By providing
students real choices in what they learn, how they learn and how they demonstrate learning (flexible and varied), teachers can enhance their students» reading comprehension skills.
Giving
students real choices of what and how to learn makes a great deal of sense in the context of this expanding neuroscience knowledge base.
That is how we give
students a real choice.
Not exact matches
«I feel it's better for the
students to be prepared to go out into the
real world and make their own
choices,» Cohen said.
Schools have a
real opportunity to model healthy
choices that will benefit
students their entire lives.»
Clearly she has no idea of the
choices which the SCSD already provides for our
students, nor does she have a
real understanding of what urban education looks like.
They recruited 449 undergraduate
students and gave each of them a
choice of donating $ 100 to one of two
real but little - known charities: Kids Korps USA, «a nonprofit organization that engages young people in volunteerism and teaches them about leadership and civic responsibility,» or charity: water, «a nonprofit organization that brings clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.»
Finally
students will find out what happened to their family based on the
choices they made in lessons, as well as finding out how the
real families did that the game is based on.
These classes also frequently involve a
real (if bounded) element of
choice;
students need to produce an essay or documentary film that accomplishes certain academic objectives, but they can choose the topic that interests them.
However, in the absence of
real information on institutional performance,
student choice is frequently uninformed or misinformed.
U.S.
Students Know What, But Not Why Science Insider, June 19, 2012 «The computer simulations offer NAEP a much better way to measure skills used by
real scientists than do multiple -
choice questions, says Chris Dede, a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering
real choices to parents of
students stuck in such schools.
Senator Patty Murray has argued that, for
students in rural areas, «their public school is the only
real option and claims to the contrary only amount to «false
choice.
The blended - learning environment in Los Altos schools allows for seamless targeted intervention and flexible groupings, as well as
real collaboration among
students — all of which allows them to exercise their own
student voice and
choice.
Even if a charter or private school were no better than a traditional forced -
choice public school, the fact that parents and
students themselves choose the school may mean they perceive distinct advantages in it,
real or not.
Students are introduced to
real - life scenarios where they must judge a purchase to determine if it is the best possible
choice.
«
Real «
choice» in schooling must include a decent, well - funded public school in every community in Australia that can meet the needs of every
student.»
Available for any device with a browser (smartphones, tablets, iPod touch), this Web - based
student - response system enables you to assess in
real time — via multiple -
choice, short - answer, and true - false questions — how much of the material your
students understand.
The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America's Schools;
Real Leaders,
Real Schools: Stories of Success Against Enormous Odds; Mobilizing the Community to Help
Students Succeed; School Accountability, Autonomy, and
Choice Around the World; The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship: Possibilities for School Reform
In our proposal, funding must follow
students and be weighted to compensate for the extra costs associated with high - need
students if schools are to compete for
students and if parents are to have
real choice.
We can empower our
students to be in charge of their own learning by creating interesting, open - ended tasks that target
real - world skills, meet our learning objectives, and enable
students to make
choices and then measure and reflect on their progress.
enthusiasts will tell you that online learning isn't the best
choice for all
students, but the
real value lies in having that option available to all
students.
The structures offer abundant
choice for our
students, engaging
students in rigorous coursework specialized in
real - life, hands on experiences.
The highest
student reports of engagement, flexible pacing, and
choice came from a site in which respondents were focused on yearlong, self - directed projects that applied academic content to
real - world contexts.
New Haven, CT — Connecticut's public charter school movement turned 20 - years old this past Saturday, marking two decades of providing
students with innovative and new educational opportunities and parents with
real public school
choice.
New Haven, CT — Connecticut's public charter school movement turned 20 years old this month, marking two decades of providing
students with innovative and new educational opportunities and parents with
real public school
choice.
Then allow
students to choose between the different resource «centers,»
real choices based on the group topic / problem.
In February, DeVos referred to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as «
real pioneers when it comes to school
choice,» failing to mention that these institutions emerged to serve black
students who were being shut out of institutions of higher education that were discriminating against them.70 And President Trump has also shown a lack of appreciation for the history of racism in the country.71
«Because teachers can log this data in
real - time, administrators and parents can also see the
choices students are making, and
students always know where they stand.»
that the
real problem is the lack of excellent K - 8 schools that tragically limit a
student's
choices by the time they reach eighth grade.
Many
students wouldn't be trapped in failing schools if
real choices exist.
To give an idea of the dire need for more charters beyond the current permissible amount, there are about 163,000
students presently on waiting lists all over the City whose parents are waiting for the opportunity to exercise a
real choice about their education.
The goal of the
Choices in Education contest is to amplify the voices of
students and families, who are «the
real experts on
choice,» said ExcelinEd CEO Patricia Levesque.
Real choice vs. false
choice: The repercussions of privatization programs for
students, parents, and public schools [Memorandum].
Getting
Real About Education, #ParentsSay, African Americans, African - American, Belief Gap, Black Boys, Black Families, Black
students, Black teachers, Charter School, Charter Schools, Discipline, Mentoring, No Excuses Discipline, parents of color, School
Choice, School Discipline,
Student Voice,
students, Video
As an example, the Ripple Effects digital platform begins by giving
students a
choice of over 400 «
real - world» topics to explore, ranging from anxiety to violence in the home.
With MyFlexPD, educators use
real - time
student performance data to make more personalized professional learning
choices, deepen content knowledge, and inform classroom instruction.
When using adaptive learning software that continually differentiates for
students in
real - time, they are able to move at their own pace and make self - directed
choices.
We gave
students words and phrases from the essay — including hero, fear, and ideal versus
real — and asked them to write short compositions in a genre of their
choice using the words.
Though voucher school proponents love to talk about «
choice» and «achievement,» the
real story is that these schools do a serious disservice to
students, families, educators, public school districts and state taxpayers and we don't want anymore of them in Milwaukee!
NEA opposes school vouchers because they divert essential resources from public schools to private and religious schools, while offering no
real «
choice» for the overwhelming majority of
students.
Confronted with individual
choices daily,
students also want systemic decision - making opportunities that move beyond the A / B binary and towards the complex,
real - world decisions made so often by adults for them.
The
students work like «
real artists» and are given
choice in the projects they create.
The important characteristic of charter schools is their difference from legacy schools and the
real choices that the differences provide families and
students.
On its website, the Nevada State Education Association informs us that vouchers (and other private school options) are unworthy because, among other things, they offer «no
real «
choice» for the overwhelming majority of
students.»
If we want school
choice to promote equity and excellence for all
students, we need to keep it
real, relevant, and meaningful.
In this presentation, attendees will learn about the innovative «
Choice Model» and see
real - life examples of how to improve upon and enrich the most popular «club» options for
students.
So, what should secondary schools be doing to help
students explore career
choices and connect school subjects to
real - world work?
[28] This stands in sharp contrast to a philosophy of character education like Wynne's, which decrees that «it is specious to talk about
student choices» and offers
students no
real power except for when we give «some
students authority over other
students (for example, hall guard, class monitor).»
It's not just reformist elected officials who are demanding
real choices for
students and their parents.