Sentences with phrase «centered active learning»

Lead author, «Classroom Observation Study: Student - Centered Active Learning and Teaching Practice» with Valeria Rocha, Abdalla Ababneh, Imad Ababneh, Khattab Lebdeh, Sheren Hamed., (2012)

To keep students involved and on their toes, try to move from teacher - centered learning to student - centered active learning, and vice versa.

Belcher had seen Student - Centered Active Learning Environment with Upside - Down Pedagogies (SCALE - UP) classrooms at North Carolina State University with technology and seating designed to support active learning.

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Despite its advantages, active learning isn't likely to completely kill the lecture, says Noah Finkelstein, a physics professor who directs the Center for STEM Learning at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and was not involved in thlearning isn't likely to completely kill the lecture, says Noah Finkelstein, a physics professor who directs the Center for STEM Learning at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and was not involved in thLearning at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and was not involved in the study.

2017 appearances include Creative Children's Learning Center (Palo Alto, CA), Westgate MOPS (San Jose, CA), Los Altos Methodist Church Children's Center Preschool (Los Altos, CA), Los Altos Rec Department, St. Timothy's Church and Preschool (Mountain View, CA), Building Kidz (Mountain View, CA), Academy for Active Learners (Portland, ME), Bright Horizons (Portland, ME), Pine Grove School (Falmouth, ME), Little Prodigy Preschool (Mountain View, CA), Children's House Los Altos (Los Altos, CA)

The Play & Learn Center offers ideas for fostering active and imaginative play.

The center provides children to learn through active participation with hands - on experience through exploration and discovery.

The center promotes active learning by integrating play - based, child - initiated and hands - on activities.

The workshop series will meet once a week, from 9 to 11:30 a.m., at the John Duke Senior Center, 1201 Hyde Park Blvd., Niagara Falls, to learn or enhance their skills and ability to manage their health and maintain an active lifestyle.

In 1999 van Praag showed that more new nerves formed in the hippocampus — one of the key centers in the brain for memory and learning — in physically active mice than in inactive ones.

This is what student - centered, active learning looks like.

Now, they have found that brain areas around these vocal learning centers become active when the birds flap their wings or hop around.

Active learning introduces student - centered lessons, and ensures more effective results without descending into chaos because each student speaks flawless English 80 % of the lesson time by using a mobile device and earphones.

Through student - centered learning, differentiated instruction, and connecting the classroom to the world, Dewey proposed that students should assume an active role in their learning process so as to develop the skills for becoming successful members of their communities.

The New York City - based foundation said it hopes its new «students at the center» grant program will help train teachers to abandon traditional 40 - minute lectures for more - active approaches in the classroom, such as problem - solving, critical thinking, and hands - on learning.

«There are many important facets of the Escuela Nueva model, including its systemic approach, being child centered, involving active participatory learning, children finishing academic units at their own pace, cooperative learning and children...

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.

In a student - centered learning environment, students are no longer passive receivers of information, but active participants in their own learning process.

(2) To create and support an initial network of selected states and community - based sites that are both motivated and prepared to engage in an interactive process of «Innovation by Design» through piloting creative, new policies and practices, as well as contributing to active, cross-site learning that will be supported by the Early Childhood Innovation Partnership (ECIP) based at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

The use of Socratic questioning creates an active classroom where learning is student - centered and inquiry - based.

Students» familiarity and enthusiasm for mobile phones offer an opportunity to progress this individualized, student - centered, and active technology - enhanced learning.

Discipline was much less of an issue and active learning became the center focus of our classroom activities.

The adaptive urban industrial style allows for crossover application in media centers, active learning spaces, common areas or any space that encourages collaboration and social learning.

High - quality online learning opportunities are active, problem - based, and learner - centered with multiple ways of communicating within reflective spaces where modeling is possible (Mayes, Ku, Akarasriworn, Luebeck, & Korkmaz, 2011).

Other practices that should be evident within classrooms include the following teaching strategies: active learning experiences, varied instructional strategies, balance between teacher directed and child directed activities, an integrated curriculum, and learning centers.

He is an active proponent of participatory learning through membership in the Action Coalition for Media Education and the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, and as a friend of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

Albert Bandura's theory of social learning promotes the idea behind active, student - centered, motivation that is cooperative in a risk - free environment.

This information outlines the role of the school library media center as a powerful and active partner in the school instructional program and provides guidance to school library media specialists in the development of best practices for teaching and learning.

Appealing to children's natural curiosity, our curriculum emphasizes active, student - centered learning over rote memorization and drills.

I've learned so much in my candidacy, but more than anything, I've come to the realization that as a library media specialist, I must challenge myself to innovate and encourage my students to be active learners, whether by making and creating or researching and investigating, through the ever evolving hub of the school library media center.

Steelcase Education is accepting applications to its Active Learning Center Grants program.

John Lyman School is a child - centered community of learners in Middlefield, Connecticut, that is dedicated to fostering a lifelong love of learning through active exploration of all curricular areas.

The program takes a student - centered approach, supporting each student's development by providing active educational opportunities that support different ways of learning.

According to the National Dropout Prevention Center, active learning, educational technology, individualized instruction, one - to - one tutoring or mentoring, and career and technical education are on the list of the top 15 effective strategies for dropout prevention.

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Classroom designs have been shown to cultivate deeper and more student - centered learning encounters that are more flexible, active, mobile and fun.

She is a 21st Century Community Learning Center grant coordinator, active on her school leadership team and supports national board candidates with the Arizona K - 12 Center.

However, it also can provide «the leverage so urgently needed for moving social studies instruction away from passive, teacher - dominated approaches emphasizing recall and regurgitation toward active, student - centered forms of learning demanding critical and conceptual thinking» (Crocco, 2001, para. 5).

In addition, my teaching style includes many active engagement strategies such as cooperative learning, interactive whiteboard use, and learning centers.

Project based learning is a student - centered way to drive instruction that allows for creativity and pushes deeper knowledge through active exploration of real world issues.

Research quoted by the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College tells us that «(CRS) based instruction makes students active participants in the learning process» and that a CRS «creates a more dynamic, interactive classroom experience which can be enjoyable and fun for both the instructor and students.»

Student centered education requires students to be active, accountable participants in their own learning and with their own pace of learning.

School Focus: High Desert is a Montessori school that features child - centered classrooms, active learning, exploration, and students making decisions about their learning.

That in a culture of learning, the learner is in the center of the decision - making process, and learning is active, sometimes messy, unpredictable, and internally rewarding.

Creating an active classroom where students are at the center of learning is essential to student success.

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He learned his fourth language, English, and became an active member of the Jewish community center, where he proved adept at political discussions.

The Abrams are active in numerous causes, particularly in the Sandtown neighborhood of Baltimore, and were instrumental in saving the Village Learning Center, public library near their office, from closing.