Sentences with phrase «among other curriculae»

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The additional $ 10 - million gift from the CCMF to the centre will strengthen its teaching and research activities and could include enhanced programs, curriculum development and the recruitment of new faculty, among other initiatives.

As the Jefferson - guided Board of Visitors indicated, such a curriculum would likely feature close study of the Declaration, The Federalist, Washington's farewell address, and John Locke's Second Treatise, among others.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

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.

It will have the authority to convert the school into a community school, alter or replace curriculum, increase teacher salaries or extend the school day or school year, among other things.

The Moodle quiz tested, among others, the ability of learners to determine rules for patterns and functional relationships using flow diagrams, tables, formulae and equations in line with the current National Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement for Grade 7 - 9.

He said the researchers hope to expand scientific curricula at all levels of education, helping train the Malagasy scientists of the future and build scientific capacity in the country, all the while creating an appreciation among the local population of the need to understand and preserve lemurs and other species for the future.

On the concept end of the curriculum spectrum are all the sciences, physical and social, as well as literature, health, geometry, and statistics, among others.

The strategies are to support the development of eLearning resources; assist public - private partnerships to rally resources in order to sustain eLearning initiatives; promote the development of integrated eLearning curricula to support ICT in education; and promote distance education and virtual institutions, particularly in higher education and training, among others.

His academic articles have appeared in the Harvard Educational Review, Berkeley Review of Education, and Teaching and Curriculum Dialogue, among other publications.

A key feature is its ability to deal effectively with the intricacies of the college's development plan, which outlines the provision for curriculum development, pastoral care, sport, ICT and administration among other aspects, to deliver an easy - to - use resource.

To promote technology use among their students, Jennifer Wagner recommends that teachers encourage online projects, visit other teachers» Web sites to see how they are integrating technology, and get together with other teachers on a bi-weekly basis to go through the curriculum and share ways they can use technology in their lessons.

Education World is a Web site that, among other things, helps teachers integrate computers into their curriculum.

It includes, among other elements, the Success for All reading curriculum, Spanish instruction in every grade, monthly computer - based assessments, and a whopping 90 minutes of professional development time for each teacher, every day.

If other states also allow students to blend together a curriculum that combines on - site with online learning, and encourages competition among providers while checking to make sure that only quality courses are provided, secondary schools will move as quickly toward online learning as does the higher education sector.

To assess progress in math, for example, staff members look at CMT scores, failure rates, and honor rolls, among other things, to try to pinpoint shortcomings in the curriculum.

Those precious resources were spent developing the EngageNY curriculum materials that schools and teachers in other states have eagerly downloaded in enormous numbers; rigorous exams that reflect real - world standards of proficiency in math and reading; and teacher certification standards that are now among the highest in the nation.

The «Strategic Plan for Agricultural Education» calls for, among other goals, developing a more science - based agricultural curriculum; increasing the nation's agricultural «literacy;» attracting more women and minorities to the agriculture field; and including the subject and its teachers in the educational mainstream.

At the school level, many local organizing groups have collaborated with neighborhood schools to improve safety, increase parental engagement, open community schools, and develop more culturally relevant curricula, among other things.

Exam pressure, additional curriculum time for other subjects and staffing cuts are among the reasons cited for reductions.

guidelines and programs for in - service education programs for all district staff members to ensure effective implementation of school policy on school conduct and discipline, including but not limited to, guidelines on promoting a safe and supportive school climate while discouraging, among other things, harassment, bullying and discrimination against students by students and / or school employees; and including safe and supportive school climate concepts in the curriculum and classroom management; and

American Educational Research Journal, December 2015 In the first analysis to investigate claims of alignment in the context of fourth - grade mathematics using tools capable of estimating the alignment of curriculum materials with the standards, results indicate areas of misalignment; including that the textbooks studied systematically overemphasize procedures and memorization relative to the standards, among other weaknesses.

In Teachers as Intellectuals (1988), a collection of his early articles, Giroux criticizes the «hidden curriculum,» the excessively «technocratic» character of literacy training, and insufficiently «radicalized» teacher education programs, among other targets.

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 cuts span administrators at the district's central office to positions in the departments of curriculum and instruction, human resources, technical services, building services, and the office of multilingual and global education, among others.

Among other things, they promote pre-K, small classes, parent involvement, and well - rounded curriculum.

