«Another teacher dropped off some supplies that I can use for a science lesson, and now I can
actually teach the unit.
Not exact matches
Even now, having
taught «The Rime» to students with varying language needs in international schools, I can't help feeling it is the combined effect of Coleridge's words and Dore's etchings that have made the
unit work so well; the Dore etchings provided a «way in'to the ballad in that pupils
actually felt that they were able to uncover their own layers of meaning.
Whereas many schools operate as if their primary purpose is to ensure that students are
taught or are merely provided with an opportunity to learn, PLCs are dedicated to the idea that their organization exists to ensure that all students
actually acquire the essential knowledge, skills, and dispositions of each
unit, course, and grade level.
From this pattern one might conclude that homework has a positive effect across all grade levels when student achievement is measured by
unit tests covering the content
actually taught.
So, certainly you still use that state data, but in this particular approach and in our particular model, we say also use — and maybe even as the focal point, the data that you're using to pick up student achievement — use teacher designed assessments of what they're
actually teaching during a particular
unit.
As we approached the first
unit in the iTunes U course, Health Without Borders, students brainstormed ideas of what they
actually wanted to create to
teach their topic of choice.