Sentences with phrase «students wrote their observations»

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The negotiations, which both sides agreed to in writing, were aimed at creating a system for fairly evaluating teachers, using both student performance and observation, in the 33 schools receiving federal school improvement grants.

IFA Director Guenther Hassinger wrote «Jabran has the strongest proven track record of completing a PhD project from observation to publication than any graduating student in our history of approximately 200 PhDs awarded.

Students were asked to turn their personal observations and views of the world into a written and performed stand - up comedy routine.

Lessons in the Complete Art Curriculum are: Lesson 1 Tone Lesson 2 Observation Lesson 3 From observation to abstraction Lesson 4 Relief Lesson 5 Portraiture Lesson 6 Portraiture part 2 Lesson 7 Portraiture part 3 Lesson 8 Clay Lesson 9 Clay part 2 Lesson 10 Clay part 3 Lesson 11 Color Lesson 12 Color part 2 Lesson 13 Color part 3 Lesson 14 Three dimensional Lesson 15 Three dimensional part 2 Lesson 16 Three dimensional part 3 Lesson 17 Three dimensional part 4 Lesson 18 Human figure Lesson 19 Human figure part 2 Lesson 20 Human figure part 3 Lesson 21 Human figure part 4 Lesson 22 Architecture Lesson 23 Architecture part 2 Lesson 24 Architecture part 3 Lesson 25 Architecture part 4 Lesson 26 Color abstraction Lesson 27 Color abstraction part 2 Lesson 28 Color abstraction part 3 Lesson 29 Color abstraction part 4 Lesson 30 Masks Lesson 31 Masks part 2 Lesson 32 Masks part 3 Lesson 33 Masks part 4 Lesson 34 Dramatic landscapes Lesson 35 Dramatic landscapes part 2 Lesson 36 Dramatic landscapes part 3 Lesson 37 Abstract landscapes Lesson 38 Abstract landscapes part 2 The lessons have been purposefully written to lead on from each other, allowing students to build upon their ever increasing skills sets through the Key Stage 3 years.

Through transmediation (or observation, analysis, and creation), students can use the experience of studying a piece of visual art as a creative writing prompt.

In the interim, schools might adapt their classroom observations and student surveys to look for evidence of student writing or add questions to the student survey asking students to describe the quality of feedback they receive on their writing.

In the midst of his takedown, however, came an observation that stopped me in my tracks: «Here's the thing to remember about discipline systems at school — every one of them codifies somebody's value system, sets in rules and regulations judgments like «being compliant is good» or «a good student is one who questions authority,»» Greene wrote.

When students have written their observations for each of the senses, gather them together and let them share what they have written.

If you don't teach STEM classes, have students carry a personal notebook in which they write down observations and draw things by hand on topics of their choosing.

It's a continuing process of formal and informal evaluations through grades and written observations (see CASN website / link above) and checking in with each student individually.

The booklet is set up Lucy Calkins Style: students draw / label their observation and write about it.

The «real - world» goals of this assignment are evaluated in part by teacher observation of how the students work together, gather information, complete the writing, plan the illustration, and create the book.

Encourage students to write original folklore or weatherlore predictions based on their own observations of the seasons.

First, each student should have a writing notebook for (a) recording «seed» ideas for writing, such as memories, wishes, observations, quotations, questions, illustrations, and artifacts [e.g., a letter or recipe]; (b) performing planning activities; (c) drafting writing pieces; and (d) logging writing activities and reflections [see Fletcher, 1996].

Teachers are empowered to identify students and write personalized learning plans without needing a psychologist's evaluation seem to exemplify what I have come to admire the most in my observations this week, the spirit of collaboration among teachers and the Finnish culture of trust.

Following the tour, students wrote letters to the museum asking questions, sharing reflections, and offering profound observations about their experience.

Math Teacher Mambo A math teacher from central Texas writes about fun math problems, lesson ideas, and observations of students.

Older students might provide a little more substance in their observations by writing a brief essay that includes such statements as «Madagascar has more than 5 million more people than Zambia has.»

The student will read a thoughtful and informative piece of writing by Henry David Thoreau on the subject of «Wild Apples», in which various themes are addressed, including history, myth, literature, philosophy and first - hand observations and reflections by the author.

They studied changes in one school district using written surveys of more than 200 teachers and classroom observations of teachers» instruction and writing activities of targeted students in 12 classrooms.

As we return from spring break and students engage in state testing for accountability, it is a good time for administrators to work on their master schedule, prepare for end - of - year activities, complete observations, and write year - end evaluations of their teachers.

Through the simple act of noticing, students at Bancroft Elementary learn to slow down and infer deeper meaning through careful observation, translating their observations into performance, visual arts, and narrative writing.

