Sentences with phrase «study teaching approaches»

It goes to show how difficult it is to study teaching approaches, and to figure out which ones work.

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Their experiences, if studied carefully, teach bedrock methods and guiding principles for approaching business.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

Women's concerns or contextual approach should inform the way we teach theology or biblical studies.

I think drama and story are crucial components for helping us move to that kind of approach, but I also do not think that all forms of study, teaching (although more dialogical), and research all go out the window.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

Symptomatic of their failure is the fact that they have never yet — not after several centuries of changing approaches to the study and teaching of the Christian faith — produced a new Theological Encyclopedia.

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

Waldorf teacher education at Sunbridge Institute includes a deep exploration of child and human development; development of a teacher's contemplative capacities; exploration of pedagogical approaches and skills; studies in the arts; courses that develop abilities for working in a group of colleagues; and practical learning or mentored teaching in the classroom with experienced teachers.

Principal Ellen Sherman of the Academy of American Studies High School in Queens said, «Governor Cuomo's initiative is an innovative approach to teaching government that will allow students to get their questions about government answered directly by elected officials via webcast.

Teachers respond by attempting to teach a topic a week, says education professor Marcia Linn of the University of California, Berkeley, an adviser to the TIMSS study, but that approach «denies students the opportunity to find out what it is like to have a deep understanding of any subject.»

Lock, who has conducted several prior studies of the therapy that teaches parents to help their children eat normally again, said he thinks this approach works by interrupting the patient's behaviors that are supporting erroneous thinking patterns.

In a study published in the journal Science, one section of a University of British Columbia physics course about electromagnetic waves was taught by the cognitive approach, while another section was taught by the standard course lecture.

«The fact that eyewitnesses have experienced the past themselves makes them so credible that the students who interact with them in person find it hard to build up the distance needed for a critical approach to their accounts,» explains Christiane Bertram, who is first author of the study and who meanwhile teaches teaching didactics in the social sciences at the University of Konstanz.

The purpose of this research study is to understand how participation in a unique long - term online model of professional development (PD) impacts the adoption of scholarly approaches to teaching.

Stout told Discovery News that Morgan and colleagues» study «adopts an experimental approach to questions that have otherwise been addressed largely through intuition or «common sense,» for example, the question of whether teaching and language are important for learning Oldowan tech.»

If you want to learn more about a balanced, flexible and proven approach, which teaches nutritional individuality and which can produce similar weight loss in one month, month after month, that the subjects of this study produced in TWO YEARS, (if you ADHERE to it!)

Given all this, it is perhaps unsurprising that the biggest ever study on teacher evaluation, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project (MET), revealed that even the very best observation approaches had limited success in identifying the teachers also associated with the highest gains in pupil attainment.

Our lesson study assignment is based on the lesson study approach that I used as a history education consultant for a Teaching American History (TAH) Grant.

We modified the lesson study approach by including a second teaching of the study lesson.

If lesson study were taught earlier in the internship year, the interns thought they would have more opportunities to use the approach.

It is also useful as a teaching resource, taking you instantly to a recap, plenary or starter video The big difference is that over 95 % of the topics have a hyperlink to the relevant revision video resource (or study notes) on Tutor 2 U. (Occasionally other resources are used) With students working increasingly independently as «study leave» and the exam approaches, they will be able to use this resource as a structured «online» revision method using a trusted source.

Over the next five years, Kim will work with a team of researchers including Thomas White, senior research scientist at the University of Virginia Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning; and Jonathan Guryan, associate professor at Institute for Policy Research of Northwestern University, along with Communities In Schools of North Carolina and Durham Public Schools to implement, validate, and scale up an innovative approach to combat summer reading loss among low - income children.

These case studies will include video examples of teaching approaches, resources materials and lesson plans.

Federally funded, yet independently run, the labs would tackle the toughest problems facing the nation's schools, conduct large - scale studies using the best research methods, develop innovative curricula, and experiment with new teaching approaches.

However, I really fear with the Common Core approach which seems to have everyone teaching the same on the same day and no time for variation from the lesson, that social studies class just won't have the time to do these activities, many of which the kids really enjoyed and got some sparked to learn more about the topic.

While subject - area knowledge is privileged in the standards — INTASC has developed specific standards for science, mathematics, English language arts, and special education, and will soon release those for the elementary - school level, social studies, and foreign language — the standards also make clear that knowledge of child development, learning theory, and teaching approaches is essential.

