Sentences with phrase «at the curriculum across»

What it has allowed, and especially has allowed me, it has allowed me to really look at the curriculum across grade levels and that has just extraordinarily opened my eyes to see how it actually builds.

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(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

But the problems we find here cut across the curriculum at all levels of education.

series St. Joseph Church History Dover's Calligraphy A to Z, because I'm hoping that this is how you improve handwriting in a middle - schooler Henle Latin 1, for a class our priest teaches at church Literature «Across the Curriculum,» as they say: Henri Fabre's Book of Insects King Solomon's Ring, by Konrad Lorenz Sun Slower, Sun Faster: Meriol Trevor Red Hugh, Prince of Donegal: Robert L. Reilly Come Rack!

She served as a supervisor of student teachers and taught courses across the educational curriculum during her eight years at UCSB.

Their implementation came at the same time a new teacher evaluation system went into effect across New York state, using some of the test results from the new curriculum as a measure of a teacher's effectiveness and ultimately job security.

Kevin Courtney, NUT general secretary, said: «That sums of this magnitude have been thrown away at a time when schools across the country are crying out for funding for staff, to provide a broad and balanced curriculum and to ensure essential resources and equipment are available, is criminal.

A state task force will hold simultaneous public hearings on controversial Common Core academic standards, testing and curriculum Friday in Stony Brook and at four other sites across the state, amid complaints by many parents, teachers and others that the late - afternoon format will hinder attendance.

Presentation at the NGSS Across the Curriculum webinar.

At FCI Otisville, the inmates follow the same curriculum as any other trainees in Sivananda ashrams across the world.

Classes at Clearfield High School, in Clearfield, Utah, apply computers and diagnostic equipment across the curriculum to engage in authentic learning.

English teachers at The Forest Academy secondary school and sixth form have claimed they are choosing new texts to teach students, after curriculum changes came into effect across the UK last September.

«At a conference I attended on Writing Across the Curriculum, the keynote address, given by Dr. James R. Squire, was entitled Writing to Learn,» education and instructional technology professor Bernie Poole told Education World.

Aimed at teachers across curriculum areas and age ranges, this book offers practical strategies for supporting students to become effective readers and writers in the digital age.

«In a world that places a growing premium on social skills, education systems need to do much better at fostering those skills systematically across the school curriculum,» said OECD Secretary - General Angel Gurría.

Montserrat Gomendio, deputy director of education and skills at the OECD, said: «We applaud Scotland for having the foresight and patience to put such an ambitious reform as Curriculum for Excellence in place; we hope that our OECD review will help ensure that it will live up to its full potential and realise excellence and equity right across Scotland.»

As my colleagues at Sammamish High School and I have struggled with development and implementation of a problem - based learning (PBL) curriculum across disciplines, a great number of the discussions have involved a philosophical look at the place of seven key elements within our instructional framework.

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).

The Centre for Alternative Technology has developed a series of practical and theoretical activities and support packs on environmental issues, biodiversity, energy and sustainability for use across the curriculum at all levels.

In the last few years I have come to realise the merit of asking students for feedback on my practise, but I determined that it should be increased in frequency, across multiple subjects or curriculum areas, and at various points of the teaching and learning cycle if I was to be the best teacher I could be.

Should we be looking at how we can build character education across the school curriculum so that the next generation has a better moral compass?

At the conference teachers can engage their pupils through peer - to - peer learning with student volunteers from the University of Bristol, share personal innovative and creative ideas with other delegates during the open platform session and develop new strategies for embedding sustainability across your curriculum, grounds and community.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

Winners such as Brian Schiller (2014) who creatively incorporates science across the curriculum (even to Japanese) and Cheryl Capra (2007) who developed an astronomy program at her local school and became a NASA partner school.

Teachability The website contains a variety of FREE resources to help educators use 3D printing technology as a tool to increase pupil engagement and attainment, as well as using it across the curriculum at all ages and stages.

Each issue provides standards - based science and literacy learning across five departments; In the Field: Scientist at Work; Professional Learning; Science and Literacy; Across the Curriculum; and Polar News and across five departments; In the Field: Scientist at Work; Professional Learning; Science and Literacy; Across the Curriculum; and Polar News and Across the Curriculum; and Polar News and Notes.

This bundle combines resources for: Improving handwriting Assessing the gaps in a student's literacy skills so the teacher knows what needs to be improve upon Practical strategies for teachers to differentiate reading material to make it accessible for all pupils - regardless of their ability range A grid outlining explicitly the active literacy skills that are embedded in the content of all subjects in secondary schools A resource for engaging reluctant readers A resource for Parents» Evening to show concerned parents simple techniques that will help them to build their child's spelling skills at home This bundle supports all subjects across the curriculum - including SEN and EAL groups too

Keen to explore the causes of variation in performance across different types of schools, I'll be looking at the possible driving forces behind a school's high or low performance, such as its geographical location, changes in leadership, freedom to innovate, the nature of the curriculum, recruitment of teachers, and so on.

