Sentences with phrase «education academic content»

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The mental hygiene perspective nonetheless held sway throughout the 1950s, and the concept of personality became as important in teacher education as academic and technical preparation for the classroom — as important as content knowledge and skills.

We have consulted with companies such as Google, Microsoft and Cisco, as well as teachers and higher education academics and organisations like Computing At School (CAS) to ensure that the content is relevant.

The Finnish Education System therefore can be characterised by trust, freedom, flexibility and a concern to put the wellbeing of children at the forefront, with teachers contributing to a supportive and close relationship with their students balanced with delivering appropriate content and providing a high standard of academic direction in an equitable manner.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

It was the misguided advocates of a science of pedagogy, he said, who had insisted on separating methods of teaching from mastery of subject matter; it was they who taught courses in education theory detached from the learning of academic content.

Academic freedom only works if a field is willing to police itself on what constitutes acceptable content, which has yet to occur in the field of teacher education.

Currently I am a Principal Investigator of Project ESCOLAR (Etext Supports for Collaborative Online Learning and Academic Reading) a five year grant funded by the Office of Special education Programs (OSEP) to develop, test, evaluate, refine, and disseminate Collaborative Online Projects designed to support academic reading of science content for middle school students with learning disabAcademic Reading) a five year grant funded by the Office of Special education Programs (OSEP) to develop, test, evaluate, refine, and disseminate Collaborative Online Projects designed to support academic reading of science content for middle school students with learning disabacademic reading of science content for middle school students with learning disabilities.

By contrast, attention to the academic content — what we teach — is only now beginning to emerge as a serious lever in education policy.

While EL students likely need assistance accessing academic content, they are entitled to an education that is just as rigorous as their native - speaking peers.

Academic content and performance standards are now well ingrained in American public education, Smith believes.

It's not like getting a new kitchen,» says Litsy Witkowski, chief of staff for academic content at the Louisiana Department of Education.

The ability for eLearning content providers to see their learner's academic growth in real - time allows the evolution cycle of education to speed up in way that has never been done before live analytics.

I often say that STEAM education happens the most in early childhood, and has been for decades: Young students often gather for circle time and begin their day with songs that focus on academic content.

Smartphones and tablet devices have revolutionized the entire education system, thereby promoting lucid methodologies for students to access and comprehend their academic content.

Sarah Dryden - Peterson, an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, found that refugee children — many of them English - language learners — spend a «disproportionate amount of their time learning languages,» which can contribute to falling behind in age - appropriate academic content.»

The report declares that teacher education needs to be «turned upside down,» with training shifting from a focus on academic preparation and course work and towards clinical practice that's «interwoven with academic content and professional courses.»

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«High - quality vocational education integrates academic content with career and technical instruction.

HTH — with its emphasis on integrating academic and technical education through project - based learning — attracts a number of people like Duffy with «deep content knowledge who had very successful academic careers and wanted to work in an urban school at a time of profound teacher shortage,» says founding principal Larry Rosenstock.

Advocates on one side believe teachers should prepare for their classroom careers in the traditional way: attending schools of education where they learn a lot about teaching technique (but often spend too little time learning academic content).

(1) Provides individuals with coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in current or emerging professions;

Many of the nation's top education researchers have launched new studies into topics such as how best to teach reading in the academic content areas, how best to teach writing at the high - school level, and how best to support the literacy development of adolescent English language learners.

This work has benefited immensely from the pooled expertise of state assessment professionals; K12 teachers, higher education faculty and other academic content experts; and staff from a diverse array of private sector firms.

«The emphasis for so long has been placed on academic performance and academic content mastery,» said panelist Rebecca Snyder, a co-author of the NNSTOY report and member of Greater Latrobe Education Association in Pennsylvania where she was teacher of the year in 2009.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Education Program initiated a new strategic initiative in 2010 that focuses on students» mastery of core academic content and their development of deeper learning skills (i.e., critical - thinking, problem - solving, collaboration, communication, and learn - how - to - learn skills).

The project's creators hope it will help the national groups drawing up academic - content standards for students match their benchmarks with those for teacher education.

Second, scaling the state's vision of personalized competency - based education will require new academic tools and processes that arm teachers and students with real - time feedback and enable students to move through content at a flexible pace.

