Sentences with phrase «collaboration on curriculum»

Additionally, students reported strong positive attitude and behavior outcomes, and both teachers and administrators indicated positive outcomes around collaboration on curriculum and instruction.

Its gone beyond collaboration on curriculum and instruction — I can call if I have other issues — and if someone is having difficulty, we all pick up the phone to see what we can do.

Not exact matches

Through collaboration with the Foundation for Enterprise Development (FED), the Aspen Institute, and the Employee Ownership Foundation, the largest online Curriculum Library on Employee Ownership (CLEO) was launched in October of 2008.

Still, Gianos said she believes there is great potential to improve patient care through physician education with more extensive emphasis on diet in their core curriculum, self - learning opportunities, and collaboration with dietitians or other health care professionals.

From hosting a webinar series on the use of specific scientific methods to support human rights research, to the development of teaching materials to integrate human rights into STEM curricula, from assessing the extent to which marginalized populations are represented in STEM fields, to cultivating a human rights interest group within a member organization, there are many ways in which Coalition members can further the mission of the Coalition within their communities, organizations and in collaboration with others.

Curriculum enhancement is an on - going journey strengthened by research into trends, inputs from local industry experts, and collaborations with global partners.

We, together with the Royal Academy of Engineering coordinated the development of the new Computing curriculum on behalf of DfE, working in close collaboration with CAS.

However, if we focus on a core set of essential skills — communication, collaboration, connection and creation — and start to develop curricula that will benefit our students regardless of the technology, then we can truly embrace a mobile curriculum.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

According to Becky Smerdon and Kathryn Borman, who led the Gates - sponsored research team that evaluated the initiative, by the late 1990s some consensus had emerged among reformers about what made schools successful: «a shared vision focused on student learning, common strategies for engendering that learning, a culture of professional collaboration and collective responsibility, high - quality curriculum, systematic monitoring of student learning, strong instructional leadership (usually from the principal), and adequate resources.»

Keeping students engaged with hands - on projects can be especially challenging with limited resources and changing curriculums, but here are a few sources of inexpensive tech hacks, perfect for teacher - student collaboration:

The curriculum centers on projects that use real - time data available online while harnessing the Internet's power to encourage student collaborations across continents.

In addition, Kim consults, speaks, and teaches courses for school leaders, with a special focus on teacher supervision and evaluation, time management, the effective use of student assessments, and curriculum unit design (in collaboration with Jay McTighe and Associates).

Many schools are keen on incorporating project - based learning into their curriculum, reasoning that the exploratory, hands - on lessons engage students and promote collaboration and independent thinking.

Intel Teach professional development empowers teachers to integrate technology effectively into their existing curriculum, focusing on their students» problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration, which are precisely the skills required in the high tech, networked society in which we live.

Goddard and colleagues say further studies are needed on collaborative practices but that their study provides preliminary support for efforts to improve student achievement by promoting teacher collaboration around curriculum, instruction and professional development.

The AVID curriculum, based on rigorous standards, is driven by the WICOR method, which stands for Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading.

For example, positive effects on reading achievement have been associated with collaboration and community building (Briggs & Thomas, 1997); targeted professional development (Frazee, 1996); curriculum and assessment alignment (Stringfield, Millsap, & Herman, 1997); clear and agreed - upon goals and objectives at the state and school levels (Rossi & Stringfield, 1997); high expectations for students (Foertsch, 1998); early interventions and strategies for struggling readers (Lein, Johnson, & Ragland, 1997; Legters & McDill, 1994); common planning time for teachers (Miles & Darling - Hammond, 1997); and strong school leadership (George, Grissom, & Just, 1996; Shields, Knapp, & Wechsler, 1995).

We believe in ethical use of assessments and data, decisions based on facts, collaboration, and connectivity between curriculum, assessment, instruction, and continuous improvement.

We believe in ethical use of assessments and data; decisions based on facts; collaboration; and connectivity among curriculum, assessment, instruction, and continuous improvement.

During his tenure, he made the MTA the voice of the profession and established the teachers union as a partner in developing and implementing state and federal policy such as teacher - evaluation frameworks, new curriculum standards, district and school accountability measures, while strengthening labor - management collaboration focused on improving student achievement.

Bringing the world into the classroom and building global competency can include the introduction of global issues curriculum, new World Languages, online collaboration, youth and teacher exchanges, professional development on international education, video - conferences, etc..

Program FocusLa Escuela Fratney provides a rigorous curriculum in English and Spanish that includes a focus on multiculturalism and collaboration with both parents and the community.

Math proficiency improved 4 percent for sixth, seventh and eighth graders, — from 41 percent in 2014 - 15 to 45 percent in 2015 - 16 — which the district attributes to a new math curriculum focused on collaboration.

Responsibilities: The primary responsibility of this position is to implement STEM / hands - on, project based learning in collaboration with teachers to promote interdisciplinary STEM activities into Overbrook's core curriculum.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

Her skills lie in collaboration, labor relations, mentoring / instructional coaching, curriculum design and facilitation with a focus on the development of administrator and teacher leadership skills.

E4E's Teacher Action Team on the Common Core calls for improving implementation through greater professional development and collaboration, stronger curriculum...

As part of the Music - in - Education National Consortium, El Dorado's Music Learning Leadership Staff (administration, classroom and music teachers) received monthly professional development in a) M+MI curriculum unit design based on fundamental concepts of literacy shared between music and language, b) teaching for transfer strategies, c) music and music integration literacy skill assessment, and d) action research based documentation of student learning through collaboration with MuST, MIENC guided practices consultants, and SF Opera.

In contrast, instead of focusing on achieving high scores, integrating the skills of entrepreneurship into curriculum could prepare students to innovation, risk - taking and collaboration skills.

