Sentences with phrase «basic curriculum offers»

The Basic Curriculum offers beginners an introduction to computers, while the Standard Curriculum goes one step further with five e-learning modules: computer basics, the internet, productivity tools, digital lifestyles, and computer security.

Not exact matches

Nearly half of the 773 grants awarded to schools have gone to JROTC programs, which put students through a basic military curriculum and offer an array of small competitive clubs, like the rifle team at Broward's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Prepared the curriculum Our 101 class literally started with the basics: How to navigate the district website, How to find your school's website (for this was offered to parents throughout the whole district), How to set up a free gmail account, How to email your student's teacher, How to respond to an email, What is Facebook, How to set up basic parental controls.

«Beyond the Basics: Super Subs Bring the Arts to Underserved Kids» These unusual substitute teachers offer a free day of curriculum - expanding fun through the arts to schools with underserved children (July 2008).

Often these offer either Montessori or «back - to - basics» curricula, the latter including the Benjamin Franklin program.

No two charter schools are alike; some offer thematic or specialized curriculum, others focus on the basics.

Building on Vaughn, Bos, and Schumm's (2000) basic, three - level planning pyramid and Tomlinson and Kalbfleisch's (1998) work on differentiated classrooms, Lawrence - Brown explains how a teacher might address some students» individualized education plan goals by adapting the classroom curriculum to include manipulatives, visual aids, charts, audiotapes, and explicit expectations, while also offering an enriched curriculum to gifted students.

The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High - Quality Units offers instructional modules on the basic concepts and elements of Understanding by Design ® (UbD ™), the «backward design» approach used by thousands of educators to create curriculum units and assessments that focus on developing students» understanding of important ideas.

Providing a rigorous pre-college curriculum has long been a struggle in many of the more than 7,100 U.S. rural school districts, where a lack of teachers, dwindling enrollment numbers and tight budgets make it difficult to offer electives, foreign languages and even basic classes that are a given in many suburban and urban schools.

In Queensland, Australia the state's «New Basics» and «Rich Tasks» approach to standards and assessment, which began as a pilot in 2003, offers extended, multi-disciplinary tasks that are developed centrally and used locally when teachers determine the time is right and they can be integrated with locally - oriented curriculum.

«We will be offering an extended school day which will give us the chance to dedicate more time to basic literacy - giving them the best chance of accessing the whole curriculum.»

At the most basic, these pains are about what courses to offer and what advice to give year 11 students about their post-GCSE choices, but beyond that they raise bigger questions about what a sixth - form curriculum should look like at a time when funding is getting tighter.

One would offer a higher standard of education in the core areas of the curriculum, such as basic numeracy and personal finance, while the other acted as a preparation for A-level.

Free from many state - mandated regulations, charter schools can offer more curriculum and design options to parents and children, such as Montessori, Core Knowledge (Back - to - Basics), Arts & Science, and a longer - day, longer - year, strict - discpline school for at - risk children living in urban areas (sometimes referred to as College Prep schools).

Royal Fireworks Press offers either complete or basic homeschool packages for the language arts curriculum at discounted prices through their website with package prices ranging from $ 150 to $ 250 per level.

The curriculum offered by approved driving classes includes content that covers the state of Massachusetts's driver's license privilege, basic motor vehicle safety and operation, strategies for defensive driving and handling special situations and general rules of the road.

Nearly half of the 773 overall school grants have gone to JROTC programs, which put students through a basic military curriculum and offer an array of small competitive clubs, like the rifle team at Broward's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

In addition to Adult Basic Education (ABE), Adult Secondary Education (ASE), and vocational training, the NDCS offers relationship, life skills, and parenting programs for inmates.62 Facilities in Kansas choose to offer either the InsideOut or Active Parenting Now programs, and can combine them with Play and Learn classes, in which inmates can apply the skills from the curricula with their children in a supervised setting.63 Washington has implemented two Parenting Sentencing Alternatives to keep nonviolent offenders with minor children out of prison: the Family and Offender Sentencing Alternative (FOSA), in which offenders» sentences are waived and they are placed under community supervision, and the Community Parenting Alternative (CPA), a partial confinement program in which offenders remain under electronic monitoring surveillance.64 These two programs are in addition to Washington's Strength in Families program, which is a parenting, relationship, and employment readiness program for soon - to - be-released prisoners.