Sentences with phrase «deeper conceptual understanding»

«This book reminds us that we need to go back to models of learning and use them to help students see similarities and differences, learn how to summarize and take notes, practice deliberately, use imagery to build a deeper conceptual understanding on which they can «hang» surface level knowledge, learn from one another, solve problems, generate and test hypotheses, and give and receive feedback,» wrote education professor and author John Hattie in his foreword to the publication.

Also, new tests seem to have applied some lessons from the previous generation — they are more comprehensive in their coverage and do a better job at assessing deeper conceptual understanding than previous renditions.

«We were looking for a digital program that promoted a deeper conceptual understanding of math,» explains Noland.

Teachers who prompt students through thoughtful questioning help their students develop analytical skills and deeper conceptual understanding.

The MET report considered this exact issue and concluded that «Teachers with high value - added on state tests tend to promote deeper conceptual understanding as well.»

Learning is manifested by a deeper conceptual understanding; by the transfer, the application, and especially the creation of knowledge (Grennon Brooks & Brooks, 1999); and the concomitant development of higher order thinking abilities.

As has been well - documented for both children and their teachers, opportunities for reflecting upon practice enriches conceptual understanding, and deeper conceptual understanding improves practice (Bransford, 2000).

«Maker - centered learning supports a deeper conceptual understanding, so we really appreciate the power of maker - centered learning and hands - on learning when it comes to understanding mathematical ideas, or a scientific idea, or understanding civics and how the world around us works.»

The standards call on teachers to work toward a deeper conceptual understanding and to foster mathematical reasoning.

DreamBox has a challenging, standards - aligned curriculum, available in English and Spanish, that is evidence based to promote student growth and deeper conceptual understanding by encouraging different pathways to solving problems.

Students who participate in science experiments, instead of just observing them, have a deeper conceptual understanding of science.

If you're using personal response systems, or clickers, a new study provides a note of caution: While they seem to boost students» ability to retain factual knowledge, that may come at the cost of deeper conceptual understanding.

Is it possible for students to demonstrate deeper conceptual understanding and get the same or better scores on an AP test?

This approach misses the key concept of «why», the deeper conceptual understanding of how we navigate our way through our world.

Deep conceptual understanding is fundamental to the teaching and learning of mathematics at Westgarth Primary School.

But the curriculum we wrote, available to anyone for free at EngageNY or Eureka Math, sought to help students gain a deep conceptual understanding of math, while also emphasizing strong computational skills.

The lessons are tied to important content knowledge and skills, and the lesson activities help students develop deep conceptual understanding and connections among concepts rather than surface level understanding and knowledge of disconnected facts.

The Common Core State Standards expect students to demonstrate deep conceptual understanding through the application of content knowledge and skills in new situations; however, «the specific content standards provide limited guidance as to how, when, or to what degree...

Recent findings point to the importance of building on prior knowledge, constructing learning environments that promote cognitive development, reflection, and deep conceptual understanding.

In fact, most lessons connect multiple content standards, and help build deep conceptual understanding through real - world contexts.

Data from student test scores should be used by schools to move students to mastery and a deep conceptual understanding of key concepts as well as to inform instruction, target remediation, and to focus review efforts.

How the content standards, practice standards, and designated modeling standards connect across domains, categories, grade bands, and traditional course boundaries to help students develop both deep conceptual understanding and functional, real - world application skills.

At CEI we support the promise of the Common Core, particularly in terms of a common curricula, deep conceptual understanding, and its yardstick for measuring progress.

Morgan theorizes that, just as children need to practice reading a lot and become fluent readers before they can analyze texts, math students need to become fluent with basic operations before they can talk about multiple methods for solving problems or arrive at deep conceptual understandings.

With Guided Math, students develop a deep conceptual understanding of math, acquire computational fluency, and become skilled in thinking and acting mathematically.

Comprehensive research - affirmed analysis tools and strategies will help collaborative teams develop and assess student demonstrations of deep conceptual understanding and procedural fluency.

Children explore and investigate with hands - on resources to build deep conceptual understanding and number sense.

Our Alabama College and Career Ready Standards relate primarily to what students will learn and because the standards emphasize reasoning and problem - solving skills as well as developing deep conceptual understanding the implications for instruction are transformative.

From 2017, the top grade will be much harder to achieve and will require deep conceptual understanding of a broad range of mathematical topics, as well as strong reasoning and problem - solving skills.

Progress in Mathematics provides rigorous content focused on building deep conceptual understanding of key math skills and concepts at each grade level.

Not exact matches

In the last few pages of the book he speaks frankly about the «serious crisis» suffered by concept of «Traditio», the «deep wound which the Church is experiencing after Vatican II», owing to the refashioning of the understanding of Revelation from the conceptual, propositional approach of Vatican I and scholastic theology to the notion of Revelation as experience and encounter, leading to «a displacement of the dynamic aspect of revelation to the detriment of the noetic», «a gap between truth and love» and a «strong subjectivism».

As a result, at least for many Christians, the deeper dimensions of their psychic makeup have often had little resonance with their vision of God, even though their conceptual understanding may have appeared

Finally for conceptual collaboration, a teacher must dive into the deep water of conceptual understanding in the other content area.

Ironically — and especially plaguing to advocates of deeper learning and conceptual understanding — experts tend to forget just how much they've absorbed into long - term memory and thus take most of their foundational mastery for granted.

Online programs may use standardized tests that measure out - of - date skills — focusing on declarative knowledge (facts) versus procedural, conceptual, and epistemological knowledge (application of skills, deep understanding, and methods of knowledge acquisition, respectively).

Common Core standards push students to develop a deep, conceptual understanding of content.

Research finds that students who are engaged with content in deep ways while developing conceptual understanding are better able to develop skills in specific areas, such as math or language development.Yoshikawa et al., Investing in Our Future.

To develop competence in an area of inquiry, students must (a) have a deep foundation of factual knowledge, (b) understand facts and ideas in the context of a conceptual framework, and © organize knowledge in ways that facilitate retrieval and application.

«The number of topics, for example, with the Indiana Academic Standards is very broad at each grade level, while Common Core is very narrow but very deep for conceptual understand,» Walker told the panel of state lawmakers.

We assess what we know to be of value: deep subject knowledge, conceptual understanding, and higher level thinking skills.

Yeah, it's hard, and both teachers and students will struggle with it initially, but the status quo wasn't cutting it — you could earn a 3 or 4 on the CMT without a deep, conceptual understanding of anything.

Teachers exclaim time and time again how conceptual teaching and learning helps students retain information, reach understanding on a deeper level, and transfer their learning to new situations.

Come and explore the conceptual path and strategies to move students to deeper understanding of addition and subtraction.

Develop a «less is more» content mindset: fewer standards will result in the opportunity of time needed for deeper rigor and conceptual understanding work with students.

A much more effective mantra would be to adopt «problem solving» approaches as this emphasizes the problem, the problem clarification, the notion of success that comes from resolving problems and asks for a better balance between surface, deep, and conceptual understandings.

«People are not required to have degrees in advanced calculus, not required to have PhDs, they are required to have a very deep, conceptual understanding of what is taught in elementary schools.

They both possess a profoundly deep understanding of and research in literature and art history, including Renaissance old masters, modernism, conceptual and performance art, and especially feminist art of the 1960s - 1970s.

Research finds that students who are engaged with content in deep ways while developing conceptual understanding are better able to develop skills in specific areas, such as math or language development.Yoshikawa et al., Investing in Our Future.