Sentences with phrase «on younger learners»

There is also concern about the impact on younger 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....

Impact reports show that users of these resources are noticing a positive effect on their young learners.

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.

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.

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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.