Sentences with phrase «academic content they are teaching»

Effective teachers know how children learn and grow, they know the academic content they are teaching, AND they know how to teach that content to diverse groups of students using culturally responsive practices.

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It illustrates that people are hungry for an alternative to the status quo where content is increasingly brought through computers rather than teachers, academic learning is being pushed down to younger and younger children, and the focus in the classroom is «teaching to the test.»

As documented in Free to Think: Report of the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated academic or unrelated matters.

Thanks also to the many pre-service teachers who wrote to tell us how they're using the articles to support their practice on teaching placements and as a source of information for university assessments, and academics who are recommending Teacher content to their pre-service students.

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.

At its best, the book illustrates what should be self - evident: strong teaching requires mastery of academic content and an extensive repertoire of complex pedagogical skills.

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

Meanwhile, it provides $ 2.5 billion to support professional development that can be used to «improve the knowledge of teachers and principals and, in appropriate cases, paraprofessionals, concerning effective instructional strategies, methods, and skills, and use of challenging State academic content standards and student academic achievement standards, and State assessments, to improve teaching practices and student academic achievement.»

Of course, as with teaching, much of a tutor's training takes place on the job, and once on the job, Match Corps members receive academic content support from the teachers at the school, who design the content, along with constant feedback from administrators on how that it is being delivered.

While the word «curriculum» is now in vogue, there is little awareness that this might require the actual specification of academic content to be taught in each grade.

On one end of the spectrum are schools that use PBL as a vehicle to teach all academic content areas, including literacy and math.

«Service learning, in contrast, is a teaching method that combines academic content with direct service experiences in which students provide genuine service to their school or community while extending or deepening their understanding of curricular content.»

Even those who were teaching subjects in which they had strong content knowledge, academic majors, or professional experience reported a need for guidance about how to convey concepts to students.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

Teachers took part in summer institutes where they learned how to be successful with project - based learning, a strategy for teaching 21st - century skills along with important academic content.

Share with each other what your standards and learning targets are, look for common goals, and brainstorm topics, guiding questions, and a final art product that can both deepen the academic learning and teach the art content.

When teachers provide constant, controlling behavioral feedback, as Arpino and Walmsley were being taught to do, they waste precious time they could be spending giving feedback related to the academic content of the lesson, which is far more powerful in terms of raising student achievement.

«This was done intentionally in order to provide multiple opportunities to help teachers with the language demands, especially when teaching (academic) content,»

«Knowledge Matters» by TNTP Chris Hayes had been teaching for 20 years before she discovered that her second graders could handle — and would enjoy — far more challenging academic content.

«This was done intentionally in order to provide multiple opportunities to help teachers with the language demands, especially when teaching (academic) content,» Sarmiento said.

Risk simply assumed that gaining an academic skill, such as reading, is independent of the curricular content through which the skill is taught.

It turns out the time your teacher spent in class talking about answer B and # 2 pencils would have been better spent teaching you more academic content.

The goal is to teach students academic content while they are working in small, collaborative teams.

The Consortium is working with the Global Teaching Project, which provides educational content and academic support, as well as faculty and students from Yale, the University Virginia, Stanford, and Mississippi universities to offer AP classes at schools that previously had few, if any, AP courses.

In content instructional coaching, the coach helps the teacher examine their academic content to see whether what they are teaching is at the proper level for the students» understanding.

But educators know what students need to be successful: Schools can and must support the whole student, and teaching skills like personal responsibility, teamwork and learning from one's mistakes enhances students» mastery of academic content.

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.

Some background: Before 1990 most states, including California, did not have a single set of grade by grade K - 12 academic content standards in ELA and Mathematics that every district was required to adopt and every school was required to teach.

The Professional Learning Communities Facilitator's Guide is designed to assist teacher teams in applying the evidence - based strategies in the Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School educator's practice guide, produced by the What Works Clearinghouse.

Both educators and the public are beginning to better understand that success for our students, beyond high school and through college and careers, means that teaching and learning must focus on more than just core academic content — and that students do not gain social and emotional competencies at the expense of rigorous academics.

Should ELLs be taught in bilingual classrooms that promote fluency in their home language and ensure access to core academic content while they develop English language skills?

Similar to The Key Comprehension Routine, this program embeds vocabulary instruction in all content areas, with a focus on teaching academic vocabulary that is found in existing subject - area reading and instruction material.

To be successful in college and careers, all students must be taught complex academic content, taught to analyze content using higher order thinking strategies, and taught to apply what they learn to build new understanding.

We are working to build a world class team of experienced educators who can teach their academic content really well and really inspire their students to be their best selves.

At some elementary schools the students lacked prerequisite skills to use the technologies, and the preservice teachers did not feel there was adequate time for them to teach both technology skills and the academic content.

Teaching academic content, write Bassok and Rorem, need not be at odds with playtime and other early childhood pedagogical approaches.

The Mathematics and Science Partnership (MSP) program is intended to increase the academic achievement of students in mathematics and science by enhancing the content knowledge and teaching skills of classroom teachers.

A school - based teacher preparation program in which a prospective teacher, for not less than one academic year, teaches alongside an effective teacher, as determined by the state or local educational agency, who is the teacher of record for the classroom, receives concurrent instruction during the year, through courses that may be taught by local educational agency personnel or by faculty of the teacher preparation program; and in the teaching of the content area in which the teacher will become certified or licensed; and acquires effective teaching skills, as demonstrated through completion of a residency program, or other measure determined by the state, which may include a teacher performance assessment.»

«If we don't find ways to help them overcome these reactions from trauma that they bring to school with them, it's going to be hard to teach them the academic content,» Jennings said.

Use the videos or DVD with teacher groups and workshops to explain why it's easier for students to understand academic content when they've been taught the academic terms in your content standards.

EDUC285a and EDUC285b are designed to enable single subject credential candidates to develop the pedagogical content knowledge necessary to teach their specific academic subject, Secondary English / World Lang.

However, teaching must be adapted for these students to access grade - level content material and to develop the specific academic language required in school settings.

Although many of these features involve the use of language, explicit attention to teaching academic language within content lessons is required for students to develop English proficiency.

The program consists of individualized coaching from a content expert; school level collaborative academic study teams; formalized specific feedback to teachers on how well aligned the content of their instruction is to their state standards; analysis of videos of their teaching; and, an online library of resources.

By its nature, sustainability education is interdisciplinary and therefore intended to be integrated into core content teaching and all academic disciplines.

This web - based program employs the research - based Sheltered Instructions pedagogy for teaching mathematics and core academic content — it is engineered to achieve results.

From the perspective of teacher development, a practical question is how to guide teachers to systematically incorporate students» academic language growth while teaching the specific academic content such as math, science, and social studies.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

Beck, McKeown, and Kucan (2002) suggest teaching not the common words that all students are likely to know or the words that students are only likely to encounter in texts for one content area, but rather general academic words.

Often students as young as 9 or 10 have their long - term academic futures determined for them because they are assigned to math classrooms that do not teach challenging content.