Sentences with phrase «best curriculum model»

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Four years after an overhaul of Desautels's facilities as well as its curriculum, the school is embracing its model of «integrated learning.»

Furthermore, if shopping for the best kids» program is our primary motivation for choosing a church, we are modeling a consumer approach to church that may very well shape our kids as much or more than any curriculum, which brings me to Point 4:

So Morton has spent a good chunk of her time at Colby developing a laboratory curriculum that involves starting students off with directed experiments (i.e., with explicit instructions and clear procedures) before giving them the chance — using the directed experiments as models — to design their own experiments.

So the team will retain this effective model of undergraduates teaching over 1300 local school students each year, but plans to update the curriculum to help students better see how plant genetics is pertinent to their world.

The curriculum will be delivered through a fusion of teaching methods modelled on the best of British and the extremely successful Chinese systems.

Although academies are not the only model for infusing a college - preparatory curriculum with a career theme, they are a well - researched approach.

During that time they have seen a lot of change in terms of the curriculum and support needs of schools, as well as having to adapt to the challenges of moving from a grant funded model to a full cost recovery traded service providing services for schools in Havering and beyond.

«Equally worrying is that efforts to promote and embed these important values within the curriculum were undermined by the failure of leaders to model good practice, for example through the work of governors.»

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new investment of $ 1.7 billion for K - 12 education over the next five years, with the bulk of the funding aimed at existing traditional public schools that show progress in improving educational outcomes, the development of new curricula, charter schools focused on students with special needs, and «research and development» for scalable models that could inform best practices.

Our own theories would suggest that companies offering one - off learning games or «the best» math activity that complements the main curriculum — in other words, companies that do not offer a full course worth of curriculum — will struggle to sell into public schools because their business model will remain challenged in the current environment.

To walk from a conversation about the need for a common core curriculum to one about turning schools into digital gaming parlors modeled after Grand Theft Auto — well, it's what we in the business call a head jerk.

The report, two years in the making, calls on America's high schools to evolve into smaller communities where students and adults know each other well, the curriculum emphasizes depth over breadth, and a flexible, active learning process replaces the factory - era model of teachers lecturing to rows of students.

That model, I think, is now well known across the state: standards - based curriculum, radically better assessments,... a fair but rigorous accountability system which, as you know, the Regents will soon put into regulations creating the framework of evaluation for principals and teachers.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

These models are shaped by schools in which the head and senior management team are enthusiastic about design and understand the subject as integral to their curriculum, with intrinsic as well as cross-curricular benefits.

Surely, a school district could allow a public academy to use assessment measures better aligned to its SEL curriculum and standards framework than an existing model — but in addition to, not a replacement for, state and host district assessments.

So we created curriculum materials aligned with national standards, as well as state standards, that demystify the Model United Nations.

This curriculum and teaching model has resulted in favorable evaluations from students and teachers, as well as the many questions from the IEP students attending the seminar.

Take for example, the call for extending the school day; the development of a more demanding curriculum that better prepares students for a global, information - driven economy; building K - 12 and higher education collaboration such as in a K - 16 model, and providing alternative educational opportunities for high school students who feel they must go to work.

AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School, a pre-K — only charter school that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional skills.

In fact, the Head of ICT Curriculum and Innovation at Good Shepherd Lutheran College on Queensland's Sunshine Coast regularly introduces his students to inspirational female role models currently working in IT, with the aim of breaking down gender barriers.

Surveys from district staff indicate a need for exemplary models of how to analyze student data to determine which practices work best for which students, adapt instructional practices to meet students» individual needs, and develop curriculum - embedded formative assessments.

To do this well, systems will need to take a «sandbox» approach to rethinking curriculum — that is, allow an autonomous team from the district to rethink a new curriculum from scratch that is not beholden to existing models, scope and sequence, or publisher content.

Evidence from a 2009 meta - analysis by the Department of Education shows that hybrid models, which combine online curriculum with face - to - face teacher time, produce better outcomes than either face - to - face time alone or online learning alone.

Facilitating the implementation of a common, rigorous preK - 8th grade curricula as well as the Partnership instructional model to ensure that all teachers have the tools they need to help students achieve at the highest levels

There are several other scaled - up preschool programs that have been evaluated with well - implemented RCTs and found to have no immediate effects, including Even Start, the Comprehensive Child Development Program, and over a dozen curriculum improvement efforts pitting model curricula against run - of - the - mill programs (see PCER and CLIO).

