Sentences with phrase «then as a classroom»

Below are ten tips about designing, developing, and successfully implementing such a program, gathered through my four years of working in the mindfulness and education movement: first with Inward Bound Mindfulness Education, then as a classroom teacher, and now as an independent consultant.

Stacey Lange has been working in education for the past 15 years, beginning as an educational assistant, then as a classroom teacher and now as the Academic Dean at Walker Elementary in the West Allis — West Milwaukee School District.

He has devoted most of his professional life to improving education, first as a college professor and then as a classroom teacher, policy advocate and teacher union president.

From there, she joined the Simcoe County District School Board as an Educational Assistant and then as a classroom teacher.

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As Mitra's findings suggest, the secret might not lie in research labs, or even traditional classrooms, but in giving kids some technology, an intriguing challenge and then leaving them alone to figure things out.

But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

If I were to live up to my experiences as a child, I wouldn't have a woman doing anything in a church or a classroom because what I saw then was out of control aggression and bullying.

Then you won't mind hanging a satanic pentagram in every classroom as well.

The point here is that religion has to be treated equally by gov» t and if a cross is allowed then all other religious symbols would need to be allowed as well and then the classroom turns into a religious marketplace instead of a gov» t funded place of learning.

Student athletes need to know that the «off the field» (in the classroom) efforts are as important or more so then the «on the field» work.

The Early Learning Center also serves as a learning lab where New Legacy students explore healthy child development and positive parenting and then apply the learning — in collaboration with the early learning teachers — in the classrooms.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

I also believe that if hungry children have access to school breakfast, school lunch, and after - school snack (if not also supper, as we have here in Houston at some particularly impoverished schools), then even that sort of food in the classroom might not be necessary.

Then one day as I was walking to my daughter's preschool classroom to pick her up, I saw a message posted for parents on a whiteboard at the end of the hallway:

Dr Lyonette added: «Those women who did survive all these struggles tended to do quite well but many either dropped out and returned to their old job or finished the degree and then went into a job which didn't really require a degree at all such as a classroom assistant instead of a teacher.

The researchers then examined whether playing the more difficult games improved performance on additional measures of working memory as well as enhanced other skills, including math, reading, writing and following instructions in a classroom.

Also expressing satisfaction with the cross-fertilization of the various communities represented at the Noyce Summit, Shirley Malcom, director for AAAS Education and Human Resources Programs, said it is possible to experiment with new classroom methods and then to «backfill» according to what the research bears out in order to bolster and improve preservice education of STEM teachers, and STEM education itself, as quickly as possible.

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.

If a class visit a museum, for example, pupils could be taking audio notes and photographs, uploading them to their «online notebook» as they go along and then accessing them when they get back to the classroom.

These spikes act as an incentive for teachers to stay in the classroom until their pension wealth reaches its peak and then push them into retirement shortly thereafter, as pension wealth accumulation turns negative.

In the typical mathematics classroom, especially in the middle years of schooling, we tend to use one model to connect maths with the real world; we start by teaching the maths content and skills, we then get students to practice and do some maths, and then we next might apply some of those skills into a real world context by using learning activities such as word problems.

I considered the flipped classroom, where you show pre-recorded instructional videos as homework and the students then do the actual work in class.

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.

If you wish to design an effective e-learning program, that'll make the transition from classroom to e-learning as pleasant as possible for the students, then that is a different story.

This means it is much more flexible in the classroom as you can set a question, then review the question as a class or you can work your way through a whole test paper at once!

The process of content curation in online learning is one where we peel away a lot of the external «noise» that we might use in a classroom situation and expose the kernels of knowledge that we then present as engagingly and clearly as possible.

But then one would recall that other public functions exist, such as health, transportation, and higher education, that make large and urgent claims on the budgets of state governments; that problems other than a lack of money afflict the schools, such as students who arrive unprepared for learning or life in a classroom; and that evidence for the efficacy of money per se is at best mixed.

