Sentences with phrase «social studies teachers learn»

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The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

In partnership with the CPS Office of Social Science & Civic Engagement, the EPIC Challenge is designed to be implemented by science or social studies teachers as a classroom - integrated service learning prSocial Science & Civic Engagement, the EPIC Challenge is designed to be implemented by science or social studies teachers as a classroom - integrated service learning prsocial studies teachers as a classroom - integrated service learning project.

A high school social studies teacher from Greenville, South Carolina will launch a write - in campaign for U.S. Senate this week, CNN has learned.

The problem is most acute in rural areas, where kids may learn math from a social studies teacher.

Children who participate in collaborative group work to learn about significant social issues become better decision - makers than their peers who learn the same curriculum through teacher - led discussions, a new study finds.

During the course of the experiment, sixth, seventh and eighth graders learned about science and social studies in one of two ways: 1) material was presented once, then teachers reviewed it with students three times; 2) material was presented once, and students were quizzed on it three times (using clickers like the ones in Bain's current classroom).

Sherri Pritchard, the school's social - studies «learning facilitator» — there are no teachers and no principal here — said 95 percent of her online students pass Virginia's end - of - course history test, which would put them well ahead of both the Hampton school district's and state's pass rates.

Sociologist James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, continues his crusade to encourage the honest teaching of U.S. history, warts and all, in this call for a social studies curriculum based on critical thinking and project learning.

Lesson study in elementary social studies teacher education helps prepare our interns for the classroom, giving them the opportunity to learn about collaboratively planning, teaching and revising a social studies lesson so that it interests and challenges their students.

We emphasize several core strategies that educate the whole child: project - based learning, comprehensive assessment, integrated studies, social and emotional learning, teacher development, and technology integration.

And after learning that this year marked Hood River County School District's 150 - year anniversary, Sarah Segal, a HRMS sixth - grade literacy, social studies, science, and language arts teacher, created a museum studies enrichment class to celebrate their local history.

And we're always interested in pitches on our core concepts: project - based learning, social and emotional learning, technology integration, teacher development, comprehensive assessment, and integrated studies.

The following tips are compiled from interviews with online principals and teachers in Idaho, including Mortimer; Jeff Farden, an online principal with the Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA); Mike Caldwell, director of supervision and development with IDLA; and social studies specialist Jeff Simmons, also of IDLA.

For the past eight years, Kamras has worked at Sousa as a social studies and math teacher, coming in early and staying late to maximize learning opportunities for his students.

For Edutopia, «What Works in Public Education» boils down to six «core principles»: comprehensive assessment, integrated studies, project - based learning, social and emotional learning, teacher development, and technology integration (see sidebar).

Their vision revolves around six «core principles»: project - based learning, technology integration, social and emotional learning, integrated studies, teacher development and comprehensive assessment.

The interests ranged from kindergarten through grade 12, so some students were learning to become high school math teachers, some were working on middle school social studies, and some of us, like me, were learning about beginning reading in elementary school.

L&T faculty scholarship covers topics as diverse as «causal reasoning» and the brain; the study of black and Latino family engagement with schools; school reform and teacher leadership; the history of American education; using collaborative data inquiry to improve teaching and learning; and how an understanding of social psychology can improve teaching and learning in the classroom.

If all the children speak one language, the teacher may also speak in that language occasionally to clarify or explain a concept, but the children learn to read and write in English and they receive math, science, social studies, and other subjects in English.

Laura Hinijos, a sixth - grade language arts and social studies teacher, offers three tips from what she has learned:

Although combining subjects for more rich learning is a core of the Community Roots curriculum, teachers don't integrate social studies into every subject, particularly when it comes to reading and basic math.

Up to 45 nations participated in at least one aspect of this cooperative study of schools, teachers, students, and learning in math and science at three age levels, making it perhaps the largest survey ever undertaken in the social sciences.

«Previous to using edTech apps, my assessment of skill gaps in student learning was, at best, approximate and anecdotal; that is, I estimated these gaps based on anecdotal observations from class discussion and student evaluations such as unit tests,» said Kevin Neal, a social studies teacher at Valley High School in the West Des Moines school district in Iowa, USA.

At first blush, Eric White — social studies teacher at Whitfield Career Academy in northwest Georgia and the unofficial evangelist of project - based learning in the Whitfield County School District — wasn't sold on project - based learning.

The best documentaries from the Edutopia.org video archives on the most pressing topics in education: project - based learning, technology integration, math and science, social and emotional learning, assessment, school - to - career, integrated studies, teacher development, and more.

