Sentences with phrase «of pieces of student work»

Making judgments about student learning and school quality based on a body of work — a select number of pieces of student work from a number of assessments within a given discipline, provides a much richer and more accurate picture of student learning than a single, disconnected standardized test.

Creating & Recognizing Quality Rubrics and accompanying CD - ROM draws from over 20 years of the author's direct experiences with developing rubrics and performance tasks, devising interesting ways to use rubrics as teaching tools in the classroom, employing rubrics to score thousands of pieces of student work for classroom and large - scale assessments, and working with teachers to make their rubrics more instructionally powerful.

Not exact matches

For Yeager, the conclusion to draw from the study is not that teachers should start slapping high - expectations Post-its on every piece of work they hand back to students.

The upcoming sale at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA) features work from both emerging and established artists, and includes pieces from students, alumni, affiliated artists, and faculty.

«It's a piece of the puzzle,» said Armitage, who worked on the experiments along with Liang Wu, who was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins when the work was done, Maryam Salehi of the Rutgers University Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Nikesh Koirala, Jisoo Moon and Sean Oh of the Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Emphasizing this link between connecting a computer program to a circuit that you wire and that is connected to a piece of art or an object makes working with the Raspberry Pi Projects Kit a unique and fun learning experience for students.

Students will discover the power and pitfalls of DNA identification analysis as they work to solve a «whodunnit» mystery, constructing and comparing DNA profiles to piece together crucial evidence that may — or may not — «make their case».

By analyzing and identifying high - quality aspects of a piece of work, students can apply those high - quality attributes to their own work.

In a February 2007 op - ed piece in the Dallas Morning News, Gigi Antoni, president and CEO of Big Thought, the nonprofit partnership working with the district, the Wallace Foundation, and more than sixty local arts and cultural institutions, explained the rationale behind what was then called the Dallas Arts Learning Initiative: «DALI was created on one unabashedly idealistic, yet meticulously researched, premise — that students flourish when creativity drives learning.»

When students are invested in a particular piece of work, it becomes something that matters to them.

The quarter culminates with Exhibit Night, during which selected pieces of student work are presented.

Creating with technology tools provides opportunities for students to demonstrate understanding while producing a shareable piece of work.

My third piece of advice is to set high standards for the quality of work students should submit; provide clear feedback about the strengths and limitations of students» work products, assign grades of B + to work products that are solid responses to the assignment, and reserve grades higher than B + for work that is truly distinguished.

The reform news site The 74 ran pieces protesting that the anecdotes in Oliver's spiel ignored «the vast majority of charter teachers and administrators go to work each morning prepared and determined to do right by their students.»

In the realm of formal schooling, he suggests that instead of focusing on preferences — asking students to declare that one piece of work is superior, more valuable, or more beautiful than another — teachers should first emphasize and cultivate a student's ability to distinguish and articulate differences that matter.

Students are discovering how they can present their work not just as a piece of artwork or writing, but digitally.

When your students are critiquing, they may use a word like «boring» to describe a piece of work.

It was a tight contest, with many students from all over the region submitting pieces of high quality work that showed both excellent written skills and good imaginations, but Kirsty did really well at producing a finished article that was a cut above the rest.

The «Page of Cloth,» a multi-canvas piece of art work collectively created by high school students in Gloucester, MA from 1971 to 1988, will be on display at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Monroe C. Gutman Library from Monday, March 3 through Monday, March 17, 1997.

This practice can remove the discomfort of not knowing what to say, and it can help students discover what attracts them to a piece of work if they don't yet know how they feel about it.

I've seen my students get excited about their work when they're able to talk it out with peers, but I've also seen how much they need a quiet, calm environment so they can write significant pieces for an extended period of time.

The fifth - grade students worked on a creative writing piece, developing a first - person narrative from the perspective of a sailor or Native American.

I also like to provide students with coloured paper, different pictures and ways to decorate their pieces of work.

Students become autonomous, taking responsibility for every piece of the learning process, and you find yourself sitting back and watching your well - oiled machine work on its own.

