Sentences with phrase «current teaching practices»

The first section describes access to quality early education programs; the second examines if current teaching practices provide regular exposure to the skills identified within state standards at each grade level.

Special Education professors and faculty come from a variety of backgrounds and have a vast amount of experience in the field, ensuring that our students will learn the most current teaching practices in all areas.

During Year 1, these sessions focused on in - depth study of the content standards, examination of current teaching practices in light of the standards, and teacher research on the standards in action.

Folks involved with the Learning Differences Network, the Wisconsin Reading Coalition and the Wisconsin Branch of the International Dyslexia Association lay much of the blame for reading failure on current teaching practices and a reluctance to identify reading problems early in elementary school.

There is recognition that high quality instruction is the key to improved student learning, and teachers and school leaders are engaged in ongoing efforts to understand and meet the needs of individual learners and to improve on current teaching practices.

Participation in this course has given me the impetus to reflect on my own current teaching practices, and implement changes that have benefited both my career opportunities and the learning journey of the children,» Catherine explains.

The opportunity to choose a puzzle from current teaching practice, and then ensure carefully selected actions involve change in the classroom, followed by reflection and discussion with colleagues, is pivotal to our professional learning design.

When teachers see themselves as learners, are open to new ways of teaching and are willing to modify their current teaching practice through repeated cycles of systematic practice and reflection, they can gradually arrive at this accomplished level of formative assessment practice.

Not exact matches

I've come to the conclusion that Christian teaching in the current spiritual climate I have experienced doesn't always match with what happens in practice in Christian culture and that Christ wasn't a Christian.

The methods of form criticism help us to pick out aspects of the gospel accounts of Jesus» conduct and teaching which are in sharp contrast to the current practice and teaching of his day, and which it would not have been in the earliest church's interest to introduce into the material: for example, Jesus» attitude to women, his table - fellowship with «tax collectors and sinners», his refusal of the epithet «good», and Mark's comment — altered by Matthew — that in Nazareth «he could do no mighty work».

As a result, Hamilton makes extensive use of the «criterion of dissimilarity» to «pick out aspects of the gospel accounts of Jesus» conduct and teaching which are in sharp contrast to the current practice and teaching of his day» (PPCT 365).

Luther may well turn out to have backed the right horse in the end, to judge by current Roman Catholic theology, veering as it is towards Reformed theology on this point, but what he said was a contradiction of official Roman Catholic theology, and put him outside traditional understanding, teaching and practice.

In the current study, the authors describe how they designed THSB's student and teacher materials to increase teachers» knowledge of science ideas and practices and of strategies for teaching them.

Regardless of the class that I am teaching, or the class plan that I have prepared, the only thing that matters is that I enter their world, that I practice focused awareness and adapt my plan to their current status, and that I love them unconditionally.

By the end of the course, trainees will have the skills needed to teach Yoga and current Yoga teachers will have more information and techniques to experience a quantum leap in their effectiveness, personal practice, and profession.

The mentor is also trained to do objective observations of teaching so that evidence may be collected of a teacher's current practice.

Such programs are no longer appropriate or compatible with current skills expectations: automotive repair courses in high school where practice continued on components that had been replaced by sophisticated computers in current cars; cosmetology courses whose graduates didn't have the math skills to pass licensing requirements for hairdressers and ended up as hair shampooers; distributive education courses that taught «selling» but not the computer, computation, and communication skills needed for any but the lowest - level sales jobs.

In Anderson's class, heterogeneous groups of students rotate through four workstations, two focusing on the current topic of study — locating and naming the continents and oceans, for instance — and two focusing on a subject the students have already been taught but might need to practice in a different way.

Working with educators, we are updating the curriculum and assessment practices for the teaching of the global competencies that are necessary for the current and future economy, such as critical thinking, problem solving, innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, self - direction, collaboration, communication, global citizenship, and sustainability.

Our annual 2 - day Foundations of Child Play Therapy workshop will provide you with practical skills to apply in your current teaching or counselling practice and is also a great introduction to this innovative approach to mental health in children and adolescents.

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.

First, we can train and maximize what our current teaching staff can do through effective use of coaching, professional development opportunities, differentiated supervision practices, and hot, caffeinated beverages.

Taken together, we believe we have spelled out an approach to standardized testing grounded in the fact that assessments can gather critical information about our students» growth and our own teaching practice, while acknowledging that this potential will be lost if we ignore the need for improvements to our current system.

