Sentences with phrase «work across all content areas»

Could literature circles work across all content areas, and not just language arts?

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Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

There are plenty of curriculum models (Tylers seminal 1949 work ~ Bruners definition of curriculum ~ Wiggins and McTighes Understanding by Design model ~ and Jacobs curriculum mapping instrument come to mind) ~ but none of these strategies help guide curriculum leaders to sit down teams of teachers to develop user - friendly curricula that can be institutionally implemented in classrooms across a grade - level or content - area and that are aligned with state or national standards.

The idea is to provide outstanding educators a chance to work with grade - level and content - area peers from across the nation, putting their best work together.

In that role, I lead a team of seven teacher researchers who teach across grade levels and content areas, researching the work that gets done in their classroom, on the field, and in the studio.

There are teachers doing amazing work with GarageBand across the content areas and it's the perfect tool for incorporating media into your lesson.

Education Northwest helps schools work across grade levels and content areas as they build independent readers and writers who have strong foundational skills and who can engage in deep thinking, reasoning, and writing about complex texts.

Maple Tree School is committed to the goal of working to ensure that every student is proficient or advanced in reading and writing across all content areas.

Teachers work collaboratively with coaches to further develop their expertise and design standards - driven, literacy - rich writing assignments within their existing curriculum across all content areas.

Real classroom scenarios from across the content areas illustrate how the framework works in practice.

The way the team is structured allows members to work across organizations and content areas.

Project work with a science or social studies focus allows students to build on their knowledge across content areas.

The team mentioned that SDCS must work to create a system for providing academic instruction across the content areas for a growing number of ELL students who currently miss out on content instruction due to language barriers.

«And since Achieve3000's solutions are customized to meet each state's academic standards and build literacy in the content areas, our teachers can use them in all fifty - two of our regions, across many grade and ability levels, as they work to meet the individual needs of each learner.»

Together, we worked to integrate art across our core curriculums without disrupting the core content in each subject area.

The November issues of EL and ASCD Express on «Tackling Informational Texts» were so popular, we've returned to the topic with even more practical strategies and advice for working with complex texts and developing deep comprehension across all content areas.

Drawing from her work with teachers and administrators to facilitate curriculum development, Angela Di Michele Lalor offers targeted advice and real - life examples from elementary and secondary units of study across a variety of content areas and standards, as well as field - tested rubrics, protocols, and other tools.

After 23 years at the Rochester School, Marty left to continue the writing work at the state level, working with the Vermont Department of Education, first through the VT Institutes, where Marty, Joey, and Karen Kurzman collaborated and worked in schools across the state in writing instruction, especially across the content areas.

By aligning their work across schools and grade levels the teachers anticipate deeper student engagement and increased proficiency across all content areas.

Her particular area of interest is working across the academic content areas, helping teacher develop focusing questions, selecting and using complex texts, developing strategies for building knowledge and oral processing, writing structures, and providing formative feedback.

In that context, teachers from across the state and in my home district of Covington Independent divvied up the standards work, specialized in one content area and began designing curriculum.

Her work in the Middle School Quality Initiative (MSQI) involved helping school leaders and teacher teams to implement school wide systems of assessment in literacy, integrate vocabulary instruction across content areas, and plan, develop and teach strategic reading lessons for students reading below grade level.

Dr. Bob Pritchard, co-founder of EPF for Teaching is a language and literacy specialist who works extensively with teachers and administrators around the county implementing high leverage, research - based, instructional practices associated with improved student learning across content areas.

The field observations will be of mathematics (SLI) and language - focused (SESLA) instruction, but the pedagogies we will work on will apply across content areas.

Since English Language Arts and Mathematics standards can be grouped together in application, much of the project work that gifted educators might already use could be revised to connect to the CCSS and show how multiple standards could be addressed across content areas.

Let's keep working with these reading specialists, let's still encourage literacy across different content areas, but let's always make sure we are creating reading environments that ignite student passions and keep them motivated.

School staff worked closely with us to ensure a focus on STEM as a curricular program that integrates concepts across core content areas and electives.

Another area of emphasis will be in working with the American Library Association in reaching out to libraries across North America with more effective models to boost distribution of digital content and leverage the appeal of comics — particularly manga — to drive and sustain increased usage within the communities they serve.