Sentences with phrase «curricular materials»

The «Christian Faith and Life Series» (United Presbyterian) and the Seabury (Episcopal) The Wesley Series (Methodist) and the United Church of Christ Series are examples of curricular materials which reflect contemporary psychologica1 insights without sacrificing solid biblical - historical content.

Perhaps most important, global education's believers exercise a strong degree of influence among textbook publishers, whose teams of multicultural advisors examine curricular materials for hints of bias or cultural insensitivity.

Beginning in the 1930s, a flood of new curricular materials was produced by Beacon Press.

Hirsch had recently launched the Core Knowledge Foundation to develop curricular material; Litt immediately decided that he wanted to employ the curriculum in his school.

Driven by the goals and values of its flagship project, Poetry in America, Verse Video Education develops video and accompanying curricular materials in the arts and humanities and beyond, creating a body of educational content capable of reaching a very broad community of learners: formal and informal, online and residential, young and old, American and international.

Using their own curricular materials, educators create a complete close reading instructional plan for immediate use in their classroom.

The report profiles work in Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington, D.C. to «create the conditions for aligned standards and curricula or to directly develop and scale high - quality, standards - aligned curricular materials, and the results of their efforts.»

Research has shown that in many respects the adoption of quality curricular materials can be a significant accelerator for student achievement.

The optional curricular materials on EngageNY are designed to be adopted or adapted.

Once educators and local (and state) officials see how poorly their kids do on tougher assessments and what the standards really require, they will start looking for better curricular materials and training.

Since these books touch on science, history, social science, psychology, religion, communication and many other topics for secondary and college students, and Sally is an experienced curriculum writer and educator, she is available to co-create curricular materials with instructors wishing to use these books in their classrooms.

The amicus brief contesting this decision argues that the challenged statutes help protect teachers from retaliation, help keep good teachers in the classroom by promoting teacher longevity and discouraging teacher turnover, and allow teachers to act in students» interests in presenting curricular material and advocating for students within the school system.

Each teacher must review all BizTown simulation curricular materials provided to them prior to the Learning Journey.

A search for more effective models is underway, involving more intensive coaching and feedback, buttressed by strong curricular materials.

By making the Core Knowledge Sequence and other curricular materials freely available, we work to put into practice the principle that every child in a democracy should have access to shared, enabling knowledge and language.

I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.

Research also shows that de-tracking reforms help increase student access to challenging curricular materials and high - quality instruction.

COMMUNITY CLASSROOM is an educational resource providing new documentary video content and accompanying curricular materials, lesson plans, and homework assignments, to high school and community college instructors and youth - serving community - based organizations.

For example, teacher leaders might be charged with supporting the implementation of new science curricular materials.

Math instruction will utilize the following curricular materials:

Nationally recognized for its excellence in science education, BSCS is a nonprofit organization that works to improve all students» understanding of science and technology by developing exemplary curricular materials, supporting their widespread and effective use, and providing professional development.

Each teacher must review all Finance Park simulation curricular materials provided to them prior to the Learning Journey.

Each student could access curricular materials at his or her specific level of accomplishment.

Instead, culturally relevant techniques (fifty - nine percent of overall time) included topics like «relating to students» experiences» and «social - emotional learning,» but was wholly separate from curricular material.

Into this mix has walked the Open High School of Utah, a charter school that is offering a virtual education that is based almost entirely on curricular materials available free - of - cost from open sources.

The needed curricular materials have been developed by the Center for Civic Education.

In coming months, Fordham will point to some good examples of textbooks and other instructional materials that are aligned and high quality; other organizations are also gearing up (better late than never) to review curricular materials.

The current adopted curricular materials are filled with worksheets... is boredom a problem?

Reading teachers utilize curricular materials including Lucy Calkins Readers» Workshop approach, Fountas and Pinnell's Continuum of Literacy Learning, and more.

But just as many more have served as models or examples; quick, now, if you attended Sunday school, think back, and some of those teachers will come to mind, Not all imported curricular materials missed the point.

The three best guides to deciding what to teach are your colleagues (either at your home institution or at comparable institutions), textbooks, and Web sites that disseminate curricular material.

The Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) project offers a unique PD model called Faculty Mentoring Networks (FMNs) to train and support college biology faculty in their development, adaptation and / or implementation of quantitatively focused curricular materials and approaches into their classrooms.

So if you accept the idea of equal fit, then it means something radical for the future of education — it means we can not accept a system based on averages; it means we can not accept standardized curricular materials, or simplistic one - dimensional assessments, or fixed amounts of time for learning or one pathway to academic success.»

Professor Howard Gardner and the GoodPlay Project recently released a casebook of curricular materials called, Our Space: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World.

Students spend about half their time on core subjects and work through personalized playlists built around third - party curricular materials.

Downloads of math curricular materials outpace ELA almost precisely two - to - one.

And big funders and nonprofits that care about this stuff: Devise a really powerful version of «Consumer Reports» by which to vet curricular materials (commercial and «open - source» alike) that purport to be «aligned» with the Common Core so as to gauge their validity — and whether they're quality materials worthy of the attention of practicing educators.

I thought, How do I bring drawing into the heart of classroom learning — not as a way to develop artists, but as a thinking skill, as a language that could help students solve problems and enter different curricular material, be it a math problem or a science experiment or the journal of a historical figure?

So let us be clear: While the assessments linked to the Common Core State Standards will be mandatory (for schools and districts in states that choose to use them), the use of any common curricular materials will be purely voluntary.

One math teacher has discovered that creating his own visual curricular materials helps his students.

To do this, we start from the Global Citizenship Education approach, where the creation of alternative curricular materials and activities support our appropriate methodological tool to capture human dialogical constructivist cohesion between different local educational agents: the students, the families, teachers, institutions and the media.