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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.