Sentences with phrase «other curriculum models»

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But both Gates and Zuckerberg, in addition to other big names in Silicon Valley, also back an education model that is taking the opposite approach: pursuing learning gains with curricula standardized to each particular country.

The Starter Kit includes your Coordinator Manual (includes A to Z curriculum), a Coordinator Shirt and the «Being A Model Youth Sport Parent» DVD, among other things.

Achieve also lauded Massachusetts for its work to align its standards, curriculum, and assessments, which has provided a model for other states.

While one is called the «turnaround model» and the other is called the «transformation model,» they amount to the same thing: using the same types of interventions applied over the last number of decades to try to improve struggling schools — replacing some staff, improving professional development, changing the curriculum, etc..

Our own theories would suggest that companies offering one - off learning games or «the best» math activity that complements the main curriculum — in other words, companies that do not offer a full course worth of curriculum — will struggle to sell into public schools because their business model will remain challenged in the current environment.

The report, two years in the making, calls on America's high schools to evolve into smaller communities where students and adults know each other well, the curriculum emphasizes depth over breadth, and a flexible, active learning process replaces the factory - era model of teachers lecturing to rows of students.

The mask set was designed with the Drama teacher in mind as part of a comprehensive collection of masks.Masks can be integrated into many other areas of the curriculum and would be useful as topic starters in English, discussions of occupations and careers in HASS, models for Design and technology or for creative play and art work.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

Wilson knows many secondary teachers who read aloud to students for pure enjoyment, but says potential barriers for others could include time pressures, a busy curriculum and possibly a lack of modelling in the teacher's own life.

When I've asked what common curricula and creeping granularity might mean for charter schools or other schools that rely upon alternative instructional models, I've thus far received no satisfactory response.

New business models in education also may involve schools drawing on multiple service providers to supply students with multiple pathways to mastery — in other words, decentralizing the single curriculum provider model that has dominated most education systems.

Teachers modeled instruction for each other and tweaked the curriculum to address problem areas.

It took trial and error to fine - tune his model with the right technologies, cross-curricular learning activities, and professional development to help other teachers get comfortable with a green curriculum.

Technology can be used to advance learning by bringing exciting curricula based on real - world problems into the classroom, providing scaffolds and tools to enhance learning, such as modeling programs and visualization tools, giving students and teachers more opportunities for feedback, reflection, and revision, and building local and global communities that include teachers, administrators, students, parents, practicing scientists, and other interested people expanding opportunities for teacher learning.

Kostka was selected as one of a team of 50 K — 12 teachers to serve as advisers for a project called Bringing the Universe to America's Classrooms, which will provide access to all of NASA's available online data, ranging from interstellar measurements of electromagnetism to 3 - D models of the Cassini spacecraft, including new curriculum material that Kostka and the other teacher advisers are helping to develop.

There are several other scaled - up preschool programs that have been evaluated with well - implemented RCTs and found to have no immediate effects, including Even Start, the Comprehensive Child Development Program, and over a dozen curriculum improvement efforts pitting model curricula against run - of - the - mill programs (see PCER and CLIO).

The more people discuss and learn about different school models, curricula, instructional methods, and other aspects that can help children succeed, the better off society will be.

As with any educational initiative or strategy, the right Blended Learning model, used in conjunction with a digital curriculum, should deepen student understanding, critical thinking, and independent problem - solving capabilities as outlined in the Common Core and other standards documents.

Every child and family is unique, so we support diverse school models that vary in curriculum, gradespan, geography, and governance, among many other factors.

The promise of CSR models — such as Accelerated School Project, Core Knowledge, Direct Instruction, High Schools That Work, School Development Program, Success for All — and the comprehensive reform that they support is that they are research - based and provide the training and other supports needed to encourage a coordinated approach to improvement that addresses curriculum and instruction, professional development, leadership, parental and community involvement, and other components needed for student success.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000 online solutions deliver engaging, nonfiction content that supports core curriculum, Response to Intervention, English language learning, special education, and other instructional models.

Sourced from Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences, the work of Elliot Eisner, Columbia University Teachers College, the Arts Plus model, and many others our curriculum is arts - infused.

Among other goals, it would increase high school course and credit requirements, raise student accountability and assessment standards, and include a model curricula for districts.

The math and language arts portions of the Model Curriculum have been finalized and are posted online, officials said, but other sections pertaining to science, social studies and other subject areas are targeted for completion in late 2013 and 2014.

And parents don't know that our district will be the model for all others — because we do it best — we will collect SSP data in the form of social and emotional surveys, we will change our curriculum to socially engineer our children with social and emotional instruction without parents suspecting a thing, we will assess and survey up the wazoo about academics, school climate, cyberbullying, etc. while willing parents stand by, we will enhance our teacher evaluation program and refine it into a well - oiled teacher manipulation machine, and since our kids would do well no matter what because we have uber - involved parents, it will look like everything the Administrators are doing at the State's recommendation causes the success.

Gordon Lafer, in an in - depth report this year for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), notes that Rocketship's educational model rests on four strategies: «the replacement of teachers with computers for a significant portion of the day; a reliance on young and inexperienced teachers for the rest of the day; narrowing the curriculum to math and reading with little attention to other subjects; and even within these subjects, a relentless focus on preparing students for standardized tests.»

