Sentences with phrase «teaching rigorous learning»

Once teachers are planning and teaching rigorous Learning - Focused Lessons effectively, in Accelerating Learning - Focused Lessons: Catching Kids Up!

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Diversify your teaching strategies to include rigorous project / problem - based learning as part of each unit.

Democratic schools like Longview School focus on teaching the whole child, so they not only learn rigorous academics, but also develop into more independent, responsible young adults.

Her teaching methods combine a rigorous curriculum that ensures academic achievement and a light environment that allows students to enjoy learning.

The tensions between parental expectations and students» goals and between teaching test - taking and fostering learning provide focal points of an embedded journalist's chronicle of a year in an academically rigorous public high school.

They also learned about ongoing efforts worldwide to improve science teaching through the use of rigorous research methods.

Designed to provide superior quality, rigorous assessment, and educational innovation, PCE programs uphold the University's commitment to excellence in teaching and learning.

Miami - Dade superintendent Alberto Carvalho wants to stop teaching 30 minutes of Spanish a day in elementary school — nobody learns much — and offer a rigorous, intensive dual - immersion program for students with grade - level skills.

Project - based, interdisciplinary learning requires teaching teams to integrate a theme or project into rigorous lesson plans from a variety of disciplines, and to coordinate delivery among teachers and across classrooms so that projects progress apace and students meet curriculum goals.

To ensure empowering of Maths, teaching approaches and styles need to be fluid, rigorous and responsive to pupils» learning needs.

In contrast to progressive charters in suburban areas, central - city charters typically embrace the «no - excuses» model of teaching and learning, emphasizing strict dress codes, rigorous discipline, extended school days and school years, and high expectations for performance on standardized tests.

But if you believe that these rigorous new academic standards for English and math are importantly stronger than what states had before, and are likely to improve teaching and learning in U.S. schools, then pulling out of the Common Core to spite the president starts to look like a pretty silly idea.

In contrast to charters in suburban areas, which tend toward a progressive pedagogy, central - city charters typically embrace the «no - excuses» model of teaching and learning, emphasizing strict dress codes, rigorous discipline, extended school days and school years, and high expectations for performance on standardized tests.

«The report is overly long and too descriptive»... «Managers have not implemented a sufficiently rigorous system to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the provision to allow them to set actions to improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment.»

Such learning, successfully incorporated into project learning and other teaching styles, is easily integrated into all subject areas and can be effectively assessed with rigorous, sophisticated rubrics.

In the very best practice seen, significant, rigorous efforts have been made to ensure that when technology is used in teaching and learning, it is progressive, building on prior learning experience rather than «ad hoc» in respect of the repetition and / or duplication of skills to be acquired or to be utilised.

Educational television and video games (e.g., DimensionM, MathBlaster, Quest Atlantis) had consistent and rigorous evidence supporting small, significant increases in learning (when implemented with fidelity and appropriate shifts in teaching).

We look at the program's approach, and its implications for the teaching of project - based learning in rigorous courses at the high school level, and how one district AP coordinator uses Knowledge in Action in her district.

It presents strategies that are practical enough to attract teachers» interest, feasible enough to implement in ongoing and sustainable ways and rigorous enough to make immediate and positive differences to teaching and learning.

The core belief of the PLC at Work model — that all students should have access to the most rigorous curriculum and that all students should learn, was counter to common practices in the era when DuFour taught.

The mission of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is to establish «high and rigorous standards for what teachers should know and be able to do, to certify teachers who meet those standards, and to advance other education reforms for the purpose of improving student learning in American schools.»

Since 1987, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has sought to advance the quality of teaching and learning by maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be ablTeaching Standards has sought to advance the quality of teaching and learning by maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be ablteaching and learning by maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do.

We publish independent, rigorous evaluations to build understanding of how to improve teaching and learning.

UKEd.Academy Courses are created through a rigorous process and uniquely to help improve teaching and learning.

My earnest hope is that the politicians — from Arne Duncan to Bobby Jindal and everyone in between — stop misbehaving and give educators the room to focus on the real work at hand: selecting good curricular materials, improving teaching and learning, and getting ready for the much more rigorous tests that will be given nine months from now.

Fortunately, if we unbundle teaching and assessment and integrate human - graded assessments into online learning platforms, it makes sense to invest in developing a common set of rigorous, standardized, human - graded assessment items.

Virginia's accountability system supports teaching and learning by setting rigorous academic standards and through annual assessments of student achievement.

At the heart of this work has been a commitment to «make students as important as standards» by helping schools develop teaching and learning practices that are research - based, academically rigorous, and engaging for all students.

Inspired Teaching's inquiry based approach, deep understanding of backwards design, and disciplinary expertise work in concert with LDC's rigorous and intensive teacher professional learning model.

Armed with the knowledge that quality teaching matters most for student learning, policymakers from state to state are racing to adopt new educational accountability measures that seek, among other things, to evaluate teacher effectiveness with more rigorous, evidence - based instruments.

