Sentences with phrase «build their instruction around»

New Tech teachers build their instruction around eight Learning Outcomes — content standards, collaboration, critical thinking, oral communication, written communication, career preparation, citizenship and ethics, and technology literacy — which they embed in all projects, assessments, and grade reports.

Napa, California A PBL school since its launch in 1996, New Tech teachers build their instruction around eight Learning Outcomes — content standards, collaboration, critical thinking, oral communication, written communication, career preparation, citizenship and ethics, and technology literacy.

He was concerned that his school had built their instruction around the concept of multiple intelligences.

The authors describe how this model builds instruction around student - designed projects to increase student engagement, while also providing a structure that ensures student mastery of curriculum standards.

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Our program initially was built around our Wholesale Success: A Farmers» Guide to Food Safety, Selling, Postharvest Handling, and Packing Produce manual, aimed to providing instruction in best practices for farmers seeking to sell to retail, wholesale, restaurant and institutional buyers.

Beautiful photos of buildings around the world accompany each architectural style, plus lego re-creations from international artists and instructions to build your own pared - down models that emphasize each style's guiding elements.

The Science Teaching Network focuses on teacher professional development through a summer institute built around best practices in science instruction, including NGSS and local nature and science topics.

The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's Science Teaching Network (STN) is a grant - funded program focusing on teacher professional development built around best practices in science instruction, including the Next Generation Science Standards and local nature and science topics.

Built around extensive research, 21st - century technology, and developmentally appropriate instruction, our curriculum introduces concepts of math, science, language, culture, environment, art and health.

The UCLA scientists posted parts lists and instructions for building and using the device, as well as links to video tutorials, on their own wiki page, which has become a forum for conversations with other scientists from around the world.

In this direction lie proposals for building schools around learners, gearing instruction to individual goals and learning styles, pointing education toward developing an ever - broader range of human capacities, and phasing in assessment tools that get at ever - subtler nuances of achievement.

• Design support to help groups with rudimentary ideas about technology - supported instruction flesh these out so whole schools can be built around them.

Yet the inspector general (IG) not only failed to substantiate Slavin's charges about Success for All, but actually built its «case» around the fact that several peer review panelists — as well as the program's director, Chris Doherty — had ties to Direct Instruction programs.

This system is employed to fuel an innovative change movement around instruction, which is intentionally designed to drive system transformation, build a culture of continuous improvement, support a shared leadership model, and maximize teachers» impact on student learning.

Over the next few weeks, I invite you to join me and my colleagues at the Knowledge Matters Campaign as we tour schools across the country to see the many ways knowledge - building curriculum is enhancing classroom instruction — by asking students to read, write, and speak to high standards, but to do so from a wide range of topics that enrich students» understanding of the world around them — ranging from water conservation to the Revolutionary War to Renaissance architecture.

In the Executive Development Program, school leaders build a strong foundation in best practices in instruction and in the latest research around what makes for strong instruction in the content areas of math, English language arts and science.

First and foremost, under the leadership of curriculum and instruction specialist Aaron Grossman, implementation has focused on the right things — including building a coherent body of knowledge across and within grades (one of the broad «instructional shifts,» along with reading for evidence and a greater focus on complex and nonfiction text)-- that are easy to rally around and hard to dismiss as unimportant.

High schools are seeking to build systems that ensure success for every student; this is being further emphasized by the Obama administration, which has identified the following four Race to the Top priority areas in the Race to the Top Executive Summary (2009): «adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy; building data systems that measure student growth and success, and inform teachers and principals about how they can improve instruction; cultivating effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most; and turning around struggling schools» (p. 1).

Personalized learning is built around three main pillars: student directed learning, high quality instruction from teachers and leveraging technology to assist in organizing and managing learning.

In order to build a curriculum, instruction, and assessment system, the district must first have a curriculum in place — a set of common learning expectations that the district has coalesced around and accepted as the expected learnings for ALL district students.

This session takes the gradual release of responsibility to the next level, and builds a system around high quality literacy instruction.

