Sentences with phrase «use in the classroom while»

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While smart boards have mostly been used in classrooms around the world, if SMART Technologies (TSX: SMA) has its way, these boards — which are like a white board, projector and computer rolled into one — will become a staple in corporate offices and other non-educational sectors.

There are plenty of deeper - learning skeptics out there, and one of their chief concerns is that while project - based learning in the hands of a well - trained educator can be used in the classroom in a highly effective way, it is also a technique that is easy for an unprepared teacher to do quite badly.

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.

While my background is in education and not in retail or business, I do know and love the products I am selling, having used them in my classroom or at home with my children for more than fifteen years.

Teachers are overworked like everyone else, but as one teacher at Emerson Elementary pointed out that breakfast - in - the - classroom time can be valuable — learning how to do hygiene, table manners, using breakfast time to talk about how to eat properly, how to carry on a conversation while eating, even something as simple as handwashing!

While bullying has a long and sordid history in American classrooms, a November 7, 2016 article in The Nation asserts that the current surge is notable in two respects, both for the similarity of its targets - Muslim students, immigrants and children of immigrants, children of color, girls, and Jews - and the language used against them, leading some educators to suggest a link to Donald Trump and the «degraded course of this election season.»

And while I know of no academic studies looking at the latter two categories of classroom food, in my experience (and in the reported experience of my readers), food used as a teaching tool and as a reward also almost always falls into the «junk food» category.

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If you're looking for ammo, give your school principal a copy of The Use of Food as Reward in Classrooms: The Disadvantages and the Alternatives (while geared toward the state of Kentucky, a national version of this excellent white paper is in the works — so stay tuned!).

According to him, the soldiers gathered the victims in a primary school in the village to protect them from attacks in the area, adding that while the soldiers occupied the classroom which they used as their operational base, the women and children occupied the next classroom.

Tips that any teacher in any classroom can use to help ESL students learn the curriculum while learning English.

While this is, first and foremost, a game site, the quizzes it employs can certainly be used in the classroom under the right circumstances.

You might watch Netflix, HBO Go, or Hulu Plus for personal use on your iPad, but while these may not always be appropriate for students, there are many free iPad apps for streaming video that will work great in your classroom.

While writing goals are used regularly in the classroom, students do not assess personal reading skills on a regular basis.

In my ninth grade classroom, January starts with a video about John Foppe, born with no arms, who excelled as an honor student, drove his own car, and became a successful psychologist and speaker while creatively using his feet.

While there are hundreds of technology tools out there to help language arts teachers, these four have helped me enhance my use of formative data and feedback to further student achievement in a diverse and differentiated classroom.

Some PLCs use video to capture and dissect a slice of instructional life, while others take apart field literature to learn how to adopt research - based methods in the classroom.

Bottom Line: While addressing substance use in the classroom can be a political minefield, referring parents to TimeToTalk.org lets them speak with their kids on their own terms.

When a new Japanese family arrived in the middle of the school year, the origami instructors worked with the principal to encourage these children to sign up for their after - school class, where they could show off Japanese culture as experts while experiencing the comfort of using their own language in a classroom setting.

While this isn't unique to technology, I've found that a vast majority of technology training spends 90 percent of our time teaching us about tools, and 10 percent discussing how we could use these tools in the classroom (usually at the end of the workshop, when we are all exhausted).

While the research on transfer of L1 skills to L2 can not be denied, it doesn't mean that we should not encourage the use of English in class and outside of the classroom.

Some of the boilerplate curricula I was handed and instructed to implement while in the classroom I should have flatly refused to use or I should have at least advocated for its modification; it was so alienating of my students — a true disservice to them (I wish I could go back in time).

While the term gifted is used ~ I believe these ideas can work in all classrooms and help lift all students to higher levels of achievement.

While your students are familiar with how to engage in all of the high - impact strategies you regularly use in your classroom, they are likely not aware of why you're using those strategies.

While the study focuses on the kinds of technology being brought into the classroom and used by educators at home and in the classroom, little is reported about how this has changed teachers» pedagogical approaches aside from how they give and collect assignments.

Using arts in the classroom will free students to look at content from different perspectives while clear communication from the teacher in the beginning and continued dialogue through the process will ensure student focus on learning goals.

While I am consistently helping all the teachers I work with to increase their purposeful use of technology in the classroom, I find that too often I am encouraging veteran teachers to come over the threshold and begin using it.

