Sentences with phrase «to teach to the standards»

What they really show is that effectively teaching to the standards set by state leaders can lead to student success.

But while teachers aren't prepping students for tests, they are still teaching to the standards that they're required to learn.

Teachers there will still be required to teach to the standards in their classrooms, though.

Good teachers can teach to standards without sacrificing student interest.

Teachers teach to the standards, and they know what the standards are, said Lambe.

From a pedagogue's point of view, the standards are deeper and more complicated, but to say there are fewer standards doesn't help teachers understand how much work goes into teaching to each standard.

Although the Common Core is still in the early stages of implementation — most states have only fully taught to the standards for two or three years — evidence indicates the standards are having a positive impact.

But the biggest hurdle for teachers, said Murphy - Brewer, was learning to teach to the standards through projects — rather than simply adding a project at the end of a lesson.

This of course means we need to arm educators with the skills to effectively teach to the standard of Collaboration in the classroom.

The state's schools are teaching to the standards now — and students will be tested as soon as December on how well they meet the new expectations.

NCLB (2001) is, in effect, creating a climate of controlled learning and sending a message to administrators, teachers, students, and parents that the school's job involves teaching to the standards — nothing more and nothing less.

It's not all about teaching to standards.

As to the 2014 goal, the thinking was simple: if qualified teachers are teaching to standards set by the adults in a state, why shouldn't all (cognitively able) students perform accordingly to those standards by 2014?

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards does many things — we define the standards of accomplished teaching; we run an assessment certifying that teachers teach to those standards; and we advocate for policy that integrates National Board Certification and capitalizes on the expertise of NBCTs.

Students in Hartley's class at Meadowlark Elementary School are able to do work at their own pace, and in ways that best fits their personal strengths that still teaches to the standards.

I think teachers will be stretched, and in order to teach to the standards, they will be asking for more professional development.

AFT's poll found that just 27 percent of respondents said that their district has provided them with the tools and resources necessary to teach to the CCSS — and 53 percent said that they have received either no training or inadequate training to help prepared them to teach to the standards.

How can you teach to the standards and use hands - on projects?

Teachers are expected to track student data, integrate technology, map their teaching to standards and be familiar with the diverse ways in which their students learn, while also doing daily things like taking attendance, getting students to lunch on time, tying shoes, resolving conflict, grading homework, and all the while making sure that all of their students learn.

Weingarten has argued that teachers have been insufficiently prepared to teach to the standards and that the tests for the standards are not ready to have consequences attached to them, calling for a «moratorium» on attaching any stakes.

Our job is to teach to the standards, not the test.

A new study of Massachusetts teachers from researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education showed that even in a state with a highly developed system of standards and accountability, new teachers were not provided with the curricula they needed to teach to standards.

Even though we teach to the standards, our lessons should still reflect the existing solid science that proves how the brain learns best at this stage of development.

Decide what novels, stories, and books are worth students» time and teach those to the standards.

Even if they are the right words and even if one set of words could fit what all children need, there is no assurance that schools or educators would teach to those standards.

Also the fact that they don't» teach to standards and changed the order in which students learn subjects.

Sometimes it's easy to think that an app alone will teach to a standard, but as educators, we know that it's all about getting students thinking, talking, and working together — those practices will produce the most meaningful results.

53 percent said they have received either no training or inadequate training to help prepare them to teach to the standards.

MINNICH: Each state should be working on its own timeline, to prepare teachers to teach to these standards.

When we teach to the standards, we have a very clear idea of what we need students to learn.

The combination of a more challenging set of standards, a lag in the development of curriculum and the professional development that teachers need to teach to those standards, and assessments that are widely proclaimed to be more difficult than existing NCLB - style tests will likely result in plummeting rates of student proficiency in English and mathematics in the near future.

«What people need to know is we've always had standards, and we've always had to teach to standards.

Educators need to keep these skills in mind as they develop curriculum and instruction to teach to the standards.

Good teachers know how to teach to the standards and let the tests take care of themselves, and good school administrators know how to manage this process.

Can we teach to standards and still be responsive to learners (standards without standardization)?

ASCD will provide teachers easy access to materials for teaching to the standards and translate the standards into multiple instructional techniques to ensure teacher understanding of the underlying concepts targeted in the common core standards.

«If you are teaching to the standards, you are simultaneously teaching to the test,» O'Connell said.

As was the case before the development of the Common Core standards, leaders in districts and schools choose the resources that educators use to teach to the standards.