Sentences with phrase «curriculum decisions about»

This assumption is built into teacher hiring practices, into ways schools deal with parents and communities, into whether and how schools connect with kids, and into curriculum decisions about which courses will be offered and to whom.

Not exact matches

In earlier models, decisions about the curriculum were made for the students.

Advice to New Home Schoolers Practical advice about finding a homeschool curriculum, finding a support group, dealing with people who question your decision to homeschool.

We've designed, trained, and proudly teach the ProDoula Childbirth Education curriculum for those who wish to have all the information possible to make their decisions about the type of birth they are planning for in the smallest possible commitment of time.

Designed to teach young children about the importance of building healthy bodies and saying «no» to substances that can hurt them, the curriculum helps children develop positive feelings about themselves, and gives them practice in making appropriate decisions in the face of peer pressure.

«That this House notes that young people today grow up in an increasingly complex financial world requiring them to make difficult decisions for the future, often without the necessary level of financial literacy; believes that financial education will help address the national problem of irresponsible borrowing and personal insolvency and that teaching people about budgeting and personal finance will help equip the workforce with the necessary skills to succeed in business and drive forward economic growth; further believes that the country has a duty to equip its young people properly through education to make informed financial decisions; and calls on the Government to consider the provision of financial education as part of the current curriculum review.»

«I want local parents, teachers, and school boards to make the decisions about curriculum and assessment.

«We should let the local teachers and parents and school boards make the decisions about standards, curriculum and assessment,» he continued.

«Let the local teachers and parents and school boards, the people who care the most about their local school children, make decisions about standards, curriculum and assessments,» Hawkins said.

«Let the local teachers and parents and school boards and people who care the most about their local school children and the make decisions about standards, curriculum and assessments,» Hawkins said.

The curriculum's purpose was not to lead students to a predetermined best answer but to raise their awareness about making responsible and reasoned decisions, said Xin Zhang, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of Illinois and the lead author on the paper.

Children who participate in collaborative group work to learn about significant social issues become better decision - makers than their peers who learn the same curriculum through teacher - led discussions, a new study finds.

Based on this expertise, they are expected to engage in scholarly endeavors, such as consuming and producing research, and are provided tremendous autonomy to make decisions about curriculum, instruction and assessment in their classrooms.

Leadership and management reside at the school level, with decisions about curriculum and assessment residing with the faculty.

How can educators make informed decisions about the quality of curriculum materials?

Imagine teaching math or reading without a curriculum; each teacher would be on his or her own, making decisions about what students need to learn.

She asked me how I had used data to make decisions about curriculum and instruction; she referenced techniques from Teach Like a Champion, Dr. Robert Marzano's «What Works in Schools» series, and Paul Tough's book about grit; and she quizzed me on formative and summative assessments, SMART goals, token economies, differentiated instruction and adaptive technology.

Palmer has created a Web site to support her campaign to improve the quality of British primary education by returning decisions about curriculum to the professionals — the teachers — who know best!

Decisions about changes you may want to make to the yearly expectations when putting your curriculum online are also noted.

Much evidence suggests that school decisions about curricula (e.g., textbooks, instructional software, and the corresponding pedagogy) can have comparatively large effects on student achievement.

Educators need specific skills to participate in meaningful discussion about curriculum and instruction, make decisions about resources, and recognize when change is happening (and when it isn't).

Josh Dunn talks with Education Next about a state court ruling overturning a decision by the Seattle school board to adopt a progressive math curriculum.

By being able to consider all the necessary goals of a 21st Century curriculum at one time, policy makers, curriculum designers, teachers, and parents can more effectively make decisions about the future of education.

Curriculum materials with detailed information that supports teachers in making instructional decisions may help teachers themselves learn about content, pedagogy, and student learning.

Then there's the school districts that have to make adoption decisions about these curriculum materials.

Assessment affects decisions about grades, placement, advancement, instructional needs, curriculum, and, in some cases, funding.

«Australia is investing record funding in education that will continue to grow, all targeted based on need, and the Turnbull Government is focused on improving student outcomes through measures we know are effective — teacher quality, a better curriculum, greater parental engagement and support for principals to make local decisions about their local school,» he said.

«While those five factors are not representative of all schools it's helpful for teachers to know that these are the different ways students think about responsibility so that in their engagement with students and the way they structure their curriculum, develop policies in schools, this is part of the knowledge base that can inform their decision making.»

Likewise, David Stolier, an assistant state attorney general, said that «the courts ought not to be making decisions about curriculum,» noting the state supreme court had ruled «it's not the role of courts to be micromanaging education.»

Advocacy for teacher professionalism and expanded leadership roles is based on the understanding that teachers, because they have daily contacts with learners, are in the best position to make critical decisions about curriculum and instruction.

In particular, I'm interested in learning more about the ways schools engage students in things such as decision - making, school governance, curriculum design and assessment of learning.

Developmentally responsive Using the distinctive nature of young adolescents as the foundation upon which all decisions about school organization, policies, curriculum, instruction, and assessment are made.

Does this school have formal and informal policies and structures in place to engage parents and communities in school decisions about programs, curriculum or budgets?

The latest draft of proposed common academic standards offers more - detailed expectations of what students should know and be able to do by the end of high school in math and language arts, but also notes that some decisions about curricula should be left to individual states and schools.

As Waters explained to the Los Angeles Times last year, «Now we need a curriculum that's about ecology and about gastronomy so that we can make sure that children are making the right kinds of decisions for themselves, and for the planet.»

The message is clear: be sure the support staff members of your school family are fully informed about all important school decisions, even those dealing with curriculum.

When teachers share leadership for instruction, they actively participate in decisions about curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

The standards are not curricula; they spell out the skills and knowledge students should have by grade, but decisions about how to teach those skills and what classroom materials to use are left to states and local school districts.

Rather than treating instructional decision making as an individual activity, our analysis suggests that is a process that is simultaneously enabled and constrained by policies, curriculum tools, and logics about the purposes of differentiation.

Here we examined what district administrators (e.g., superintendents, assistant superintendents, curriculum and assessment directors) from the 18 site - visit districts had to say about data use for decision making at the district and school levels.

West Virginia education officials on Wednesday retreated from an earlier curriculum decision that expressed doubts about widely held views of climate change.

We asked principals and vice principals about the principal «s leadership in areas such as student achievement goals, vision for the school, and student learning; making decisions about instruction; leadership distribution in the school; professional development experiences for principals and teachers; curriculum and instruction; school culture; state and district influences on administrators «and teachers «work in the school; and the impact of parents and the wider school community.

Currently, state and local education agencies control decisions about teacher certification requirements, staffing ratios, required seat time for students, and school curricula.

Teachers — Everyday students are subjected to a range of decisions made by teachers about grading, curriculum, behavior management, and relationships with students.

«Every decision I make about curriculum is based on the Core, what I need to teach them.

As per Weingarten: «Over a year ago, the Washington [DC] Teachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT program here].

# 2 Strong leadership teams involve teachers in decisions about curriculum, assessment, instruction, and professional learning

A Conservative party spokesman said that decisions about what was in the curriculum should lie in the hands of those «who can be held to account by parents at the ballot box — not unelected bureaucrats as proposed by the Lib Dems».

In every decision I made about the schools I led — be it professional development, program development, school culture, instructional focus and feedback systems, or curriculum design — any idea or insight I had was always sharpened and strengthened by including my colleagues in the conversation.

So we began simply by asking fundamental questions about who gets to make key decisions about new hires, schedule, curriculum, culture, and budget.