Sentences with phrase «emphasis on curriculum»

Jodie holds a Master's degree with high honors in Education including an emphasis on Curriculum Design and Technology along with an honorable Bachelor's of Science in Human Resource Management.

Our intense emphasis on curriculum and low student - teacher ratio, guarantees each graduate to be thoroughly prepared for their career on the road.

In these hands - on, 2 - part workshops, Pamela Erickson, Librarian and Implementation Specialist for EBSCO Publishing, will conduct distinctly different morning and afternoon training sessions with an emphasis on Curriculum Integration, student interfaces and database content that supports research across the curriculum.

The emphasis on curriculum coherence often extends to support for the use of specific instructional strategies said to work well with the content, learning outcomes and learners.

As students across the country buckle down for standardized testing season, the recent backlash against implementing the Common Core State Standards has illuminated a pressing problem for educators and students alike: our education system's emphasis on curriculum.

BloomBoard CEO & Co-founder Jason Lange explores the U.S. education system's emphasis on curriculum over teacher quality.

Not exact matches

Concordia recently revised its EMBA curriculum to place more emphasis on responsible management.

Instead of following the curriculum of what might be a more traditional conference, ICON places emphasis on building a community among attendees.

Although the percentage of Canadians who accept the modest proposal of putting more content about Asia in the curriculum has now grown to 50 per cent, a stunning 58 per cent oppose putting more emphasis on Asian languages in the school system.

Denominational curriculum writers, editors, and policy makers are in a strategic position to increase the emphasis on positive mental health in their teaching materials.

In it he questioned the emphasis of seminary curricula on educating the individual cleric.

It is true that we have been groping in this direction with our emphasis on «multicultural» education and similar efforts to enrich the curriculum, but they have been too superficial.

Schools belonging to conservative churches, on the other hand, are often very conscious of their Christian grounds, but they typically express this in terms of conservative mores, an emphasis on pious practices, and the teaching of Christian doctrine in the curriculum.

In the fall of 2015, Elm City Preparatory Elementary School in New Haven, Connecticut, one of the founding schools of the Achievement First network, introduced a wholesale redesign of its curriculum that includes an embrace of many of the beliefs and practices of deeper learning, including an increased emphasis on experiential learning and student autonomy.

With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

A thread of creativity runs through all the interdisciplinary classes of a Waldorf curriculum, and the emphasis is on experiential learning and the development of imagination.

Instead of rote memorization of standardized information, the emphasis is on a developmental curriculum that is taught artistically, using movement, drawing, music, storytelling, and rhythm.

One of the appealing aspects of the Waldorf Education curriculum is the emphasis on teaching a foreign language at elementary school, and continuing through all the school years.

I worry that creativity is being squeezed out of the curriculum as the emphasis is being put on regurgitating facts and figures.

I fear that it's being squeezed out of the curriculum as the emphasis is being put on regurgitating facts and figures.

What brings Jeff to PMWS is the emphasis on imagination for the pre-school and kindergarten classes and the comprehensiveness of the curriculum for the grade school students.

«the incredible curriculum»... «the developmental approach to educating the child and the emphasis on nurturing the whole child»... «the well - rounded education with languages, music, art, handwork, and movement»... «it goes beyond «the 3 Rs»»... «the nourishing and holistic curriculum»

I've actually taught anti-violence curriculum, with an emphasis on cyberbullying behavior, and I have to say I have had it.

With an emphasis on child development and a curriculum that incorporates practical, intellectual, and artistic elements, Waldorf education has grown to over 1,000 schools worldwide.

«The emphasis on ensuring that there is high - quality vocational provision would mark an end to the restrictions of the Coalition's narrow, elitist, academically focused curriculum that is stifling the talents and skills of so many of our young people.

«The Common Core Task Force Report has 21 common sense recommendations we've been seeking for several years including reducing the amount of testing and testing anxiety, making sure curriculum and exams are age appropriate and not placing such a heavy emphasis on teacher evaluations and student performance on the standardized test scores.»

