Reflections on What Works: A Group of Teenage Classroom Observers Raises the Bar for Teachers (2006) At Lexington High School, a large suburban high school outside Boston, a dedicated crew of teenaged students is
visiting classrooms with an innovative vision of student - teacher dialogue.
She visits the classroom with instructional coaches for 15 minutes so they can calibrate by making sure the feedback they are providing teachers is aligned.
An online council survey completed by 41 big - city districts in fall 2012 found that the tasks most commonly carried out by their principal supervisors were: visiting schools (93 percent of the districts); conversing with principals about school performance data (90 percent); and
visiting classrooms with principals (82 percent).
Chris Allen, the director of Veterans Memorial School, spends a good part of a recent morning
visiting classrooms with a check list of the elements of the culture.
They have also
visited classrooms with their Mom.
Not exact matches
We
visited a chairless first - grade
classroom where the students spent part of each day crawling along mats labeled
with vocabulary words and jumping between platforms while reciting math problems.
«The guy was filled
with rage,» said a person who has
visited the school building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High where Cruz fired a squall of more than 100 rounds from his AR - 15 into
classrooms and down hallways at terrified kids.
«I ask our coaches to go in and
visit with classroom teachers about the youngster's presence in the
classroom — not just how he does on test scores, but his presence.
Events included Chef Tony Pisconeri
visiting classrooms to demonstrate proper knife skills and plating techniques and agriculture students learning about honey
with Jeannie Ross of Ross Berry Farm and Apiaries.
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.
Families were invited to
visit their
classrooms, theatre and playground, as well as chat
with teachers and administrators on the morning of February 3 at their open house.
This might mean doing things like
visiting the
classroom and seeing what it looks like and meeting
with the teacher in a situation where she's not immediately put in a position to answer questions or speak.
I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a
classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids
with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved
with the church groups
with my kids, I spent summers
with them doing all kinds of things like traveling,
visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck
with a sitter every summer.
This includes learning to use many more hands - on materials and activities (that are not practical in a large
classroom with many children and only one adult), checking the regulations in your area, finding out about home school groups, places to
visit for your field trips, etc..
Cooper is able to
visit any
classroom, not only providing educational moments for nutrition, but incorporating parts of her demonstration into English, science or math curriculum
with interactive lessons, such as recipe fractions, voting and graphing.
Our Open House events are for the entire family and will allow you to
visit classrooms, meet teachers, and talk
with other parents who can provide their own perspective of life within the Berkeley Rose community.
If you work
with children in a school or camp environment and want to learn more about having better
classroom management while helping empower kids to be the best they can be,
visit here.
Events included Chef Tony Pisconeri
visiting classrooms to demonstrate proper knife skills and plating techniques and high school agriculture students learning about honey
with Jeannie Ross of Ross Berry Farm and Apiaries;
We also had the opportunity to
visit with Erie Public Schools and celebrate the implementation of breakfast - in - the -
classroom in thirteen district schools.
Visit your child's
classroom, and make sure you are comfortable
with her learning environment.
At 2:30 p.m., de Blasio will
visit the High School of Fashion Industries, where he will meet
with parents and students to discuss recent investment to install air conditioning in every
classroom, 225 W 24th St., # 343, Manhattan.
state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia will
visit classrooms to speak
with students and teachers at the Madison - Oneida BOCES Career & Technical Education (CTE) program, 4937 Spring Rd., Verona.
While at PS / MS 126, Fariña also
visited a preschool
classroom and chatted
with school parents who making paper decorations in honor of Chinese New Year.
Meanwhile, a
visit to the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial School which is about 500metres from the St John's School, revealed how students were idling about in the
classrooms and compound
with no teaching and learning activities taking place.
Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Syracuse City School District Superintendent Sharon Contreras marked the first day of school
with a
visit to a
classroom at the Dr. Weeks Elementary School on Tuesday.
Following a
visit to
classrooms at PS 209 in Whitestone, Queens, UFT President Michael Mulgrew met
with new District 25 chapter leaders on Sept. 20 in a discussion of their responsibilities in a time of challenges to public education.
