Sentences with phrase «used as an instructional strategy»

Yet, as the reflections of the 17 teacher - learners examined in this study suggested, video production used as an instructional strategy and integrated in classrooms in robust and rigorous ways promotes content learning.

Not exact matches

Our new teachers taught a two - week summer school course to returning students and used it as both an opportunity for kids to take additional classes and for the chance to «test - run» the new instructional strategies.

HISD partnered with Harvard University's Education Innovation Laboratory to identify successful strategies, such as getting effective principals and educators into each school, providing more instructional time, and using data to drive instruction.

We expect to use the results of this research to shape both the Instructional Partnership Initiative, which makes innovative use of feedback from our teacher evaluation system, as well as other state strategies for classroom improvement in years to come.»

• The third, Questions / Discussion vs. Standards / Content, measures the difference between a teacher's rating on a single standard that evaluates the use of questions and classroom discussion as an instructional strategy, and that same teacher's average rating on three standards that assess teaching practices that focus on classroom management routines, on conveying standards - based instructional objectives to students, and on demonstrating content - specific knowledge in teaching these objectives.

In recent years, games have been used as an innovative instructional strategy in order to achieve more effective learning on higher levels in diverse knowledge areas, such as mathematics, language, business, health, computing etc..

However, just as athletes use video analysis to study the strategies of a star athlete on the opposing team or the effectiveness of a winning play on the field, I regularly refined my practice by watching teachers, in real time, execute instructional strategies that resulted in their students» eyebrows raising and their mouths dropping open because a light bulb had just been turned on in their minds.

The eBook on «Creative Instructional Design Featuring 7 Learning Strategies You Can Use» is available as a free download from EI Design.

If you are using an avatar as part of the instructional strategy, give learners the option to choose a character from a list of options.

It correlates well with instructional strategies such as spaced repetition and distributed practice that refer to learning using small, repeated, and increasing steps.

I see those everywhere and also, as a reform strategy, I see an interest in the use of data to inform instructional decision making as well.

As a mathematics educator, it reinforces with research the instructional strategies one should use to achieve the greatest support for students.

You can not develop learning events for novices using the same instructional strategies as you do for someone who has a high level of knowledge in a content area.

This session will provide insight into these key ingredients as well as a menu of strategies and activities that an administrator can use to enhance the instructional coaching program on a school campus.

Using state - of - the - art tools like Michael Fullan's Digital Innovation Index, we'll guide you every step of the way as you integrate top - notch instructional and assessment strategies to ensure every student becomes a successful 21st century global citizen.

He did acknowledge, however, that teachers should be aware of curricular alternatives (e.g., instructional materials and programs) that could be used in instruction and that they should tailor the materials to specific students based on relevant attributes such as «conceptions, misconceptions, expectations, motives, difficulties, or strategies» (Shulman, 1987, p. 17).

As a classroom teacher, you are using a variety of differentiated instructional and assessment strategies.

Using Robert Doman's (1984) concept of teaching to their strengths and then remediating their weaknesses, the effective use of digital media as a part of an integrated instructional strategy could be a way initially to teach reading and writing to otherwise reluctant readers.

Participants will develop and / or strengthen a fraction unit of study and incorporate the use of formative assessments as an instructional strategy.

The Intervention Tools Chart is designed to be used by educators as a resource to locate interventions, instructional practices, and learning strategies that can be used within an RtI process.

Educators of the gifted find that overuse of some cooperative learning strategies, particularly those focused on learning of basic information and skills, results in a lack of challenge for advanced learners, inordinate use of these learners as «junior teachers,» and inappropriate pressure for these learners to solve instructional problems (Robinson, 1990).

In this fourth webinar on the 4 Dimensions of Instructional Leadership ™, school leaders learn how to use a cycle of inquiry as a means of strengthening instruction and leadership through collecting and analyzing data, developing areas of focus, learning and implementing new strategies to improve practice, and analyzing the impact of the new practices.

The webinar, jointly sponsored by UCEA and the Wallace Foundation in collaboration with NASSP and NAESP, features a new Wallace Foundation Report, «Making Time for Instructional Leadership» as well as two celebrated principals who will discuss strategies they use to implement instructional leadership behaviors in their schools and lessons they learned for overcoming the obstacles that limit time spent on instructionaInstructional Leadership» as well as two celebrated principals who will discuss strategies they use to implement instructional leadership behaviors in their schools and lessons they learned for overcoming the obstacles that limit time spent on instructionainstructional leadership behaviors in their schools and lessons they learned for overcoming the obstacles that limit time spent on instructionalinstructional leadership.

