Sentences with phrase «teaching curriculum based»

Finding 4: Teaching curriculum based on a year or age levels rather than levels of progress leaves some students behind and fails to extend others, limiting the opportunity to maximise learning growth for all students.

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In the fall of 2011, at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Robert Miles created the curriculum and began teaching a graduate Executive MBA course based on his worldwide lectures and titled The Genius of Warren Buffett: The Science of Investing and the Art of Managing.

The Washington - based retail trade group developed the curriculum, incorporating and overhauling two existing credentialing programs and engaged nonprofits such as Goodwill to teach the classes.

His for - profit Financial Peace University is billed as «a biblically based curriculum that teaches people how to handle money God's ways.»

An «intelligent design» curriculum based on the very premise that «intelligent design» is logic - based and not entirely «faith - based could never be accepted by those who want to teach «intelligent design» in our schools because logic compels:

Evolution, Intelligent Design and Philosophy should be all taught together if you want a more accurate curriculum based on current known truths.

But only in the Latin West did science find a self - governing home base where the «ready - made curriculum» in the translations could be taught.

We felt that students should have a broader experiential base, and we have tried all kinds of changes in curriculum — experiments in contextual education, teaching parishes, internships, supervised ministry programs, etc..

Berkeley Business Academy for Youth summer program for middle and high school students fosters creativity, innovation, and collaboration through a project based curriculum, taught by Haas faculty and with students from across the global.

Believing that children are sensitive and intelligent and that learning can be joyfully integrated into life, they developed flexible, nature - based, child - centered curriculum that they could teach to their children themselves.

• Internet resource assignment • Review of 4 research studies • Counseling problems • Nutrition assignment • Clinical Assignment • Periodic testing • Community based breastfeeding class observation • Breastfeeding Class Curriculum includes topical outline; minimum 12 lesson plans, and 2 content teaching outlines.

Curriculum standards were taught using garden and food based activities 346 times.

In 1973 the New Morning School adopted a Waldorf curriculum, based on the teaching methods of Austrian philosopher and teacher Rudolf Steiner.

Curriculum - based learning makes sense for teaching reading, writing, and math.

In our history homeschooling I have been teaching about the Ice Ages using a Christian based curriculum called Mystery of History.

«The school curriculum must include thorough teaching of the value of real food and what food to avoid,» said Dr. Jana Klauer, a New York - based physician and nutrition expert.

Tia is also involved in all aspects of the sanctuary's educational programming — developing curricula and interpretive materials, developing and implementing classroom teacher professional development, working on numerous grants in communities and schools, and developing and teaching natural history and food - based programming.

The 2 - day PSI Certificate of Completion Course, taught by experienced and engaging faculty, is a thorough and evidence - based curriculum designed for nurses, physicians, social workers, mental health providers, childbirth professionals, social support providers, or anyone interested in learning skills and knowledge for assessment and treatment of perinatal mood disorders.

In addition, if the homeschool curriculum takes a particular approach, such as being literature or text - based, it may not be the best approach for teaching biology or chemistry, which are lab - based sciences.

They teach an evidence based curriculum, their resources for parents and for professionals, their general down - to - earth philosophy and being realistic about Western medicine.

It then adds: «The requirement on every academy and free school to provide a broad and balanced curriculum in any case prevents the teaching of creationism as evidence based theory in any academy or free school.»

The parties further recognise that the requirement on every academy and free school to provide a broad and balanced curriculum, in any case prevents the teaching of creationism as evidence based theory in any academy or free school.

But in addition it has also introduced new clauses for Church Academies helpfully clarifying the meaning of creationism and the fact that it is a minority view within the Church of England and Catholic Church, but also stating that «the requirement on every academy and free school to provide a broad and balanced curriculum, in any case prevents the teaching of creationism as evidence based theory in any academy or free school.»

Important rights and entitlements have been removed such as the entitlement to be taught by a qualified teacher, the entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum and the entitlement to access educational experiences which promote opportunity and achievement and are not based on their parents» ability to pay.

We also developed a free web - based educational tool, 3M Streetwise, to help schools the length and breadth of the UK to teach road safety messages, as well as looking at the scientific principles of light, sound and forces - all part of the National Curriculum.

