Sentences with phrase «way classrooms work»

Apple has a long legacy of providing services to schools and teachers, but the industry has shifted in recent years as the Chromebook has completely changed the way classrooms work.

Not exact matches

What's different now isn't us working with a handful of classrooms in a very high - touch way.

A few days earlier, Thomas worked his way through the classrooms of the King Open School in Cambridge, charming students, delighting faculty and distributing school supplies.

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.

You can explore many ways to get breakfast in the hands of students — for some, the traditional model works well, for others a classroom delivery, grab - n - go, or Second Chance model may be a better fit.

If we can change our policies and our practices in the classroom, and work with researchers devoted to finding ways to help our children, we can «make a tremendous difference, not only in the lives of individual children and their families, but in our communities and our nation as a whole.»

After learning of Burger's methods, McGill University education professor Jon Bradley says he would consider taking a similar approach in his own classroom — encouraging students to analyze their work the way sports fans obsess over how the home team might do better next season.

When it was time to head back to my classroom, pumping felt like a way I could still care for my baby while continuing work that I am passionate about.

Together we'll address child development questions and ways to work with the curriculum as you use these activities to support your work in the classroom.

«We need to look at what's good and keep that and enhance that and we have to look at things that are not working in the classrooms and find ways to fix that, to remediate it and approve it,» said Hathaway.

NOTE: this advice only works if you genuinely love teaching and / or want to become a better communicator, and truly care about the student enjoying and retaining the material you share with them, as it could take a lot of effort and adjustments in the way you run your classroom.

Curriculum developers also worked to present these chemistry and biology lessons in a way that would be clear and intuitive for teachers incorporating the unit in their classrooms.

Working with live animals forces students to apply principles learned in the classroom in ingenious ways, he says.

But it takes itself way too seriously, has a rather dull, stiff upper lip attitude toward Hawking's trials and tribulations, and sometimes comes off as more of a classroom lecture than a fully rounded dramatic work.

A powerful way to support the development of growth mindsets among teachers is for them to experience a positive impact in their classrooms, and teachers have shared with us the positive impact they have seen when they have an opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and work on projects, such as creating more effective lessons.

On the site, I explain and demonstrate instructional and classroom management strategies; explore technology, books, research and professional development tools that can make us better; help teachers fine - tune the design of their materials; examine the emotional and social forces that impact the way we do our work; and conduct my own little grass - roots studies on topics that I think need more attention.

Your relationships with them will go a long way toward motivating them to work hard, be respectful, and enjoy their time at our school, and that will directly impact the work we do with them in the classroom.

That, I think, really lends itself to being recorded as a screencast or a video in some way so students can watch it over and over and over if they need to even in the classroom while the teacher is maybe working with another student.

Not only that, her blog shares in great detail ways that a teacher might work to begin to utilize the concept of blended learning in the classroom.

A fun and easy way to work with the Easter theme and vocabulary in and out of the classroom.

The challenge is finding ways to celebrate all learners in your classroom, and in this case you'll have to work against the natural mechanics of most games.

Instructional rounds, as defined by City, Elmore, Fiarman, and Teitel (2011), is a disciplined way for educators to work together to improve instruction and is a practice that combines three common elements of improvement: classroom observation, an improvement strategy, and a network of educators.

They saw them as having very low social skills (lower than anybody else) they saw them as the most disruptive to the classroom, in need of attention from the teacher almost constantly which then interrupted her ability to teach and to work with the other children, and they were regarded as a huge problem that had to be managed in some way.

In a world where technology and digital resources are engrained into our day - to - day routines, it's not surprising that a majority of schools have also adopted this way of working to add value to the classroom and students» learning opportunities.

We have tried to differentiate our staff development needs in the same way we hope teachers will work with the students in their classrooms.

«@teacherACER #TeacherMag - resilience and ways to influence beyond the classroom (working with parents, agencies, local business)

Teachers who have never worked with computers in this way often struggle with the concepts of computational thinking and there is still a great deal of confusion in the classroom around certain terminology, such as «algorithm» for example, particularly at Key Stage One.

This means it is much more flexible in the classroom as you can set a question, then review the question as a class or you can work your way through a whole test paper at once!

During a recent lecture, researchers from the University of Connecticut provided an update on their work with Operation Houndstooth as well as shared with educators some ways to begin working the theory into classrooms.

Students will stun you with their insights and depth when they know HOW to contribute in a meaningful way and when they realize that online work drives the work done in the classroom.

There was no way to advance your career or expand your reach while working as a classroom teacher.

The new teacher organizations work to amplify the voices of classroom teachers in several ways:

In the same way, students need to reflect on their actions and their work in order to build their classroom community and increase their own knowledge and skills.

The aim was to write a brief, helpful guide and pack of resources that would provide a way into practise and language work in the classroom, rather than a dry, analytical manual.

«The way they put together lesson plans, the way they work with kids in the classroom.

Cathy Davidson, author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn, encourages us to ask: «What is happening in the classroom that could not be duplicated by a computer?»

Finding a way to inspire teachers without burning them out, and reaching into more American classrooms, means working with teachers unions, Brill concludes.

Not because anybody's evil, but just because of the way the world works, we've made it really hard for teachers and kids to have that kind of joyous, wondrous, liberating experience in a lot of schools and classrooms.

• At day's end, there are just three ways of awarding «credit» for work done in (or out) of school (and conferring diplomas or equivalency certificates based on that credit): «seat time» as traditionally measured in Carnegie units; the judgment of classroom teachers; or «demonstrated mastery» based on credible external assessments.

To make sure all education classrooms are working in the most interactive way possible, wePresent has compiled some top tips to create a collaborative learning environment.

A classroom work board can play a role in building a student's self belief, which is in itself a great way of promoting student engagement.

Teaching Reading by Example: Explore ways to put the power of example to work in your classroom and turn your students into «readaholics.»

Being a free tool AND collaborative we already see it being a way to better connect kids in the classroom to work together, collaboratively by creating together and bonding.

A new working paper [PDF] by HGSE Associate Professor Martin West and colleagues does just that, and the findings suggest that when the overall prospects for job seekers are limited, more effective teachers make their way into the classroom.

Although he isn't directly working in a classroom, Baer believes the work he does educates in a different way.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

Students work collaboratively in many ways to reinforce learning at The College Preparatory School, such as working together outside on geometry concepts they learned the previous day in the classroom.

The authors also point out that sustained programs of professional development and support are required «if the substantial rewards promised by the research evidence are to be secured,» so that each teacher can «find his or her own ways of incorporating [feedback] into his or her own patterns of classroom work and into the cultural norms and expectations of a particular school community.»

I look for practical ways to make things work — in the classroom or with individual students.

«Leading people involves asking students to consider what it feels like when the classroom doesn't work for them or for their friends, to envision what a classroom would be like if it functioned in a way that helped each student grow as far and fast as possible — and to participate in developing that kind of classroom,» says Carol Ann Tomlinson, University of Virginia Curry School of Education's William Clay Parrish Jr..