Sentences with phrase «educative supports»

With science educator, Betsy Davis and the ELECTS team, she has recently conducted a series of studies investigating the value of educative supports for science teaching in the upper elementary grades.

The majority of teachers noted that both their science pedagogical content knowledge and geospatial pedagogical content knowledge increased as a direct result of their use of the curriculum and educative support materials (Table 3).

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``... any educative activity, related to education for love and carried out by persons outside the family, must be subject to the parents» acceptance of it and must not be seen not as a substitute but as a support for their work.

It is encouraging to find that RCE models served a major educative role for students who felt they were not exposed to exemplary models of literacy instruction in their practicum placements and a supporting role for students who had enriched experiences in the internship.

This article advances a continuing line of inquiry into the potential of digital educative curriculum materials to support teachers» development of professional teaching knowledge.

Supporting science teacher learning: The role of educative curriculum materials.

This project illustrates an effective approach for designing a Web GIS - integrated curriculum with educative curriculum materials that can be used to support the professional growth of teachers when face - to - face professional development time is limited.

Educative curriculum materials can also include pedagogical implementation supports provided in the materials to engage teachers in the ideas underlying curriculum developers» decisions (Davis & Krajcik, 2005; Remillard, 2000).

The curriculum includes a series of educative materials designed to support teacher implementation of the investigations including,

In these ways, educative curriculum materials can promote teachers» pedagogical design capacity, or their ability to use instructional resources and the supports embedded in curriculum materials to adapt curriculum to achieve productive instructional ends (Brown, 2009).

Educative curriculum materials have the potential to support teacher learning in a variety of ways.

Embedded supports must be included within the curriculum in the form of educative materials — features of curriculum materials designed to support teacher pedagogical content knowledge in addition to student learning (Davis & Krajcik, 2005).

This is an opportunity for women to share their experiences, gain greater understanding, offer support to others and receive support through an educative, therapeutic and supportive group.

Nations vary in the extent to which quality child care is viewed as a government responsibility to be supported by regulation and public funding.5 Since support for education is widely regarded as an appropriate government function, it would appear that some nations still have an inadequate appreciation of the educative role of child care.