Sentences with phrase «curricula at most schools»

The article lamented the «pressure and haste» and the «sacrifice of depth to breadth» in the current curricula at most schools.

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At Wharton and most schools, there has been ongoing tweaking of the curriculum over the years.

Business schools teach the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, which weren't even part of the curriculum at most places until the 1990s.

That, of course, is not the prevailing view at most business schools, whose finance curriculum tends to be dominated by such subjects.

Most Instructive: Kara Powell at Her.Meneutics with «Steve Jobs, Back to School, and Why Doubt Belongs in Your Youth Group Curriculum»

Ironically, this newsworthy curriculum evidently teaches a good deal less about etiquette than we learned back at Margaret M. Amidon Elementary School in the «60s, but that is still a good deal more than children learn in most places.

Among the 3,450 students are more than 500 black youngsters, most of them attracted by stronger curricula or better facilities than those available at schools in their own neighborhoods.

Investigators at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified that lack of time and a paucity of trained faculty are perceived as the most significant barriers to incorporating complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and integrative medicine (IM) training into family medicine residency curricula and training programs.

Students receive one of the world's most rigorous curriculums at the Perelman School of Medicine, and our faculty's interdisciplinary research leads to new approaches to treating disease, which ultimately provides patients with most advanced, personalized care.

Perhaps most interestingly, over 64 % of former RET participants still teach the curriculum unit they developed at the CSNE, which given that teachers may change grade levels, class subjects and school districts, demonstrates an ongoing interest in neural engineering and the long - term value of this curricula.

Teachers told me that most NovaNET courses are comparable to textbook - based courses in length and content — a comeback to critics who talk of watered - down curricula at alternative schools — but that many students move through them more quickly, and often finish high school a semester early.

A school - by - school breakdown of scores on Massachusetts» first - ever exam for licensing new teachers is forcing some education schools to take a hard look at their curricula, even as state officials propose creating one of the nation's most intensive programs of teacher recruitment and training.

Reports published by the Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University of Connecticut have shown that most general education classroom teachers are poorly equipped to meet the needs of the gifted, and that gifted students can spend as much as half the school repeating curriculum and waiting for classmates to catch up.

But in a different policy context it asserted that the state's charter schools had to follow the unusually comprehensive state curriculum frameworks (thus, in our view at least, guaranteeing a curriculum that will be geared toward superficial mastery by most students).

Harris instead offers two potential alternatives: 1) the improved public / charter school performance in New Orleans made the performance of the private sector look relatively worse; and 2) the curriculum at most private schools may not have been aligned to the state test, so the poor performance merely reflects that lack of alignment rather than poor performance.

Also, pupils who meet the criteria for pupil premium funding benefited the most from the change in the curriculum at these schools.

Dave Smith, Computing and ICT advisor for Havering School Improvement Services, believes that Ofsted will be looking particularly closely at a school's approach to implementing the ICT national curriculum, which is an area arguably requiring the most cSchool Improvement Services, believes that Ofsted will be looking particularly closely at a school's approach to implementing the ICT national curriculum, which is an area arguably requiring the most cschool's approach to implementing the ICT national curriculum, which is an area arguably requiring the most change.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

Teachers at one of Melbourne's most prestigious schools are using the latest Microsoft technology to streamline the way they teach — and bring a fresh approach to the digital curriculum.

A break from hyperactive policymaking gives schools the time and space to finish what we started — to actually implement the higher standards that most states adopted seven years ago; to get better at giving teachers helpful feedback about their instructional practices; to find curricula worth teaching; and to experiment with new approaches to personalization.

So are schools where teachers have 120 or more students to get to know (with this 120 shuffled at the end of each semester); where serious learning is broken up into snippets of 50 - minute «subject matter periods» arranged in no intellectually coherent order; where assessment keeps knowledge tightly packaged in separate intellectual domains; where short - term memory work is rated as deserving the highest value at the expense of original, long - term analytic work; and where the intellectual engine of the curriculum comes at most students and teachers as a list of subjects and skills, usually far too long for the careful savoring and devoted practice that leads to deep understanding and worthy habits.

Curricula, teaching methods, and schedules can all be customized to meet the learning styles and life situations of individual students; education can be freed from the geographic constraints of districts and brick - and - mortar buildings; coursework from the most remedial to the most advanced can be made available to everyone; students can have more interaction with teachers and one another; parents can readily be included in the education process; sophisticated data systems can measure and guide performance; and schools can be operated at lower cost with technology (which is relatively cheap) substituted for labor (which is relatively expensive).

Best practice tells us that a holistic and all - encompassing view of the student is paramount and the pastoral and curriculum aspects of learning should have synergy, we only have to look at the outcomes of the most successful schools to observe this.

David Perkins, founding member and co-director of Project Zero at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, argues that curriculum is one of the most important elements of making students ready for the world of tomorrow.

We understand that every school is on a different path to implementing new technologies, content and standards, and our curriculum products aim to meet you wherever you are on that journey, in the sequence and at the speed that makes the most sense for you.

Children in New York City who learned to read using the Core Knowledge Language Arts curriculum outperformed those at other schools that used other methods, most of which were «balanced literacy» approaches.

There is only so much time in a curriculum and forcing schools to deliver the EBacc's seven GCSEs (English language, literature, Maths, core and additional science (at least), history or geography, and a language) leave very little time to study anything else: especially when most schools want to offer eight subjects due to the size of the new exams.

At a time when head teachers across England and Wales are crying out for sufficient funds to run their schools, provide pupils with a broad and balanced curriculum and retain teachers and support staff, the Government is proposing to lavish scarce education funding on a policy which all the evidence confirms will undermine the high standards of education that comprehensive schools have been able to achieve in the decades since selective education was ended in most parts of the country.

