Sentences with phrase «based core curriculum»

The Joule School offers a humanities - based core curriculum supplemented with computer science, foreign language, and fine arts.

Her announcement marks the completion of a tenure notable for major changes to the School's academic programs and administrative structure, significant progress toward a case - based core curriculum, many faculty appointments, an important initiative to create «usable knowledge,» and preparation for a...

Building on earlier work done by the Academic Cabinet, a faculty committee, Lagemann made the development of a case - based core curriculum one of her first priorities as dean.

Her announcement marks the completion of a tenure notable for major changes to the School's academic programs and administrative structure, significant progress toward a case - based core curriculum, many faculty appointments, an important initiative to create «usable knowledge,» and preparation for a potential campus move to Allston.

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Based on an interdisciplinary approach, the core curriculum is now less rigid, and new courses are being added each year.

An entrepreneurial curriculum obviously will have some core classes based on theory, lecture and mentorship.

Both are in whole or major part, the fault of the revisionist education dogma of the so - called progressive left which abandoned rote learning, core curricula, and classics for outcome - based propagandizing about the «victims» of Western civilization.

De Bary also points out how John Erskine, one of the pioneers of the new program at Columbia, though he had little knowledge of Asian cultures, felt that a core curriculum based only on Western classics was inadequate for the global world in which we live.

Theme - based lessons and activities will be complemented by discussions, skills, games, and physical activities derived from the Junior Lifeguard core curriculum.

I coordinate a classroom based nutrition education program that supports core curriculum standards.

The curriculum has been organized based on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Core Competencies.

While many educators embraced Common Core when it was first introduced, they've since demanded that the state hold off on implementing the new student assessments based on Common Core and the APPR plan until the rigorous curriculum is properly implemented inside the classroom.

Cuomo wants to change the way teacher evaluations are measured, he'd like to see at least half of a teacher's grade be based on standardized tests associated with the Common Core curriculum.

Under King, New York became the second state in the country to begin testing students based on the Common Core curriculum standards.

New York adopted the Common Core in 2010 and has spent a tremendous amount of money developing curriculum resources and exams based on the standards.

A Regents panel voted to allow teachers and principals who could be fired based on poor student performance on Common Core exams this year or last year to defend themselves by citing the botched rollout of the tough new curriculum.

In a statement from Rye City Councilwoman Julie Killian, the candidate for the 37th Senate district notes parents have the legal right to allow their children to not take the examinations, which have been controversial since the adoption of the Common Core - based curriculum.

He wants to repeal the state's gun control laws championed by Governor Cuomo, and replace the federal Common Core learning standards with locally based curriculum.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, a presumed gubernatorial candidate, has signaled his intention to attack Cuomo for the Common Core, a system of curriculum standards that has been adopted by New York and 45 other states, and Assembly Democrats are advancing a bill to postpone testing based on Common Core curricula.

Sen. George Latimer, a Westchester Democrat, told City & State he's not sure if he would pass a high - school level state exam based on the new, more difficult Common Core curriculum standards, and he bets not all of his colleagues would pass it, either.

Although new state tests will be rolled out this spring based on demanding Common Core national standards, almost 8 out of 10 New York City teachers surveyed said the city's Department of Education has yet to address the new learning benchmarks, including failing to provide any curriculum or other instructional materials keyed to the new standards.

She has also provided leadership in graduate education as the director of the base program for the biomedical sciences graduate program from 2011 to 2014, director of the graduate core curriculum from 2012 to 2015 and director of the cellular and molecular biology graduate program from 2011 to present.

The curriculum is based on input from internal and external curricular resources, the recommended core curriculum guidelines for Health Coaches.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

program offers an innovative and integrated core curriculum that provides students access to powerful insights, concepts, and research - based practices from the fields of education, business, and public policy.

