Sentences with phrase «and student learn»

Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

The variety and quality of flavour from game of all types is unrivalled and my students learn very quickly from me that it is truly fantastic to cook with.»

«Other training includes evaluators and principals workshop on evaluating and student learning; evaluating and tracking student; workshop on coordination, monitoring and reporting and impact assessment on training of inclusive education teachers on Braille and sign language.»

As program officer for the IES Cognition and Student Learning research grants program, Dr. Albro oversaw the preparation of an IES Practice Guide, Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning, which identified a set of instructional principles for use in schools and classrooms that emerged from basic research on learning and memory.

In the meantime, preliminary results show that both the tutors, called learning assistants, and the students learn more science than those in a regular class.

Along the way, he and his students learned that if they twist their yarn until it coils, they can make a powerful rotating motor.

Just as a patient and practitioner form a mutually rewarding relationship on the path toward healing, our faculty and students learn from each other and develop lasting bonds that support a sense of interconnection and unity.

Every issue strives to help administrators manage, teachers teach, and students learn.

Critical reflection on controversies, challenges, teaching goals, contexts and student learning.

Everything that happened in the unit seemed to work — and students learned.

For example, some of the partnerships were in the form of weekly phone calls to provide advice on science fair projects, while others were classvisits to help teachers and students learn how to adapt solar energy in their classrooms.

As the state notes of its system, «A central tenet of AchieveNJ is that educators are never evaluated on a single factor or test score alone, but on multiple measures of both effective practice and student learning.»

Brain breaks are essential to classroom culture and student learning.

Once the source has been identified, steps can be taken to provide the necessary supports to improve teacher practice and student learning.

And then we had a lesson on the the four forces of flight, and the students learnt about those, then they applied that to a redesign, an improvement of their plane.

Professional learning communities (PLCs) or networks (PLNs) are groups of teachers that share and critically interrogate their practices in an ongoing, reflective, collaborative, inclusive, learning - oriented, and growth - promoting way to mutually enhance teacher and student learning (Stoll, Bolam, McMahon, Wallace, and Thomas, 2006).

A new toolkit from Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research provides resources to help educators leverage video observations in school communities to improve teacher practice and student learning.

Digital Technology and Student Learning.

That recognition has driven a tidal wave of controversial policy reforms over the past decade, rooted in new evaluation systems that link teachers» ratings and, in some cases, their pay and advancement to evidence of classroom practice and student learning.

The Science Teachers Learning from Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) project is a professional - development program that uses video - based analysis of practice to improve teacher and student learning at the upper elementary level.

In a new analysis, June Kronholz discusses recent research on teacher absences and the impact that the reliance on substitutes has on school budgets and student learning.

This report examines what research has revealed about professional learning that improves teachers» practice and student learning.

Can I improve both my process and student learning?»

The project will focus on contexts of interest to both ISV and PZ: settings of organizational development, organizational and school leadership, and student learning for action.

Teaching, Leadership, and School Change: A year after introducing us to the schoolwide PBL curriculum at Sammamish High, teacher leader Adrienne Curtis Dickinson reviews how the school's seven key elements (more on this below) have played out in course design, professional development, and student learning.

Sure, I sent teachers to workshops and conferences, but we did not do any concerted training as a school about iPads and student learning.

Although the United States spends $ 620 billion on education annually, it invests less than one percent of that in the research needed to improve how teachers teach and students learn: Across the economy, industries spend 2.8 percent of gross domestic product on research and development.

This trend, he says, «requires that teachers and students learn to be information artisans — people who can creatively and artistically reshape information and raw material into compelling information products.»

Among the topics discussed at this first gathering were free speech on college campuses, online learning and MOOCs, changing demographics among students, challenges to humanities, and student learning.

• «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report,» by Steve Rivkin, which examines the evidence on the racial composition of schools and student learning.

«Teachers learn to draw connections between their instructional practice and student learning through the deliberate analysis of data,» says Richard Elmore, «and this sense of efficacy in teaching is central to internal accountability at the school level.»

Expand your repertoire of management skills, explore new ways to accelerate teacher and student learning, and deepen your sense of efficacy as a school leader.

But the proportion of unsatisfactory ratings that Kraft and Gilmour found is about three times the rate before the introduction of the new grading systems, when evaluations were infrequent and typically amounted to nothing more than quick classroom visits by principals wielding simplistic checklists that stressed comportment over quality instruction and student learning.

It is fast paced and students learn the content without the need to memorize the details.

The AFT's Weil expressed strong concern that the goals of evaluation reform — improving teacher practice and student learning — have gotten lost in the technicalities of developing algorithms and rubrics and the speed with which these systems are being implemented.

But in a new article for Education Next, «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading as resegregation: the decreasing enrollment share of white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.

A fun and educational colouring activity, ideal for primary school students, and students learning English as a foreign language.

A study of a representative sample of schools in California shows that schools where the principal and the district extensively used test data to improve instruction and student learning had the highest achievement for English - language learners.

We research and develop teacher - training methodologies for language instructors in Brazilian public schools, using technology as a platform to mediate teacher and student learning.

A 1996 study clearly draws a correlation between the condition of school buildings and the student learning that goes on in those buildings.

For an embargoed copy of «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning» or to speak to the author, contact Jackie Kerstetter at [email protected].

In a feature article she wrote for Education Next, June Kronholz looked at the role played by substitute teachers in America's schools and at the impact of our reliance on substitutes on school budgets and student learning.

Changes Needed for Successful Family Engagement Education Week, June 23, 2012 «The answer to that question turns out to be a key to effective parent and family engagement, says Karen L. Mapp, a lecturer on education at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and presenter in Education Week's recent webinar «Engaging Parents in Schools and Student Learning,» of which an archive copy is available.»

Desegregation since the Coleman Report Racial composition of schools and student learning by Steven Rivkin

Those opportunities are explored in depth in Digital Technology and Student Learning.

James Noonan scholar.harvard.edu/jmnoonan Concentration: Culture, Communities, and Education James Noonan studies the design of teachers» professional learning environments and their impact on teacher practice and student learning.

For the last 10 years, she has worked with teachers and leaders in over 75 school districts to improve teacher and student learning.

Castor: The National Board Certification process includes assessments of teaching portfolios, student work samples, and videotapes and thorough analyses of a candidates» classroom teaching and student learning.

By contrast, the «tyrants» were bureaucracy and rules that constrained teacher creativity and student learning, and procedures that prevented parents from having a strong voice.

Each team leader takes full responsibility for teacher development and student learning in the team's subjects and grades.