... improving teaching and learning required coherence among the tests and several other policy instruments, including curricula and opportunities for high - quality professional development...

Among other things, these meetings highlighted the curriculum connections across grade levels.

Despite this, critics say that the curricula and methods at the majority of the nation's 500 - plus university - based principal preparation programs remain subpar and out of step with district needs.10 A growing number of districts have become more assertive with universities and other training providers about improving their offerings, because district leaders want enough well - prepared leadership candidates to meet local learning goals and to lessen the expense and damage of early turnover among poorly prepared novice principals.

Great schools, among other things, are always driven by a solid curriculum.

Our schools need to offer each student a choice among six or more challenging and rigorous high school curricula, as do other, higher - performing countries.

This singular focus has resulted in several unintended and undesirable consequences, including over testing, a narrowing of the curriculum, and a de-emphasis of untested subjects and concepts — the arts, civics, and social and emotional skills, among many others — that are just as important to a student's development and long - term success.

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.

Principal Langston and teacher Ward are planning to use a structured curriculum for teaching social and emotional skills next year, among other changes.

Teachers should also engage in rigorous reading, action research, and collaborative curriculum writing, among other things.

Those who support the Common Core, including some teachers, members of the business community, State Superintendent Dr. June Atkinson as well as Gov. Pat McCrory, among others, say that the Common Core is to be credited for increasing the academic rigor of instructional activities, even though many acknowledge its implementation has been bungled and state budget cuts have hampered schools» ability to properly resource teachers who must shift their curricula to accommodate CCSS.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

The second year is spent planning the implementation, which, among other requirements, calls for professional development for teachers to adjust to the curriculum and instructional changes.

«Among the group's other recommendations in its two reports released in January are that new teachers should be given access to teaching mentors in navigating the challenges of working with students who have experienced trauma or are considered at - risk, as well as developing effective curriculum.

Among the options Kleban presented were increasing the number of students per class, which will bring in more per - pupil funding from the state, or cutting some vacancies and spreading those duties among other educators — having some curriculum directors take on additional teaching duties, for exaAmong the options Kleban presented were increasing the number of students per class, which will bring in more per - pupil funding from the state, or cutting some vacancies and spreading those duties among other educators — having some curriculum directors take on additional teaching duties, for exaamong other educators — having some curriculum directors take on additional teaching duties, for example.

But just as sweeping have been executive waivers issued from the hated No Child Left Behind Act — really the most recent reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — that have been instrumental in connecting numerous states to, among other things, the Common Core national curriculum standards.

Among other areas, the review panels considers candidates» «classroom expertise, curricula quality, innovative course development, and student learning outcomes,» according to UT System.

Before becoming principal at Barton, Carter spent a year as a «principal - in - residence,» or apprentice principal, at Dodge, where he implemented a literacy curriculum, helped draw up the budget, and participated in meetings with teachers, among other activities.

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.

Stakeholders are also struggling with other components necessary to build a framework that values career readiness, including instituting high - quality standards outlining what students should know and be able to do; introducing teaching and learning that incorporates experiential learning; implementing a portfolio of assessments that gauge student learning along a continuum; and developing and recruiting teachers who can deliver career - focused curricula, among other components.

The Common Core standards ask for students to demonstrate analytical thinking, among other skills, and teachers have been developing curricula to foster those skills.

Dr. Grossman's publications include: The Making of a Teacher: Teacher Knowledge and Teacher Education, a co-edited volume (with Sam Wineburg), entitled Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Challenges to Implementation, as well as articles in Teachers College Record, American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, Journal of Literacy Research, Teaching and Teacher Education, Review of Research in Education, among others.

Similarly to ASA, ASCD is concerned with the negative effects of current accountability practices, including «over testing, a narrowing of the curriculum, and a de-emphasis of untested subjects and concepts — the arts, civics, and social and emotional skills, among many others.»

We published the book using a Creative Commons license, which enables the most extensive forms of use by others, including building on and repurposing our curriculum, as we hope that this book will invite collaboration among many teachers and other educators, as well as students, who, together, build new curricula and other instructional resources, using the ideas we offer in this book as they see fit.

#related #The law would put other constraints on the federal government, among them checks on the secretary of education's liberal regulatory powers — used and abused to educators» and administrators» despair under Duncan — and language reinforcing existing prohibitions that keep the Department of Education from insinuating itself into curriculum decisions in charter schools.