Sentences with phrase «academic literacy»

This course will help students develop the critical analysis and academic literacy skills to identify, research and present educational leadership issues in various contexts.

Research on academic literacy development in sheltered instruction classrooms.

A key focus of her current work is helping school leaders to understand the roles, responsibilities, and actions associated with academic literacy development at the middle and high school levels.

Learn how to develop a classroom environment that enhances emotional and academic literacy at the same time.

This practice, diametrically opposed to that in Singapore, which outperforms the United States in reading in English in spite of the fact that nearly everyone in that city - state speaks a different language at home, has no chance of narrowing the gap in academic literacy with native English speakers; instead it will exacerbate... Read More

Academic literacy for English learners.

This report presents findings from the second year of the Enhanced Reading Opportunities (ERO) study, a demonstration and random assignment evaluation of two supplemental literacy programs — Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy and Xtreme Reading — that aim to improve the reading comprehension skills and school performance of struggling ninth - grade readers.

The National Literacy Project established the Florida Academic Literacy Network (FALN) in 2012 to provide a vehicle of support for districts, regional consortia, and individual schools implementing the LDC Framework.

This clip from the ASCD DVD Educating English Language Learners: Building Academic Literacies shows how teachers use technology to differentiate instruction for English language learners.

Fostering adolescents» engaged academic literacy.

Academic literacy instruction for adolescents: A guidance document from the Center on Instruction, Portsmouth, NH: RMC Research Corporation, Center on Instruction.

TALA Writing was originally launched in 2012 to increase academic literacy by providing research - based professional development in the area of writing instruction.

Proven verbal and written communication skills by conducting workshops on ESL and Literacy across the academics

Modified activities and lesson plans to meet individual student's needs and develop academic literacy LLI / Spanish Intervention programs

Designed and taught a new course entitled Academic Literacy teaching academic reading and writing to benchmark and advanced 7th and 8th graders

Webinar: Social - Emotional Learning Integrated with Academic Literacy Equals Secondary Students» Common Core Success is from WestEd.

(Other required licensure assessments are the Educating All Students exam, Academic Literacy Skills test, and certificate - specific Content Specialty Tests.)

for (Grades 6 - 12) Leading for Learning in the Common Core: Keys to Improving Student Achievement via a School Wide Focus on Academic Literacy

In contrast, Ruth Schoenbach and Cynthia Greenleaf elevate the term with a more robust definition: «By adding the word engaged, we mean to distinguish between the skilled but rote and unsophisticated kind of academic literacy that many «successful» students master, and the more analytic, critical, and discipline - specific ways of making meaning emblematic of engaged learners.»

«Schools need to set a clear goal to improve writing instruction so that all teachers and all students are engaged,» said Brisk, who details her Genres in Writing approach in her book Educating Students in Academic Literacies (2015, Routledge).

Part of a package of certification tests introduced in the 2013 - 2014 academic year, the Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST) was intended to ensure strong language skills among aspiring instructors across the state.

The agreement also restores funding for such at - risk programs as arts education, academic literacy, adult education and early childhood education.

New York has not used LAST - 2 since 2012 but its replacement test, The Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST), is already being challenged because of disparities in passage rates.

Students learn better when they first access what they already know — and this plays a big role in improving English language learners» academic literacy.

Additional research by Deborah Short and Jana Echevarria with English language learners (ELLs) finds that activating and building prior knowledge plays a big role in improving their academic literacy.

Developing our students» academic literacy skills and building their cultural knowledge are critical keys to these understandings.

The Academic Literacy Skills Test is one of four tests prospective teachers must pass in order to become certified in New York and just the latest in a long line of tests that have been criticized for weeding out minority candidates.

for (Grades K - 5) Leading for Learning in the Common Core: Keys to Improving Student Achievement via a School Wide Focus on Academic Literacy

for (Grads 6 - 12) Leading for Learning in the Common Core: Keys to Improving Student Achievement via a School Wide Focus on Academic Literacy

The richness of this literature can lead to academic literacy and empowerment for all students and teachers and help students to understand that this history is an important part of American history.

A 9th grade language arts teacher explains how her school helped struggling readers by placing them in an Academic Literacy class that gave them time to read books for pleasure and helped them develop strategies for choosing books, eliminating distractions, and monitoring their thinking as they read.

Apprenticing adolescents to academic literacy.

Among them was the Academic Literacy Skills Test, or ALST, which was intended to assess reading and analytical writing skills, and the edTPA, which requires candidates to submit a portfolio of work, including unedited videos of them interacting with students.

Pass four required exams: Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST), Educating All Students (EAS) test, edTPA, and Content Specialty Test (CST).

Laura earned her Ph.D. in Educational Linguistics from Stanford University, and focused her research on the academic literacy development of English learners in the context of science.