Sentences with phrase «deepen content learning»

Visible Thinking, an approach to teaching thinking developed by Project Zero, has two goals: to deepen content learning and to cultivate students» thinking skills and thinking dispositions.

Designed to be used in all subjects and all grades, Visible Thinking has two goals: to cultivate students» thinking dispositions, and to deepen content learning.

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It would learn these things not principally from the «content» of the stories but from their «form»; whether a novel is, like O'Connor's, an experience of coming to belief within a recognizably Christian universe, or, like Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse - Five, an experience of deepening despair over the ways of the universe, it would see them both as parabolic stories.

All workshops are designed to help teachers deepen their science content knowledge, teach using inquiry and real world phenomena, and address STEM learning, NGSS, and Common Core Standards.

All workshops are designed to help teachers deepen their science content knowledge and address STEM learning, NGSS, and Common Core Standards.

Portfolios allow students to regularly reflect on their learning process — deepening their connection to content.

«Service learning, in contrast, is a teaching method that combines academic content with direct service experiences in which students provide genuine service to their school or community while extending or deepening their understanding of curricular content.»

It also strays from one of the pillars of flipped learning — namely, that the classroom be used as a laboratory to test, refine, explore, and deepen information through intentional content planned around the prior knowledge of students.

Program: Learning and Teaching Mission: To quietly empower teachers by deepening their content and pedagogical knowledge - base through targeted, hands - on professional development.

Share with each other what your standards and learning targets are, look for common goals, and brainstorm topics, guiding questions, and a final art product that can both deepen the academic learning and teach the art content.

Another way of increasing independent learning, while simultaneously improving pronunciation, extending speaking skills and deepening understanding, is to ask students to create their own digital language learning content.

Knowledge - rich schools deepen students» understanding on a wide range of topics, pairing the skills students need to be successful in school with the content knowledge that will prepare them for a lifetime of engaged learning.

Each of the types of learning experiences assists students in deepening their content knowledge and related skills while developing and using critical soft skills.

deepen student learning and develop a broad understanding of the arts through the integration of the arts into core content.

As a strategy employed by teacher leaders, lesson planning, review, or analysis may be used for various purposes: to focus attention on the content and learning outcomes in a lesson, rather than on an «activity for activity's sake»; to deepen understanding of «big ideas» and the content knowledge in a lesson; or for articulating the conceptual flow across lessons that guides student learning over time.

How the content standards and practice standards connect across grade levels to build on prior learning, deepen conceptual understanding, promote real - world application, and prepare students for high school level mathematics.

With MyFlexPD, educators use real - time student performance data to make more personalized professional learning choices, deepen content knowledge, and inform classroom instruction.

Throughout the week, you'll learn both collaboratively and individually to develop teacher knowledge practice and deepen core content knowledge.

In the Teacher Practice Networks initiative, facilitated by the Center for the Future of Teaching & Learning, districts and outside organizations partner to leverage their combined expertise to develop teacher leadership skills; deepen content pedagogical knowledge; and support meaningful, teacher - to - teacher professional lLearning, districts and outside organizations partner to leverage their combined expertise to develop teacher leadership skills; deepen content pedagogical knowledge; and support meaningful, teacher - to - teacher professional learninglearning.

To date, the project has identified seven categories of learning experiences that better engage students, deepen their content knowledge, improve their ability to solve real - world problems in culturally diverse contexts, and develop the «soft skills» (e.g., flexibility, ability to work collaboratively) they will need throughout their lives.

They are meant to deepen student understanding of content and to advance student learning.

Give an example of a learning activity designed to help students practice and deepen their understanding of new content.

Seek to grow both professionally and personally as an educator of students with varying learning needs by deepening content mastery, independently reading current literature, and improving in pedagogy

With an eye to building teacher capacity, the administrative team at DCIS at Ford is focusing teacher learning for 2015 — 16 year on deepening educators» understanding of the Common Core standards and what it will take for every student to master grade level content.

Writing to learn focuses on deepening understanding and improving retention of content.

Featuring concrete, hands - on activities that can be completed efficiently at the start of a unit, lesson, or topic, Activators help to: • Increase engagement in learning • Support a well - paced lesson • Generate connections to prior knowledge • Provide students with opportunities to practice skills and deepen understandings • Support formative assessment Although Activators have different formats, they all share two key components: individual think time and purposeful social interaction, which support students to develop quality responses to content and ideas while engaging with peers.

These LEAs are making equity and access a priority and aim to prepare each student to master the content and skills required for college - and career - readiness, provide each student the opportunity to pursue a rigorous course of study, and accelerate and deepen students» learning through attention to their individual needs.

Talking with peers about classroom content can deepen learning, especially for students that are verbal processors.

Funded by the Annenberg Foundation, this initiative focuses on literacy and math coaches providing support to teachers from across the major subject areas to create literacy - rich classrooms in which students actively engage in learning tasks that deepen their content knowledge and strengthen their abilities to think critically and communicate well.

As teachers collaborate and discuss student work — looking for student understandings and misunderstanding of content — they begin to share ideas about instructional shifts and strategies to deepen understanding of student learning.

While these interviews were focused on «lessons learned» as MSPs engaged in work to deepen teacher content knowledge, many of the «lessons» were pertinent to teacher leadership and were included in our synthesis of practice - based insights.