As my first year progressed I found it easy to collaborate with a couple of teachers in subject areas other than mine but for the most part I was alone — on my own when it came to learning, growing, and developing into the social studies teacher I wanted to be.

During an overseas study program to Copenhagen to get a social science requirement «out of the way,» he watched as an older teacher in overalls crouched on a playhouse roof with a hammer in her hand, enthusiastically building a learning structure while the preschoolers played around her.

High school social studies teacher Emily Block had used design thinking in her classroom before, but wanted to take it one step farther and have her students learn by making.

No matter your class demographics or grade level, ELA and social studies teachers should integrate similar projects in their own classrooms, because every student will benefit from learning to craft a compelling visual story backed by persuasive facts and ideas.

In 2012 - with 13 years experience as a middle school social studies teacher behind him - Brennan co-founded Histrionix Learning Company (with Jason Darnell).

Teacher Amy Colt uses the online learning program Achieve3000 to teach English and social studies.

A social studies teacher from Wisconsin describes how he has re-invigorated his passion for knowledge by using Twitter to grow his personal learning network, or PLN.

Hear how Discovery Education Social Studies Techbook made teaching and learning an unforgettable experience and: • Saved teachers time in planning lessons • Helped teachers differentiate instruction • Strengthened students» literacy and critical thinking skills The Rock Hill School District will share its vision, plan, and lessons learned as it successfully increased student engagement and achievement in the digital Social Studies classroom.

After graduation, the Grand Rapids, Michigan native is ready to begin his teaching career as a middle school social studies teacher in his adopted hometown of Boston, putting this lesson — and the others learned in the Teacher Education Program (TEP)-- into prteacher in his adopted hometown of Boston, putting this lesson — and the others learned in the Teacher Education Program (TEP)-- into prTeacher Education Program (TEP)-- into practice.

Learn how one school district that was using tablets made believers of their Social Studies teachers when they provided digital content that helped to boost Social Studies scores at the secondary level.

Create an award for a teacher (other than a social studies teacher) who provides high school students with quality civic learning opportunities.

REVIEW This is a great site for social studies students and teachers to practice the skills learned in the classroom.

Find resources to help you implement project - based learning, social and emotional learning, comprehensive assessment, teacher development, integrated studies, and technology integration.

As well as offering workshops and presentations, we now offer an online lesson - study approach, in which social - learning cohorts of teachers apply these insights to classroom practice via our new online course on Building Student Motivation.

Prompted by reports showing that American students knew little about the modern civil rights movement, Teaching Tolerance launched an investigation into the social studies standards states expected teachers to teach and students to learn.

A recent study of studies found that preschool is only as effective as the people at the front of the classroom, and that makes sense: At a time when social - emotional learning is so crucial, the presence of well - trained, sensitive, loving teachers can make or break a preschool experience.

Her favorite teacher was her 6th grade social studies teacher, Miss Solomon, where she first learned about government and the nation's legal system.

Research suggests that although many elementary teachers integrate social studies with the language arts, this instruction tends to be poorly designed with little emphasis on social studies learning.

Social Studies teacher Jim Panepinto said that Zywicki is «dragging us kicking and screaming into the modern world and we've been given a lot of tech tools to enhance teaching and learning.»

NOW FROM EDUTOPIA The best documentaries from The George Lucas Educational Foundation on the most pressing topics in education: project - based learning, technology integration, math and science, social and emotional learning, assessment, school - to - career, integrated studies, teacher development, community involvement, and schools that work.

NOW FROM EDUTOPIA The best documentaries from The George Lucas Educational Foundation on the most pressing topics in education: project - based learning, technology integration, math and science, social and emotional learning, assessment, school - to - career, integrated studies, and teacher development.

James Totton, a social studies teacher in Achieve Virtual, also works in the district's evening blended - learning program.

The effectiveness of the model has been studied in over 20 years of research and field - testing about: (a) the effectiveness of the model as perceived by key groups, such as principals, teachers, students, and parents; (b) research related to student creative productivity; (c) research relating to personal and social development; (d) the use of SEM with culturally diverse or special needs populations; (e) research on student self - efficacy; (f) the use of SEM as a curricular framework; (g) research relating to learning styles and curriculum compacting; and (h) longitudinal research on the SEM.

A nominee for Maryland Teacher of the Year, Bender has taught reading, English, math, history, social studies, and science to emotionally disturbed, learning disabled, gifted, and average students in elementary, middle, and high schools.

Additionally, more than half of the assignments reviewed came from science and social studies classes, where teachers might have had learning goals that were not readily apparent to reviewers looking for examples of students grappling with complex texts.