Journalist Dana Goldstein has written an excellent analysisDana Goldstein of what's wrong with the Gates MET study of whether standardized tests, evaluator observation or student surveys do a better job in assessing teacher quality.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, does not oppose the use of value - added data but wants to ensure evaluations are based on «classroom observations, self - evaluations, portfolios, appraisal of lesson plans, students» written work» as well.

Using a detailed observation guide (see the Student In - Class Observation Guide), the coordinator records events that demonstrate readiness skills for fully learning English, such as the ability to follow directions, comprehend lesson content, participate in class discussions, use writing materials, and independently implement writing strategies.

Data - gathering methods focused singularly on students, and included focus groups, written surveys, individual interviews, small group interviews, interviews anchored by classroom observation, videotaping, audiotaping, and note taking.

No state bases more than 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation on student performance scores (see the infographic on p. 4), and many incorporate multiple additional measures, such as classroom observations, student writing and artwork, teacher lesson plans, peer review, student reflections and feedback, and participation in professional development (Shakman et al., 2012).

Based on their measurements and observations, students wrote research reports about the water quality in the creek.

Students will now take their observations and notes about the data and images and link them to the calculations they completed to help complete the writing performance task.

The next day, Brouhard said, she would ask the students to take all of their observations, with keywords, and write a short essay, making a statement with supporting evidence.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, doesn't oppose the use of value - added data but wants to ensure evaluations are based on «classroom observations, self - evaluations, portfolios, appraisal of lesson plans, students» written work» as well.

Observations of exemplary teachers suggest that these teachers use both approaches to produce substantial reading, writing, and thinking growth in their students.

To ensure that students learn at the pace right for them, teachers frequently assess students using multiple measures, such as student writing, portfolios, and observation of student work.

Our primary treatment consisted of the video annotation with expert feedback method (coding) that included teacher education students writing their video - based observations before being shown the experts» observations.

Rather, students were instructed to think about what they would notice in the video clips and to compare that with the written observations of the experts.

The guided video viewing activity did not require students to write down their own observations when viewing the video clips.

After reviewing results of the written classroom observation test the instructors of the course said that students» scores seemed lower than they would have expected, but that it was difficult to interpret the raw test scores.

As students read, write, and interact with words, teachers make frequent observations of student engagement and on - task behaviors during independent work time.

As shown in Table 1, students in the viewing condition had a higher mean score on the 12 - item written classroom observation test (7.74 correct, sd = 1.64) than those in the coding condition (6.64, sd = 1.75) or the test - only control condition (6.48, sd = 1.18).

Contrary to our expectation, both the mean scores and pass rates suggest that the less - complex guided video viewing condition led to better performance on the written classroom observation test by this group of early - stage teacher education students.

The students» written pieces, in addition to our classroom observations, help to ground our reflective conversation after the lesson.

Certain aspects of the data from classroom observations (i.e., those found to be important in previous research — c.f., pp. 2 - 3) were analyzed in order to investigate the relationship between various classroom instructional practices and students» reading and writing ability.

The New America Foundation, a non-partisan think tank, writes evaluating teachers based on observations — not just student performance data — is important to make sure young children are engaged:

At the end of the observation, the observer wrote a summary addressing seven key features of the classroom ecology: (a) the general instructional approach used in the classroom, instructional sequences observed, approaches to word recognition, vocabulary, and comprehension instruction; (b) curriculum materials used; (c) teacher's style of interacting with the children; (d) teacher's grouping practices, and activities of children not with the teacher; (e) student engagement; (f) classroom management; and (g) classroom climate.

These write - ups are especially ill received by teachers who work diligently to differentiate instruction for their students yet their informal observation paperwork says doesn't account for this effort.

The teacher leaders developed sustainable methods of communicating with their teams three times over the course of a month: 1) midway through the month, the teacher leaders hand back to their site colleagues copies of the reflections they wrote at the last meeting and the plans they chose to implement during the month; 2) Co-principal Maria Carriedo sends an email to all the teachers a week before each meeting to remind them to bring their observations of their focal students; 3) teachers make notes to themselves, in a simple chart form, about the interventions and behaviors they plan to track and keep these on their classroom walls as an easy way to document their focal students» progress.

While often used as a class startup activity, it is used primarily to give students an opportunity to speculate on paper, confident that their ideas, observations, emotions, and writing will be accepted without criticism.

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This document is made more powerful through the addition of a written reflection by the team, completed within a few days after the research lesson, which describes what they learned from the live lesson observation and post-lesson discussion about their research hypothesis, mathematics, student thinking, teaching, etc..

These write - ups are especially ill received by teachers who work diligently to differentiate instruction for their students yet their informal observation paperwork doesn't account for this effort.