Lessons are customized for a state's grade - level standards for English language arts,
social studies and science so that students can build reading and writing skills and content - area knowledge and vocabulary simultaneously.
Not exact matches
«
So many psychiatric disorders involve disruptions to
social functioning,» said the
study's senior author, Karen Parker, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry
and behavioral
sciences.
«The fact that eyewitnesses have experienced the past themselves makes them
so credible that the students who interact with them in person find it hard to build up the distance needed for a critical approach to their accounts,» explains Christiane Bertram, who is first author of the
study and who meanwhile teaches teaching didactics in the
social sciences at the University of Konstanz.
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).
At the end of a
social studies or
science unit, Coley breaks the class into groups of two or three students
so they can develop podcast scripts by discussing
and summarizing what they've learned.
That includes language arts,
science, art, music,
social studies,
and so on.
A second important outcome was that the lower - performing students,
so these were students who were about the bottom third of our sample, these were students who were earning Grade Point Averages (GPAs) of a C or below in the semester prior to the intervention [
and were] most likely going to be struggling in school; for these students, the intervention increased their GPAs
and also increased their likelihood of passing core courses like Math, English,
Social Studies and Science -
and increased that by around 6.5 percentage points.
He sought to integrate math into other subjects, such as literature,
science,
social studies,
and geography,
so that users could easily adopt the activities
and focus on more than one area of their curriculum at one time.
When Shoemaker was teaching middle school
science and social studies classes, her students wanted to know why gadgets use different kinds of batteries,
so she created what she thought would be a quick -
and - easy project: She put together an Excel spreadsheet of battery data
and asked students to create a graphic that visually represented the information.
And while math and science are increasingly essential in the workplace, so is an - depth knowledge of languages, social studies, and the ar
And while math
and science are increasingly essential in the workplace, so is an - depth knowledge of languages, social studies, and the ar
and science are increasingly essential in the workplace,
so is an - depth knowledge of languages,
social studies,
and the ar
and the arts.
It is cross-curricular,
so teachers can use it to assist them with their geography, biology,
and life
sciences lessons, as well as math, literature,
social studies, etc..
• High - school graduation requirements should be strengthened
so that all students acquire a solid foundation in five «new basics»: English, mathematics,
science,
social studies,
and computer
science.
Proven effective in raising student test scores, testGEAR online test prep courses for English language arts, math,
science and social studies, level the playing field
so every student gets the practice they need to achieve test excellence on their state high school exit exams.
The standards are English Language Arts
and Literacy standards,
so they also speak to reading in
social studies,
science,
and technical subjects.
So Indiana still has standards for other subjects, including
science,
social studies, health
and physical education.
Supplement Merit with material from
social studies,
science,
and language arts classes,
so students may practice skills in a variety of subject areas.
Relate skills practiced with the software to material in their
social studies,
science,
and language arts classes,
so students can apply new skills to each subject area.
Linden - McKinley is a project - based learning school, meaning staff take standards of what students are supposed to know from the state
and mesh those standards
so they are interdisciplinary across math,
science, English
and social studies.
So districts are creating a lot more tests in every subject, including
science,
social studies, even art
and music.
These are classrooms where
so much time is devoted to learning English at the expense of
science and social studies.
How about in math,
science,
social studies,
and so on?
Thinking about integrating
science and social studies more into the reading
and math content is one way to do
so.
It is only natural then, that music, language arts,
science,
social studies and math are
so connected.
The two primary uses of technology in the
social studies are connecting to other people
so they can access multiple viewpoints
and perspectives
and connecting to resources, such as primary documents
and social science data.
During that time, I had noted in my journal how structured the mathematics
and science assessments we were examining seemed to be,
and had wondered what kind of assessment practices would capture the dimensions of the
social studies discipline that make it
so unique.
So as I've come up
and over the learning curve in utilizing these thinking routines, I keep trying to find more
and more ways to integrate them whether it's in ELA,
science,
social studies, math.
Relate skills practiced with the software to material in
social studies,
science,
and language arts curriculum,
so students can apply new skills to each subject area.
Then there are
science and social studies tests that her daughter has already taken this fall, just
so the performance of her
science and social studies teacher can be measured.
Students could also create an iBook on a
Science or
Social Studies topic, a how - to book, a biography or autobiography, a class rulebook,
and so much more.
As Paul Meehl (one of the founding fathers of the importance of quant models versus human judgements) wrote: There is no controversy in
social science which shows such a large body of qualitatively diverse
studies coming out
so uniformly in the same direction as this one... predicting everything from the outcomes of football games to the diagnosis of liver disease
and when you can hardly come up with a half a dozen
studies showing even a weak tendencyin favour of the clinician, it is time to draw a practical conclusion.
I love both engineering
and humanities /
social sciences,
and I didn't want to have to wait until grad school to
study both,
and I didn't want to go to a university whose programs were
so close minded.
Dave Slade had tried to add
social sciences to the Department of Energy global change budget in 1980, but the incoming DOE secretary for the Reagan Administration (president of a dentistry school from South Carolina, as I recall) stopped that (why would DOE be
studying the potato famine in Ireland as an analog for the impacts of climate change on countries)-RRB-
and shifted responsibility for the climate change research effort away from Dave Slade
and the Office of Health
and Environmental Research to the Office of Basic Energy
Sciences —
so focus on the hard
sciences was the lesson.
One idea suggested has been to associate the
social science studies with the products
and assessments of the physical
sciences research (e.g., having an area like sea level rise extend from issues pertaining to glaciers to issues concerning dislocation of people on coastlines),
so social sciences becomes a small part of all physical
science programs.
For example, a
social studies teacher might incorporate current events
and news clips; an English teacher may develop literature - based units
and introduce reader's or writer's workshops; a
science teacher could integrate hands - on experiments, field trips, or local environmental
studies;
and so forth.