Sentences with phrase «increase conceptual learning»

Description: A set of reading strategies that students apply in collaborative groups to improve their comprehension of content area text and increase conceptual learning.

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Music has the power to increase intellectual ability by stimulating electrical responses in the brain, endorsing creativity, increasing receptivity to learning by bringing mind to a relaxed state, and capitalizing on instinctive body rhythms which stimulate conceptual ability.

Although fidelity of implementation monitoring has shown Science IDEAS classrooms to be affectively positive, this advanced component student motivation strategy is designed to make the linkage between conceptual learning in science (or increasing proficiency in reading comprehension) and student recognition of achievement progress more explicit on a continuing basis.

Recognizing that building a strong conceptual foundation was necessary to increase grade 6 math proficiency, the district focused its efforts two years earlier — on grade 4 math — adopting research - based practices and increasing opportunities for deeper learning that align with the districts vision for personalized, adaptive instruction.

In the science classroom, teachers can enhance reading and improve science learning by focusing on the following: promoting students» conceptual understanding of fundamental science concepts; organizing instruction so students constructively engage in experiences with science phenomena before reading about them; increasing students» awareness of how information is organized and displayed in science texts; teaching students syntactical structures common to science (such as «If... then»); and enabling students to express their understanding of science by doing science, talking about science, and writing about science, in addition to reading about science.

''... a guided tour through conceptual territory that has rarely been mapped so expertly... this collection should be perused from beginning to end, as suspense irresistibly increases while roaming the global contexts and learning about the growing urgencies at stake.»