Sentences with phrase «overall learning of my students»

I've reflected about each decision and considered how the shift to a classroom culture that values and supports student voice has impacted the overall learning of my students.

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While one of the primary goals of crisis preparedness is to develop a sense of empowerment and control, armed assailant drills not conducted appropriately may cause physical and psychological harm to students, staff, and the overall learning environment.
And, when research uses standardized tests to measure homework's impact, she continued, it is difficult to gauge how much of the overall improvement or decline in test scores is due to student learning in the classroom context as opposed to student learning from homework.
Teachers can determine their overall rating by finding their Measures of Student Learning rating on the y - axis and their Observations (teaching) rating on the x-axis and plot where the two points meet.
The United States remains the world leader in overall education spending, although the OECD report suggests that it's getting a poor return on its investment in terms of what students learn.
Overall, studies in the field indicate that children from low - income families tend to show the most gains from social emotional learning interventions, but results for other groups of students are more mixed, although a number of studies show positive effects.
Overall, the research team is encouraged by the results so far, which suggest that incorporating a rigorous form of PBL can be an important strategy for improving student learning and engagement in advanced courses.
How students communicate their discoveries and connect them to the overall learning is an essential part of what we do.
According to the report, the overall learning culture that ability grouping creates inhibits learning opportunities for some students and can leave them stuck at a level of learning they have potential to advance from.
More time for teachers to collaborate, to share ideas, to support one another, to program cooperatively and develop more effective teaching and learning approaches is good for students and will overall enhance the quality of public education.
Overall, we are pleased to see the Department encouraging student - centered and personalized learning and are pleased to see that the Department has created a possibility for additional funding for LEAs that target areas of nonconsumption (Sec.
Overall, the majority of students, at least 80 percent, taking a PBL course state that the greatest value is the ability to apply what they have learned to their lives outside of class.
Teachers can talk with administrators to determine how student test scores fit into the overall picture of evidence for student learning.
Furthermore, this scenario provides tutors and teaching specialists with enough resources to work with smaller groups of students during in - person sessions thus utilizing the time much more efficiently, which, ultimately leads to considerably greater learning satisfaction, and consequently enhances students» overall performance.
Overall, results showed a slight advantage of grouping as compared to non-grouping in promoting student learning, with large variability in the effect sizes.
«Right now, I think both systems are trying to figure out what outcomes are most important, but overall, it appeared [to our group that] both cities are spending a lot of effort in engaging students in genuine or authentic learning,» Robinson says.
Arts education today is more than instruction: it is also a barometer of our willingness as a nation to provide equity through our public institutions.I applaud Rocco Landesman for bringing his important message directly to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at their joint appearance at the Arts Education Partnership: «Arts exposure is fine, but unless students are prepared for the art, unless teachers are integrating the art into the student's overall learning for the year, it remains exposure, not education....
To serve the school's 700 students in grades 7 - 12, its overall design combines a modern learning environment with the aesthetic of a traditional Pueblo village.
Families, friends, and neighborhoods also exert an influence so that looking just at the overall level of a student's achievement does not capture the school's contribution to learning.
«Overall, the message for teachers and students is that science is not simply a body of knowledge to be learned, but a way of thinking and problem - solving that can be applied to a range of real - life situations.»
If the curriculum makes clear what all students are to be taught and should learn by particular times in their schooling, for example, by the end of Year 6, and if all teachers and students are held accountable for meeting these time - based expectations, then overall levels of achievement should improve.
This is an ideal, but if we could better approximate it, we may see more students learning successfully and overall levels of performance in Australian schools improve.
There is usually a delay in feedback of this kind, and when it is provided, details capable of guiding learning often receive less student attention than overall judgements of the quality of their work (eg, B +).
The task of ensuring that millions of children learn English — and succeed academically — is putting pressure on states and school districts as they push to boost student achievement overall.
Schools get access to a network of professionals and resources that will assist in the design and delivery of sporting programmes aligned to cross-curriculum learning outcomes and ultimately contributing to the overall health and wellbeing of their students.
Among 657 Playworks partner schools across the country surveyed in Spring 2017, 95 percent of school staff reported an improvement in overall school climate; 97 percent witnessed an increase in the number of students engaged in healthy play during recess; and teachers reported an average of 19 recovered learning hours in the classroom.
Overall, the Common Core Standards are logical progressions of student learning in K - 12 in English language arts and math.