Ringing in my ears was a comment by the late Ralph Tyler that the sole technological advance in a century that had really affected classrooms was the overhead projector because, he wisecracked, it was «the only one that the teacher could use while still keeping an eye on her students.»

Now I use a model that allows me to draw on those aspects of mastery that have transformed the maths learning in my classroom, while enabling all children to achieve.

When exploring Religious Identity in the classroom you use the same language.so while you may need to unpack the form for younger pupils, the form covers everything and may be easily adapted.

Growing interest in «blended learning» and other classroom uses of technology, which help teachers customize and individualize learning by letting some students move at their own pace online while teaching other kids in smaller, perhaps more homogeneous groups.

In this post, we're going to take a look at how screencasting can be used in a fourth grade classroom to meet a Common Core State Standard while addressing a 21st century skill: communicate clearlIn this post, we're going to take a look at how screencasting can be used in a fourth grade classroom to meet a Common Core State Standard while addressing a 21st century skill: communicate clearlin a fourth grade classroom to meet a Common Core State Standard while addressing a 21st century skill: communicate clearly.

As students explore informational texts in the social studies classroom, they can use literacy skills while learning about topics in the news.

Our best evidence of the effects of laptop policy comes from a separate analysis that compares the exam scores of students assigned to the unrestricted - use and tablet - only classrooms to those of students in classes where laptops were banned, while adjusting for the minor differences in the backgrounds of students across groups and including controls for the instructor, the class hour, and the semester.

While there are no resources here created specifically for use in the classroom, teachers can use the material to enhance existing lessons.

While not all Symonds teachers are using mindfulness, those who are see a clear benefit in their classrooms and are bringing more of their peers to the practice each year.

Many education experts consider them to be a great way to improve students» participation in the classroom, while others argue that even though rewards do work, there are several disadvantages of using them, and the gains are not worth the price.

Barron and Darling - Hammond describe evidence - based approaches to support inquiry - based teaching in the classroom: (1) clear goals and guiding activities; (2) a variety of resources (e.g., museums, libraries, Internet, videos, lectures) and time for students to share, reflect, and apply resources, while debating over information discrepancies; (3) participation structures and classroom norms that increase the use of evidence and a culture of collaboration (i.e., framing debates as productive conflicts, using public performances); (4) formative assessments that provide opportunities for revision; and (5) summative assessments that are multidimensional and representative of professional practice.

So while using computers to teach computing may be its ideal use in this regard, I would hope that the other ways in which we use computers in the classroom are at least transparent enough for us all to recognize their presence, their impact and their specific role in the design of the lesson.

While many animal and plant species are in short supply, there is no shortage of Web sites that teachers and students can use to explore this popular classroom topic.

Suzy Brooks (@SimplySuzy), a third grade teacher in Falmouth, Massachusetts, wanted to use the flipped tenets in her classroom while being mindful of these assumptions, so she came up with the concept of spinning her instruction.

There will be an abundance of «Brain Booster» videos and simple solutions to help children learn while they move - all linked to the UK curricula and easy to use in the classroom, with no extra equipment required.

While this approach contrasts starkly with status quo «principal walk - through» styles of class observation, its use is on the rise in new and proposed evaluation systems in which rigorous classroom observation is often combined with other measures, such as teacher value - added based on student test scores.

«When I joined SchoolWorld,» recalls Walkowiak, «I was new to the Internet and was searching for a way to share my enthusiasm for the value of using the Internet in the classroom while demonstrating to my then grade - four students and the parent community that online publishing had its merits.»

A teacher of history, McKinney, began thinking about using historical materials in the classroom in more exploratory ways while at HGSE.

Signing up for the trials is an excellent opportunity to test different virtual classroom software at no cost while making the decision to purchase one that is aligned with your needs in terms of features, functions and ease of use and budget.

Unusual shapes and sizes of furniture fill some of the classrooms and breakout areas while in other areas office chairs are used.

One copy is in full colour that can be placed in a binder or duo - tang for use within your classroom while the backline master set is perfect to for your students to keep at home or in their homework binders / duo - tangs to use as a study guide or homework helper.

While «good» and «bad» may sound oversimplified, I have used this activity many times in my classroom, and have found that, by examining what's good about hate speech, you can uncover motivation.

Proprietary reading and math systems that automatically adjust to the learner's performance are already in wide use in K — 12 classrooms, while fully adaptive learning - management systems are gaining a foothold there and in career and technical education.