Sentences with phrase «curriculum development work»

You will, therefore, need to document extra hours of professional curriculum development work completed in the past 12 months and provide us with samples of your work.

The principal delegated responsibility for leading and managing the curriculum development work to traditional subject heads and teams.

Over the summer, schools and districts often engage in curriculum development work.

He also lobbied on behalf of Competitive Power Ventures, which paid Percoco's wife, Lisa Toscano - Percoco, for curriculum development work.

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The One - Year Executive MBA program offers you an innovative curriculum that combines group work with deep self - development insights and strategic know - how.

The Kode With Klossy Career Scholars will work through Flatiron School's online Full Stack Web Development curriculum using Learn.co.

We use a character development curriculum to build the virtues of self - control, confidence, respect, and team work.

She worked at IBM as an education consultant in educational software development and curriculum for K - 8.

Previously, she taught as a class teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School for five years and served there as a mentor on the Teacher Development Committee; she also worked with that school's administrator on curriculum - related projects and offered teacher support.

-- Discover what eurythmy reveals about human development — Work your way through the development of the child by means of exercises appropriate to each developmental phase — See how the Waldorf curriculum comes to life through movement and gesture — Learn about the interplay between eurythmy and academic experiences — Acquire the language and understanding to talk about eurythmy to Waldorf parents in a valuable way — Work, play, laugh, and have fun!

Following the training and curriculum development, on a daily basis the AD will work with any or all of the camp groups to facilitate and support planned activities with other camp staff.

Tia is also involved in all aspects of the sanctuary's educational programming — developing curricula and interpretive materials, developing and implementing classroom teacher professional development, working on numerous grants in communities and schools, and developing and teaching natural history and food - based programming.

Faculty and board work actively with the insights of anthroposophy as expressed by Rudolf Steiner, pertaining to child development, pedagogy and curriculum, self - development, and governance.

The parenting curriculum covers topics such as sleep & naps, feeding & introducing solids, temperament, infant development, family dynamics, maintaining an identity while being a mom, returning to work or beginning at - home motherhood, and more.

Laura has a special interest in early childhood development and has worked in preschools and her own child - care business, creating hands - on, science based curriculums for toddlers, preschoolers and young 5's.

Anna taught as a class teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School for five years and served there as a member of the Teacher Development Committee; she also worked with the Green Meadow administrator on curriculum - related projects and offered teacher support.

After that, the facility works through the Development, Dissemination, and Designation phases, accessing technical assistance from Baby - Friendly USA, Inc. and receiving feedback on submitted policies, curricula, etc..

The teacher works with a team of educators to implement a multi-sensory, hands - on / minds - on, nature - based science curriculum; incorporating emergent language and math experiences along with creative arts, music, cooking and the development of social skills.

Together we'll address child development questions and ways to work with the curriculum as you use these activities to support your work in the classroom.

Ana Cordova is a research assistant at AAAS Project 2061 and works on its curriculum and assessment research and development efforts.

After this opening, the approximately 400 attendees — including deans, career development professionals, graduate students, postdocs, and others who are invested in the biomedical workforce — got to work brainstorming and discussing how to improve five specific areas: diversity and inclusion, mentorship, interaction between academia and industry, data collection, and curriculum.

In 2004, he signed on with KCP Technologies, the developer of The Geometer's Sketchpad, where his work involves writing grant applications and curricula, as well as «everything from doing professional development, to writing journal articles, to thinking about updates to Sketchpad, to dealing with the Board of Education in New York,» he says.

For teaching, your CV should list all courses taught; involvement with graduate students (lab experiences, theses, dissertations — as a committee member and adviser) and noteworthy research accomplishments of undergraduates; supervision of postdoctoral scholars and researchers; curriculum development; advising load and work with student groups, committees, or task forces; teaching and research awards and other major accomplishments.

The actions we are taking include (1) the development of new sustainable chemical technologies to reduce the magnitude and the impact of society's chemical and energy activities, (2) the development of a new multidisciplinary effort, The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry (http://bcgc.berkeley.edu/) to organize and enhance sustainability activities on our campus and to reach out nationally and internationally for coordination and best practices transfer, and (3) the reconfiguration of the delivery and content of our educational curriculum and activities at all levels to emphasize sustainable green chemical practice, concepts and awareness so that all members of our profession advance the sustainability of our society through their work and decisions.

The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars (TWC), for example, provides students from around the world with hands - on work experience in the nation's capital combined with an academic curriculum, civic engagement work and leadership development.

Throughout his career he has worked extensively in higher education accreditation focusing on strategic planning, compliance, curriculum, assessment, policy development & administration.

