Sentences with phrase «focus on student learning helps»

Setting goals that connect to the classroom and focus on student learning helps educators see, learn from, and communicate their results.

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Math education software DreamBox provides educators with recordings and data into how students are learning and progressing so that educators can focus on the areas where their classrooms need the most help.

The increase in funding will help ensure that students, teachers and school district staff can focus their energy on teaching and learning.

Implement an advisory system to focus on social and emotional learning and to help students find faculty advocates.

By focusing on the day - to - day necessities of a healthy schedule; an engaging, personalized, and rigorous curriculum; and a caring climate, this book is an invaluable resource for school leaders, teachers, parents, and students to help them design learning communities where every student feels a sense of belonging, purpose, and motivation to learn the skills necessary to succeed now and in the future.

A growing number of Canadian elementary schools have added stationary bikes in classrooms to help students focus on learning.

Strategies focus on pre-reading tasks, developing sight word vocabulary, mediated reading instruction, phonics, and possibly language therapy to help students learn.

Breakfast in The Classroom at Alta Loma has assisted with not only getting students to school on time (it has decreased our tardy rate) but it has helped to ensure students are eating a healthy breakfast, and are ready / focused to learn.

The first round of grants will focus on three areas: building commitment among policymakers and business and community leaders to increase postsecondary completion rates; improving the ability of institutions of higher learning to help struggling students at two - and four - year colleges finish their programs,...

Growth Mindset Sticker Chart: This completely EDITABLE sticker chart is designed to celebrate your students» achievements in a way that helps them focus on and value the process of learning.

Focusing on the features students need in order to share their learning with the world can help us place tasks before apps.

When school decisions are being made, begin every discussion by reminding everyone involved to focus on what will most help students achieve success in learning.

Regardless of the scenario, maintaining a focus on student choice helps to create learning environments of meaning where student voices matter.

Since I started giving the students time to explore the things that interest them, I can focus on being a «guide on the side» to help them during their learning process.

The focus can be on helping students become empathetic and compassionate while learning to appreciate differences.

As a result of their mindset shifting, teachers like Mrs. Cox are able to focus on their true passion, which is helping students learn by planning the «how» instead of the what, when, or why.

Initially, the 1:1 course would focus on helping every student and teacher learn to use an iPad, alleviating some of the support tickets assigned to the IT department which, at the time, consisted of three individuals.

Stephanie says these meetings typically take place in a lesson or two following the test and are focused on learning dispositions, which help each student improve their personal growth and understanding.

These series of lessons will help students learn about the importance on rules in religion and will focus on Jewish and Islamic food laws, the Jewish Shabbat, the Five Pillars of Islam, the Precepts in Buddhism and the 5Ks of Sikhism.

«Helping students to have freedom to feel mistakes are part of the learning process will allow for students to focus more on developing effective strategies connected to the academic task at hand, rather than worrying about getting a perfect score on a test.»

Your Students: No Two Are Alike Educator Brenda Dyck reflects on how she focuses the first two weeks of instruction on helping students become familiar with their learning stStudents: No Two Are Alike Educator Brenda Dyck reflects on how she focuses the first two weeks of instruction on helping students become familiar with their learning ststudents become familiar with their learning strengths.

They encourage students to focus on high - frequency GERMAN verbs, are ideal for independent learning and perfect for pair and small - group work - the games really do help to create a lively language learning environment.

Despite the need to keep the focus on academic achievement, the Teacher Advancement Program acknowledges that research has identified pedagogical methods that help students learn, so it includes evaluation of classroom skills as part of its teacher compensation system.

As former middle school teachers, the trio found that despite the many challenges students face as they transition from «learning to read» to «reading to learn,» few programs focus on this age group, offer help to the seven different reading levels found in middle school classrooms, or assist skilled readers.

By introducing educational apps into lessons, teachers are moving from «teaching» to «facilitating learning» — helping students find ways to learn by focusing on enhancing the process of critical thinking rather than solely looking at whether an answer is right or wrong.

While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives, such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic standards.

What would be great to see is Microsoft move away from just focusing on the content creation marketplace of its traditional Office suite and instead leverage its acquisition of LinkedIn and Lynda.com to do three things: support competency - based learning — through badges, portfolios, and rich profiles for all students; invest in building students» social capital — a key determinant of life success that education typically ignores — in a deliberate way; and, through both of these efforts, help students discover and cultivate their true passions.

