Sentences with phrase «more classroom collaboration»

Kindergarten teacher Wendy Olson from Shoreline school district, for example, worked with foundry10 during the summer reading intervention and reached out to us for more classroom collaboration during the school year.

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«The apps that generally have been the most successful [in the app store] tend to be less about curriculum and more about in - classroom collaboration and 21st century skills.»

Nair recommends involving students in examining the various ways that a classroom can be rearranged to encourage more collaboration, discussion, and project - based learning.

Although digital tools have changed the way we think about creating in the classroom, collaboration means more than accessing the same document from different devices.

Puppets change the entire classroom by creating more possibilities for creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and curiosity.

In the classroom, technology can encompass all sorts of tools from low - tech pencil, newspaper publisher, and chalkboard, to the utilization of presentation software, or high - tech tablets, online collaboration, and conferencing tools, and more.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

That means students in PBL classrooms are spending more time learning about important content through experiences that emphasize critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication.

Before we share some non-tech ways to use collaboration in writing — apart from its more common usages in the classroom like think - write - pair - share — we want to distinguish collaborative learning from cooperative learning.

More than three decades ago, researchers identified teacher collaboration — including time for colleagues to discuss classroom challenges, design learning materials together, and critique each other's practice — as a cornerstone of school success.

With virtual classrooms, you can use gamification, role playing and more to create both rivalry and collaboration among learners.

Online curricula, distance learning, netbooks and cellphones in the classroom, and Web 2.0 tools — think Facebook and Skype — as a means of student collaboration have all gained luster as the drive to do more with less overlaps with the demands of educating a generation of digital natives.

MORE ABOUT THE NORTHEAST FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN The Northeast Foundation for Children, a private, non-profit educational foundation, works to improve the quality of classroom teaching through its professional development programs, summer workshops, long - term collaborations, and teacher resources.

November 29, 2017 — In an effort to bring financial education into more classrooms and promote fiscal responsibility among high school students, Discover Financial Services, a recognized leader in the financial education space, and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K - 12 classrooms, today announced their collaboration to launch Pathway to Financial Success in Schools.

Silver Spring, Maryland (November 29, 2017)-- In an effort to bring financial education into more classrooms and promote fiscal responsibility among high school students, Discover Financial Services, a recognized leader in the financial education space, and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K - 12 classrooms, today announced their collaboration to launch Pathway to Financial Success in Schools, a standards - aligned suite of materials to provide students, educators, and their families with tools and expertise to make intelligent financial decisions and achieve their personal goals.

Compared to traditional classrooms, learning studios permitted more relaxed, less intimidating group collaboration, while still providing academic challenge.

As the consumption - based model of technology integration transitions to a participatory approach and technology transitions from a tool for accessing information to a tool to (a) support student authoring and creativity, (b) facilitate collaboration, communication, and social learning, (c) allow for more efficient organization and accumulation of resources, (d) provide venues for student voices through publication and sharing, and (e) support student immersion in learning environments, educators also transition from «extending learning beyond what could be done without technology» (Mason et al., 2000) to «use technologies to promote effective student learning» (Hicks et al., 2014) In the revisioning of the first principle, the authors did a commendable job of affording increased value to range of tools, methods, content, abilities, and varied contexts of social studies classrooms.

Every child's education is more successful when there is respectful collaboration, active communication, and true partnership between teachers in the classroom and parents at home.

This collection of papers was written to address two purposes: (a) to provide teachers in preservice LD preparation programs with an overview of validated practices that have been proven effective for children with language learning disabilities, and (b) to provide regular education teachers preparing to enter the field or already in the classroom with knowledge about validated teaching strategies so that they can work more effectively in collaboration with an LD consultant.

The change has three main prongs: principals making more frequent and rigorous classroom observations; teachers in core subjects like math and English receiving ratings based on how their students perform on standardized tests; and teachers in grades and subjects where those tests don't apply devising other ways to chart student growth, in collaboration with their principals and using advice from the state.

Although the gradual release model began in reading comprehension research, the method is now recognized as an instructional method that can help all content area teachers move from lecture and whole group instruction to a more student - centered classroom that uses collaboration and independent practice.

Linked Learning classrooms involve more collaboration, and project - based learning.

As a teacher, you might identify a need to add more data - informing formative assessment to your repertoire, or ways to customize activities and assessments for students to personalize their learning, or perhaps you feel compelled to «flip» your classroom to increase the collaboration among students during class.

Although Cathy knew she needed to tackle the intellectual challenge of making sure instruction focused on what kids needed to know, she began with the more foundational organizational challenge: The master schedule didn't allow for grade - level collaboration, and classrooms weren't clustered by grade level.

In some cases, participants wanted to approach the wiki as a source of information, not collaboration — or wanted the wiki to mediate more traditional, less collaborative kinds of social interactions among teachers, such as sharing lesson ideas or classroom anecdotes (as in Bush, 2000; Dressman, 2000; Stock, 2001).

Schools made renovations to libraries, strengthened their collections and aligned them more closely with classroom needs; enriched classroom teaching with library activities; and fostered collaboration among administrators, teachers and librarians in planning and giving instruction.

We are making room for more project space and teacher collaboration, more classrooms so we can reduce class size, a space devoted to movement, and addressing a number of other needs.

A classroom teacher described how she used a social networking platform to allow for collaboration with a preservice teacher in the hopes of making student literary analysis more authentic for her high school seniors.

The NIE has also revamped its own classrooms to make them more digital and collaboration - friendly.

• Collaboration to create a school and classroom culture rooted in respect, responsibility and excellence, so that students not only develop moral character, (caring, respect, trustworthiness, for example) but the performance character they will need to successfully grapple with more rigorous standards, (diligence, effort, responsibility, for example)

Microsoft introduced a set of educational products and services, inspired by teachers and students, including a new Windows experience called Windows 10 S; new experiences in Microsoft Teams for modern classroom collaboration; new features in Minecraft and mixed reality to... Read more

In her more than 30 years as a classroom teacher, Betsy Hanger has fostered creative collaboration between teachers and students.