Sentences with phrase «teacher project study»

Not exact matches

The project has two subjects, Koko and Michael, who have learned to use American Sign Language (Ameslan), to understand spoken English, and to read printed words.10 Koko's instruction, begun in 1973, is the longest ongoing language study of an ape, and the only one with continuous instruction by the same teacher.

Once every two months, Elm City teachers lead students on a two - week «expeditionary» project in which they deeply study a single subject, sometimes involving extensive time outside school visiting a farm, museum, or historical site.

But if we did make it so the winter break was not available for studying for finals and doing final projects, would the teachers stop assigning college level projects which require all of that time to plan and execute?

In partnership with the CPS Office of Social Science & Civic Engagement, the EPIC Challenge is designed to be implemented by science or social studies teachers as a classroom - integrated service learning project.

Now, with a $ 2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, AAAS's Project 2061 and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) are embarking on a project to develop chemistry and biochemistry materials for middle school students and teachers, based on the latest research in leProject 2061 and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) are embarking on a project to develop chemistry and biochemistry materials for middle school students and teachers, based on the latest research in leproject to develop chemistry and biochemistry materials for middle school students and teachers, based on the latest research in learning.

Nearly all of the studied sites sustained increases in the production of physics teachers as well as funding for physics teacher education after PhysTEC project funding ended.

The NFL PLAY 60 FitnessGram Partnership Project was used to evaluate student progress as recorded by teachers at participating schools who received training on how to use of the FitnessGram program by staff from The Cooper Institute, a non-profit agency that coordinated the study, and study author Greg Welk, professor at Iowa State University and Scientific Director of FitnessGram.

[BOX 3: Grants and Contracts] Financial Statements, 1957 - 1959 Financial Reports, 1957 - 1959 Financial Statements, 1958 Financial Reports 1960-1961 1962 1963 1964-1965 1966-1967 Report on Review of Source Data Preparation for Accounting Purposes, Oct. 1961 AAAS Budgets, 1968 - 1969 Financial Reports, 1968 - 1969 Financial Statements and Accountant's Opinion, 1969 Financial Statements and Accountant's Opinion, 1970 Financial Reports, 1970 - 1971 Financial Reports, 1972 Financial Reports from Operations, 1979 Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 1974 and Projections to 1963 Report for Examination of Financial Statements and Additional Information, 1983 - 1984 Closed out Funds and Stocks AAAS Grants Committee, 1955 AID Audit - Mexico City, 1974 Asia Foundation, 1955 - 1975 Boston Concerts Carnegie Corp. - Grant to AAAS for Science Teaching Improvement Program Graham Chedd - Contract [3 folders], 1973 - 1977 DOS - AID Irene Tinker, 1973 - 1977 RISM Research for the Study of Man, 1973 - 1977 Smithsonian, 1971 - 1977 Audit, 1973 - 1977 Close Out, 1976 - 1978 GE Grant - Regional Consultants on Science Teaching, 1956 Gordon Marshall, Exhibits Contract, 1952 National Endowment of the Arts, 1973 NSF Grant - Soviet Science, 1952 Training Talented Students, 1955 Travelling High School Library, 1956 Gordon Conference on Teacher Education, 1956 Junior Academies Workshop, 1957 Proposal to NSF for Development of Science Teaching Materials for Elementary and Junior High Schools, 1961 Progress Report to the NSF on the Holiday Science Lecture Program, 1963 Proposal to the NSF for 1964 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1963 NSF - US - Japan Comparative Science Program, 1963 NSF - US - Japan Cooperative Science Program, 1964 WGBH, 1972 Willis Shapley, Contract Agreement, Oct. 1978 DHEW - Barrier Free Meetings, Oct. 1977 CBS News - Conquest Program Series, 1959 MISCO Contract - original, 1972 Basic Books Publishing - New Roads to Yesterday, 1963 - 1966

Given all this, it is perhaps unsurprising that the biggest ever study on teacher evaluation, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project (MET), revealed that even the very best observation approaches had limited success in identifying the teachers also associated with the highest gains in pupil attainment.

The main activities implemented in the program by the students, under the coordination of their teacher, are: (1) analysis of the problems of the local Roma community; (2) selection of a problem for in - depth study by the class, a problem that can be solved through local public policies; (3) collecting information about the problem from various sources, including members of the Roma community, public institutions, NGOs, specialists, and analysis of possible solutions; (4) drafting a public policy that could solve the problem; (4) developing an action plan to influence public authorities to adopt the public policy proposed by the students; (5) organizing a showcase at local level in which students present their projects; (6) reflecting on the learning experience.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

His grant - funded project, Educating for Democracy in the Digital Age (EDDA), helped more than 100 ELA and social studies teachers in Oakland bring action civics inside their classrooms from 2011 through 2015.

Sociologist James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, continues his crusade to encourage the honest teaching of U.S. history, warts and all, in this call for a social studies curriculum based on critical thinking and project learning.

In our study, teachers had no prior experience using a project - based approach, and we had limited time to devote to professional development (about three hours initially, with brief videos introducing subsequent units and an average of 11 visits from coaches), so it was important for the unit and session plans to provide considerable support through explicitness and detail.

We emphasize several core strategies that educate the whole child: project - based learning, comprehensive assessment, integrated studies, social and emotional learning, teacher development, and technology integration.

One of the best and most widely implemented examples is the GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Support the Environment) project, a global network — supported by, among others, the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration — of teachers, students, and scientists studying the atmosphere, water quality, soils, and local flora and fauna.

The New Teacher Project report cited above found just four tenured teachers out of 70,000 fired for poor performance in the five districts studied.

