Sentences with phrase «support teacher inquiry»

The teacher educator might describe aspects of the process he or she has used to support the teacher inquiry or how it is built into her professional program.

Understanding the potential of teacher inquiry for improving teachers» practice, as well as the related difficulties, digital technologies are now being considered for supporting teacher inquiry.

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The full exercise of this right requires that trustees and administrators protect teachers and students against pressures from outside in favor of certain methods and conclusions of inquiry, and that support for teaching and research be kept as free as possible from exerting a controlling influence on academic pursuits.

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.

At New Legacy, language arts and social studies are combined into integrated theme - based humanities courses; math is taught in a blended environment that enables teachers to effectively support and challenge a diverse group of learners; and science is taught in six - week modules that focus on scientific inquiry and the scientific process.

The Project will provide follow - up support to the teachers who complete the course through the use of videotaping and school - based inquiry groups.

All state and territory science teacher associations support and promote inquiry - based learning in science through providing professional learning for teachers and competitions where students» open ended investigations are celebrated and shared.

PBL (project - based learning) supports teachers in developing authentic learning experiences with a focus on inquiry - based instruction.

Therefore, the concept of Teaching and Learning Analytics can be embedded in the teacher inquiry cycle and support teachers engage in continuous reflection, as follows:

Not only do we have this great equipment,» added Gaines, its use is supported through ongoing teacher in - service that enables teachers to use the technology to enhance the instructional process and encourage inquiry - based learning.»

With technology - supported inquiry, teachers can empower students to reveal the invisible and unleash their imaginations.

The success of PBL also depends on motivating and supporting teachers in new roles of facilitating inquiry.

Cultivating relevance and rigor are core to how I support teachers in their development and implementation of units of inquiry.

Let your students and teachers make you proud by supporting these types of inquiry - based experiences.

PBL focuses on inquiry and student questioning: Once students generate their initial list of questions, teachers can be ready with appropriate instructional moves to support their learning.

A researcher at Project Zero since 1988, she studies and supports practices for engaging both students and educators in deep learning and thinking, particularly through reflection, collaborative inquiry, documentation of student learning, and the collaborative assessment of student and teacher work.

He and his colleagues at Life Academy participate in Mills Teacher Scholars, a professional development program that supports groups of educators in improving their teaching through collaborative inquiry.

When I got the inquiry to record a podcast with my friends Kasey Bell and Matt Miller on their weekly Google Teacher Tribe show I jumped at the chance to talk about the many options to support student writing using GSuite.

Project Muse (Museums Uniting with Schools in Education) brought together researchers, museum educators, and classroom teachers in pursuit of open - ended inquiry - based learning tools to support the novice museum - goer.

A new study looks at the impact of giving middle school math teachers access to a set of «inquiry - based» lesson plans and online support on how to use the lesson plans.

Additionally, as the report notes, online - learning programs may not always supply adequate supports to drive self - directed learning: «technology can quickly tell a student what they got right or wrong, but understanding why is a more complex process, grounded in inquiry and relationships with teachers and peers.»

A new study finds that teachers who were given access to a set of «inquiry - based» lesson plans and online support on how to use the lesson plans saw increases in student achievement.

These innovations include virtual courses for students (e.g., Virtual High School and Florida Virtual School); ubiquitous technology programs in which every student and teacher receives a laptop and every school has wireless access (e.g., in every public grade 7 and 8 classroom in Maine); technology used to support inquiry - based learning (e.g., the Missouri - based eMINTS program), and online courses and workshops for preservice and in - service teachers (e.g., the EDC EdTech Leaders Online program).

Preservice teachers «TPACK: Using technology to support inquiry instruction.

The program supports teachers to move from using habits of inquiry in addressing problems of practice to designing robust research questions and consulting research and professional literature to expand their thinking about their practice.

These second - level sites enhance teacher learning by improving the dissemination process of ideas and models about how to use and assess first - level source materials to support disciplinary inquiry.

In essence, we viewed VCDH as an exemplar that teacher educators could use within their methods classes to illuminate how digital libraries could support historical inquiry in the classroom.

