Sentences with phrase «traditional classroom time»

Our defensive driving program was designed to meet the four (4) hour standard traditional classroom time.

Not exact matches

A study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the traditional model of education versus an increasingly popular approach to learning in the health sciences fields — the flipped classroom model — where pre-recorded lectures are viewed outside of the classroom and in - person class time is devoted to interactive exercises, discussions, and group projects.

Short videos can teach very specific skills in a short period of time which cuts down on the needless explanations that usually accompany the traditional classroom setting.

It's been estimated that eLearning classes take 40 - 60 % less time to complete than the traditional classroom setting [2].

Socializing entails more than spending time with other learners in a traditional classroom.

My personal take on the subject is that mobile games provide an amazing opportunity for effective and engaging learning, free from space and time restrictions, and pose great potential for adult learners as they allow flexible integration into everyday life, thus reducing barriers to entry compared to traditional classroom settings.

That, to me, is, it's probably not what a traditional Flipped Classroom advocate would called flipped learning but I think it's taking the advantages of a Flipped Classroom - automating the things that we can automate so that we've got more time to do the things that you can't automate - to me that's the essence of the flipped classroom.

But at the same time, traditional classrooms without technology are far too devoid of the human interactions that Pinker suggests are so critical to success.

While learners can certainly invest the time and effort into traditional modalities of learning like classroom, instructor - led training, they can also get the critical insights and lessons they need with quick, bite - sized chunks of learning material, and that's what microlearning is all about.

Whether in a traditional or a virtual classroom, with online collaboration tools everyone can just form a community where teachers assign projects to their students in real - time and students may ask for clarifications, if any.

Bergmann explained that the time allocation of a traditional classroom is largely based upon Bloom's Taxonomy.1

School curricula tend to be designed for delivery in traditional classroom settings, at a time when new technologies are transforming how courses are delivered and learning takes place.

The book supported what educators had known for a long time: Kids in their classrooms possess natural aptitudes for music, sports, emotional understanding — strengths that can not be identified in traditional tests.

Even the most effective attempts to push a government - established curriculum into classroom practice will drag out over a decade, because it just takes so much time to communicate the goals and methods through the different layers of the system, and to build them into traditional methods of teacher education.

Class time is best used applying knowledge with the support of the teacher and this doesn't happen often enough in a traditional classroom.

This would otherwise have been extremely difficult and, not to mention time consuming in a traditional classroom setting.

She says, «Traditional views of administrator as manager prevent schools from implementing hybrid teacher - administrator roles» in such a way that their classroom time remains protected and valued.

She says this would otherwise have been difficult, and not to mention time consuming, in a traditional classroom setting.

According to a Brandon - Hall study, the average eLearner will spend 40 to 60 percent less time learning the same material compared to someone studying in a traditional classroom setting: When you calculate the time you save by not having to commute, as well as time saved by avoiding other potential distractions that you'd have experienced in a traditional classroom, it becomes clear that one of the biggest advantages of eLearning is that it saves you time.

Of equal importance, these online applications can free up time for adults in the classroom or school building to play roles beyond those of traditional direct instruction — as a tutor, mentor, coach, etc. — to drive students» learning.

For teachers in traditional classrooms, it is difficult to find the time to provide this kind of support to their students.

Secondly, they are saving a lot of time and effort that would otherwise be used in creating and implementing learning programs in traditional classrooms.

Over time, as the disruptive models of blended learning improve, these new value propositions will be powerful enough to prevail over those of the traditional classroom in secondary schools.

In a traditional classroom, where computers and tablets are used only to take notes, the benefits may include the ability to take notes faster and carry notes at all times.

In a traditional classroom, time is fixed and learning is variable (that is, classes are held for a set period of time, and when the bell rings the amount of learning that has occurred varies, sometimes dramatically, by student).

But, at the very same time, the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) results show that most classrooms in Israel are dominated by very traditional teaching geared to help students reproduce prefabricated subject - matter content.

Yet traditional classroom desks and chairs often make it tough for students to collaborate or rotate through activities without wasting time and disrupting instructional flow.

Individuals will be able to pursue different learning activities at the same time and the traditional «front» of the classroom (represented by a white board and teacher's desk) will be just one focal area among many.

We are discovering that we are not wired to sit for long periods of time learning in sedentary positions, as many traditional schools and classrooms require.

Although classroom training has some strong points, a Brandon Hall Group study points out that it typically takes employees 40 to 60 percent less time to study a particular material via e-learning than in a traditional classroom setting.

Many students choose online learning versus traditional classrooms because they think that online classes may be less of a burden on their lives, whether in terms of finances or time.

Advocates on one side believe teachers should prepare for their classroom careers in the traditional way: attending schools of education where they learn a lot about teaching technique (but often spend too little time learning academic content).

Students can read all of the books in the world and be told stories many times over, but they will never learn the importance of connecting with our traditional owners until they step into their world and their classroom.

But, having said that, that it looks different at different times and in different classrooms, there probably are some fundamental shifts from what we might call «a more traditional setting».

Online courses offer the promise of access regardless of where students live or what time they can participate, potentially redefining educational opportunities for those least well - served in traditional classrooms.

A traditional classroom environment for training remains trusted and popular - and certainly adds to staff knowledge and performance - it's generally a one - time session for a single group of people who assemble together for it.

When Julie Young founded the Florida Virtual School in 1997, her team coined the slogan «any time, any place, any path, any pace» to describe how the school's online courses liberate students from traditional classroom constraints.

The state has become a leader in the «competency - based» education movement — in which success is less about «seat time» in a classroom or passing traditional tests and more about students showing they can apply skills and knowledge to complex challenges.

Teachers have long complained that traditional professional development doesn't connect with what they do in the classroom, and that such offerings waste valuable time they could spend with their students.

Providning opportunities for them to remain engaged (earn credit) outside of traditional classroom seat time is important.

In the traditional classroom model, teachers may try to combat this issue by separating students into small groups or creating independent study time so they can work one - on - one with students who are struggling.

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.»

Our stduernts can earn credit outside traditional seat time in the classroom by attending community college.

Finally, imagine that by high school only one - third of a student's time was in a traditional classroom setting.

Some students work in the classroom computer lab for a full 8 - hour school day, while others participate in a hybrid program that includes traditional classroom learning as well as lab time.

Other school characteristics associated with better student achievement included: more time spent on English instruction; teacher pay plans that were based on teachers» effectiveness at improving student achievement, principals» evaluations, or whether teachers took on additional duties, rather than traditional pay scales; an emphasis on academics in schools» mission statements; and a classroom policy of punishing or rewarding the smallest of student infractions.

Students reach a competent level nearly four times faster than by using traditional classroom methods.

More traditional methods of training might require a classroom, an instructor and a set block of time, but the uses for eLearning extend way past the whiteboard.

Real - Time Access to Information In traditional models, once the student leaves the classroom, his access to information is gone.

eLearning typically requires 40 % to 60 % less employee time than learning the same material in a traditional classroom setting (Brandon Hall Study).