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challenging curriculum refers to a set of lessons and assignments that are difficult and require effort and hard work. It aims to push students to learn and develop their skills by presenting them with tasks that may be complex or require problem-solving.
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But they didn't address the fundamental challenge of ensuring that all students were taught a rigorous,
challenging curriculum from a highly effective teacher.
By following the basic academic standards set by the states or the national subject area standards, parents have a rich framework from which to
develop challenging curriculum.
In spite of their exposure to much higher - achieving peers and a
more challenging curriculum, marginal students admitted to exam schools generally do no better on a variety of standardized tests.
Be based on analyses of student achievement data and instructional strategies and methods that support rigorous, relevant, and
challenging curricula for all students.
Teachers can often gain access to rich and
challenging curricula by contacting community agencies charged with addressing public health or environmental issues.
Through years of daily artistic expression and an
academically challenging curriculum, Waldorf education culminates in the high school grades with a conscious awakening of all the human capacities.
The Davidson Academy focuses on the individual student and provides an appropriately
challenging curriculum based upon each of their abilities.
``... more than 56,000 public schools across the country used Title I funds to provide additional academic support and learning opportunities to help low - achieving children
master challenging curricula and meet state standards in core academic subjects.
Governments want all students to succeed on an
intellectually challenging curriculum because their future quality of life, including their income, employment opportunities, and civic contributions are now so dependent on their educational success.
«Students with disabilities served in urban settings, in which minorities predominate, have higher likelihood of being placed in segregated settings, and lower likelihood of
accessing challenging curricula,» said Tom Hehir, lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The key players in the state's education department, including its commissioner, had all been replaced; the new administrators were
issuing challenging curriculum standards, requiring new statewide tests, and demanding more accountability.
First, exam schools offer a free, full - time solution to the problem of providing
suitably challenging curriculum and instruction to bright, motivated students.
Accelerated Schools, a school improvement program designed to
bring challenging curricula to disadvantaged students, appears to have paid off in some of the schools that tried it early on, according to an independent study.
At Lawrence, small class sizes (1:9 teacher / student ratio in the Lower School and 1:13 in the Upper School) allow teachers to present appropriately
challenging curriculum within functional and flexible groupings.
One of the tables discussing equity quickly moved from barriers to achieving equity to specific steps that could be taken to provide all students, but especially those of poverty and color, access to the richest and
most challenging curriculum.
Individual success stories and a review of research suggest that it is possible, by offering all students a
single challenging curriculum, to reduce the achievement gap without harming the highest achievers (Burris, Wiley, Welner, & Murphy, 2008; Rui, 2009).
For the last 25 years, three major goals have animated the U.S. mathematics education community: more knowledgeable teachers,
more challenging curricula for students, and more ambitious instruction in classrooms.
Children with intellectual giftedness require opportunities for advanced coursework and
challenging curricula in order to meet their full potential.
After researching and sampling a variety of curriculums, Anfield Primary settled on the «
Learning Challenges curriculum», which was introduced to them by Clive Davis, founder of Focus Education, whom they met at a conference.
Or else Malloy's Commissioner and his political appointees of the State Board of Education will cut the funding that school districts are required to use for, «additional academic support and learning opportunities to help low - achieving children
master challenging curricula and meet state standards in core academic subjects.
Fourth, schools must change and innovate,
providing challenging curriculum to match the characteristics of their students and embracing the strengths and contributions that students and their families bring.
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Yet, there is something important and compelling, even unifying, in the idea that no student should be held back from
accessing challenging curriculum and that every student should be adequately supported in achieving to their highest possible level.
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I lacked the skill, the experience, the know - how, to design the
appropriately challenging curriculum these kids needed and to address their social and emotional needs (of which this class had plenty).
Camps feature fun & friendly atmosphere,
challenging curriculum, an educational approach to coaching, inclusive & welcoming for all players.