Sentences with phrase «skills across content areas»

Longitudinal associations between executive functioning and academic skills across content areas.

Focuses on providing opportunities for applying 21st century skills across content areas and for a competency - based approach to learning

In order to address the challenges of educating English learners in the middle grades (4 - 8), the national Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners (CREATE), conducted a program of research designed to develop language and literacy skills while building grade level skills across the content areas.

Teachers differentiate their assignments for each of their students so they may access the Common Core State Standards, interact with complex nonfiction texts, integrate rigorous literacy skills across the content areas, and contend with complex mathematical skills, procedures, and understandings.

Teachers collaborated on differentiated lessons with a character theme that includes skills across content areas.

Adolescents need to apply literacy skills across all content areas.

Not exact matches

Increasingly, in a world where knowledge itself is constantly growing and evolving, students need to develop a set of knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions, or general capabilities that apply across learning area content and equip them to be lifelong learners able to operate with confidence in a complex, information - rich, globalised world.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

In addition, there has been a movement over the last few years to change STEM to STEAM — adding the arts to the mix — as a way of further integrating creativity and artistic skills and processes across content areas.

After teaching for six years, I recognized a recurring story: middle school students lacked the literacy skills — speaking, writing, reading, and listening — to contribute to the community, to succeed academically across content areas, and to, perhaps most importantly, create their authentic narrative.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

While the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework, new for the 5th edition, provides teachers with the knowledge and skills to overcome obstacles when integrating technology into their curriculum — across the contentContent Knowledge (TPACK) framework, new for the 5th edition, provides teachers with the knowledge and skills to overcome obstacles when integrating technology into their curriculum — across the contentcontent areas.

Colleges, universities, and employers want students to be able to acquire, evaluate, synthesize, and apply their skills and knowledge across content areas to solve real - word problems.

Education Northwest helps schools work across grade levels and content areas as they build independent readers and writers who have strong foundational skills and who can engage in deep thinking, reasoning, and writing about complex texts.

This requires educators to ensure rigor and integrity across academic content areas, while also integrating opportunities for students to learn transferable skills and to cultivate essential habits of mind.

Daily community - building and social skills development sets students up for success in content area learning across the day.

(4) Progressive Blended Learning Model across content areas uniquely optimizes learning and equips students with 21st century technology and problem - solving skills.

EDUC 725 Teaching Across the Content Areas: Methods of TESOL Grades PreK - 12 (3 credits)- This course develops the skills and knowledge necessary to teach science, mathematics and social studies to English Language Learners.

From critical thinking and problem solving, to communication and collaboration, these skills are transferable across content areas and learning environments.

After a short placement test, students build vocabulary — beyond conversational skills — to support them across the content areas.

Inquiry - based instruction develops useable knowledge across the science disciplines while seamlessly building content - area reading and writing skills

develop knowledge and skills across 6 content areas, which set out what an effective headteacher or head of school should know and be able to do