Sentences with phrase «core curriculum content»

New Jersey core curriculum content standards for technological literacy.

The state's 21st Century Community Learning Centers programs are expected to link their activities to the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards and the Common Core State Standards.

While students are given the flexibility to pursue learning in a personally relevant manner, they will also gain the skills and knowledge that will allow them to meet and exceed New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards.

NJ EXCEL, therefore, emphasizes the study and analysis of topics and authentic educational issues within local district and school contexts, and within the broader context of the state's Strategic Plan for Improving Education in New Jersey, the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, Common Core / PARCC, relevant state laws, policies, and initiatives.

He is also charged with oversight and reauthorization of the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards in the Visual & Performing Arts, and other special state supported curriculum projects such as the model curriculum and assessment project.

Educational requirements are defined by the New Jersey Administrative Code, and include familiarity with the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards (CCCS); familiarity with human development and teaching diverse learners; a bachelor's degree from an approved, accredited college or university with a cumulative GPA of 2.75 and / or a high Praxis score; and completion of a supervised teaching period in the state.

Multi-leveled scripts support core curriculum content through active learning, and let you integrate content into the reading block.

Core Curriculum Content Standards: Language Arts Literacy.

Our traditional approach to teaching core curriculum content has been proven effective for decades to truly prepare students for the demands of college - level work and life.

Specifically, we compared the percentage of the high school CCSS standards in English language arts and mathematics that required creative and strategic thinking to the former high school versions of the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards in those subjects.

We used a qualitative case study design with content analysis methods to describe and compare the percentages of the CCSS and of the former New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards (NJCCCS) in English language arts and math that require students to demonstrate strategic and / or creative thinking.

In this position, he was responsible for the development and implementation of the Core Curriculum Content Standards, the statewide assessment system, and the secondary transformation initiative.

Recent investments in digital games for learning specifically aim to combine core curriculum content with intrinsic motivation.

Not exact matches

Several students, though acknowledging that there should be a core seminary curriculum, argued that the content of that core should change as society changes.

When evaluation of the core curriculum took place in the mid -»90s, a number of faculty protested anonymously that the course was «Sunday school proselytizing» with weak intellectual content.

The course follows a comprehensive 15 - point core curriculum with the same content around the world.

The initial content will include over 1,600 Video Tutorials and 2,000 Study Aids on core subjects from primary to senior secondary school curriculum.

«There are core issues to be resolved» about the scope and content of the social - studies curriculum, said Michael E. Melody, president of the school division of the Macmillan Publishing Company.

To Klein's credit, he eventually came to see the errors of his ways, and in his last years as chancellor he embraced the Core Knowledge program — a coherent, content - rich curriculum that is a model for what kids in New York, and nationwide, need if they are going to become strong readers.

And, in fact, a signature value of the Core is its potential to bolster both skills and knowledge by encouraging sequenced, spiraled, content - rich curricula in the classroom.

Amplify, developers of tablets and digital curricula for education, has developed more than 40 digital games based on core content and then forbidden their use in the classroom or as homework.

Darling - Hammond praises «good language» in the Common Core national curriculum - content standards about critical thinking skills and problem - solving.

By this I mean the shift to a content - rich, sequenced curriculum, such as Core Knowledge, Wit and Wisdom, or the recently released curriculum built by the Success Academy Charter Schools.

I have, in other forums, made much of the singular virtue of Common Core and its call for a content - rich curriculum «intentionally and coherently structured to develop rich content knowledge within and across grades.»

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.

But it's been widely hoped the new standards would create a robust nationwide market for innovative new materials — especially in English language arts (ELA), where Common Core explicitly states the standards «must be complemented by a well - developed, content - rich curriculum.»

But I was not involved in the Fordham review, which lauded the span of K — 12 EngageNY curricula, noting that «in general, alignment to the Common Core State Standards is strong — and the materials go beyond the standards in specifying important content and skills for each year of instruction.»

As Lisa Hansel of the Core Knowledge Foundation notes in the first sentence of her recent Education Week commentary, «The Common Core Needs a Common Curriculum,» the CCSS themselves clearly warn against this conflation (here): «[W] hile the standards make references to some particular forms of content,... they do not... enumerate all or even most of the content that students should learn.

(New York's second - highest performing charter network, the seven Icahn schools in the Bronx, uses the content - rich Core Knowledge ELA curriculum, which is well aligned with the Common Core — further evidence that curriculum counts.)