We will be talking about the quality of our education, the changes we need to make to our curricula, and the emphasis we have to place on our history and sociology.»

This was apparently the case with his plan to place a new emphasis on spelling and grammar in the primary school curriculum, which was trailed earlier this month.

He said school curriculums should include teaching about sexual consent — with an emphasis on «empowering» youngsters to refuse.

A postdoc or a history of grant funding can help an application, Baube says, but letters and curricula vitae should reflect an emphasis on teaching, «both in their experience and how they structure their application.»

The medical school now includes, throughout the curriculum, an explicit emphasis on the role of well - being, she says.

Donovan said her students» writing skills have improved as a result of the curriculum's emphasis on teaching them to explain scientific concepts.

The curriculum includes media theory, research, policy, planning, and management, with an emphasis on Singapore and Asia.

Still, Gianos said she believes there is great potential to improve patient care through physician education with more extensive emphasis on diet in their core curriculum, self - learning opportunities, and collaboration with dietitians or other health care professionals.

Current curriculum standards in many states place an emphasis on hands - on exploration and active learning.

University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine (UBCNM) provides students with a wonderful opportunity to explore not only naturopathic medicine, which is complemented by our emphasis on generative and integrative care, but also our commitment to cultural diversity and awareness within our curriculum and clinical rotations.

«Emphasis is increasingly being placed on the integration of computers into the curriculum, rather than confining computer use and instruction to just one programming...

Interestingly, the committee's conclusion with respect to exit exams does not pick up on the full report's emphasis on the importance of the design features of incentive systems, which include warnings that tests aimed at ensuring minimum competency may lower expectations, and concerns about both the potential narrowing of the curriculum and the tendency for score inflation on a known test.

Each of us learn in different ways, and that's why our «active learning» curriculum places a big emphasis on physical training and outdoor exercise, alongside more traditional classroom - based learning.»

The top reasons for rocketing stress levels is the emphasis on achieving higher results (70 %), the focus on league tables or performance targets (61 %) and the frequency of curriculum changes (60 %).

This shift has placed greater emphasis on teachers as professionals who are required to make important judgements on the length, breadth and depth of the curriculum that they teach, given the changing nature of their students.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

With a strong emphasis on spelling and grammar, timetables and long division, the new National Curriculum has been heralded as a return to high standards and rigour as we strive to catch up with the world's best performing nations in terms of educational performance.

Successful projects require a school structure that encourages curriculum integration and innovation, with a special emphasis on ensuring that the technology is always on.

In a 2003 report, «The Complete Curriculum: Ensuring a Place for the Arts and Foreign Languages in American's Schools,» a study group from the National Association of State Boards of Education noted that a substantial body of research highlights the benefits of arts in curriculum and called for stronger emphasis on the arts and foreign Curriculum: Ensuring a Place for the Arts and Foreign Languages in American's Schools,» a study group from the National Association of State Boards of Education noted that a substantial body of research highlights the benefits of arts in curriculum and called for stronger emphasis on the arts and foreign curriculum and called for stronger emphasis on the arts and foreign languages.

The school will follow the National Curriculum with strong emphasis on the teaching of Maths, Science, English and Business.

Agreement between school boards and superintendents over achievement goals, an emphasis on the lowest - performing students, and the adoption of districtwide curricula are among the most successful strategies being used in four urban school districts, concludes a report released last week.

A curriculum that prepares students for life and work in the 21st Century is likely to be one that includes an emphasis on: — deep understandings of subject matter and the ability to apply what is learnt; — the ability to communicate and solve problems in teams; — the ability to think critically and to create novel solutions; and — flexibility, openness to change and a willingness to learn continually.

The status of financial education in secondary schools seems not to have increased significantly after being added to the statutory Maths and Citizenship curriculum in September 2014, with 42 % of teachers revealing there had been no change in the emphasis put on the topic in their school.

Because of this, we tend to resist the «one size fits all» approach offered by curriculum - specific magnets and bolstered by the emphasis on testing.