Sentences with phrase «teacher researchers who»

In that role, I lead a team of seven teacher researchers who teach across grade levels and content areas, researching the work that gets done in their classroom, on the field, and in the studio.

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In a study published in The European Journal of Social Psychology, students who wrote out self - advice using «you» not only completed more problems but said they would be happier to work on more in the future compared with students who used «I.» The researchers speculated this is because second - person self - talk may trigger memories of receiving support and encouragement from parents and teachers in childhood.

Instead, the teacher is basically a researcher who needs the student to help achieve the goal of research in a cooperative enterprise.

In one key study, researchers at Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin found that a simple, one - sentence note of encouragement made a huge difference in academic outcomes for African - American students, who often have fraught power relationships with teachers.

Researchers found that having a teacher who believed climate change was occurring — as 92 percent of students in the study did — was a «strong, positive predictor» of students» belief in global warming.

Noting that all of the researchers who carried out the case studies had been involved in developing the standards, Roseman wondered whether practicing K - 12 teachers or administrators would have the same amounts of time and experience to put toward using the tool.

The Investigation Group for the Development of New Pharmaceutical Formulas at the CEU UCH, headed by the dean of the Health Sciences Faculty, Alicia López Castellano, undertook the research, a result of the doctoral thesis of María Sebastián Morelló, as well as teachers and researchers María Aracely Calatayud, Vicente Rodilla and Cristina Balaguer, who are coauthors.

The phaseout of the MSP program would be a blow to university researchers, who use NSF funding to link up with educators from local school districts to train teachers, improve curriculum, and devise better ways to measure student progress in math and science.

The GP asked him whether he felt his eczema improved in sunny weather and when the teacher said yes, he was referred to a clinical researcher at the local hospital who was starting a trial into the effects of light on skin conditions, including eczema.

In a recent study at Edith Cowan University in Perth, researchers worked with 20 primary teachers who were reluctant to teach science.

Who promotes the naïve claim that researchers make good teachers?

«One of Trivers» assumptions is that the reproductive success of females varies little as compared with the reproductive success of males,» explains Claus Halberg, who works as an independent researcher and seasonal teacher of philosophy at the University of Bergen.

The researchers also monitored the advanced math and science courses that students chose to take in high school, concluding that the girls who had been discouraged by their elementary school teachers were much less likely than the boys to opt for advanced courses.

«It will be a valuable resource for everyone who works in K - 12 science education — those who design curriculum and assessment, those who educate teachers, education researchers, as well as our nation's teachers,» he adds.

A Web site will provide online access to the exhibit as well as to a network of educators and researchers who are developing educational materials on human origins for teachers.

Other researchers point to the model of Finland, where educational theories, research methodologies and practice are all important parts of teacher education, according to Pasi Sahlberg, who in 2011 wrote Finnish Lessons, an account of how the country rebuilt its education system and rose to the top of international math and literacy rankings.

In fact, of those teachers who use video games in the classroom, more than half have kids play them as part of the curriculum at least once a week, according to a national survey released by education researchers at Joan Ganz Cooney Center in June.

«What we want to do is provide a guide for researchers who want to investigate STEM teacher preservice education,» said Yolanda George, deputy director of the AAAS Education and Human Resources Programs, adding that the resulting information would be disseminated «as widely as possible» throughout the education field.

The money for what's dubbed Teacher Learning for the Future is being taken from its Noyce fellowship program, which supports undergraduate science majors who promise to teach, and its Math Science and Partnerships program, which links university researchers and local school districts.

Age 10 to 14 years, a time when both girls and boys are constructing their own identities and are typically open to new ideas and influences, provides a unique narrow window of opportunity for parents, teachers, healthcare providers and others to facilitate transition into healthy teenage and adulthood years according to researchers from Georgetown University's Institute for Reproductive Health who note the lack worldwide of programs to help children of this age navigate passage from childhood to adulthood.

The Center draws its strength from faculty members and students across the University who make up a remarkable intellectual community of scholars, researchers, and teachers of diverse fields including chemistry, earth and planetary sciences, engineering and applied sciences, biology, public health and medicine, government, business, economics, religion, and the law.

The successful adaptation of astronomy education research to improving teaching and learning in astronomy departments requires close contact between astronomy education researchers, education researchers in other disciplines and teachers who are primarily research scientists.

«This study applies to many real - life situations, such as teachers incentivizing student efforts or governments seeking compliance with environmental regulations,» says IIASA Evolution and Ecology Program Director Ulf Dieckmann, who led the study in collaboration with IIASA researchers Xiaojie Chen, Tatsuya Sasaki, and Åke Brännström.

Bethany is also an author, speaker, researcher, and yoga teacher who helps people create a life they love.

