Sentences with phrase «curriculum unit on»

Examining the effects of a highly rated science curriculum unit on diverse students: Results from a planning grant.

Examining the effects of a highly rated science curriculum unit on diverse students: Results from a planning grant (PDF).

Earhart also focused her curriculum unit on neuroethics education.

She has developed and published thematic curriculum units on «Young Children Learning About Ancient China Through Archeology, Ancient Nubia and Egypt», and «Learning to Read Nature's Book,» an interdisciplinary project - based unit through the study of the environment and social justice (2005, co-authored with Bisse Bowman).

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Based on our research of current financial curriculums, the focus on investing and the inclusion of an entire unit on investor protection makes «The Basics» guide unique among the national curriculums available today.

Each lesson in this curriculum is a thematic unit based on a letter of the alphabet, a different animal starting with each letter, and a basic Bible truth.

Building on its work at the middle school level, Project 2061 has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to develop a six - week curriculum unit for high school biology students.

The study draws on examples from Toward High School Biology (THSB), an innovative middle school curriculum unit developed by Project 2061 and its partners at BSCS.

«This new curriculum unit is being designed to take on high school - level ideas about atom rearrangement during chemical reactions that build on ideas that are introduced in a companion unit that we developed for middle school students.

The papers also describe key decision points in the curriculum development process and how the pilot test data on student and teacher learning and classroom enactment were used to revise and improve the unit.

The neural engineering curriculum unit he designed helps students understand how BCIs work, based on knowledge he gained in the program and his experience in the lab.

While spending their summer immersed in the field of electrical engineering, Pang and Pike collaborated on the design of two curriculum units focused on circuits, sensors and sensory substitution devices.

But for the past four years, a small group of Seattle - area educators have elected to spend their summers on the UW Seattle campus, conducting engineering research in a CSNE - affiliated lab and developing a curriculum unit to bring the principles of neural engineering to their students.

A «pacing sheet,» a sort of minimum speed limit set by the state education department, suggested that teachers should expect to devote three weeks to a unit on biochemical processes, part of the biology curriculum.

In this unit there are suggestions for activities across the curriculum for books: The Wheels on the Bus, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Brenda and Edward, The Big Storm, Grandma's Secret, Pizza for Breakfast, and Alice and the Birthday Giant.

The most exciting avenue in my experience was to build in a unit on education in our high school social studies curriculum.

By understanding each grade's units of study, we're able to focus our curriculum on grade - level topics.

After noticing second grade students struggling with active listening and peer relationships, we collaborated with classroom teachers to create a second - grade unit focused on our social curriculum and their geology unit.

Ideal for both non-specialist and specialist teachers of primary French who want to move away from schemes which focus on topic coverage at the expense of linguistic progress, each Flexible French unit provides sufficient curriculum content for an extended period.

Linked with this creative curriculum unit (based around oceans and the environment) we devised a survey on Global Warming and analysed the results, and studied the sinking of the Titanic.

NEW 2016 Religious Studies KS3 curriculum assessment based on a unit of work including the following lessons, available in my shop.

Based on the theme of familiar stories, this unit of work would link to your English curriculum and culminates in the children creating their own story mat for Bee - Bot.

The unit plan is based on the Cambridge Secondary Curriculum, but you can use it from Year 6 through Year 11 (as a revision for EFL coursework assignment 2).

Therefore, how you order a unit should not be based on rigid or packaged curriculum, such as textbooks, test - preparation workbooks or scripted programs.

Instead of blocking time for reading or math instruction, McNeely prefers an approach where all teachers focus on a specific unit or theme and connect their curriculum to that theme.

With two pathways available — Music (performance) or Music Technology — the BTEC curriculum allows students to focus on units that are appropriate to their own musical specialism, while exploring topics as varied as ensemble skills, composition, music theory and business.

Curriculum planning meetings: Principals drop in on teachers» unit planning meetings and make suggestions on ways to check for understanding during lessons, in unit tests, and in performance tasks requiring deeper engagement.