But, good career / tech education also prepares students for college by incorporating rigorous academic content, by offering students dual enrollment in post-secondary institutions, and by granting college credit for secondary coursework.

Individuals With Disabilities Act (IDEA) Encourages districts to increase academic achievement of special education students as measured by state assessments linked to state content standards.

Each of the applications will be subject to peer review in the context of five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics education; supporting the implementation of high academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.

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The results were discouraging, says Rebecca Kockler, the assistant superintendent of academic content at the Louisiana Department of Education.

Migrant education funds support high quality education programs that meet the special needs of migratory children to help them succeed academically in a regular school program, meet the same academic and content standards that all children are expected to meet, and graduate from high school.

Since 2009, Pioneer has led the campaign against Common Core national education standards and federal control of K - 12 education policy, publishing a series of reports showing that the state's adoption of national standards weakens the quality of academic content in Massachusetts» classrooms, and raising serious questions about the legality and the costs of Common Core.

The Whole Child, Whole Person Summit will raise awareness for the need for education systems and schools to use a different methodology that expands the definition of academic achievement beyond content mastery and test scores.

In Mississippi there is an interest among superintendents, principals, and research and education faculty to gain a clearer understanding of Deeper Learning — the mastery of rigorous core academic content; critical thinking and problem solving; teamwork and collaboration; effective communication; learning how to learn; and cultivation of an academic mindset.

Watershed students learn in interdisciplinary units that connect academic content to real - world challenges, travel nationally and globally, and experience a comprehensive character education program.

But Anthony Carnevale, the director of Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce, calls the Common Core a «one - size - fits - all pathway governed by abstract academic content.»

These partnerships allow educators to select appropriate teaching resources from a range of instructional content options — including open education resources — using a student's RIT score from NWEA» sMeasures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment.

For higher education, student competencies go beyond content knowledge, to prepare and challenge the student to direct their own learning, solve problems of academic significance and to move beyond controlled information containment.

We are witnessing the end of a knowledge and academic content education for the efficiency and profits of a data driven, workforce development system.

The PARCC CCR Determinations in ELA / Literacy and mathematics describe the academic knowledge, skills, and practices in English language arts / literacy and mathematics students must demonstrate to show they are able to enter directly into and succeed in entry - level, credit - bearing courses and relevant technical courses in those content areas at two - and four - year public institutions of higher education.

Discovery Education, is the global leader in standards - based digital content for K - 12, transforming teaching and learning with award - winning digital textbooks, multimedia content, professional development and the largest professional learning community of its kind that empowers educators and increases students» academic achievement.

Once a framework had been established, committee tasks were to then: (1) «zoom in» and break down specific targeted sections of the draft LPFs into what we called more detailed «mini progressions» for a smaller grade span, often adding some additional «interim steps» (progress indicators) to the mini progressions; (2) use the more detailed and focused mini progressions to design sample instructional modules (with a series of 4 ‐ 6 detailed lessons) illustrating how a teacher in the general education classroom might move students along this smaller grain ‐ sized learning progression using best practices in instruction; and (3) draw from best practices in instruction for students with significant cognitive disabilities to incorporate suggestions to each lesson plan for how to make the academic content more accessible for all students.

Overview The goal of this study tour is to learn how schools are integrating more robust academic content, higher - order skills, and academic mindsets practices with career education as they prepare students for postsecondary success.

This primary purpose is similar to the original 1968 Bilingual Education Act, which states that limited - English - proficient (LEP) students will be educated to «meet the same rigorous standards for academic performance expected of all children and youth, including meeting challenging state content standards and challenging state student performance standards in academic areas.»

Visiting teams include specialists or university faculty with expertise in the content or focus area, Academic - Year Governor's Schools directors and teachers, local gifted education coordinators, and other professionals directly involved in the specific fields.

The purpose of the Migrant Education Program is to design and support high - quality and comprehensive educational programs that provide migratory children with the same opportunity to meet the challenging state academic content and student achievement standards that are expected of all children.

States must intervene in their lowest - performing schools, for example, in ways that are consistent with the Education Department's «turnaround principles» such as «ensuring that the instructional program is research - based, rigorous, and aligned with State academic content standards.»

Both competitions will fund projects across five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education; helping implement rigorous academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.