A $26 million bond referendum approved by Uniondale voters in 1997 has allowed the district to add 73 new classrooms, hire 80 new teachers, add Internet access and six computers in every classroom, implement a full-day kindergarten and reorganize the junior high to a middle-school model, Mr. Levenstien said.
Consequently, there is an ongoing need to both implement and study the impact of strategies meant to minimize sedentary opportunities available to young children during school hours (e.g., limit the availability of screens in the classroom, implement policies that discourage long periods of sitting/inactivity, incorporate physical activity into classroom curriculum).
While this can occur during a very interactive lecture, this sort of weak framing is typical of classrooms implementing student-centered instructional approaches, as these approaches are, by design, guided by the students rather than the instructor (Haugen 2011).
When Skateistan decided to hire qualified teachers, create safe classrooms, and implement longer school hours for boys and girls, the effect was generously received.
Remillard (2005) stated both teachers and the text of a curriculum, "are engaged in a dynamic interrelationship" (p. 221), because the ideas from one source, once interpreted, have repercussions in the classroom when implemented.
Effects are greatest when multiple components (Parent, Child, Classroom) are implemented, [ 56] which is our approach.
Their role in the schools involved supporting children's engagement and learning in the classroom and implementing small group interventions.
Drawing on socio-cultural perspectives of teacher learning and theories of tools as mediators of action, this case study investigates the ways this community of practice discussed their understandings of contexts, curriculum, and classroom practice to implement the literacy and inquiry tool.
In Taiwanese university classrooms, such implemented technology is often referred to as an "e-Station" (Winer and Cooperstock 2002).
CRS indicates whether the teacher implemented Classroom Activity 1, Classroom Activity 2, or neither classroom activity.
Since inquiry is the preferred instructional method for elementary science classes, primary and pre-school teachers were invited to adapt and implement in classroom, science modules based on inquiry approach which were designed and developed by Romanian science teachers in the frame of the PROFILES FP7 project.