In addition, Kim consults, speaks, and teaches courses for school leaders, with a special focus on teacher supervision and evaluation, time management, the effective use of student assessments, and curriculum unit design (in collaboration with Jay McTighe and Associates).

Chesterfield continued to work on more multi-age topic - related units and, following conversations with teaching staff, the leadership team requested the development of a two - year curriculum framework — an ongoing process.

In the third - grade social studies curriculum at Friends School of Baltimore, where I teach, what used to be a mundane, teacher - led unit on Native Americans is now a semester - long PBL unit.

Success is particularly aggressive about a well - rounded curriculum, with units on the Wampanoag, Greek myths, and the American Revolution — all before kids turn ten!

This unit of work describes four one - hour lessons that are based on the Year 5 statutory and non-statutory requirements for «Properties and changes of materials» in the Science Programmes of Study, National Curriculum for England.

Great resource for use as an end of unit test or investigation at KS2 ideally for year 4 or year 6 as specified in the National Curriculum but can be used during any unit on electrical circuits.

Quality unit instruction combined with differentiated instruction transforms «the game called school» into a meaningful journey where learners understand and connect with the curriculum on a daily basis, whether the approach is project - based learning (PBL), Understanding by Design (UBD), or any other unit design that connects a deep understanding of content and a mastery of skills and concepts to real - world contexts.

I believe that after this year, I will be able to reflect on and fine tune my new assessments without having to redesign entire curriculum units.

School officials should reach out to parents of English - language learners and encourage both student and parental literacy, says a study by the Education Policy Research Unit, a division of Tempe - based Arizona State University that conducts research on student - performance standards and curriculum.

Jimmy Casas, a high school principal from Bettendorf, Iowa, who attended the summit, predicts that meeting the #FutureReady challenge will require an expansion in «student - led initiatives that give students a voice in curriculum offerings, school policies, design of classroom and other learning spaces, lesson / unit design, student - led conferences and feedback on teacher effectiveness in the classroom.»

** Exploring Numbers ** This Exploring Numbers Unit for Grade 1 is based on the International Curriculum like PYP, Common Core, KS 1 and more.

Each learning stage has four units and free lesson planning resources, including learning outcomes, suggested activities, information on community and cultural considerations, scene setting scenarios providing real life context, focus questions, assessment tasks and rubrics, teachers» notes, curriculum links and links to additional resources.

This set of integrated, problem - based curriculum units was developed by ConnectEd in partnership with the National Consortium on Health Science and Technical Education.

This is an add - on unit to the Canadian Grade 6 curriculum.

At the grade levels above that, each grade focuses on specific curriculum units of study.

Other units of study focus on geography, world religions and economics (using the Junior Achievement curriculum).

She used to teach a unit on the legends of King Arthur, but feeling the pressure to incorporate more nonfiction into her curriculum because of the Common Core, this year she decided to teach a historical document and landed on John F. Kennedy's inauguration speech.

Ckingeducation provides structured planning sessions were teachers can focus on planning, clarifying units of study and / or curriculum resources.

Fall / Winter Planning: Focuses on clarifying units of study and ensure that curriculum resources and materials support the students that we are currently teaching.

Global Exchange has a fantastic Fair Trade elementary curriculum unit called Sweet Smarts that focuses on cocoa and chocolate.

UbD is based on a backward design approach and is used by thousands of educators to create curriculum units and assessments that focus on developing students» understanding of essential ideas and helping students attain important skills.

«Specialist units that help schools to strongly challenge bullying around LGBT issues and support teachers with supporting students are a great idea... perhaps even a few centres where some vulnerable students can spend some of their curriculum time, on a temporary basis, to support them back in to mainstream school.

Many of these children will go on to attend Pupil Referral Units (PRUs), which have the challenging task of delivering an academic curriculum for pupils with complex learning and social needs, many of who have extreme behavioural problems.