With nearly half of all new teachers leaving their classrooms within five years and as many as a third of the nation's teaching force readying for retirement, some education and political leaders seem to believe that education can solve its human - resource challenge by becoming more like the military: sign individuals up for short - term enlistments, prepare them in intensive boot - camp experiences, and then send them to the front lines.

In the classroom, teachers simply do the best they can for as long as they can, and then, when they are at their «wits» end,» they bounce the kid to the office.

Amplify, developers of tablets and digital curricula for education, has developed more than 40 digital games based on core content and then forbidden their use in the classroom or as homework.

Dreeben and Barr describe as «technological» the ways in which teachers form groups and then instruct them; not technological in the sense of using computers or electronic media but in the sense of applying craft knowledge in the pursuit of an occupational end, in this case, the goal of organizing a classroom full of first graders so that they can be taught how to read.

Le and Dewar: If we truly believe that creativity is an essential ingredient in a child's development, then we need to shift completely away from the cells and bells model of school design — with classrooms as cells and the school bell indicating the time to move from one to another.

Classrooms can create international learning teams with students of the world, and then use apps — such as Nearpod, Padlet, Kahoot!

If you are running out of space to do everything you would like to do within the classroom, then think about how other spaces in the school could be used or adapted to serve as learning environments.

«The goal of Pride is to help young men navigate through not only school, but also through being an adolescent male with the obstacles that they're facing, and then trying to lead them through college, add reinforcement outside of the classroom, and give them very clear insight as to what to expect in college,» says Dion Steele, Urban Prep, Englewood Campus» principal.

I dim the classroom lights, and then play a recording from the University of Wisconsin's Health Services office that guides students as they try to relax their bodies from head to toe.

Teachers as well felt like they couldn't teach in as much of an ad - hoc way; there's a certain degree of, you know, you prepare as a teacher and then there's a whole lot of stuff that happens in the classroom that you roll with... but when you're sort of «performing» on a screen as well, there had to be a lot more preparation.

Learners use PEE to build a paper - chain of Scrooge's bad deeds similar to Marley's Ghost's chain in the novel, which can then be used as a classroom display and referred to as part of revision work.

Schools could then access these materials and redeploy their (less qualified) teachers as classroom coaches that support the online instruction.

How about the history classroom, where instead of listening to a teacher lecture about ancient Athens, students take a virtual tour and then use 3 - D design software like SketchUp to build a simple model of a Greek temple as a way to internalize classical principles such as balance?

«If you define the traditional way to becoming a principal as 15 or 20 years in the classroom and then an assistant principal position, then obviously my resume is different,» she says.

In 2011, with the blessing of then - Chancellor Dennis Walcott and Mayor Bloomberg, I left to start New Classrooms as a national, non-profit organization to further develop the idea and make it available to schools across the country.

If reflection is not a regular part of your classroom culture, then implementing the flipped classroom will not be as effective.

I worked as a preschool teacher for a total of five years, for three years while completing my bachelor's degree, then for a year with infants and toddlers at a hospital daycare center, and finally in a «reverse mainstream» early intervention classroom for children with developmental delays at the University of Kansas.

If student motivation and higher engagement is truly the desired end game, then we as teachers must adapt right along with our students in our classrooms.

Should a teacher fail to have any of these, then it is likely that the learning in the classroom will not be as successful.

Instead, educators need to find a way of making mentoring part of the national educational conversation, as well as ensuring that it is happening at the grass roots level, because if educational reform is not taking place in the classroom, then it's not really happening.

Since then, more than 200 new schools each week embrace Soundtrap as a preferred educational tool in their classrooms.

One approach — as we saw in Singapore and Western Australia — is to screen all third or fourth graders for signs of outstanding ability or achievement, then provide enrichment options, even separate classrooms and schools, for the ablest among them.

If you are dedicated to and excited about working with today's diverse adolescent population; committed to pursuing equity and excellence in urban classrooms; and deeply curious about curriculum, teaching, and learning, then we hope you will join us as you prepare to enter one of today's most critically important professions.