Sentences with phrase «discussion about curriculum»

The truth is that there has been very little discussion about curriculum between law schools and law societies for periods of decades.

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).

They help gauge program impact, can illuminate persistent trends, and inform discussions about curriculum / assessment alignment and shared understanding about what represents mastery.

I hope you'll find my musings helpful in some way and that you can use them as a start point for your own discussions about curriculum.

We have had several public meetings, our enrollment is on target, there have been fantastic additions to our Planning Committee, and our sub-committees have engaged in detailed discussions about the curriculum.

Not exact matches

Health and sex education and home economics texts and curricula avoid any discussion of religious ways of thinking about sexuality, marriage, abortion and homosexuality.

Fariña also said she was having discussions with teaching colleges about creating a training curriculum specific to high - needs communities.

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.

This is an ideal poem to meet the National Curriculum requirements: preparing poems to read out loud and perform; learning a wider range of poetry by heart and; participate in discussions about poems.

Responses indicated that research was most likely to come up in conversations about instruction and curricula and least likely to come up in discussions of parents or community issues.

Curriculum: School curriculums need to include discussions and stories about the gender spectrum and transgender people.

If you want to develop a wellbeing program at your school — or learn how to incorporate it into your classroom — read about how School 21 developed their curriculum and created opportunities for discussion.

Although Bloom's pedagogy may not be the perfect solution, it is a launching point for a discussion about how curriculum that uses mobile technology can help to develop higher order thinking skills.

Chia, along with Vanity Gee, a master's candidate in the Arts in Education Program who presented about her work at the MIT Media Lab, participated in a roundtable discussion called «Approaches to Curriculum and Data» which was facilitated by Lecturer Pamela Mason.

Based on the author's experiences as a teacher and as an anthropologist, it discusses how both using and anxiously suppressing race labels (being what Pollock calls «colormute») affect everyday and policy discussions about achievement, discipline, curriculum, reform, and educational opportunity.

Whilst particularly in the primary sector many educators would say that there is an issue with respect to over-crowding of the curriculum, we would be concerned about some of the discussion around removing things such as sustainability and climate change and environmental issues from the curriculum.

Display pictures - Large A4 coloured pictures of things to do with bonfire night and the story of Guy Fawkes Colouring pictures - Large black and white pictures Display border - Each piece is decorated with pictures and can be printed as many times as you need for a display board of any size Songs and rhymes - Six decorated songs and rhyme cards related to Bonfire Night for the children to learn - 2 of these rhymes are number rhymes so would be great for your maths lessons A4 border - Individual A4 sized page with a border - great for adding work to ready for the display or for the children to use in the writing area Questions - Question cards each decorated with colour pictures Topic words - Words about Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night each decorated with fireworks Fireworks - Colour photos of fireworks - great for discussion and displays Houses of Parliament - Colour photos of The Houses of Parliament Counting card - Rocket counting cards Dice game - Two different sheets with a black and white firework picture - roll the die and colour the correct part of the firework Literacy Worksheets - Various worksheets such as completing the sentences about fireworks, true and false worksheet about Guy Fawkes, describing fireworks, writing safety instructions Maths Worksheets - Make the rocket symmetrical, complete the addition and subtraction sums on the fireworks plus blank calculation sheets so you can differentiate the sums Ideas - An ideas sheet with lots of ideas to cover different areas of the curriculum when teaching about Bonfire Night and the Gunpowder Plot Cutting skills - Cut out the parts of the firework and assemble - there are two different sheets Safety Posters - Eight posters about firework safety for the children to colour Picture dominoes - A colour dominoes game Guy Fawkes pictures - Pictures from old documents about Guy Fawkes and the plot Draw the fireworks - A colour and a black and white worksheet Size worksheet - Cut out and order the rockets in size order - in colour and black and white Matching pairs game - Match the coloured Bonfire Night pictures Rhyme - «Remember, Remember the Fifth of November» - A decorated rhyme card

National Curriculum statement (Y6): be able to use simple formulae Fluency - Looking at the methods of rounding and refining technique including questions that will raise discussions about misconceptions.

This could include discussion of how sickness is caused, through exploring books in the archive which explain some common diseases, advice about hygiene and health, as well as resources about bush foods and medicine, which could also be used as part of a science curriculum.

«I look forward to continuing the genuine open discussion with my state and territory colleagues about how to progress the recommendations of the curriculum review.»

At the conference I had a number of interesting discussions about national standards where I pressed advocates to describe the theory or evidence behind the push to nationalize standards, curriculum, and assessments.

