Sentences with phrase «focus teacher instruction»

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As a client, that means you can focus on the teacher's voice, the instruction, and close your eyes to work deeper in class.

Our technique is unique, but it's also intentional — teachers give you step - by - step instructions and guidance to focus on the muscle you are working.

Educationally and socially stimulating, our Georgia accredited curriculum includes low teacher: student ratios pre-reading, math, music, art, outdoor play, Spanish instruction, nutritious meals and more in a whole child focus.

The Science Teaching Network focuses on teacher professional development through a summer institute built around best practices in science instruction, including NGSS and local nature and science topics.

The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's Science Teaching Network (STN) is a grant - funded program focusing on teacher professional development built around best practices in science instruction, including the Next Generation Science Standards and local nature and science topics.

Eva Moskowitz, founder of the growing charter network, said she hopes sharing her curriculum and teacher training resources at no charge will help shift the focus of debates on education from politics to the nitty - gritty of what children need to know, how they learn best and how to pace instruction.

Whether it's listening to a teacher giving instructions or completing a word problem, the ability to tune out distractions and focus on a task is key to academic success.

KIPP and No - Excuses schools like Sci Academy (detailed in the book) pride themselves on clearing out all of the managerial detritus so that teachers can focus on instruction.

Other benefits highlighted by these stakeholders included: Literacy and numeracy assessments can be used to celebrate learning, identify strengths, needs, barriers to learning and allow teachers to make informed and objective judgements about learning; Focusing teachers» and schools» attention on the need for phonics to be taught explicitly and systematically to achieve the necessary level of word reading skills that are required to develop skilled reading; Early identification of children with learning difficulties or [those who] need additional instruction.

So the author focuses on how teachers can improve upon their language arts instruction while using their basal reading program as a starting point.

According to a 1955 Education article by Leon Mones, then an assistant superintendent in Newark, New Jersey, and a former principal, Symonds and others were openly advocating that the emotional life of the teacher become the focus of teacher preparation, since «it is the teacher's personality that is the tool with which he works rather than the content in which he gives instruction.»

Teachers can utilize three strategies to cultivate improved focus: sequencing instruction, recovery from mistakes, and setting goals.

Every discussion of education policy, program design, implementation and evaluation on instruction, teacher policies and education, or school governance focuses on improving educational outcomes for young people and ensuring that all learners have access to a high - quality education relevant to the 21st century.

Although it's not focused on instruction, there are instructional moments that would be good discussion items for teachers.

In Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Touchstone Education: New Charter With Experienced Leader Learns From Extending Teachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee, led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instTeachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee, led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instteachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instruction.

While the rationale is perhaps a bit misguided (some evidence suggests that our students already experience as much instructional time as their peers ~ and other research confirms that teachers in the United States spend more time on instruction than teachers in other nations do) ~ there are certainly reasons to focus on the issue ~ not least of which is the summer learning loss that disproportionately impacts our nations most disadvantaged youth.

PBL (project - based learning) supports teachers in developing authentic learning experiences with a focus on inquiry - based instruction.

As more classroom management functionality becomes automated, this frees up time for teachers to spend more of their skills and mental energy on more important things for students and their learning; such as tailoring learning to student needs and focusing more on individual and small group instruction than on managing large classes.

Instead of focusing on teacher instruction in order to aim for a particular grade, students can immerse themselves in the experience of the assignment.

The algorithm employed by the software considers each child's entering skill level and progress made during the school year to recommend several dimensions of instruction, including assignment to small, homogenous ability groups, the amount of time spent on code - versus meaning - focused literacy, and teacher / child versus child - managed delivery.

How Shanghai Does It: Insights and Lessons from the Highest - Ranking Education System in the World says teachers are supported with ongoing professional development which is often collaborative in nature and focused on improving instruction, and a framework of clear learning standards, regular student assessment and well - aligned curriculum.

Several principals who use PBIS told Education World that they were elated to see that when student behavior improved under the system and teachers had more time to focus on instruction, academic performance shot up as well.

The power of blended learning — to let students learn individually paced basics online, so teachers can focus on personalized, enriched face - to - face instruction — can bring excellent teaching to more students, and enable all teachers to earn more.

