Sentences with phrase «toward collaborative studies»

Efforts to continuously improve teaching quality will not only affect the greatest number of students, but such efforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizations.

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Currently she is studying how senior leadership teams function in order to help them begin to move toward a more collaborative model.

Given these critical viewpoints toward collaborative learning in online environments and the dearth of empirical studies on teachers» perspectives toward online collaborative learning, An and Kim (2007) examined the ways in which in - service teachers enrolled in an online master's program perceived their online group project experiences.

The partnership has morphed into a collaborative action community (as in Pierson & McNeil, 2000), where the college students and the middle level teachers work together toward a common goal: improving social studies education.

By clarifying and incorporating teachers» individual beliefs, values, and priorities during the planning phase, Collaborative Lesson Study circumvents a common roadblock toward improvement (Lewis, Perry, & Murata, 2006).

«Because western society's orientations toward wildlife is becoming more moralistic and less utilitarian,» explain the authors of a study recently published online in PLoS ONE, «conservation biologists must develop innovative and collaborative ways to address the threats posed by feral cats rather than assuming wholesale removal of feral cats through euthanasia is a universally viable solution.»

Studying the respective contributions of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy: Toward collaborative controlled studies.