Sentences with phrase «while assessing student learning»

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While families in affluent parts of the state rail against assessing student learning, children in high need communities suffer.

Our facilitator - led support sessions provide opportunities for students to collaborate with peers while learning necessary skills for managing stigma, strengthening campus support and relationships, and assessing readiness to increase academic and social demands.

Assess the impact of your programs and services, while empowering students to identify and bridge learning gaps outside of the classroom.

Other examples include digital learning games with the capacity to assess students while they play, like the tools and resources available from BrainPOP.

A strategy for building a strong collegial culture while taking student learning into account in assessing teachers.

The hope is that, through these questions, students will be able to self - assess their learning while in turn the teacher gauges student understanding.

While you wouldn't know it based on the shallow media coverage, many educators consider the new generation of standardized tests to be far superior at assessing student learning than any previous tests.

Differentiated Products To assess learning, perhaps some students do an oral presentation of their findings, while others create a poster based on their research.

We empower teachers and students while at the same time we assess learning outcomes at all levels.

While tinkering alone is a valuable learning experience, most educators currently work in a system that doesn't assess students on their ability to tinker.

Birtwistle and Crowhurst use the flexible time while students are working on their products to assess and deepen student learning.

Think Pair Share is a strategy that gives students a voice, enhances communication skills, supports active listening and critical thinking skills while giving teachers a chance to learn more about their students or formatively assess students» understanding, in just a few minutes!

While these tests do assess standards and the items have been field tested and correlated against other items to ensure a more valid measure of those standards, it is still a snapshot and it is limited in how these test scores can inform students and teachers about learning strengths and next steps.

«We are excited, and our teachers are excited, to now have the ability to teach a topic at the level of individual student learning while assessing their individual progress, and to raise the bar of expectations for each student,» said Dr. Moody.

For too long, standardized testing has been the predominant form of assessing student learning, while ignoring the deleterious effects of narrowing the curriculum, promoting teaching to the test, and emphasizing lower order cognitive skills.

From an «Introduction to Education» to «Advanced Topics in Learning Technologies,» the school offers a host of classes on a range of topics that will help students understand historical and contemporary education issues and learn analytic and methodological skills to assess and investigate the now while making improvements for the future.

In simple terms, a 504 a set of recommended guidelines for modifications to help a student learn, while an IEP is a legal document that prescribes modifications to the way you teach and assess a student.

How can teachers foster inspiring, creative learning while still focusing on core skills; and how can they assess students» creative work?

While there has been substantial rhetoric assailing the virtues of teachers with prior professional experience, no research that we know of has assessed the effectiveness of these teachers in terms of student learning.

Students can now learn WHILE being assessed.

While these test scores are only one facet of assessing student learning, they signal that STRIVE needs to improve.