Not exact matches
UTLA president A. J. Duffy sensed an opening, negotiating with Villaraigosa to grant teachers greater control
over curriculum and
pedagogical practices.
This means that while veterans have a knowledge advantage
over new teachers in many areas, new teachers often have significantly better understanding of the most recent research, best
practices, and
pedagogical or technological advances.
Over the past 20 years, the accountability movement's reliance on data to quantify student learning has transformed
pedagogical practice and opened up educational
practice to show the public how well students are achieving — or not achieving — in their public schools.
Other activities in which teacher candidates engaged have engaged in my courses are attending webinars hosted by the National Council of Geography Education on integrating online maps into
pedagogical practice, using Google Earth ™ to create flyovers and virtual fieldtrips, retrieving and analyzing remotely sensed imagery of our town and university to visualize how these places had changed and developed
over the years, using various functions in Google Maps ™, and reviewing school demographic and testing data in preparation for instructional planning.