Believing that Socratic seminars are an ideal way to capitalize
on young learners» natural curiosity, Le and DeFilippo recruited parent volunteers, trained them in the Socratic method, and had each parent facilitate a poetry discussion with a group of eight young learners every two weeks.
Impact reports show that users of these resources are noticing a positive effect
on their young learners.
That's because Smith has since learned more about the negative impact of technology
on young learners — thanks in part to her position as a marketing and communications consultant for the Toronto Waldorf School, a private school that famously eschews technology....
In a world where schooling is increasingly being standardised, and where government testing puts ever more pressure
on our youngest learners, Road School is the story of how one family stepped out of the system, and set off on the educational adventure of a lifetime.
There is also concern about the impact
on younger learners.
Not exact matches
STEM toys are handpicked by Amazon's toy experts to excite
young learners with hands -
on experiments and explorations of electricity, earth science, and simple math.
Their center focuses
on developing their
young learners» confidence that will help them develop new skills.
Peisner - Feinberg said the report's conclusions are consistent with FPG's comprehensive review of research
on young Latino or Spanish - speaking children, which confirmed last year that widely available public programs help dual - language
learners make important academic gains.
For example, research
on children's play in extant hunter - gatherer societies, and evolutionary psychology studies of other mammalian
young, have identified play as an adaptation that enabled early humans to become powerful
learners and problem - solvers.
For all our kids, we must hold sacred in - school reading time to support our
young people as lifelong readers and
learners, while encouraging — but not counting
on — at - home reading as the only time where reading occurs.
One
young learner said: «This has made an impact
on my life that will stay with me for life»,» said Jo Elliot, head of PSHE, The Kings School, Devon.
Particularly focusing
on struggling readers the study resulted in an immediate effect
on the
learners in Wolverhampton and revealed some remarkable truths about the changing nature of
young peoples» reading habits.
As standardized - test pressure bears down
on even the
youngest learners and their teachers, Lilli Land challenges other principals to adopt AEEC's project - based - curriculum approach.
Citizenship projects for
young learners are often hyper - local, focusing
on students» rights and responsibilities at school.
There is very limited evidence for any consistent set of learning «styles» that can be used reliably to identify genuine differences in the learning needs of
young people, and evidence suggests that it is unhelpful to assign
learners to groups or categories
on the basis of a supposed learning style (Evidence for Learning, 2017a).
Every discussion of education policy, program design, implementation and evaluation
on instruction, teacher policies and education, or school governance focuses
on improving educational outcomes for
young people and ensuring that all
learners have access to a high - quality education relevant to the 21st century.
We found that time pressures and a focus
on reading and maths means parents and teachers aren't spending as much time as they would like to working
on handwriting with
young learners.
The free - to - attend colleges, which receive Government funding to operate, place a big focus
on preparing
young learners for future employment, whether that's in the Armed Forces or other career paths.
Younger learners assimilate information
on a broad scale.
«Rethinking Pell Grants»: Group Suggests Separate Pathways for
Younger Students and Adult
Learners Chronicle of Higher Education, 4/9/13 «The group's report, «Rethinking Pell Grants»... was released by the College Board
on Tuesday.
The story - driven approach, tracing the development and significance of lip - blown instruments throughout human history, engages
young learners and helps to place emphasis
on musical outcomes while students develop the skills necessary for success in playing modern brass instruments.
It helps us better understand the path today's
young learners are
on as we encourage them toward college and career success.
«Nonie Lesaux is an outstanding
young scholar, working
on a critical education issue — promoting academic achievement in English language
learners,» said Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Kathleen McCartney.
Their success lies in their simplicity and addictiveness — kids will completely forget the fact that they are learning and acquiring new skills as they explore the activities
on this site, and it's the perfect way to motivate
young learners.
Each learning area outlines the knowledge, skills, understandings and values of successful
learners, as described in the Melbourne Declaration
on Educational Goals for
Young Australians in 2008.
The materials available
on the EAL Nexus website are expected to reach further than the teachers and
young EAL
learners, with parents and members of migrant communities also being encouraged to sign up to the website or join the mailing list.
The New South Wales Government is continuing to focus
on the importance of Aboriginal culture and heritage, with a new program developed for the state's
youngest learners that will support Aboriginal languages to be taught in early childhood services.
This webinar will bring together some of these innovators for an engaging discussion
on successful strategies for bringing flexible, culturally - authentic, and academically - rigorous world language instruction to
young learners.
This workshop will focus specifically
on iPad innovation at the K - 5 level, as we will explore apps and strategies specific to
younger learners that empower them as creators of their own learning artifacts.
Learning programs that offer a rewarding gaming environment that
younger and older students play with
on their own time is a good way to engage
learners by making their learning work feel like play.
