Sentences with phrase «student content knowledge»

Advances student content knowledge in history and the social science, as well as student understanding of educational research, theory, and practice.

Develops student content knowledge in history and the social sciences, and student understanding of educational research, theory, and practice.

Assessments of the program showed significant increases in student content knowledge and higher levels of engagement and interest in science among teachers and students.

Despite arguments that PBL focuses only on completing a project or takes too much time to implement, research indicates that the method shows a positive effect on student content knowledge and closing achievement gaps.

ArtsEdSearch does not include research studies about how to teach the arts well or about how to assess student content knowledge and technical skill in the arts.

The preservice teachers may have used TCK when they matched apps to the lesson content (as in Jaipal & Figg, 2010); however, they also considered pedagogy and student content knowledge when selecting apps.

This webinar will focus on deepening how we teach writing to help students overcome the prior - knowledge problem and widening how we teach writing to increase student content knowledge.

With culinary arts integration, an arts activity is used to enhance student content knowledge.

Social studies educators teach students the content knowledge, intellectual skills, and civic values necessary for fulfilling the duties of citizenship in a participatory democracy.

The architecture of Benchmark Advance and Benchmark Adelante provides a framework that develops students content knowledge over time.

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One of the fundamental beliefs of deeper - learning advocates is that these practices — revising work over and over, with frequent critiques; persisting at long - term projects; dealing with the frustrations of hands - on experimentation — develop not just students» content knowledge and intellectual ability, but their noncognitive capacities as well: what Camille Farrington would call academic perseverance and what others might call grit or resilience.

And a 2014 study of student performance at schools in California and New York, conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that attending deeper - learning schools had a significant positive impact, on average, on students» content knowledge and standardized - test scores.

Students are made to be passive consumers of content (or «knowledge digesters»), as if preparing for the world of 1953, rather than becoming the «knowledge transformers» needed in an increasingly competitive global environment.

Knowledge of and ability to present general science, nature, and environmental education content to a diverse population of learners, including students and teachers.

Evaluation will be done through formative and summative assessment of teachers and students (surveys, content knowledge tests and authentic artifacts).

Also included is a list of 12 easy project ideas to allow the teacher and student a choice in how to demonstrate knowledge of Animoto and the lesson content.

Also included is a list of 12 easy project ideas to allow the teacher and student a choice in how to demonstrate knowledge of Kizoa and the lesson content.

Also included is a list of 12 easy project ideas to allow the teacher and student a choice in how to demonstrate knowledge of StoryBoardThat and the lesson content.

In fact, students were able to show some of their content knowledge as well as speaking and listening standards around collaboration and effective presentation.

A simple, but effective assessment document which allows students and teachers to assess knowledge for Unit 3 exam content.

Writing about content allows students to simultaneously speed up both their building of knowledge and their growth as writers.

Both saw learning as a social act, where teachers and students dialogued and all created knowledge together, rather than teachers filling the students with content and information as if they were empty vessels.

Building the prior knowledge of students is also part of our job — and not just knowledge about the content we teach, but also about the world.

PBL increased students» content knowledge and historical - research skills (Hernandez - Ramos & De La Paz, 2009).

Some teachers do hear what the students are saying, Constantine says, and even at the high school level, where some teachers believe that their job is strictly to teach the content and that's it, they are doing icebreaker activities in class that have nothing to do with subject - matter knowledge.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

Also included is a list of 10 easy project ideas to allow the teacher and student a choice in how to demonstrate knowledge of Tiki - Toki and the lesson content.

«Our formative assessments were a resounding success: An overwhelming majority of students could easily prove their content knowledge and demonstrate application.

With knowledge of eLearning possibilities, learner motivations and learning styles, educators create eLearning programs that address both content requirements and student needs.

By partnering with local experts and collaborating with the community, his students engaged in inquiry, developed projects, and gained content knowledge that extended well beyond the classroom.

In addition to integrating art content, she had students learning technology tools and skills such as using a laser cutter, which requires coding and program knowledge the students had to learn.

@Katie - some times the students want particular content knowledge, other times they want the experience of being challenged, sometimes both - wide differences

Integrated studies is a great way to get students more involved in school; it enhances motivation, problem - solving skills, content knowledge, and deeper understanding of connections across subjects.

Allow students with dyslexia to do every other problem or only half the problems to keep the focus of homework on demonstrating and practicing content knowledge as opposed to making it an exercise in endurance.

The teacher's role is to scaffold knowledge and skills as the student progresses through the content.

For teamworking, for the implementation of projects, for problem solving, for the implementation of tasks of research and design of strategies... Our students, based on the content they have seen before, are ready to get down to work and generate something unique and tangible from these theoretical knowledge.

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.

You typically will not see teachers lecturing students about content knowledge at Summit schools.

Each year level curriculum identifies a body of content to be taught and the knowledge, skills, understandings (and possibly attitudes and values) that students are expected to develop.

It also requires expert pedagogical content knowledge — a deep understanding of how students learn subjects, including an understanding of common learning progressions and sequences; an understanding of how learning builds onto prior learning and lays the foundations for future learning; the role of prerequisites; and an understanding of common student errors and the misunderstandings that underpin them.

With high - stakes tests coming in the spring, she's very concerned about the level of her students» content knowledge.

If you feel that giving a mock exam would be too much of a giveaway, we suggest you rethink the content of your exam: does it weigh too heavily on surface knowledge rather than the deep thinking that we want students to engage in?

When Principals were asked about the preparedness of recent teacher graduates, the areas they were most positive about included «Making effective use of ICT» and «Subject content knowledge», while areas for concern included «Supporting students with disabilities» and «Teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students».

The job of elementary schools, then, should be to systematically build students» content knowledge in important areas like history, geography, civics, science, art, music, and literature.

The modding is fun and allows students to step into designer roles, but it also allows them to show their content area knowledge.

I want my students to dig deeper into something, investigate it, and appreciate it more fully, but with some foundational content knowledge that they can use to navigate and enrich the experience.

An effort is under way to transform Chinese education from a rigid, fact - based, lecture - and - drill model that includes super-high-stakes testing to a more student - centered model that features inquiry in a quest for deeper understanding, all without sacrificing factual content knowledge.

In an experiment with 48 teachers and 1,490 upper - elementary students, STeLLA improved science teaching and science content knowledge among students and teachers (Roth et al., 2011).

First on the teacher - provision punch list: How do we move from the current definitionof «highly qualified teacher,» whichmost people agree is limiting and limited, toone that more accurately reflects a teacher «sexperience, content knowledge, and, perhapsmost importantly, his or her ability to educateall students to high standards?

«All that the student does is leaving a mark: The teacher knows what the student is seeing; editors can see what works or not in content; that information is very valuable to publishers and companies that generate the content, because it allows more and more content to be presented to our students to meet that huge demand for which they are made: Teaching, generating knowledge».