are being treated whilst at school.

EW: You make dozens of suggestions for time - related changes teachers can make at the classroom level.

Information about individual performance is aggregated across pupil populations at the classroom (and teacher), school, district, state, and national levels and cumulated over time.

To help teachers in their efforts to integrate technology and science, Greece provides students and teachers with a number of technology resources: At the elementary level, each school contains a wired computer lab, capable of serving an entire class; a wireless, mobile computer lab; five student computers in each grade 1 - 5 classroom; and three student computers in each pre-K and kindergarten classroom.