Sentences with phrase «around curriculum changes»

Schools and parents are facing a chronic teacher shortage, a lack of school places, chaos around curriculum changes and primary tests, and a funding crisis.

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Rather than focusing on how games such as World of Warcraft or the socialnetworking services of Twitter and Facebook change our brains, Davidson believes we should foster these newfound skills, building curricula around interactive multiplayer games and training workers using virtual environments.

I believe that the current curriculum shape and form that we see around the world with subjects taught in silos has to change.»

A combination of top teachers, improved curriculum, policy changes, and an increase in family and community engagement and political support is what helped to turn D.C. schools around.

«If we could somehow bring in a curriculum around school lunch, we could begin to change the way kids think about eating.»

«Technology has the potential to unlock new approaches to assessment that will change what and how we teach,» said Jim Wynn, who noted that «the current curriculum shape and form that we see around the world with subjects taught in silos has to change.»

Whilst particularly in the primary sector many educators would say that there is an issue with respect to over-crowding of the curriculum, we would be concerned about some of the discussion around removing things such as sustainability and climate change and environmental issues from the curriculum.

It also required changes around curriculum and professional development — the kind of stuff schools do all the time with or without grants from Washington.

If we accept, as the evidence all around us indicates, that students need to be creative, critical thinkers and responsible citizens who can manage rapid technological and social change, then our curriculum design needs to reflect this and should continue to be updated.

We might change the calendar around, pay teachers a little more, update the curriculum, but none of those things is that big a deal.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

They are taking bold steps to turn around low - performing schools by investing in teachers, rebuilding school staff, lengthening the school day and changing curriculums.

«With the proposals around the new curriculum, new qualifications and potential changes to the way we train teachers and utilise the supply sector, there are already big reforms on the horizon which will have positive impacts.»

Neighborhood demographics change; a new superintendent doesn't like the tenant or the school's curriculum the facility was built around.

But when school districts were told by states around 2011 that they would have to change their curricula to fit the Core — states had to overhaul their overall standards and testing plans first — opposition exploded, first from tea - party activists, then from progressives who chaffed under Washington - driven, test - fixated education.

As other schools around New York City and the nation scramble to change their curriculum to suit the Common Core standards, New Dorp teachers say they're ready.

This school year, teachers around the country changed their curricula to meet the new Common Core standards, a national set of standards mapping out what students should learn in math...

Kharecha says the new position has given him more time to work on a project to develop high school curriculum around climate change.

In the words of Harvard Law School Dean, Elena Kagan, quoted in the article, «When you haven't changed your curriculum in 150 years, at some point you look around.»