Sentences with phrase «core academic curriculum»

«The government's drive to ensure all pupils benefit from a stretching core academic curriculum need be no barrier to pupils enjoying a high - quality arts education,» Minister of State for School Standards Nick Gibb argued recently in the Telegraph.

The Seventh Avenue School (SAS), an alternative school, provides a four - semester sequence of academic courses and related work experiences that emphasize a core academic curriculum for each semester.

He said it was «pernicious» to suggest that «a core academic curriculum represents a kind of elitism».

Whittemore Park Middle School uses the iCAN model: individualized, college and career readiness, aspirations of students, and network of support designed around a blended core academic curriculum and carefully constructed system of supports.

The highly student - centered iCAN model is designed around a blended core academic curriculum and a carefully constructed system of supports.

Parents need to insist that their schools provide the very best education; that goes beyond the core academic curriculum and includes several curriculum enrichment experiential opportunities.

Integrating Making into curriculum happens when Making is tied to core academic curriculum or standards, in order to enhance student understanding.

Every school employs full - time arts educators who teach arts classes as a part of the core academic curriculum.

Students receive instruction from a mix of traditional teaching and online learning platforms as part of the school's core academic curriculum.

STEM is a part of the school's mission and core academic curriculum.

Students study visual and / or performing arts as part of the school's mission and core academic curriculum, beyond dedicated arts periods.

Our mission at Meadowview Middle School continues to be one that delivers a challenging core academic curriculum aligned to ACT College and Career Readiness Skills for the diverse needs of each student, while providing opportunities for the adolescent learner to participate and explore in a wide range of exploratory courses and to participate in extra-curricular activities.

To overcome their irrelevance, many advocates insist that civic education be incorporated into the core academic curriculum, so that English, history, and social studies courses impart lessons in civic virtue.

Although acknowledging the need for strong, core academic curriculum, Wilshaw will argue that England is neglecting its less academic pupils at its own peril and will call for a more «inclusive» system that does not leave behind students who fail to attain targets.

The schools employ a year - round academic calendar, have a 9:1 student - to - teacher ratio, and a core academic curriculum.

This includes recommendations suggesting that: primary schools should bring in outside experts to teach coding; all primaries should have 3D printers and design software; secondary schools should be able to teach Computer Science, Design and Technology or another technical / practical subject in place of a foreign language GCSE; the Computer Science GCSE should be taken by at least half of all 16 year olds; young apprenticeships should be reintroduced at 14, blending a core academic curriculum with hands - on learning; all students should learn how businesses work, with schools linked to local employers; schools should be encouraged to develop a technical stream from 14 - 18 for some students, covering enterprise, health, design and hands - on skills; and that universities should provide part - time courses for apprentices to get Foundation and Honours degrees.

School Reform Minister Nick Gibb said: «All pupils should have the opportunity to study foreign languages as part of a core academic curriculum that prepares them for life in modern Britain.

Several longitudinal studies in the 1980s and 1990s did find that high school students who took both an occupational course sequence and a core academic curriculum fared better after high school, both in the labor market and in postsecondary education.

Not exact matches

Harvey Mudd describes its core curriculum as «an academic boot camp in the STEM disciplines — math, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, and engineering — as well as classes in writing and critical inquiry» that it says «gives students a broad scientific foundation and the skills to think and to solve problems across disciplines.»

We have placed an ambitious and expensive program at the heart of theological education at the same time that a concern for proving a solid academic preparation has led the faculty to stress a core curriculum.

Just as important, this standard curriculum eliminates theology from the core of both practical and academic studies.

The Kentucky Core Academic Standards (2010) require that mental wellness and individual well - being be taught in grades K - 12 as part of the general health curriculum.

Our method educates the whole child through a rich and meaningful, age - related curriculum devoting lots of time to play, being out in nature, incorporating a vibrant arts curriculum, and supporting core academics with integrated subject classes.

Cuomo also will have input from a panel of his creation: The 15 - member Common Core Task Force, asked to conduct a sweeping review of the academic standards, curriculum and exams, is due to report its recommendations this month.

He repeated his earlier position that the state's rollout of curricula and tests aligned with the Common Core academic standards was rushed, that teachers were not prepared and there is too much testing in general.

