Sentences with phrase «model used by students»

In addition to actively seeking diversity of opinions, Valor incorporates social and emotional learning and academic development through weekly community - enhancing Circle discussions — a model used by students and by teachers — and through a character - building program called Compass.

Projects for the year vary, but the learning model used by students does not.

In addition to actively seeking diversity of opinions, Valor incorporates social and emotional learning and academic development through weekly community - enhancing Circle discussions — a model used by students and by teachers — and through a character - building program called Compass.

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Elsewhere, Freese tells of using the «nuclear shell model» to calculate how certain dark matter particles might be scattered by an atomic nucleus, and how this led her to regret skipping lectures on the shell model as «uninteresting» while a graduate student at Columbia University.

But the behavior of these reservoirs is not solely determined by physical laws of the water cycle, but also by demands and what these reservoirs are being used for,» says Caltech graduate student Armeen Taeb, lead author of a paper about the model that will be published online on November 22 in the journal Water Resources Research.

The college has also tried to provide more role models and mentoring for female students by using more women as teaching assistants, hiring more female faculty members, and promoting them into leadership positions.

To better understand how changes in diet, lifestyle, and exposure to modern medicine affect primates» guts, a team of researchers led by University of Minnesota computer science and engineering professor Dan Knights, veterinary medicine professor Tim Johnson, and veterinary medicine Ph.D. student Jonathan Clayton, used DNA sequencing to study the gut microbes of multiple non-human primates species in the wild and in captivity as a model for studying the effects of emigration and lifestyle changes.

Using high - speed videography and mathematical modeling of spore dispersal in commercially grown oyster and Shiitake mushrooms, Dressaire, Roper, and their students found that the fungi created their wind by releasing water vapor.

Based on earlier observations and modeling by Falke and a team of graduate students and faculty at CSU, the Arikaree River in eastern Colorado, which is fed by the aquifer and used to flow about 70 miles, will dry up to about one - half mile by 2045.

As a grad student with John Wakeley [link to http://wakeleylab.oeb.harvard.edu/], I worked on a variety of topics involving coalescent theory, including coalescence within fixed pedigrees, coalescent models of identity - by - descent, and inference of reproductive and demographic history in triploid asexual snails using a novel sequentially Markov coalescent model.

By using experimental evolution — or natural selection — to grow the world's fattest fruit flies, life sciences professor Allen Gibbs and Ph.D. student Christopher Hardy pioneered a new model for investigating obesity - related heart dysfunction.

The barnacles shown here were collected by Brown graduate student Patrick Flight who, together with David Rand, uses them as models to study genome evolution.

As a reviewer for the NGLC secondary school models, which seeks to not just fund those schools using online learning but those really taking their approach the extra mile with innovative, push - the - envelope student - centric designs, I have been struck further by how much blended learning has arrived.

Students complete the model using basic formulae then compare this to using absolute cell references to solve the same problem (by using the fill - handle tool to copy).

In the typical mathematics classroom, especially in the middle years of schooling, we tend to use one model to connect maths with the real world; we start by teaching the maths content and skills, we then get students to practice and do some maths, and then we next might apply some of those skills into a real world context by using learning activities such as word problems.

Modeling and teaching positive coping skills benefits all students by normalizing the fact that we all have tough emotions sometimes and need to use strategies to manage them.

It can also be used to gain a CREST award Students initially look at some of the problems caused by climate change then design and make a model of their solution to a problem faced by farmers in Bangladesh... how to grow food even when the land floods.

Specifically, we ran a statistical model that used the last grade served by the school that a student attended in grade 3 to predict whether the student attended a middle school.

Also, the most popular model used by researchers to estimate peer effects (the «baseline» model) assumes that peer effects are a zero - sum phenomenon - that is, in order to give one student a better peer, that peer must be taken away from another student; the two effects cancel one another out.

Though Dillon mentions value - added modeling, he says that the Gates researchers use it «as a starting point,» and spends most of the rest of the piece discussing their use of cameras to capture teachers in action in the classroom — they hope to have 64,000 hours of classroom video by the end of the project and have already begun the process of looking for «correlations between certain teaching practices and high student achievement» and «scoring» the lessons.

Assessing Student Outcomes: Performance Assessment Using the Dimensions of Learning Model, by Robert J. Marzano,...

In fact, given this language, many other commonly - used student growth measures would also be excluded by this guideline, including the one - step fixed effects model discussed in our original article.

The differentiated approach focused on student engagement in reading by using a three - phase model.

This booklet covers: - Jobs (masculine / feminine)- Useful vocabulary to describe what you do - The conditional past - Summer jobs - Advantages and inconvenients of different jobs - Verbs followed by the prepositions «à» and «de» - Talking about work experience (mon stage)- Understanding when to use the imperfect and when to use the perfect tense - Understanding the different uses of past participles (advanced)- 2 listening activities (about summer jobs - B1 level)- 1 reading comprehension (true or false - my work experience)- 1 scaffolded writing comprehension (modeled on section 2 from paper 4 - my work experience) I have created this booklets for 3 of my year 10 students who are working at an advanced level.

Through videos, interactive tutorials, and guided practice problems with step - by - step coaching on the sidelines, students learn to visualize and solve many types of multi-step word problems using movable blocks bearing a strong resemblance to bar models.

Begin this lesson by modeling the process students will use to calculate and record mean, median, and mode for their candy.