No we don't have one, so if we don't have the standards you can't develop a curriculum because the curriculum should achieve the standards, if you don't have a curriculum you can't have the syllabus and you can't even have such learning and teaching materials out of that syllabus to satisfy the curriculum, so how then are we accessing the kids based upon what?

The government also created the What Works Clearinghouse to provide a database of results for classroom educators on everything from reviews of particular curricula to evidence - based teaching techniques.

«Quite alarming for an educator from our research, however, is the implication that we are failing some students based not on subject matter, curriculum, teaching methods or assessments, but on providing them with study skills to make the most of their undergraduate study.

The program is based on international curriculum and teaching standards set by World Yoga Alliance.

Taught by leaders in the fields of health, wellness, and coaching, the curriculum includes evidence - based models such as Motivational Interviewing, Prochaska's Change Model, Positive Psychology, Immunity to Change Theory and the emerging field of brain science.

iPEC teaches a deep curriculum based on a unique and proprietary methodology and holistic philosophy.

iPEC teaches a deep curriculum based on a unique and proprietary methodology and holistic philosophy.

Sociologist James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, continues his crusade to encourage the honest teaching of U.S. history, warts and all, in this call for a social studies curriculum based on critical thinking and project learning.

Aldridge teaches two laptop - based classes, while Haynes has received a grant to collaborate on developing an Algebra II curriculum.

Susan Caldis, Secretary of AGTA and President of the Geography Teachers» Association of New South Wales (GTANSW), says the focus has been on inquiry - based learning and fieldwork, and how those teaching methods can be linked to the new curriculum topics in the primary and secondary years.

Instead, we should have apolitical schools teaching a rigorous curriculum based on national standards and assessments.

The Spokane (Washington) Public Schools, along with many other school districts, has made a living embracing this simple concept: If we assess our students beforehand, create a common curriculum based upon what the students need to have, then teach that curriculum and fill in what the students don't have, and then assess the students again to be sure they got it, we'll probably be okay.

Based on self - reports by state officials, the survey found that, in 30 states, curricula aligned to the common core were already being taught in at least some districts or grade levels.

When I started looking at the new primary curriculum as a whole, it appeared that the challenges are mostly based on the need to re-structure the teaching plans, learning and assessment.

These include 16,000 booklets for teachers on computing - related thinking across the curriculum and further development of the Turtle programming system, which makes text - based programming easier to teach so that it is fully available online.

The BPS program uses research - based curricula and coaching of teachers; is taught primarily by master's - level teachers; and is open to any child, ages 4 — 5, from racially, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse backgrounds.

Japan has «national curriculum standards» and insists that individual schools use them as the basis for planning what they will actually teach and how they teach it.

Nevertheless, studies have found that, after controlling for the size and structure of the school and the social background of its students, schools in provinces with external exams taught their students a statistically significant one - half of a U.S. grade - level equivalent more math and science by 8th grade than comparable schools in provinces that did not give curriculum - based external tests.

At Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu, we teach MPX, a completely project - based curriculum that fulfills the ninth grade requirements for biology, mathematics, social studies, and language arts.

The next semester, I taught the Roadtrip Nation Experience, a blended project - based learning curriculum.

Not surprisingly, the research base on the real stuff of education — instructional practices, homework assignments, the curriculum as it is actually taught — is remarkably thin.

A web - based course would typically include course information, timetable, notice board, curriculum map, teaching materials like articles, slides, and handouts, communication through discussion boards and email, summative and formative assessments, student management tools like statistics, records, and student tracking, and also links to external and internal websites that are very useful.

Teaching Strategies Inc., the Washington - based early - childhood - education company that publishes the widely used Creative Curriculum program, has acquired MindNurture, a Hillsborough, N.C. - based publisher of educational materials used in home - visiting programs.

The Knowledge Deficit is Hirsch's third attempt to explain why schools should teach a coherent, carefully considered, knowledge - based curriculum.

The piece focuses on Teach To One, a math curriculum used to power the Individual Rotation blended - learning model whereby students receive an individualized schedule and instructional plan each day based on their performance the day prior.