Anti-testing activists said the opt - outs sent a clear message to Cuomo, the Regents and the state Education Department: The tests and curricula aligned with the Common Core academic standards must be completely retooled.

Amid growing boycotts of standardized tests, Cuomo said the Common Core task force — the second he has created in less than two years — would conduct a «top to bottom review» of the state's academic standards, curriculum and exams.

A state task force will hold simultaneous public hearings on controversial Common Core academic standards, testing and curriculum Friday in Stony Brook and at four other sites across the state, amid complaints by many parents, teachers and others that the late - afternoon format will hinder attendance.

Cuomo appointed the 15 - member task force in September and directed it to conduct a sweeping review of Common Core academic standards, curriculum and exams — the second such effort in less than two years.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

Though the subject, a mix of physics and advanced mathematics, is not part of the core curriculum, it does put students at a distinct advantage if it is their chosen academic path in college.

The book represents a culminating work of the ArtsLiteracy Project, a project that develops curricula and professional development practices based on the premise that linking literacy and the arts creates powerful learning opportunities for students both in core academic subjects and in the arts.

If anyone has earned the right to vent her spleen over Common Core it's Sandra Stotsky, who played a leading role in Massachusetts's adoption of some of the nation's strongest pre-CCSS academic standards, along with associated curriculum frameworks and teacher - licensing regulations.

The qualifications also sit alongside the academic curriculum, aiding, rather than replacing, core studies.

This insight is no surprise to those of us who have long championed curriculum and rich academic content as ed reform's great un-pulled lever — or who support Common Core simply because it puts curriculum onto the reform agenda.

Though Common Core and academic curriculum hold a strong place at the educational table, and rightfully so, doesn't it make sense to also focus upon the character development and qualities that could help to produce adults, not only talented and motivated, but inherently driven to help make the world a better place?

«Under her guidance, the Ed School has progressed toward a core curriculum, reorganized its master's degree programs and its academic areas, redoubled its efforts to contribute to the improvement of K - 12 education, and worked to strengthen its relationships both with other Harvard schools and with the broader community of professional educators.

Her announcement marks the completion of a tenure notable for major changes to the School's academic programs and administrative structure, significant progress toward a case - based core curriculum, many faculty appointments, an important initiative to create «usable knowledge,» and preparation for a potential campus move to Allston.

(Such services take various forms but most commonly involve separate classrooms with more challenging curricula and specially prepared teachers, at least for core academic subjects.)

While the core academic subjects are still very important, themes of global awareness, economic and civic literacy, and life skills need to be incorporated into curricula.

Building on earlier work done by the Academic Cabinet, a faculty committee, Lagemann made the development of a case - based core curriculum one of her first priorities as dean.

Lagemann's deanship has further been marked by major initiatives to develop innovative core courses for the HGSE curriculum, to reorient the school's master's degree programs, and to reorganize its academic organizational structure.

The report said: «It would be better for the national curriculum to stop at age 14, rather than 16, and for a new 14 — 19 transition stage to be developed, incorporating a core element with either academic or vocational elements.

An academic core is important but surely schools should be free to develop a curriculum that meets the wide ranging needs of their students and enables them to achieve their best.

The core curriculum addresses topics like the development of adolescents living in urban contexts; classroom dynamics of race and class; and strategies for teaching students with diverse academic and social - emotional needs.

The school is known for teaching alternatives to aggression through training in social skills, anger control, and moral reasoning, but the curriculum also includes core academic subjects, including arts.

(Read the Edutopia.org article «Cross Training: Arts and Academics Are Inseparable» to learn how a Boston school successfully melds art with core curriculum.)

It covers the influence the common - core academic standards are likely to have on building the online curricula of the future, the growing emphasis on teaching social skills to virtual school students, how schools are building courses that blend face - to - face and online learning, and the evolving role of e-assessments.

«Nobody is disputing that the curriculum should have a rigorous academic core,» he said.

Read about how the Edwards Middle School uses more time to develop a rigorous core curriculum and supplements it with a tiered academic support program called Academic academic support program called Academic Academic Leagues.