Sentences with phrase «instructional practices the students»

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As program officer for the IES Cognition and Student Learning research grants program, Dr. Albro oversaw the preparation of an IES Practice Guide, Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning, which identified a set of instructional principles for use in schools and classrooms that emerged from basic research on learning and memory.

These schools included «early college» high schools with a STEM focus (that offered both college and high school credits to students); tech - savvy schools that relied entirely on project - based learning (an instructional practice emphasizing student production of knowledge via projects and research); and career / technical education high schools that prepared students for careers such as agriculture or medicine through early experiences in those fields.

I'm going to focus on the development of students» academic discourse as a high - leverage instructional practice that contributes to deeper learning, one in which our urban students need particular explicit instruction.

I believe strongly in restorative practices, student voice, and the importance of understanding how instructional practices impact actual learning.

A total of 138 studies indicate a clear, positive trend favoring inquiry - based instructional practices, particularly instruction that emphasizes students» active thinking and drawing conclusions from data.

These offer a glimpse of how individual students will perform on standardized tests, and schools can later use them to identify which instructional practices worked best, Guidry says.

Over the course of a lifetime, master teachers are continuously improving their craft, listening to their students, re-tailoring lessons and finding the gaps in instructional practices.

This product includes: • 8 links to instructional videos or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as imaginary unit and complex number • Examples of how to add, subtract, and multiply complex numbers • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • A review of key terminology • Links to video tutorials for students struggling with certain parts of the standard, such as having difficulty multiplying the i - terms of two complex numbers

This product includes: • 4 links to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as monomial and degree • Visual examples of polynomials represented as graphs • Exercises that allow students to practice graphing polynomial functions • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • A review of key terminology • Links to video tutorials for students struggling with certain parts of the standard, such as confusing x-intercept and y - intercept

This product includes: • 5 links to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as arithmetic sequence and geometric series • Examples of how to convert a geometric sequence of numbers into a geometric series and then into a formula based on the series • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • A review of key terminology • Links to video tutorials for students struggling with certain parts of the standard, such as confusing arithmetic and geometric sequences

Despite knowing that there are schools that positively influence students» reading experience through instructional practice, it was initially difficult for Francois to find examples when she set out on her research.

This product includes: • 8 links to instructional videos or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as binomial theorem • Visual examples of how to multiply binomials and polynomials • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • A review of key terminology • Links to video tutorials for students struggling with certain parts of the standard, such as errors in using r • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities

Murphy imagines a hypothetical model program called Administrative Leaders for Learning — ALL for short — that would be organized to spotlight and connect three overlapping domains of knowledge: instructional practice and learning theory, with a particular focus on high achievement for all students; the education sector, with a particular focus on schooling in context; and matters of leadership and management.

This product includes: • 4 links to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as exponent and radical • Exercises that allow students to practice using the properties of exponents to rewrite expressions involving radicals and rational exponents • 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one short answer question • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • A review of key terminology • Links to video tutorials for students struggling with certain parts of the standard, such as confusing the radical symbol and the long - division symbol • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels

Beyond opportunities to observe and analyze instructional practice and student work, participants also worked together to apply effective protocols and build teamwork to improve teaching and learning.

However, the common core deliberately leaves out specific instructional strategies to help students meet those standards, and researchers say they will have to hustle to develop best practices for teachers.

The Student Editions include: • Links to instructional videos, audio, or texts • Links to practice quizzes or activities • 12 assessments that include a total of 39 multiple choice, 2 true / false, and 2 sorting questions • Definitions of key terms related to each of the standards • Examples of how students can apply the standards to their reading and deepen their understanding of what they are reading • Excerpts from several high - quality texts, including: - «Harriet: The Moses of Her People» by Sarah H. Bradford - «The Narrative of Sojourner Truth» by Olive Gilbert and Sojourner Truth - «On Women's Right to Vote» by Susan B. Anthony - «Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death» by Patrick Henry • Accompanying Teaching Notes files The Teaching Notes files include: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional resources • Ideas to differentiate the activities for students who need extra support or to be challenged further • Answer guides with correct answers, answer choice rationales, word counts, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Research outcomes are expected to inform the design, selection, and implementation of online digital curriculum materials, the systems that deliver and support them, and the instructional practices associated with their use, in order to increase their efficacy for students with disabilities and other elementary and secondary learners.

In his acclaimed Readicide (2009), high school English teacher Kelly Gallagher argued that the «inane, mind - numbing» instructional practices found in today's schools are partly to blame for students» lack of interest in reading.

For students to embrace the skills needed in a changing technology landscape, teachers must coordinate knowledge, instructional practices, and technologies to positively influence academic achievement.

What I found is that schools that exceed expectations — as well as those that are making significant improvement from a base of overall poor performance — engage in the extensive practice of six research - informed instructional strategies and develop a culture that communicates high expectations and support for all students.

The related instructional delivery in the Instructor's Manual also does not appear to support clear sequencing, clear descriptions and demonstrations of skills to be acquired, nor are the student activities followed by practice and timely feedback — the essence of good pedagogical practice which should focus initially on high levels of teacher involvement.

