Sentences with phrase «understanding of student learning»

Only with a deep understanding of student learning — one that goes beyond the reading of a standardized test score — can teachers alter their practice in ways that open up new and targeted opportunities for their students to achieve academic success.

As teachers collaborate and discuss student work — looking for student understandings and misunderstanding of content — they begin to share ideas about instructional shifts and strategies to deepen understanding of student learning.

Any accompanying feedback or grade must focus on strengthening the quality of your instruction by guiding your understanding of student learning.

Outcomes of using simSchool in pre-service teacher education include increased confidence in teaching, increased technology self efficacy, increased retention in education courses, increased knowledge of instructional strategies, increased knowledge of classroom management techniques, improved understanding of student learning needs and differentiation of instruction, and increased understanding of learning theory.

This kind of assessment verifies our understanding of student learning levels.

More than mastery of curricula, these educators are striving for an understanding of student learning that enables them to adapt their teaching to achieve equitable outcomes for all students.

Teacher education programs therefore include a strong emphasis on developing pedagogic knowledge and a research - based understanding of student learning.

Technology will support a shift in assessments from pencil and paper traditional test to engaging, interactive assessments that assist with providing a broader understanding of student learning.

As the sole school in its district serving 448 students in grades TK - 8, Anna Yates School is building a community of 35 teacher scholars who use their deeper understand of student learning to achieve equitable outcomes for their students.

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Given the importance of physics and science, would it surprise you to learn that studies have shown that traditional introductory college classes can decrease students» conceptual understanding of the subject?

The 11 % of borrowers who don't understand the credit impact of student loans should learn how debt repayment will affect their ability to take out other loans in the future.

After learning of some surprising realities about the level of misinformation being disseminated about Social Security, Cheryl has made it her goal to provide students with a deep understanding of the multitude of factors that play a role in determining how retirees can achieve the maximum value available to them from Social Security.

This really facilitates learning faster, teaches the student to do the footwork of researching what they don't understand, and having to output whatever they have learned.

As students learn the basic paradigms and the structure of biblical Hebrew, they will be able to understand and gain access to the wealth of information stored on the CD - ROM and have a fighting chance of maintaining their linguistic skill throughout their ministry.

NCSCM's experience reveals that seminary professors are often profoundly shaken by what they learn of ministry from interacting with our students, while many of our adjunct faculty, both clergy and lay, display superior teaching skills and understanding of their subject matter and contemporary ministry.

I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.

They should be places where students may come to understand the joy of learning for its own sake.

Male students feel the burden as they learn firsthand how women students are revising the theological language, ministerial practice, and self - understanding associated with a profession too long captive to the interests of men.

As Malcolm Warford, our newly appointed director of educational research, said to me recently after interviewing a cross section of our current student body: «Reinhold Niebuhr's critique of shallow piety and privatized learning continues to be our typical understanding of the relationship between pastoral care and theology.

A Harvard student will not so much be taught to read Shakespeare as learn how to «read» him, which means understanding the «dynamics of culture» encoded into his poetry and plays.

Maybe the best way to amplify and elevate President Trump's understanding of that word «pro-life» would be for a premier Catholic university — say, for example, the University of Notre Dame — to invite him to campus to offer its commencement address, to explain his personal evolution on the abortion issue, and to share, listen, and learn with a cross-section of students and faculty in a respectful dialogue on the meaning of human dignity.

I hope reading what college staff and students have to say about the quality and range of training options available today, will give you a broader understanding and a deeper appreciation of what a precious resource these places of learning and growth are.

For it to be such a place, we would need, for example, to form students in the tradition of learning — and taking seriously — the different ways in which Jews and Christians understand the Hebrew Scripture or Old Testament.

Today's culinary students are learning about traditional and unconventional foodservice venues and working with ingredients from around the world to gain an understanding of authentic ethnic and ethnic inspired foods.

Add a service learning component to an existing unit to increase student engagement and understanding of the topic.

Tiffanie Hoang is a leraning specialist who works with students to create individualized learning strategies and tools to better help them understand their own ways of learning, and to explore and appreciate the fullness of their personhood.

Waldorf schools aim to help students learn to find meaning in life and to understand literature, music, theater, and dance from experience, not just observation and study, while fostering a lifelong love of learning and use of the child's imagination.

With more autonomy within the classroom, teachers are able to develop a full understanding of how each student learns and what interests and motivates each individually.

