"Curricular decisions" refers to choices and plans made by educational institutions, such as schools or universities, about the subjects or courses offered to students as part of their academic program.
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The mission of the Reading / Literacy Added Authorization is to prepare teachers to be fluid in
making curricular decisions about teaching reading and how to meet the needs of students with varying language communication backgrounds.
Apparently, CCSSI needs to reassure the public that the new standards allow local districts to make
key curricular decisions.
Teachers have no First Amendment free - speech protection
for curricular decisions they make in the classroom, a federal appeals court ruled last week.
The Bayou State is supporting local control while helping districts make informed
curricular decisions with the help of practitioner - based textbook evaluations.
This process is challenging but invaluable to effective teaching, and it puts
curricular decisions on a sound basis.
Still, the PDK question is of interest, because it tells us that opposition to Common Core is likely to rise if it is perceived as interfering with
local curricular decisions.
In my years in this field, time and time again, I sadly see exclusion of teachers — and students — in
big curricular decisions.
In a system that prizes local control
over curricular decisions, 10,000 school boards will be making the most critical calls over Common Core implementation.
This example described another external barrier where the IT Department / Administration
imposed curricular decisions across grade levels, taking the pedagogical decisions away from the teachers.
I. Demonstrates knowledge of different student backgrounds, experiences, learning abilities, languages, and cultures and incorporates this knowledge
into curricular decisions and instructional methodology.
Features that enhance learning for one student can easily hinder it for another,
so curricular decisions and opportunities need to be made available in a wide variety of formats.
In fact, not only do I have more funding than I can spend in one school year, I am the sole source of
English curricular decisions for the entire school.
The Education Next authors suggest the opposition will fade if states reassure the public «that the new standards allow local districts to make
key curricular decisions.»
Systemic racism is manifested through
the curricular decision — made by school boards and academic councils — not to include lynching in many U.S. history textbooks despite its prevalence.
Many of the new breed of home - schooling parents, even if they do not become dues - paying members of home - schooling political organizations, still need help with pedagogical or
curricular decisions, playmates for their children and companionship for themselves, and opportunities to get out of the house for a while.
The previous posts on curriculum led readers from the upper levels of the educational system — federal and state policies — down to
curricular decisions made «in the trenches» — in districts, schools, and classrooms.
Curricular decisions are shared across education's systemic levels.
We make
curricular decisions, we fundraise, we set budgets and make hiring decisions, and we are nimble enough to respond to the varying needs of our schools without being bogged down by bureaucracy.
Ullman says: «If we keep making
curricular decisions that impact hundreds of thousands of kids, if we're making these decisions that impact huge groups of the school community based on assumptions, based on ideas with no actual research backing them up, based on fear — that's just curricularly - irresponsible.»
These four types of influences affect each other as they help determine
the curricular decisions made by school boards, administrators, teachers, parents, and students.
Awareness that all educational and
curricular decisions are value - laden and that teachers play an important role in critically examining and questioning ways that the normative culture can impact policies and practices, particularly regarding education
Local school councils, consisting of teachers, parents, and school administrators, were empowered to make
curricular decisions that would lead to greater responsiveness to the diverse needs of students.
Data were collected through field notes and unstructured interviews covering seven categories: (1) teacher assessment; (1) teacher self - perception of professional growth; (3) academic challenge; (4)
curricular decisions; (5) instruction; (6) classroom environment; and (7) classroom management.
The agreement essentially reverses a top - down approach to reform, giving individual schools local power over matters such as redesigning their governance, tailoring union contracts, lengthening the school day or making
curricular decisions that lift student achievement.
Then we map that set of high expectations on to a set of systems and
curricular decisions.
Though this is clearly a safe political choice, particularly in a state in which bilingual education is a highly politicized issue, it is a choice that leaves local districts without adequate guidance to make
the curricular decisions that will best serve the needs of all students.
«The purpose of the state mastery exam should be to gather student data to inform local and state policymakers in making programmatic and
curricular decisions in advancing student growth and achievement,» Waxenberg continued.
Trustees approve an update to the Environmental Policy that requires the College to consider sustainability in budgetary, planning and
curricular decisions.