An extensive body of literature supports the effectiveness of
active learning over traditional lectures for student exam performance and comprehension.
Not exact matches
Parents all
over the world would love to see their toddler
active and playful,
learning the following will be as important as your goal to raise an
active, playful, and a healthy toddler.
Learn the alphabet and letter sounds in a fun and
active way by jumping and tracing
over chalk letters on the trampoline!
Over the years, I've purchased many of the winners and
learned that this is a list I can trust because the toys truly encourage
active and creative play.
Their legs become more
active as they prepare to roll
over and
learn to crawl, which may occur after a few months.
Remarkably,
over 70 % of all participants have remained
active in the SEP professional
learning community.
Zoosk's unique Behavioral Matchmaking ™ technology is constantly
learning from the actions of
over 27 million
active members in order to deliver better matches in real time.
Over the years, I've come up with a range of strategies to eliminate dead time and move students up the
active -
learning ladder.
A talented California educator Catlin Tucker defines blended
learning as «a formal education program in which a student is engaged in
active learning at least in part online where they have some control
over the time, place, and / or pace and in part at a brick and mortar location away from home.»
The results also confirmed the positive relationship of key characteristics of professional - development design identified in previous studies
over the past decade to student outcomes: sustained,
active teacher
learning that is coherently aligned with the school's organization.
The report, two years in the making, calls on America's high schools to evolve into smaller communities where students and adults know each other well, the curriculum emphasizes depth
over breadth, and a flexible,
active learning process replaces the factory - era model of teachers lecturing to rows of students.
The Child - to - Child approach, with its emphasis on child - centered,
active learning and focus on engaging children on the issues that affect them, has been implemented successfully in refugee and displaced persons camps all
over the world.
They are your
active partners in educating children, and now that you're ceding some control
over learning, you'll need their support more than ever.
An
active volunteer in Brookline Public Schools and a nurse with
over 25 years of experience, Mowschenson, 48, enrolled in the Ed School's Education Policy and Management Program on a quest to
learn more about education policy.
This new study looked at an introductory biology class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that averaged nearly 400 students and was taught by one of the authors
over six semesters — three in a traditional lecture format and three through
active learning.
Outdoor
learning also encourages fitness, and pupils come to appreciate the benefits that a healthy,
active lifestyle can bring, and this spirit of motivation has been shown to transfer
over to the classroom; there is an observable increased appetite for
learning which contributes to rising levels of attainment in all subjects.
Results indicated professional development based in reform delivery methods (not workshops or short trainings), occurred
over time with more than 25 hours of content involved groups of teachers
learning together, was focused on the subject taught by the teacher, required teachers to be
active participants in their
learning, and cohorent, i.e., aligned with standards and teacher goals, was more likely to lead to increases in teacher knowledge and changes in practice.
Yes, we need more research on which curricula work best, but we already have ample solid research demonstrating the decided advantage that the traditionalist emphasis on content knowledge has
over the progressivist insistence on
active learning (disengaged from domain facts and concepts).
«This study shows that the flipped classroom does not result in higher
learning gains or better attitudes
over the nonflipped classroom when both utilize an
active -
learning, constructivist approach.
The programs shared seven common features: they were focused on the subject areas that teachers teach; incorporated
active learning; supported collaboration; used models and modeling to demonstrate effective practice; provided expert coaching and support, offered opportunities for feedback and reflection, and were sustained in duration, often unfolding
over months or years, rather than occurring in a single, «drive - by» after school workshop, as is often the norm.
Encouraging critical thinking has been shown to increase
learning retention rates
over time, as it fosters an
active learning mindset in learners, leading to greater engagement.
Opportunity # 2: Both a critical pedagogy advocate and a deeper
learning champion would object to the fact that many traditional classrooms emphasize the wisdom and authority of the teacher (who is often white)
over the curiosity, skills, and
active agency of the students in the classroom (increasingly students of color).
It also creates
active participants that have more control
over their
learning.
Appealing to children's natural curiosity, our curriculum emphasizes
active, student - centered
learning over rote memorization and drills.
On the instructional side of science, it has become evident that elementary teachers were not teaching science because they did not know the content nor feel secure with it as a subject area (Rutherford & Ahlgren, 1989); little instructional time in elementary schools was devoted to science (NAEP, 1988); and where science was taught, basal texts that emphasized reading and canned experiments were preferred and used
over active learning (Lockwood, 1992a; 1992b).
Students in Jessica's class are excited to be given such an
active role in their
learning by taking ownership
over the concepts being taught rather than sitting by as mere receivers of knowledge.
She describes her goals that include promoting student ownership
over their
learning, making them
active participants in the development of curriculum, and preparing her year 4 students for transition to year 5.
Such children, he argues, need to be encouraged to become
active generators of their own knowledge, to «assume greater control
over setting their own
learning goals and to collaborate actively with each other in achieving these goals» (p. 28).
Science is most effectively
learned through an application, hands - on
active methodology in which students «describe, explain, make predictions about, or gain control
over real - world systems and events» (Brophy, 1992).
With the most diverse student population in the history of the planet, and with much of the information in this world, quite literally, at any of their fingertips, the moment for abandoning seat time for
active learning and emphasizing community participation
over college preparation has long since arrived.
Highlights include getting up close to lions and leopards on safari in South Africa, climbing huge sand dunes and kayaking with baby seals in Namibia,
learning to sail a yacht in Malaysia, riding a hot air balloon ride
over otherworldly Cappadocia in Turkey, falling in love with Japan, eating our way around Italy and working it off with a hike up an
active volcano, snorkelling with turtles in Mexico (and releasing baby turtles into the sea), staying in an overwater bungalow in the Maldives, visiting most of the Disney parks in the world, running a half - marathon in California wine country, and so much more!
«We've got high quality graphics, 70 robots with 4
active skills each, and
over 200 types of weapons, an RPG system, characters development, skills
learning and improving»», co-founders Igor Arterchuk and Oleksandr Potapenko explain, telling the creation story of Mecha Titans.
Truthfully, I've been
active in marketing for
over 10,000 hours myself, and I still feel like there's so much to
learn — in large part because things are always changing.
Since leaving the
active ranks of the Marine Corps, he has continued his training and
learning with
over 50 hours in the area of project management, specifically focusing on its relation to the practice of law.
Predict uses an advanced form of Continuous
Active Learning («CAL») that we developed
over the past few years.
Interestingly, we also
learn that PlayStation Plus had 26.4 million paying subscribers at the end of fiscal year 2016 (March 31st, 2017), out of
over 70 million monthly
active users.
Over the past 13 + years Adrienne has provided a wide variety of career management support to hundreds of astute business leaders while keeping an
active role in the careers community — most notably with Career Professionals of Canada — where she continues to connect with and
learn from other top industry professionals.
We practiced
active listening skills in pairs,
learned some basics about the therapeutic relationship and the counselling process, engaged in self - reflective exercises and grew quite close
over just a few days.