Sentences with phrase «conduct classroom research»

Her group received a two - year grant from the Spencer Foundation to conduct classroom research in these areas.

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Based on a research conducted by Dr. Steven Duwall, the home - schooled kids with disability can get so much out of home schooling when compared to kids with special needs in the classroom.

The work included conducting investigations at an area research laboratory and offered new perspectives on teaching that Mabey has incorporated in her classroom.

The National Institutes of Health offers these awards to postdocs who, in addition to conducting research, want to build classroom and mentoring skills through teaching internships at partner institutions.

PlantingScience (PS) is an online platform where middle and high school students reflect with scientists on plant - based research projects designed and conducted by the students in their classrooms.

This entailed conducting field research on the Hudson River and using knowledge gained from the experience to inform a classroom lesson.

Chelsea conducts trainings for yoga instructors and classroom teachers at local yoga studios, community centers, and schools and continues to contribute research findings to educational journals and contemporary publications.

Dr. Garner serves at multiple universities, lecturing, consulting, nd conducting research to integrate therapeutic yoga into the medical classroom and patient care.

The research conducted by Towergate among 1,000 teachers nationwide found almost three quarters believe it is more stressful to be a teacher today than when they first entered the classroom.

On the site, I explain and demonstrate instructional and classroom management strategies; explore technology, books, research and professional development tools that can make us better; help teachers fine - tune the design of their materials; examine the emotional and social forces that impact the way we do our work; and conduct my own little grass - roots studies on topics that I think need more attention.

For example, in the classrooms where I have been conducting research on student screencasting, one of the most remarkable and consistent unintended outcomes was that students, no matter how young or old, and no matter what discipline, intrinsically reflected, self - assessed, and adjusted their articulation of understanding.

In his teaching, da Silva Nogueira tried to liven up his lessons by taking students out of the classroom to conduct research.

With the Best Foot Forward project, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard is testing what it hopes is a better way to conduct classroom observations, making the process more valuable for teachers and administrators.

Increasingly, we're using iPads in the classroom, especially for working with Scratch and conducting individual research.

University researchers are conducting important laboratory and classroom research and there is a growing body of teachers and school leaders who recognize one of the great ironies of education in the United States today: that the organ of learning is the brain but few educators have ever had any training in how the brain works, learns, and most importantly for students, changes.

In addition to returning to teaching middle school science, Arsenault will be working with scientists at Cornell University in the BioMedical Engineering field, conducting research, cultivating relationships that will bring scientists into the classroom, and designing innovative science curriculum.

Goldstein investigated ways to conduct useful, classroom - relevant research with an experiment of his own in the MATCH charter school he founded.

The final report on the Early Reading First program, conducted by outside researchers under contract to the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, found the program has had the most significant effect in improving classroom activities and materials, as well as teacher practices related to literacy development.

A successful classroom teacher, Lampert taught teacher education classes at Michigan State University, then returned to the classroom to conduct on - the - ground research about math teaching and pedagogy.

In their final trimester, BASIS seniors conduct senior research projects, in which they take a topic that has truly engaged them in the classroom and research it in the world at large.

Research conducted by the University of Pennsylvania's Richard Ingersoll, among others, shows that general working conditions, the degree to which teachers have classroom autonomy, and other non-monetary factors are at least as important a consideration as salaries in explaining teacher attrition.

And realistically there's over 30 years of really good research that's been conducted into what effective teachers do and in particular what classroom management practices are effective as well.

The final piece was my participation in a class through the Gateway Writing Institute, where I read Nonfiction Matters, by Stephanie Harvey, and conducted an action research project on inquiry - based instruction in my classroom.

However, the Common Core specifies that students conduct both brief and sustained research, and that this research be woven into many different classroom contexts.

So it's really important this research is conducted so that we can design open - plan classrooms that meet the recommended noise levels to ensure adequate speech perception in the learning environment.

She then returned to the classroom to conduct action research and teach, with a focus on taking current research from psychology and brain science to classroom practice.