And we're always interested in pitches on our core concepts: project - based learning, social and emotional learning, technology integration, teacher development, comprehensive assessment, and integrated studies.

The study found that teachers who have been through the Barefoot project are more confident than their peers: 84 % said they understood computational thinking, compared to a baseline of 57 % among their peers.

Taking the findings forward While the scale of this project was very small, with teachers from five schools being surveyed, informal conversations with a range of educators seems to indicate that the conclusions of the study are valid.

Jordan M&E Partnership In this 4 - year project, 12 national education policy research studies will be implemented, including national student assessment, TIMSS and PISA studies, Teacher Observation, School over - and under - capacity Study, etc..

Last fall, I presented our Digital Generation project at a conference in Hangzhou, China, organized by professor Michael Searson from Kean University, a leader in providing teachers - in - training with global perspectives, curricula, and study abroad.

Teachers can post homework assignments, upcoming projects, newsletters, schedules, Web site links of interest, lecture notes, or even flashcards for study and review.

Academy scientists will mentor participating teachers, assisting them with independent - study projects and observing their practices in the classroom.

I am a San Marino High School (CA) social studies teacher and for the past several years I have increasingly required my US Government students to think critically by engaging in a semester - long group project that culminates with an end - of term - presentation.

In 2003, I learned of the research on identity safety with the Stanford Integrated Schools Project (SISP) and designed a follow - up study with a group of elementary school teachers.

Allan Odden, principle investigator of the teacher compensation project for the Consortium on Policy Research in Education at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, studied the system and the teacher response.

The Best Foot Forward project, run by the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, is currently studying the impact of having teachers videotape their own lessons and upload them for their own development and for evaluation.

Rolandsen - who teaches Year 10 to 12 students - earned his trip after receiving second prize in the Aerospace Studies Teacher and Innovator Award, run by the Aerospace Gateway Schools project.

b and HSA.REI.C.6 Also available as part of Systems of Equations: Teacher Resource Bundle of Notes Practice, and Projects A great addition to your Algebra and Algebra 2 study.

Now in its third year, a project that assists teachers and students who are studying the Underground Railroad has gone global with its own Web site.

For Edutopia, «What Works in Public Education» boils down to six «core principles»: comprehensive assessment, integrated studies, project - based learning, social and emotional learning, teacher development, and technology integration (see sidebar).

He has also led experimental studies of several widely used teacher professional development interventions for improving reading and writing outcomes in the elementary and secondary grades, including the Pathway Project, Teacher Study Groups, and the Strategic Adolescent Reading Intervteacher professional development interventions for improving reading and writing outcomes in the elementary and secondary grades, including the Pathway Project, Teacher Study Groups, and the Strategic Adolescent Reading IntervTeacher Study Groups, and the Strategic Adolescent Reading Intervention.

Their vision revolves around six «core principles»: project - based learning, technology integration, social and emotional learning, integrated studies, teacher development and comprehensive assessment.

When we first visited schools in spring 2016 for this project — a multi-year, multi-method study of systemic efforts to support schools implementing personalized learning — teachers seemed to be taking on an unsustainably heavy lift as they transitioned to personalizing student learning (PL).

An innovative teacher, Fran coordinates actual and digital global projects with partnering classrooms across the globe to co-create and produce authentic digital artifacts where students think and work creatively, then implement tech tools to demonstrate quality communication in studied target languages.

In the largest study of instructional practice ever undertaken, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project is searching for tools to save the world from perfunctory teacher evaluations.

In another part of the study, they investigate the effects of being randomly assigned to a same - race teacher as part of Tennessee's Project STAR class size experiment.

One of the teachers who will be testing out the curriculum as part of the Harvard study, says the challenge that the guide provides students, on both an intellectual and an ethical level, is a large part of why she agreed to take part in the project.

While the scale of this project was very small, with teachers from five schools being surveyed, informal conversations with a range of educators seems to indicate that the conclusions of the study are valid.

«My students have done some remarkable projects integrating their studies,» added Haskvitz, an inductee in the National Teacher Hall of Fame.

The Project on the Next Generation of Teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain quality teachers in U.S. public sProject on the Next Generation of Teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain quality teachers in U.S. public Teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain quality teachers in U.S. public sproject addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain quality teachers in U.S. public teachers in U.S. public schools.

This research is part of the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers, a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain quality teachers in U.S. public sProject on the Next Generation of Teachers, a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain quality teachers in U.S. public Teachers, a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain quality teachers in U.S. public sproject addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain quality teachers in U.S. public teachers in U.S. public schools.

Although it's too early to assess that last question, the early results of the study bear out many of the project's hopes, suggesting that video has the potential to transform the observation process into a far more meaningful tool for teachers and principals.

«We took to designing the unit of study that encouraged scientific and mathematical thinking alongside critical and creative thinking... giving students the opportunity to engage deeply in project - based learning around a real - life authentic local problem,» Ryan tells Teacher.

It calls for flexible schedules, more project - based and interdisciplinary learning, a more engaging and real world — based course of study, increased opportunity for teachers to work in teams, and better integration of technology across subject areas.

A former high school history teacher, Papay focused his doctoral research on studying the effects of education policy on students and teachers, working on several projects with Professor Susan Moore Johnson and...

Initially, the social studies teacher at High Tech started the project with $ 70 worth of materials from Staples and Radio Shack — a few microphones and a digital recording device was all it took to create a podcast.

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 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 standards.

Teacher Erin Okata integrated social studies, language arts, science, math, fine arts, and technology into the project as a way to help students develop an awareness of ocean life and to meet specific Hawaii state curriculum standards.