Given the very different context for SEL in middle and high schools it became clear to me that our approach had to really focus on how to support teachers with integrating SEL
across academic content and ensure it's part of their teaching practice.
Her particular area of interest is working
across the academic content areas, helping teacher develop focusing questions, selecting and using complex texts, developing strategies for building knowledge and oral processing, writing structures, and providing formative feedback.
This requires educators to ensure rigor and integrity
across academic content areas, while also integrating opportunities for students to learn transferable skills and to cultivate essential habits of mind.
For example at the secondary level, word, sentence, and structural complexity increases and reading texts and assignments are longer and vary significantly
across academic content.
Not exact matches
Latino teachers were better perceived
across all measures, while students perceived Black teachers (more than their White peers) to hold students to high
academic standards and support their efforts, to help them organize
content, and to explain ideas clearly and provide feedback.
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).
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.
The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written
academic discourse
across school
content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core
academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.
The schools emphasize high
academic expectations, student engagement, and writing
across content areas.
The Office of
Academics is responsible for the development and leadership of the district's
academic goals and policies, directing the instructional program pre-K to grade 12
across all
content areas and special programs, and it engages constituent groups, teachers, principals, other staff, parents, and community in the ongoing process of educational reform, curriculum planning and implementation, and program development.
The purpose of this course is to prepare licensure candidates with the knowledge and skills to effectively shelter their
content instruction, so that the growing population of English Language Learners (ELLs) in schools
across the country can access curriculum, achieve
academic success, and contribute their multilingual and multicultural resources as participants and future leaders in the 21st century global economy.
The National Academy Foundation (NAF) is an educational model that integrates industry - focused instruction,
academic content, and work - based learning experiences
across five career pathways: finance, hospitality and tourism, information technology, engineering, and health sciences.
The team mentioned that SDCS must work to create a system for providing
academic instruction
across the
content areas for a growing number of ELL students who currently miss out on
content instruction due to language barriers.
«And since Achieve3000's solutions are customized to meet each state's
academic standards and build literacy in the
content areas, our teachers can use them in all fifty - two of our regions,
across many grade and ability levels, as they work to meet the individual needs of each learner.»
We believe that the best way to prepare our students for college and careers is to ensure that they have mastery of
content knowledge combined with strong
academic habits and character traits that transfer
across all subject areas and experiences.
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.
Her authored and coauthored books include In It Together: How Student, Family, and Community Partnerships Advance Engagement and Achievement in Diverse Classrooms; Mastering
Academic Language: A Framework for Supporting Student Achievement; Transforming Schools for English Learners: A Comprehensive Framework for School Leaders; The Essential Guide for Educating Beginning English Learners; and Teaching English Language Learners
Across the
Content Areas.
The purpose of this training is for secondary teachers to learn and practice impactful strategies that increase
academic engagement and achievement
across content areas.
The authors describe Word Generation, a whole - school vocabulary program that introduces students to
academic words that commonly occur
across content areas.
Common instructional routines and strategies implemented
across content areas (i.e., mathematics, social studies, science, English language arts) to teach students
content area vocabulary and practices for comprehending
content area
academic text
These standards represent a unified set of expectations
across the country of what
academic content knowledge and skills are required for students to be ready for credit - bearing college courses and careers.
Although DRM solutions work
across all digital media, from audiobooks to e-books to
academic journals, the kind of
content an author creates may dictate what type of DRM is appropriate.
Los Angeles, CA (January 16, 2014) In a changing
academic environment, discoverability of scholarly
content demands cooperative efforts
across the communications supply chain.
We have top students from schools
across the country ready to jump in and help with legal research, cite - checking, deposition summaries, document review, client alerts,
academic articles, blog
content, and whatever other tasks you need done.
Longitudinal associations between executive functioning and
academic skills
across content areas.