Sentences with phrase «fostering literacy learning»

Fostering literacy learning in supportive contexts.

«The Council is focusing its resources on supporting teachers and teams as they make their own professional decisions — informed by reflection and research — about how best to foster literacy learning.»

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In every class, both core and elective curriculum, Trinidad Garza uses the six strategies from the Common Instructional Framework — collaborative group work, literacy groups, scaffolding, writing to learn, questioning, and classroom talk — to align their instruction, create a rigorous environment, and foster students who take ownership of their learning.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

Global SchoolNet: A site that engages teachers and students in project learning exchanges with people around the world to develop literacy and communication skills, foster teamwork and collaboration, encourage workforce preparedness, and create multicultural understanding.

Learn how our personalized approach to literacy, based upon cutting - edge technology and results - oriented research, ensures that every learner is engaged and supported in ways that foster and measure their growth.

Discover how educators are using video to empower girls with STEAM classes in video creation, to teach online courses, to create flipped or blended learning classrooms, to foster literacy, and to help English language learners.

The language here is about collaborative learning communities, achieving school goals, effective instructional design, fostering literacies and designing learning environments.

Faculty at the School of Education are engaged in research that looks at language acquisition and different types of literacy in a variety of contexts: from how children learn from one another, to how students form identities around language and literacy, to understanding the role that technology can play in fostering vocabulary acquisition.

Literacy skills should be fostered and enhanced as the basis for learning for the full K - 12 spectrum and should serve as a foundation on which other curriculum areas must build.Technology Technology in schools is a tool for enhancing learning.

You'll find practical lesson ideas for every stage of the research process and dozens of tips and strategies that will build your students» Internet literacy, establish valuable academic habits, and foster skills for lifelong learning.

We have plenty of models to learn from, to improve literacy and numeracy, to start project - based learning and service learning programs, to institute trauma - informed schooling, to educate students with special needs, to integrate technology, maker - spaces, engineering and design, to improve teacher induction and mentorship, to foster professional learning communities, to redesign teacher evaluation, compensation,...

Cheri and Mike shared the belief that technology was a tool that could foster critical thinking, improve literacy skills, promote self - regulated learning, and prepare thoughtful citizens.

Chapters address: (1) an overview of the whole language approach; (2) examples of how special education teachers use whole language to teach children with learning disabilities; (3) suggestions on how to create a child - centered classroom; (4) the role of the teacher in a whole language classroom; (5) examples of democratic classrooms; (6) assessment procedures that are compatible with a whole language philosophy and how assessment data can be used to respond to individual needs; (7) examples of different strategies teachers use to teach students with learning disabilities reading and writing; (8) literacy development in students with disabilities and how to foster self - directed learners; (9) how teachers develop learner - centered curriculums and how to move toward an inclusive environment; and (10) one teacher's move to the whole language approach.

With all the discussion about deeper learning, college - and career - ready standards, and the latest research on assessments, assignments, and instruction, it turns out that what many principals prescribe to chart a new course for meaningful literacy instruction is engaging readers and fostering a love of reading from an early age.

We have plenty of models to learn from, to improve literacy and numeracy, to start project - based learning and service learning programs, to institute trauma - informed schooling, to educate students with special needs, to integrate technology, maker - spaces, engineering and design, to improve teacher induction and mentorship, to foster professional learning communities, to redesign teacher evaluation, compensation, and career pathways.

Understand how to manage and design meaningful literacy experiences that foster independent learning.

The game and the accompanying Learning Guide are designed to foster critical 21st century skills such as systems thinking, problem solving, creativity, collaboration, digital media literacies and a motivation for STEM lLearning Guide are designed to foster critical 21st century skills such as systems thinking, problem solving, creativity, collaboration, digital media literacies and a motivation for STEM learninglearning.

The support focused on the Alabama Strategic Teaching Framework, a K — 12 initiative promoting instructional strategies that foster literacy and active learning.

Volunteers play a vital role at the Milwaukee Public Library by inspiring learning and literacy, fostering discovery and creativity, and strengthening community bonds.

Moreover, he innovates and supports model programs and systems of assessment for learning that foster arts literacy and expand opportunities for learning in the visual and performing arts for New Jersey's 1.4 million students.

Curriculum programs help foster courageous compassion, active citizenship and academic success by combining service - learning, character education, civic engagement and literacy training.

The CLA standards on learning commons focuses on facilitating collaboration, advancing school goals, cultivating effective instructional design, fostering literacies and designing learning environments.

The literacy curriculum one district adopted fostered mastery - oriented practices with learning - focused, formative assessments, such as readers» notebooks and conference logs.

The aim is to foster an understanding of how these digital learning tools can enhance student information literacy experiences.

Attend this web seminar to learn some best practices for fostering the literacy skills of your struggling readers, as well as what to look for to ensure that a reading intervention program will take your struggling readers to new levels of literacy success.

Year - round, the centerpiece of these weekly visits for many families is Storytime, a free program that uses high - tech and low - tech media to foster lifelong learning and early literacy skills.

Voices Literature & Writing capitalizes on this connection by integrating literacy skills and social - emotional learning in a program that fosters in - depth comprehension of texts and critical writing skills while also developing character traits that will help students succeed.

-LSB-...] Peace to an Unpeaceful Child Be a Peacemaker eLesson from Playful Learning (affiliate link) Helping Children Manage Big Emotions — free printable poster Fostering Emotional Literacy in our Children.

She supports early childhood educators, parents, and caregivers as they learn and apply the critical concepts that foster early literacy development in diverse, young children.