Sentences with phrase «educational curriculum by»

[104] Students are encouraged to customize their educational curriculum by replacing (with prior approval) core engineering curriculum courses with additional electives, whether within the Mechanical Engineering department or in a different field.

Backward design is a method of designing educational curriculum by setting goals before choosing instructional methods and forms of assessment (Wiggins & McTighe).

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The solution they advocate, therefore, can be said to be «modernist»: it believes in essential structures, and proposes that we recover the old and proper integrity of the undergraduate curriculum by reaffirming the centrality, and hence the authority, of those essential structures of understanding that have been defined by the traditional educational canon.

In a curriculum series for church leaders published by The John Lloyd Ogilvie Institute at my school, Fuller Theological Seminary, I detailed some of the educational challenges we are facing and some potential solutions Christians in particular can undertake in addressing those challenges.

What is significant, in an educational sense, is that this is the first time congregations are recognized by the national agencies as the locale in which curriculum choice must be and in fact is made.

During the course of the last two or three generations the theological curriculum has been «enriched» — like vitamin - impregnated bread — by the addition of a long series of short courses in sociology and social problems, rural and urban sociology, the theory of religious education, educational psychology, methods of religious education, psychology of religion, psychology of personality, psychology of counseling, methods of pastoral counseling, theory of missions, history of missions, methods of evangelism, theory and practice of worship, public speaking, church administration, et cetera, et cetera.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

Developed by educational experts, these curriculum - linked resources encourage pupils to become Food Detectives and to learn about sugar and 5 a Day.

You'll gain practical hands - on experience and a strong foundation in the discipline through an intensive educational curriculum containing the necessary competencies and proficiencies established by the National Athletic Training Association (NATA) Education Council.

Developed by educational experts, these curriculum - linked resources encourage pupils to become Food Detectives and to...

Help your daughter to set goals in her educational activities or other curriculum activities in order to stay away from compromising the future by engaging in risky behavior;

Important rights and entitlements have been removed such as the entitlement to be taught by a qualified teacher, the entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum and the entitlement to access educational experiences which promote opportunity and achievement and are not based on their parents» ability to pay.

«According to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request carried out in March 2011 by the NUT and National Association of Language Development in the Curriculum (NALDIC) almost a third (29.3 per cent) of Local Authorities in England are not holding back the EMAG grant to meet the specific educational needs of minority ethnic pupils.

Their children are, in turn, let down by a failing education system where discipline and educational excellence are not on the curriculum.

The complaint says that in one alleged scheme, Competitive Power Ventures, which has for years been building a controversial gas - fired power plant in Orange County, paid more than $ 287,000 to Percoco in part by providing his wife, Lisa Toscano - Percoco, with a «low - show» job developing an educational curriculum.

Common Core destroys diversity in favor of a national curriculum, controlled by a heavy - handed Politburo - style educational elite.

We need examples of curriculum materials that are informed by practice and research and by what we know about how students learn, and the core concepts that we've agreed all students should learn,» said Malcom, an advocate of a more diverse and inclusive educational approach for students, including those from backgrounds underrepresented in the sciences.

Brooke Blevins, Ph.D., assistant professor of curriculum and instruction and Karon LeCompte, Ph.D., assistant professor of curriculum and instruction in Baylor's School of Education studied the effectiveness of iCivics, a free online website founded by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor that teaches civics concepts using 19 educational games.

As a Guardian, Erica is permitted by Ana Forrest to run two teacher training courses: a 3 - Day Continuing Education for ALL Teachers, and the Forrest Yoga Mentorship Program, a year - long educational and transformational curriculum to support Forrest Yoga Graduates in their continued growth as Forrest Yoga practitioners and teachers.

Vetted by various educational stakeholders, the LVI curriculum currently includes Units of Study from Kindergarten through Fifth grade (www.corestandards.org, 2012).

Teachers can use the resource in the classroom by incorporating it into national curriculum subjects: History, English, Art & Design, Design Technology, Geography, PSHE & ICT Supporting DVDs are available to download separately See what teachers are saying about the Jamaica Hidden Histories educational resource pack: The Jamaica Hidden Histories educational pack is exceptional, a great learning resource, that we have now embedded for ks3 history and ks4 Art.

