Quick and targeted assessments
of discrete skills that indicate whether students are making adequate progress in reading achievement
In fact, the more educators focus instructional time on a prioritized set
of discrete skills and tasks in isolation, the more compliant students become.
Other curriculum that tended to focus on whole group instruction and teaching
of discrete skills constrained teachers» ability to do so.
'' «Unpacking» often results in a checklist
of discrete skills and a fostering of skill - and - drill instruction that can fragment and isolate student learning in such a way that conceptual understanding, higher order thinking, cohesion, and synergy are made more difficult.
Not exact matches
Students begin by learning
discrete hand
skills: stripping cards from the top
of a deck, pitching cards to players.
And having a workforce trained in
discrete and atomizable bits
of skills will be seen as a benefit by employers.
Culinary historian Karen Hess called the use
of hot peppers in traditional Virginia cooking «highly
skilled and
discrete.»
The result was a report titled «Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners,» published in June 2012, which for the first time represented noncognitive
skills — or «noncognitive factors,» as the report called them — not as a set
of discrete abilities that individual children might somehow master (or fail to master), but as a collection
of mindsets and habits and attitudes that are highly dependent on the context in which children are learning.
While we may be exceptional as individuals, many
of us lack the
discrete, tangible
skills to successfully lead, manage, and nurture a generation
of budding scientists.
Then, they see the purpose
of learning
discrete skills, they see how the learning will be applied, they know that there will be an audience at the end, and they anticipate the fun.
Years
of treating reading as a
discrete subject or a
skill — teaching it and testing it that way — have arguably set reading achievement in reverse.
Based on comparative study
of curriculum innovations, I can point out six «beyonds,» where educators are venturing beyond the traditional disciplines, in brief: beyond content, infusing 21st century
skills, competences, etc.; beyond local, embracing global perspectives, problems, and studies; beyond topics, transforming topics into tools
of broad understanding; beyond the traditional disciplines, renewing and extending those disciplines; beyond
discrete disciplines, embracing interdisciplinary topics and problems; beyond academic engagement, fostering personal significance, commitment, and passion.
This approach to reading instruction — where
discrete skills are broken down into bite - sized chunks and taught explicitly, largely independent
of texts — works for beginning readers.
Future developers
of such programs would benefit from clearer documentation
of the
discrete components
of these programs and the connection
of these components to changes in teacher leader knowledge and
skills.
«The idea that learning should be designed with a clear goal was, and still is, a good one... but basing lessons on lists
of knowledge and
skills, then measuring those
skills to death for 13 years in
discrete pieces that never seem to thread back together into any recognizable meaningful whole?
This is why the Times rightfully asked a qualified researcher at Rand Corp., the Santa Monica - based think tank, to devise a sophisticated statistical model in an attempt to isolate the
discrete effect
of pedagogical
skills on student growth.
They've learned that if you offer players just the right amount
of challenge — setting goals that are ambitious but achievable and allowing them to «level up» once they've demonstrated their mastery
of discrete tasks — they will respond eagerly, making focused and persistent efforts to improve their
skills and rise to new levels.
Tracking makes a few assumptions: learning is a race to the end
of the curriculum, the only things worth learning are what's in the curriculum, and learning means acquiring facts and
discrete skills.
However, more reading gains were made by students who received a balance
of discrete literacy and comprehension
skills instruction.
Teacher has accurately and appropriately derived from the objective the
discrete knowledge,
skills, and mindsets that will lead to students to mastery
of the lesson.
A framework presenting a holistic view
of 21st Century teaching and learning that combines a
discrete focus on 21st Century student outcomes (a blending
of specific
skills, content knowledge, expertise and literacies) with innovative support systems to help students master the multi-dimensional abilities required
of them in the 21st Century and beyond.
Conversations about performance on individual «indicators,» as they are called in my jurisdiction, often border on the absurd because most
of us realize that reading
skills are not something that can be separated out cleanly into
discrete abilities.
They markedly advance the quality
of learning standards, going beyond an emphasis on
discrete skills by calling for the teaching
of significant and fundamental concepts, together with essential
skills, that cohere across the grades and connect to life after school.
However, SEI as implemented in Arizona carries serious negative consequences for EL students stemming from the excessive amount
of time dedicated to it, the de-emphasis on grade level academic curriculum, the
discrete skills approach it employs, and the segregation
of EL students from mainstream peers.
The study showed simply that children who were exposed to instruction regarding phonics, simple writing and counting manipulatives frequently in preschool, and then were tested on these
discrete skills near the beginning
of kindergarten, did better on those tests than children who were not exposed at all or as frequently to this instruction.
A micro credential is a competency based credential focused on a
discrete skill related to practice (in this case the array
of practice
of teacher leadership) based on a collection
of evidence.
They markedly advance the quality
of learning standards, going beyond an emphasis on
discrete skills by calling for the teaching
of significant and fundamental concepts, together with essential
skills,... Read more»
Obviously, the ability to look at a piece
of text holistically and authentically analyze text to reach a deeper understanding is not one that students will master within a week or two (unlike
discrete skills - based instruction).
Because lab teachers are responsible for a small number
of students, they can confer with them every two to three days; these conferences become platforms for both informal assessment and coaching in
discrete skills.
Rooting has long been the
discrete purview
of the modding elite; those who have the
skills and the interest level to invade the inner workings
of a device's firmware code.
We have a pool
of knowledgeable and highly
skilled discrete mathematics experts.
The resume format
of a Windows System Administrator has to focus on his being good at communication
skills, interpersonal
skills, possessed with great analytical
skills, problem solving
skills and
discrete decision making
skills.
Effective family mediation requires a
discrete set
of skills and attitudes that is quite different from the set
of skills and attitudes characteristic
of an effective advocate or litigation - oriented lawyer.
The checklist has 56
discrete items keyed to engagement, session structure, and each
of the concepts /
skills in each sessions
of the curriculum; comment sections address therapeutic and working alliance.