In addition, teachers' ability to differentiate and align instruction with students' interests and needs was also deemed important to fostering "students' diverse interests, capacities, and skills" while learning science.
The mini-institute described and modeled scientific teaching and the data supporting it; presented background information on assessment and how to align instruction and assessment and diversity of learning styles and students; and discussed how to document teaching for annual reports and promotion and tenure portfolios.
Examining how teacher education influences preservice teachers' (PSTs) application of content knowledge, decision making when planning for teaching, creation of innovative teaching practices and design of aligned instruction, has significant implications for understanding learning to teach.
In 2005, DLSU adopted the transformative framework to align standards, instruction, and assessment (Committee on Lasallian Pedagogical Framework, 2005).
This study aimed to build a learning progression (LP) for the development of scientific imagination based on a measurement approach using the BEAR Assessment System BASS) in an attempt to better understand the core ideas and the developmental path of the scientific imagination process as well as align curriculum, instruction, and assessment through LP.
A recommendation was thus proposed that language teachers re-align their pedagogical instruction to target the content of writing instead.
There is an emerging body of research on mathematics leaders that begins to identify how to cultivate teacher-leaders to support instruction aligned with the CCSSM mathematical practices (e.g., Elliott et al., 2009).
Aviv had time to only touch on one of the most destructive legacies of school reform, aligned and paced instruction enforced by under-the-gun administrators.
Established norms of assessment must be aligned with bioinformatics instruction and new assessments piloted and evaluated to verify that such assessment tools can be useful in an instructional context.
And the argument that teachers spend too much time "teaching to the test" misses the crucial point: When curriculum and instruction are aligned with high-quality tests, as they often are in Advanced Placement classes, classroom work will prepare students for success.
Further, we venture that margarine offers not just a weak but also a contradictory script from a user perspective not only because the base food is high in fat (cf. Jauho and Niva, 2013) but because of the way margarine is incorporated into systems of objects and practices, where cholesterol management is but one focus, and because package size does not align clearly with written instructions.
