Sentences with phrase «effective student teaching»

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But many scholars have challenged the «sage on a stage» approach to teaching science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses, arguing that engaging students with questions or group activities is more effective.

Matthews, the student who came out at Wheaton in 2010 — he now teaches middle school science in Connecticut - wrestles with whether the group OneWheaton will be an effective network since its views are far from the college's stance on sexuality.

I think we will soon see that schools in which professors are not fully committed to teaching and the life of the mind do not form the characters or intellects of students and may not be effective even in imparting technical skills.

Schools create «white elephants» if they don't teach faculty and students effective use of the new technologies and resources.

Students should provide perspective in their essays on who should receive sex education, what sex education should include, what would make it more inclusive and effective, why sex education is important, what they did and did not learn in their previous sex education class, what they wish they had learned, and how sex education can be taught more effectively in schools.

It's about teaching students to be positive and productive, teaching them to prioritize and make effective use of their time, and teaching them to be reflective and self - aware.

Missy has put together a comprehensive, simple, and effective curriculum, and I can't wait to start teaching this to my students and doula clients.

Level 1 students taught by these teachers two years in a row were almost 7 times more likely to score a Level 3 or above in 2013 - 14 than their peers not assigned to highly effective teachers.

Recentanalysis by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.

A new report finds those students in NYC who most depend on highly effective teachers are instead the students most likely to be taught by teachers rated «Unsatisfactory.»

Effective teaching and learning have been hampered at the La Presby Senior High School, as students, including beneficiaries of government's Free SHS policy, are forced to study in uncompleted buildings without marker boards and adequate desks.

(New York, NY) Jan. 10, 2013 — Those students in New York City who most depend on highly effective teachers are instead the students most likely to be taught by teachers rated «Unsatisfactory,» according to an eye - opening study of the City's teacher rating data, published today by StudentsFirstNY, an education advocacy organization with more than 150,000 members across New York State.

Recent analysis by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.

Brownell studies biology education, in particular how undergraduate biology students learn and how instructors can develop more effective ways to teach.

The study, published in The Journal of Social Studies Research, shows iCivics is an effective tool for teaching civics concepts to primary and middle school students.

Another effective measure that could be taken at a university level is that postgraduate departments should impose a limit on the number of students supervised by an individual lecturer, especially when the latter has increased teaching and administrative duties.

These practices, which are valuable teaching methods that can benefit all students, are particularly effective for retaining minority students.

Now in its second year, this unique program teaches graduate students a variety of professional skills — ranging from preparing an effective conference talk to budgeting an independent consulting business — that will help them in any career they choose, either inside or outside the Ivory Tower.

The most effective teachers are those who know their students» background, who teach in a manner that builds on students» previous knowledge, and who challenge their students to work to their maximum ability.

This teaching case is meant to introduce students to the qualities of effective entrepreneurs and to the decision - making process involved in pursuing a business prospect.

«Our results suggest that students also turn to these types of effective learning strategies when they expect to teach.»

Findings suggest that simply telling learners that they would later teach another student changes their mindset enough so that they engage in more effective approaches to learning than did their peers who simply expected a test.

The highly motivated, fee - paying students at IUB, ECLA, and the University of Witten - Herdecke demand effective and individual teaching, points out Schwappach.

Responding to the country's critical need for STEM teachers, and for teaching that supports students all the way to graduation and employment in ever - expanding STEM fields, education researchers and practitioners have fought hard to build effective approaches, and AAAS has helped to spearhead those efforts, said Rush Holt, AAAS CEO and executive publisher of the Science family of journals.

The University of Nebraska - Lincoln's Marilyne Stains and her colleagues found that 55 percent of STEM classroom interactions consisted mostly of conventional lecturing, a style that prior research has identified as among the least effective at teaching and engaging students.

So the team will retain this effective model of undergraduates teaching over 1300 local school students each year, but plans to update the curriculum to help students better see how plant genetics is pertinent to their world.

Although this curriculum has been effective at teaching undergraduates genetics and biotechnology, which has been documented through publications, the assessments have demonstrated that this curriculum is not leading the students to make connections to real world issues that build on plant genetics.

