Sentences with phrase «teachers design studies»

Authors can describe techniques to help early childhood teachers design studies, collect and analyze data, report and reflect on findings, and write up their research for professional audiences.

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And he's a highly regarded meditation teacher, designing meditation courses for much of the recent scientific study of the practice.

When the members of the school board of Dover, Pennsylvania, a small community near Harrisburg, required students to read a short statement concerning intelligent design before studying ninth - grade biology, they met stiff resistance from some parents and teachers.

The design of this study made it possible to examine 1) the extent to which benefits of breastfeeding on cognitive ability and achievement were evident throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and 2) the extent to which breastfeeding was related to a range of indices of academic achievement that included performance on standardized tests, teacher ratings of academic achievement, and levels of success in examinations on leaving school.

In partnership with the CPS Office of Social Science & Civic Engagement, the EPIC Challenge is designed to be implemented by science or social studies teachers as a classroom - integrated service learning project.

The findings are valuable for language teachers, and the research design is likely to serve as a model for many future SFL studies.»

The need arose from the Supporting Teachers and Children in Schools study, led by Professor Ford, which is analysing whether a course designed to improve teachers» classroom management skills is efTeachers and Children in Schools study, led by Professor Ford, which is analysing whether a course designed to improve teachers» classroom management skills is efteachers» classroom management skills is effective.

In the current study, the authors describe how they designed THSB's student and teacher materials to increase teachers» knowledge of science ideas and practices and of strategies for teaching them.

A new study shows how the patterns of online communication change by implementing teacher leadership techniques, which opens possibilities for better online classroom design.

Teachers used «Early Interventions in Reading,» a proven curriculum designed by SMU reading specialist and study co-author Patricia G. Mathes and Allor.

The Pre-College Program supports early childhood through high school education and students in STEM studies through teacher training, regional science bowls, science fairs, leadership development, mentorship, scholarships, internships and other programming designed to support students and their families.

Beyond studying to become a teacher, this course is designed for self discovery.

In the JAMA < study, one of the key components that led to the positive results is that senior Iyengar teacher Marian Garfinkel carefully designed a therapeutic yoga program tailored to the specific needs of carpal tunnel patients and, when necessary, adapted it to the individuals in the group.

This teacher training is designed for students who have already completed a 200 - hour program, and are looking to dive deeper into their study of yoga and further their teaching skill set.

On the site, I explain and demonstrate instructional and classroom management strategies; explore technology, books, research and professional development tools that can make us better; help teachers fine - tune the design of their materials; examine the emotional and social forces that impact the way we do our work; and conduct my own little grass - roots studies on topics that I think need more attention.

To ensure that her students were engaged, New York teacher Lauren Leigh Kelly also designed a Hip - Hop Literature and Culture class, «to engage students in the study of hip - hop texts, including songs, films, and music videos, as a means to develop media literacy and critical - analysis skills.»

Teachers meet this mandate by linking academic subjects with the arts: The math curriculum, for example, incorporates principles of design, and science teachers use musical instruments to study sound and stage lighting to demonstrate the properties oTeachers meet this mandate by linking academic subjects with the arts: The math curriculum, for example, incorporates principles of design, and science teachers use musical instruments to study sound and stage lighting to demonstrate the properties oteachers use musical instruments to study sound and stage lighting to demonstrate the properties of light.

The study used a school - level, randomized, experimental design involving 113 teachers and 1,371 ninth - and 10th - grade students in 60 high schools from eight metropolitan regions in the United States.

In addition to working in the classroom environment, he has acted as a consultant in the area of technology and curriculum design / implementation, as well as an instructor in the preservice teacher education program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

This also provides the teacher with invaluable feedback and data from which to design the unit of study, by seeing the focus of student search and where the need exists to broaden the class perspective.

Each pre-service teacher receives mentoring by a classroom teacher, designed to inform and reflect the theoretical component of each study unit;

The Olympics offer teachers the opportunity to enthuse students in a number of different subjects, including sustainability, urban design, healthy eating, regeneration and sports studies

He studies the economics of education, with a particular interest in employer - employee interactions between schools and teachers — hiring and firing decisions, job design, training, and performance evaluation.

In 2003, I learned of the research on identity safety with the Stanford Integrated Schools Project (SISP) and designed a follow - up study with a group of elementary school teachers.

A randomized study was designed involving 16 observers, under supervision of two graduate students, who carefully coded student behavior for several weeks in two sets of classes (classes that received parent calls from teachers, and those that did not).