The solutions would start with economically diverse housing options in all towns in CT, quality pre-natal care, quality pediatric care, high school courses on parenting, in - home parenting classes for teens, a robust curriculum rich in the arts, social sciences, science, math, and character education, lots of playtime in a safe literature rich environment for pre-schoolers, summer school and before and after school care provided by TFA or some other organization of young recent college graduates, small class size, teacher leaders instead of building administrators, and collaboration time built into the school day.

Recent literature on teaching likewise supports a similar focus on teacher agency in decision making on curricula and strategies, teacher - directed professional learning, and, related to both of these, extensive opportunities for teacher collaboration:

After analyzing the data and writing each case we found that four components stood out as consistently prominent across all the schools: a broad and deep curriculum designed for all students with little tracking or ability grouping (meaning that most students get the same high quality learning experiences in all classes); a teaching staff with advanced content knowledge; a mission - focused administrative structure with a flattened hierarchy that invited collaboration with and among teachers and students; and supports for underrepresented students, such as advisories with personalized college planning, tutoring or summer research programs on college campuses.

Our collaborations have included conducting randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate the impact of high school curriculum supplements on cell biology and epigenetics, and documenting the process of curriculum and assessment development for a National Science Foundation Discovery Research K - 12 project on evolution and common ancestry.

Furthermore, teachers from these schools who were surveyed were, on average, significantly more likely than teachers in a national sample to view their school leaders as encouraging professional collaboration, facilitating professional development for teachers, and encouraging staff to use evaluation results in planning curriculum and instruction.

To facilitate the achievement of our program goals, we have limited class size to 20 students, and provide our teachers opportunities for weekly planning and collaboration, in addition to classes in the following areas during designated professional development sessions: International Primary Curriculum (IPC) and International Middle Years Curriculum (IMYC); Student assessments and interventions based on Dr. Stanley Greenspan's developmental model of education; Arts integration; and Common Core English Language Arts and Mathematics standards - based instruction.

When collaboration did occur, it focused primarily on individual lessons rather than on unpacking standards, mapping curriculum, constructing assessments, and looking for patterns in data to see what was working and what wasn't.

Consortia leaders believe the documents can guide district development of curricula aligned with the common core, as well as teacher planning and collaboration on specific units of study.

We published the book using a Creative Commons license, which enables the most extensive forms of use by others, including building on and repurposing our curriculum, as we hope that this book will invite collaboration among many teachers and other educators, as well as students, who, together, build new curricula and other instructional resources, using the ideas we offer in this book as they see fit.

Collaboration by high school and college faculty within the same discipline on curriculum and assessment alignment;

Yes, the built - in collaboration tool with the Highlight and Annotation Tool (HAT) in Ogment allows users to work on curriculum maps, course or lesson creation together.

Oak Ridge Schools offer a challenging STEM curriculum with a deliberate focus on collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity to ensure success for every student.

RELATIONSHIPS: CROSS-BUILDING AND CROSS-DISCIPLINE COLLABORATIONS EAST PALESTINE SCHOOL DISTRICT, EAST PALESTINE, OHIO Carol Vollnogle, Principal, East Palestine Middle School Teachers from the district's elementary, middle, and high school formed a districtwide Creative Leadership Team that focused on visual art integration across the curriculum, at all grade levels, across three buildings.

Curriculum, instruction, and assessment focused on deeper learning seek to support students» development of skills — such as collaboration, communication, and creative problem solving — required by life in the 21st century.

Cultural Diversity E604: Assessment of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students for Special Education Eligibility (2000) E584: Critical Behaviors and Strategies for Teaching Culturally Diverse Students (1999) E650: Diagnosing Communication Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2003) E500: Empowering Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students with Learning Problems (1991) E500s: Reforzando a los alumnos Diversos Culturalmente y Lingüí con Aprendizaje (1999) E596: Five Strategies to Reduce Overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education (2000) E520: Identifying and Serving Recent Immigrant Children Who Are Gifted (1993) E601: Infusing Multicultural Content into the Curriculum for Gifted Students (2000) E589: The Implications of Culture on Developmental Delay (1999) E566: Reducing the Disproportionate Representation of Minority Students in Special Education (1998) E544: Underachievement Among Gifted Minority Students: Problems and Promises (1997) E614: Cultural Reciprocity Aids Collaboration with Families (2001)

Collaboration Station: School librarian / Media Specialists work with classroom teachers on ways to incorporate and / or provide resources (print, digital) linked to the curriculum for classroom use.

In - service training programs shall also be provided to the teaching staff members who will provide the instruction on information literacy in each grade, and shall allow the opportunity for collaboration among teachers and certified school library media specialists to advance information literacy in the kindergarten through grade 12 curriculum.

In January, addresses the Massachusetts Board of Education at the statehouse to request increased support for arts in the public school system and to propose several approaches to arts in the core curriculum; during summer, collaborates with Townsend and guest artists Richard Rosenblum, Richard Baker, Paul Bowen, James Balla, George Marsh, and Varujan Baghosian at the New Provincetown Print Project; solo exhibition: Monotypes by Michael Mazur for the Inferno, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City (travels through 1997 with Mazur and Pinsky giving lectures on their collaboration at eight venues).

The stories, videos and resources we've posted so far on The Lab include profiles of our artist - grantees at work (Heidi Latsky's residency and performance of GIMP and Erin Cosgrove's collaboration with Ben Marcus); «Must Haves» for your artist website, from our Internet for Artists workshop curriculum; a webinar podcast, «New Media in the Marketplace»; and much more.

An FDF grant may fund studio projects, travel, work on publications, research, interdisciplinary collaborations or curriculum or other projects.