On «Multidimensional Perception,» teachers receive the top score if they «identif [y] events occurring simultaneously while maintaining a focus on instruction.»

But if we separate the roles of instruction and assessment, we can relieve teachers of having to wrestle with these dilemmas so that they can focus more on instructing, coaching, and motivating their students.

When students are able to get foundational knowledge and skills through technology - based instruction, teachers can evolve their purpose in the classroom and focus their time on providing expert feedback on higher - order skills and tackling complex, real - world problems with their students.

With a smaller number of students at any one time, teachers can focus on pushing the ratio of higher order thinking through Socratic seminars and other targeted strategies of instruction only possible in a small group setting.

There, teachers are trained to focus on preliteracy instruction, a combination of activities that explicitly emphasize the sound system of the language, such as rhyming, and other phonological challenges (for example, «What is the word «bus» without the «b» sound?»)

A teacher who focused only on the work he completed may have been slightly annoyed that he hadn't strictly followed the homework instructions.

Instead of blocking time for reading or math instruction, McNeely prefers an approach where all teachers focus on a specific unit or theme and connect their curriculum to that theme.

The benchmark tests enable teachers to know 1) the skills and concepts on which they need to focus instruction and 2) the students who need remediation classes.

The chapters devoted to practices break down the concepts into the areas where a teacher seeking to implement a proficiency - based curriculum will devote her or his focus in create authentically communicative units of instruction.

In this situation, the coordinator functioned more as facilitator, understanding that success meant focusing on the people by first identifying students and their specific needs, then giving teachers the helm in developing strategic, quality instruction.

Another sign that we are making a difference: A group of educators from a school in Sofia that focuses on math and science recently wrote a proposal for teacher training, and, after securing funding from the federal Ministry of Education and the local government, they invited our lab to provide the instruction — the first time the teachers themselves hired us to do the training.

Currently, Dillon is a post-doctoral fellow at Haskins Laboratories, a research institute in New Haven, Conn., that focuses on speech, language, and reading and biological basis, where she investigates the effects of a three - year study in which first - grade teachers were provided professional development seminars and in - class coaching in literacy instruction.

If teachers can gain insight into what their students know before class starts, they can strategically assign them to specific learning hubs (based on readiness) during «live» instruction, reinforcing the focus on differentiation and investigation.

It provides an introduction to inquiry based learning for parents and teachers, instructions on how to use the threads of inquiry and a series of ten â $ hands - on, minds - on investigations that focus on the changing seasons and other aspects of our everyday experience.â $

Because an accountability test that supports teaching is focused on only a very limited number of challenging curricular aims, a student's mastery of each subject can be meaningfully measured, letting teachers determine how effective their instruction has been.

Most notably, CMOs tend to include significantly more time for instruction in their schools and focus much more on leader and teacher accountability.

After declaring, «there is no secret,» Friedman fell back on some stock explanations for high achievement, focusing in particular on changing how teachers are trained and re-organizing their work day to allow for less instruction, more professional development, and ample time for peer interaction.

In January 2015, Professor Heather Hill will launch her newest study, the Mathematics Teachers and Teaching Survey, focusing on middle school mathematics instruction.

Another hypothesis consistent with both the tracking results and the effects from random peer assignment is that tracking by initial achievement improves student learning because it allows teachers to focus instruction.

This is also reflected in Nepal, with its particular focus on ensuring teachers promote «equity and social inclusion'through mother tongue instruction policies in local communities.

The NGERP focuses on curriculum revision, production and supply of reading materials, teacher training, and improved classroom instruction.

Every teacher in the school is on a focus team, continually collaborating with colleagues to improve their approaches to instruction, Ventura explained.

The quality of teachers and instruction is another important focus of research today, as reformers are realizing that a teacher's effectiveness in helping kids learn is just as important as his or her knowledge of the material.

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.

The three classes started to devise learning programs using Classmate PCs, while also focusing on skills like handwriting and spelling, which teachers and parents had identified as needing regular instruction and practice.

Teachers start by creating templates as learning scaffolds with instructions - or as students develop skills and focus, encourage more open - ended glogs.

This fall, I coached teams of teachers in a couple of schools on focusing their instruction on no more than three of the English Language Arts Power Standards for grades 10 - 12 that would be assessed on the first benchmark exam.