And a games designer joined a computing class in his old school, Oathall Community College in West Sussex, to help
students see the connection between their school work today and their employment opportunities when they are older.
In the end, Aqeel says she thinks the event did what it set out to — it helped
students see the connections between them.
Another way to help
students see these connections is to create an anchor chart with three columns labeled «SEL Skills,» «Content,» and «Future Success.»
Help
students see the connections between specific strategies that they used and their accomplishments.
Far too many
students see no connection between school and who they are or who they want to become.
Not exact matches
In this
connection I recall the finest example I have ever
seen of the not uncommon foggy relationship between an undergraduate
student and the subject - matter of the course.
Homework is much more meaningful when
students can
see a
connection between what they're doing and their own lives.
Representative Kavulich, who has a
connection to Kings College, was very supportive of athletic trainers and was very excited to
see Kings College athletic training
students in the Capital.
«
Students could
see similarities between species and therefore their evolutionary
connections.»
A graduate
student working with Rudnick made the
connection between the survey and the microwave map: The cold spot corresponds to a region of the sky, 40 times the area of the full moon as
seen from Earth, where relatively few galaxies have turned up.
You'll
see that in this exclusive clip from director Luca Guadagnino's beautiful Sundance hit, which shows the first stirrings of a
connection that's maybe more than platonic between precocious teen Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer), the grad
student Adonis spending the summer at Elio's family's summer home in northern Italy.
We want our
students to not only
see the
connection in math to real life, but also to explore them.
If
students can make
connections to themselves, their lives and what they
see and hear around them, then that enables them to better understand what written text is all about.
The benefit is that disengaged
students will make the
connections they need, and the others get to
see the learning target from a new perspective.
See what happens when schoolwork explores
students»
connections with local history, environment, culture, or economy.
I
see some clear
connections to behavior charts, and I am reminded of Pernille Ripp's blog post on charts and shaming, forcing me to ask, «If I am hoping to engage my most challenged
students in a gamified instructional model, would they feel supported by a leaderboard?»
For example, I take into account whether the
student shares the teacher's race and ethnicity, because some of my own prior research suggests that the race of a teacher may influence
student outcomes (
see «The Race
Connection,»
Make a
connection to the content or to the outside world to
see how much the
students already know or remember.
New York and Texas
see a
connection between their early decisions to raise expectations for public schools and the progress their
students have made toward closing gaps in academic achievement.
In the second of two reader submissions about the Motivated Minds partnership between La Salle Academy Lithgow and Charles Sturt University, Associate Professor Jane Mitchell, Associate Professor Sara Murray and Jeffrey Larsen share a feedback strategy to encourage
students to make a consistent effort in mathematics class, and to help them
see a
connection between their effort and achievement.
For example, I take into account whether the
student shares the teacher's race and ethnicity, because some of my own prior research suggests that the race of a teacher may influence
student outcomes (
see «The Race
Connection,» Education Next, Spring 2004).
Encouraging
students to blog about topics from other classes helps them
see connections among subjects and realize that writing is a worthwhile skill in any field.
This is great for GCSE and A Level but will work with any age group in giving them opportunities to make
connections and guesses around what the are
seeing, and that's a key thing I think in getting to
students to look more closely where they usually only register what they
see at first glance.
I like to make
students look beyond the obvious
connections and really question what they
see in an image - this one works really well in giving
students new ideas to explore for AO1 in asking of them what artists are doing in different ways and includes statements by the artists in terms of what the work is about for
students to be able to demonstrate Informed responses.
So, let your potential
students «hear» you or «
see» you to feel a deeper
connection with you.
A starter activity - engages
students in looking for
connections and questioning what they
see in what the differences and similarities are in the city views, which are real and which are false - leading into discussions on what the artists are attempting to do.
Dropping out is sometimes about
students being bored and
seeing no
connection between academic life and «real» life.
Although the people he works with in the prison are older adults, many were sentenced to prison as teenagers, making it easy for Smith to
see a
connection between them and his former high school
students.
The benefit of nourishing a global learning community has
seen me thrive as a teacher - these
connections have given my
students real - world audiences and purposes for their learning, and have supported me through the roller - coaster ride that is being a teacher.
The balance of old and new math works because the project is so hands on that
students can
see connections between previous understanding and new challenges.
While the multidisciplinary approach is a great way to implementation content integration,
students may or may not
see the nuances and
connections across the content areas.
If you really want
students to
see the
connections of the disciplines, then limit the amount of culminating products and performances that
students are producing.
The personal
connection students create with nature by journaling can also help develop ecological literacy through creative documentation of the natural world as
seen through
students» eyes.
We believe that, by making these
connections in a meaningful way, our
students will be motivated by
seeing the longer arc of their learning, which, of course, stretches into the future after graduation.
To eliminate the effects of any chance differences in performance caused by other observable characteristics, our analysis takes into account
students» age, gender, race, and eligibility for the free lunch program; whether they had been assigned to a small class; and whether they were assigned to a teacher of the same race — which earlier research using these same data found to have a large positive effect on
student performance (
see «The Race
Connection,» Spring 2004).
On the contrary, the results from an experiment conducted in Tennessee (
see «The Race
Connection,» research, Spring 2004) indicate that minority
students learn more from teachers of their own ethnicity than from other teachers.
In «The Logic of Interdisciplinary Studies,» a research report by Sandra Mathison and Melissa Freeman presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in 1997, the authors wrote, «Interdisciplinary, integrated, and integrative studies represent an opportunity to have more meaningful relations with
students; teach cognitive skills associated with «real life» (e.g., cooperation, problem solving, ability to
see connections); motivate
students; increase
student achievement; promote positive attitudes toward subject matter; create more curricular flexibility; diminish scheduling problems; and integrate new and rapidly changing information with increased time efficiency.»
As they listen, watch, and talk to each other,
students begin to
see patterns and make
connections.
These
connections created communities across great distances and allowed New York City
students to
see the world beyond their own neighborhood, city, and culture.
Getting
students» experiences out on the page is an essential first step — one which helps them start
seeing the larger picture, illuminates their path, and guides them into discovering the
connections between their experiences.
Have you
seen a difference in
student motivation and performance in
connection with a school makerspace?
My aim is not to frighten
students away from Facebook, but rather to help them
see how their profile can lead to positive
connections and real - world opportunities.
Through active collaboration on solving real - world problems and a push to share
student work and our school's philosophy as openly as possible, we envisioned ourselves as an open - source learning academy that viewed
connection and sharing as paramount (
see our
student - designed infographic at left).
There is little
connection between what
students hear in traditional schools and what they
see in their everyday lives; corporal punishment is often employed and self - expression sidelined.
And it's been exciting to
see the way established companies like Nearpod incorporate virtual reality into their lessons, understanding the potential for using this technology to help
students build an emotional
connection to content.
The art, computer science, and technology education teachers have common planning time to work on projects where
students can
see the cross-curricular
connections between these three subjects.
If you're still not sold on the potential value of teaching journalism to history
students, Meacham says, «I
see a direct
connection between what I learned in journalism and what I'm doing now,» explaining that insofar as he has anything to say in his books, it's because journalism exposed him to politics and public life at an early age.
Associate Professor Jane Mitchell, Associate Professor Sara Murray and Jeffrey Larsen share a feedback strategy to encourage
students to make a consistent effort in mathematics class, and to help them
see a
connection between their effort and achievement.
In today's article we speak to Global Teacher Prize top 10 finalist Eddie Woo about helping
students overcome maths anxiety and
seeing the
connections between mathematics and their life outside of the classroom.
Participants will
see how arts - integrated instruction enables
students to make deeply personal
connections to what they are learning.