Sentences with phrase «whole school learning»

Whole school Learning Units have implications for strategic planning.

The second Whole School Learning Unit, The Global Dimension, provides the whole school with the opportunity to reflect just once or at 4 yearly intervals upon the global nature of their curriculum offering.

The Whole School Learning Units are an opportunity to take up a whole school theme every once in a while.

At Wilderness School, in South Australia, teachers are collaborating across year levels to write whole school learning continua.

Not exact matches

And an admittedly hurried examination of several texts intended for use in courses of instruction before confirmation or in «religious studies» in schools for adolescents has made it plain that this whole set of ideas is either entirely absent or is so «muted» (to put it so) that it plays no really significant part in what children or confirmands learn as they are introduced to the Christian faith and its theological implications.

The continent itself is ancient and alive with history we never learn in school, but that's a whole other blog post.

Even though the whole journey hasn't been plain sailing (I lost some plants and learnt how much room some plants need to thrive), whenever there is a problem I return to the School Garden units to find inspiration or a solution.

Today's digital technology is taking high school students to a whole new level of learning.

Within the Mountain Oak School classroom, teachers masterfully blend academic and artistic disciplines so that the whole child is involved in every aspect of learning.

I only home schooled for one year, but it was a huge learning year for our whole household!

Parents will find information here that will help them reinforce the healthy lessons students are learning through FUTP60; school nutrition professionals will find helpful fact sheets, and information on earning CEUs, as well as wellness policy resources to benefit the whole school.

The non-profit, founded by Whole Foods Market, is working to help kids learn to love fresh, nutritious foods, and increase access to and consumption of these foods in schools.

In her article, Ragalie stressed the whole - child approach to health that is reinforced by the values of the learning connection: «With American children spending more than 2,000 hours in school each year, it's clear that in - school wellness initiatives (e.g., Fuel Up to Play 60) and alternate school breakfast programs, can be an engine for positive change to help achieve wellness goals, including being a part of the solution to overcome food insecurity.»

Linden Waldorf School's mission is to provide education that honors the developmental stages of childhood, cultivates a love of learning, and addresses the whole child through the head, hands, and heart.

Free Ezine - The Whole Child Subscribe to this monthly newsletter and get activities to give your children the attention they need while stimulatingtheir all - round growth and the development of school readiness skills required for formal learning.

EL's whole - school reform model combines a highly detailed, interdisciplinary curriculum that focuses on active learning, teamwork, and character education with training and coaching for teachers and school leaders.

Positive Discipline provides a «whole child» approach to social - emotional learning using a consistent language in homes, schools, and communities.

Jazzy Mama: After a decade as an elementary school teacher in Toronto, Canada I'm learning a whole new way of being with children.

Democratic schools like Longview School focus on teaching the whole child, so they not only learn rigorous academics, but also develop into more independent, responsible young adults.

Improved student learning, improved student health, and improved meal program finances are what's in it for your students and your whole school community.

Beyond school time, there's always room for improvement in your child's education — especially when learning a whole new language!

Whole Foods Guy [while handing over the sugary drinks]: Well, maybe you'll be lucky enough to get one in your school, and then you can start learning about eating healthy!

Preference will be given to applications that address the whole school environment with actions across interrelated learning areas or that link to community initiatives.

«To all the parents of little ones looking into learning about homeschooling, unschooling, deschooling, life learning, hack - schooling and all around creative living with your whole family.

The Whole World in A Small Seed (3 min) In Rivka Mason's school - under - the - sky at Malcolm X Elementary, children experience cross-disciplinary learning in their school's garden.

In their decision, John and Kristin considered school to be the support for the development of the whole person, not just the means for learning academic subject matter.

When I was at school, I remember learning about politics not through the metaphor of a journey, but a pendulum, swinging back and forth between the two parties, keeping the nation as a whole ticking on nicely... That's a metaphor for a healthy two party democracy.

We also strongly support the Governor's proposals to educate the whole child, a key priority for the Regents, including to ensure New York's students have access to healthy meals at school so they can focus on learning in the classroom.

We are not afraid of competition, it's charter schools that are afraid to take on the most challenging students, the tough cases that slow down learning for whole classes.

But that's the whole point: humans learn by playing, and that philosophy is built into the Finnish school system.

Given the ample evidence that change over time is a crucial property of planets, including our own, of stars, of galaxies and of the Universe as a whole, it is important for the nation's school children to learn about the great age of, and changes in, astronomical systems, as well as their present properties.

For those of us who grew up learning about the USDA's food pyramid in school, it seems like a no - brainer that low - fat dairy is superior to the whole - fat variety.

For example, the teachers in many of the leading blended learning schools spend very little time planning and delivering lessons for whole - class instruction.

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The use of iPads has seen individual academic progress in literacy, removed the threat of «pen and paper», challenged traditional teaching methods, and resulting in a shared passion and enthusiasm for the ICT across the whole school, which feeds into all learning.

With all the recent changes in the curriculum and in technology as a whole, it's definitely a challenge but schools are willing to acknowledge the need to have just as much ownership of the service and operational side of ICT as they do on the curriculum, teaching and learning side of things.

«Schools and learning need a movement to change not just the way we teach, but also how we think about teaching and learning,» Yamashiro says, noting that education needs to be valued in American society and focused on not only test scores and economic success, but also on the whole child and finding joy in learning.

In the quest to stop the killings in our community, my neighbors and I started a movement to have social - emotional learning whole - heartedly implemented in our local schools.

How can students, teachers, and school leaders view this diversity as beneficial for their own learning and the school as a whole?

Continuing in its mission to help teachers and pupils engage beyond the classroom, schools will now be able to share video and audio recordings of students» work and activities with parents, carers and the whole community, to support learning outside school and encourage parental involvement.

In Building Character in Schools, one of the most thoughtful works in the field, Kevin Ryan and Karen Bohlin cite Socrates» comment, recorded in Plato's Republic: «The instrument with which one learns is like an eye that can not be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.»

«The children have become very excited about trees; we spent a whole afternoon, «learning with leaves» using them in maths to work out the area and perimeter of irregular shapes, and to classify using Venn diagrams,» said Claydon Primary School, Ipswich.

Learning music helps pupils to settle into schools and settings and access the whole curriculum more easily.

Here is my final submission document based on Whole School Revision skills / learning styles and Exam preparation.

«Colleagues, particularly in regional and remote areas, continually ask for our programs to be more geographically accessible to enable whole - school learning and development.

Food for Life's Sian concludes: «Ofsted may be the driver for some school leaders to record their work around healthy eating, but Food for Life schools demonstrate that a whole school approach to food can have much wider benefits to both learning and pupil well - being.»

So, school systems have a legacy of buying a whole lot of things, things that are underused and... have disappointment happening around them because when they were purchased they were grand ideas but it never quite happened, and it's usually because the soft systems, the learning systems, weren't altered to suit that.

Read admits the school has been «incredibly fortunate» to be able to redesign nearly all K - 6 learning spaces, but refurbishing the rest was also important and the thinking process was the same — making them reflective of a whole school approach to education, and matching the pedagogy and practice to the environment.

In response, the school leadership team developed a concurrent program of professional learning in tandem with a whole school PBL project to take place in Term 3, 2016.

With more and more schools looking to take learning outside of the classroom, Dave Harvey of the Brathay Trust looks at how residential centres help schools to develop the «whole child».