In the early 1970s, when Strom was teaching eighth - grade language arts and social studies in Brookline, Massachusetts, community residents approached school administrators, asking if the district taught students about the Holocaust.

College instructors who use a hybrid approach that includes online learning and in - class lectures are likely to see greater achievement than those who only use a traditional in - class approach to teaching, a study by Brian K. McFarlin, an assistant professor of physiology at the University of Houston, suggests.

The research paper, published in The Elementary School Journal in May 2005, reported on a study comparing the impact of four different approaches to teaching early reading and writing.

In the evaluation of the Learning Away case studies, Maggie Rose, headteacher at Timberley Academy quotes about the development of her staff: «Staff have developed a much greater confidence in their own teaching and it has also raised their aspiration in terms of the types of approaches they could use in their work.

In the evaluation of the Learning Away case studies, Maggie Rose, head teacher at Timberley Academy quotes about the development of her staff: «Staff have developed a much greater confidence in their own teaching and it has also raised their aspiration in terms of the types of approaches they could use in their work.

«Because we found that many new teachers approach teaching tentatively or conditionally,» says Susan Kardos, another project researcher and co-investigator on the survey study, «retaining them may be more difficult than retaining the previous generation.

For example, experimental work can identify effective approaches to teaching literacy for the relatively small group of teachers who participate in such studies.

A recent review of research on professional development in the United States looked at 643 studies on approaches to improving math teaching.

In this study, 72 secondary English teachers from the Santa Ana Unified School District were randomly assigned to participate in the Pathway Project, a cognitive strategies approach to teaching interpretive reading and analytical writing, or to a control condition involving typical district training focusing on teaching content from the textbook.

Originally, Hattie studied six areas that contribute to learning: the student, the home, the school, the curricula, the teacher, and teaching and learning approaches.

This study reports year 1 findings from a multi-site cluster randomized controlled trial of a cognitive strategies approach to teaching text - based analytical writing for mainstreamed Latino English Language learners (ELLs) in 9 middle schools and 6 high schools.

As well, CT showed larger effects on the mathematics achievement of special need students than that of general education students, the positive effect of CT was greater when combined with a constructivist approach to teaching than with a traditional approach to teaching, and studies that used non-standardized tests as measures of mathematics achievement reported larger effects of CT than studies that used standardized tests.

However, for the past 10 years, we have been studying a different approach to improving and reforming public education ---- one based on building strong relationships among teachers» unions and school administrations, and developing collaborative institutions in schools and school districts focused on improving teaching and learning.

It takes at least 30 hours of deliberate and careful work on a new teaching approach to begin to embed it effectively in your repertoire — some studies even suggest a 50 - hour minimum.

Using an existing set of video cases from the Center for the Study of Reading's video series, «Teaching Reading: Strategies from Successful Classrooms,» we developed Reading Classroom Explorer (RCE), a hypermedia learning environment designed to help novices understand that there are many successful tools and approaches available to engage students from diverse cultural, linguistic, and intellectual backgrounds in challenging literacy curricula.

In fact, in a study of a project - based approach to teaching social studies and content literacy to 2nd graders, my colleagues and I were able to close the gap, statistically speaking, between students in high - poverty school districts — who experienced project - based units — and students in wealthy school districts — who did not.

A case study of a TPACK - based approach to teacher professional development: Teaching science with blogs.

In this course of study, students are exposed to a theoretical introduction to the nature and structure of language, key factors affecting second - language acquisition, and communicative approaches to the teaching of English as a second or foreign language.

«These results call into question the fixed and formulaic approach to teacher evaluation that's being promoted in a lot of states right now,» said Morgan Polikoff, one of the study's authors, in a video that explains his paper, «Instructional Alignment as a Measure of Teaching Quality,» published online in Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis on May 13, 2014.

Teachers provide scaffolding that explicitly teaches students how to study, how to approach academic tasks, and how to read and write at a college level.

Missy Friedman, the school's lead educator for math and a Grades 3 general studies teacher, recalls that teachers struggled some in the beginning, a common occurrence for schools making such a profound shift in their teaching approach.

The results from this study will provide important guidance to our staff as we seek to make a significant, positive impact in our approach to personalizing teaching and learning throughout the state.

Both teachers described their instructional approach as being student centered, emphasizing classroom community and student interaction, which are hallmarks of the powerful social studies teaching championed by the National Council for the Social Studies studies teaching championed by the National Council for the Social Studies Studies (2008).