Sentences with phrase «time working in their classroom»

Principals trust teachers who demonstrate a willingness to spend extra time working in their classroom.

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Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

At the same time, Turnaround's staff works to improve the classroom environment as a whole, coaching teachers on strategies to improve students» academic outcomes by improving their experience in class.

While I've always felt that Waldorf teaching was my life's calling and absolutely loved my time in the classroom, I was looking for a way to put my expertise and love for Waldorf education to use in a new way - one that would allow me to continue working to promote Waldorf Education in the world, but also give me more time at home.

Students who fall behind or miss school can use up a lot of a teacher's classroom time getting make - up lessons or in class help with their work.

Teachers are often somewhat isolated from one another in schools, each working in their own classrooms, so teachers may not even know that they are assigning work that will all be due at the same time.

Even if you work full time, there may be opportunities to prepare project materials at home or visit the classroom once in a while to read a story or celebrate a special occasion.

:) I'm a teacher, and wrote a «Time to Tidy Up» song that worked very well in my classroom.

This format accommodates working adults and allows for an important give - and - take between your time in a Sunbridge classroom and your time in a Waldorf teaching setting, each enhancing the other.

Early problems included addressing concerns about additional work from the custodial staff and teacher concerns that that in - classroom breakfast would take away from instructional time.

While they can't replicate every recipe for breakfast - in - the - classroom, they work hard to test each recipe to see where it can be served within the given time constraints.

This simple numerical comparison (leaving aside other factors affecting the classrooms in Spanish universities such as the large number of students in many centers and the increase in the type of «unquantifiable» work that this generates for teaching staff) shows that the «civil servant professor» has a significant decrease in availability of time for research compared to members of research - only institutes.

Schools across the UK are taking part in Flusurvey for the first time as researchers, working in partnership with the British Science Association, monitor the impact of the virus in classrooms.

In a SYTT program, you will definitely be working on deepening your practice through course work, classroom time, and individual assessment of your self and with your mentor instructors.

Typically in other classrooms, there would only be enough time to cover the material and not enough to do significant problem - solving practice, but here this system worked well.

«But times have changed the students — and what works — since many of the college instructors were in the classroom.»

Central to this is our work to empower teachers to make more decisions about how their schools are run; ensure schools are funded more fairly; address workload concerns and de-clutter guidance so teachers have more time in the classroom to teach.

In a stagnant economy or a nation riven with strife, students will goof off in the classroom or sometimes not show up at all, parents will often pull their kids away to work on the farm, and teachers will while the time away as overqualified babysitterIn a stagnant economy or a nation riven with strife, students will goof off in the classroom or sometimes not show up at all, parents will often pull their kids away to work on the farm, and teachers will while the time away as overqualified babysitterin the classroom or sometimes not show up at all, parents will often pull their kids away to work on the farm, and teachers will while the time away as overqualified babysitters.

Your relationships with them will go a long way toward motivating them to work hard, be respectful, and enjoy their time at our school, and that will directly impact the work we do with them in the classroom.

• Somers Elementary School faculty report less classroom bullying than before the program was initiated, more time in class for academic work, and strong family support.

Help can include targeted, high - quality professional development; curriculum improvements; additional time for student learning after school or in the summers; establishment of wraparound services, including community school models; redesign of schools to support personalization and more authentic work in classrooms and internships; or pairing of struggling schools with successful ones serving similar students.

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When I initially considered conferencing with each and every student in my classes to reduce the need for written comments, I was apprehensive about the time commitment, but with the help of a colleague who had made it work in his classroom, I recently took the plunge and did writing conferences with my students — and it had a huge impact on my classroom and my students» learning.

According to Patrick who is working in a blended classroom, students find it challenging from an organization / time management perspective - this is in reference to embedded assessments.

If your school has a public folder or your students have access to a class folder, model in the classroom how to hand in their work using this method before your scheduled time and / or create a screencast that shows them how they can view it during the scheduled time.

«For VITA, students were trained in the classroom; and during tax time, students signed up to work after school and weekends.

Whatever your classroom management style, in - class games can work when you invoke your usual rules, assign student roles, facilitate effectively, and allow processing time.

Students work in mixed ability - level groups during class; often the ages of the students in the classroom are mixed, too, thanks to a program called Teenagers in Middle School (TIME), whose students are scattered throughout classes.

Finn, who established her classroom store as an incentive for students to do their work well and to complete it on time, gives credit for the idea to a teaching assistant who helped with small groups of students in her room.

At least three times every day, Shughart meets students online in a virtual classroom, where they work on algebra or geometry problems in real time on an interactive whiteboard.

• At day's end, there are just three ways of awarding «credit» for work done in (or out) of school (and conferring diplomas or equivalency certificates based on that credit): «seat time» as traditionally measured in Carnegie units; the judgment of classroom teachers; or «demonstrated mastery» based on credible external assessments.

He took the time to understand how Twitter works and how its tools could best be used in his classroom.

«Cheating can be a hard scenario to measure,» said Karla Garner, a Spanish teacher at Bishop Guilfoyle High School in Altoona, PA. «There is «observed» cheating during test time and group work in the classroom.

The teachers, who are already working full - time in rural or underserved schools, also receive individualized coaching in their classrooms every two weeks.

«The school art teacher could lead a project like this, especially if working collaboratively with classroom teachers and if everyone is willing to put in the time to meet, plan, and do the preparatory work necessary.

As I reflect, those great first days were usually after a summer where I spent extra time setting up, designing bordering for student work displays, dusting each individual book in the classroom library, fine - tuning and perfecting those beginning lessons: the handouts, the pacing, and the mini-lessons.

After working with gifted students for six years ~ I have spent time with them in the classroom ~ at lunch ~ playing games at recess ~ and met with their parents.

Full - time teachers in grades P - 12 who spend 50 percent or more of their time in a classroom or in classroom - like settings, work in select areas, and have three years of teaching experience.

Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.

Finnish schools prioritize time for teachers to work together on lesson planning and student support, and teachers regularly spend time in each other's classrooms.

And through a set of debrief questions, «teachers and students can think together about how to use these skills at other times of day, connecting «brain powers» to work ethic in the classroom, teamwork and relationships, and successful behavior in school and beyond.»

For a teacher with both types of students in her classroom, that means trying to challenge kids ready for middle - school work while at the same time helping others to decode.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Elmore's efforts to change this began during his work in a New York City school district, where professional development for principals included spending time every day inside classrooms to re-familiarize themselves with the teaching environment.

At the same time she works with practitioners to unravel how what happens in classrooms relates with students» emotional lives.»

... They talked about teachers who went beyond the classroom walls to find out how they're doing, and particularly talked about teachers who they were working with in their homework clubs, more so because the teachers would have one - on - one time and they would support them, they would be able to know what they were struggling with and then support them through that process.

This means all students are not working on the same area at the same time in and out of the classroom.

Student teachers should spend less time in lecture halls learning educational theory and more time in classrooms, working directly with students and master teachers.

To make it work, she simply moved that component to a time later in the day when she knew that she would have everyone back in the classroom.

How important it is for teachers in a classroom setting (your area that you work in is science) to understand how to select an appropriate task and then use it at the appropriate time?