Our students also learn to compost garden vegetation, furthering understanding of the lifecycle.

from another...» She used to be here in Michigan, more than one infant death here related to illegal use of vaccum at a home birth — her CPM credential was revoked (and later, one of her students, having learned similar practices at her «knee» also lost her credential) so I'm not surprised, but still shocked — I had understood that she was «retired» from Midwifery after she moved to Utah; I'm very saddened by this.»

Both MFT and PHD students are trained in early attachment, where at a weekly seminar they learn the tools of understanding first relationships in all their complexity.

Students may benefit more from fewer assignments and a focus on deep understanding of concepts learned in class.

In one - on - one teaching, you have a lot better chance of them understanding a concept before moving on, so the student tends to learn and understand things better.

The parents of the children in my Brain Gym practice and the students in my courses are very eager to learn from all Pam's years of experience and from her deep understanding and profound honoring of the uniqueness of each individual child.

The latter can be found in more successful teaching programs — like the one at Waldorf School of Baltimore — that are based on inquiry - based learning, and on students» self - evaluation of their understanding of mathematical formulas and theories.

Through the guidance of a highly experienced Waldorf early childhood educator, you'll delve into child development; learn about rhythms, transitions, and the cycle of the year; explore the importance of play; examine the inner development of the teacher; experience circle time activities and lessons in handwork, art, and movement; go though an early childhood student's morning routine; and develop a true practical understanding of Waldorf early childhood education.

This report serves to provide a better understanding of possible factors that may contribute to difficulties in a school environment following a concussion and serves as a framework for the medical home, the educational home, and the family home to guide the student to a successful and safe return to learning.

Plus: effectively using main lessons; fostering speaking and listening skills in children; understanding the scope of the language arts curriculum; writing and understanding the value of pedagogical stories and birthday verses as healing for children; exploring methods of assessing student learning

His program at Holy Trinity is telling us some important things about kids and school food — namely, that food doesn't need to be «dumbed down» for kids to accept it; that kids implicitly understand when deep care is being put into the preparation of their food and they respond with equal respect; and that improving school food can change kids» attitudes about food outside the school yard gates, as was the case with the student quoted by Chef Boundas who cut back on fast food now that he's eating healthful foods at lunch and learning about nutrition and cooking in Chef Boundas's kitchen.

Based on a developmental understanding of the learning process and view of the child that takes human spirituality seriously, Summerfield Waldorf School offers students a comprehensive learning environment designed to challenge and support them in strengthening their cognitive, emotional and intentional abilities.

Preschoolers also learn «school readiness» skills, which help them understand the routines of school, how to work in groups, and how to be students.

There was something for everyone on the menu: using Apple technology, developing research - based practices to teach students in the early grades, engaging students through digital instruction, understanding the new teacher evaluation system as set by state law, preventing high - risk student behaviors and how Community Learning Schools meet the needs of students and their families.

Unions and parents groups rallied last April when New York became the second state to begin testing based on the Common Core, a set of learning standards that aim to give students a deeper understanding of material and boost skills necessary for the modern job market.

«Perhaps students should instead be taught according to learning styles rather than ability, to help all students understand the basic concepts of science.»

For students and mid-career professionals interested in commode - related careers, McHale recommends studying fluid dynamics and mechanical engineering, learning software used for industrial design such as Pro / Engineer CAD, and having a basic understanding of the science of ceramics.

Improving student achievement in science and mathematics requires well - prepared teachers who have a solid grounding in the content they teach and an understanding of how diverse students can be helped to learn.

Hopefully, she says, the students will learn enough that when they are deployed overseas, they'll have a decent, evidence - based understanding of the cultural attitudes they're working with.

Principal investigator Cari Herrmann - Abell and her colleagues plan to expand on their previous efforts to develop multiple - choice test items by developing a set of constructed or open - ended response items that can be used in combination with the multiple - choice items to measure students» understanding of core disciplinary ideas, science practices, and crosscutting concepts — the three dimensions of science learning that are central to the vision of NGSS.

«I don't understand the motivation for trying to cut off something of benefit to both sides,» says Martin Briggs, a hydrogeology graduate student at Syracuse University in New York, who spent two months at Fudan University in Shanghai on a fellowship funded by the NSF to learn about water quality.

Project 2061 produces assessment items and instruments that are effective and accurate measures of students» understanding of science learning goals and can be used to diagnose students» conceptual difficulties.