Sentences with phrase «centers of 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.

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.

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.

«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...

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

Eagle Academy's curriculum and instructional program involves active, child - centered learning and allows for students to have different levels of readiness.

The Breakthrough Learning Center offers programs that focus on positive parenting skills, effective discipline strategies, and preparing children to be active and engaged members of the family and community.