Sentences with phrase «use of student voice»

By more effectively publicizing the promise of these programs, career academies could capitalize on their strengths — connections to the workforce and college, skills development, community engagement, and the use of student voice throughout the curriculum.

This study tour examined the use of student voice in the continuous improvement of teaching and learning.

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But once she saw the students using social media to organize while also standing up and putting their voices and faces to their message, she did a twirling dance of excitement.

Using her pastor's phone and raising her voice over the anticipation from the 10 other students making the trek alongside her, Lydia Catterall, a junior and youth group leader at Central Presbyterian, shared that «the main theme you'll see [at Central] is acceptance — sort of trying to create a world where we can all accept each other.»

The organization aims to reduce or eliminate the use of high stakes testing, increase teacher autonomy in the classroom and work to include teacher and family voices in legislative decision - making processes that affect students.

«She was coming with us to Albany when there were no cameras,» said Ansari, who runs the New York City office, «and using her celebrity to help elevate the voices and stories of parents and students that, like myself, have been coming up there for a number of years challenging New York State, to say, «When are black and brown kids gonna get their fair share of these dollars?

«He has also been a leading voice for banning standardized tests for our youngest students, supported a three - year moratorium against the use of Common Core testing for student promotion and placement, and has backed giving the city and state Comptrollers the power to audit charters, particularly charter practices that limit the enrollment and retention of high - needs students.»

To address students» desire to ask questions during lectures, Martins and colleagues are exploring the use of VoiceThread, an interactive software tool designed for online courses that allows for communication through text, voice recording, and video.

That's a drastic departure from existing voice biometric mechanisms, which require training from each individual who will use them, said Kassem Fawaz, who worked on the project as a graduate student at U-M and is now an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Using only the classroom sounds, DART could classify the audio into three categories — single voice (traditional lecture with question and answer), multiple voice (student interactive group work), or no voice (student thinking, writing or individual problem solving)-- with over 90 percent accuracy, which matched the ability of the human evaluators to correctly classify the classroom environment.

As we create the spaces for students to choose when to use their own voices, they develop the courage to use all of what belongs to them already.

So far, not a single parent has voiced a concern, and Staaby reports that students have been deeply engaged by his use of popular video games.

How do we best protect our students without silencing their efforts to use their voice as a form of advocacy or in global collaborations?

That said, there are instances when we can block students from using their voice by making the mistake of limiting opportunities or assuming that we understand their preferences.

Each school must gather and analyze data on incidents of mistreatment and victimization, and tap student voice and involvement and student and staff perception of climate, using anonymous surveys that allow for disaggregation of data while protecting confidentiality.

Avoid manipulating students into compliance by giving them a voice in classroom management procedures, using musical cues, or making allies of natural group leaders.

Students Reach for the «Skylights» of Learning Educator Brenda Dyck writes in the voice of her students about her efforts to challenge them to use more thinking skills at the higher levels of Bloom's tStudents Reach for the «Skylights» of Learning Educator Brenda Dyck writes in the voice of her students about her efforts to challenge them to use more thinking skills at the higher levels of Bloom's tstudents about her efforts to challenge them to use more thinking skills at the higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy.

Categories of information collected from pupils, the ultimate consumers of schooling, would include «teacher and student engagement, constructive student voice, communication among students, communication between students and teachers / administrators, cohesiveness of the student body, effective use of resources, encouragement of creativity, and student support.»

The voice recognition of Yoostar allows for students to use the game in a school environment.

Melissa Techman, the librarian at Broadus Wood Elementary, empowers her students» voices by asking for feedback on the work, look, and usability of the library, and she uses social media for connecting students across the district to foster that discussion.

Innovative learning spaces can encourage both individual and collective voices, and, through use of emerging technologies, they inspire students to become skillful curators of their digital worlds.

In a heart - breaking letter to her 8th grade students, Ruth Ann Dandrea wrote, «Here we spent the year reading books and emulating great writers, constructing leads that would make everyone want to read our work, developing a voice that would engage our readers, using our imaginations to make our work unique and important, and, most of all, being honest.

Whilst working in schools he completed the Master of School Leadership at the University of Melbourne researching the area of «Using student voice to inform teacher professional learning».

The quotes used below are from student interviews conducted in the study and provide a «student voice» showing the benefits of using asynchronous online discussions.

The settlement in the class action on behalf of such students will let them use oral presentations, spell - checkers, voice - recognition software, help from test proctors, and other state - approved accommodations on the Alaska High School Graduation Qualifying Exam.

The curriculum then helps students to use their voice through the skills of persuasion via human rights campaigns.

