Sentences with phrase «conversations about instruction»

«Since this all started, I've had conversations about my instruction that I haven't had before.

Responses indicated that research was most likely to come up in conversations about instruction and curricula and least likely to come up in discussions of parents or community issues.

It is great differentiated instruction - targeted to the learner's needs but also, based on common principles that allow deeper conversation about instruction to emerge.»

The dialogue is the most important piece of evaluation when you're having that conversation about instruction and about the students.»

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In those email conversations, the indictment says the suspects ``... harvested details about the target accounts, including account balances, and obtained wire transfer instructions.»

Rather than lecturing or delivering whole - class instruction though, the teacher, who can be armed with data about where students are in their learning, can meet one - on - one with each student and have meaningful conversations about the work she is doing.

With all the education action around Standards - Based Instruction, Understanding By Design, Assessment for Learning, Grading for Learning, Project - Based Learning, Competency - Based Instruction and more, we need to have a frank conversation about formative assessment and grading.

Moreover, in conversations with reporters, Secretary Bell publicly acknowledged — for the first time since February 1981 when he withdrew the proposed Lau rules — that the policy change also applies to about 500 school districts that had negotiated compliance agreements requiring native - language instruction based on the «Lau remedies.»

The key to mentoring success is «the ability to engage teachers in conversations about what effective instruction looks like,» adds Fleischmann.

An external perspective will make it easier for longtime colleagues to have a frank conversation about each other's instruction.

Designed primarily by Deborah Garson, head of research and instruction services at Gutman Library, and Kristin Lofblad, LTC's manager of instructional and research technology, WLE uses online learning best practices, which encourage students to work independently on online and offline writing - related activities, and to participate collaboratively in conversations about writing via online discussion boards facilitated by HGSE doctoral students.

In this A Word interview, he describes how his state tried to change the education conversation from being about money and conditions (adult concerns) to instruction, learning, and academic outcomes (student priorities).

We trained ourselves as observers to reliably document instruction in the lessons we observed based on our modification of Newmann «s assessment of authentic instruction.313 We recorded what we saw and heard on an observation form that included two main sections: 1) basic information about the context, details of the lesson, how class time was used, how students were organized for instruction and learning, the kinds of technology used during the lesson, and a description of any positive or negative features in the classroom; and 2) assessments of instruction using four of Newmann's five standards of authentic instruction: higher order thinking, deep knowledge, substantive conversation, and connection to the world beyond the classroom.

While more research is needed, the results from this study suggest that conversations about systematic phonics instruction and opportunity to practice need to be broadened to include «on the spot» coaching as children are actually reading.

But later, this conversation led me to think more purposefully about grammar instruction, and I asked myself, to what extent does grammar instruction matter not only to English Language Arts teachers but also to any high school teacher?

But now I feel like I can speak pretty intelligently about what good math instruction looks like and I'm more confident in having these conversations with teachers.

These Comments can spur important conversations among teachers about what is missing in the material and how instruction should be modified to ensure the standard is fully covered.

More importantly, conversations about representations of instruction have been effective triggers for practitioners to think about instructional alternatives — alternative ways in which a teacher could set up or launch a task, alternative ways in which students might respond to such a task, alternative ways in which the teacher could manage those student responses, and so forth.

Its components include things like consistent and well - defined learning expectations for children, frequent conversations among teachers about pedagogy, and an atmosphere in which it's common for teachers to visit one another's classrooms to observe and critique instruction.27

As a result of this and the change in classroom instruction, parents are engaging in different conversations about school.

«But it's also focused a lot of conversations about «my instruction as a teacher.»»

As practicing classroom teachers, we discuss differentiating instruction to meet the needs of each unique learner, but when was the last time you had a conversation about differentiating assessment?

Our conversation made me think about the current state of writing instruction.

«I have had several conversations with teachers about their teaching so that instruction is at a very high cognitive level in the native language and they can then transfer that knowledge to English.

Furthermore, Benson (2008) recommended «meta - cognitive conversations» in order to support «a change of thinking about literacy instruction» (p. 667).

Take time away from the online instruction periodically to have whole - group conversations about the social skills presented through the character education piece of the program.

In the coming months, the conversation about the importance of formal writing instruction and its place in a public - school curriculum — the conversation that was central to changing the culture at New Dorp — will spread throughout the nation.

As one accomplished teacher stated during an online conversation about teacher working conditions: «My darkest hours of teaching were when I had no one else to talk to about student achievement and effective instruction.

I spoke with the principals assembled by NAESP about their hopes for the implications for the new law, and the conversation touched on topics as wide - ranging as funding equity, fair pay for teachers, and supports for English - language learners, as well as the concept of more uninterrupted time to focus on instruction that Campbell, who is a former principal, asserts is currently missing from most school days.

I too find that our national conversations about improving education become mired in political considerations and surface features of schools, rather than in figuring out how to improve instruction and social services for ALL students.

In Indiana, the new superintendent of public instruction, Democrat Glenda Ritz, wants to pause to have a real conversation about the standards and the consequences of implementing them.

This information would help further the conversation about whether changes in core instruction are needed.

Making brief feedback available for teachers can start and continue the conversation about effective instruction and student learning.

The emphasis on improving test scores has overwhelmed every aspect of teachers» work, forcing them to spend precious collaborative time poring over student data rather than having conversations about students and instruction.

What I love most about the conference, besides the fact that it takes place at a great Bay area bookstore, is that it brings faculty and students together during days for instruction and during evenings for meals, wine and conversation.

Another colleague said he'd never had a client tempt him to go to the dark side but noted that he views his job as 50 per cent defending his clients and 50 per cent defending himself — keeping a clear head, being as transparent as he can about everything, getting clear written instructions from clients, leaving conversations if they get to a sketchy point.