«When teachers engage in high - level instructional talk and have the opportunity to improve practice collaboratively and in concrete forms, they develop team loyalty, trust, and feelings of responsibility and accountability for each other and for all the team's students.

In a forum released today by Education Next, Nonie Lesaux of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Juan Rangel of a Chicago charter school organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of Hispanics.

Research has shown that these types of inquiry activities — where students are asked to analyze a piece of concrete data such as a picture or an object in order to generate ideas for writing — are an effective instructional practice for improving the writing of adolescent learners.

-- Beth Schueler is a fourth - year doctoral student in the Education Policy, Leadership, and Instructional Practice concentration.

Even as he guides his instructional leadership team to give kids more practice analyzing data — stuff he relishes — he tries to get ahead of feelings of uncertainty among staff, students, and parents.

Only one - third of the programs had well - developed evaluations that produced measurable effects on student achievement or change in instructional practices.

Approaching behavior expectations with our best instructional practices will allow students to internalize our expectations better and for longer.

The playlist includes: • Links to two practice quizzes or activities • Links to four instructional videos or texts • Definitions of key terms, such as slope and function Accompanying Teaching Notes include: • Review of key terminology • Links to video tutorials for students struggling with certain parts of the standard, such as calculating slope For more teaching and learning resources on standard HSF.IF.B.6, visit Wisewire.com.

They are not even places where neat instructional practices unfold to deliver content knowledge and skills to students in inquiry - based curriculum.

«On the hook» instructional practice needs to honor the fact that students process answers to questions at different rates.

Meanwhile, it provides $ 2.5 billion to support professional development that can be used to «improve the knowledge of teachers and principals and, in appropriate cases, paraprofessionals, concerning effective instructional strategies, methods, and skills, and use of challenging State academic content standards and student academic achievement standards, and State assessments, to improve teaching practices and student academic achievement.»

«Teachers learn to draw connections between their instructional practice and student learning through the deliberate analysis of data,» says Richard Elmore, «and this sense of efficacy in teaching is central to internal accountability at the school level.»

Darling - Hammond and co, in Professional Learning in the Learning Profession, define effective professional learning in terms of improved teacher knowledge and instructional practice, but say «the impact on student achievement is a critical indicator.»

During the first months of the course, I began to think more deeply about my instructional practices and the projects I assigned my students.

I focus on the educational theory of engaging student's utilizing the best instructional practices for the diverse learning style of the different schools of thought.

The 3 - hour time period provides an opportunity for professional discourse, during which teachers can learn from one another, learn from examining student work, and discuss best paths for instructional practice.»

One of LPS's lead math teachers, Mike Fauteux, wanted to improve student engagement and address his students» individual learning gaps, so he began experimenting with new instructional practices that used Google Sheets and OER to provide students with self - guided learning experiences.

But edtech innovations hold real promise for improving student learning outcomes if education leaders use them to redesign classroom and school models in ways that transform teachers» instructional practices.

The program examines four leadership themes — school improvement, instructional practice, student / adult connections, and motivation and engagement strategies — and looks at how to adapt and implement specific leadership strategies.

He makes similar arguments about how efforts to improve teacher quality, instructional approaches like Success for All, and high - expectation techniques practiced by educators like Jaime Escalante and Rafe Esquith are not promising models for reform because their success is due to the selection of students or other factors that can not be replicated on a broader scale.

Readers and Writers Workshop is an instructional model that focuses on students as learners, as well as readers and writers in practice.

The latter is one of nine principles of learning formulated by the Institute for Learning that I direct at the University of Pittsburgh to provide assistance to school systems in building organizational and instructional practices that will enable their students to meet higher achievement standards.

They embrace the 10 % challenge put forth to them each year: «What ten - percent of your instructional practice or work with each student will you change this year?»

A 2005 NCREL report draft (which we received special permission to cite for this article) finds «new evidence supporting the apparent effectiveness of online programs and schools and generally demonstrating the potential of online learning as a promising instructional intervention that can, when implemented judiciously, and with attention to «evidence - based» practices, apparently improve student academic performance.»

«If teachers do not deeply understand their standards — or the instructional practices that are aligned with them — their instruction may fall short of helping students meet those standards,» observes the RAND Corporation's Kaufman, who, along with Lindsey Thompson and V. Darleen Opfer, found that Louisiana teachers demonstrated a stronger grasp of the Common Core standards and adopted more classroom practices that reflect them than did teachers elsewhere.

We're not only asking our staff to learn a new instructional model, but will also be providing training around trauma - informed care, restorative practices, and culturally relevant teaching, in addition to training to help them learn the ins and outs of the systems our students are involved like homelessness, foster systems, probation, etc..

These teams discuss student support issues, analyze student data, critically reflect upon teaching practices, and problem solve to identify the instructional practices most likely to support students» progress.

Corwin partners with schools and systems to deliver training and tools that build capacity, have positive change on instructional practices, and put students at the heart of all we do.