Although a seemingly common sense concept, researchers have had difficulty substantiating the connection between educator professional learning and student outcomes because of the host of potential variables and the overall complexity of the research.
«It is totally unacceptable that there are millions of students across the country who are learning in dilapidated, obsolete and unhealthy facilities that pose obstacles to their learning and overall well - being,» says Rick Fedrizzi, CEO and founding chair of USGBC.
Our results suggest that elementary - school students learn more with «tough» teachers, with the effects varying depending on students» initial performance levels and on the overall performance level of their classrooms.
Since then, due in large part to the availability of new data sources that link and track teachers and students over a number of years, researchers have been able to estimate the overall contribution of teachers to student learning.
Experienced practitioners recommended a deep understanding of the philosophy and overall pedagogy of instructional materials, so that teacher leaders can make clear to teachers how the new materials contribute to student learning.
The framework for our overall project also points to the mostly indirect influence of principals «actions on students and on student learning.223 Such actions are mediated, for example, by school conditions such as academic press, 224 with significant consequences for teaching and learning and for powerful features of classroom practice such as teachers «uses of instructional time.225 Evidence - informed decision making by principals, guided by this understanding of principals «work, includes having and using a broad array of evidence about many things: key features of their school «s external context; the status of school and classroom conditions mediating leaders «own leadership practices; and the status of their students «learning.
The overall purpose of this module is to help aspiring and practicing school leaders build capacity to organize learning and learning environments in service of students of color and / or students situated in poverty.
We wanted to learn more about how these preservice students connected, or failed to connect, what they learned in the hypermedia environment to the rest of the course and their overall program.
«If, as the EQAO data show, half of Ontario's grade 3 and 6 students don't enjoy reading, this may have an impact on their overall attitude toward learning which can last a lifetime.»
A 2016 Student Achievement Report published this week by the Florida Department of Education (DOE) shows the state's charter school students are outperforming students in traditional Florida public schools in overall achievement and in learning gains.
Improvements in discipline and teacher - student relations at Ware County High School were accompanied by improvements in the overall learning environment, as indicated by the sharply lower percentages of teacher climate survey responders saying «very true» or «sort of true» to the statement «the learning environment in this school is not conducive to academic achievement for most students».
Overall, the learning gains of students who used Achieve3000 were statistically significant and substantively important for all areas assessed: the GMRT - 4 Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, and Total Reading tests, as well as the LevelSet Lexile reading assessment.
Finally, «Next Generation» accountability systems should adhere to the following five essentials: «(a) state, district, and school leaders must create a system - wide culture grounded in «learning to improve;» (b) learning to improve using [the aforementioned informational systems also] necessitates the [overall] development of [students»] strong pedagogical data - literacy skills; (c) resources in addition to funding — including time, access to expertise, and collaborative opportunities — should be prioritized for sustaining these ongoing improvement efforts; (d) there must be a coherent structure of state - level support for learning to improve, including the development of a strong Longitudinal Data System (LDS) infrastructure; and (e) educator labor market policy in some states may need adjustment to support the above elements» (p. x).
Our learning management system will track and record the progress and attainment of your students, and the school's progress overall.
Learning analytics may help you understand your students» needs, the effectiveness of your content and how to drive forward a better overall teaching and business strategy.
A lack of preparation will diminish the overall quality of the lesson and will hinder student learning.
The overall goal of all these techniques is creating a personalized learning experience for each of your LMS students.
The degree to which Colonial Williamsburg's EFTs are structured to engage students in problem - based learning is the focus for the following findings and relates to the overall affordances and constraints of the Colonial Williamsburg EFT model.
FastBridge Learning offers a range of math progress measures designed to help students improve their overall math proficiency.
The goal of the National Math Foundation Summer Institute is to provide common core and module - aligned training and materials for teachers / schools in movement - based learning strategies in order to boost student achievement, increase physical activity, reduce obesity, and increase the overall health of students.
They faced the facts of where they were with student achievement, with instructional practices, how the teachers were developing their skills collaboratively, what gains had been made in improving the overall learning culture of the school and what parent and community partnerships were developing.
Oregon is proposing that schools will receive no overall letter grade or score but will instead use a multiple - measure dashboard of indicators that reflect opportunities for students to learn, academic success, and college and career readiness.
For example, are students struggling with word problems because they aren't fluent in math facts, need to learn how to classify the problem type, haven't mastered translating the problem into an equation, or lack an overall strategy for solving problems of this type?
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