Sentences with phrase «curriculum teacher researcher»

As a doctoral student, I participated on the Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum Teacher Researcher Team led by Jane Hansen, Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia and Reading Hall of Fame Member.

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Naming an endowed Chair or Professorship at the Rotman School will help recruit and retain the world's leading teachers and researchers, enhance our curriculum, foster research and advance the academic performance of tomorrow's business leaders.

Educators involved in the assessment of student learning in science, including middle and high school science teachers, science specialists, assessment directors and coordinators in states and school districts, assessment and curriculum developers, university science education faculty, education researchers, and informal science educators.

With more than 2500 science teachers expected to attend, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Baltimore Area Conference in October offers Project 2061 researchers a chance to showcase their latest research findings and curriculum and assessment reteachers expected to attend, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Baltimore Area Conference in October offers Project 2061 researchers a chance to showcase their latest research findings and curriculum and assessment reTeachers Association (NSTA) Baltimore Area Conference in October offers Project 2061 researchers a chance to showcase their latest research findings and curriculum and assessment resources.

The rubric will also be useful, the researchers concluded, in focusing curriculum developers» and teachers» attention on the importance of engaging students with natural phenomena (or in solving problems) and making sense of them in terms of NGSS core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science practices.

Students of teachers using Cognitive Tutor, a computer - based curriculum for Algebra I students developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers, for a second year showed a meaningful improvement in test scores.

The phaseout of the MSP program would be a blow to university researchers, who use NSF funding to link up with educators from local school districts to train teachers, improve curriculum, and devise better ways to measure student progress in math and science.

«It will be a valuable resource for everyone who works in K - 12 science education — those who design curriculum and assessment, those who educate teachers, education researchers, as well as our nation's teachers,» he adds.

In fact, of those teachers who use video games in the classroom, more than half have kids play them as part of the curriculum at least once a week, according to a national survey released by education researchers at Joan Ganz Cooney Center in June.

In rural New Hampshire, fifth - grade teacher Amy Lyon has created a curriculum based on researcher Angela Duckworth's ideas about grit.

Under the reforms, communities gain unprecedented power over local schools» curricula, significant portions of the school day go to arts instruction and community service, and teachers are required to incorporate hands - on, exploratory teaching techniques pioneered by researchers such as HGSE professors Eleanor Duckworth and Howard Gardner.

The researchers identified two types of teams: content teams, in which teachers focused on curriculum, lessons, and pedagogy; and cohort teams, in which teachers discussed behavior, individual student needs, and school culture.

In response to administrators» and teachers» worries about the vocabulary skills of Boston Public School students, a group of researchers and educators — assembled by the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, and directed by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Catherine Snow — designed a curriculum supplement called Word Generation, for sixth - to eighth - grade classrooms.

The team of teacher educators, curriculum designers and education researchers will train teachers in participating schools to deliver a programme of RME lessons during Year 7 and Year 8 using teacher guides and supporting materials for the classroom.

He has been employed as a maths teacher, maths methods tutor, school coordinator, curriculum developer, assessment designer and administrator, researcher and research manager.

A new study of Massachusetts teachers from researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education showed that even in a state with a highly developed system of standards and accountability, new teachers were not provided with the curricula they needed to teach to standards.

