Sentences with phrase «discrete skills in»

Skills are important, and I think the best teachers teach discrete skills in ways that allow diverse learners to become successful.

Not exact matches

And having a workforce trained in discrete and atomizable bits of skills will be seen as a benefit by employers.

Culinary historian Karen Hess called the use of hot peppers in traditional Virginia cooking «highly skilled and discrete.»

The result was a report titled «Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners,» published in June 2012, which for the first time represented noncognitive skills — or «noncognitive factors,» as the report called them — not as a set of discrete abilities that individual children might somehow master (or fail to master), but as a collection of mindsets and habits and attitudes that are highly dependent on the context in which children are learning.

Years of treating reading as a discrete subject or a skill — teaching it and testing it that way — have arguably set reading achievement in reverse.

Based on comparative study of curriculum innovations, I can point out six «beyonds,» where educators are venturing beyond the traditional disciplines, in brief: beyond content, infusing 21st century skills, competences, etc.; beyond local, embracing global perspectives, problems, and studies; beyond topics, transforming topics into tools of broad understanding; beyond the traditional disciplines, renewing and extending those disciplines; beyond discrete disciplines, embracing interdisciplinary topics and problems; beyond academic engagement, fostering personal significance, commitment, and passion.

'' «Unpacking» often results in a checklist of discrete skills and a fostering of skill - and - drill instruction that can fragment and isolate student learning in such a way that conceptual understanding, higher order thinking, cohesion, and synergy are made more difficult.

She had discrete skills and interests — fashion, for one, as well as graphic arts and music — which she was eager to apply in her schoolwork.

In the elementary schools, instruction was predominantly teacher - led, focused on discrete skill instruction, and driven by management concerns.

Future developers of such programs would benefit from clearer documentation of the discrete components of these programs and the connection of these components to changes in teacher leader knowledge and skills.

«The idea that learning should be designed with a clear goal was, and still is, a good one... but basing lessons on lists of knowledge and skills, then measuring those skills to death for 13 years in discrete pieces that never seem to thread back together into any recognizable meaningful whole?

This is why the Times rightfully asked a qualified researcher at Rand Corp., the Santa Monica - based think tank, to devise a sophisticated statistical model in an attempt to isolate the discrete effect of pedagogical skills on student growth.

Tracking makes a few assumptions: learning is a race to the end of the curriculum, the only things worth learning are what's in the curriculum, and learning means acquiring facts and discrete skills.

A framework presenting a holistic view of 21st Century teaching and learning that combines a discrete focus on 21st Century student outcomes (a blending of specific skills, content knowledge, expertise and literacies) with innovative support systems to help students master the multi-dimensional abilities required of them in the 21st Century and beyond.

Conversations about performance on individual «indicators,» as they are called in my jurisdiction, often border on the absurd because most of us realize that reading skills are not something that can be separated out cleanly into discrete abilities.

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However, SEI as implemented in Arizona carries serious negative consequences for EL students stemming from the excessive amount of time dedicated to it, the de-emphasis on grade level academic curriculum, the discrete skills approach it employs, and the segregation of EL students from mainstream peers.

The study showed simply that children who were exposed to instruction regarding phonics, simple writing and counting manipulatives frequently in preschool, and then were tested on these discrete skills near the beginning of kindergarten, did better on those tests than children who were not exposed at all or as frequently to this instruction.

A micro credential is a competency based credential focused on a discrete skill related to practice (in this case the array of practice of teacher leadership) based on a collection of evidence.

Quick and targeted assessments of discrete skills that indicate whether students are making adequate progress in reading achievement

Because lab teachers are responsible for a small number of students, they can confer with them every two to three days; these conferences become platforms for both informal assessment and coaching in discrete skills.

Proven skills in high volume manufacturing for both discrete and continuous process products.

The checklist has 56 discrete items keyed to engagement, session structure, and each of the concepts / skills in each sessions of the curriculum; comment sections address therapeutic and working alliance.