Ellen is the author or coauthor of several books for educators, including Secrets for Secondary School Teachers: How to Succeed in Your First Year,
On Being a Teacher, Secrets to Success for Beginning Elementary School Teachers, Counseling Skills for Teachers, English Language
Learners in Your Classroom: Strategies That Work, Secrets to Success for Science Teachers, Students Who Drive You Crazy: Succeeding with Resistant, Unmotivated, and Otherwise Difficult
Young People, and The Teacher's Journey.
Smarty Ants is an effective, research - driven solution that builds the English and Spanish foundational literacy skills Oklahoma's
young learners need to get started
on the path to college and career success.
Second, few educators of the gifted would argue with the core tenets set forth in Turning Points (Carnegie Task Force
on the Education of
Young Adolescents, 1989) that middle school programs should: (1) create small communities of learning within larger school settings, (2) teach a solid academic core, (3) ensure success for all students, (4) enable educators closest to students to make important decisions about teaching and learning, (5) staff middle schools with teachers trained to work effectively with early adolescents, (6) promote health and fitness, (7) involve families in the education of
learners, and (8) connect schools with communities.
Last April she called for a moratorium
on high - stakes Common Core tests, and she made a call in November with early childhood education expert Nancy Carlsson - Paige for education officials to convene a task force to review the «appropriateness and the implementation of the Common Core standards for
young learners... and recommend developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive guidelines for supporting
young children's optimal learning.»
Smarty Ants is an effective, research - driven solution that builds the English and Spanish foundational literacy skills Florida's
young learners need to get started
on the path to college and career success.
Dr. Morell currently serves
on an advisory board to the New York State Education Department
on the identification and instruction of
young language
learners in the growing PreK programs across the state.
[From findings
on the Transfer of Skills from Spanish to English: A Study of
Young Learners, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C.] The results indicated that Spanish phonemic awareness, Spanish letter identification, and Spanish word reading were reliable predictors of performance
on parallel tasks in English at the end of third and fourth grades.
Smarty Ants is an effective, research - driven solution that builds the English and Spanish foundational literacy skills Montana's
young learners need to get started
on the path to college and career success.
Smarty Ants is an effective, research - driven solution that builds the English and Spanish foundational literacy skills South Carolina's
young learners need to get started
on the path to college and career success.
Smarty Ants is an effective, research - driven solution that builds the English and Spanish foundational literacy skills Kentucky's
young learners need to get started
on the path to college and career success.
Often staff are spending their own money
on training and specialist resources, enduring unsustainable workload to ensure that all
learners get the support that they need, and, working hard to make the national curriculum, statutory assessments and qualifications as accessible as they can to ensure that every child and
young person is able to enjoy and achieve in their learning.
Findings from studies of high quality early childhood education experiences illustrate that such services for our
youngest learners, infants and toddlers, have long - lasting and positive impacts
on their development, learning abilities, and capacity to regulate their emotions (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; NICHD, 2003).
She has authored, edited, and / or co-authored numerous books
on mathematics education, among them, Making Moments Matter: Conferring with
Young Mathematicians at Work (New Perspectives, available through Amazon.com), Models of Intervention in Mathematics Education: Reweaving the Tapestry (NCTM and Pearson),
Young Mathematicians at Work (a series of 4 books
on numeracy and algebra published by Heinemann in the U.S. and distributed in Canada by Pearson), Learning to Support
Young Mathematicians at Work (Heinemann), A Parent's Guide to Math Education in Today's Schools (New Perspectives, available through Amazon.com), Reconstructing Math Education (Teachers College Press), Constructivism: Theory, Perspectives and Practice (Teachers College Press) and Enquiring Teachers, Enquiring
Learners (Teachers College Press.)
Education Week reported
on the Dept. of Education's guidance
on funding
young learner programs under ESSA.
I focused first
on the bell schedule for elementary students with the goal to increase instructional time for our
youngest learners.
Smarty Ants is an effective, research - driven solution that builds the English and Spanish foundational literacy skills Indiana's
young learners need to get started
on the path to college and career success.
Smarty Ants is an effective, research - driven solution that builds the English and Spanish foundational literacy skills Wyoming's
young learners need to get started
on the path to college and career success.
Smarty Ants is an effective, research - driven solution that builds the English and Spanish foundational literacy skills Arizona's
young learners need to get started
on the path to college and career success.
We call
on CPS to listen to the experts of early childhood and return play to our classrooms, end standardized testing for our
youngest learners, and allow the joy of teaching and learning back into our schools.»
For example, the kindergarten teachers are working
on creating classroom environments that offer rigorous literacy curriculum but also honor the need for play as a way of knowing for their
young learners.