Sentences with phrase «as curricular content»

In short, in regard to formation as well as curricular content, the authors of these essays have good ideas but seem too often unconnected to the realities of most contemporary seminaries.

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One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

Standard content of solar system science is shared thematically preparing the educators to use the sample education disks effectively as they meet their curricular needs.

Critics see the combination of program accreditation standards, revised by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) in 2000; a growing curricular emphasis on «social justice» issues; and a left - leaning education professoriate as yielding a one - sided approach to teacher education and the certification of teachers based on ideology, rather than teaching skills or mastery of content knowledge.

MinecraftEdu.com sells Minecraft at a discount, as well as a custom MinecraftEdu modification (mod), which allows educators to incorporate their own curricular content and run a custom server for each of their classes.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

This would strike other countries as ludicrous: As Common Core, Inc., discovered in 2009, while top - performing countries differ in many facets of education policy, they all share a commitment to high - quality curricular contenas ludicrous: As Common Core, Inc., discovered in 2009, while top - performing countries differ in many facets of education policy, they all share a commitment to high - quality curricular contenAs Common Core, Inc., discovered in 2009, while top - performing countries differ in many facets of education policy, they all share a commitment to high - quality curricular content.

It should be clear that the standards NCATE uses to evaluate teacher - training programs are primarily input - driven: the main measures of a program's quality are such things as the degrees held by faculty, program resources, and curricular content.

The GLC works to eliminate loneliness, helplessness, and boredom in aging populations; the district's curricular vision, says Shan Glandon, director of curriculum and instruction, is «to make learning as engaging and purposeful as we can,» focusing on integrating content with real - world ties.

Those skills and knowledge, sometimes referred to as goals or curricular aims, are usually known these days as content standards.

Happily, the ranks are growing of those who recognize that curricular content and quality are at least as important to student learning as teacher quality, accountability, and school choice.

As Cuban remarks of recent changes in science curricula, «these curricular frameworks will have only a passing similarity to the science content and skills that teachers will teach once they close their classroom doors.»

Risk simply assumed that gaining an academic skill, such as reading, is independent of the curricular content through which the skill is taught.

Systemic reformers have tended to focus on creating new policy instruments such as content standards or curricular frameworks, assessments that are aligned with new content standards, and changes in both preservice and inservice teacher education (Cohen, 1995).

While academic content standards such as NGSS lay out concepts and skills students should learn at each grade level, the curricular framework serves as a blueprint for delivering those standards and includes criteria for evaluating instructional materials aligned to the new content.

As this technology is adopted, it will transform the history curriculum in three ways: deepening curricular content, making conceptual frameworks more prominent, and increasing connections to local history.

Similar to the traditional curricular approach, more and more schools are opting for SEL instruction that is embedded into core content areas such as reading and math.

One way to combat concerns about video production as decontextualized or without a focused content is to link it with the ongoing curricular requirements of particular learning contexts.

As Hammond and Manfra (2009) described in their discussion of TPACK in social studies education, TPACK is a conceptual framework in teacher education that «provides a common language to discuss the integration of technology into instruction and builds upon the concepts of pedagogical content knowledge, [as well as] teacher as curricular gatekeeper» (p. 160As Hammond and Manfra (2009) described in their discussion of TPACK in social studies education, TPACK is a conceptual framework in teacher education that «provides a common language to discuss the integration of technology into instruction and builds upon the concepts of pedagogical content knowledge, [as well as] teacher as curricular gatekeeper» (p. 160as well as] teacher as curricular gatekeeper» (p. 160as] teacher as curricular gatekeeper» (p. 160as curricular gatekeeper» (p. 160).

Schools can utilize the Schoolwide Enrichment Model described above as uses the infusion based approach to make prescribed curricular content more interesting and engaging.

As they do, these technologies will reinforce powerful teaching by allowing teachers to deepen curricular content, highlight conceptual frameworks for historical understanding, and connect to local history.

Vocabulary words are selected based on academic and cross curricular word lists, as well as from the content area.

It provides a common language to discuss the integration of technology into instruction (Koehler & Mishra, 2008) and builds upon the concepts of pedagogical content knowledge (Shulman, 1987) and teacher as curricular «gatekeeper» (Thornton, 2001a, 2001b).

They include, but are not limited to, modification of curricular content, adaptive equipment, accommodations for accessibility and related services as speech / language therapy, physical therapy and occupational therapy services.

School staff worked closely with us to ensure a focus on STEM as a curricular program that integrates concepts across core content areas and electives.

First, we have curricular aims — referred to these days as content standards — representing the stuff we want kids to learn.

Webb's approach revolves around what the measurement community has, for decades, referred to as «content - related evidence of validity,» which tells us whether a test accurately measures students» possession of the skills and knowledge embodied in whatever curricular aims the test is supposed to assess.

As literacy researchers uncover areas important to literacy acquisition and practice, educators (and researchers) have taken the bait that pits the new or the timely against current curricular content.

Accordingly, the following question would be inappropriate to ask judges as they review the relationship between content standards and the items on an accountability test: Is this test item in agreement with the curricular aim it is intended to measure?

Functions The teacher leader: a) Facilitates the collection, analysis, and use of classroom - and school - based data to identify opportunities to improve curriculum, instruction, assessment, school organization, and school culture; b) Engages in reflective dialog with colleagues based on observation of instruction, student work, and assessment data and helps make connections to research - based effective practices; c) Supports colleagues» individual and collective reflection and professional growth by serving in roles such as mentor, coach, and content facilitator; d) Serves as a team leader to harness the skills, expertise, and knowledge of colleagues to address curricular expectations and student learning needs; e) Uses knowledge of existing and emerging technologies to guide colleagues in helping students skillfully and appropriately navigate the universe of knowledge available on the Internet, use social media to promote collaborative learning, and connect with people and resources around the globe; and f) Promotes instructional strategies that address issues of diversity and equity in the classroom and ensures that individual student learning needs remain the central focus of instruction.

Conscious integration of language use and development with all curricular content rather than teaching language and other content as isolated subjects.

Curricular materials, expert support for collaboration, and dedicated time for content - specific professional learning are also cited as key indicators of an increase in professional learning among teachers.

Scholastic, the world's largest children's publisher, has been pushing digital reading largely to their school customers as a convenient, money - saving tool that provides access to a wide variety of vetted, curricular content, so it's a natural progression then that the children who read on computers and devices in school as part of Scholastic's Storia platform would then carry over that high interest in digital to their home reading.

On campus, the initiative will include College faculty members working with Museum staff and students to develop new course content that crosses disciplinary lines and uses collection objects as the catalyst for conversations and innovative curricular development.