Sentences with phrase «traditional classroom grading»

High school teacher and instructional coach Tony Winger laments how traditional classroom grading practices lead to grades becoming a distraction from learning — a commodity students feel they work the system to attain — rather than a clear message to students and parents.

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«We do several models of breakfast - in - the - classroom, and in some schools we do «hybrids» where [younger students] do breakfast - in - the - classroom, and older grades come through the line and do traditional breakfast,» explained Pettit.

In this randomized controlled study on the impact of the arts on performance in traditional academic subjects, theater arts were integrated into language arts and social studies curricula for fourth - and fifth - grade students (14 experimental classrooms, 14 control classrooms).

«I am in my 13th year of teaching, but this is my first year to incorporate flexible seating into my classroom,» said first - grade teacher Ashley Rice Broomfield, before expressing a common sentiment: «I will never go back to traditional seating.»

For Silver, those results validate his decision in the late 1990s to look beyond the strictures of traditional American classrooms and dream boldly about what could be done to reach low - income minority children struggling to make the grade.

The researchers developed a hands - on curriculum and professional development lessons teaching basic physics using the popular toys, then conducted a randomized controlled trial in about 60 fourth - grade classrooms in a California school district comparing student learning under the project - based and traditional textbook based instruction over three weeks.

Giroux caricatures the traditional classroom as one where «students sit in rows staring at the back of each others» heads and at the teacher who faces them in symbolic, authoritarian fashion»; «events are governed by a rigid time schedule imposed by a system of bells and reinforced by cues from teachers»; we «glorify the teacher as the expert [and] dispenser of knowledge»; «social relationships... are based upon power relations inextricably linked to the teacher's allotment of grades»; and tracking «alienates students from schooling.»

Prior to moving to the virtual classroom, she spent 8 years in the traditional classroom teaching Spanish at all grade levels.

For second graders who were not in classrooms with the literacy rotation (such as the traditional grade 2, the multiage grade 2 - 3, and the split - grade 2 - 3 class), reading instruction was left to individual teachers and their paraprofessionals with support from one of the school's Title I teachers and the special education teacher.

Many of the pre-service teachers that come through my classroom, as well as many of us, went through school with very traditional assessment practices and a traditional mindset when it comes to education, assessment, and grading.

Pointing to an incident at P.S. 194, a traditional district school in the Harlem section of the Big Apple, where three children forced a third - grade schoolmate to perform a sexual offense — as well as the fact that one of her schools, Success Academy Harlem 5, had only one incident of reported violence compared to 92 at the traditional district school with which it shares space — Moskowitz also declares that suspensions are critical to helping teachers gain the support they need to manage their classrooms.

We provide a public, virtual education for students in grades K - 12 who need options beyond the traditional classroom.

These classrooms are as rigorous and as tough, grading wise, as the traditional classroom.

Accelerate Education provides online education courses for Kindergarten through 12th grade to meet the needs of all students, from at - risk students who had trouble succeeding in the traditional classroom to high achieving students seeking classes their schools can not provide for them.

Classrooms have been transformed into learning laboratories, and traditional grade levels have been eliminated.

In a traditional point - based grading system, research has shown that often a student's final grade is more reflective of the number of hours spent in a classroom than that student's depth of learning.

Students learn in traditional, multi-age classrooms from Children's House (pre-kindergarten) through E2 (4th / 5th grades); middle school classrooms continue the spirit of self - motivated independence outside of the Montessori framework.

He railed against traditional classroom management, teacher centered instruction, homework and grading policies.

To address these challenges and foster student success, Birdville's pilot has focused on 9th grade ELAR classrooms across the district's three traditional high schools.

Research has found that the attitudes students take toward learning are heavily influenced by whether they have been led to attribute their success (or failure) to innate ability, to effort, or to other factors — and that traditional classroom practices such as grading and competition lead them to explain the results in terms of ability (or its absence) and to minimize effort whenever possible.

VLACS, a virtual school serving students across New Hampshire in grades 5 - 12, is developing a 100 percent self - paced, competency - based learning model framed not around courses but around a map of required competencies that students may master through any number of possible learning opportunities.In the VLACS Aspire «experiential blended learning» model, learning experiences in real - world, community - based settings serve as the face - to - face component in addition to traditional classroom - based learning that is integrated with online learning opportunities.

Project CHILD is a K - 5 instructional model that transforms the traditional grade - specific, self - contained elementary classroom into a three - classroom cross-grade cluster.

Over the past three years, Patricia L. Scriffiny has transformed the grading system in her high school mathematics classroom by replacing the traditional points - based system with a standards - based system.