Sentences with phrase «students in a powerful way»

You have to hire good people to influence students in a powerful way and to make the changes you envision.

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By recognizing the arts as powerful and relevant forms of text, students learn to read, write, and see the world — and their place in it — in new and refreshing ways.

It's also a fun and informative way to assess my sixth grade students at Quest to Learn early in the school year — and a powerful example of an embedded assessment that allows me to better support the learning process.

That way, you familiarize yourself with the powerful tools for educators available in MinecraftEdu by building a virtual world for the class to explore before you jump into to using the game as a creative tool for your students.

When students have in their hands the suite of personal digital technologies that they use 24 hours, seven days a week, the way is opened for schools to readily harness that technology and benefit from the opportunities being opened in every area of learning; to further lower the school walls, to better individualise teaching and assessment, to interface with the apposite evermore powerful online learning facilities, to marry the «in» and «out» of school learning and teaching, and for the children to learn in context anywhere, anytime.

This is a powerful way of not only getting to know your students, but also tying in the backpack's contents with a class novel, science experiment, or any standard that you're teaching — simply by aligning items in the bag with what students need to know.

Technology could make a powerful difference by administering tests, automating their grading, and displaying data — to district leaders, principals, teachers, and students — in a timely way that makes strengths and weaknesses clear and next steps more obvious.

The students are setting us a powerful example, designing their own learning experiences in authentic, personally meaningful ways.

Digital storytelling is a powerful way to engage students in the writing process.

The performing arts offer a powerful way to connect students with many different learning styles, and they can be especially effective in helping children experience the joy of being artists while learning essential skills for the future.

In light of evidence that afterschool activities boost student success, reducing students» opportunities for powerful extracurricular experiences might be an unwise way to meet budget caps, concludes the author, June Kronholz.

It's been really powerful to see the ways a collective can galvanize around a common vision in hopes of providing something better for students.

Periscope is a powerful new tool that is inspiring teachers and students to create content together and share their worlds in impactful ways.

Teaching design thinking can be a powerful way of teaching students empathy in that it teaches them how to solve another person's problems by providing creative and innovative solutions that relate to his or her needs.

Instruction that takes students into the broader community provides opportunities for all students — especially experiential learners — to connect to academics in a deeper, more powerful way.

Video production can be a powerful and meaningful way to engage students in creation, communication, and collaboration.

In fact, I would argue that an hour of practice a day is a powerful and effective way to deepen your students» experience in the natural world and give them a solid taste of mindfulnesIn fact, I would argue that an hour of practice a day is a powerful and effective way to deepen your students» experience in the natural world and give them a solid taste of mindfulnesin the natural world and give them a solid taste of mindfulness.

The TEDx Youth Conference offers a powerful way to make learning relevant to students» lives: it helps them develop critical presentation and persuasion skills, provides a space to share their ideas, and asks them to think creatively and critically about how to motivate people to change — helping them become agents of change in their communities and the wider world.

Today my students are able to publish their work in significantly more powerful ways than my construction paper booklet.

As a teacher educator, who works with student teachers, I believe that serving in a practicum setting where student teachers gain first - hand experience is a powerful way to help prepare them for the realities of teaching.

Our job as educators is to set a stage that maximizes the amount of learning done by our students, and teaching students mathematics in this visual way provides a powerful pathway for us to do our job well.

Giving young people relatable role models, who have sat in the same seats as them, is an extraordinarily powerful way to raise all students» aspirations, and open up a world of possibilities to which they would not otherwise have access.

«The module raised some interesting questions about the ways in which a class like this can be powerful for students... and wider audiences,» Teitel says.

The puzzle of Mrs. Eberhart is that she was a powerful, positive influence — even though I would never instruct students in the detailed, prescriptive way she did.

Marry that with formative assessment — one of the most powerful ways in which to drive student achievement, so empirical studies say.

Because writing is so flexible and powerful, and because the natural programming language makes it interactive, my students think of programming as «creative coding» in the same way that they used to think of storytelling as «creative writing.»

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

It is a powerful way for students in rural regions to enjoy the same advantages as their peers living in urban centers.

On - demand access to material and human resources helps students learn in powerful ways, unconstrained by limitations of time, space, and topics of inquiry.

The students have a powerful information tool in their hands, and as The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics require students to think critically and problem solve, there is no way that a teacher can get students to become independent learners in sync.

When we stopped worrying about whether Khan Academy videos were better than our own lectures or whether the exercises had the appropriate mix of concept vs. drill, we recognized that we had found a powerful tool that reached students and changed their habits in ways we had never even considered possible.

The book also contributes much needed research on what student voice initiatives look like in practice and provides powerful evidence of ways in which young people can increase their sense of agency and their sense of belonging in school.

Owl Ventures» Patel calls them catalytic factors: more powerful broadband infrastructure in schools, widespread use of low - cost devices, along with schools actively seeking ways to personalize learning and those closest to students such as teachers and principals, having great voice in choosing the tools they want to use.

I know John is very thoughtful about his work, and has helped many educators embrace «Design Thinking» in their classrooms, in a way that is easy to connect with, yet powerful for students.

Creating & Recognizing Quality Rubrics and accompanying CD - ROM draws from over 20 years of the author's direct experiences with developing rubrics and performance tasks, devising interesting ways to use rubrics as teaching tools in the classroom, employing rubrics to score thousands of pieces of student work for classroom and large - scale assessments, and working with teachers to make their rubrics more instructionally powerful.

In the update of her best - selling, classic work, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers a powerful and practical way to meet a challenge that is both very modern and completely timeless: how teachers can divide their time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct so many students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.

It regards technology as a tool for delivering instruction in new and more powerful ways, for engaging student interest, and enhancing educational productivity and efficiency.

The most powerful way to incentivize evidence - based decision - making in education would be a system of delivery in which schools compete for students and their funding and in which the jobs and compensation of school employees and managers are conditional on their success in attracting and retaining students.

This tool is a powerful way to support students in making connections between topics, determining key ideas, and distinguishing facts.

Virtual manipulatives are a powerful way to engage students in mathematical thinking while offering them opportunities to develop strategies and model their thinking.

By addressing barriers deliberately, educators for all levels of students can begin to motivate all learners in positive, powerful and effective ways towards Meaningful Student Involvement.

Student - driven transformation leverages a powerful combination of culturally responsive teaching and personalized learning to help students change the way they think and feel about the role they play in their own education.

The Seton Way is simply powerful: support students in mind, body, and spirit to prepare them for their futures and embolden them to be the leaders and innovators of tomorrow.

In this webinar, he introduces the Paideia Seminar and discusses how it provides teachers with a consistent and powerful way to teach these speaking and listening standards — while simultaneously enhancing students» ability to successfully read and write about demanding texts.

Further, our speakers will sketch the ways in which these practices are powerful levers for disrupting persistent patterns of inequality that exclude children and disenfranchise students in schools.

Upon completion teachers will have a solid foundation in which tobegin engaging with students in more powerful and authentic ways.

Instead of conveyors of knowledge, teachers become facilitators of student learning and interact with students in positive, powerful ways.

A fresh, independent evaluation of your programs, policies, and student outcomes is a powerful way to identify needs in your school or district and to start important conversations about equity in your community.

Based on research about how students» mindsets, motivation, and persistence affect their ability to be successful, AYD transforms the way adolescents engage in school and helps educators create and manage a powerful learning culture.

At the same time, however, research is demonstrating the powerful effect that teachers can have on student learning and illuminating the ways in which great teaching is more important than ever before.