The episodes will be disseminated to New England high school
classrooms with the help of Harvard's Life Sciences Outreach (LSO) Program; on the website of the Amgen Biotech Experience, a curriculum that is implemented by over 70,000 students nationally and internationally; and by leveraging the considerable PR power of Harvard and the other institutions the team
visits.
BTI scientists and educators will also
visit participants»
classrooms to talk
with students about careers in plant science and assist them in lab activities based on BTI research.
During the academic year, DAAD Young Ambassadors promote study and research in Germany by working
with their universities» study abroad offices, volunteering at study abroad fairs, organizing
classroom visits, info sessions, fun events, and answering their fellow students» questions.
«I will be raising the praise
with staff,
visiting their
classrooms more, and providing special treats — putting little gifts in their mailboxes, taking them to lunch on their birthdays, and giving the gift of time.
Our goal was for the Open
Classrooms concept to catch on naturally,
with people inviting and
visiting because they wanted to.
If our child is having a mediocre
classroom experience, we may have to make more school
visits, talk to more parents to find out if they are dealing
with similar challenges, and have more meetings
with teachers and administrators (all things we really should be doing anyway).
Lesson plans and
classroom activities, organized by grade level and thematically related to the exhibits, enable local teachers to extend their field trip experience
with activities before and after the
visit.
Before each school year begins,
classroom teachers and the school nurse from McIlvaine Early Childhood Center
visit the homes of incoming students to identify potential health risks to students and talk
with parents about how they can help their children be successful in their new classes.
During the 30 - minute time period, certified teachers
visit classrooms and work
with small groups of students on skills needed for the CMTs.
They can organize a
visit to the council, hold a
classroom discussion
with a council member, or write letters to the editor of the local paper.
Highlights of the trip included
visits to a community youth center and preschool in Casablanca, in which participants had the opportunity to enter
classrooms and interact
with Moroccan school children.
• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them
with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others
visit their
classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!
Food is used as a way to improve the whole school experience, such as making lunchtimes a positive feature of the day, enriching
classroom learning
with farm
visits, and practical cooking and growing activities.
«There was definitely a higher level of instruction going on in the Louisiana
classrooms we
visited as compared
with what many other states» CAOs were seeing at home.
For more good teaching tips, hints for preventing
classroom discipline problems, and help
with classroom management in general,
visit Preventing
Classroom Discipline Problems and ClassroomManagementOnline.com.
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Children begin their school careers
with E plenty of outdoor play and activity but the amount of time spent outdoors rapidly dwindles until virtually all
classroom time can be spent indoors — getting outside becomes limited to specific trips and
visits and some PE lessons.
So we
visited four different sized
classrooms - we had an enclosed
classroom with 25 students, a double
classroom with 44 students, a triple
classroom with 91 students and then a full primary school
classroom that was K - 6 and it had about 200 students in the one area.
«I've loved the time I spent in charter schools — helping
with operations, observing teacher training, and
visiting classrooms,» she says.
Included: Principals talk about the benefits of walk - throughs, and how to initiate walk - throughs
with teachers who might fear frequent
classroom visits by the principal.
For example, recruit pupils for extra-curricular groups; arrange extra rehearsals; follow up on interests shown in the
classroom (eg finding a child who is learning the guitar at home, informally, and getting them involved in a school group); produce a programme for the school concert which includes every child's name; liaise
with other staff members (eg
with the Art Department to provide a cover for said programme); organise refreshments; run a Parent Support Group for music; arrange for matching T - shirts for the jazz band or school choir; deliver a «sponsored sing» for charity;
visit an old people's home to perform for the residents; and a host of other things which make for «a musical school».
This includes developing courses that challenge students
with real higher education leadership cases derived from sitting presidents, provosts, and deans; creating opportunities for students to interact
with the most noted senior leaders in higher education; developing course structures that allow HGSE students to interact
with higher education students at other universities around the nation, in order to compare ideas; and developing opportunities for our students to
visit different colleges and universities, exposing them to places and viewpoints otherwise not accessible by simply sitting in the
classroom.
In
visiting many
classrooms in the United States and other parts of the world, I've found that,
with few exceptions, these studies are still accurate.
«She opened up the school by making the morning announcements,
visited classrooms and teachers, and also met
with a group of eighth graders to discuss social issues, current events (such as Kosovo and Littleton, Colorado), and the challenges of being teenagers in this day and age.