Sentences with phrase «more effective student learning»

No other strategy in the last ten years has yielded more effective student learning results.

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Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

We learned many things about these students» life situations that will enable us to help the succeeding student generations to be more effective ministers and to function as creative agents of mental health.

I am a more effective teacher when I am struggling to learn along with the students.

Students should provide perspective in their essays on who should receive sex education, what sex education should include, what would make it more inclusive and effective, why sex education is important, what they did and did not learn in their previous sex education class, what they wish they had learned, and how sex education can be taught more effectively in schools.

Through this mentor program, students will learn to avail themselves of all the opportunities that are offered, which will help enrich the college experience and make it more effective,» he said.

Brownell studies biology education, in particular how undergraduate biology students learn and how instructors can develop more effective ways to teach.

While previous studies have shown that this student - centered method can be more effective than teacher - led instruction, Wieman says this study attempted to provide «a particularly clean comparison... to measure exactly what can be learned inside the classroom.»

Findings suggest that simply telling learners that they would later teach another student changes their mindset enough so that they engage in more effective approaches to learning than did their peers who simply expected a test.

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its mission is to make training and learning more enjoyable and productive by offering an e-learning solution that engages students and makes the whole process more effective.

Accountability has been a central theme of education reform for almost two decades, driven by the unchallenged central finding of James Coleman's seminal 1966 study: Although some interventions are demonstrably more effective than others, there's no direct link between what goes into a school by way of resources and what comes out by way of student learning.

Students have reported these activities as intriguing, compelling and shared — all of which promoted long - term concentration to make the learning more effective.

It will be most convincing and reassuring for students when they realize that these front and center executive functions will become stronger and more effective through their engagement with and resulting development from the new approaches to learning.

Reflection is a key component of PBL, and can also help students create more effective service learning products.

Even for eLearning — which typically provides a more cost - effective learning experience — this could be beneficial, providing a means for cash - strapped students to access study material while spreading the cost.

My interest in blended learning came from my own desire to improve student learning, while being a more effective educator.

Active learning introduces student - centered lessons, and ensures more effective results without descending into chaos because each student speaks flawless English 80 % of the lesson time by using a mobile device and earphones.

If the gamification is effective, these students can learn more, but it also might be more work for them.

While this could be seen as damning proof that technology does not have the capability to improve educational outcomes, and instead provides a platform for students to be become distracted from learning, Andreas Schleicher, OECD director for education and skills, concluded that schools systems «need to find more effective ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning».

Here are two strategies I discovered through The Learning Scientists and use in my classroom almost daily in an attempt to teach my students more efficient and effective study and practice habits and to maximize their retention of material.

If blended learning proves to be a more effective way to educate students, administrators concerned about construction cost should be pleased.

Teachers themselves want to better understand how changes they make to learning design and adaptive delivery can improve their own work and the majority of our students are much more sophisticated judges of effective classroom practice than ever before.

«Helping students to have freedom to feel mistakes are part of the learning process will allow for students to focus more on developing effective strategies connected to the academic task at hand, rather than worrying about getting a perfect score on a test.»

Digital learning offers the potential for more cost - effective use of taxpayer funds for education, Finn observes, as the influence of good teachers can grow exponentially through technology, and students can customize the learning process to fit their needs.

Don't just «assign» writing — facilitate it in many ways; guide students as they learn how to be more effective thinkers and communicators.

This brings us back to the need indicated in Part I; that in order to develop effective, irresistibly engaging eLearning where learner engagement becomes more and more fueled by intrinsic motivation, we need to include the voice of the silent stakeholders in learning, the students or learners themselves.

More time for teachers to collaborate, to share ideas, to support one another, to program cooperatively and develop more effective teaching and learning approaches is good for students and will overall enhance the quality of public educatMore time for teachers to collaborate, to share ideas, to support one another, to program cooperatively and develop more effective teaching and learning approaches is good for students and will overall enhance the quality of public educatmore effective teaching and learning approaches is good for students and will overall enhance the quality of public education.