As in many American elementary schools, reading focused on teaching kids how to decode words (phonics, phonemic awareness, etc.), followed by plenty of exposure to texts targeted precisely at students» current reading levels, plus ample practice at the skills of «reading comprehension.»

I try to maintain a list of current numeracy and maths resources that take a context based approach, or that fit in as part of the skills and practice component of teaching maths in this way.

«Teacher content has helped assure me that the teaching strategies that I am currently using reflect current best practice.

Despite an overwhelming majority of educators and policy makers who see creative problem solving skills as critical for students success in this age of automation, many believe that current practices and policies stymie their ability to teach these critical skills.

The Council's eighteen members from academia, industry, and policy assessed current practices in early education and elementary school teaching and have designed a professional development «blueprint» to advance the use of effective digital media in teaching and learning, with a special emphasis on instruction for underserved students.

Core courses will familiarize you with a number of theoretical perspectives that have informed literacy research and teaching practices over the last 100 years, as well as with current perspectives on literacy research and practice.

It is difficult to fathom how public education imagines bringing about great advances in teaching and learning when its current structure does not allow it to invest seriously in understanding or improving its practices.

Her statement also indicates the prominent role that high - stakes testing plays in the current educational context and the shaping of teaching practices, including technology integration.

«What promises to increase the worth of districtwide professional development, especially if based within schools and involving teachers in the planning, are those efforts concentrating on prevailing beliefs among teachers about teaching and learning, current norms in the school community, and classroom practices.

Praise and agreement can not lead to teachers reforming their teaching practices; it can only confirm and entrench teachers» current practices.

They now wondered, were better teaching methods than their current practices?

Many current classroom teachers have yet to incorporate technology into their teaching practices.

Major Forum: Examining Professional Practice: Evolving Notions of Beginning Teacher Competencies Defining what teacher candidates should know and be able to do can be challenging, particularly given the continually evolving understanding of what teaching and learning should look like in the current education landscape.

Their cloud - based data analysis tool enables district leaders to diagnose the current state of teaching and learning within their district by having stakeholders complete an online inventory around the areas of leadership and vision, technology infrastructure, resources, instruction and learning, practice and implementation, and learner impact.

Stay current on eLearning with articles, best practice models and case studies for online administration, teaching, technology and design.

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HOT Schools professional development is grounded in current research and best practices in teaching and learning.

We need to move beyond the current practice of blaming teachers to a system of shared accountability so that donors, ministries of education, local education agencies, implementing agencies, directors and teachers are all responsible for producing measurable improvements in teaching quality.

We wanted to make sure that we reflect current teaching and assessment practices and provide a resource that will resonate with teachers and senior leaders.

To reach and teach the middle school math mind, understanding its inner workings and leveraging current best practices just makes sense.

The authors have combined their years of research and practice to deliver reliable, high - impact, flexible teaching and learning strategies grounded in current, highly regarded research to teachers at all levels of experience.

Our mission statement: eAchieve Academy provides a quality education for a wide variety of students by offering alternate solutions to traditional schooling utilizing current Internet technologies and proven teaching practices implemented by a team of professionals.

From the Preface: «This monograph, Teaching Educational Politics and Policy, is the principal product to date of the Politics of Education Teaching and Research (POE - TER) Project... Its objectives are to analyze and document current and exemplary teaching practices in the politics of education (and more broadly, in educational policymaking) and to chronicle new research directions in these politically oriented areasTeaching Educational Politics and Policy, is the principal product to date of the Politics of Education Teaching and Research (POE - TER) Project... Its objectives are to analyze and document current and exemplary teaching practices in the politics of education (and more broadly, in educational policymaking) and to chronicle new research directions in these politically oriented areasTeaching and Research (POE - TER) Project... Its objectives are to analyze and document current and exemplary teaching practices in the politics of education (and more broadly, in educational policymaking) and to chronicle new research directions in these politically oriented areasteaching practices in the politics of education (and more broadly, in educational policymaking) and to chronicle new research directions in these politically oriented areas.»

To the extent possible, hire practicing educators who have current K - 12 classroom experience to teach preservice teachers.

Grounded in current research and best practices in teaching and learning, it is designed to engage arts and non-arts classroom teachers, administrators, teaching artists and parents.

It helps identify how strengths and weaknesses in classroom teaching, principal instructional leadership, and central office practice, structures, and systems are contributing to students» current performance.

Rhee now describes teaching ability as something akin to an inborn talent, joking that no matter how much she practiced basketball, she could never play in the NBA like her fiancé Kevin Johnson, the former All - Star and current mayor of Sacramento.