A few weeks after the ruling, researchers from the University of Buffalo, lead by Catherine Cook - Cottone, Ph.D., interviewed 32 school personnel who were involved with the lawsuit, including district superintendents, assistants, school principals, classroom teachers, instructors of the EUSD HWP, and University of San Diego researchers who were originally involved in studying the program.

One, by the same team of researchers who studied teachers switching between schools (Chetty, Friedman and Rockoff), tracked teachers long - term effects on student earnings.

Across all four districts, which together serve more than 465,000 students, the researchers found new elementary teachers were assigned students who had performed.1 to.3 of a standard deviation below their peers who were assigned to teachers with four years of experience or more — meaning that these students were about three to nine months of schooling behind their classmates.

In terms of improving student achievement, she points to the work of education researcher Professor John Hattie, who notes the importance of teachers becoming self - evaluating.

This Commentary special collection offers a range of perspectives on parents» opting their children out of tests, from researchers who are studying the phenomenon, to parents who have long embraced testing boycotts, to teachers whose opinions on the subject vary widely.

The notion of the teacher as a researcher who strives to learn as much as possible about what their students know and how they make meaning is a very demanding notion to actually implement.

Also, there is a logic to using tests to devise a solution, because test scores do predict later - life outcomes such as college - going and earnings; and important recent evidence from Stanford researcher Raj Chetty and colleagues shows that having a «high value - added» teacher — one who improves student test scores — also positively predicts these outcomes.

On the back end of a teacher's career, other researchers have found that pensions do act as a retention incentive, but only for teachers who are very close to reaching retirement age.

Based on a review by independent researchers, the Education Commission of the States is discounting the conclusions of a small study that showed teachers from Tennessee who received national board certification did not markedly affect their students» achievement.

Teachers who want to introduce metacognition in their classrooms might begin by reading our post Engaging Brains: How to Enhance Learning by Teaching Kids About Neuroplasticity, and also teach students about the anterior prefrontal cortex, the brain area that researchers have begun to link with metacognition.

Researchers found that high - performing schools which employed skilled teachers who used data to assess teaching and learning, had the most success.

«This is one of the most fun things a dean gets to do,» McCartney remarked at the time of the announcement, calling Professor Catherine Snow an «outstanding researcher, teacher, leader throughout her tenure at HGSE,» and Professor Daniel Koretz «an outstanding scholar and teacher, who has enriched this community in numerous ways since joining the faculty in 2001.»

Equally important are school / university partnerships and the coming together of like - minded researchers and classroom teachers who recognize the fertile opportunity to research, measure, and disseminate findings in Mind, Brain, and Education Science to enhance teacher quality, student achievement, and professional satisfaction.

University researchers are conducting important laboratory and classroom research and there is a growing body of teachers and school leaders who recognize one of the great ironies of education in the United States today: that the organ of learning is the brain but few educators have ever had any training in how the brain works, learns, and most importantly for students, changes.

The National Board's researchers, however, chose a peculiar sampling scheme that oversampled particularly high - scoring National Board teachers and particularly low - scoring teachers who were unsuccessful.

Researchers have shown that teachers in general don't favour or encourage students who score well on creativity tests.

Moreover, the researchers found no commonalities that distinguished teachers who did improve from those who didn't.

It adds teachers are expected to be active researchers who reflect on their practice in relation to student outcomes.

«I don't think there's anything close to it,» says Albert Beaton, who helped analyze the report and its surveys of 570,000 students and 60,000 teachers as a researcher for the Educational Testing Service.

Approximately three weeks after students visited the museum,, the researchers administered surveys to 11,000 students and 500 teachers at 123 different schools, some who had visited the museum already and some who had not.

Cohorts consist of 25 students from diverse professional backgrounds — including entrepreneurs, nonprofit directors, principals, teachers, and policy researchers — who progress through the program together.

Elementary - school teachers who are covered by collective - bargaining agreements spend less time instructing students in the classroom than do their peers who are not covered by contracts, but they devote more time to classroom preparation and administrative tasks, a new study by two University of Oregon researchers has found.

The study, carried out by researchers Alice Bradbury and Guy Roberts - Holmes from UCL Institute of Education, University College London, involved more than 1,400 teachers and leaders who took part in focus groups, interviews, and a large - scale survey.

The researchers, from the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, surveyed 160 Australian primary and secondary teachers who had all been in the profession for up to 10 years.

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology studied 240 middle school students who learned science in groups of four via Learning by Design (LBD) or traditional methods with matched teachers.

«This is one of the most fun things a dean gets to do,» McCartney remarked at the time of the announcement, calling Professor Catherine Snow an «outstanding researcher, teacher, leader throughout her tenure at HGSE,» and Professor Daniel Koretz «an outstanding scholar and teacher, who has enriched this community...