Sentences with phrase «based curriculum emphasizing»

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It pioneered the concept of a research - based, developmentally appropriate early childhood music curriculum that strongly emphasizes and facilitates adult involvement.

First offered to the public in 1987, the Music Together program pioneered the concept of a research - based, developmentally appropriate early childhood music curriculum that strongly emphasizes and facilitates adult involvement.

With a curriculum based upon Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, this K - 12 Indianapolis school emphasizes exploration and deep understanding over rote memorization.

We would emphasize that these were curriculum - based, classroom assessments intended to provide information for monitoring individual student progress and to shape individual and classroom (and occasionally schoolwide) curricular and instructional decisions; they were not external, accountability - focused assessments.

The California Department of Education's English Language Arts Framework (1987) also emphasized a literature - based curriculum that «engaged students with the vitality of ideas and values greater than those of the marketplace or video arcade» (p. 7).

Monarch Academy Glen Burnie, a public charter school founded and operated by The Children's Guild and affiliated with TranZed Alliance, serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade with an enriched, rigorous, hands - on, academic curriculum emphasizing project - based learning and the arts and technology.

The group researched specific programs to use as part of the school's curriculum, adopting a math program from Singapore, a language arts program that emphasizes phonemic awareness and lab - based science lessons.

IBI's curriculum development philosophy is based on our research in contextual teaching and learning that emphasizes the relationship of course content to real - life situations.

Roses is part of a growing movement of progressive and community - based charter schools that emphasize a broader liberal arts curriculum, bringing a full slate of art, music and extra-curricular activities into schools for poor black and brown children.

Adam Smith, forefather of the political economy, might appreciate the choice - and standards - based curriculum movements that emphasize competition, productivity and rugged individualism.

For those educators and systems trying to incorporate more project - based approaches that emphasize problem - solving, relevance and collaboration, design thinking curriculum will have a great deal to offer.

Given this emphasis and current research in leadership development and adult learning strategies, NJ EXCEL is designed to provide authentic, problem - based learning experiences in an inquiry - focused, project - based curriculum that emphasizes collaboration and dialogue in the examination of leadership and instructional practices.

Integrating technologies into the core curriculum, emphasizing project - based and inquiry - based learning, and teaching robotics, coding, and environmental and outdoor science are other ways STEM education is supported at WSD.

Its «campus» address is a PO Box; its offices are co-located in a partner charter school; its faculty are unnamed and not required to hold degrees comparable to teacher educators elsewhere; and its nationwide curriculum has been critiqued for emphasizing methods that are reductive and control - oriented, rather than research - based and conducive to critical thinking.

For students in targeted districts, the harm would come from providing their teachers with preparation that is based on a reductive, behaviorist view of teaching and learning, and that emphasizes the kind of techniques shown to narrow the curriculum and adversely affect students» socio - emotional development.

The school utilizes a project - based curriculum integrating academic disciplines, emphasizing social responsibility and environmental sustainability, in small classroom settings to prepare each graduate to be a responsible citizen in the global community.

The school utilizes standards - based balanced literacy / balanced math curricula that emphasizes the mastery of essential reading and math skills, as well as the development of higher order thinking and processing ability.

Teaching and tutoring leveled reading to students utilizing a proven research based curriculum that emphasizes the use of cooperative learning and skill development for reading and writing instruction.

The Get Real curriculum is based on state and national frameworks that emphasize social and emotional learning skills such as self - awareness, self - management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making.

Computer - based training programs targeting attention focusing and control has proven to enhance efficiency of the brain attention system in young children as well as reasoning capacities.14 It has also been shown that classroom curricula that emphasize regulation and executive functions skills, such as Tools of the Mind, 17 improves children's cognitive control.18 But home environment is also important.

Goldsmith explained that Devereux staff is trained in Risking Connection, a curriculum for milieu - based, trauma - informed care that helps them understand trauma, how to respond to those who have experienced trauma and emphasizes self - care for caregivers.

The agency's home visitation intervention used the Parent Aides Nurturing and Developing With Adolescents curriculum.25 The curriculum was based on theories of human ecology, attachment, and social support, which emphasize that positive child development is promoted by nurturing, empathetic parenting and is influenced by the characteristics of families and social networks.25 (pp1 - 9), 26 The home visitor was to use the curriculum in weekly home visits with the teenager to teach and model nurturing parenting behaviors, encourage the teenager to continue with her education, make general assessments of health and social problems, and initiate referral for early intervention when necessary.