Sentences with phrase «teachers employing writing»

As a result of observing teachers employing writing - to - learn activities, I've identified five phases that can improve students» understanding and retention of content.

Reality Check: At the Key Learning Community, in Indianapolis, teachers employ written rubrics to assess students» strengths and weaknesses using categories based on Howard Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences, including spatial, musical, and interpersonal skills.

Not exact matches

«Over time,» we wrote, «the modules that students, parents, and teachers employ to help students solve individual learning problems in individual courses will be combined into complete custom - configured courses — the consummate purpose of modularity.»

A scarred veteran of the entrepreneurial trenches with many vivid stories to recount in private, Whittle has learned to eschew confrontation and employ feel - good rhetoric, even writing in an open letter to union leaders, «Though teachers are your primary constituency, I know that your organizations care deeply about children, too.»

With trivial exceptions, Washington does not run schools, employ teachers, buy textbooks, write curriculum, hand out diplomas, or decide who gets promoted to 5th grade.

Mike Antonucci writes, «Of the 4,535,249 teachers employed in elementary, secondary and special education in 2014, only 49 percent were union members.

«When common assessments are developed and employed properly, as a collaborative, formative system aimed at improving learning for teachers and learners alike,» writes Erkens in the introduction, «the gains in teacher efficacy and student achievement can be staggering.»

Per the authors, their intent in writing this book is «to examine realistic, purposeful strategies teachers and school leaders can employ to restore their hope in a system they feel is rapidly heading off course.»

After completing the first methods class, before teacher candidates entered any classrooms other than through the cyber-conferencing experience, 90 % of the respondents said they employed the following technology - enhanced methods in their lessons: word processing; rhetorical, digital text analysis; digital commentary; Internet research; found and concrete poem creation generated through digital sources; image collage to analyze text; online chat; discussion boards; PowerPoint presentation; word processing and graphic organizers to facilitate multistage writing workshop; email; and multimedia projects using digital camera and video for some type of analysis.

The complaint goes on to state that the school, which currently enrolls 70 students in grades K - 8, fails to educate students in any subjects other than basic reading, writing and math; it lacks a system to provide special education; it's understaffed and the teachers it does employ are underqualified; it doesn't have a functioning library; and teachers and administrators use excessive and exclusionary discipline on the children.

On the CMT ELA tests a strategy employed by a teacher I know was to have students pull a passage from the reading and write it with quotations — not necessarily one that was appropriate but simply to have a citation.

Eulogy Writing as a Way to Employ Rhetorical Strategies from Three Teachers Talk is a creative summative assessment that can be tweaked to measure several different skills; I loved this creative idea.

Our classroom observations suggest that teachers do indeed write words on the board when they are explaining their meanings; however, this strategy is not employed consistently or universally.

From refusal and opting out to protests and organizing letter - writing campaigns, section five, «Resisting and Responding to High - Stakes Testing,» takes a look at a wide range of efforts teachers, students, and communities have employed to oppose the testing regime.

A number of well - written articles chronicle at least some of the history of legal writing in the law school curriculum.1 However, those articles were written with a different purpose in mind: the authors sought to employ history to show the pedigree of legal writing and argue for an equal place in the curriculum with doctrinal courses and an equal position for its teachers with other «case - book» faculty.2 Because of this purpose, they understandably focused a large part of their historical narrative on legal writing in the «modern law - school,» an entity that has existed only since the late 1800s.3 The articles paid considerably less attention to the era that preceded it, beyond brief mentions of the Inns of Court in England, apprenticeship in America, and the private law schools and early attempts at law teaching that preceded Langdell's introduction of the case method.4

English Language Teachers are employed by various schools, from elementary to post-secondary, and are responsible for instructing students on the English grammar, writing, and reading.

Another substitute teacher resume writing tip is to utilize any past relevant experience, as a student teacher, tutor, camp counselor, parent volunteer, or paraprofessional where you needed to employ sound classroom management techniques.

Regarding the use of classroom teaching aids, 81 % of teachers reported using written materials, 62 % used charts, 24 % used other audio - visual materials and 8 % employed demonstration kits (Table 4.11).