In their article, «Lost at Sea: New Teachers» Experiences with Curriculum and Assessment,» which appears in the current issue of Teachers College Record, researchers from HGSE's Project on the Next Generation of Teachers reported that few of the 50 first - and second - year teachers who participated in the study began teaching with a clear, detailed curriculum in hand and even fewer received curricula that aligned with state stTeachers» Experiences with Curriculum and Assessment,» which appears in the current issue of Teachers College Record, researchers from HGSE's Project on the Next Generation of Teachers reported that few of the 50 first - and second - year teachers who participated in the study began teaching with a clear, detailed curriculum in hand and even fewer received curricula that aligned with state Curriculum and Assessment,» which appears in the current issue of Teachers College Record, researchers from HGSE's Project on the Next Generation of Teachers reported that few of the 50 first - and second - year teachers who participated in the study began teaching with a clear, detailed curriculum in hand and even fewer received curricula that aligned with state stTeachers College Record, researchers from HGSE's Project on the Next Generation of Teachers reported that few of the 50 first - and second - year teachers who participated in the study began teaching with a clear, detailed curriculum in hand and even fewer received curricula that aligned with state stTeachers reported that few of the 50 first - and second - year teachers who participated in the study began teaching with a clear, detailed curriculum in hand and even fewer received curricula that aligned with state stteachers who participated in the study began teaching with a clear, detailed curriculum in hand and even fewer received curricula that aligned with state curriculum in hand and even fewer received curricula that aligned with state standards.

The researchers are also analyzing hiring practices in schools, and continuing to work on teachers» careers, professional culture, principals» leadership, and curriculum.

That would go a long way toward building a data set that will allow researchers to evaluate curriculum effectiveness, help teachers decide where to teach, and allow parents to become more critical consumers where choice exists.

What McKinney discovered is that work in which the teacher, researcher, or curriculum developer selects materials and listens closely, and allows questions to come from the students (and not from a teacher's guide or the all - to - common «list of questions to ask about a historical document») is extremely rare.

Year 7 - Term 1 - Basic Drawing Skills Scheme of Work / Practice Makes Permanent (Literacy Bank) / Assessment and Feedback Materials This resource has been developed in response to the Knowledge Rich Curriculum advocated by teachers, researchers and administrators who have inspired the Free School Movement.

There are a range of tools that researchers could use here — value - added measures that distinguish between the level of a school's test scores and gains of students on test scores (gains probably are what parents care about, and levels are a noisy signal of gains), school climate surveys, teacher observation instruments, descriptions of curricula.

«Jon Star is a top - flight researcher and scholar in math education, and his work, informed by his years as a classroom teacher, has had significant impact on teaching practice and curriculum design,» said Ryan.

In this sense, teacher researchers are innovators, curriculum drivers, agents of school change, and directors of their own professional development.

Senior Lecturer Joe Blatt, director of the Technology, Innovation, and Education (TIE) Program, is pleased that Dockterman's course was added to the TIE curriculum as it asks, he says, important questions such as «What does the term [adaptive learning] mean to school leaders, teachers, artificial intelligence researchers, and students?

Still, some educators and researchers caution that the success of online - only education depends largely on the quality of curricula and teachers, both of which have sometimes been uneven.

Seeking to learn from what happens in the classroom, teacher researchers are innovators, curriculum drivers, agents of school change, and directors of their own professional development.

Drawing on years of experience as teachers, researchers, coaches, and curriculum developers, CAL staff provide the tools, training, and resources educators need to help students of all ages succeed.

First, the researchers surveyed 452 teachers in 47 elementary schools to determine the extent to which they worked collectively to infl uence decisions related to school improvement, curriculum and instruction, and professional development.

Common Core Standards: The New U.S. Intended Curriculum Educational Researcher, April 2011 This article compares the Common Core with then - current state standards and assessments, standards in top - preforming countries, and teachers» descriptions of their own practices.

It also needs to be said that curriculum is notably hard for researchers to get hold of — partly because it's so variable, so subjective, so entangled with teacher competence and pedagogical method and therefore hard to isolate, and partly because it's just so nebulous, even secretive.

In all cases, the researchers worked directly with teachers and school districts in ongoing professional development activities focused on literacy curriculum and instruction as well as assessment implementation.

Those suggested outside of a district include: legislators, members of state boards of education, and other policy makers; business and professional leaders; community leaders and members; medical personnel; social psychologists; persons having the responsibility for teacher preparation in general and special education; curriculum and textbook consultants; visionaries and futurists; and theorists and researchers.

