Sentences with phrase «on deeper learning seek»

Curriculum, instruction, and assessment focused on deeper learning seek to support students» development of skills — such as collaboration, communication, and creative problem solving — required by life in the 21st century.

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Scientists seeking to exploit their discoveries by setting up new biotechnology companies face a difficult choice: They must either spend time learning how to run a business on a lengthy, full - time course such as an MBA, or they take the risk and plunge in at the deep end, taking advice from consultants.

AISL seeks to advance new approaches to and evidence - based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments; provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments; and develop understandings of deeper learning by participants.

He is currently working on two projects: In Search of Deeper Learning, a contemporary study of schools, systems, and nations that are seeking to produce ambitious instruction; and The Chastened Dream, a history of the effort to link social science with social policy to achieve social progress.

In fact, in every generation throughout the history of public education on this continent, progressive voices have called for a school system that encourages, and seeks to nurture, deep, connected learning.

Instead of focusing on «whether preschool works,» the Early Learning Study will seek to move deeper, to explore what works, for whom, and under what conditions.

Currently, he is working on two projects: The Chastened Dream, a history of the effort to link social science with social policy to achieve social progress; and In Search of Deeper Learning, a contemporary study of schools, systems, and nations that are seeking to produce ambitious instruction.

His own ambition to learn drove Purley to enroll in HGSE's Education Policy and Management (EPM) Program, where he sought a deeper understanding of the government's influence on K — 12 funding, and how inequities in funding relate to disparities in graduation rates and access.

A recent report by the American Institute for Research (AIR) finds that students who attend deeper learning schools were more likely to graduate from high school on time and low - achieving students were more likely to seek postsecondary education.

Based on extensive research and interviews with school leaders, teachers, and students, Deeper Learning makes the case for why schools that seek to innovate must empower students with more than just academic knowledge — skills like critical thinking, collaboration, and effective communication.