It put instruction at the center of their improvement plan and built capacity to improve around it.

Later chapters focus on standards - based instruction built around key reading, writing, and foundational skills as well as speaking, listening, and language standards.

The content of ExCELS teacher training has remained fairly stable, revolving around the major tenets of sheltered instruction: motivating tasks, cooperative learning, comprehensible input, building language skills and higher - order thinking skills.

As a comprehensive academic model, the roadmap is built around five elements of education - a culture of high expectations, demanding curriculum, engaging instruction, rigorous assessment, and shared leadership.

Classroom Collections, hand selected by math experts, are built around topics or themes and provide educators with leading materials to enhance classroom instruction.

The M.A.T. curriculum centers around four elements of instruction: building subject knowledge (Content), cultivating a fun and productive learning environment (Classroom Culture), developing personal connections with students and families (Self & Other People), and creating high - quality lessons (Teaching Cycle).

By providing grade - appropriate texts at each student's individual reading level, and then following up with direct instruction around grade - level complex text, educators can help students to build the close - reading skills needed to master more challenging materials.

From both decades of research and the craft knowledge of educators who've jumped in and turned around schools, we know these practices generally yield improvement: (1) a focus on what kids need to learn: (2) collaboration on instruction and assessment; (3) examining assessment data; (4) using patterns in data to improve instruction; and (5) building trusting relationships.

In their third year of inquiry partnership, Colonial Acres» teacher leaders are supporting their colleagues to use inquiry to strengthen cross-grade collaboration, deepen their understanding of Balanced Literacy, and build collective teacher efficacy around instruction in reading and writing.

Lessons were organized around instructional routines that included the following: presentation of content and language objectives, brief overview of a «big idea,» explicit vocabulary instruction, use of a 2 - to 4 - minute video clip and purposeful discussion to build conceptual knowledge, assigned reading followed by students generating and answering questions, and a wrap - up writing activity or graphic organizer to review and assess learning.

Developers like to take liberties and play around with authoring tools, so if you don't give detailed instructions your vision of what you want the course to look like won't be built.

A nondescript building behind a Wellesbourne Sainsbury supermarket contains Q Advanced Operations, a top - secret skunk works where Vulcan was born and which will produce, per CEO Andy Palmer's instruction, similarly bonkers low - volume projects at the rate of around one per year.

- Batman, Wyldstyle, Gandalf, and the Batmobile all come in the Starter Pack for $ 99.99 - complete the entire critical path with just this content - extra characters, vehicles, or weapons are sold separately - you may see ghosts flying around a level and need the Ghostbusters to take them out - use Scooby - Doo to dig and open up a new area - gameplay has you collecting studs, building and rebuilding within the world, and switching between characters - use Batman's grapple hook to tear down big obstacles - you can also drive the Batmobile to run over poppies (flowers that put characters to sleep if they're near them)- fight the Wicked Witch of the West - use the Lego Gateway outside of the game to avoid obstacles - when the Wicked Witch cast a magic spell, it can lock you into a position - when this happens, the Lego Gateway will flash red, save for one white safe area - move the actual figurine to the white area to be safe - every vehicle has three different forms - you must build and rebuild them throughout the adventure to get by - on mission makes you repower a gateway, but the generator is encased in blue Lego brick - build the Batblaster to use the brick - blaster and electricity shield to get by - in - game instructions tell you how to take apart the Batmobile and physically morph it into the Batblaste - use the sonar brick - blaster to destroy blue bricks

The Creative Curriculum ® for Kindergarten builds upon decades of research, offering educators a developmentally appropriate, wrap - around curriculum that includes teaching guides and other daily practice resources to help educators integrate studies, or project - based investigations of science and social studies topics, into everyday instruction.

In - house certified trainer provides our ATM Courses, one - on - one instruction and online training custom built around your needs ─ at no cost to you!

After we went on our bookcase building bonanza (say that 5 times fast) using the IKEA instructions, we moved the bookcases around until we found the center of our wall and ended up with 4 inches of space on each side.