Hammerman (1997) found that inquiry groups of teachers facilitated by teacher leaders were dependent on the ability of group members to listen, support and respect one another.

Whether teachers plan a poetry unit or prefer weekly poetry work, partner poetry inquiry can engage students in poetry interpretation and support their practice in facilitating discussions with text evidence.

ATLAS teachers convene monthly to collaboratively explore approaches to technology that support artistic inquiry of «big ideas.»

The inquiry - based nature of play is supported through the social interactions of teachers and children.

This article advances a continuing line of inquiry into the potential of digital educative curriculum materials to support teachers» development of professional teaching knowledge.

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This Action Research project is firmly grounded in the Reach PTAR or Plan, Teach, Analyze, Reflect, inquiry cycle induction model in which novice teachers are paired with an expert mentor who supports their growth over a period of two years as they work towards their California Clear Teaching Credential.

In this light, the professional development program, Technology Enhanced Communities (TEC), which is presented in this paper, was designed to create a learning community where science teachers can learn to integrate technology into their teaching to support student inquiry.

The NSES encourage teachers to apply «a variety of technologies, such as hand tools, measuring instruments, and calculators [as] an integral component of scientific investigations» to support student inquiry (p. 175).

As teachers are identified who use the iPads as a tool for supporting inquiry - based practices, it would be instructive to develop cases of their classroom practice.

The updated guidelines address the complex nature of effective and appropriate technology integration in the social studies classroom and lay the foundation for future actions to support the preparation of social studies teachers to use technology as a tool to support the more inquiry - driven activities beginning to emerge more frequently in the social studies classroom.

Together the four supports we've identified — structural, cultural and social / emotional, learning and process, and teacher ownership / agency — have potential to create and sustain inquiry communities.

A varied approach that balances gradual release with inquiry, followed by opportunities for supported application within the classroom, best supports teachers in analyzing and applying instructional shifts to teaching and student learning required in the Common Core.

Using examples from classroom teachers with whom she has worked, Collay describes four dimensions of powerful classroom - based leadership: (1) teaching well by drawing on professional knowledge to respond to the complex relationship challenges that affect learning; (2) finding creative ways to collaborate with both colleagues and parents; (3) conducting classroom - based inquiry, both through informal observation and through formal, structured research; and (4) using partnerships with outside organizations to support student learning.

So, given the barriers teachers often experience in their work schedules, time, resources and energy, how can these inspiring forms of collaborative inquiry be nurtured and supported?

Teachers» sustained investment in inquiry is supported by having access to what they perceive to be meaningful assessment data.

For close to a decade we have worked to identify qualities of environments that combine to support and nurture teachers» rich, sustained and productive engagement in collaborative inquiry.

The project will support the adoption of the New York State Science Learning Standards (NYSSLS) by providing teachers with rich professional development regarding the standards, formatting new science curriculum maps, uniform lesson structure, and STEM - based inquiry labs and experiments.

This model focuses on four key areas: (a) providing authentic supervised training and experience for teacher candidates and new teachers; (b) enhancing PK - 12 student achievement including diverse student populations, (c) serving as a site for professional development of teachers, and (d) supporting research and inquiry about teaching and learning (Clark, 1999; The Holmes Group, 1990; Love et al., 1996).

We designed ECMs to support the development of teachers» professional teaching knowledge as it related to a specific pedagogical approach called problem - based historical inquiry and its principles for social studies instruction, that learning should be purposeful, connected, active, and scaffolded (Saye & Brush, 2004).

Guzey and Roehrig describe the development of TPACK in four in - service secondary science teachers who participated in a professional development program about technology integration to support science - as - inquiry teaching.

Collaborative inquiry is most powerful when teachers inquire over time into their students» progress toward learning standards, when a theoretical framework guides the inquiry process, when teachers teach collaborative norms, and when leadership and structures support the inquiry.

The ECMs we created for this study were designed to support the development of teachers» professional teaching knowledge as it relates to the following four research - based principles of problem - based historical inquiry (PBHI):