The results also confirmed the positive relationship of key characteristics of professional - development design identified in previous studies over the past decade to student outcomes: sustained, active teacher learning that is coherently aligned with the school's organization.

«In - depth studies should be designed to provide deeper analysis of specific questions about high priority issues,» such as «teacher recruitment and retention.»

Other strategies LACES faculty has used include participating in district - supported site leadership for closing the achievement gap; designing opportunities for teacher collaboration around increasingly common assessments; and offering professional development for highly differentiated instruction, noted the California Best Practices Study.

This 36 page booklet is designed for Religious Studies teachers / students who are covering Buddhism at GCSE level (based meticulously on the OCR B specification).

There is good reason to think that dismissing more low - performing teachers would improve student outcomes, but the Chetty study is not designed to tell us much about that, or about any of the various policy alternatives.

I study a specific kind of new technology — computer aided instruction (CAI)-- which is software designed to provide one - on - one tutoring to students, with the computer acting in the role of the teacher.

This 36 page booklet is designed for Religious Studies teachers / students who are covering Buddhism at GCSE level (AQA).

Many programs designed by educational entrepreneurs are rendered ineffective by complications with current public policy, suggests a report published by the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

And if the underlying measure of student achievement in these studies was standardized tests, as was surely the case in many of them, why are such tests acceptable as measures of teacher quality in studies that are meta - analyzed and used indirectly, but unacceptable when they are used directly to assess teacher quality in a structured research design?

According to teacher Gayle Allensworth, the students then «wrote grants, developed a budget, formulated fund - raising plans, spoke to civic organizations, appeared on local radio and TV shows, researched liability laws, and studied park design.»

The Instructional Leadership strand is designed for individuals who have taught at least three years, seek to increase their knowledge of instruction and curriculum in their subject area (science, mathematics or social studies) or English Language Arts (ELA) at the elementary and secondary levels, and are interested in finding ways to extend their influence beyond the classroom into areas such as coaching, curriculum development or teacher research.

The USP is a rigorous course of study designed for professionals who have worked innovatively and effectively in metropolitan school districts as teachers, school principals, or central office administrators.

Our study yielded a number of new findings that point to potential improvements in the design of teacher evaluation systems.

USP is a rigorous course of study designed for professionals who have worked in metropolitan school districts as teacher - leaders, school principals, or central office administrators.

James Noonan scholar.harvard.edu/jmnoonan Concentration: Culture, Communities, and Education James Noonan studies the design of teachers» professional learning environments and their impact on teacher practice and student learning.

For example, past Specialized Studies candidates have included physicians interested in understanding the education of medical students, a career military officer interested in translating classroom practices into training, social entrepreneurs leading innovative educational ventures in the U.S. and abroad, teachers and administrators interested in implementing cutting edge reform in unique settings, as well as so many others who have benefited from designing their own courses of study.

In our study, the teachers with larger gains on low - cost state math tests also had students with larger gains on the Balanced Assessment in Mathematics, a more - expensive - to - score test designed to measure students» conceptual understanding of mathematics.

That directive was designed to increase student and teacher exchanges, and to strengthen foreign language study at every level.

«Based on their study, English and King recommend that in the primary years, teachers should spend more time with the class «unpacking the outcomes» of the initial design (in this case the first test flight) and engage and scaffold students in discussions regarding areas for improvement before students move onto redesign,» Rosicka says.

To complement the production, The Company of Ten are releasing a teachers» resource pack and a series of behind - the - scenes videos on the creative process to assist students of Drama and Theatre Studies, who are asked to demonstrate an understanding of design, technical and performance elements as part of their course.

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.

«We took to designing the unit of study that encouraged scientific and mathematical thinking alongside critical and creative thinking... giving students the opportunity to engage deeply in project - based learning around a real - life authentic local problem,» Ryan tells Teacher.

Though exact results vary from one study to the next, there is little doubt that credentials and additional years of experience (beyond the first few years) matter far less to teacher effectiveness than they do to teacher compensation as it is currently designed.

«Assuming a study of two different but similar schools is designed well, you still might get diverging answersdepending on school culture and teacher professional variables,» added Cobb.

Kitchen Garden Foundation Curriculum Officer Bev Laing, author of Tools for Teachers which is now into its fourth set, says the books were designed to support learning with curriculum - linked exercises in food science, agriculture, cultural and environmental studies.