Sentences with phrase «than my classroom teaching»

With these authentic experiences, for both students and teachers, it is our hope that conceptions of learning, as broader than classroom teaching and learning, increase kindness both on an individual and global level.
Findings suggest that while almost all of the new teachers anticipate staying in education for the remainder of their working lives, many of them report that they expect to move on to education - related jobs other than classroom teaching (curriculum development, professional development, administration).
There is nothing that I do in my present school, or have done at other schools in which I've worked, that is more important than my classroom teaching.

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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.
What a college teaches is more than what happens in the classroom.
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»).
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.
Each discipline is further enhanced by Main Lesson Seminars, which requires more faculty and student involvement and commitment than teaching and learning in a traditional classroom.
It illustrates that people are hungry for an alternative to the status quo where content is increasingly brought through computers rather than teachers, academic learning is being pushed down to younger and younger children, and the focus in the classroom is «teaching to the test.»
When my daughter brings home anything less than an «A», I simply assume that she has a slight learning disability or was placed on the wrong side of the classroom or simply failed to properly learn the material because of faulty teaching.
This can not be done in a classroom where twenty - five children congregate with one teacher... The learning disabled child should not have to share his teacher with more than six to eight other children, at least not during those portions of the day when the key subjects — reading and arithmetic — are being taught
For more than 25 years, our experienced education staff has been working side - by - side with teachers in classrooms throughout Chicago, helping them become more comfortable teaching science.
We all know that children go to school to learn more than what is taught in the classroom.
«Someone being in front of a classroom teaching college twice a year is very different than somebody representing clients that none of us know,» said Senator Gustavo Rivera.
Recentanalysis by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.
«Someone being in front of a classroom teaching college twice a year is very different than somebody representing clients that none of us know,» Rivera said.
Recent analysis by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.
Philip Rumore has been president of the Buffalo Teachers Federation longer than most of his members have taught in the classroom.
More than 32,000 teachers walked away from jobs in NYC classrooms in the last 11 years, with a substantial number leaving for jobs in nearby suburban systems that have higher pay, lower class sizes and better teaching conditions.
She has a PhD in chemistry, three inventor patents and more than 50 publications to her name — all of which, she says, give her a valuable perspective when teaching physics, chemistry and biology in the classroom.
We lacked functional scientific teaching laboratories and other facilities, and the classrooms were usually overcrowded; at times there were more than 45 pupils in a classroom, sharing chairs and desks.
As an educator, he has been active in classroom teaching and has served as primary mentor to more than 40 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
The deleted stuff itself, which I wound up sifting through separately, is relatively innocuous; the quick montage of classroom hijinks in the final product is just as effective as, if not more than, a whole passage of Storm (Halle Berry) teaching Roman history.
When his mentor (Dominic Cooper) teaches him how to face the undead, looking cool in slow motion seems to be a significantly higher classroom priority than anything else.
Focusing on the start of the teacher pipeline, i.e., on those who report applying for a teaching job or teachers who begin classroom positions in the year immediately after receiving an undergraduate degree, we find that teacher applicants and new teachers in recent years have significantly higher SAT scores than their counterparts in the mid-1990s.
Teaching online is often just as challenging and time - consuming (if not more) than teaching in a physical clTeaching online is often just as challenging and time - consuming (if not more) than teaching in a physical clteaching in a physical classroom.
See a complete library of articles — more than two dozen articles in all — by classroom management guru Fred Jones in our Fred Jones's «Tools for Teaching» Archive.
However, where used for teaching, for example sports lessons, outdoor ambient noise levels have a significant impact on communication in an environment which is already acoustically less favourable than most classrooms.
They saw them as having very low social skills (lower than anybody else) they saw them as the most disruptive to the classroom, in need of attention from the teacher almost constantly which then interrupted her ability to teach and to work with the other children, and they were regarded as a huge problem that had to be managed in some way.
Mr Woo, whose YouTube videos have received more than 10 million views, accepted the new position as a roving instructor, allowing him to continue in the classroom, while also travelling the State to teach our teachers.
More than just numbers in a grade book, formative assessment practices can change how you teach, how your students learn, and how your classroom functions.
Simply by giving up the extra payment for the master's degree, school districts in Florida could save better than 3 percent of their teaching personnel costs without losing any of their classroom effectiveness.
Teaching and learning in an e-learning environment happens differently than in the traditional classroom and can present new challenges to instructors and learners participating in this online learning environment.
Recharging batteries: «There is nothing more amazing,» Phillips says, «than going into the classroom and teaching those wonderful students after doing some grant writing or state - mandated something.
The student who found the error, we assume, drew on his intuitive sense of geometric shapes rather than what he, as well as the test - makers, had been taught in the classroom.
Howard's description exemplifies how using technology can actually free up teachers to teach in smaller groups — rather than simply lecture at or manage an entire classroom.
Universities can also help by strengthening their programs in math and science teaching so that more students will consider teaching as a career, and so that our newest teachers will be better prepared than ever for the classrooms of the 21st century.
Rather than pay for an instructor, a classroom, and travel expense — or to lose the productivity of employees attending a training session on company time — an online course can often teach the same material for less.
There's One in Every Class «Anyone who's been teaching for more than 45 minutes has been warned about exhibiting favoritism in the classroom And yet I believe the focus on favoritism eclipses another equally crucial pedagogical issueThe question is this: What can be done when you have The Kid you can't stand?»
Simply by giving up the extra payment awarded to teachers with master's degrees, school districts in Florida could save better than 3 percent of their teaching personnel costs without losing any of their classroom effectiveness.
END OF THE YEAR LETTER TO MY STUDENTS: Dear Students: After 33 1/2 years of teaching at HCS and having had more than 2000 students sit in my social studies classroom over these many years ~ I have decided to retire from teaching at the end of this school year in June.
Catching on to the technology quicker than teachers, they became classroom assistants, teaching both their peers and teachers how to use the calculators.
Experts tell Education World that classroom bulletin boards can be more than just «wallflowers» — they can be tools for teaching too.
Experts tell Education World that classroom boards can be more than just «wallflowers» — they can be tools for teaching too!
Tools for Teaching is more than a plan for classroom management.
In short, it is easier to pick out good teachers once they have begun to teach than it is to train them or figure out exactly the secret sauce of classroom success.
Once I started teaching high school, however, even though my first job was in special education and my students» reading levels were not much higher than those in my third - grade classroom, I switched to Arial.
«Flip» the classroom Students are better than ever at teaching themselves and the modern classroom has to adapt to this way of learning.
It is likely that in these cases the support provided from a teaching assistant comes at the expense of, rather than in addition to, attention from the classroom teacher.
Rather than rows of students, all staring in the same direction, today's classroom should embrace the same collaborative environment that modern teaching technology aims to create.
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