Most recently, ethnographic research has been conducted in situ to explore the ways in which the introduction of tablets into the classroom environment has changed how teachers and pupils interact.

What I began to write about and to call «differentiated instruction» was rooted in what I learned through classroom practice and now has become more fully developed through observing many other practicing teachers, conducting research, and studying the research of others.

Planning, conducting and evaluating the impact of school - based action research can be a daunting prospect for classroom practitioners.

In the research reported here, we study one approach to teacher evaluation: practice - based assessment that relies on multiple, highly structured classroom observations conducted by experienced peer teachers and administrators.

Indianapolis, Indiana Kids invent their own projects by conducting research with computers, raising funds for classroom tools, and involving themselves in community initiatives.

Students take sides on issues, conducting research that helps inform arguments and positions they'll use in classroom debates with their peers.

Not exclusively for the classroom, students can also use SoundNote during group work or discussion and while conducting interviews for assignments or research.

Embracing the Vision: One - to - One Computing in Our Classrooms Conducting real research, collecting real data, publishing in a real public space (the Web)... What can be done only partly with previous technologies can be done easily, seamlessly, with handhelds, making students into scientists, publishers, enthusiastic discoverers, making one - to - one computing worth any trouble, cost, or frustration.

«Order doesn't simply mean obeying rules or tossing challenging kids out of a classroom — it means figuring out what we can do for students,» said Stengel, who has conducted research in Nashville schools for nearly a decade.

The authors conducted a review of research on audience response systems (ARS) and conclude that the evidence supports benefits of ARS, including improvements to the classroom environment (increases in attendance, attention levels, participation, and engagement), learning (interaction, discussion, contingent teaching, quality of learning, and learning performance), and assessment (feedback, formative, and normative).

Attendees will visit Johns Hopkins University to learn about the translation pipeline (from foundational to applied research to practice), visit two laboratories to learn how foundational and applied science is conducted, and explore how such research may inform classroom practice.

The National Board believes that we must as a nation conduct research that helps testing contribute to student learning, classroom practice, and state and district management of school resources.

The resources are to be used in a timeline and placed around the classroom for students to conduct their own research on the events that changed Britain.

The Marzano strategies are based on 40 years of research into best practices and have been tested in multiple on - site studies conducted in real classrooms across the U.S.

Principals also received support from SURN staff to conduct action research analyzing teacher surveys and their data from classroom observations.

Members of our research team at each site were trained to conduct classroom observations.

Interviews conducted during the course of the study reveal that participants saw great potential for teachers to use DocSouth in their classrooms, since both they and their students have the requisite technology skills, the teachers already use the Internet to plan instruction and for research purposes, and perhaps most importantly, part of their goal in teaching history is to present multiple perspectives.

Island Childress's appointment is part of UEI's ambitious plan to improve schooling nationwide by conducting rigorous applied research, training exemplary teachers, operating a high - achieving public school, and designing school improvement tools and training for thousands of schools and classrooms across the United States.

In a 2017 survey conducted by the Education Week Research Center, 22 percent of educators said they find it «somewhat» or «very» difficult to discuss issues of race and ethnicity in the classroom.

This program offers courses that assist teachers in becoming leaders, conducting research in classrooms, designing professional development with other math teachers, and developing curriculum.

Danielle Yemma, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Education at Robert Morris University is conducting research on flipped teaching and learning, and if you are a teacher who has been flipping their higher ed classroom for a year or more, you can help!

After conducting a decade of in - school research on the state and status of classroom assessment in U.S. schools, Dr. Stiggins authored a leading and award - winning introductory textbook for teachers on classroom assessment, An Introduction to Classroom Assessment FOR Student Learning, now in its seventh edition with Pearson Education.

Conducting action research in the classroom enables teachers to personally assess the effectiveness of a new strategy, obtain validation for incorporating new strategies into their repertoire, and investigate specific problems that affect their teaching.

I'd love to learn more about ongoing research being conducted on how to best prepare teachers to understand and make use of assessment data, how teachers are using data in the classroom, and what supports would enable educators to use data more effectively.