In the eLearning arena, Gamification refers to using game designs and techniques as part of your instructional design and eLearning development strategy.

Not only are they learning how to utilize image and document analysis as an instructional strategy, they also experience a student - centered approach to using an IWB.

They are familiar with and effective at using an array of strategies to check on the effectiveness of the instructional practices they have chosen, and they know how to shift and adapt as needed.

He credits a number of states, such as Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Georgia, for using school climate data to engage their school communities «in systemic, relational, or instructional strategies» that support students» academic and social and emotional needs.

Selection of content words to teach in - depth: identifying a smaller set of essential academic and content vocabulary to teach in - depth using instructional strategies such as Frayer cards, Concept Definition Map, Two - Column templates.

The majority of teachers reported that they did not use several instructional strategies that might address these issues, such as those relating to student choice, student inquiry, the use of technology and varied texts, and student discussion of text materials and what they have learned.

Each printed reflection was examined to identify those that integrated video production as an instructional strategy, as opposed to the use of or analysis of existing video only.

They did not, however, view these time constraints as reasons for rejecting the use of video production as an instructional strategy.

This investigation examined 317 general education kindergarten through fifth - grade teachers» use of instructional and behavioral management strategies as measured by the Classroom Strategy Scale

Instructional strategies require practitioners to apply knowledge and skills and to use technologies as learning tools.

He decided to use instructional strategies such as inquiry - based teaching, representations such as concept mapping tools, and simulations after participating TEC.

Stretch It can be used as a simple differentiated instructional strategy by tailoring questions to meet students where they are and push them to the next level.

Coaches from Education Northwest also provide support in other ways, such as guiding teachers in the use of high - quality data so that they can easily monitor whether their instructional strategies are working.

Ensure that the use of prevention / intervention strategies is implemented consistently as part of, rather than separate from, the district's instructional program?

Make sure to mention the fact that you need to take the students, their abilities, and their interests into account as to which instructional strategies you will use in your lesson plans designs.

As teachers developed increasingly sophisticated understandings of formative assessment, intensified their record keeping, focused on improving feedback, and strengthened their emphasis on communication, the language that they used to describe formative assessment shifted from «assessment language» to phrases that referred to formative assessment as an instructional strategAs teachers developed increasingly sophisticated understandings of formative assessment, intensified their record keeping, focused on improving feedback, and strengthened their emphasis on communication, the language that they used to describe formative assessment shifted from «assessment language» to phrases that referred to formative assessment as an instructional strategas an instructional strategy.

This study explored computer animation vignettes as a replacement for live - action video scenarios of classroom behavior situations previously used as an instructional resource in teacher education courses in classroom management strategies.

This result indicates that a fairly high percentage of MMC participants demonstrated a lower level of assessing effectiveness of lessons; that is, they tended to focus on instructional strategies they used as teachers instead of examining whether students made progress toward the learning goals of the lesson.

In our specific case, one of the authors had previously developed and effectively used live - action video vignettes as instructional resources in teacher education courses on classroom management strategies (Smith, 1987).

Moving from using instructional strategies as the driver to using and adapting strategies at the service of English language learners to develop independent learners.

Time is provided for instructional planning, plus strategies for piloting new performance tasks used as common interim and summative assessments and ways to benchmark student work can be included.

The course emphasizes mastery of instructional strategies that create opportunities for all students, including English learners and students with special needs, to read and write about how to use social studies for social justice and how to incorporate the visual and performing arts as ways to express and visually represent meaningful learning.

Ryan is the author of numerous research articles in the New Horizons for Learning and Canadian Journal of Action Research related to the use of digital games as an effective instructional strategy in the classroom.

For example, the clips could be used by principal training programs and universities as a classroom discussion tool; by principal mentors or staff developers to generate discussion about strategies to improve teacher performance and student outcomes; and by superintendents to develop school improvement plans or to model effective practice as instructional leaders.

Professional bodies such as the Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) stipulate that teachers need to know and use a «variety of instructional strategies,» but what are these strategies?

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»