Sentences with phrase «used by the classroom»

This technology is not new to education, but historically tends to be used more by network managers to monitor and control their school's IT from the back - office, rather than being used by classroom teachers themselves.

In some settings district leaders reported a shift: initially, an emphasis on developing principals «expertise in data use; next, an emphasis on training selected teachers in each school as resident experts; and, more recently, an emphasis on encouraging and supporting data use by classroom teachers, working in teams.

The approach can be used by classroom teachers during the time usually reserved for basal reading instruction.

Assessment expert Rick Stiggins asserts that the most important assessments in high schools today are those designed and used by classroom teachers on a daily basis; however, most teachers lack the necessary assessment literacy and tools to do the job well.

Regardless of curricular model, educators must make a single profound decision daily: who in the classroom is generating the information used by the classroom?

It is a balancing act between network and equipment management by the technology departments and how and when technology gets used by the classroom teacher.

These materials are designed for use by classroom teachers, humane educators, home - school educators, after - school enrichment programs and more.

Devitre's favorite whiteboard tool is Doceri, commonly used by classroom teachers for writing and presenting lessons on projection screens.

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, an educational gaming platform used by 50 million monthly users in grades K - 12, includes in its new report responses from 580 US teachers, primarily from public schools, who answered questions about technology in their classrooms.

The oldest technical research university in the US, Rensselaer Polytechnic is grounded by two principles: Help students apply science to everyday life, and use teaching methods not used in a typical classroom.

The company's fruity name, she adds, is a pun on the «pair» part of «think - pair - share,» a collaborative activity commonly used by teachers in the classroom.

A letter released today by the president of the B.C. School Trustee's Association, Michael McEvoy, confirms that school districts want the Liberal government to take immediate action to end the policy of funding private sector projects using money earmarked for classrooms.

Education and Training professionals act as facilitators to learning by using classroom or virtual presentations or individual instruction to help students learn complex subjects.

It seems fairly arrogant to so diverge from three centuries of native language interpretation in favor of that which was learned in a classroom separated from the real use of language and culture by millennia.

It is being used in British schools by pupils and teachers to create calm classrooms, reduce stress around exams and foster creativity.

Classrooms full of age - appropriate equipment often have been established for use by the congregation's Sunday church school and are underutilized during the rest of the week.

By definition the great feasts of the Church fall in the school holidays but that clearly does not prevent the Catholic teacher from making use of these feasts in the classroom.

In addition to a nine - lane track, the new design for the stadium will include classrooms, laboratories and research facilities that can be used by students.

In American classrooms, by contrast, Stigler found that a unit on adding fractions with unlike denominators would usually begin with the teacher writing on an overhead projector a reliable formula to solve the problem, which students would be expected to copy down, memorize, and use for each subsequent problem.

Many schools encourage teachers to use positive discipline in the classroom by employing the same principles.

Sedgefield Elementary makes breakfast a success by using these student ambassadors to deliver breakfast to the classrooms.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

In 1986, using classroom space rented by the steward of the property, the Threefold Educational Foundation (now, the Threefold Educational Center), classes started, and the next phase of the Waldorf Institute began.

From methods taught in the classroom to techniques used by major retailers to bring in the big bucks, I've tested them all to see what works and what doesn't when it comes to selling handmade at craft fairs.

School officials said the district needs to taste success in its next referendum or face overcrowding by 1999 that might force them to use mobile classrooms, or institute split shifts or year - round school schedules.

The park district is able to use the gym, classrooms and cafeteria when they aren't being used by the school.

The team measured student behavior and the classroom environment using questionnaires filled out by parents and teachers.

Guided by a visiting teacher naturalist in the classroom, students will use bird puppets to experience how natural selection works as they try to survive with their adaptations in the island environments available to them.

This food tends to fall into three categories: food brought in for classroom celebrations; the use of food by teachers as a teaching tool or manipulative; and food handed out by teachers or principals as a reward for good behavior or academic performance.

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In Cincinnati Public Schools, a nutrition app is not only changing how students and parents get meal information, it's used in classrooms for morning announcements and by school nurses to tally carb counts and manage student allergy needs.

This resource can be used by school nurses and teachers in the classroom as well as a tool to introduce families in the school community to the basic concepts of food allergies.

I'm going to add it to my wish list, it would be perfect to use in the classroom Catherine recently posted... There's a Shark in the Bath by Sarah McIntyre

What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.

After receiving a Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom grant in SY 2012 - 13, a number of CCSD schools implemented breakfast - in - the - classroom; by the time Pettit arrived, the district was serving breakfast in the classroom using a variety of delivery methods, from direct delivery to Grab - n - Go, in about 35 - 40 schools.

We love the recent post over at the USDA blog by Dr. Robert Lewis of the El Monte School District, in which Dr. Lewis writes about his district's efforts to improve the lives of students using health - promoting messages in the classroom.

Using the bar to introduce children to food in their raw state and educate students palates by offering some special seasonal salads makes fast work of transforming your cafeteria into a classroom enjoyed by all every day.»

If your child is not used to a structured classroom, simulate one by giving him simple procedures.

The state legislature has a game plan: get approval for debt, gambling or additional taxes by promising they will be used for things like the environmental trust fund, the Second Avenue Subway and East Side Access, mass transit in general, and in - classroom schools.

The Christian Institute convinced many politicians with claims that primary school sex education classes «often contain graphic material that is highly unsuitable for classroom use» and that «some material is so explicit that if it were shown by an adult to a child in a non-school setting, it would be regarded by many as child abuse».

«Investments in computers and other technology can be used to close the achievement gap by bringing the technology of today and tomorrow into the classroom,» the report says.

The Borough President said she has been working the School Construction Authority, led by Lorraine Grillo, to set real dates for moving children out of the «temporary» trailers that have been used as classrooms due to school overcrowding.

Dr Anim - Wright urged the graduands to remember that knowledge was not only acquired in the classroom but by experiencing life, learning from their life experiences and using their experience to improve lives.

If approved by voters, schools could use the money for wireless Internet connections, tablets to replace textbooks, interactive white boards and new pre-kindergarten classrooms.

The defendant was also accused of using his office for gratification by awarding the contract for the rehabilitation of a road and parking lot worth N12, 662,590 and the procurement of 1,277 two - seater classroom chairs worth N22, 459,237.50 to Skylight Nigeria Limited, a company of which he was the proprietor.

«The state has to restore the trust and confidence of parents in its assessment system and part of that includes assuring parents that tests are being used by teachers to inform instruction so they can better help the students in their classrooms and that the data is used for those purposes.»

On topic question topics included the mayor's proposed $ 20 million allocation for arts programs and whether this is all new spending, whether it's typical for elementary schools to have arts teachers, the mayor's proposed $ 4.4 billion capital spending to address classroom overcrowding, how many new classroom seats that spending would produce and where they would be located, whether all trailers used by schools would be eliminated, the definition of «problematic behavior» used in dealing with the Absent Teacher Reserve, what the state funding to be used for middle school after school programs would have otherwise been used for and DoE support for schools that will participate in the program providing increased school autonomy.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

As a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow, attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Project.

In the classroom, these characters can be used to communicate learning objectives to students in an interesting, fun, and accessible manner by taking advantage of student familiarity with these superhero characters.