For the most part, they look more deeply at literacy than either policy or measurement researchers by examining specific aspects of literacy instruction (e.g., writing process, qualities of writing, alignment of assessment with constructivist curriculum frameworks in literacy, specificity of state standards) and by situating much of their work in classrooms or in direct interactions with teachers.

I'm talking about things like teacher licensing mandates, which researchers have long found do not improve teacher quality and traffic in disproven education fads (but do provide easy - access cash cows for state departments of education and teacher colleges since teachers are required to keep buying their products to maintain certification); ever - increasing testing and data - entry mandates; centralized curriculum mandates like Common Core; centralized teacher evaluation and ratings systems; and the massive data entry required to document things like student behavior problems and special education services.

Teachers, researchers, and curriculum developers should explore ways to offer a middle school curriculum in which algebraic ideas are developed in a robust way and connected to the rest of mathematics.»

Analysis of these rich curriculum data, along with our more curriculum - sensitive measures of student achievement, revealed that the mathematics content teachers covered in their classrooms was significantly related to their students» performance even when researchers adjusted this relationship for student background factors (ethnicity, parent education level, socioeconomic status, and so on).

The Handbook of Metacognition in Education — covering Comprehension Strategies, Metacognitive Strategies, Metacomprehension, Writing, Science and Mathematics, Individual Differences, Self - Regulated Learning, Technology, Tutoring, and Measurement — is an essential resource for researchers, faculty, students, curriculum developers, teachers, and others interested in using research and theory on metacognition to guide and inform educational practice.

Mike has wide experience as a teacher, an education system senior executive, and as a researcher, consultant and policy advisor to Australian governments in areas of education policy, curriculum and teaching practices appropriate to 21st century schooling

The goal of researchers, teacher educators, and curriculum writers should be «to help teachers become aware of the full range of possible curriculum - based learning activity options and the different ways that digital and non-digital tools support each» (Harris et al., 2009, p. 411).

The English & Language Arts Program prepares teachers, curriculum specialists, teacher educators, and researchers for careers in K — 12 English / language arts.

The curriculum was developed iteratively using a design - based implementation research (DBIR) approach (Penuel & Fishman, 2012) involving a team of university researchers, subject matter experts, and classroom teachers.

Over the past few years, teachers and researchers have developed a wide range of books, manuals, videotapes, and other educational resources that offer a rich collection of ideas, strategies, and activities for virtually every area of the curriculum using multiple intelligences (see, e.g., Armstrong, 1994; Campbell, Campbell, & Dickinson, 1996; Haggerty, 1995; Lazear, 1991).

A promising strategy for improving instructional practices and student outcomes is for teachers and researchers to work together in creating, using, and revising curriculum resources (Hiebert & Morris, 2012; Morris & Hiebert, 2011).

Investigating the possible effectiveness of curriculum resources explicitly designed for teachers» learning is relatively new for researchers (Schneider et al., 2000).

While researchers are still collecting data about how the CSP curriculum affects students, principals and teachers are already seeing anecdotal evidence.

This Framework is intended for use by teachers, schools, and districts, as well as researchers and policymakers, to help inform decisions around assessment, accountability, curriculum, instruction, professional development, program design and resource allocation.

Some researchers believe that teacher certification programs still view technology as an add - on to their curricula (Brush et al., 2003; Pellegrino, Goldman, Bertenthal, & Lawless, 2007).

Dr. Grossman's publications include: The Making of a Teacher: Teacher Knowledge and Teacher Education, a co-edited volume (with Sam Wineburg), entitled Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Challenges to Implementation, as well as articles in Teachers College Record, American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, Journal of Literacy Research, Teaching and Teacher Education, Review of Research in Education, among others.

Even a teacher who is content to use geospatial tools at the current, shallow level of representation (Figure 3) will be nudged toward more sophisticated uses, whether via student project work with geospatial tools or by adopting materials produced by teaching colleagues, curriculum support staff, or social studies education researchers.