Sentences with phrase «interdisciplinary learning best»

The school is dedicated to three overarching premises which are enacted daily in every curricular area — first, that interdisciplinary learning best prepares students for higher levels of academic challenge; second, that the environment provides a ready lens for the application of academic concepts; and third, that attending to adolescent development and collaborative skills will enable students to succeed in any high school atmosphere.

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Christian faith is open to... indeed, welcomes... interdisciplinary and inter-faith dialogue, not only because it believes it has something to share, but because it knows it has much to learn from the various intellectual disciplines and other religions, as well as from the developments of a technological and electronic society.

The interdisciplinary team of Harvard researchers, in collaboration with MIT and Samsung, developed a large - scale, computer - driven screening process, called the Molecular Space Shuttle, that incorporates theoretical and experimental chemistry, machine learning and cheminformatics to quickly identify new OLED molecules that perform as well as, or better than, industry standards.

Traditional methods of evaluation, which have many flaws on their own, are not well - suited for interdisciplinary, multi-modal learning.

Because we believe that students learn best when they have opportunities to apply what they are learning, the driving force behind PSP is a year - long practice or research experience that provides real - world application of content and skills acquired through interdisciplinary coursework.

Today a core group of educators is hard at work, through a committee called Curriculum 2010, to meld the best aspects of project - based and interdisciplinary learning with the school district's core curriculum and state standards.

-- Teachers work to make connections between subject areas and to develop well - rounded interdisciplinary units that reinforce learning.

It calls for flexible schedules, more project - based and interdisciplinary learning, a more engaging and real world — based course of study, increased opportunity for teachers to work in teams, and better integration of technology across subject areas.

Possess interdisciplinary knowledge, cross-cultural competency, as well as commitment and passion for learning and technology.

This interdisciplinary research network is dedicated to understanding the opportunities and risks for learning afforded by today's changing media ecology, as well as building new learning environments that support effective learning and educational equity.

«We're concerned that students are learning critical thinking and deep thinking about novels, for instance, in the ELA courses - that they can critique a text and understand its role; they can connect it to history and all the different interdisciplinary connections that good literature helps us do,» Larson said.

In this case study, the teachers are engaged in team teaching and interdisciplinary teaching, as well as in project - based, problem - based learning.

Findings suggest: (a) teachers without prior preparation learn informally from peers to use CPT; (b) they use CPT to promote student and teacher learning and well - being and to respond to school - wide needs; (c) teacher knowledge of CPT varies and teams could function more fully and / or efficiently with formal professional development; (d) teachers have adapted the ways they use CPT under NCLB, planning fewer interdisciplinary units and more lessons to promote reading and math achievement.

As well, ℮ ³ students take diagnostic assessments (learning and personality styles, career interests, aptitudes, and self - managing abilities) to facilitate their placement in internships, personalize their interdisciplinary project work, and direct their college and career planning.

Teacher - generated assessments and rubrics, hands - on interdisciplinary projects, homework, quizzes, and my observations of my students engaging in learning activities, are some of the measures I use to get a pulse on how well my students are learning.

Dr. Tony Wagner, Innovation Education fellow at Harvard University and author of the new book, Creating Innovators (due out April 17), explains, «I do agree that the IB is a significantly better framework for intellectual rigor than the advanced placement (AP) curriculum for several reasons: the requirement that all students complete a 4500 word research paper, the service learning requirement, and the interdisciplinary theory of knowledge requirement, all of which take learning beyond the confines of the conventional curriculum.»

Founded in 2000, ECS was based upon the California Partnership Academy's four Best Practices: Small Learning Communities, Rigorous Interdisciplinary College - Prep Curriculum, Partnerships, and Using a Career Theme (ours being using the Environment as the integrating context).

Implement a nurturing and talent development model for transforming K - 12 instruction and curriculum for all students that provides: 1) Professional Development on best research - based practices and curriculum for teachers, principals and curriculum directors; 2) Concept - based curriculum for all students and 3) Differentiated classrooms that engage students in gifted intelligent behaviors, interests and learning styles to solve problems through performance tasks within interdisciplinary concept - based curriculum units.

Interdisciplinary instruction is not an experiment in alternative learning, but rather a viable, deliberate strategy to better prepare students for success in an increasingly complex world.

I wanted to help foster interdisciplinary research work involving content specialists in a variety of disciplines and College of Education faculty who specialize in applying the learning sciences to disciplinary learning in order to educate better teachers for the state's schools,» Reutzel says.

One Breakthrough high school is implementing interdisciplinary, problem - based student experiences — think science, computer science and math tied together — to improve learning efficiencies and help students develop better critical thinking skills.

Preparing Coordinators for Community Schools: Community school coordinators require interdisciplinary expertise in youth and community development, social work, and student learning, as well as data - driven decision making and strategic planning.

Championed process - improvement initiatives to incorporate best practices and interdisciplinary learning.

«Our findings suggest that children who are taught mindfulness — to pay attention to the present intentionally and without judgment — are better positioned to succeed both in school and in life,» said lead author Kimberly A. Schonert - Reichl, an education professor and interim director of the Human Early Learning Partnership, a collaborative interdisciplinary research network who helped conduct the study.

Learn how pioneering, successful interdisciplinary teams innovatively employ all three disciplines to shift clients toward agreement, simultaneously improving cost efficiency and facilitating better outcomes with more durable agreements.