Sentences with phrase «tested classroom strategies»

Learn about time - tested classroom strategies that will help your child develop preschool reading skills.

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Her uniquely effective parenting and teaching strategies were developed through her years of training in sociology, special education, and philosophy, as well as field - tested through her experiences as a classroom teacher, laboratory school instructor, university instructor, seminar leader, volunteer in Rwanda, and mother of three grown children.

You don't have to — Positive Discipline's proven, time - tested classroom management strategies foster cooperation and mutual respect in children.

It's fine to talk about more technology in our classrooms, smaller class sizes, new teaching and learning strategies, teacher training, and higher test scores, but few of these discussions get us to the heart of the matter — the roots of our current system.

Teachers have to help students understand the fact that knowing your struggles and having strategies to combat them while taking tests is a life skill that may be applied to many areas outside of the classroom.

Building on previous research in this area, Lesaux came up with four main instructional strategies to be tested in classrooms.

You don't have to entirely halt your teaching to tackle standardized tests — a few simple strategies, combined with solid teaching, can result in some bang - for - your - buck test prep without sacrificing classroom time.

The Test - Taking Strategies Escape Room has students walking around the classroom breaking codes.

Students then practice in the classroom and at home, and they are tested on the strategy, rather than on whether they were able to memorize a long list of words.

As head of Aptus Chile's evaluation and assessment department, Diego has developed tests applied nationwide, to help teachers identify student strengths and weaknesses in shaping classroom content and teaching strategies.

These classroom - tested strategies integrate current research with real - life observation of students in action.

What strategies are used in the classroom to relieve any anxieties children have over taking tests?

Reducing the number of students in a classroom is a popular strategy for raising test scores, and it's one that has some evidence of success.

The bottom line: reading comprehension is a slow - growing plant, and the demand for rapid results on annual tests may be encouraging poor classroom practice — giving kids a sugar rush of test preparation, skills, and strategies when a well - rounded diet of knowledge and vocabulary is what's really needed to grow good readers.

The Marzano strategies are based on 40 years of research into best practices and have been tested in multiple on - site studies conducted in real classrooms across the U.S.

Put all these factors together and what you get is the ultimate support group for educators who want to test new strategies, refine their work, and improve teaching and learning in their individual classrooms and across the entire school.

Dr. Latham's internationally acclaimed program is founded on a system of classroom management principles, strategies, and skills, developed, tested, and proven over 35 years of continuous research and trial.

Schools that cultivate a culture of innovation empower teachers to test out new approaches, ideas, and lesson strategies — and that can lead to better engagement and increased efficiencies in the classroom.

This work involves (1) hearing about the strategies BMTN teachers are testing and refining, and having teachers the leaders are working with test out the strategies in their classrooms; (2) sharing resources and strategies that BMTN teachers might use in their improvement projects, (3) providing insights into policies that might affect the instructional work of the network; and (4) helping recruit additional teachers and instructional leaders to the network.

Our network includes researchers and practitioners working arm - in - arm to test and refine improvement strategies in real classroom settings.

Here are a few more teacher - tested teaching strategies to differentiate instruction in your elementary classroom.

Are engaged students and rising test scores enough, or should all classroom strategies be «scientifically based»?

Yet, because changes in assessment affect our entire education system and infrastructure, from state agencies to test makers to federal officials to classroom teachers, we won't see the real benefits from technology - enabled assessments — improved teaching and learning — without careful attention from policymakers and deliberate strategies to create change.

Whether it is a classroom assessment or a high - stakes testing situation, there are some test - taking strategies that students can employ to help themselves on test day.

The government reacted by reintroducing standardized testing for grades 2 to 9, so we advised reviewing and refining this strategy by working to minimize unintended effects such as teaching to the test, and suggested that in time the tests may be reduced to a couple of grades, like the highest performing countries, using the money saved to provide higher quality training in classroom assessments.

Since 2013, more than 250 teachers from 98 schools have participated in the APBI, where they have designed and then tested a wide range of instructional strategies in their classrooms, sharing the results and learning with each other.

At a news conference later today, Educators 4 Excellence - Los Angeles (E4E) is unveiling a set of recommendations aimed at tying teacher's raises and bonuses to student test scores, as well as other new strategies to keep effective teachers in the classroom.

Field - tested with CTE teachers in Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Vermont, T2L features problem - based learning modules in instructional planning, instructional strategies, assessment and classroom management delivered across 10 days of intensive professional development supplemented with on - site coaching by expert NRCCTE at SREB facilitators.

Morel includes real coaching scenarios and classroom - tested strategies, along with troubleshooting tips.

Participants will receive background information and the practical tools they need to help students break free from the cycle of poverty and explore classroom - tested strategies and practices that they can use for personal reflection or ongoing collaboration with colleagues.

Reverberations, the monthly, online publication available to members, publishes models of best practice from Orff Schulwerk classrooms in the form of lesson ideas, student - tested teaching strategies, examples of technology in the creative process, articles related to classroom applications, and more.

Karin connects college and career - readiness and assessment development research with classroom - tested tools and strategies for developing and implementing high - quality assessments used to document progress across the school year across content areas.

Practical, classroom - tested lesson scenarios and multiple strategies needed to foster student success will be provided.

In the name of closing the achievement gap, entire communities of color in cities around the country have seen classrooms converted to test prep centers, where the time spent on studying strategies for eliminating wrong answer choices has pushed out inquiry, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, the arts, and culturally relevant pedagogy.

You will find practical, classroom - tested methods for organizing, managing, and implementing effective Guided Reading strategies in the early years.

Though high - stakes testing may seem to support this same approach («Do anything to do well on this test»), in fact, it seems that teachers are examining the ways in which their classroom environments and strategies contribute to performance.

The teachers, in return, test these strategies in their classrooms and provide feedback.

Their only challenge is to remember the procedure, strategy, formula, or facts until the classroom assessment, state assessment, or advanced placement test.

That also meant a heightened level of accountability, according to Ms. Westmont, since teachers were asked to return from testing the implementation strategies ready to discuss and assess their effectiveness in the classroom.

These are classroom - tested strategies that I used successfully in my own teaching.

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You can use higher - order thinking questions in many instances — oral class discussion, quizzes, exit tickets and other classroom strategies, and tests.

That plan features tests throughout the year to offer feedback to teachers in time to adjust classroom strategies.

Each month on our blog we will explore some of our favorite pedagogical strategies that support the questions in this litmus test and reveal their elements that support great teaching, high levels of student engagement and high expectations for every student in your classroom.

Together these strategies use the testing regime that is the main engine of corporate reform to extend the narrow standardization of curricula and scripted classroom practice that we've seen under No Child Left Behind, and to drill down even further into the fabric of schooling to transform the teaching profession and create a less experienced, less secure, less stable and less expensive professional staff.

Studies published in the best economics and education journals have shown unequivocal evidence of excessive teaching to the test and drilling that produces inflated measures of students» growth in learning; cheating on tests that includes erasing incorrect answers or filling in missing responses; shifting of students out of classrooms or other efforts to exclude anticipated poor performers from testing, or alternatively, concentrating classroom teaching efforts on those students most likely to increase their test scores above a particular target, and other even more subtle strategies for increasing testing averages.

Strategies in this program are all modeled, guided and tested by the presenter, and can be applied immediately in the classroom.

Our products can be a powerful component in a universally designed classroom by supporting a wide range of students who struggle in reading, writing, math, study strategies, vocabulary development, research, and test - taking.

Acquire classroom - tested strategies for better instruction to increase college and career readiness.

Our teacher workshops are backed by classroom - tested strategies for learning that works — in any classroom.