Sentences with phrase «than a classroom full»

In response to the previous comment, I would venture that a classroom full of students who are required to passively absorb information in a vacuum would be much more likely to descend into «sheer chaos» than a classroom full of actively engaged students who are applying their knowledge to real - world situations.

A classroom full of engaged students is less likely to become a behavior issue, than a classroom full of bored students.

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Save the World on Your Own Time by Stanley Fish Oxford University Press, 208 pages, $ 19.95 Here is Stanley Fish, writing Save the World on Your Own Time: «Not only is the genuinely academic classroom full of passion and commitment; it is more interesting than the alternative.

As part of the #StaplesForStudents campaign, today Staples announced that every Boston and Metrowest project posted on DonorsChoose.org received full funding as part of Staples» $ 1 million donation to DonorsChoose.org, a charity that has funded more than 700,000 classroom projects for teachers and has positively affected more than 18 million U.S. students.

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.

Completion of a 4 - year - full time program at an accredited school of Naturopathic Medicine that includes more than 4,500 hours of classroom training and 1,500 hours of supervised clinical experience.

Successfully complete a 4 - year - full time program in an accredited school of Naturopathic Medicine that includes more than 4,500 hours of classroom training and 1,500 hours of supervised clinical experience.

Some school districts in Portland, Oregon are a little further along than the Los Angeles schools that are just bringing special education students back from special schools and Michigan schools that are just beginning to try full integration of its students and eliminating most of the special education classrooms.

But union contracts often limit how many hours a public - school teacher must be in the classroom: that's why a school may hire a substitute librarian rather than send everyone back to their homerooms when the full - time librarian is out.

The platform has now re-branded to Satchel, as it offers more than homework tools, including a full suite of classroom technology solutions to reduce teacher workload.

In this four - year longitudinal class - size study, more than 7,000 students in 79 schools were randomly assigned to one of three classroom situations: small class (13 to 17 students per teacher), regular class (22 to 25 students per teacher), or regular class with a full - time teacher's aide.

The active classroom solutions that are coming out of the Future Classroom Lab's work will need more space than traditional content - driven classrooms — and a requirement to shift away from the rectangle: rectangular buildings with rectangular classrooms full of rectangular furniture.

«I need a full range of problems within the classroom so the kids are doing the thinking, but they're doing the thinking at their level... so rather than kids being bored because it's too easy... or not being able to do the [problem], they're actually being given problems that are targeted specifically to their thinking.»

Not only do they lack the required skills and training to offer the full classroom experience, but they often prove more expensive than using a supply teacher who is only paid as and when their services require.

... [For a full picture of implementation] you'd have to measure really deeply how things are being taught and changed and what's going on in classrooms in terms of instruction at a deeper level than this report has.»

As my colleague Heather Staker has pointed out, focusing on teacher agency alone could also limit innovation to the four walls of the classroom, rather than innovation of whole school design, because teachers may still lack the budget and authority to redesign learning full stop.

Results indicate that teachers in classrooms implementing the full ECR instructional model had significantly higher observed instructional support than teachers in non-ECR classrooms.

This article presents a pedagogical framework encompassing the necessary critical mindset in which teachers of the English language arts can begin to conceive their own «best practices» with technology — a framework that is based upon their needs, goals, students, and classrooms, rather than the external pressure to fit random and often decontexualized technology applications into an already complex and full curriculum.

Given that full - time release teacher leaders have the opportunity to work with teachers over time, it is important that their activities with teachers have a sequence or some way to gauge progress, rather than only providing multiple instances of the same strategy (e.g., repeated demonstration lessons in the same teacher's classroom.

Together, we, the authors, present a pedagogical framework encompassing a critical mindset, in which teachers of the English language arts can begin to conceive their own «best practices» with technology — a framework based upon their own needs, goals, students, and classrooms, rather than the external pressure to fit random and often decontexualized technology applications into an already complex and full curriculum.

If we believe that schools are shaping students for their eventual full - fledged roles as American citizens, then school discipline policies and classroom management practices should be about far more than shushing kids and keeping them in straight lines as they walk through the halls.

In general, unless otherwise exempt, the following three criteria must be met in order for non-classroom based charters to be guaranteed full funding levels: (1) at least 80 percent of total revenues must be spent on instruction or classroom support, (2) at least 50 percent of public revenues must be spent on certificated staff salaries and benefits, and (3) the pupil - teacher ratio must be equal to or lower than the pupil - teacher ratio in the largest unified school district in the county or counties in which the school operates or the school must maintain a minimum of 25:1 ratio.

Secondary teacher candidates with LESS THAN three full - time years of K12 classroom teaching experience are required to produce evidence of passing the accepted content knowledge test in the content he / she will teach.

With more than 30 readings, pages of full - color artwork, and a variety of classroom strategies, activities, and questions, Sacred Texts provides opportunities for teachers of both Judaic and general studies to integrate learning and encourages interdisciplinary conversations.

Of course, full income integration in individual preschool classrooms will not happen automatically with universal preschool, any more than it does in public K - 12 education.

• A third of literacy classrooms now show some or full alignment to the Tennessee ELA standards, compared to less than 10 percent during initial reviews.

Moving from a role as a student teacher to a full - time classroom teacher was a bigger jump than he had expected.

In Growing Independent Learners, she provides a comprehensive guide — with more than 400 full - color photos — to help you plan instruction focused on literacy standards, organize your classroom for maximum benefit, and lead your students to independence through whole - group lessons, small - group focus, and partner learning at literacy stations.

It is important to note that the majority of elementary APs are «teaching APs» (estimated at more than 450 full - time employees) and provide classroom instruction in addition to school administrative duties.

Mark Henderson, instructional coordinator of mathematics, explains the impetus to shift focus from larger classroom instruction to smaller groups is the most practical way to connect with students at all levels, «Standing and delivering a lecture to a room full of second graders is far less impactful than working one - on - one with kids and with small groups.»

An analysis by the Learning Policy Institute of National Center for Education Statistics data from the School and Staffing Survey found that full - time, alternatively certified teachers are 25 percent more likely to leave the classroom than similar teachers with standard certifications at similar schools.76

While classrooms in other parts of the world are getting their hands on iPads, select schools in Russia will be getting something a little more kid friendly with the Plastic Logic 100, which is more of an e-reader rather than a full fledged tablet like the iPad 2 or Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.

The 9 - story, 175,000 square foot, full - block building replaced more than 40 percent of the academic space at the college with reconfigurable state - of - the - art classrooms, laboratories, studios and public spaces.