Sentences with phrase «on content knowledge»

Significant effects of professional - development programs were found when programs focused on content knowledge in the math and science subject areas plus pedagogical training in teaching the subject matter.

Knowledge matters — Prepare teacher leaders to draw on their content knowledge expertise when working with instructional teams of teachers and administrators.

The results demonstrate that early childhood teachers have high perceptions about mathematical knowledge for teaching being especially high on the knowledge of teaching and lowest on content knowledge.

These data reflect emphasis on content knowledge in accordance with the No Child Left Behind Act definition of highly qualified teacher.

«All that you are doing — other than raising the bar on content knowledge — is providing greater flexibility at the local level and allowing the potential pool of candidates to be expanded,» Redelman told the panel.

McREL's study found that Science4Us helped students make statistically significant improvements on content knowledge.

Personalized Instruction at school, where students are focused on content knowledge targeted just for them;

The work on the program is driven by the desire to have a more deliberate and detailed focus on practice, as well as on content knowledge for teaching and the ethical obligations of the profession.

They are diagnosticians, prescribing the best possible instruction based on both their content knowledge and their emerging understanding of students» progress in mastering critical content.

Teacher education programs are so focused on content knowledge that they often fail to provide adequate preparation on child and adolescent development, concludes a report scheduled to come out this week from two leading organizations in those respective fields.

Yes, we need more research on which curricula work best, but we already have ample solid research demonstrating the decided advantage that the traditionalist emphasis on content knowledge has over the progressivist insistence on active learning (disengaged from domain facts and concepts).

But at the same time, we've got to focus on content knowledge, and pedagogical content knowledge in the sense that Deborah Ball has been talking about.

Conventional high school curricula have nearly always focused on content knowledge and academic proficiency, but a growing body of research highlights specific noncognitive factors — such as academic perseverance and social skills — as pivotal to student learning and success inside the classroom and out.1 Developing these characteristics is especially important for students who have struggled in traditional academic settings in the past.

Munson concludes that the lesson is to focus on content knowledge and give less emphasis to skills alone.

● Specific focus on content knowledge and pedagogical skills for ELA and math, by employing «Achieve the Core» resources;

Seeking out a data projector and using PowerPoint followed by a transition to using a SMARTBoard with SMART Notebook software, Kyle began delivering professional development with a focus on content knowledge, pedagogy and effective uses of technology in the mathematics classroom.

With a focus on content knowledge and differentiation in instruction, this group of diverse elementary, middle, and high school teachers will collectively improve their practice in order to improve student... more»

He notes that two organizations with starkly contrasting points of view — E. D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge Foundation, with its emphasis on content knowledge, and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, with its emphasis on skills — both view the new standards as compatible with their definition of an ideal curriculum.

Focus on content knowledge.

Teacher preparation program content that includes a deep focus on content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and alignment with the elementary curriculum