It is aimed at KS3 and lower tier KS4 students and would be useful as - revision - lesson starter - settling activity - cover work - end of term activity - extension task - literacy support for EAL or SEND students - literacy across the curriculum - assessment for learning or afl task Contains printable pdf and answers for the crossword and wordsearch.

Noting that other professional schools — such as those in medicine and law — teach a set of core competencies that are shared across the profession, Lagemann led an effort to create a similar curriculum at HGSE.

It is aimed at higher tier students and would be useful as - revision - lesson starter - settling activity - cover work - end of term activity - extension task - literacy support for EAL or SEND students - literacy across the curriculum - assessment for learning or afl task Contains printable pdf and answers for the crossword and wordsearch.

At my current school, we decided a few years ago to consciously cross-reference the literary texts in our curriculum to achieve continuity across the grade levels and year groups.

A pilot scheme was launched in 2009 at Orford Primary School, Suffolk, and now almost 300 schools across the UK have joined the project, which extends beyond the curriculum by encouraging a greater understanding of food and nutrition that will develop a lifetime of healthy eating habits and can be passed down to future generations.

This resource is aimed at Year 2 Expected and has been designed to give children the opportunity to practise their reasoning and problem solving skills across a variety of National Curriculum objectives.

In recent letters to the editor, Brant Abrahamson, the director of The Teachers» Press, and Edd Doerr, the executive director of Americans for Religious Liberty, each take aim at our recent book, Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum (the subject of a previous news article), fire several salvos our way — and miss by a mile («On Adding Religion to the Curriculum,» Oct. 21, 1998; «Public Schools Should Treat Religion More Seriously, Book Argues,» Sept. 30, 1998).

Montpelier High School uses the concept of sustainability to make curriculum connections across a wide variety of disciplines at the school, from students studying nutrient cycles in biology class, to learning about sustainability through the lens of economics, or even looking at how energy is sustainable in physics class.

Given the greater focus being placed on LTLT competencies in national policy frameworks, curriculum, teachers and of course, at the international level, it seems this may be an area for further development across all ten countries.

At Milpitas High School, the district has provided Chromebooks for students and teachers to use across the curriculum.

Timelines: Timeless Teaching Tool Across the grades and across the curriculum, teachers treasure the value of timelines — and all the timeline resources you'll need are right at your fingeAcross the grades and across the curriculum, teachers treasure the value of timelines — and all the timeline resources you'll need are right at your fingeacross the curriculum, teachers treasure the value of timelines — and all the timeline resources you'll need are right at your fingertips!

As a doctoral student, I participated on the Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum Teacher Researcher Team led by Jane Hansen, Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia and Reading Hall of Fame Member.

A robust inclusion policy at this year's winning school has been acknowledged externally through the Inclusion Mark award, and enables children to develop skills to excel beyond their potential across all areas of the curriculum.

A range of high quality resources to enhance the teaching and learning at KS2 & KS3 level (age 7 - 14) National test revision and numeracy / literacy activities taught across the curriculum are my specialty:)

Discussing how to build confidence to help turn abstract mathematical concepts into the concrete and support with numeracy across the curriculum and advantaging the teachers and students through the use of self - marking software and flipped learning, this session, «Just Add Concrete — Building Confidence in Maths» was hosted by Danielle Bartram, Mathematics Lead Practitioner and Numeracy Coordinator at Acklam Grange School.

Discovery Education released the new set texts to address the demand by English teachers and students for 2015 GCSE content and to expand our offering across a range of specs for English,» explains Anna Vaughan, Curriculum Strategy and Development Manager at Discovery Education.

Over the next few weeks, I invite you to join me and my colleagues at the Knowledge Matters Campaign as we tour schools across the country to see the many ways knowledge - building curriculum is enhancing classroom instruction — by asking students to read, write, and speak to high standards, but to do so from a wide range of topics that enrich students» understanding of the world around them — ranging from water conservation to the Revolutionary War to Renaissance architecture.

Get a closer look at how the Second Step curriculum has been successfully and creatively implemented in schools across the country.

The creative tension between the autonomy that our expert teachers value so highly, and the common aspects of shared accountability that enables BASIS Curriculum Schools to maintain academic quality control across the network, is the nexus at the heart of our classroom learning culture.

Those include introducing and reviewing software, Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.

is aimed at eight struggling middle and elementary schools across the country, giving them $ 14.7 million collectively to incorporate music, dance and theater into their curricula over the course of three years.

Consider the world of blogging as a creative, fun way to bridge literacy and across the curriculum and cover other learning standards at the same time.