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valuing student knowledge, input, and expertise and building student - centered learning environments where students make decisions about how learning happens.
Not exact matches
One of these is the desire to safeguard the
student by demanding of the teacher an illusory objectivity, as if the teacher had no commitment to a certain field of
knowledge, to a method of approaching this field, and to a set of attitudes and
value assumptions which are embodied in the questions which he raises.
By combining the pastoral and RE teaching, the essential
knowledge component of SRE is provided to
students but within the school's
values.
«We need to devise strategies to improve the broader food environment so that healthier dietary choices are attractive and accessible, as well as improve
students» food and nutrition - related attitudes,
knowledge,
values, and skills.»
Those surveys were designed to measure five types of outcomes: 1) whether the school tour helped create cultural consumers (
students who want to return to museums and engage in other cultural activities), 2) whether the school tour helped create cultural producers (
students who want to make art), 3) whether the school tour increased
student knowledge about art and history, 4) whether the school tour improved
student critical thinking about works of art, and 5) whether the school tour altered
student values, like empathy and tolerance.
There's strong evidence that college adds real
value in terms of
students» skills,
knowledge, and career preparation,
value that translates into higher earnings.
In this way
students are equipped with the necessary skills,
values and
knowledge to shape their roles in preparing for life in a sustainable world.
You don't encourage a growth mindset by going back to drill and kill methods, rather you encourage
students to bring themselves willingly, secure in the
knowledge that their contributions and ways of thinking will be
valued.
«Using the QT model and, in particular, looking at the higher order thinking and explicit quality criteria, requires you to think about how much higher order thinking you've asked
students to do in the task, how you've
valued it and how you've transmitted that
knowledge to
students.»
PLCs go a step beyond professional development by providing teachers with not just skills and
knowledge to improve their teaching practices but also an ongoing community that
values each teacher's experiences in their own classrooms and uses those experiences to guide teaching practices and improve
student learning (Vescio et al., 2008).
Each year level curriculum identifies a body of content to be taught and the
knowledge, skills, understandings (and possibly attitudes and
values) that
students are expected to develop.
You want to give teachers agency so that they feel good about being in the school, and they feel that their creativity, experience, and
knowledge about their
students is
valued.
At the beginning of the course,
students were asked to reflect on what they
value in life (such as relationships with family / friends, spiritual / religious
values, or science / pursuit of
knowledge) and to rank those
values by personal importance.
Teachers are not on «the side» of anything; they are smack in the middle of effective learning, which is why a MOOC may radically increase the volume of
knowledge transfer but will never replace face - to - face interaction with equal
value for the individual
student.
These are «concepts that bridge disciplinary boundaries, having explanatory
value throughout much of science and engineering... These concepts help provide
students with an organizational framework for connecting
knowledge from the various disciplines into a coherent and scientifically based view of the world» (pg 4 - 1).
If you teach seventh grade, you might provide a broad range of numbers (for example, -2, 3.14444, 82, 16743, -1 / 2, -3 5/8);
students employ their
knowledge of place
value as they sequence the numbers.
The lesson powerpoint will show
students how to apply the
knowledge of the last lesson and use completed square quadratic functions to find maximum and minumum
values.
Instead, the panel was meant to help
students see the
value of a interdisciplinary perspective on the complex issues surrounding «
knowledge» — not only what is meant by the term, but how those understandings can be enacted and what implications they have moving forward.
A five - year study by the University of Wisconsin's Center on Organization and Restructuring of Schools found that structural school reform only works when (1)
students are engaged in activities that build on prior
knowledge and allow them to apply that
knowledge to new situations, (2)
students use disciplined inquiry, and (3) school activities have
value beyond school.
One of the
values of mentors, tutors, or similar resources is that they can help
students focus on skills or
knowledge that teachers might take for granted.
It offers
students the opportunity to think outside of the box, to disseminate and synthesise their ideas, think critically, justify their choices using evidence... It gives
students an opportunity to organise their thoughts, to stimulate interesting discussions, make links between the
knowledge and skills that they have developed in and around different subjects, thus building their capital and
valuing the importance of their learning in each subject, and how it links to other areas of the curriculum and life.
Student Clint Smith's Die - In Speech David Deming: The
Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market Research Schools International initiative Usable
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The Real Truth About Fast Foods And Nutrition http://library.thinkquest.org/4485/ This ThinkQuest Junior site explores the nutritional
value of fast foods by providing nutritional information about them and then testing
students»
knowledge.
While teachers» priorities and
values largely reflect those of the general public, their efforts to convey that
knowledge to
students are falling short of their own expectations.
