Sentences with phrase «classroom curriculum focused»

If students are partnering with adults to create a classroom curriculum focused on local history, they should have opportunities to learn about curriculum design and delivery, as well as local history.

Especially where a trip will extend classroom curriculum focused work it is really important, and equitable, to ensure high take - up.

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Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

We believe that by focusing on specific elements within the classroom environment will support curriculum and therefore help foster children's learning.

For her dissertation, she focused on curriculum research: analyzing textbooks and observing how curricula play out in classrooms.

Although most reformers say that they want to raise student achievement, many projects focus on interim targets, like attracting more students into STEM fields, training more and better math and science teachers or improving the skills of those already in the classroom, and strengthening curricula.

Teaching the new curriculum outside the classroom will focus on inspiring and engaging opportunities for learning outside the classroom (LOtC) in the new national curriculum at the University of Derby Enterprise Centre on 4th December 2014.

All kinds of research are being produced that could count as «instructionally relevant,» after all, from studies of systems - level factors like curriculum quality and school operations to those focused on what's happening in learners» heads, to those examining classroom - level techniques.

In preparation for the program, the district hired about 800 new teachers, installed room dividers in hundreds of classrooms, and devised a new curriculum that focuses only on basic skills.

Anything that might reduce a teacher's latitude and ability to make professional choices in the context of each unique classroom is off the table (which explains the aversion to focusing on any specific curricula).

His research interests include using hands - on activities to more effectively teach difficult mathematics concepts, focusing on causes and solutions to mathematics anxiety, strategies of teaching ahead of grade level, and presenting innovative curriculum to those needing creativity in the classroom.

After noticing second grade students struggling with active listening and peer relationships, we collaborated with classroom teachers to create a second - grade unit focused on our social curriculum and their geology unit.

The organizations are focused on supporting schools with 21st century school and classroom design, customized project based learning curriculum, deep learning strategies, and educational technology, to name a few.

Funders are wise, then, to focus on new initiatives around curriculum development and adoption, student assignments and grading, next - generation professional development, and efforts to integrate technology and personalized learning into the classroom.

I was a founding faculty member of Mid-Pacific Institute's eXploratory Program, a core subject curriculum with project - based learning as the primary focus of student work, with 10 years of experience in the Social Studies classroom.

In a 2011 interview by Lynnette Guastaferro of Teaching Matters, Darling - Hammond says that whether the national standards are put into effect in a way that is «much more focused on higher - order learning skills» (that is, progressive education classrooms for all) depends on «building curriculum materials,» «transforming» testing, and changing in - service teacher training.

From legislative frameworks to classroom practices, gender - sensitive curricula, sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, and data collection, the new Joint Programme will provide a coordinated and collaborative response to the persistent gender gap in education — with a specific focus on adolescent girls and young women between the ages of 10 and 24.

Maarit Rossi in Finland wonders if all classrooms might need a common «global curriculum,» and Carl Hooker in the United States writes, «if we were starting the American school system from scratch today, knowing what skills our students will need, we could change the subjects and not base them on what big - time publishers want us to focus on with our students.»

There are many behavioral implications of this, in and out of the classroom, and that is why the skill area of emotional vocabulary is such a strong focus of curricula for promoting social - emotional and character development.

Future microcredentials might focus on specific areas of interest to teachers: classroom management or curriculum development, for example.

How should schools identify the key aspects of the curriculum they need to focus on in the classroom to ensure that students develop the key competencies they need in life?

The NGERP focuses on curriculum revision, production and supply of reading materials, teacher training, and improved classroom instruction.

What we do know is that pre-K teachers» training in child development, experience in working with young children, and support systems focused on their instructional behaviors and classroom management do matter — for the quality of both of teachers» social interactions with children and their implementation of curricula.

The Second Step curriculum emphasizes impulse control (the ability to control and manage thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, including listening, focusing attention, following directions, using self - talk, being assertive, identifying and understanding feelings, respecting similarities and differences), empathy (conversation skills, joining groups, making friends), anger and emotional management (calming down strong feelings, managing anger, managing accusations, disappointment, anxious and hurt feelings, handling put downs, managing test anxiety, resisting revenge, and avoiding jumping to conclusions), and problem - solving (playing fairly, taking responsibility, solving classroom problems, solving peer exclusion problems, handling name calling, dealing with peer pressure, dealing with gossip, seeking help when you need it).