Designed by Surface to Air and constructed using a Yorkon off - site solution for the curriculum areas, the scheme comprises an 1,800 - place secondary school, a 630 - place primary school, a special educational needs (SEN) school, and a 55 - place nursery.

Staffing in the average CMO home office is dominated by personnel providing educational services (including assessment, curriculum, and professional development) and operations (including finance and facilities).

The device that a student can bring is subject to the minimum system specifications set by their educational institute, in order to meet the curriculum objectives and technology requirements.

They do so by creating rigorous curricula, small class sizes, character education and strong educational programs.

Encouraged by recent educational research, more and more teachers are finding ways to integrate the arts into their curriculum.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

It states (in section 103b): «No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or content of library resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, except to the extent authorized by law.»

The author of the brief, education researcher Gerald W. Bracey, writes that states and schools use NCLB money for testing programs, curriculum materials, and supplemental educational services that are often owned by for - profit companies whose owners or officers are personally connected to the president.

Outcomes Based Education (OBE), as promoted by Spady (1994), is focused on specifying what students should be able to do at the end of a given period of instruction — for example, an educational course or a traditional year - level curriculum.

The report by the data - gathering branch of the U.S. Department of Education compares public schools with nonsectarian, Roman Catholic, conservative Christian, and other religious schools on their relative levels of school - based control, educational missions, curricula, staff sizes, professional development, and teacher compensation.

In research for our book, Understanding by Design (Wiggins and McTighe, 1997), we uncovered 83 different definitions or connotations for the word, curriculum, in the educational literature!

The annual ERA Award Ceremony is run by the British Educational Suppliers» Association to recognise the best of the UK's educational - technology sector.Commenting on the award win LGfL Content Manager, Bob Usher, said, «LGfL are delighted to win this award, especially given the fierce competition from other high - quality and transformational curriculum resources.

The conference was sponsored by the World Forum «Global Education Conference», and she highlighted the need to transform the educational curriculum to meet global level to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations.

In so doing, they «increased inequality by stratifying the curriculum, reduced learning by bargaining down consent, and increased costs by extending the demand for educational credentials well beyond the social requirements for human capital.»

This resource is designed for districts that have decided to implement a systematic approach to incorporating openly licensed educational resources into their curriculum by becoming a #GoOpen District.

A survey of 500 district leaders shows they want educational games backed up by research of effectiveness and that can be easily integrated into existing curricula.

Our curriculum is an open educational resource that can be accessed by any educator in the country.

Arizona's legislature got around the voucher barrier by implementing a program in 20TK that allows eligible families to opt out of public schools and use the money the state would have used to educate them to pay for private school tuition, homeschool curricula, private tutoring, education therapy or other educational expenses.

By combining teacher - student links with the ability to measure achievement gains using common assessments, we could be generating lower - cost, faster - turnaround evaluations of curricula and other educational interventions.

Coleman found that Catholic schools achieve more educational equity than public schools because they follow a rich and demanding curriculum; provide a structured, orderly environment; offer lots of explicit instruction, including drill and practice; and expect every child to reach minimal goals in each subject by the end of the year.

Our content is aligned to current curriculum requirements and is created and curated by experienced educational professionals.

Intense days of filming took place in January and February in six award - winning schools, which were selected to participate in a project funded by a partnership between the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, a nonprofit educational leadership organization based in Alexandria, Va., and Silver Strong and Associates, an educational research and consulting firm in Ho - Ho - Kus, NJ.

Integrating technology into the curriculum is a challenge that is being met by teachers who are comfortable with educational technology.

And Daro is actually writing an entire Common Core math curriculum for use on tablets, to be put out next year by educational publisher Pearson.

Developed by educational experts, these curriculum - linked resources encourage pupils to become Food Detectives and to...

Since 1988, Janet has developed national educational seminars and trainings and presented at conferences sponsored by ASCD, the International Reading Association, the Association of Christian Schools International, and Curriculum Designers / Curriculum 21.

We work side - by - side with principals, teacher leaders, instructional coaches, curriculum specialists, office administrators, and government educational entities to interrupt systemic inequities and ensure that every child succeeds in school every day.

Our online high school curriculum is provided by CompuHigh, an educational institution nationally accredited by AdvancED.

Whereas some educational systems favour traditional topics such as sciences and mathematics or new subjects inspired by technological developments, many educational researchers are calling for soft skills to be represented in school curriculums.