Josh's passion is in teaching and sharing his knowledge and experience to help those that seek guidance in offering the most effective natural healthcare practices and seeks to empower his students to dig deeper in understanding both the research and application of clinical and functional nutrition.

Each module enables enrolled students to cultivate necessary skills for effective and heart - centered teaching: deep knowledge of asana, alignment and modifications, classroom presence, consistency, and authenticity.

In my teaching it's been very effective in strengthening students» lower backs, but every teacher decides for himself, or course.

These challenges need to be met via regular mindfulness practices as norms in the following areas: school administrators, school union leadership, school structure and process, teacher and classroom structure and climate, effective mindfulness curriculum and QUALIFIED trainers, effective teaching skills, and optimal motivated learning by students.

Two other studies — one involving 79 pairs of teachers in Los Angeles (which I wrote with Douglas Staiger) and the Measures of Effective Teaching study involving 1,591 teachers in six different school districts (which I wrote with Dan McCaffrey, Trey Miller and Douglas Staiger)-- randomly assigned teachers to different groups of students within a grade and subject in a school.

Experienced teachers are, on average, more effective at raising student performance than those in their early years of teaching.

It also reduces student confusion, increases overall clarity, and makes your online teaching more effective.

For instance, if you teach language arts and the goal of the unit is teaching students how to write an effective response to literature or a literary analysis essay, who says everyone has to write about the same book written by some ancient dead writer (no offense, dead writers)?

But when you simplify your systems and processes, you reduce student confusion, increase overall clarity, and make your online teaching more effective.

Harvard and MIT Release Working Papers on Open Online Learning Harvard Gazette, 1/21/14 «Led by Andrew Ho of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Isaac Chuang of MIT's electrical engineering and computer science and physics departments, the effort was in service of a mutual goal — «to research how students learn and how technologies can facilitate effective teaching both on - campus and online» — part of a mission statement established when MIT and Harvard joined to form edX, a nonprofit online learning platform, in May 2012.»

The article's argument is summarized by the conclusion: «Service learning has the characteristics of effective teaching and learning approaches for student engagement, and leads to lifelong benefits.»

A study done in 2011 by the Studies & Research Committee of the Massachusetts Reading Association states that, «Effective vocabulary instruction is characterized by deliberate selection of words to be taught and frequent opportunities for students to interact with the words in meaningful contexts.

«Part of effective teaching is the use of appropriate assessments to inform teachers of the achievement level of students so that appropriate teaching and intervention strategies can be put in place if a child is not achieving at the expected level.»

The impulse to grow and better serve students is a worthy one, yet the road to effective teaching is not a straight line.

Edutopia sat down with Navarro to talk about his early life, the start of his teaching career, and why he thinks he's been so effective at reaching disadvantaged students.

A fun, interactive tutorial teaching students how to create effective animations in PowerPoint that grab the audience's attention, without looking silly or «over the top».

Students then enter the teaching profession with the skills and dispositions to become effective and successful teachers while receiving continued coaching and training from HGSE.

The same study found that the most effective way to instruct students in the writing process is the Self - Regulated Strategy Development method, where each stage is taught through providing a rationale to students for why it's necessary along with clear models, scaffolded support, and regular opportunities to practice it.

To accomplish this task, she remains focused on ensuring that every school has strong principals who support effective teaching and personalized learning for every student.

Beyond opportunities to observe and analyze instructional practice and student work, participants also worked together to apply effective protocols and build teamwork to improve teaching and learning.

Continual reminders that students are failing to meet high standards are less effective than establishing where exactly individuals are in their learning, tailoring teaching to meet students at their points of need, and monitoring and celebrating excellent progress towards high standards.

While this could be seen as damning proof that technology does not have the capability to improve educational outcomes, and instead provides a platform for students to be become distracted from learning, Andreas Schleicher, OECD director for education and skills, concluded that schools systems «need to find more effective ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning».

Ofsted's guidance on effective self - evaluation highlights that it needs to be able to capture the impact of the school's actions on the quality of teaching, students» achievement, behaviour and safety.