Sentences with phrase «support the learning rather»

Instead, if you start with the understanding (e.g., standard, concept, skill) you are asking your students to investigate or demonstrate, you'll likely find a digital tool that supports the learning rather than showcases students» technological savvy.

Author and consultant Tom Schimmer concurs, «Collaborative Common Assessments is set to become the definitive guide for educators who are serious about utilizing common assessments to support learning rather than simply monitoring it.

Feedback (aka formative assessment) trumps evaluation (aka summative assessment) if your interest is in supporting learning rather than merely sorting students.

Not exact matches

Since I prefer to sell short stocks and ETFs as they are bouncing into resistance, rather than on their initial break of support, the stalling action of $ EEM as it bounces into resistance of its 50 - day moving average now presents me with an ideal, low - risk entry point on the short side (click here to learn more about my short selling entry strategy).

And Monday we learned that the President's top economic advisor, Gary Cohn, has chosen to resign rather than support the President's stated intention to implement a protectionist trade policy.

I also think the fans need to learn about the politics of the club they support, politics of the club control our club... understanding that will help us unite and push for Arsenal FC to improve in aspects rather than QQ about the manager, remember a lot of what we hear is from the media and they only want viewers so investigate stuff for yourself.

Potty training is not different and if you take a deep breath and remind yourself that it's just like learning to walk or talk you'll likely find yourself offering support and guidance rather than exerting pressure and trying to direct the whole affair yourself.

Rather, when children begin to pull themselves up on the furniture and learn to walk, push toys can be a way to give a little extra support and add fun to walking.

Every day we are supporting moms like you in the Portland, Oregon metro area who don't need a nanny to care for their babies, but rather someone to allow them the time to recover, learn about their baby, and get their into new mama groove.

Rather than pick them up when they start to fuss, help them learn to sit down by gently bending their knees and supporting their weight until they reach the floor safely.

From my extensive fieldwork in these marginalized regions in Colombia, I learned that people often make a pragmatic decision to support FARC or ELN, rather than an ideological choice.

«I was shocked when I learnt about this event on social media, at a time when as a country we're cutting budgetary support to various institutions and as such we the citizens would want to see some seriousness in government business, the Akufo Addo administration is rather thinking of a celebration.

Learning to reach out for support rather than reaching out for more chocolate can be so liberating!

Cleansing is worth learning more about if you choose to not try Metformin, rather try a natural support approach.

I am not saying you need them all, rather can learn about supporting thyroid health naturally.

The challenge in my mind is not creating dogma and restriction all season long, rather learning to support your body in every way you can, and the moment something doesn't feel good, simply reincorporating the tools you already have for nourishment and balance.

Leto's Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club met with hostility not just because it embodied so many stereotypes («a sad - sack, clothes - obsessed, constantly flirting... drug - addict prostitute» as Steve Friess wrote in Time) but also because no trans consultants were enlisted, and because Leto used his speech on winning the Golden Globe for best supporting actor to talk about how that «tiny little Brazilian bubble butt was all mine» rather than anything he had learned about the realities of trans living.

Building learning from text strategies and other learning supports into the curricula that will also help teachers to teach those skills as part of what students need to know, rather than as extraneous items that compete with the enormous amount of content they need to cover.

Because the technology eliminated the ability to handwrite and draw, it put my students at a further disadvantage rather than supporting their learning.

This was a rather simplistic demonstration of how easy it is to branch and how you can use the assets to support your information and learning.

There were also in - school challenges, such as limited funding to support professional learning, difficulty in taking time away from teaching, and leadership or management not supporting teachers who wanted to access subject - specific learning rather than something that was a strategic priority for the school.

Such lengths include the release of new guidelines to create better textbooks, including the use of high - quality colour photographs and measures that support pupils learning rather than simply teaching them how to pass tests.

As a school leader, how are you supporting staff to access subject - specific learning that may be an individual rather than a whole staff need or whole school priority?

Specific lines of inquiry will include: engaging complexity (developing tools to support learners to engage with complex contemporary issues); developing global thinking / competence (fostering perspective taking, empathy, recognizing perspectives); transfer of learning; balancing reflection and intuition; and emergent aspects of learning (how some understandings and skills may emerge best through bottom - up processes as rather than through direct instruction).

Specific lines of inquiry include: engaging complexity (developing tools to support learners to engage with complex contemporary issues); developing global thinking / competence (fostering perspective taking, empathy, recognizing perspectives); transfer of learning; balancing reflection and intuition; and emergent aspects of learning (how some understandings and skills may emerge best through bottom - up processes as rather than through direct instruction).