Through frequent discussions and special workshops, the education staff of arts organizations learn about specifics of DCPS content standards and other curriculum requirements as well as other pressing topics in arts and humanities education to be able to adapt their offerings to better meet classroom needs and to plan and strategize around approaches to leading the education improvement agenda.

Improving Schoolwide Numeracy A discussion with Judith Richardson, the author of Making the Mathematics Curriculum Count, about improving mathematical literacy, or numeracy, at the middle and high school levels.

Attend this web seminar to participate in a discussion with Tim Hudson, senior director of curriculum design at DreamBox Learning and Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart, about how to identify signs of success when implementing blended learning and how to know your district is headed in the right direction.

I also think we could do a lot better at figuring that out if we could have real discussions about the issue, including distinguishing what is actually «the standard» and what are related, but independent concepts (eg, curriculum, student / teacher paradigms) and more substantive questions like developmental appropriateness, aligning expectations to societal needs — and justifying those needs and that alignment — etc, etc....

If you are a coach or a supervisor, you can use the guide to initiate cross-grade discussions about the use of number lines in order to create coherence in the curriculum.

Questions and answers about how medical instruction is integrated with core curriculum dominated the evening's discussion, but officials also talked about staff certification, professional development, student assessment, the academy's lease agreement and other problem areas listed in Spengler's letter.

Interestingly, after the contract was given to K12, the 30 Philadelphia science teachers who were assigned to develop the new curriculum and identify the best vendor reported that there was little if any discussion about K12's materials.

In an effort to support school leaders in designing learning environments that produce career and college ready learners, Teaching Matters» Fourth Annual Summer Forum for Principals will feature a discussion about the implications of the Common Core State Standards on curriculum and assessment.

However, those conversations have been overshadowed almost completely by discussions about school choice, standardized testing, curriculum content, and order and discipline (Education World, 2017).

Much better to let it be part of the curriculum and have discussions with your own children at home about the content; thus conveying your own viewpoint without overly sheltering them from other viewpoints.

It is important to know as much as possible about the applicant, through review of his or her curriculum vitae, evaluation of the applicant's current level of dental skill and equipment, and discussion of the applicant's desire and commitment toward advanced veterinary dentistry.

The courses that have shown a high - level of quality engagement with industry, he adds, will no doubt be in discussion with their industry partners about the implications for their curriculum that PS4 may bring.

Also available as resources for your discussion are our Family Review and Teacher's Guide for each exhibition, where you will find information about the artists, key questions, and specific curriculum connections.

With the influx of experimental tech courses in law schools across the U.S., we hope that these lessons will aid practitioners developing similar curricula and complement the larger discussion about the role of technology in legal education.

The second part of the conference was a discussion about how to integrate digital lawyering into a law school curriculum so that future legal professionals will have the necessary education to serve their clients using technology.

Southwestern Law School, for example, has incorporated empirical research on lawyers» careers into a class in its mandatory first - year curriculum: «Professionalism explicitly grounds the course through the introduction of case studies of lawyers» careers that have been drawn from empirical research...» 23 Indiana University's Mauer School of Law has introduced a four - credit first - year course on the Legal Profession that similarly involves students in learning about lawyers» careers using empirical research and discussions with practicing lawyers.24 Interestingly, in both cases, the deans of the law schools themselves are part of the professor team teaching these new first - year courses.

The topics of discussion — for it really was almost all discussion and very little one - way lecturing — ranged from how early career lawyers feel about the profession (and how we are in some ways letting them down) to the future of articling (a particularly hot topic in Ontario, as we all know) to how we might infuse a culture of entrepreneurship in how lawyers are trained (including some of the interesting experiments that are taking place at Ryerson) to the more fundamental challenges of incorporating experiential learning into the law school curriculum.

As the preceding Section demonstrates, there has been scholarly discussion about what types of email assignments legal writing faculty can integrate into the first - year curriculum.

There has been a broad ranging discussion going on for several years in the legal academy about how to provide a more balanced curriculum to our students.

Educators and others who work with youth often feel anxious about addressing sensitive issues — defined as those topics associated with strong personal values — in the classroom, whether they are part of a curriculum or surface in a general class discussion.

Typically, the curriculum involves listening to presentations on various topics of married life, writing thoughts and reactions to sets of questions on selected topics and having discussions with one's partner to clarify your attitudes, beliefs and concerns about marriage.

Students will design and receive tailored feedback on developing a curriculum vitae, as well as engage in active discussion about the graduate school application process (e.g., how to search for programs and advisors, determine fit in research interests, pre-application advisor contact, personal statement development) as well as broader career development (e.g., internship and non-academic career opportunities).