One of our teacher leaders used the format modeled in Driven by Data and developed a method to turn the exported assessment results into an Excel spreadsheet that provided detailed information by student, question, and standard.

Like doctors who have been using VR to assist in surgeries and pinpoint ailments — by generating 3D models of real patient tumors from MRI scans, for example — science teachers are saying VR can help deepen understanding of subjects such as biology and anatomy, which require students to grasp the inner workings of cells and organs that are not visible to the human eye.

In this lesson, students will learn to make and interpret scale models and practice using the metric system for measurement by discovering the relative sizes of various large plants and animals.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

Bar modeling is a powerful pictorial technique that results in one answer, deduced by using mathematical principles that students have learned rather than by employing the haphazard trial - and - error method of Guess and Check.

If this is your first experiment with debate in the classroom, it would probably be wise to have both teams debating the same issue, or you can use your most confident students to model good debate form by using the fishbowl strategy described in the Additional Strategies section below.

By combining the two, states can use the charter pre-K model to improve outcomes for the neediest students.

By using a flipped model, teachers provide content through a variety of modalities, giving students not only the ability to learn at their own pace but also in the way that best suits their learning needs.

Research by several other students is revealing that middle - school science students solve abstract problems more easily by thinking in terms of metaphors or models — for instance, by using a nail, a wire, and a battery as a model of how magnetism works.

Using a step - by - step process, the high school students modeled how to approach and manage the project.

I think of the Rube Goldberg machines built by engineering students in our makerspace, and I imagine the classroom furniture and prototypes being built by the students in my own Art and Tech elective class, projects that start with 3D models and prototypes and end in functional designs that are in use throughout the school.

By using a robot and a home - built model mountain to make something abstract much more concrete for his students, Richard had constructed a learning challenge that not only required students to try and try again, it inspired them to keep trying.

Developing observational skills by using interactive visual technology, as well as digital photography, 3D modeling, and video assignments allow students to better understand their real - world environment.

By using a clear and concise response model to students» work, the process empowers them to express their views without directly offending or deflating their peers, and it allows them to receive feedback without reacting defensively.

Also included will be an exploration of the following: • Research - based methodologies and measures for identifying at - risk students • A step - by - step process to create and implement an Early Warning System • Existing models in use today, reviewing the most predictive indicators and cut points.

In February of 2011, CUNY's Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, headed by University Dean David Crook, released critical data (obtained by Director of Policy Analysis Colin Chellman using linear probability models and logistic regression) demonstrating that, all else being equal (i.e., taking into account all measurable demographic and performance characteristics), CUNY's transfer students were at a disadvantage in terms of graduation compared to native students.

Technology can be used to advance learning by bringing exciting curricula based on real - world problems into the classroom, providing scaffolds and tools to enhance learning, such as modeling programs and visualization tools, giving students and teachers more opportunities for feedback, reflection, and revision, and building local and global communities that include teachers, administrators, students, parents, practicing scientists, and other interested people expanding opportunities for teacher learning.

Certain techniques were flagged up «no hands rule; use of mini-white boards, Kagan, learning environments that are supporting; bolstering self - esteem; positivity; curiosity; creativity; identify students to lead plenary at end of lesson at the beginning; Get class blogging — quadblogging; tallies for whole class rewards; encouraging independent learning; wait time when questioning; talk about their thinking and reasoning; conversational learning; talk with learning partners before answering any questions; pair and share; Glazer learning model structure for lesson delivery — a good mix of interaction and independent work; offering choice to pupils; cross class working; allowing time to play; list / describe / explain / evaluate; new audiences beyond the school; project based learning and philosopy; swapping age - groups; cross-curricular working; read to them every day; invite varied guests in; learning by discovery using pupils» interests; stand back and watch with purpose.

The independent study conducted by SRI, Evaluation of Rocketship Education's Use of DreamBox Learning Online Mathematics Program, was commissioned by Rocketship to measure the impact of online math learning on its students» academic growth in Learning Lab, a key component of the Rocketship Hybrid School Model.

Using the six - step creative problem solving process modeled by major government and business think - tanks, these students researched, analyzed the situation, applied critical thinking and then implemented an action plan whereby each of the deaf students was provided with a portable vibrating alarm designed and programmed by the team.

provisions for responding to acts of harassment, bullying, and / or discrimination against students by employees or students pursuant to clause (b) of this subparagraph which, with respect to such acts against students by students, incorporate a progressive model of student discipline that includes measured, balanced and age - appropriate remedies and procedures that make appropriate use of prevention, education, intervention and discipline, and considers among other things, the nature and severity of the offending student's behavior (s), the developmental age of the student, the previous disciplinary record of the student and other extenuating circumstances, and the impact the student's behaviors had on the individual (s) who was physically injured and / or emotionally harmed.

The effectiveness of the model has been studied in over 20 years of research and field - testing about: (a) the effectiveness of the model as perceived by key groups, such as principals, teachers, students, and parents; (b) research related to student creative productivity; (c) research relating to personal and social development; (d) the use of SEM with culturally diverse or special needs populations; (e) research on student self - efficacy; (f) the use of SEM as a curricular framework; (g) research relating to learning styles and curriculum compacting; and (h) longitudinal research on the SEM.

Using these four strategies, federal policy and programs can help state and local education agencies put excellent teachers in charge of student learning by implementing these transformative school models and accelerating development of the tools necessary to support them.