The verb forms studied are: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple, Past Continuous, Present Perfect, Modal Verbs, Future Forms, and First Conditional • Students learn many essential vocabulary words by heart, including word stress and the sounds of English • Students learn how to become more fluent when speaking in English, by joining together words in a sentence using the techniques of connected speech • Students enjoy following a simple and effective method that produces results quickly.

Teachers will have more time to support students who are not progressing, have access to real time data of student progress and be able to tailor effective, subsequent learning experiences to suit the students in their class.

It is far more effective than using mainly student - centered unguided activities, particularly for students with learning difficulties.

Effective teachers recognize the importance of engaging their students in learning; this is why it is necessary to implement relevant technologies for assessments to make learning applicable to modern students, who are becoming more digital and competence - based to meet the demand for future jobs.

There really needed to be more time for students to spend time on foundation skills, learning about those effective practices and knowing how they work, why they work and when to apply them; and that's really important.

Growing understanding about how students learn, together with technologies that are already engaging children and technologies now in development, will soon enable educators to customize each child's learning experiences to make them more enjoyable and more effective.

I supported the adoption of the Standards as Commissioner of Education in New York State because I believed — and continue to believe — that they represent a major step towards a more effective education for our students, many of whom have hitherto been subject to unpredictable and often under - demanding learning expectations.

The result reveals that the Web - based portfolio assessment system was more effective or useful in terms of self - evaluated learning effects for low - motivation students.

eLearning is becoming popular by the minute, especially for companies that need to train their people or educational institutions that need to supply their students who study in a distant - learning mode with courses equally, if not more, interesting and effective.

There are plenty of details that need managing, but when teachers do that in the context of leading their students to help create a more effective place to learn, handling the details works much more smoothly and naturally.»

Our results suggest that traditional public schools did not respond to competition from charter schools by becoming more effective, at least as measured by the learning gains made by individual students in the years immediately following establishment of charter schools.

Homework is generally recognized as an effective way to reinforce what students learn in class, but claims that it may cause more harm than good, especially for younger students, are common.

According to an analysis of approximately 800 meta - analyses, including more than 52,000 studies and millions of students, teachers who study their own effects on student learning are highly effective in raising student achievement (Hattie, 2009).

The foundation estimates more than 600 000 students in the high school age group could benefit from more flexible and inclusive learning approaches; and the good news is there are already plenty of examples of effective practice across the country to build on.

With that student I may say, «You know what, you're going to come to a workshop with me and we're going to talk about the content and also talk about a way for you to be more effective in learning this individually.»

With this method, we can motivate students to learn better, teachers to teach better, and schools to be more effective.

With this in mind, consider what methods of instruction are most effective for each, whether students will learn more effectively synchronously or asynchronously, and which modality is most effective for delivering that method of instruction.

Mayes and de Freitas (2004) state that the use of technology can be used to achieve better learning outcomes, more effective assessments or a more cost effective way of bringing learning environments to students; and that reforming practice requires transformation of the understanding of the principles.

The report we produced, Putting Learning First: Governing and Managing the Schools for High Achievement, was the CED's fifth education study and the product of more than 10 years of ongoing research and vigorous debate by a committed group of business leaders on the most effective strategies for improving student achievement.

Thus, we have already tested it in more than 45 schools in Spain, with very good results from the point of view of usability and opinion of the teachers and students, who say that these games are useful and effective in reinforcing what they are learning in class, and students are having a great time, that is, that when it comes the time when they are told «and now let's play Little», they think it's great because they remember it as something playful in the process of classroom learning.»

How sad that a confluence of limited funding, political pressures, and its own history of empire - building has led the National Assessment Governing Board to propose an increase in testing combined with a reduction in the kinds of items and tasks that might actually tell us something worthwhile about student learning («Board Ponders New Format To Make NAEP More Cost - Effective, Useful,» Jan. 24, 1996).

«Extensive research shows that... valid and reliable measures of teacher effectiveness,» have yet to be generated, she says, blithely putting on ignore important work by Thomas Kane, Eric Hanushek, and Raj Chetty and his colleagues, which shows that students learn in any given year somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of a standard deviation more if they have an especially effective teacher rather than a very ineffective one.