Each discipline looked for ways that art could enhance their curriculum, but we agreed to focus on two literacy curricular goals based on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS):

Our curricula are standards based, research - based, and peer - reviewed, so teachers can be assured of using high quality, common - core, administrator - approved materials that are highly engaging for both students and their teachers.

In an experiment I ran 16 years ago using a system based on these core ideas, there was some success because the systemic drivers, in particular the reporting system and syllabus structure, was consistent with the desired approaches to curriculum, assessment and pedagogy.

Based on self - reports by state officials, the survey found that, in 30 states, curricula aligned to the common core were already being taught in at least some districts or grade levels.

The book represents a culminating work of the ArtsLiteracy Project, a project that develops curricula and professional development practices based on the premise that linking literacy and the arts creates powerful learning opportunities for students both in core academic subjects and in the arts.

I was a founding faculty member of Mid-Pacific Institute's eXploratory Program, a core subject curriculum with project - based learning as the primary focus of student work, with 10 years of experience in the Social Studies classroom.

This performance - based conception of standards lies at the heart of what is needed to translate the Common Core into a robust curriculum and assessment system.

Amplify, developers of tablets and digital curricula for education, has developed more than 40 digital games based on core content and then forbidden their use in the classroom or as homework.

The curriculum, which has been built on the same research base as the Common Core standards, gives students a broad base of background knowledge in addition to decoding skills.

The Common Core publishers» criteria document (Coleman & Pimentel, 2012) estimates that 80 to 90 percent of questions within the curriculum should be text - based to match the requirements of the Common Core reading standards.

Today a core group of educators is hard at work, through a committee called Curriculum 2010, to meld the best aspects of project - based and interdisciplinary learning with the school district's core curriculum and state Curriculum 2010, to meld the best aspects of project - based and interdisciplinary learning with the school district's core curriculum and state curriculum and state standards.

By the middle of year three, the district had pressured the school to begin using its core curriculum and, like other neighborhood high schools, administer biweekly benchmark tests based on it.

The document, known as the «Common Core of Learning Curriculum,» is based on recommendations from more than 1,200 residents attending regional forums on the subject held over the last 12 months.

Key evidence - based features of what three - and four - year - old children need to learn to prepare for becoming strong early readers have provided the core for a number of new published curricula, some of which have been rigorously evaluated and reported on; others are now being tested and evaluated.

Patterson and other parents wanted something different, so they designed their own school, one based on a Core Knowledge curriculum.

Rocklin Academy Schools founder David Patterson designed the network's charter schools based on a Core Knowledge curriculum after finding big school districts to be academically complacent.

In the same issue, teacher Lucy Boyd wrote about the experience of creating a curriculum based on the Common Core.

Yes, she would augment that system with better - educated (and compensated) teachers, a strong core curriculum, a different (curriculum - based) approach to assessment, greater emphasis on behavior and attitudes and a number of collateral «social» changes such as better families and home environments.

«After - school clubs, based on school premises, seem to be an easy vehicle for policymakers and educators to ensure that children have access to both the core curriculum and wider enriching activities.»

A four year rolling programme of topic based teaching, each linked to different «mantles» provide opportunities for close focus upon particular ICT skills, (for example musical composition, artistic creation in 2D and 3D, programming and constructing prototypes, and concept mapping) and all the while integrating core usage throughout the whole curriculum.

** Exploring Numbers ** This Exploring Numbers Unit for Grade 1 is based on the International Curriculum like PYP, Common Core, KS 1 and more.

Project - based learning and the Common Core, webinar by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

But most of the assault on the Common Core is based on a fundamental misunderstanding: The Common Core State Standards are not a «national curriculum.»

Building on the First Edition, our new K - 5 Language Arts curriculum is a comprehensive, standards - based core literacy program that engages teachers and students through compelling, real world content and builds equitable and inclusive learning opportunities for all students.

The nonprofit organization EdReports, which reviews curriculum materials based on their alignment to Common Core standards in math and English language arts, recently released six new reports, including two for math and four for English language arts instruction.