Unlike multiple - choice tests, these assessments require students to construct answers, produce products, or perform activities; they allow educators to assess student performance meaningfully and
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Not exact matches
«Success Academy's THINK literacy is aligned with our vision for excellent instruction at Roots and provides the tools our teachers need to implement a rigorous, engaging ELA program that builds knowledge, cultivates critical thinking, and
fosters a
deep love of
reading,» said Jonathan Hanover, founder and executive director of Roots Elementary in Denver.
«Success Academy's THINK literacy is aligned with our vision for excellent instruction at Roots and provides the tools our teachers need to implement a rigorous, engaging ELA program that builds knowledge, cultivates critical thinking, and
fosters a
deep love of
reading,» said
With all the discussion about
deeper learning, college - and career - ready standards, and the latest research on assessments, assignments, and instruction, it turns out that what many principals prescribe to chart a new course for meaningful literacy instruction is engaging readers and
fostering a love of
reading from an early age.
I believe that the critical thinkers we so desperately need will emerge from classrooms where teachers have eschewed the coverage approach in favor of
fostering deeper thinking — and where the development of lifelong
reading habits has remained as important as next month's test.
Through
reading and studying these vignettes, I have found what a classroom that is
fostering a much
deeper level of understanding looks and sounds like.
Please dig
deeper; research real - life pit bull rescuers,
read their blogs, talk to them personally; research the lives of some of the surviving fight and / or bait dogs, from rescue to where they are today;
read social media sites of owners, rescuers,
foster families, forever owners.
«From what I've
read of the modules he proposed writing, they seem designed to
foster confusion rather than promote
deeper understanding of the current science... and they certainly wouldn't fit with the science education standards framework that the National Research Council plans to release,» he said, referring to the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences, which is slated to release a draft of new national science standards next month that are expected to include climate change.