Most of these programs focus only on a narrow band of objectives in the formal curriculum; they have unknown levels of reliability at the school level; they are cross-sectional in nature; and the results they yield become available to schools only after lengthy time delays.

At each grade level, the variety of life science words, for which definitions and contextual sentences are provided, mirror elementary and middle school science curricula so as to engage all learners and challenge even the most gifted science students.

Indeed, like most public school students across America, pupils at Sylvanie Williams get tested often — although Hardy is trying to balance the «data - driven instruction» with a strong social justice curriculum.

If we wanted to push respondents toward Approach B, we could replace «invests» with «at the public expense» and employ additional shenanigans like the AFT poll did (e.g. - «choose the schools with the most enriching curriculum and most effective teachers»).

Having the necessary stakeholders, or stakeholder representatives, at the table [for a given purpose] is important, and is more important than identifying a specific number of PLC participants that is most effective; e.g., aligning curriculum across an elementary school with a teacher representative for each grade participating in the PLC and then receiving / sharing information back to grade level teachers at their grade team meetings.

Start you visit at John Lyman School greeted by the Hello Chorus, observe a student senate meeting, tour the school, observe teachers integrating strong arts into the core curriculum, and come to our school - wide TownMeeting Most importantly, visitors will see students who are empowered to make choices and have a voice in their leaSchool greeted by the Hello Chorus, observe a student senate meeting, tour the school, observe teachers integrating strong arts into the core curriculum, and come to our school - wide TownMeeting Most importantly, visitors will see students who are empowered to make choices and have a voice in their leaschool, observe teachers integrating strong arts into the core curriculum, and come to our school - wide TownMeeting Most importantly, visitors will see students who are empowered to make choices and have a voice in their leaschool - wide TownMeeting Most importantly, visitors will see students who are empowered to make choices and have a voice in their learning.

The aim is for it to provide a highly academic and rigorous curriculum to stretch and challenge the most academically able children in Swindon, free of charge, to pupils who consistently achieve at Level 5 or higher in Primary School and who are hardworking and committed to the additional homework and prep needed to achieve outstanding academic results.

The National Math and Science Initiative, the Northrup Grumman Foundation and Hill Air Force Base partnered to donate $ 1.7 million for science, technology, engineering and math education and training, with most of the money targeted for college readiness curriculums at Syracuse and Northridge high schools over the next three years.

Just look at maybe one of the most important sections of the law: Section 1116 (b)(7)-- it provides for districts overseeing schools who don't make AYP two years straight to «replace the school staff who are relevant to the failure to make adequate yearly progress,» overhaul curriculum, or let parents send their kids to another school in the district.

SEL skills and curriculum are integrated into the bullying trainings that are mandated for all school leaders and staff at most school sites.

Zaner - Bloser, the most popular handwriting curriculum used today, deems that too little and is encouraging schools to up that amount to at least 15 minutes a day.

As the oldest teacher recruitment program in the country, South Carolina's Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement, or CERRA, facilitates a variety of programs that aim to recruit, retain, and support highly qualified teacher candidates.64 CERRA recruits middle and high school students, college students, and career - changers by offering an array of programs across the state.65 For example, the Teacher Cadets Program is a high school recruitment program offered at nearly 160 schools in South Carolina.66 As Teacher Cadets, high - achieving juniors and seniors who express an interest in teaching complete field placements in classrooms and learn about curriculum development.67 The South Carolina Teaching Fellows Program, another one of CERRA's recruitment programs, is one of the most competitive scholarship and loan programs in the state: Through the program, select high school seniors who display a strong desire to pursue teaching receive a forgivable loan to attend college.68

K12 will provide comprehensive wraparound services targeted to individual student needs and for the benefit of the school community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowlingschool community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowlingschool and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowlingschool led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowlingSchool prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowlingschool graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowlingschool community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowlingschool extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowling club.

When one looks at the high levels of illiteracy among young men — which account for most of the high levels of illiteracy in each racial and income category — it is clear that far too many young men and women are not getting the instruction and curricula they need to succeed in school and in life.

At a time when arts education is often the most expendable aspect of a curriculum for schools facing financial crisis and budget cuts, more and more educators and policy makers are realizing its importance.

And yet, Chávez is among the most advanced schools in Chicago when it comes to executing blended instructional approaches at scale and has recently committed to implementing competency - based strategies for enabling students to show what they know and move at their own pace through the curriculum.

Turning to the school curriculum, literacy teaching and learning involves knowing how the language system works; being facile at creating, comprehending and interpreting text; and most important, insuring each student ownership so literacy can serve his or her goals (see Figure 2).

They researched the religious affiliations of each school, and looked at the most common curriculum providers.

The district created an Early Success Performance Plan for the pre-K-3 grades that included aligned reading, writing, and math curriculum; ongoing district - designed diagnostic and formative assessments at each age / grade level; extensive professional development for teachers; a prioritized focus on full - day kindergarten and smaller class size for the district's most at - risk students; and both summer advancement and after - school programs for struggling elementary students.

Lorri most recently served as Middle School Director at The Dalton School in New York City, where she oversaw curriculum and program for 500 students in grades 4 through 8.

He has taught avidly at both the university and community level for nearly two decades and in 2013 he opened his own revolutionary art school, The Compass Atelier, to facilitate the teaching of a cohesive art curriculum that takes students through all the necessary elements for artistic success in the most logical, efficient order.

One of the most troubling aspects of the leaked Heartland Institute documents was the revelation that they were planning to create a school curriculum for K - 12 students that «that shows that the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain — two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science» indicates that there is scientific controversy on the core issues of anthropogenic climate change (*).