Sentences with phrase «driving teacher interest»

Development of micro-credentialing programs and other strategies for driving teacher interest and engagement with blended learning

Development of micro-credentialing programs and other strategies for driving teacher interest and engagement with student - centered learning

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Wagner offers no broad policy prescriptions in the interview to fix these problems in America's schools, but if you're an individual parent or teacher interested in encouraging an innovative outlook in your kids, he has lots of ideas (less scheduled time, more unstructured play or self - driven exploration, for instance).

Technology allows for teachers to create environments where student interest can help to drive the learning process.

Teachers interested in creating more student - driven learning experiences, especially in the STEM fields, are likely to benefit from Pancic's strategies and the resources he finds useful.

The most interesting thing we found, however, was that the findings about black students with same - race teachers experiencing less exclusionary discipline were driven largely by a reduction in «willful defiance» incidents.

Schools (and teachers) can veer from that default, or build upon it, or excavate under it, if they have the interest, capacity, and drive to do so.

Far from a top - down initiative, driven from afar by nationalizers, privatizers and moneyed interests, the Core Task Project is homegrown, teacher - led, and the product of a mid-sized and diverse public school system.

The vision for the ZoN is driven by what inspires successful student learning: grounded by student interest and curiosity, and reinforced by quality teachers and visionary mentors, is relevant, integrated, interactive and inspiring.

Our model curriculum would be driven by the needs of students, rather than the myriad interests of schools and teachers.

It becomes more of a partnership with the teacher when the students are helping to design the projects and activities along the lines of inquiry, which is driven by their curiosity and interest.

They examine how teachers can redesign the curriculum and differentiate instruction to respond to students» natural human interests — the drive for mastery, the drive to understand, the drive toward self - expression, and the need to relate — in order to engage even the most reluctant learners.

Today, Jarod Bormann, author of Professionally Driven: Empower Every Educator To Redefine PD talks about designing PD that works and interests teachers.

Parent Trigger changes the dialogue from one in which district bureaucracies, including school boards, administrators, teacher unions and others fight over turf and economic interests to one driven by the question: «What is best for our kids?

As districts and schools seek to model personalized learning in support of teachers» professional growth, micro-credentials offer a cost - effective way to provide flexible, interest - driven, shareable, and competency - based activities for teachers to «show what they know.»

Her professional interests lie in curriculum design, data driven instruction, as well as teacher and leadership development.

With increasing interest in student - driven classroom evaluation, more schools consider student evaluations of teachers viable.

They note, «In our 25 + combined years of teaching experience as well as our work as educational consultants who support middle and secondary teachers around the country, we've witnessed up close the ways in which these Activator formats ignite students» attention and interest, maximize participation and drive well - paced lessons that deepen learning in meaningful ways.»

«Kumbaya, that's your word,» Emanuel said with a laugh as he returned to the scrum of TV cameras and made a case for the common interests he has been arguing for months that the teachers union and the city share in their fight with Rauner to help close a $ 480 million budget gap driven by pension costs.

Our grants get their momentum from the teachers who drive projects that interest them.

Her current work is driven by an interest in what it means to be a «teacher,» how these meanings are culturally produced, and how they interact with policy frames of teachers and teaching.

With the ELA standards» inclusion of literacy development across subject areas, ample opportunities for interdisciplinary and interest - driven learning are possible but require careful instructional design so that gifted students are afforded learning geared to their continued development as assessed regularly by the classroom teacher.

Through the training, teachers learn to create dynamic, student - centered learning experiences where they can achieve curriculum standards through rigorous, engaging projects that are driven by student interest and community / global connections.

Her interests are centered on education policy, particularly on teacher quality, data use in schools, technology - driven education reform, and military veterans in higher education.

In one standards - driven district, primary grade teachers attended a staff - development session that they had requested and in which they had high interest.

As trained teachers, our instructors have a vested interest in creating a safer driving environment.