Every student would take part in a 15 - minute, arts - infused learning activity, like reading a poem by Maya Angelou, then entering the text through rhythmic and melodic interpretations, using voices and found objects to create a cacophony of sounds; or finding a specimen in nature, then analyzing and drawing it in visual journals.

This week, educator Brenda Dyck writes in the voice of her students about her efforts to challenge them to use more thinking skills at the higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy.

Before the teacher directs the students to the «on - task» phase of the lesson she reminds them of the core routines for this phase of classroom learning time: appropriate «noise level» (using «partner - voices»); appropriate movement around the classroom, and how to get teacher support without calling out.

Students will be asked to compare text types, adapt text types to create their own, think about specific language devices used to construct different texts and voice their opinions of texts.

In communities across the nation, faith - based organizations (FBOs) provide out - of - school learning programs designed to help students attain improved education outcomes, and faith - based leaders use their voices to advocate on behalf of the needs of the students and families they serve.

Let the students discover the meaning of the text by using their voices and their bodies to explore different meanings.»

Regardless of the mix of teachers present, there are a variety of tools that can be used to help educators make student voice a part of their professional learning.

Students should understand how to use their bodies as metaphors, how to project emotion with their voices and, for the history aspect of the curriculum, to think about Euripides» own context and then apply his ideas to the present.

Royal Wootton Bassett Academy used feedback from student voice, parent voice and Governor comments to help formulate the overall design and throughout the process the Academy leadership team were consulted about the look and feel of the burgeoning website.

When we give students the power to be creators, we give them confidence; we give students their digital voice and a source of internal strength to use it.»

I showed my student who enjoyed telling stories how to use voice - to - text software that made the recording of stories possible even when writing was difficult.

Her work centers around five essential school priorities: • Supporting school leadership • Using data transparently for accountability • Coordinating a multitier system of support • Providing embedded professional development based on best practices • Engaging parents and families This free one - hour webinar is sponsored by Learning Ally, a national nonprofit providing resources, training, and technology for teachers and schools; and 80,000 human - voiced audiobooks for students with learning & visual disabilities.

Using PBL, educators can encourage students to have a voice and choice in what and how they learn so they can take ownership of their learning.

Introducing academic content meant lots of adaptations — creating visual representations of concepts; using voice output devices, picture cards, adaptive equipment, braille materials, and 3D objects for our students with visual impairments; different types of equipment and technology for our students with physical limitations; and lots and lots of lesson preparation.

Owl Ventures» Patel calls them catalytic factors: more powerful broadband infrastructure in schools, widespread use of low - cost devices, along with schools actively seeking ways to personalize learning and those closest to students such as teachers and principals, having great voice in choosing the tools they want to use.

This article examines the implications of using different theories concerned with social justice to interpret first generation Quechua (indigenous) students» voices for responsive education policy.

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Formative Evaluation involves student voice, it refers to any activity used as an assessment of learning progress before or during the learning process itself.

Using clips from the movie, the voices of actors and real students and engaging classroom activities, the curriculum sends a strong message — bystanders need to embrace their power as «Upstanders» and share responsibility for creating a positive school climate.

(or just do the unit) Students: - Invent, describe and inhabit an imaginary world - Identify and make character choices - Create story ideas - Use improvisation to explore elements of the story - Put themselves in someone else's shoes and reflect on characters - Respond to directions - Use voice, movement and gesture to convey meaning - Collaborate with peers to create scenes and contribute ideas - Interpret a story - Contribute to guided drama experiences Check out my store for more drama resources!

JE: The title of this particular paper mentions ventriloquism and just to let people know, when you talk about that it's not the teacher using the puppets is it, it's the student giving these voices to, well it was everything — figures, digital characters...

Students will: - Visualize the world of a story and given circumstances - Create characters with the body and voice - Conceptualize a story, using the body to convey meaning - Develop, share and reflect on movement - Communicate ideas using the body and movement - Explore various characters from stories - Adapt a piece of literature using drama techniques into a scene with improvised dialogue - Devise, rehearse and present scenes using drama techniques - Use drama vocabulary - Explore non-naturalistic performance and representational drama ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOOKING FOR MORE DRAMA RESOURCES?

He believes that technology is a powerful tool that can be used to unlock student choice and voice, but it requires a culture that pursues the use of technology for creation as opposed to consumption.

Over the duration of the last academic year I have been studying this theory, using learning observations, meetings with teachers, student voice, book looks and learning walks (supportive strolls) as sources of information from which I could hopefully draw some conclusions.