Sentences with phrase «than classrooms in»

Classrooms at EL schools are by design much more engaging and interactive than classrooms in most other American public schools.

It is well known, for instance, that preschool classrooms in which teachers have bachelor's or higher degrees produce better outcomes for children than classrooms in which teachers have less education.

Not exact matches

It's no joke when people say that teachers have more than one job in the classroom.

It's more reminiscent of a child being noisy in a classroom than of a terrifying, dangerous, and life - altering experience for a woman.

A recent BMO study found that in 2013, Canadian moms and dads were willing to fork out more than $ 425 to get their kid ready for the classroom, up 18 % over the previous year's figure.

If you look at Hettinger's Kickstarter campaign for her «classic spinner,» you'll notice that the prototype looks more like a hatted Frisbee than the toys tormenting teachers in U.S. classrooms.

Mark Barden, whose seven - year - old son Daniel was shot to death in his first - grade classroom, said he and other Sandy Hook parents had been advocating for the bill for more than three years.

Milyutin — who confesses that he struggled with math in primary school — cited a 1984 review by the late Benjamin Bloom, which reports that students who received one - on - one tutoring performed better than 98 % of students taught in a conventional classroom.

The course at George Brown demands more than 250 hours in the classroom and covers everything from winemaking theory to rules for food pairing to the proper technique for opening Champagne (whisper, yes; pop, no).

Our Bachelor of Commerce degree offers you more than just classroom learning; you'll have the unique privilege of connecting to the business community through our Mentorship program, a Career Centre that helps you to polish your resume, practice for interviews and find jobs suited to your specialization, and a Co-Op program that gives you the opportunity to «earn while you learn», gain business experience, develop a network of contacts and have a better understanding of careers in your field.

«It's appalling that students in the Vancouver school district will be stuck with leaking roofs and damp classrooms because the premier is playing politics rather than looking after the needs of aging school buildings in B.C.,» said New Democrat education spokesperson Rob Fleming.

Those AIC university deep courses were much tougher requirementally for studying / passing than ORE courses were due to much deeper dives into what it takes to become a professional Appraiser than becoming a so - called professional Realtor (after serving only a few weeks in the classroom).

Becoming a Golden Hawk means more than just cheering on our (really good) varsity teams — it means being a student who cares about your community, who works hard in the classroom, and who takes advantage of all the learning opportunities that can happen outside the classroom, too.

The boy in the classroom is stuck: it is true that his father is a drunk, but concretely the father is more than a drunk; he is the boy's dad.

The court ruled against SCHOOL SPONSORED PRAYER because it violated the rights of children in the classroom who believed differently than the SCHOOL SPONSORED PRAYER.

It's a habit I have been unable to quit despite not having stood before a classroom in more than a decade.

Approximately 650 children are sitting in classrooms, thanks to the work of Restore International, and more than 100 students from these schools are now attending universities.

What a college teaches is more than what happens in the classroom.

Such an alternative view of students in classroom space would call for more, not less interaction, cooperation in tasks rather than competition, a dynamic give and take instead of a unilateral telling and listening.

I recall sitting in a classroom in a huge Southern Baptist seminary a quarter of a century ago, hearing my own favorite Professor John Doe explain all Mullinsism as being not only Southern Baptist but also «conservative [Wilhelm] Hermannian» (after a German theologian we had been taught to call an «I - theologian» more than a «God - theologian»).

A school that leaves religion behind and puts all people in the same classroom, or campus would do more to promote understanding between groups than persisting in keeping them separate.

An elder is nothing more than a 3rd grader in a 2nd grade classroom, where these 4 things are certain.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

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Rather than being a subject for rational discussion in the classroom, Darwinism is now protected orthodoxy - and has acquired all the bad habits of an established religion.

According to Strobel, more people than ever are attending apologetics seminars and getting degrees in philosophy in an effort to combat the militant atheism that has surfaced in college classrooms, TV documentaries, and best - selling books.

There is more emphasis on community service than on classroom instruction» an emphasis entirely consistent with the belief widely accepted in our society that values, while they may be created and clarified, can be neither true nor false.

And, to my surprise, my online students seem more willing to enter into heated discussion than the students who sat in my classroom.

I have encountered more profound and straightforward discussions of ethics in patrol cars than I have heard in university classrooms or at academic religious conferences.

There are reasons, for example, and reasons based on principles, that explain not only why classroom furniture should not be bolted to the floor, but why maps should not have political frontiers drawn in darker ink than other lines, and why epic poetry should be introduced by reading selections in their original language.

Hippy, yeah I get what you're saying about not learning anything new in school, and not much from the teachers you had, I also read constantly and learned more through my books and travel than in classrooms.

After a quiet summer off from classroom duties, at a safe distance from multinational corporations, secularized businessmen, and the as - yet - unredeemed American economic system, maybe — if this survey is accurate — the seminary professors will come back a little closer to This World and this world than they've been in the past.

It's easier just to stay in a seminary classroom, or chapel, or church, than it is to journey in the desert, in the wilderness, in the world.

This allows you to complete the Level 4 in a relatively short time frame with more than 150 hours of classroom interaction with leading wine educators.

The trio poured more than $ 1 million in startup costs into the 10 1/2 - acre complex that boasts a dormitory, cafeteria (with a nutritionist), classroom (with a computer lab on the way), MLB - sized ballfield, pitching mounds, batting cages and flowers.

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

Still in the early stages, she is focusing on more than just golf to determine where she might spend four years in the classroom and on the course.

Some schools have developed comprehensive approaches to teaching character strengths, and in classrooms across the country, teachers are talking to their students more than ever about qualities like grit and perseverance.

The results of a recent randomized trial of CSRP showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a CSRP Head Start classroom had, at the end of the school year, substantially higher attention skills, greater impulse control, and better performance on executive - function tasks than did children in a control group.

Teachers are trained in behavior - management techniques that dial confrontations down rather than up, and they are given strategies to help them create a climate of belonging and engagement in the classroom.

September 25, 2009 «Over the last few years, a new buzz phrase has emerged among scholars and scientists who study early - childhood development, a phrase that sounds more as if it belongs in the boardroom than the classroom: executive function.»

I had always been fascinated in the idea that kids could learn MORE than what they learned in conventional classrooms.

While my background is in education and not in retail or business, I do know and love the products I am selling, having used them in my classroom or at home with my children for more than fifteen years.

When I first began as a classroom teacher in 1977, I was working with a very different child than the one I saw in 2014.

In the American classrooms, by contrast, 96 percent of students» time was spent on repetitive practice, and less than 1 percent was spent puzzling through new approaches.

More important than the labels of «play - based» or «academic - focused,» though, is what actually happens in the classroom and how teachers respond to emotional situations, so ask about specific scenarios when you're considering a school.

In addition, the goals of middle school classrooms have been found to be different than the goals of elementary school classrooms.

The building, in which the Head Start program used 10 classrooms, was the former Dunton School, which was closed down more than a decade ago.

Children are outside more, often in a less restricted environment than a classroom, which means less supervision as well.

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