The foundation has already committed some $ 135 million to overhauling fundamental aspects of urban school districts: identifying new sources of talent for positions of authority; developing alternative training methods for managers, principals, and teachers union leaders; creating new tools for analyzing performance data; and working with school boards to help those sometimes obstructionist bodies become more focused on student learning than on petty power plays.

Voice of Experience: Your Students — No Two Are Alike Educator Brenda Dyck reflects on how she focuses the first weeks of instruction on helping students become familiar with their learning stStudents — No Two Are Alike Educator Brenda Dyck reflects on how she focuses the first weeks of instruction on helping students become familiar with their learning ststudents become familiar with their learning strengths.

Hattie and Timperley (2007) synthesized the research on feedback and developed an effective model that focused on establishing clear learning goals, tracking student progress toward those goals, and helping students identify their possible next steps to attain those goals.

The true assessment for this activity will be on spelling test day; then you will see that this fun game, in which students are keenly focused on the words they are spelling, can actually help students learn to spell those words.

Students learn through the following tasks: - Gauging and collaborating previous knowledge of «equality» through a discussion - based starter task; - Reading chapters 9 and 10 with a particular focus on the increasing inequalities between the different animals, and demonstrating their understanding through a related activity sheet; - Gauging the inequalities between the animals through the design and explanation of an «equality graph» (template and instructions provided); - Understanding how the events of the final chapters help Orwell to get his message across to the reader; - Analysing how the inequalities between the animals are evident through either a character analysis of Boxer or Napoleon (template and success criteria provided); - Peer assessing their partners» learning attempts.

To be productive and to be valuable uses of time, PLCs must be teacher - driven and focused on resolving student - learning concerns through teacher capacity (for example, what do I as a teacher need to learn to help students learn better?)

The QM rubric for assessing this alignment has helped many instructional designers focus their course content on what the students should learn as opposed to what the instructor wants to teach.

Then look at what we can do to help the student focus on learning.

The module contains six standards - based lessons that focus on the science of toxicology and introduce students to the ways scientists learn about and measure how chemicals can both help and harm human health.

Other techniques that may fall into «less relevant» include such ones as «Stretch It,» which is designed to help «meet students where they are and push them in a way that's directly responsive to what they've shown they can already do,» and becomes more embedded in a blended - learning environment; «Wait Time,» which is designed to help all students have a moment to answer a question, but isn't relevant when each child is working at her own pace online; «Do Now» to help focus students on a particular learning activity when they enter the classroom; and several tips around varying pacing for the entire classroom, which become more irrelevant when each student has a unique pacing schedule.

AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School, a pre-K — only charter school that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional skills.

If the authors of the above article want to really help teachers differentiate their programs to improve learning outcomes for every student, offer practical, evidence - based suggestions focusing on the «how».

Eddie Martucci, co-founder and CEO of Akili, talked about the newest research on a video game that trains your brain to ignore distractions and stay focused, and finally, my amazing Top 12 Global Teacher Bloggers had the last word on which top games really help students learn.

After Parkville teachers identified students most likely to reach the proficient level on the state tests with some focused remediation, extra help before and after school ramps up and students are told to «take ownership» of their learning.

Interestingly, of the sixteen skills of the 21st century learning model, twelve have an intentional focus on the emotional and social capacities our students need to help build their wellbeing.

Schools pledge to use Summit's teaching model, which has three pillars: project - based learning focused on cognitive skills; self - paced learning to mastery in content areas; and one - on - one mentoring to help students set and meet goals.

We have to help students to find their passion, and with this realization comes the argument that our schools must focus not just on the Common Core State Standards but on the student standards of interest, hobby, and meaningful learning.

Steps for Making Good Schools Great Good schools can be great schools if staff focus on best practices, common elements for instruction, and strategies to help all students learn, says Dr. Tim R. Westerberg, author of Becoming a Great High School: 6 Strategies and 1 Attitude That Make a Difference.

These brain breaks and focused - attention practices can help students cope with stress and trauma and focus on their learning.

The initiative puts a focus on collaboration, and you'll hear how they've used some of Google's tools to help foster an innovative and collaborative learning environment among the students and faculty.

Self - awareness plays a critical role in improved learning because it helps students become more efficient at focusing on what they still need to learn.

And students, rather than simply receiving instruction, help direct their own education through a myriad of personalized learning opportunities with a focus on technology.

Starting the day with this 15 - minute activity helps students regulate their emotions and focus on the day's learning.