Sentences with phrase «caused changes to curricula»

For instance, in mathematics the ideas about teaching more depth and less breadth have caused changes to curricula.

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Combined with all these changes, the delay in the Government's National Curriculum Review until 2014 has again caused schools to hold back some funds for the new curriculum's necessary supportCurriculum Review until 2014 has again caused schools to hold back some funds for the new curriculum's necessary supportcurriculum's necessary support material.

Although the subjects vary considerably from one grade to the next (from the life cycle of frogs to the role of change makers in society to the study of the causes and consequences of war), every expedition shares some common characteristics: an emphasis on student - led inquiry, connections to the community (through interactions with local experts and service - learning projects, for example), and an integrated curriculum with a strong emphasis on the visual and performing arts.

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.

This provides a framework of a three to five year plan for evolving the curriculum to prepare students for a future where the only guarantee is one of rapid change caused by technology.

The problem is, that with unprecedented change in other areas of education — everything from school meals to SEND provision — school leaders may struggle to fulfil even more demands for curriculum space, no matter how worthy the cause and how strong their desire to help.

Finally, this study, in conjunction with other work on differentiating instruction, should cause educators and policy makers to ponder that teaching well does not require changing curriculum and materials frequently.

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.

Our curriculum helps them to understand the nature of cause and consequence, continuity and change, as well as similarity and difference.

Of the 8,173 teachers asked by the NEU about what causes excessive work, 74 per cent said pressure to improve pupil test scores and exam results is a main factor, while 52 per cent blame changes to the curriculum and testing.

The documents included a list of donors to the Heartland Institute as well as fundraising plans for a variety of projects, including one to create school - friendly curricula that would make a case against human - caused climate change.