Sentences with phrase «design lessons instead»

Excellent materials sit on shelves or are available online while teachers spend hours trying to design lessons instead of taking advantage of what already exists.

Not exact matches

Instead of an impressionistic study of the sort offered by Mirel, the kinds of reports that would be helpful to education professionals, and ultimately to students, include evaluations of designs that track individual student performance year to year; the percentage of students reaching local and state standards; a more widely disseminated study of design implementation so others can benefit from lessons learned; and the establishment of a district - wide roadmap for bringing comprehensive school improvement to fruition.

When designing projects and lessons at Crellin Elementary, teachers regularly look at school and community needs with the idea of using those needs as real - world catalysts for learning, instead of inventing problems for the kids to solve.

This week, we bring you instead a look at the future — lessons designed to help your students anticipate and prepare for the history they will make.

By looking for ways to improve, you might be inspired to perk up your design with new elements or streamline a lesson using media instead of font.

Giving the students the equations instead of deriving them removed the learning construction process that the lessons had been designed to achieve.

And so I can't help but emit some combination of a chuckle and a groan at the reaction to the SUNY Board of Trustees Charter Schools Committee's decision yesterday to permit charter schools to hire teachers without the standard year of coursework and promise to complete a Master's degree but, instead, have 160 hours of instruction in behavior management, lesson planning and other skills; have 40 hours of supervised experience in the field; and pass one exam designed to test strategies for teaching students with special needs and English learners.

Instead of long corridors that cordon off classrooms and age groups, the Booker T. Washington school was designed around central spaces with walls that open wide, enabling teachers and the school's 425 students to share lessons and materials.

Further, the sustainable school may well dial back the lessons of globalization, preferring instead to adopt a new regionalism and to find virtue in the frugal rather than in the profligate, expressing these preferences through design.