Preparation includes copying and cutting the 3 piece puzzles, students work page and sorting the pieces into envelopes for groups of students.

I watched as students started rolling into configurations that appealed to them: partners like Cittlaly and Sara, best friends and a predictable pairing; trios like Matt, Carlos and Eddie, all athletes working on sports - themed essays; mixed - gender groups of kids, like one from the leadership class working on social justice pieces; and a few students who chose to slide off for some solo work.

Simple and easy to use set of sheets to help aid KS3 students with analysing the work of artists and using key words to structure a piece of extended writing.

All pieces contain a WALT / LI with examples of student or exemplar work to assist with the project.

Simple and easy to use sheets to help aid GCSE students with analysing the work of artists and their own annotations using key words to structure a piece of extended writing.

In this project students work in groups and outline their body shapes on a big piece of paper and then using magazines, sequins, patterns and paint and drawings students then collage into the body shape.

Students produce a tonal pencil portrait - extension tasks include exploration into the work of Giacometti, which could result in a 2D charcoal piece or 3D sculpture.

I give students a checklist and a list of common errors, and they work through their own pieces and at least one other person's story or essay.

To address that, Bettez asks those students to reflect during their conference on why a piece of work is missing, what prevented that work from being completed, and what plans they have to prevent them from failing to complete other assignments.

But in the ensuing months, as NYSED worked to write the regulations that spelled out how the law would be implemented, it pushed the student performance piece of the law in directions that NYSUT didn't like.

Working in these newly minted teams of «experts,» each student shares a brand new piece of content with team members who only now learn that particular lesson segment.

You will find in this pack: - 5 ready - to - print certificates to reward your students» work all over the year depending on the situation (work, piece of writing, effort and team work)- 4 different classroom displays rules posters to choose from according to your own taste - 1 Super Student rules worksheet that you can print for all your students to remind them of the rules in your class.

This time there are 3 images or pieces of information, students have to work out what the fourth could be.

These practices can be augmented with the treasure trove of cool technologies available today; my students can connect with artists all over the country for a masterclass using Skype, write music for class on free notation programs like MuseScore and Noteflight, create their own playlists of listening examples for a piece of music on Spotify and YouTube, and work collaboratively on music projects through Google Suite's Flat extension.

We're allowed only 20 pieces of student work for two prompts and two students.

«For example, in the Manga workshop run by Matthew Lin, the students drew manga characters; Candy Royalle's poetry workshop led to students creating pieces of poetry — some of which were later published online; John Larkin and JC Burke worked with students to develop «show don't tell» writing skills whereby they took a word like «walk» and then all the synonyms associated with that word — for example skip, hop, stumble, sprint, shuffle, stride — and learned how each word has a nuanced meaning and how this can change the feel of a text.

This is for teachers to use for an example of a piece of geography or to explain to the students how the river works from the different types of erosion to their velocities and how it works.

Have developed this Assessment Worksheet for use within my Business Studies classes so that the students can self assess themselves when they've done a piece of class work that needs to be given in.

Starting from a 6» by 6» piece of fabric and culminating in an online photo journal, electronic work products, and parent - teacher - student conferences, Kristi Rennebohm Franz used technology to facilitate her students» understanding of difficult math concepts.

Students must answer the question correctly in order to place their connect four piece, working from the bottom row up (typical of connect 4).

I then break students into groups of two or three and ask them to edit an anonymous piece of student work to share with the class.

No, this isn't another piece about how online learning can allow students to continue to learn even when school is canceled because of snow — although online learning could arguably help a select number of parents who can work from home solve the problem faced when this happens.

After the worked examples there is a worksheet which students can complete in class or as a piece of homework.

I circle elements that students haven't included and they must refer back to it before completing their next piece of written or spoken work.

If you ever get a chance to visit High Tech High or one of its sister schools in San Diego, the first thing you might notice is the student work displayed all over the building — works of art, pieces of writing, inventions demonstrating an understanding of science.

«Expecting [the student] to «work through» difficult pieces of the road will ultimately help her more than letting her retrace her steps till she finds a more smoothly paved avenue to follow.»