A project combining radio broadcasting with social
studies content deepens student engagement.
Not exact matches
Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to
deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social
studies and arts, so they can introduce that
content into their classrooms.
Teachers also report that lesson
study has been a means for them to
deepen their
content knowledge and their knowledge about effective instruction.
The program evaluation illustration comes from the results of a US Department of Education's National Center for Education Evaluation
study of «a 93 - hour professional development program focused on
deepening math
content knowledge.»
These
studies, found that participants» knowledge of
content and pedagogical strategies was
deepened through participation in the preparation programs, but the
studies did not investigate the impact of this preparation on teacher leader practice relative to supporting instructional materials implementation.
These
studies echo several of the findings found in the NCTAF report, including evidence of the positive effects of STEM PLCs on
deepening teacher knowledge of disciplinary
content and pedagogy, influencing teacher classroom practice, and inconclusive evidence on the impact of STEM PLCs on student achievement.
McKnight, Katherine S. (2014) Common Core Literacy for ELA, History / Social
Studies, and the Humanities: Strategies to
Deepen Content Knowledge (grades 6 - 12).
However, from reading this post, I suspect that you — and your readers who agree about the importance of integrating reading and
content instruction — may be much more interested in the way structured word inquiry is explicitly used as leverage for
deepening understanding of terms and concepts of core units of
study.
These LEAs are making equity and access a priority and aim to prepare each student to master the
content and skills required for college - and career - readiness, provide each student the opportunity to pursue a rigorous course of
study, and accelerate and
deepen students» learning through attention to their individual needs.
In
Deepening Content Knowledge Through Discussion, take a close look at the way fourth grade teacher Sarah Horwitz presents a conversation task closely connected to a unit of
study in science.