Sentences with phrase «which increases student learning»

It also immediately sparked student interest and engagement, which increases student learning and is especially essential for students with neurological differences.

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The American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Howard Hughes Medical Insti.tute (HHMI) published a joint report, ti.tled Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians in which they call for increased emphasis on evolution as one of the basic sciences students learn before they come to medical school.

Developed specifically to instruct teachers and other school professionals about the impact hunger has on learning, the NEA Healthy Futures Breakfast in the Classroom Toolkit will help you communicate how BIC can help increase breakfast participation and address hunger in schools, which in turn can improve academic and behavioral outcomes for students.

In addition to GENYOUth, the summit partners included National Dairy Council, the National Football League, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the American School Health Association; health professionals, educators, athletes, students, chefs, and corporations came together not only to explore the connections between health and learning, but to find ways to increase access and participation to programs which benefit students health, learning, and lives.

She handled day - to - day aspects for two federally - funded programs, GET SET (Global Education for Tomorrow in Science, Engineering, and Technology) which engaged students, teachers, and parents in a suite of learning activities designed to increase student interest in pursuit of advanced course - taking, and careers in engineering and other STEM areas, and DC ACTS (DC Advancing Competencies in Technology and Science), which provided CEU's from George Washington University to teachers furthering their science education and teaching pedagogy.

Building caring relationships with teachers and other students increases the desire to learn, which sounds perfect to us!

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

This idea of ensuring that teaching is targeted towards students» needs in mathematics is very important as it can increase student engagement which is critical for learning.

When evaluating the photos taken of the different aspects of the learning environments and the tasks in which students were engaged, teachers identified a number of significant changes, such as: students working on a greater range of products, a greater level of student self - direction and increased collaboration across different classes and year groups.

Over time, increased useful student effort will leading to improved learning outcomes, which will in turn shift students mindsets in a growth - oriented direction.

The report suggests that quicker progress was related to students spending more time on homework, which is related to the increased enjoyment of using interactive and video resources, as well as increased engagement with their own learning.

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.

This summer Mapp led her first Program in Professional Education (PPE) institute, «Family Engagement in Education: Creating Effective Home and School Partnerships for Student Success,» which focused on designing family engagement practices connected to student learning, and increasing the capacity of educators, families, and community members to develop and sustain partnerships that improve student ouStudent Success,» which focused on designing family engagement practices connected to student learning, and increasing the capacity of educators, families, and community members to develop and sustain partnerships that improve student oustudent learning, and increasing the capacity of educators, families, and community members to develop and sustain partnerships that improve student oustudent outcomes.

The letter says that the district has never evaluated the teachers using student test scores, and, as a consequence, has never told teachers where they stood and counseled them on how to improve in terms of increasing their students» learning — all of which are required by the law.

Those strategies encourage students to make connections in their learning, which in turn increases brain activity.

Plans that rely solely on student test scores have the most opponents, including many parents, who scorn «teaching to the test,» in which students are drilled to increase their test scores rather than taught to understand the underlying material and learning skills to last a lifetime.

The Rule of Three for learning helps us as teachers to design our lessons with not only multiple opportunities for the students to acquire the skills and knowledge, but it helps us to deliberately increase the level of complexity and difficulty with each iteration, which, as it turns out, helps the students to remember more because they are experiencing the learning rather than just observing it.

Perhaps there were learning activities with movement, which allowed for maintaining the students» attention levels and increasing their classroom participation.

Preparing completers who affect P — 12 student learning positively and increasing teacher retention are key criteria by which all programs should be measured and held accountable.

Middle school students spent the whole year doing intensive research on the quality of every high school in Chicago — learning which high schools would dramatically increase their odds of finishing college and what it would take to get in.

Linking photography with creative writing assignments about dreams, fears, and vocations was a way for Hand and others to increase literacy and draw students closer to the dreaded Braille writer, which is complicated to learn.

Research shows that students who have fun while learning recall statistics more easily, experience increased levels of happy hormones which promote learning and stay curious — meaning they keep coming back for more.

I'm thinking of platforms for collaboration in knowledge creation, where teachers can share and enrich teaching materials; of the amount of data that can be collected to measure students» learning; or of the increasing use of blended learning models in teachers» training, in which online lectures are combined with individualized expert support and feedback from peers.

Standards - based reform was fed by three factors: increased expectations for learning beyond high school, which led to a focus on college readiness for all; the availability of reliable and cheap measures of student proficiency in reading and math; and the push for teacher and school accountability.

He believes that one of the real issues in today's education system is the «lack of authentic student engagement in schools» and that technology can be the bridge between learning and awe, which can increase student engagement.

Learning communities build a sense of academic and social community and increase engagement among students and faculty, all of which lead to a variety of positive outcomes.

Torlakson's message was more «stay the course,» a path that has shown increased funding for schools and new ways to teach and test students under the Common Core standards, which emphasize critical thinking over rote learning.

Allow students to do real world work with their own devices, which enhances learning, increases student productivity and allows them to do research.

STANFORD — Education researchers William G. Howell of the University of Chicago and Martin R. West of Brown University have released newly compiled evidence from the 2008 Education Next / PEPG survey which shows that if the public is given accurate information about what is currently being spent on public schools, their support for increased spending and confidence that more spending will improve student learning both decline.

