The individuals in the group get to know each other better as do the instructors and their understanding of the small group leads to more
meaningful teaching with individualised feedback.
Finally, we envision that these schools positively influence the conditions in which all schools operate, serving as examples of and advocates for education policy that
supports meaningful teaching and learning that allows all students to use their minds well in school and throughout their lives.
We want your schools, and ours, to gain in stature not only by virtue of the small school environment, but also for our unique ability to prepare our students for college and life, and to provide the best platform for authentic and
meaningful teaching relationships.
Educative mentoring is an inquiry - based model of questioning and support that is deliberately focused
on meaningful teaching and learning based on teachers» goals.
Facing History uses the LDC CoreTools to help teachers create engaging and
meaningful teaching tasks to pair with our rich content resources.
Effective mentors use inquiry - based questioning and
support meaningful teaching and learning through an analysis of individual needs and goals based on teacher standards (Feiman - Nemser, 2001).
If we are unable to lead a focused beginning with students, it will be increasingly difficult for there to be
any meaningful teaching and learning in the lesson.
In our original work, we focused on access to academic source materials for active and
meaningful teaching and learning, while cautioning against using technology for technology's sake.
Smith, N.N. (2017) A mind for mathematics:
Meaningful teaching and learning in elementary classrooms.
Authors Jay McTighe, Elliott Seif, and Grant Wiggins (p. 26) address challenges that sometimes interfere with
meaningful teaching, especially the need to prepare students to pass standardized tests.
«She is knowledgeable and provides relevant and
meaningful teaching and learning experiences to her students.
And perhaps the most important fact of all is that she has
no meaningful teaching experience and yet is now serving as the Director for Educator Effectiveness and Professional Learning for the State of Connecticut.
CES 2.0: Technology and the Essential School: Horace looks at infusing social networking into pedagogy, learning technology skills through service - learning, distance learning and the CES Common Principles, using social networking for literacy development, implementing digital portfolios, and other topics that explore the relationship between emerging technologies,
meaningful teaching and learning with an equity focus, and student achievement.