Sentences with phrase «focused around the assessment»

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Pratt and her team set about looking at research around school improvement and decided to focus on differentiated teaching and learning, supported by formative assessment.

The benefits of using such an index, relative to using the proportion of proficient students in a school, is that it incentivizes a focus on all students, not just those around an assessment's proficiency cut score (Linn, Baker, & Betebenner, 2002).

- Events leading up to The Holocaust - Anne Frank - Elie Wiesel - Inside Concentration Camps - Responses to The Holocaust - Holocaust Memorials around the world - Comparisons to Native American genocide - The Problem of Evil (Assessment Focus) Includes Powerpoints, activities, worksheets and assessment materials.

His main focus when working with schools has revolved around assessment, instruction, leadership, and effective collaboration.

Clarity around the best purpose and use of different types of assessments along with intentionally shifting time and energy to focus on information from assessment gives teachers and students more power and more meaningful information to ensure learning.

We facilitate processes and protocols, such as Data Based Inquiry, to support schools to investigate teaching, learning, and assessment, examine data, explore professional dilemma, and engage in dialogue around school focus areas.

Part Two focused on the need to improve practices around homework, assessment, and grading.

We have focused this work around «problems of practice», short, six - to eight - weeklong projects that try to take a specific, high - priority instructional issue from initial analysis to implementation and assessment.

This year's National Conference on Student Assessment (NCSA), detailed in last week's blog post, included multiple sessions focused around the theme of innovative assessment.

Over the last decade, she has focused on creating English - language proficiency / development standards for multiple entities, designing student - centered assessment systems, and crafting comprehensive curricular frameworks around academic language use.

While some say this practice of designing teacher preparation curriculum around the PACT bears resemblance to K - 12 teachers «teaching to the test,» many educators at Northridge say the PACT is focused on critical areas of good teaching, like planning lessons with strong student assessments, and modifying lessons for English language learners and students with disabilities, and that it therefore only reinforces what candidates should learn anyway.

This year's National Conference on Student Assessment included multiple sessions focused around the theme of innovative assessment.

In almost every state in the United States, and in many countries around the world, there is serious policy and political focus on standards - based reform and the use of increasingly «high - stakes» assessments for students and, in turn, for educators responsible for student performance.

Additionally, if kindergarten language arts curriculum and assessment are designed around these benchmarks, districts will be compelled to focus classroom time and attention on these skills rather than on developmentally appropriate literacy skills and activities.

Under the leadership of California Commission on Teacher Credentialing Chair Linda Darling - Hammond, the state has forged a new path around program quality and assessment, revising its policies and practices to focus on outcomes instead of inputs.

The ASV lets you privately input data you collect about the assessments administered in your state, district, school, or classroom, and then immediately creates data visualizations around key variables and / or questions, to illuminate patterns in how balanced, comprehensive, or broadly / narrowly focused the assessment system as a whole is.

Andrew's questioning technique centered around the driving question and assessments, keeping teachers focused on the purpose of the project.

From both decades of research and the craft knowledge of educators who've jumped in and turned around schools, we know these practices generally yield improvement: (1) a focus on what kids need to learn: (2) collaboration on instruction and assessment; (3) examining assessment data; (4) using patterns in data to improve instruction; and (5) building trusting relationships.

Functions The teacher leader: a) Facilitates the collection, analysis, and use of classroom - and school - based data to identify opportunities to improve curriculum, instruction, assessment, school organization, and school culture; b) Engages in reflective dialog with colleagues based on observation of instruction, student work, and assessment data and helps make connections to research - based effective practices; c) Supports colleagues» individual and collective reflection and professional growth by serving in roles such as mentor, coach, and content facilitator; d) Serves as a team leader to harness the skills, expertise, and knowledge of colleagues to address curricular expectations and student learning needs; e) Uses knowledge of existing and emerging technologies to guide colleagues in helping students skillfully and appropriately navigate the universe of knowledge available on the Internet, use social media to promote collaborative learning, and connect with people and resources around the globe; and f) Promotes instructional strategies that address issues of diversity and equity in the classroom and ensures that individual student learning needs remain the central focus of instruction.

As we look to provide more personalized or precision care, if you will, or individualized care, for the animal or it may be at the herd level, but again identifying the right disease, the right pathogen, so that we can identify the right intervention or solution or preventive and the role diagnostics play in that, then for us, the greater focus is less of the instrumentation and more around the point - of - care tools that veterinarians and producers alike can use for quick assessment and also quick intervention.

Another Big Data discussion was around how collecting the appropriate data can assist in risk assessment and mitigation with a focus on «trending.»

ZERO TO THREE Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Policy Convening Report, ZERO TO THREE, 2017 — ZERO TO THREE brought ten states together for a meeting in October 2016 around the topic of infant and early childhood mental health, with a specific focus on strategies to improve assessment, diagnosis and treatment.

Communities will focus their efforts around five key strands of work: 1) the integration of behavioral health into primary care; 2) mental health consultation in early care and education settings; 3) enhanced home visiting services; 4) family strengthening and parent education; and 5) screening and assessment.