Character educators recognize the need to integrate the knowledge of the good (head), love of the good (heart) and doing the good (hand) through the school curriculum and culture as role - modeled by adults in the community.

Good coaches demonstrate their instructional skills and expertise through their work — producing, modeling, and helping teachers implement curriculum.

The more people discuss and learn about different school models, curricula, instructional methods, and other aspects that can help children succeed, the better off society will be.

Continue to implement a time - bound; age - based; one - size - fits - all curriculum - driven instructional model that has not served us well for many decades.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000's solutions — Smarty Ants ® (for grades PreK - 2), KidBiz3000 ® (for grades 2 - 5), TeenBiz3000 ® (for grades 6 - 8), Empower3000 ™ (for grades 9 - 12), Spark3000 ® (for adult learners), and eScience3000 ® (for grades 6 - 8)-- support core curriculum, Response to Intervention, English language learner, and special education instructional models as well as 21st - century education initiatives.

Toward best practice: An analysis of the efficacy of curriculum models in gifted education.

Curriculum designers can develop learning materials that better accommodate instruction by moving away from a one - size - fits - all - students instructional model and, instead, providing for flexible adaptations to instructional implementation.

Equipped with the right curriculum, the natural curiosity of young children can be channeled into a science inquiry model and rather than quashing their enthusiasm, the students can begin to understand the scientific inquiry process and to self - identify as interested in and good at science!

Over time, though, Austin and his colleagues have learned to escape those walls in order to do their best work... A few years before Austin arrived as a twelfth grade teacher, a couple of tenth grade colleagues started to brainstorm and coordinate their curriculum, modeling their efforts on the «small learning communities concept.»

Providing instruction based on the museum school model, guidelines for differentiating curriculum, and best practices

And parents don't know that our district will be the model for all others — because we do it best — we will collect SSP data in the form of social and emotional surveys, we will change our curriculum to socially engineer our children with social and emotional instruction without parents suspecting a thing, we will assess and survey up the wazoo about academics, school climate, cyberbullying, etc. while willing parents stand by, we will enhance our teacher evaluation program and refine it into a well - oiled teacher manipulation machine, and since our kids would do well no matter what because we have uber - involved parents, it will look like everything the Administrators are doing at the State's recommendation causes the success.

In comparison to other potential blended learning models, KIPP Houston believed the flipped model had the potential to integrate better with their existing Eureka algebra curriculum, and could provide a bridge to a flex model or other approaches to personalization in the future.

By adopting free content, districts can channel funds toward supporting teachers in making key shifts in instructional models, which builds capacity and best leverages our strong curricula to improve student outcomes.

Many eLearning curricula provide some combination of reinforcement, good instructional quality, coaching, innovative technology, behavioral objectives, behavioral modeling, video, simulation, games or certification.

Through this model, afterschool professionals learn how to develop their own social - emotional skills and how to create a culture of SEL by integrating WINGS» explicit and implicit curriculum that teaches students how to cultivate positive relationships, make good decisions, and manage their emotions.

Implement a nurturing and talent development model for transforming K - 12 instruction and curriculum for all students that provides: 1) Professional Development on best research - based practices and curriculum for teachers, principals and curriculum directors; 2) Concept - based curriculum for all students and 3) Differentiated classrooms that engage students in gifted intelligent behaviors, interests and learning styles to solve problems through performance tasks within interdisciplinary concept - based curriculum units.

The basis for our approach is the instructional and leadership coaching model that Elena has written about in her books, as well as the curriculum she has created for team development.

Jeanne Tribuzzi will facilitate hands - on experiences as participants view models of best - practice curriculum and instruction, focusing on the foundational levels of literacy, literacy across all levels and disciplines, and skills needed to be critical consumers and creators of media.

Ensure a curriculum aligned to rigorous standards that foster inquiry, college - readiness, and further development of Caliber's social emotional learning model using best practices, measurement, and assessment;

The curriculum - driven instructional model has been the standard method of teaching for more than a century, but it is consistently failing to produce well - educated citizens and lifelong learners.

Well - known for his work with thinking skills, Jay has coordinated statewide efforts to develop instructional strategies, curriculum models, and assessment procedures for improving the quality of student thinking.

The Center takes no position on whether it is better to adopt a model that offers a tightly scripted curriculum or one that promotes the development of «communities of practice.»

The school uses a bilingual education model for its Cantonese - speakers in grades K to 3, as well as Gifted And Talented Education (GATE) curriculum for all students to teach higher - level thinking.

Collaborate with teachers in their schools to plan lessons and model best practices in integrating technology into all facets of the K - 12 curriculum.