Sentences with phrase «even curriculum supports»

The TV show is fully integrated with Spin Master's adjacent products — video games, crafts, costumes and even curriculum supports.

Not exact matches

Even if you already have a curriculum there are a lot of ways to expand learning opportunities and provide extra support in areas where your child needs improvement.

Heather Tole, director of grants and government support at The Museum of Discovery and Science, said the museum is continuing with the Science in the Summer curriculum even after the summer term ended.

We have a set of 15 that we will hopefully be releasing by the end of this school year [in the US], along with accompanying student responses and rubrics, but we're also I think even more critically starting to think about curriculum — so thinking about how to support teachers in using these tasks in their classroom but also to go about teaching students to do a better job of evaluating information online.

«Firstly, even though the Australian Curriculum places some value on an aesthetic response to books, reading for pleasure is not something it strongly promotes, so if we want teachers to place a greater emphasis on reading for pleasure in the classroom, this needs curricular support.

Through various projects focusing on professional development in the STEM subjects and digital skills, teachers are provided with support in delivering new elements of a future - facing curriculum, where their students will be working with new technologies and developments that were not even thought of just a decade or so ago.

[xv] So improving the quality of curriculum materials is a very low - cost way to improve outcomes, even if it is the least supported among the options presented by Education Next.

In some cases, even in classrooms right next to one another that share the same materials and curriculum, the exposure of children to high - quality learning and social supports is so dramatically different that one might conclude the difference was planned.

In the latter years of the 20th century, the federal government not only became far more involved in civil rights, surveillance of behavior and misbehavior on educational sites, and financing of education for the less wealthy; in conjunction with the governors of many states, the federal government also played a significant role in testing of students, evaluation of progress toward national educational goals, and even support for the creation and evaluation of curricula and pedagogical approaches, both live and online.

Yet, there is something important and compelling, even unifying, in the idea that no student should be held back from accessing challenging curriculum and that every student should be adequately supported in achieving to their highest possible level.

The message is clear: be sure the support staff members of your school family are fully informed about all important school decisions, even those dealing with curriculum.

«Our findings,» they wrote, «certainly do not support the thinking of those who look to the civics curriculum in American high schools as even a minor source of political socialization.»

He says that the charter environment is unique because there is a general commitment to doing whatever it takes to help students succeed, whether that's through extended school days, remediation classes built into the core curriculum, opportunities for advanced learners or even extra support for families.

«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.

I now know firsthand how uplifting and difficult being a teacher can be, and how myriad policy decisions affect the work I do every day: implementing the rigorous standards known as the Common Core; modifying No Child Left Behind / ESEA to address its shortcomings, such as simplified curricula due to testing; establishing new evaluation systems that rate teacher effectiveness and, I hope, provide us with support and feedback to get even better.

Those who support the Common Core, including some teachers, members of the business community, State Superintendent Dr. June Atkinson as well as Gov. Pat McCrory, among others, say that the Common Core is to be credited for increasing the academic rigor of instructional activities, even though many acknowledge its implementation has been bungled and state budget cuts have hampered schools» ability to properly resource teachers who must shift their curricula to accommodate CCSS.

Even though the goals were stated, there was reluctance from MOE stakeholders to change curriculum and to design schools to support the new direction.

«The only way that schools can make such significant savings is by reducing staff numbers and, as the PAC has spelled out, this will inevitably lead to larger class sizes, fewer curriculum choices for pupils, less support for vulnerable children - especially those with SEND - increased workloads for staff making it even more difficult to recruit and retain them.

In this report, the authors, members of the Teachers Learning Collaborative, present the results of a three - year collaborative effort to create an innovative literacy curriculum framework that would support teachers» dual — and often competing — commitments in literacy instruction: (a) to make sure that all students have the opportunity to learn literacy skills and strategies with texts that are at their instructional level, and (b) to make sure that all students have access to, and instruction with, texts that are appropriate to their age level, even if the students are unable to read such materials without support.

The massive emphasis on new external, standardized exams, often with high stakes attached, has intensified the domination of summative tests over curriculum and instruction — even though the research examined by Black and William supports the conclusion that summative assessments tend to have a negative effect on student learning.

Even a teacher who is content to use geospatial tools at the current, shallow level of representation (Figure 3) will be nudged toward more sophisticated uses, whether via student project work with geospatial tools or by adopting materials produced by teaching colleagues, curriculum support staff, or social studies education researchers.

While there is no substitute for the rich learning experiences present in our schools, students can continue to partake of the curriculum with teacher support even on days when access to school buildings is not possible.

Even with these tools, however, there will be many teachers who do not have the support they need to implement effective, aligned curricula.

Parent testimonials on the CMO's website praise a challenging curriculum, with extensive student and parent support, so that even outside a traditional classroom setting, students still receive a superior education (Ibid.).

We have designed a curriculum that includes basic Mediation and Collaborative Practice trainings for all professionals, monthly meetings, support groups, evening programs and periodic advanced programs.