One option is to focus on structural features of schools and classrooms, such as teacher education and certification, class size, and curriculum, and enact policies to ensure that these proxies for quality are uniformly in place.

Learning outside has been proven to improve motivation and attainment and enhances behaviour, concentration and focus when the pupil is back into the classroom, if built into the school curriculum effectively.

Frequent, focused field trips that connect to the curriculum show students how learning continues outside of the classroom.

This fall she served on teacher focus groups while also designing and piloting new curriculum in her classroom, which she will continue doing throughout the rest of the school year.

Participants will: • Get an overview of the Google for Education solution which includes Chromebooks, tablets with Google Play for Education, and Google Apps for Education • Learn how this solution can be used to improve student learning, collaboration, and engagement • Hear first - hand experience from a district using Chromebooks in the classroom to support their curriculum focus • Be able to pose their questions to Amherst Central School District and Google

The renewed focus in these curricula in English on comprehension and essay writing is putting new constraints on classroom teaching and learning, with teachers being forced more and more to to «teach to the test», despite their good instincts that this limits what their students can gain from their learning.

Join the director of technology at Del Mar Union School District — a high performing school district in San Diego, Calif. — along with Google in Education for an instructional webinar to see how they use Chromebooks in the classroom to support their curriculum focus, both in writing and the Common Core State Standards.

The LEGO Education MINDSTORMS EV3 set lets students create and program robots in the classroom, and features curriculum offerings for design engineering, science and space focused lesson plans that align with the Next Generation Science Standards.

While Dr. Pianta makes some excellent points («Preschool Is School, Sometimes,» features, Winter 2007), especially related to teacher training and classroom behaviors, I am concerned by his lack of focus on curriculum development and planning.

In light of this background, we focus here on teachers «school and classroom working conditions, exploring the degree to which variations in the rapidity of principal turnover may influence school culture, as well as curriculum and classroom instruction.

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.

Since 2016, our focus has been new classroom strategies, practices, and curriculum to improve reading in the early grades.

(Calif.) Even as a press event by the state superintendent last week focused attention on a handful of schools already teaching lessons based on new science standards, legislation was being crafted that would delay until 2017 development of the tools educators need to bring that new curriculum into all California classrooms.

Teachers are wise to guard their time and curriculum fiercely so that classroom activities are focused on the students and their learning.

Eventually, I would like to work with both students and teachers — doing focused intervention for students who are struggling in math and mentoring new teachers who need guidance as they navigate the tricky terrain of classroom management and curriculum.

NSCS has maintained many of its philosophical education roots, with its focus on keeping the curricula challenging and the expectations for learning high, while utilizing the help and support of qualified educational assistance and classroom volunteers.

Bringing Great Expectations to Michigan After many years in the classroom, Bruzewski took a new position as a curriculum coordinator at an education service center that focuses on professional development for educators in the Great Lakes Bay area of Michigan.

Meanwhile, teachers and school leaders — freed from the pressures of curriculum planning — could focus on perfecting the delivery of the curriculum in the classroom.

She has since taught in the Seattle Public Schools in every grade from kindergarten through eleventh, focusing on multi-age classrooms, project - based learning, and integrated, theme - based curricula.

Training for staff in the West Orange, New Jersey school district was centered around how to integrate brain breaks for better focus and concentration... healthy eating messages sprinkled throughout the school hallways, cafeteria, and classrooms... and nutrition education woven into PE and core curriculum K - 12!

Instead of focusing on math and science classrooms, educators will learn how to integrate STEM broadly across curricula to ensure that it reaches all students, including those who are presently underrepresented in STEM - based careers.

We bring our expertise to CSAI in curriculum, instruction, and standards with a focus on formative assessment to support classroom teachers in implementing new standards.

· Include a focus on social - emotional learning and application to health sciences in the classroom curriculum

Through 2005, there is little research focused on implementing technology in the K - 12 social studies classroom (Swan & Hofer, in press), yet many authors advocate that teachers need to explore this frontier without models of classroom success, examples of «tried and true» curricula, and evidence of increased student learning.

This last article presents IDRA's major findings in the classroom level indicators, focusing on the program model, classroom climate, curriculum and instruction, teacher expectations, and program articulation.

Principals use a four - tiered rating system — poor to exemplary — to assess 24 separate measures on the 5D framework, which focuses on purpose, student engagement, curriculum & pedagogy, assessment for student learning, and classroom environment and culture.