Sentences with phrase «rigorous learning objectives»

In order to meet the new, more rigorous learning objectives that aim to prepare students for college and their careers, teachers in Boston Public Schools have embraced Cognitively Demanding Tasks — CDTs for short — in their classrooms.

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What we learn through SCIENCE seems more rigorous and more true, grounded as it is in an objective method.

And the encounter with truth requires that we understand the methods appropriate to its complex character: truth about structures is discerned primarily through the objective methods of the sciences — natural, social, historical — and through the rigorous application of critical thought; truth about meanings is learned through the intuition and exercise of faith, hope and love.

To me this is all about instructional design; that we teachers are demanding rigorous and complex tasks for the work we ask our students to do with the text, while creating tasks that are appropriate for their learning objectives.

Learn how Marzano Center Student Learning Objectives keep teachers consistently informed about student performance, enabling them to make the necessary instructional shifts that help learners meet rigorous new standards.

But a pilot in Rhode Island demonstrated that it's difficult to ensure that the learning objectives are rigorous.

The Student Learning Objectives Handbook by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education provides a typical example: «a Student Learning Objective can be defined as a rigorous, measurable, long - term academic goal for a group of students that teachers use to guide their instructional efforts over a given interval of time».

Fort Worth ISD welcomed their partnership with REAL School Gardens in 2003 - 2004 academic year as part of their dedication to a principle of «evidence of outdoor explorations or classroom investigations with rigorous, standards - aligned learning objectives tied to natural phenomena and / or real - world engineering situations.»

«Recently revised standards in science, mathematics and English all include more rigorous objectives for learning in the middle grades,» said Board of Education President Eleanor B. Saslaw.

• Devised a system to determine minimum and maximum number of hours for professional development, which made the process 50 % more efficient than before • Identified training delivery protocols which strengthened delivery methods for all employees who were part of the PD program • Kept professional development programs dynamic and rigorous by conducting annual needs assessment surveys and writing corresponding reports • Established learning objectives and goals for staff development sessions • Developed timelines and training outlines • Coached employees in developing their skills and improving job performance