TURNAROUND MODEL: Replace the principal, screen existing school staff, and rehire no more than half the teachers; adopt a new governance structure; and improve the school through curriculum reform, professional development, extending learning time, and other strategies.

Todd's Media Arts program is the first one like it in the state, and he hopes the curriculum he is developing can be a model for other schools.

To connect different tests and measure student growth, designers of value - added models commonly assume that the curriculum in higher grades is nothing more than a harder version of that in the previous grade; in other words, 8th grade math is the same as 7th grade math, just more difficult.

In comparison to other potential blended learning models, KIPP Houston believed the flipped model had the potential to integrate better with their existing Eureka algebra curriculum, and could provide a bridge to a flex model or other approaches to personalization in the future.

Whether it's implemented in a fully - virtual setting, a flipped classroom, a station rotation model, or any other kind of blended learning program, online curriculum is a resource to help teachers offer more flexible options to create successful student outcomes everywhere learning occurs.

The other model is one that does look at differentiating instruction within the core curriculum too.

As such, all the elementary schools in his district have the same curriculum driven by the same comprehensive school reform model; the same school environment and discipline policy; and the same way of using Title I and other federal budget dollars.

Depending on the model developed in their district, teachers have the chance to assume one of several possible leadership positions, such as: model teacher, who allows other teachers to observe his or her classroom; lead teacher, who dedicates 50 percent of his or her time to coaching, mentoring, and evaluating other teachers; mentor teacher; instructional coach; curriculum teacher leader; or professional development teacher leader.

As seen in our theory of action model, there is not only alignment among curriculum and instruction and assessment, but also a continuous feedback loop among the three, as each informs the others to provide a valid and accurate measure of student learning.

Although schools can access and use gratitude curriculum, parents and teachers can model showing gratitude at home and in the classroom by noticing when others — adults or kids — intentionally help others.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000 solutions deliver engaging, nonfiction content that supports core curriculum, Response to Intervention, English language learner, special education, and other instructional models.

The promise of CSR models and the school wide reform that they support is that they are research - based and provide the training and other supports needed to encourage a coordinated approach to improvement that addresses curriculum and instruction, professional development, leadership, parental and community involvement, and other components needed for student success.

He is also charged with oversight and reauthorization of the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards in the Visual & Performing Arts, and other special state supported curriculum projects such as the model curriculum and assessmenCurriculum Content Standards in the Visual & Performing Arts, and other special state supported curriculum projects such as the model curriculum and assessmencurriculum projects such as the model curriculum and assessmencurriculum and assessment project.

Other models offer research - based curriculum, professional development and instructional practices that may work for a much larger range of children, from many socio - economic backgrounds and many different levels of performance.

There are key elements to our model, including curricula, methods, and tools we've developed that can be adapted in other schools for the benefit of more students.

In addition to music, art, and PE we use the Peer Day Model to convene other specialists: library / media, paraprofessionals, school psychologists / social workers, and principals with their district curriculum specialists, and educators interested in Dance / movement or Theatre to plan with partners.

With standards, as with other areas of educational innovation such as new school reform models or a new curriculum, educator buy - in seems necessary for change to be truly integrated and sustained.

Convening of grant recipients to share their program models, best instructional practices, curriculum, instructional materials and other resources.

Finally, the National Teacher University would be able to serve as a model program for other universities looking for guidance in creating their own curriculum for teacher education.

18 Unlike the extracurricular interscholastic competitions that bear the same name today, the moot courts of this period were mandatory exercises in the law school curriculum, modeled after the «moots» of the Inns of Courts in England.19 The law school professors of the day gave the students a fictitious case and assisted the students in drafting the pleadings and other documents, preparing the arguments, and then arguing the case.20 In theory, if not always in practice, these were the forerunners of today's legal writing classes that emphasize persuasive writing.

When we took a look at the Vive app, Sketchfab had set up a small catalog of dinosaur models, car renders, anatomical models, and other things that would fit well into a grade - school curriculum — which seems to be exactly the vibe the company is going for.

An insurance assistant resume template is a model document which can be used while framing other such documents and curriculum vitae.

Teacher — Duties & Responsibilities Teach financial management classes focused on budgeting, credit, home buying, and foreclosure prevention Instruct leadership development classes utilizing the DISC Personality Profile Assessment Model Administer DISC Assessment Tool, analyze students results, and build student leadership profiles Implement multiple teaching techniques to reach audiences of varying learning styles and abilities Design and implement challenging and captivating curriculum resulting in student engagement Responsible for one on one instruction and lecture - based learning for classes as large as 50 students Experienced in both youth and adult education instruction techniques and subject matter Plan and administer Bible based education and development classes for Abundant Life Church Lead classes in vision, program, mission, and leadership development for church members and leaders Actively serve on multiple nonprofit boards focused on education and community development Lecture on leadership development, financial responsibility, and other topics at community functions

Curricula provide varying levels of flexibility to individual teachers; some provide highly structured models for teachers to implement, while others offer guiding principles and expect teachers to determine the best way to implement.53