That is precisely why the Common Core ELA standards deliberately call for a «content - rich curriculum.»

To date, however, that has seldom included the development and dissemination of curricular materials that are not just «aligned» with the Common Core but that also embody the spirit of the standards» call for building knowledge through a content - rich curriculum.

Porter et al. analyze the content of the Common Core using a process called the Survey of Enacted Curriculum (SEC) that Porter created a while back.

It is encouraging news, from Sol Stern of the Manhattan Institute, that New York City's three - year - old pilot project testing the content - rich Core Knowledge Language Arts curriculum in ten low - income schools has proved so far, as the Daily News headline has it, «a brilliant experiment in reading.»

Rather, present the core content and leverage your interactions with students to flesh out the curriculum and identify changes and additions that will improve the experience.

Klein told PBC Newshour in a March 20 interview that one of the most important levers that the report focuses on is the «whole nationalization» of curriculum - content standards through the national Common Core standards for English and math, which are endorsed by the Obama administration and whose implementation is currently being supported by millions in federal funds.

When he got there, in 2003, Gioia announced his preference for the Core Knowledge curriculum and commenced an effort to bulk up content standards for federal grants in the arts.

Wexler goes on to explain why reading comprehension tests are really «knowledge tests in disguise,» why the new Common Core - aligned tests are shining a brighter light on gaps in knowledge, and why we may see continued growth in schools embracing «content - rich» curricula like E.D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge.

• The fundamental requirements of each teacher preparation program — admissions standards, content area course requirements, and the alignment of elementary teachers» reading and mathematics curricula with the Common Core standards;

Each presentation and game is followed by a detailed chart and the end of the manual has a large table that illustrates the connection of the Montessori lessons to the newly revised BC Curriculum, including: Core Competency Connections Curricular Competency Connections BC Content Descriptions Big Ideas Connections

Assessing the Common Core Standards: Opportunities for Improving Measures of Instruction Educational Researcher, May 2011 Responding to comments on their «Common Core Standards: The New U.S. Intended Curriculum,» the authors suggest additional perspective that should be considered when addressing quality and change, stating additional conceptualizations of mathematics and English language arts content as well as how to define and measure alignment among content standards, materials, assessments, and instruction should be explored.

The book provides valuable conceptual tools for analyzing the design of the Common Core national curriculum - content standards.

Building on the First Edition, our new K - 5 Language Arts curriculum is a comprehensive, standards - based core literacy program that engages teachers and students through compelling, real world content and builds equitable and inclusive learning opportunities for all students.

Second, professional development can promote quality technology integration and learning by minimizing the importance of computers within professional development and concentrating instead on the core areas of teaching: content, curriculum, instruction, assessment, and classroom management.

Evidence from State Content Standards Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, September 2009 This analysis found considerable variability among states» content standards, but that a small core curriculum exists across states in the content areas of English language arts and reading, science, and matheContent Standards Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, September 2009 This analysis found considerable variability among states» content standards, but that a small core curriculum exists across states in the content areas of English language arts and reading, science, and mathecontent standards, but that a small core curriculum exists across states in the content areas of English language arts and reading, science, and mathecontent areas of English language arts and reading, science, and mathematics.

Common Core defines and constrains the content and sequencing of the curriculum — and, in many cases, even the instructional methods — to such an extent that the distinction is disingenuous.

The curriculum includes common core standards, child development and learning, building family and community relations, cultural diversity, assessment to support young children and families, strong content knowledge to build developmentally appropriate and meaningful curriculum and experiences, and professionalism and ethics of educators.

In fact, according to a scholarly 2011 content analysis published in Education Researcher by Andrew Porter and colleagues, the Common Core math standards bear little resemblance to the national curriculum standards in countries with high - achieving math students: «Top - achieving countries for which we had content standards,» these scholars note, «put a greater emphasis on [the category] «perform procedures» than do the U.S. Common Core standards.»

Instead, critics are driven to oppose the curriculum content of Common Core as a whole.

Requiring all students to take a college - and workplace readiness curriculum by defining specific, challenging core content in English and math required for graduation, regardless of the high school program in which students enroll, and by ensuring that other courses such as science, history and the arts reinforce college and workplace readiness expectations;

(We'd also love to see schools adopt a content - rich curriculum like Core Knowledge.)