Sentences with phrase «toward individual learning»

The team developed a strategy to help students monitor their progress toward individual learning goals by identifying next steps and specific areas of improvement.

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The Semester in Silicon Valley program is a four month intensive college semester program in Silicon Valley, CA, geared toward helping individuals learn the technical, business and leadership skills needed to become successful entrepreneurs.

In this direction lie proposals for building schools around learners, gearing instruction to individual goals and learning styles, pointing education toward developing an ever - broader range of human capacities, and phasing in assessment tools that get at ever - subtler nuances of achievement.

This points to a desperate need to move toward a competency - based learning system that measures and rewards individual student growth, as well as an underlying shared learning infrastructure that allows the country to identify each unique student in a consistent way — so that when he or she moves geographies, the student's record does as well — and to keep track of what that student knows and can do in a consistent way across geographies.

Online learning holds the potential to create a student - centered educational system that can personalize affordably for students» different learning needs at different times — a key to allowing all students to maximize their success — if policy moves away from regulating inputs and toward focusing on individual student outcomes and other conditions are put in place.

Summit believes that for students to feel successful and make progress every day, one essential element is empowering them to set individual learning goals for their own personal learning plans and then providing them with enough time and the right processes each day to make progress toward those individualized goals.

In the Flipped Classroom environment, the teacher becomes the guide off to the side, acting as more of facilitator, helping and guiding small groups and individuals toward learning success.

(ii) Analyzing individual ongoing, child - level assessment data for all children birth to age five participating in the program and using that data in combination with input from parents and families to determine each child's status and progress with regard to, at a minimum, language and literacy development, cognition and general knowledge, approaches toward learning, physical well - being and motor development, and social and emotional development and to individualize the experiences, instructional strategies, and services to best support each child.

Teacher uses a system to track student assessment data, including individual and class progress toward meeting unit objectives and annual learning goals.

Personalized Learning Pathways: At SJHA, advisory teachers work with each student to develop an individual education plan based on a range of indicators, including students» primary multiple intelligences and «love languages,» as well as the more traditional engagement and achievement markers including progress toward completing the state's college - ready course sequence.

All Students have individual learning plans (ILPs) tailored to their specific needs and outlining the competencies and learning objectives that each student will work toward.

Chapters address: (1) an overview of the whole language approach; (2) examples of how special education teachers use whole language to teach children with learning disabilities; (3) suggestions on how to create a child - centered classroom; (4) the role of the teacher in a whole language classroom; (5) examples of democratic classrooms; (6) assessment procedures that are compatible with a whole language philosophy and how assessment data can be used to respond to individual needs; (7) examples of different strategies teachers use to teach students with learning disabilities reading and writing; (8) literacy development in students with disabilities and how to foster self - directed learners; (9) how teachers develop learner - centered curriculums and how to move toward an inclusive environment; and (10) one teacher's move to the whole language approach.

They will measure individual student growth toward college and career readiness and provide data that can inform decisions regarding teaching and learning, program improvement, and educator effectiveness.

It was through 20 teachers out of 33 choosing a pathway toward Accomplished Teaching that transformed individual efforts into a collective group's shared vision... a true Professional Learning Community.

For its part, K12, Inc. has said it fills a needed niche in public education by offering families an option of learning online at a pace that can be geared toward individual students.

To promote cultures of continuous growth, schools and school districts should encourage and support feedback loops, honest coaching conversations, and collaboration toward improved student outcomes.59 A recent report found that when teachers are more open to feedback, their evaluation scores are more likely to increase over time.60 Furthermore, the introduction of new teacher evaluation systems in recent years has created an opportunity to provide teachers with much more effective feedback and to more intentionally target professional learning to individual teachers» needs.61 When professional learning is rooted in collaboration and meaningful opportunities to apply new skills, these systems can become essential components of evaluation systems that support teacher growth.62

By leveraging Knewton's technology, Sebit will be able to determine a student's proficiency in learning individual concepts and provide continuous recommendations toward mastery.

SETDA developed this new report, «Transforming Data to Information in Service of Learning,» to raise awareness about the major K - 12 data standards and interoperability initiatives underway to address this gap and to offer recommendations for how K - 12 education can become more responsive to educators and better targeted toward individual student success.