This first design principle also potentially falls short of encouraging true transformation by implying that the personalization through «strategies, tools and support» be in support of current learning environments rather than expanding the personalization to encompass a student's entire learning experience.

The purpose of technology is to make things easier for businesses, so it's important your chosen learning platform supports agile working to ensure your time is best spent focusing on improving and delivering, rather than creating.

Tough gathers scientific results and personal observations from a number of estimable sources among researchers and practitioners, all supporting the idea that what really determines success is character and perseverance rather than raw intelligence and book learning.

The most critical supports, we're learning, come not from generic consultants with technical expertise, but rather from outsiders who can help leaders think through key decisions and a sound game plan.

Most notably the brain's reading network responds to training, he said, which supports a Chall article from the 1970s in which she wrote that learning to read isn't a right - or left - brain activity, but rather something entirely dependent upon good instruction.

Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, an expert in the field, explains that it is not catering to the individual child's learning style that affects achievement, but rather the utilising of the modality that best supports specific content that determines whether it is mastered.

Rather, these kinds of structural changes must be accompanied by and support dramatic changes in what and how young adolescents learn.

The open question surrounding these investments will be which ones actually manage to drive resources in a manner that increases learning outcomes — rather than merely to increase access to supports and services.

All constituencies must work together to construct a fair and effective system of assessment that supports teaching and learning rather than disrupting it.

Gary Bryant, from ITSI, a blended learning solution that combines the traditional academic rigour of digital textbooks with the flexibility of technology, discusses why the textbook has a prejudiced repute and explains why an effective teaching resource should support teachers, rather than replace them.

Rather than ask each student to document his or her own learning during a lecture, he created a scenario where they curated their collective knowledge using the format that best supported their learning.

Techniques include strategies such as: developing strong mathematical content knowledge and positive attitudes towards mathematics; encouraging their students to use critical thinking and active learning; placing more emphasis on understanding rather than rules and procedures; using concrete materials and technology; and providing support and encouragement for all students.

Shute argues the approach means schools no longer have to interrupt their teaching and learning to carry out testing - rather the stealth solution is a way of continuing to support «real - time, just - in - time instruction'to students.

«I decided that rather than changing teaching, let's support the learning process,» she says.

Remember to scaffold and support learning conversations rather than dominate them.

Rather than requiring users to remember everything, smart digital learning providers are creating performance support resources that their audiences use in a moment of need.

«Learning solely on the job, rather than through a systematic training process and appropriate support structure leaves them unfairly unprepared and ill - equipped to deal with the emotional toll it can take.»

However, it is important to consider to what extent these can actually be tailored or moulded to best support your teaching, learning or administration needs as an individual school, rather than as a sub-set or lumped group?

Rather, blending technology with teachers to support interactive learning, exploration, and creation (instead of «drill and kill» techniques) leads to higher engagement and learning gains (Darling - Hammond, Zielezinski, & Goldman, 2014).

This approach is similar to the one used in this study and aligns with other studies that have shown the importance of content - area learning along with technology integration, so that technology supports the curriculum and student learning, rather than being treated as an added on activity or object (Glazer, Hannafin, Polly, & Rich, 2009; Harris & Hofer, 2011).

Perhaps their nature will change to provide more just - in - time support rather than long - transfer learning.

The programs shared seven common features: they were focused on the subject areas that teachers teach; incorporated active learning; supported collaboration; used models and modeling to demonstrate effective practice; provided expert coaching and support, offered opportunities for feedback and reflection, and were sustained in duration, often unfolding over months or years, rather than occurring in a single, «drive - by» after school workshop, as is often the norm.

The Confucian philosophy of learning and achievement places primary emphasis on nonintelligence factors — such as personality traits (e.g., motivation, perseverance, effort) and environmental factors (e.g., parental and familial support, teacher and school instruction)-- rather than natural ability as the most important prerequisites for desired performance (Chen & Stevenson, 1995; Rosenthal & Feldman, 1991; Shi & Zha, 2000).

It just makes sense that a school committed to helping all students learn at high levels would focus on learning rather than teaching, would have educators work collaboratively, would ensure students had access to the same curriculum, would assess each student's learning on a timely basis using consistent standards for proficiency, and would create systematic interventions and extensions that provide students with additional time and support for learning.

Given this, you'd think school districts would do more to support the development of school - to - school, teacher - to - teacher, and principal - to - principal learning rather than the typical top - down professional development model that is far too common in districts across the country.