Sentences with phrase «focus on science content»

Perhaps one classroom would focus on science content and labs, with materials to support the inquiry.

Content - specific PD and support that focus on science content, technological knowledge, and pedagogy may be important to the successful integration of technology in science classrooms.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

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Given its focus on science, Zaslav sees a lot of opportunity to expand its reach with more short form video content digitally, he said.

To date much social science research in communication has focused on either the message content or media effects - linear models.

Roast addresses the art, science and business of coffee roasters by covering the issues most important to them with quality editorial content focused on the technical aspects of coffee.

The museum features three vibrant floors of exhibits and activities that provide sensory experiences and engaging educational content focusing on literacy, science, math, visual and performing arts, and health.

In addition to authoritative insights and collections of reviews, features, and News Focus articles in Science, Science's Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment and the Science of Aging Knowledge Environment will offer special content on drug discovery.

The companion piece to this article, «Scientists under the microscope,» focuses on how to distinguish between scientific criticism and personal attacks.Both of these stories tie in with Science's special section on the end of privacy in science.The content in this issue is free to access through 5 February 2015.

3 Where traditional science education has focused on large volumes of content, NGSS encourages students to be active learners through inquiry - based learning.

I think teachers make choices about classroom content based on what ideas and skills are important for children and what they can offer by way of support for reasoning and learning, and without a feeling for Science, they tend to focus elsewhere.

Significant effects of professional - development programs were found when programs focused on content knowledge in the math and science subject areas plus pedagogical training in teaching the subject matter.

The law should further specify that the science and social science assessments be cumulative and comprehensive, and not focused just on the content taught during the tested grade level.

Like the NGSS, PBL focuses not only on the content of science, but also on the content of being a scientist.

In our Integrated Science course we are focusing on the content requirements of the Iowa Core and 21st Century skill in a very hands - on and technology rich environment.

The project was conducted during afternoon science time every other day, and focused mainly on science content standards for human physiology.

So for myself, and focusing on Science and Maths predominantly, it's really about picking topics, concepts, content even [that has] that potential to be interesting.

The effort to insist on «assessment boundaries» — which narrow the focus of a standard by setting a ceiling on the content that can be assessed — in connection with every standard often leads to a «dumbing down» of what might actually be learned about a topic, seemingly in the interest of «one - size - fits - all» science that won't be too challenging for students.

This lesson plan is compliant with the following California State Standards: Grade Five Mathematics Content Standards: Measurement and Geometry 1.0 Students understand and compute the volumes and areas of simple objects: Grade Six Science Content Standards: Focus on Earth Science: Shaping Earth's Surface

In extensions to grades K - 2 and 6 - 8, modified versions of the original Science IDEAS model are used to focus learning on grade - appropriate science cScience IDEAS model are used to focus learning on grade - appropriate science cscience content.

Learn - Abouts assist in developing strong literacy skill while focusing on content area learning as it relates to science and social studies.

With the recent launch of four new lesson plans, in addition to a professional development training video and an archived webinar focusing on project - based learning and 21st century skills, TGR EDU: Explore is rapidly expanding its library of transformative content for teachers, students and families in the areas of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and college - access.

Project work with a science or social studies focus allows students to build on their knowledge across content areas.

We focus on learning science research in the following areas: cognition, social - emotional learning, biographical background, and research specific to the content area.

Though this may not match the philosophical orientation of all science educators, the suggestion to have students use classroom technology to collect data (as a simplified process) and focus on the content being addressed rather than the mechanics of data collection is worthy of consideration (Webb, 2005).

Success for all is at the heart of our work, with a focus on the reading, writing, math, social studies and science content and skills our students will need within and beyond the walls of our school.

The content will focus on creating relevance and engagement for student learning in the science setting, while also being cognizant of the Next Generation Science Stascience setting, while also being cognizant of the Next Generation Science StaScience Standards.

For example, inquiry science serves as a conceptual framework for our project, and it focuses our work on the extent to which science lessons are inquiry based, both in terms of science content, instructional design, and verbal questioning behaviors and interactions.

Professional development under Title IIA for public and private school staff members must focus on the promotion of academic achievement in one of the core content areas of English, reading or language arts, math, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history, geography and social studies.

Charter schools typically focus on specific subject area such as mathematics or science and provide rigorous content that exceed state expectations in those areas.

This study examines the development of technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge (TPACK) in four in - service secondary science teachers as they participated in a professional development program focusing on technology integration into K - 12 classrooms to support science as inquiry teaching.

Given Achieve3000's focus on nonfiction content and vocabulary, your intervention students will not miss out on the essential grade - level, standards - aligned instruction in Science and Social Studies classes.

A: CSI — Comprehension Strategies Instruction has a strong focus on content literacy and building comprehension strategies and skills across science, social studies, math, and Language Arts.

Professional development focused on science and math content as well as language and literacy development.

English, reading or language arts World languages Arts Mathematics Economics Science Geography History Government and Civics In addition to these subjects, we believe schools must move beyond a focus on basic competency to promoting understanding of academic content at much higher levels by weaving 21st century interdisciplinary themes into curriculum:

Intervention B, the QuEST intervention, which had an additional focus on building science content knowledge, was successful in accomplishing this goal (August, Branum - Martin, Hagan, & Francis, 2009).

Karl holds a Bachelor's degree in Communications from Columbia College in Chicago; a Master's degree in Elementary Education with a Middle School Endorsement; and an Educational Doctorate in Teacher Leadership and Innovation from Arizona State University with a focus on movie making in the classroom and its effect on students» 21st century learning skills and science content in middle school classrooms.

In her article «Scientists at Work,» which appeared in the November 2013 issue of Book Links, Sunday Cummins notes, «Traditionally, science standards have focused on core content related to the physical, life, and earth sciences.

I believe this has to do with focusing on keeping content short, fun, and valuable to my science fiction / fantasy reader base.

Fun, hands - on activities focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and health and wellness content.

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Our DOE Comment focuses entirely on the new science concerning the equilibrium climate sensitivity, that is, how much the earth's average surface temperature will increase from a doubling of the atmospheric carbon dioxide content.

«The recent dramatic cooling of the average heat content of the upper oceans, and thus a significant negative radiative imbalance of the climate system for at least a two year period, that was mentioned in the Climate Science weblog posting of July 27, 2006, should be a wake - up call to the climate community that the focus on predictive modeling as the framework to communicate to policymakers on climate policy has serious issues as to its ability to accurately predict the behavior of the climate system.

Editor's note: Once upon a time, political arguments over the content of science education focused on a single topic: evolution.While it would be wonderful to think that such debates ended with the Scopes Monkey Trial, I live in Missouri... where some members of our legislature still think our science classrooms are the proper places for ideological debates.

I focus primarily on the science content of the piece, except where non-science arguments are clearly false and demand correction.

While the InterPARES research is focused on electronic records, it has drawn heavily on the science of diplomatics, which emerged in Europe in the sixteenth century to detect forgeries among legal documents through a careful analysis of the content, structure and context of a record.

We are working on behalf of our members and the field on a number of projects and initiatives that focus on bolstering the profession and aligning content and resources around the science behind best practices that support how children develop and learn