Sentences with phrase «of content area teachers»

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Below are a few ways that I can imagine any teacher, regardless of grade level or content area, using interactive rubrics:

Much like teachers choose a teaching process that best suits their content area, students need to identify the app, or features of an app, that best supports their learning.

In particular, Maine lags behind in the area of standards, where the American Federation of Teachers has rated only its science standards as clear, specific, and grounded in content at all three grade spans.

One of the big misconceptions about the iPad is that teachers need to seek out applications tying directly into their content area.

Teachers of language arts and all content areas try to differentiate learning to reach a diverse group of learners by using video clips.

«Teacher prep programs spend a lot of time on the science of teaching and subject area content,» but little time on those other areas, noted Deborah Harbin, principal at Holbrook Elementary School, in Houston.

An appealing, inspiring collection of books, regardless of content area, is a crucial literacy tool that every teacher should have in the classroom.

The curriculum: An alternative to viewing the curriculum as a specification of what teachers are to teach and all students are to learn in each year of school (that is, an identified body of content) is to view the curriculum as a roadmap — a picture of what long - term progress in an area of learning looks like.

Content: A section of a larger site owned by Prufrock Press, which sells books and other products about gifted and special - needs students, the «Teaching Gifted Children» area offers a number of articles that take teachers through every aspect of educating gifted children, beginning with how to identify them in the first place.

When Principals were asked about the preparedness of recent teacher graduates, the areas they were most positive about included «Making effective use of ICT» and «Subject content knowledge», while areas for concern included «Supporting students with disabilities» and «Teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students».

«No Child Left Behind» Places Premium on Reading Instruction in Content Areas Every teacher is a teacher of reading, and the No Child Left Behind Act is about to make that more obvious than ever!

Of the more than 1,300 studies identified as potentially addressing the effect of teacher professional development on student achievement in three key content areas, nine meet What Works Clearinghouse evidence standards, attesting to the paucity of rigorous studies that directly examine this linOf the more than 1,300 studies identified as potentially addressing the effect of teacher professional development on student achievement in three key content areas, nine meet What Works Clearinghouse evidence standards, attesting to the paucity of rigorous studies that directly examine this linof teacher professional development on student achievement in three key content areas, nine meet What Works Clearinghouse evidence standards, attesting to the paucity of rigorous studies that directly examine this linof rigorous studies that directly examine this link.

Finally for conceptual collaboration, a teacher must dive into the deep water of conceptual understanding in the other content area.

Content: In the teacher resources area of the famed museum's Web site, educators can browse countless lessons and activities about an array of topics.

The percentage of teachers who favor incentives for «teaching in content areas of short supply» is only slightly less, at 82 percent.

A variety of factors were considered when establishing the teams; each team would comprise teachers at different levels of experience and from different content areas.

The impact of learning space design was another hot topic, with collaborative learning areas, flexible spaces, international school design and technology integration all on readers» wish lists for future Teacher content.

Each week, teacher leaders from content area teams, or «families,» as they call it, turn in a Curriculum Team Alignment Plan to the Director of Instruction.

The SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) strategy argues that all teachers, regardless of their content area, are also language teachers.

Voice of Experience: «No Child Left Behind» Places Premium on Reading Instruction in Content Areas Every teacher is a teacher of reading, and the No Child Left Behind Act is about to make that more obvious than ever!

It is a procedure that is used to declare the quality of a continuing education course officially and nationally, in areas such as program content, methodology, objectives and teachers.

A Digital Citizenship PBL project is an excellent opportunity to partner with the teachers of other content areas to teach and assess multiple standards.

Our teachers learned that, across content areas, our students struggled with depth of knowledge.

There are plenty of curriculum models (Tylers seminal 1949 work ~ Bruners definition of curriculum ~ Wiggins and McTighes Understanding by Design model ~ and Jacobs curriculum mapping instrument come to mind) ~ but none of these strategies help guide curriculum leaders to sit down teams of teachers to develop user - friendly curricula that can be institutionally implemented in classrooms across a grade - level or content - area and that are aligned with state or national standards.

Thus to serve both the students and teacher's needs, I wanted to discover how to promote an extension of the current conceptualization of a middle school teacher's role — one that includes both content - area and literacy instruction.

Its academic standards for all four core subject areas at every grade span have been rated as clear, specific, and grounded in content by the American Federation of Teachers.

Teacher - preparation programs typically include subject - area content, foundations of teaching, instructional methodology, and a field or practical component.

«Content - area teachers in middle and high school feel less prepared to teach reading skills, and they also view reading skill as something that should have happened at the elementary level,» says Lecturer Pamela Mason, M.A.T.» 70, Ed.D.» 75, director of the master's program in language and literacy and the Jeanne Chall Reading Lab.

For example, many of the middle - school teachers who hold only elementary multiple - subject licenses do not have sufficient depth of knowledge in the content areas they teach.

JE: I'm thinking to myself, what would you say to those teachers listening, primary and secondary (we've touched on primary there but also secondary) who want to engage their students in this area, who want to engage them in Engineering — that aspect of STEM that we've talked about as underrepresented — but maybe they just don't feel comfortable with the subject area and the content knowledge.

Content: Science Buddies helps teachers quickly and easily find free project ideas and help in all areas of science — from food science and physics to music and microbiology.

Teachers have adapted video games in an array of classroom content areas in quite creative ways.

• The fundamental requirements of each teacher preparation program — admissions standards, content area course requirements, and the alignment of elementary teachers» reading and mathematics curricula with the Common Core standards;

Open source content could bolster the education of not only students but also teachers, says Ronald Powell, administrator of the Desert / Mountain Special Education Local Plan Area, in San Bernardino County, California.

We gather with a group of teachers from different grade levels and content areas.

In that role, I lead a team of seven teacher researchers who teach across grade levels and content areas, researching the work that gets done in their classroom, on the field, and in the studio.

In either case, teachers integrate elements of their own discipline with their co-teacher's, with their students» end products ultimately reflecting both content areas.

This teacher - friendly guide integrates a variety of reading skills and strategies into your content - area instruction to improve comprehension of textbook reading and other informational text.

content knowledge, the teacher shall demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the subject matter area and curriculum;

On an evaluation of the federal Race to the Top and School Improvement Grant initiatives, she was a content area expert advising on development of protocols, data collection instruments, and reports, examining how states and districts use grant funds to improve teacher quality.

In addition to strong pedagogical knowledge, great teachers must also be masters of their individualized content area.

Teacher teams are supported by Directors of Instruction in each content area, who help guide instructional decisions for students and adult learning opportunities.

Content: This is an area of the TeachersCount site that offers links to some of the best online clothing retailers for teachers.

«Ninety - nine percent of the teachers in middle schools and high schools are prepared to teach in their content area, not to teach comprehension in their content area,» said Catherine...

The leadership that a teacher leader can provide to a curriculum committee, for example, is closely related to his or her depth of knowledge in a content area.

Providing models of various uses of technology in specific content areas can also broaden teachers» TPACK.

The preservice teachers practiced planning and implementing lessons that incorporated iPad apps with individual or small groups of students in a variety of content areas.

The BPS Teaching and Learning Challenge (TLC Program) provides K - 12 teachers of all content areas the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to:

With 17,300 students, the district receives an abundance of information, including data from PARCC tests, districtwide pre - and post-common assessments in all content areas, Measures of Academic Progress in elementary and middle schools, Eureka Math and Achieve 3000 achievement scores, and professional - development surveys given to all teachers.

Bunn: And I think that's a struggle that a lot of teachers have, because when you go to college, you come out with the basic understanding of all concept areas, but then the older students need more specific content.