As part of Project WeCan, Lane Crawford works with Lok Sin Tong Yu Kan Hing Secondary School to provide its students with a wide spectrum of support, care and education from extra-curricular teaching, curriculum development, career planning and work experience.

She has been working in the field of education for twenty years which includes management of various K - 12 education programs, development of project - based learning programs, research and evaluation and the development of anti-bias and social justice programs and curricula.

In 2004, I became involved in a professional development with SCALE, a group of educators and curriculum designers who were working on redesigning widely used curriculum to make it more inquiry based.

The results of this survey are predictable: protests about narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, inadequate professional development, unfairness toward disadvantaged and minority youngsters — and toward hard - working teachers themselves.

Help can include targeted, high - quality professional development; curriculum improvements; additional time for student learning after school or in the summers; establishment of wraparound services, including community school models; redesign of schools to support personalization and more authentic work in classrooms and internships; or pairing of struggling schools with successful ones serving similar students.

We, together with the Royal Academy of Engineering coordinated the development of the new Computing curriculum on behalf of DfE, working in close collaboration with CAS.

The central focus of professional development and training for teachers and principals should be the educator (teacher or principal) who as a person lives and works within an educational, social and political context in differing ways and engages in curriculum decision making and leadership in unique ways that must be respected and celebrated — there is no sense in a «one - size fits all» approach to training and development;

The book represents a culminating work of the ArtsLiteracy Project, a project that develops curricula and professional development practices based on the premise that linking literacy and the arts creates powerful learning opportunities for students both in core academic subjects and in the arts.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Over much of 1998 and 1999, HGSE Research Associate Shari Tishman and fellow researchers at Harvard Project Zero (PZ) worked with the MoMA Department of Education to plan and complete a full - scale, formal evaluation of the Visual Thinking Curriculum (VTC), and lay the groundwork for the development of a revised version of the VTC.

Implementing it in high school requires six strong academic departments working together, comprehensive curriculum development, and extensive teacher training — almost retraining, sometimes abroad.

I was in charge of a huge curriculum - development project, and Max was working as an expert on sabbatical from the University of Chicago.

As important as better assessments are, they must work in tandem with high - quality curriculum; meaningful, job - embedded professional development; and all the other pieces that will support educators preparing to teach to these new standards.

«IL's unique curriculum, with its emphasis on organizational leadership and adult development, is vital for teachers who take on these leadership roles working with and advising colleagues,» Boles says.

Hence, whether you are going into teaching, policy making, curriculum development, research and scholarship, administration, social entrepreneurship, new educational media, or some other field — I suggest that to the extent that you see yourself as committed to the «civil rights struggle of our time,» you should work to empower youth rather than solely to advocate or act on their behalves.

We were lucky enough to get an eLearning Grant at the end of 2012 which gave us some sort of impetus to do a lot of the work in terms of development of the literacy and numeracy curriculum, but a lot of the other work has been ongoing in terms of developing the skills gap plans and developing some of the work around what that framework looks like and the assessment procedures that sit in and around that - so the frequency at which we're testing.

L&T graduates are working as teachers, teaching coaches and mentors, department heads, curriculum specialists, outdoor education directors, technology specialists, professional development consultants, and much more, often pioneering new and dynamic roles within their existing institutions.

Edwards prefers having 80 minutes of professional development time for creating and fine tuning their master schedule and working with the curriculum long term plan.

«While we have used the Internet before as a place to extend our work, for example through online discussions,» Barry Joseph of Global Kids explains, «Teen Second Life has offered us the first place online where we can bring the entirety of our youth - development curriculum, without cutting corners, and then take it in new directions.»

Forest Schools is different in its approach as the programmes are worked out in detail in consultation between school and Forest Schools practitioners, and are integrated within the curriculum of individual children's needs through assessments of holistic development phases.

Most states provide professional development, but the RAND researchers did not find other clear examples of state departments of education working to make explicit connections between professional - development providers and specific curricula.

She was previously the Director of Curriculum and Staff Development at the International School of Bangkok for 11 years and has worked as an educational consultant training teachers and administrators in the US and internationally in school improvement, learning focused curriculum, and teacher lCurriculum and Staff Development at the International School of Bangkok for 11 years and has worked as an educational consultant training teachers and administrators in the US and internationally in school improvement, learning focused curriculum, and teacher lcurriculum, and teacher leadership.

The linchpin of the state's work has been providing incentives for districts and schools statewide to adopt and implement a high - quality and coherent curriculum, particularly in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics, and to use that curriculum as the hook on which everything else hangs: assessment, professional development, and teacher training.

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.