For students: learning is managed from an interactive dashboard where students can keep tabs on their Blue Ribbons to track mastery, identify opportunity areas so that their time isn't spent practicing something they already know, and pull individual reports to set and persist toward unique learning goals.

If we allow tests to be biased toward only one approach to teaching the standards, we are narrowing local district, local school, and classroom teacher options for choosing the best way to teach CA's extremely diverse student body in the best way teachers deem possible to maximize individual student learning.

Using data from formative assessments, teachers and students take pride in individual and class progress toward individual and course - level learning goals.

This experiment, focused on Jigsaw II, supports Slavin's contention that if small group, cooperative learning is to be consistently effective: (1) students must work toward a group goal and a reward they can achieve; and (2) students must be held accountable to their peers for their individual contributions to the achievement of the group's goal.

This foundation includes a challenging educational program that encourages students to work collaboratively, a focus on individual learning styles, the development of life and social skills, and the promotion of respectful behavior toward peers and adults.

With this mission, in accordance with the South Carolina Charter Schools Act, YPA will: Improve student learning Increase learning opportunities Utilize productive teaching methods Establish new forms of accountability for schools Create new professional opportunities for teachers To succeed in this mission, the individual need of each learner is the core of YPA's mission striving toward South Carolina's goal of achieving excellence though individual successes with every child served.

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, (1) it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to hire and employ employees, for an employment agency to classify, or refer for employment any individual, for a labor organization to classify its membership or to classify or refer for employment any individual, or for an employer, labor organization, or joint labor - management committee controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining programs to admit or employ any individual in any such program, on the basis of his religion, sex, or national origin in those certain instances where religion, sex, or national origin is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or enterprise, and (2) it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for a school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning to hire and employ employees of a particular religion if such school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning is, in whole or in substantial part, owned, supported, controlled, or managed by a particular religion or by a particular religious corporation, association, or society, or if the curriculum of such school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning is directed toward the propagation of a particular religion.

Weekly training programs are geared toward the individual who wants to learn a training technique and then work with his / her pet throughout the week to reinforce that behavior.

The film's sprawling title — «How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can't Change» — reflects the sweep of the documentary itself, which takes viewers on Fox's world - spanning learning journey examining how local campaigns and individual innovators can tweak troubling environmental trajectories toward progress.

QUEEN»S PARK — Dr. Dawn Lavell - Harvard, president of the Ontario Native Women's Association and also of Native Women's Association of Canada, was one of the First Nations individuals invited to Queen's Park on Monday to bear witness to the official apology by the premier and learn of Ontario's steps toward reconciliation with its indigenous peoples.

Let each individual who worked on that engagement do the exercise with an eye toward lessons learned from that particular engagement and improvement in future similar engagements.

I have been a counselor since 1994 and have had the privilege of helping individuals and families learn to walk through such difficulties and develop stronger, healthier lives characterized by hopeful and courageous attitudes toward the future; more fulfilling relationships; resolution of past hurts; and a sense of well - being, peace and joy.

I strive to create a collaborative working relationship whereby individuals are empowered to define goals, learn, grow and explore to challenge themselves toward reaching their potential.

Individuals high in hostility have a biological predisposition toward antisocial behavior and, under given circumstances, will learn these behaviors.

During individual therapy sessions, the therapist and client work toward learning and improving many basic social skills.

This made my teaching more effective because the time I spent on managing peer relationships dramatically decreased, enabling me to channel my focus toward learning objectives while spending more time supporting students» individual academic needs.

Treat each individual with dignity and respect; honor and embrace unique backgrounds, talents and perspectives; foster an inclusive culture reflective of our commitment to diversity among our staff and learning community; provide equitable education and participation; work toward eliminating discrimination.

Removing children from early learning environments also stigmatizes young individuals, contributing to numerous adverse social and educational outcomes.4 Research shows that young children who are suspended or expelled are more likely to experience academic failure and hold negative attitudes toward school, which contributes to a greater likelihood of dropping out of school and incarceration.5

According to Martins et al. (2017), the discussion is based on a «model of schooling oriented toward student learning, which aims at both individual qualification and democratic citizenship» (p. 10).