Sentences with phrase «better curricular materials»

Once educators and local (and state) officials see how poorly their kids are doing on these tougher assessments and what the standards really require, they will start looking for better curricular materials and training.

Once educators and local (and state) officials see how poorly their kids do on tougher assessments and what the standards really require, they will start looking for better curricular materials and training.

My earnest hope is that the politicians — from Arne Duncan to Bobby Jindal and everyone in between — stop misbehaving and give educators the room to focus on the real work at hand: selecting good curricular materials, improving teaching and learning, and getting ready for the much more rigorous tests that will be given nine months from now.

Not exact matches

The three best guides to deciding what to teach are your colleagues (either at your home institution or at comparable institutions), textbooks, and Web sites that disseminate curricular material.

With these standards and assessments in place, the question reasonably arises, where do educators find the curricular materials that best help them tackle the standards?

It is «in the nature of markets» that those who make the best use of new curricular materials and new technologies will become dominant — to the benefit of us all.

Implementing accountability requires incentives (as well as sanctions) plus training for staff and curricular materials for schools.

In coming months, Fordham will point to some good examples of textbooks and other instructional materials that are aligned and high quality; other organizations are also gearing up (better late than never) to review curricular materials.

Under the «First Vote» project, which is financed by corporate donations, schools will receive curricular materials on voting, as well as registration forms students can mail in.

Best practices for curricular materials, professional learning for literacy, and family engagement strategies will be shared during this dynamic one - day workshop.

Instead, the basic strategy of the Gates Foundation is to use science (or, more accurately, the appearance of science) to identify the «best» educational practices and then use political influence to create a system of national standards, curricular materials, and testing to impose those «best practices» on schools nationwide.

By studying curricular materials before preparing a lesson, teachers engage in the best form of professional development available to them.

Noted journalists Ezra Klein and Nate Silver launch news sites that include education coverage and make good curricular source materials.

This suggests that students were better off if their teachers did not attempt to utilize new curricular materials without effective PD supporting them.

, one of 33 such centers across Michigan that offer STEM coursework to advanced students at the secondary level, as well as provide professional development for teachers and develop curricular materials.

Each district or charter network received a multi-day training on the Common Core State Standards and Shifts as well as how to identify them in curricular materials.

Research and best practice have shown us that the degree to which there is coherence and alignment among the standards, curricular materials, and instructional strategies used is directly correlated to opportunities for student learning.

Student Achievement Partners finalized last year a set of guidelines for mathematics curricular materials to help publishers and curriculum developers — as well as states and school districts — design, evaluate, and select materials or revise existing materials to support «faithful» CCSS implementation.