Provide opportunities for teachers to develop new strategies for
teaching conceptual understanding of mathematical concepts
Julie is the author of Tools for
Teaching Conceptual Understanding, is certified in researcher John Hattie's Visible Learning as well as H. Lynn Erickson's Concept - Based Curriculum and Instruction.
Using their own curricular materials, educators create a complete instructional plan for
teaching conceptual understanding of fractions, ratios, and proportions for use in the classroom.
For more practical strategies see: Tools for
Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary and Tools for
Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Secondary
Singapore increases expectations gradually,
teaching conceptual understanding as well as computational fluency.
Not exact matches
Based on a 50 - state survey, the study by Michigan State University's Center for the Learning and
Teaching of Elementary Subjects found that 35 states had created inservice programs to train teachers to
teach problem - solving and
conceptual understanding.
Hi, Anne, When I
taught a blended learning academy over the summer we used a program called Imagine Learning to differentiate reading skills, ST Math (which develops
conceptual understanding), and Myon (an online reading library)- just to name a few programs.
Conceptual collaboration happens when an art teacher works closely with the science teacher and they both help students
understand the effect of pigments and light by
teaching together the science of wavelengths, the electromagnetic spectrum, and the dual nature of light.
Deep
conceptual understanding is fundamental to the
teaching and learning of mathematics at Westgarth Primary School.
For primary teachers, the team has developed guidelines for four «entries» that a teacher might place into their professional portfolio: Developing students» writing; Building
conceptual understanding in mathematics; Inquiry skills; and Engaging colleagues in a project to improve
teaching and learning in your school.
Stressing
conceptual understanding of math is by no means a new approach to
teaching the subject.
For secondary science teachers, the team has also developed guidelines for four «entries» that a science teacher might place into their professional portfolio: Building
conceptual understanding in science; Conducting a whole class discussion in science; Engaging students in science investigations; and Engaging your professional community in a project to improve
teaching and learning in science.
Her recent book,
Teaching for
Conceptual Understanding in Science is co-authored with her muse and mentor, Dr. Richard Konicek - Moran.
Research and provide staff support that will improve
teaching and learning — including:
conceptual understanding teaching strategies, assessment of math skills, interpretation, and use of assessment results, etc..
She is a frequent invited speaker at regional and national conferences on the topic of formative assessment in science and
teaching for
conceptual understanding.
Today she works as an independent consultant, speaker, and author providing professional development to school districts and organizations in the areas of science and STEM formative assessment,
understanding student thinking,
teaching science for
conceptual understanding, and designing effective instruction.
In short, Prime Online may have influenced teachers» content knowledge for
teaching mathematics, in part, because the oTPD provided opportunities for learning to
teach toward
conceptual understanding.
Course 122 aims to bolster ELA and History
teaching candidates» fundamental
conceptual understandings of their subjects, and helps them to start building personal resource libraries which meet the standards set forth by CCSS.
Teachers exclaim time and time again how
conceptual teaching and learning helps students retain information, reach
understanding on a deeper level, and transfer their learning to new situations.
Simulations that he used while he
taught mitosis and meiosis and velocity and acceleration helped his students build a
conceptual understanding of these abstract concepts.
Although the data indicate that she knew how to
teach for
conceptual understanding, her
teaching videos did not show any examples of questions at that level.
Preservice teachers were given opportunities to learn about children's development of mathematical
understandings and student - centered
teaching practices, such as questioning, classroom discussions, and use of mathematical representations and manipulatives to foster children's
conceptual understanding.
This sort of mathematics
teaching, often labeled as reform - oriented or inquiry - oriented mathematics
teaching, emphasizes
conceptual understanding and procedural fluency as opposed to speed and recall (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (2000).
Designed to inspire and empower teachers while helping schools build capacity for improving classroom instruction, both Projects will enable participants to further develop their pedagogical and
conceptual understanding of the
teaching and learning of mathematics.