In addition to an increase in the number of poor students, the funding for schools declined, Common Core standards were introduced, the use of educational software increased, and, in many schools, time spent on test preparation expanded (which often detracts from learning).

Understanding brain plasticity — the process by which learning changes the structure and function of the brain when the conditions for learning are right — can form a scientific basis for increasing expectations for greater learning by all students and teachers.

Which district policies and practices foster or inhibit family and community engagement aimed at increasing student learning?

What hiring a Director of School Operations will do is to clarify roles and responsibilities for students, staff, and parents; increase opportunities for direct coaching and management to support staff; allow Principals and Assistant Principals to focus on teaching and learning, all of which create a healthy school culture, and ultimately drive student achievement.

With the increased interest in student voice — which is any expression of students about learning, schools, or education — tokenism is bound to happen.

Some advantages of Computer - Supported Collaborative Learning include its ability to increase student motivation, time saving as well as social interaction which helps develop critical thinking.

Advantages Learning skills developed have impressive staying power Students can learn to increase the rate at which they understand new material There is a greater opportunity for transfer of learning to other subjects Increased opportunities for students to problem solve what is needed to learn intended content (prerequisites) Students may learn how to pace learning and thereby gain self - coLearning skills developed have impressive staying power Students can learn to increase the rate at which they understand new material There is a greater opportunity for transfer of learning to other subjects Increased opportunities for students to problem solve what is needed to learn intended content (prerequisites) Students may learn how to pace learning and thereby gain self - coStudents can learn to increase the rate at which they understand new material There is a greater opportunity for transfer of learning to other subjects Increased opportunities for students to problem solve what is needed to learn intended content (prerequisites) Students may learn how to pace learning and thereby gain self - colearning to other subjects Increased opportunities for students to problem solve what is needed to learn intended content (prerequisites) Students may learn how to pace learning and thereby gain self - costudents to problem solve what is needed to learn intended content (prerequisites) Students may learn how to pace learning and thereby gain self - coStudents may learn how to pace learning and thereby gain self - colearning and thereby gain self - confidence

They observed that involving students in formative assessment led to increased student motivation and observable signs of students taking ownership of their own learning: setting their own goals, monitoring progress towards goals, and understanding which strategies and actions could most help their progress.

The teacher candidates noted that they also benefited from seeing how such a learning environment could be structured so that student learners are allowed control over their learning (technological content knowledge), the use of acronyms to guide procedural knowledge development (technological pedagogical knowledge), and the level of technical skills required to teach with technology (technological knowledge)-- all of which increased their own teacher knowledge about teaching with technology (Figg & Burson, 2009).

Additionally the power of ongoing communication between schools, teachers, families, and the community allow for much needed transparency between all parties, which can increase trust and build positive, productive relationships, all of which are necessary for positive school culture and increased student learning.

The report has three sections: 1) Setting the Context, which discusses the need for effective systems of evaluation and support for school leaders; 2) Sharing Key Lessons Learned, which highlights how states and districts can work together to agree upon and communicate expectations for school leaders and implement standards - based systems of leadership support and evaluation, thereby increasing teacher effectiveness and improving student outcomes in all schools across the nation; and 3) Improving Standards Based Leadership Evaluation, which examines leader evaluation as a policy foundation for identifying, and supporting effective educators.

While the formal or informal leadership roles of teachers may vary in different schools and districts, teacher leadership is broadly defined in the 2011 Teacher Leader Model Standards as «the process by which teachers, individually or collectively, influence their colleagues, principals, and other members of the school community to improve teaching and learning practices with the aim of increased student learning and achievement.»

Provided through the Now Is The Time initiative (PDF), the bulk of the funding is going to districts for school climate transformation, which includes connecting students and families to the appropriate services, improving behavioral outcomes and conditions for learning, increasing the awareness of and the ability to respond to mental health issues in students, and addressing the school - to - prison pipeline.

As a member of the task force, I am excited for the opportunity to join my colleagues in making recommendations to craft a new structure to improve California's education system focused on inclusive education practices, high expectations for students and education leaders, and providing evidence - based instruction and learning supports so that all students have an opportunity to learn the standards in all core subject areas, which will ultimately lead to increased accountability and academic success for all.

An increasing number of schools are adopting blended - learning models in which classroom - based teaching is integrated with online learning in order to meet disparate student needs.

Naturally, after completing Design Question 2, we should move right into Design Question 3, Helping Students Practice and Deepen New Knowledge, which is all about increasing the rigor of our understanding of our previous learning.

In the current decade, we have increased what we expect from teachers in another way — by adopting the Common Core State Standards, which go far beyond the learning expectations of the past and ask all students to regularly collaborate, persevere, evaluate, reflect and analyze.

The Milpitas Post, for instance, posted a story on the Magnolia Charter Academy moving into a former Senior Center building, which will allow them to give students a better learning environment, but also increase their growth.

Professional learning opportunities with a focus on feedback are designed to improve teacher practice which in turn will increase student learning.

This method of instruction follows a progression during which teachers do less of the work and students gradually accept an increased responsibility for their learning.