Sentences with phrase «elementary curriculum content»

• Effectively executed elementary curriculum content, standards, and teaching methodologies including technology.

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She has worked as an educator and now writes academic research content for EBSCO Publishing and elementary reading curriculum for Compass Publishing.

By all means, we should do everything we can to boost those numbers, starting as early as possible, and including common - sense reforms like reintroducing serious academic content to the elementary and middle school curriculum and replicating «no excuses» charter schools like KIPP.

Second, it restates the case for a sequential, content - rich curriculum for America's elementary and middle schools.

As Ruth Wattenberg, the former editor of the AFT's American Educator magazine, explains in her essay, the elementary - school curriculum has been a content - free wasteland for decades, one that grew even more barren in the No Child Left Behind era.

This month, the Council on Foreign Relations issued a report calling in the name of national security for national curriculum - content standards on science, civics, foreign languages, technology, creativity, and problem - solving — for elementary and secondary education.

• The fundamental requirements of each teacher preparation program — admissions standards, content area course requirements, and the alignment of elementary teachers» reading and mathematics curricula with the Common Core standards;

We asked Ruth Wattenberg, former editor of the American Federation of Teachers» American Educator journal, to examine state websites and basal readers from major publishers to find examples of a content - rich elementary curriculum.

Especially at the elementary level, where very little time is spent on science, history or the arts, it's critical the texts that underlie the reading curriculum are carefully selected so they coherently build students» rich knowledge of key content - area topics.

Improving school reform by changing curriculum policy toward content - area instruction in elementary schools: A research - based model.

While studying in the Piscataway communities, LAMB students build upon the skills and content mastered in the lower elementary curriculum and make the passage to abstraction — becoming less dependent on Montessori materials as they internalize the concepts represented by the materials.

A new teacher candidate in Finland, for example, is given a copy of the elementary school curriculum, and the training over four years gives teachers deep understanding of the specific content they will teach at each grade and subject, including all the possible questions and misunderstandings students might have about that curriculum.

Drawing from her work with teachers and administrators to facilitate curriculum development, Angela Di Michele Lalor offers targeted advice and real - life examples from elementary and secondary units of study across a variety of content areas and standards, as well as field - tested rubrics, protocols, and other tools.

This web site, which is part of the NCTM Illuminations project, allows students to challenge themselves or opponents from anywhere in the world by playing games that are organized around content from the upper elementary and middle grades math curriculum.

Betsy Davis, associate professor and chair of elementary teacher education, and Timothy Boerst, clinical associate professor, will discuss their work to identify the content of the practice curriculum to train elementary teacher candidates at the University of Michigan School of Education.

«We also have a good number of coaches, curriculum supervisors, district math leads, and assistant superintendents using the tool to coach their teachers on elementary math content and good pedagogy,» Litow said.

Future curriculum development efforts may need to focus on teaching and learning mathematics content from the elementary level.

Initially these efforts are typically targeted on specific curriculum content areas, such as reading, writing and mathematics, and support for reform typically begins in the elementary schools.

The curriculum is similar for all elementary school students; however, delivery format, group exercises, and content emphasis are modified depending on the grade level of the participants.