In an essay that is sure to provoke both those who want schools to advance patriotic
values and those who preach social change, Murphy argues that public schools should focus on teaching
students the
knowledge and skills necessary to be intellectually engaged citizens, while remaining neutral on questions of civic
values.
When you believe in and
value the talents and sources of
knowledge your
students possess, you receive the gift of watching them change the world.
So are schools where teachers have 120 or more
students to get to know (with this 120 shuffled at the end of each semester); where serious learning is broken up into snippets of 50 - minute «subject matter periods» arranged in no intellectually coherent order; where assessment keeps
knowledge tightly packaged in separate intellectual domains; where short - term memory work is rated as deserving the highest
value at the expense of original, long - term analytic work; and where the intellectual engine of the curriculum comes at most
students and teachers as a list of subjects and skills, usually far too long for the careful savoring and devoted practice that leads to deep understanding and worthy habits.
In addition to the general
knowledge these experiences convey, the research I've done with others at the University of Arkansas on the effects of field trips to art museums and to see live theater suggests that these culturally enriching experiences change
student values to promote greater tolerance and empathy.
The development of global
values can be achieved by drawing on the well - established
knowledge base in human rights education, to discern how they are upheld, and by teaching
students to
value these rights and to act toward the achievement of these rights.
To ensure that activities are personally meaningful, we can, for example, connect them with
students» previous
knowledge and experiences, highlighting the
value of an assigned activity in personally relevant ways.
«I suspect and hope that CMEI taps into those principles and
values that inspired
students to take years out of their lives to really gain
knowledge because they are motivated by the possibility of education.»
«The communities understand the need for curriculum outcomes, but they also want to make sure that some of their own
knowledge and approaches are
valued in the education that their school
students are getting.»
By showing they
value this area of the curriculum and ensuring the sequential program becomes a standard part of the curriculum, this school is providing the best possible education for their
students, not only making sure they receive
knowledge but also skills and understanding.
When the
knowledge demands of reading tests are unknown, it encourages teachers to devalue
knowledge and prepare
students by teaching comprehension «skills and strategies,» which are of limited
value.
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The author points out that as schools award contracts to computer vendors such as Apple, Dell, and HP, market interests influence the body of research on 1:1 laptop programs, and despite a great deal of research over the five years studied, there remains a lack of understanding of the
value added by the 1:1 programs for
students»
knowledge formation and the teaching practices that support such
knowledge formation.
Civic learning is anything which provides
students with the
knowledge, skills and
values they need to be informed and engaged participants in our democracy.
The aim of the visit was for
students to enhance their
knowledge of the court system and to help pupils to understand «British
Values» such as law and democracy.
Civics and Citizenship Education (CCE) promotes
student participation in Australia's democracy by equipping them with the
knowledge, skills,
values and dispositions of active and informed citizenship.
Students use subjects, themes, and symbols that demonstrate
knowledge of contexts,
values, and aesthetics that communicate intended meaning in artworks
Students learn about even and odd numbers and use this information along with their
knowledge of place
value and greater than / less than to sort numbers in a Carroll diagram.
Members of the Multiple Pathways to a Diploma Coalition believe that measuring college - and career - readiness requires
valuing several different and equally valid ways to evaluate
students»
knowledge needed for success in the workplace and higher education.
At earlier grades, Common Core has
students practicing until fluent various «non-standard» approaches, typically based on place
value, with the goal of teaching conceptual
knowledge.
Clear learning intentions describe the skills,
knowledge, attitudes and
values that the
student needs to learn.
Social studies educators teach
students the content
knowledge, intellectual skills, and civic
values necessary for fulfilling the duties of citizenship in a participatory democracy.
Much of this concern has stemmed from
students» performance on state and national tests, but nobody seems to have stopped at any point to question the
value of the type of
knowledge assessed on these tests.
These and other studies have created a lasting professional consensus that, in general, the scholastic curriculum has some effects on the civic
knowledge of
students, but little or no effect on their civic
values.
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students engage in learning activities that promote lifelong learning, differentiate instruction to meet individual
student needs, require
students to collaborate with others, apply their
knowledge and skills in new and creative ways with the use of technology, reason critically, and
value the responsibility of digital citizenship / decision making.
«Tom Gentzel's deep
knowledge of education and the policymaking process is a
valued asset as the Learning First Alliance is turning its attention to the Every
Student Succeeds Act and other federal actions,» said LFA Executive Director Richard M. Long.
It acknowledged the importance of school boards, and recognized the
value of their unique
knowledge and expertise in serving
students.