Rigorous, integrated reading, writing, speaking, and listening instruction meets the needs of districts implementing a reading collaborative, balanced approach, or workshop model, and enables all students to master rigorous learning goals with strong resources for differentiated instruction and responsive teaching based upon ongoing asseRigorous, integrated reading, writing, speaking, and listening instruction meets the needs of districts implementing a reading collaborative, balanced approach, or workshop model, and enables all students to master rigorous learning goals with strong resources for differentiated instruction and responsive teaching based upon ongoing asserigorous learning goals with strong resources for differentiated instruction and responsive teaching based upon ongoing assessments.

Developed in partnership with Dr. Robert J. Marzano, the Focused Teacher Evaluation Model draws on decades of research to simplify evaluation and bring rigorous, standards - based teaching and learning to every classroom, every day.

To improve student learning, teachers must continuously increase the knowledge and skills they have to teach more rigorous content and engage students in learning.

The experiment of creating and teaching this class has taught me so much about how to engage students in relevant, academically rigorous, and authentic learning.

Our portfolio includes many types of schools: schools designed for personalized learning, using the best of technology and school design to customize learning to students» needs; schools that are «diverse by design,» undoing segregation; schools that teach marketable math, coding, and STEM skills; and schools that blend other specialized programs — in the arts, sports, or technology — with rigorous general curriculum, to capture the imagination of students.

MPS is aligning classroom instruction, evaluation and feedback to the rigorous and more challenging Common Core State Standards to improve teaching and learning.

This program provides candidates with a rigorous and in - depth approach to the study of language and literacy development with particular attention to the teaching and learning implications of varied cultural, linguistic, and economic contexts.

Combined with rigorous evaluations like MET, these studies of the effects of actual implementation on teaching and learning can provide the evidence we really need.

The pursuit of rigorous academic standards guides the development of curriculum, the practice of teaching, and the goals of learning.

We expect many types of schools in our portfolio: schools designed for personalized learning, using the best of technology and school design to customize for students; schools that are «diverse by design,» undoing segregation; schools that teach marketable math, coding, and STEM skills; and schools that blend other specialized programs — in the arts, sports, or technology — with rigorous general curriculum, to capture the imagination of students.

The Office of Teaching & Learning's Lane Credit Committee oversees all lane credit activities to ensure that content is rigorous and aligned to appropriate standards.

For educators unfamiliar with it, the mission of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is to advance the quality of teaching and learning by maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do; provide a national voluntary system certifying teachers who meet these standards; and to advocate for related education reforms that integrate National Board Certification in American education and to capitalize on the expertise of National Board Certified TTeaching Standards is to advance the quality of teaching and learning by maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do; provide a national voluntary system certifying teachers who meet these standards; and to advocate for related education reforms that integrate National Board Certification in American education and to capitalize on the expertise of National Board Certified Tteaching and learning by maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do; provide a national voluntary system certifying teachers who meet these standards; and to advocate for related education reforms that integrate National Board Certification in American education and to capitalize on the expertise of National Board Certified Teachers.

The Learning Policy Institute conducted a review of 35 methodologically rigorous studies that have demonstrated a positive link among teacher professional development, teaching practices, and student outcomes.

The goal of this study tour was to learn about effective teaching in schools that incorporate rigorous academics, deeper learning experiences, higher order skills, and innovative and effective teaching and learning practices.

Both educators and the public are beginning to better understand that success for our students, beyond high school and through college and careers, means that teaching and learning must focus on more than just core academic content — and that students do not gain social and emotional competencies at the expense of rigorous academics.

Among them were the purposeful disruption of traditional teaching, the promotion of rigorous participation in analysis of effective teaching strategies, and the building of learning communities through apprenticeship models.

The Annenberg Institute's new issue of VUE, Performance Assessment: Fostering the Learning of Teachers and Students proposes an alternative to standardized testing, based on a performance assessment approach, which is personalized and rigorous, and improves teaching and learning — thereby benefiting both students and tLearning of Teachers and Students proposes an alternative to standardized testing, based on a performance assessment approach, which is personalized and rigorous, and improves teaching and learning — thereby benefiting both students and tlearning — thereby benefiting both students and teachers.

Accountability — Virginia's accountability system supports teaching and learning by setting rigorous academic standards — known as the Standards of Learning (SOL)-- and through annual statewide assessments of student achilearning by setting rigorous academic standards — known as the Standards of Learning (SOL)-- and through annual statewide assessments of student achiLearning (SOL)-- and through annual statewide assessments of student achievement.

«We wanted that research base, and we wanted the best that was out there,» said Chris Borgen, superintendent of the Anacortes district, which had adopted CEL's rigorous instructional framework, the 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning, several years earlier.

One of the first steps is to train school leaders to use CEL's rigorous 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning, a research - based framework for observing and analyzing classroom instruction and providing meaningful feedback to teachers.