Prepare preservice teachers to appropriately incorporate technology into their
teaching, in regular classrooms equipped with graphing calculators and a computer and in computer labs, to enhance students»
conceptual understanding of mathematics and its applications.
As they do, these technologies will reinforce powerful
teaching by allowing teachers to deepen curricular content, highlight
conceptual frameworks for historical
understanding, and connect to local history.
The course integrated CT in the context of mathematics activities to help TCs develop both a
conceptual understanding of mathematics and mathematics
teaching with CT..
Rather than
teaching algorithms and rote memorization, the materials help build students»
conceptual understanding and proficiency in solving math problems.
They are also divided into Foundational and
Conceptual statements to help teachers both plan to
teach and assess for depth of learning and
understanding.
OECD analysts explained that this exposure to equations indicated that the students had been
taught pure math that emphasized
conceptual understanding.
The PATHS curriculum
teaches skills in five
conceptual domains: self - control, emotional
understanding, positive self - esteem, relationships, and interpersonal problem solving.
Funded by the Florida Legislature and championed by Governor Rick Scott, Math Nation is a comprehensive online
teaching and learning system designed to help students improve their
conceptual and procedural
understandings of mathematics, from foundational pre-algebra concepts to advanced topics such as trigonometric functions.
So if I'm
teaching for
conceptual understanding, which is a big idea in the common core, I'm going to go for
conceptual understanding while maybe modulating the specific skills I'm
teaching.
The Framework for
Teaching has always been grounded in the same fundamental assumptions as the common standards — for example, the importance of student
conceptual understanding and of student intellectual engagement.
Recent professional development provided by Page Keeley related to formative assessment or
teaching for
conceptual understanding and conducted for school districts and other organizations using Uncovering Student Ideas in Science and / or Science or Mathematics Formative Assessment.
Music City Center 101D: NSTA Press Session:
Teaching Science for
Conceptual Understanding.
Summary: What does it really mean to
teach science for
conceptual understanding?
«People are not required to have degrees in advanced calculus, not required to have PhDs, they are required to have a very deep,
conceptual understanding of what is
taught in elementary schools.
Teachers who
teach up help students form a
conceptual understanding of the disciplines, connect what they learn to their own lives, address significant problems using essential knowledge and skills, collaborate with peers, examine varied perspectives, and create authentic products for meaningful audiences.
In the science classroom, teachers can enhance reading and improve science learning by focusing on the following: promoting students»
conceptual understanding of fundamental science concepts; organizing instruction so students constructively engage in experiences with science phenomena before reading about them; increasing students» awareness of how information is organized and displayed in science texts;
teaching students syntactical structures common to science (such as «If... then»); and enabling students to express their
understanding of science by doing science, talking about science, and writing about science, in addition to reading about science.
In this new way of
teaching and learning, ICT is not considered a means for delivering information to learners, but a tool for engaging them in inquiry - based learning, scaffolding their knowledge construction, and facilitating
conceptual understanding (Jonassen & Reeves, 1996).
«He has a complete
understanding about the weddedness between
conceptual ideas and the world of form, and the way they are integrated,» said the artist Laura Owens, who first met Mr. Ray some 20 years ago when he hired her for her first
teaching job, at U.C.L.A., where he ran the sculpture program.
Gaines's keynote concerned art as an aesthetic practice versus art as a cultural practice, and as he dug into the work of Adrian Piper and a group he termed «first - generation
Conceptual artists,» he related the stakes of reading,
teaching, and
understanding artwork in the twenty - first century.
Data on students of teachers who have been through the Modeling Instruction program show that students typically achieve twice the learning gain on a standard test of
conceptual understanding as students who are
taught conventionally.
I don't mean the sort of respect that is old fashioned «
teaching by authority», where you accept and memorize everything I say because I'm the teacher and I said so; I actually tell my students not to believe what I way just because I'm the teacher, to challenge it, to test it, and then when it makes sense or corresponds to their experiences in the labs (which at least spot check the concepts, although such checks can not be exhaustive) accept it and build a strong
conceptual understanding.