Sentences with phrase «existing school curriculum»

The lessons are designed to function as a stand alone math curriculum, say for a home school situation, or they could supplement an existing school curriculum.

Teaching Tolerance, an initiative through the Southern Poverty Law Center, provides free materials to emphasize social justice in existing school curricula.

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School Gardens Two schools in the district — one elementary and one high school — have their own gardens and corresponding curriculum exists for each School Gardens Two schools in the district — one elementary and one high school — have their own gardens and corresponding curriculum exists for each school — have their own gardens and corresponding curriculum exists for each grade.

Cholesterol, fat, sugar, salt and high - calorie foods have a stigma attached to them that did n`t exist when reading, writing and «rithmetic were the basic school curriculum.

The review of existing research on the AP program was undertaken by Denise Pope with Madeline Levine, both co-founders of Challenge Success, a research - based organization at Stanford University that develops holistic curriculum, conferences and other programs for parents, schools and students.

«By autumn this year, schools will have introduced new safeguarding advice in staff recruitment, ensured their practices comply with new freedom of information policies, made decisions on new pay policies, adopted new codes of practice for special needs pupils, introduced an entirely new curriculum, redesigned assessment and ensured every primary school is ready to offer free school meals to infants regardless of existing kitchen facilities,» he said.

Reacting to the publication of the review, BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson said: «Whilst of course we welcome the recommendation that teaching about religions in schools remains a statutory requirement, we continue to support the addition of RE, the contemporary subject in which such teaching occurs, to the national curriculum, which would end the pattern of varying quality across schools that currently exists.

The new lessons in natural science subjects were simply added on top of the existing subjects, thus overloading the school curriculum.

«We would encourage schools to ensure that science - related extra curricula activities, including school visits, are targeted to reach all students, not just those in the «top» sets, to avoid reproducing existing inequalities,» comments co-author Dr Jennifer DeWitt.

The team at Eden worked with Stephen Downes of nearby Lostwithiel School to work on ideas of how best to incorporate outdoor learning into lesson plans for the existing curriculum.

Either we will reach a point where it is understood that PE has to exist for young people to be well enough to learn and equipped with the interpersonal skills needed to succeed in their school lives and beyond, or PE could completely disappear from the curriculum.

There exist four major ways to develop global awareness within the international schools: 1) curriculum design which embraces themes of awareness, empathy and a more holistic educational approach; 2) the use of technology that fosters connections between classrooms and destinations around the world; 3) social action projects that use service - based learning to create a deeper awareness of global issues; and 4) extra-curricular projects that offer a variety of tools to promote global citizenship.

It should consider many factors such as IT that already exists in the school, finance, curriculum and pupil age, to create a holistic strategy for the 21st Century.

Lecturer David Rose, Ed.D.» 76, hopes and believes that he and his colleagues are part of a revolution — a revolution called Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which is increasingly taking hold in schools and school districts across the country and seeks to design curriculum from the outset that can accommodate all types of learners, rather than retrofitting existing curriculums on an ad hoc, as needed basis.

In the case of academies and free schools, it should not be used to teach existing PE curriculum.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

During this hour, act as though you worked in the greatest school that ever existed, with fabulous colleagues and administrators, policies you agree with, a rich and exciting curriculum, and kids who are motivated to learn and eager to behave.

Level 2 assumes teachers and children have worked through our Level 1 series, however individual units and lessons such as this can also be used as standalone resources being used to compliment a school's existing curriculum.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new investment of $ 1.7 billion for K - 12 education over the next five years, with the bulk of the funding aimed at existing traditional public schools that show progress in improving educational outcomes, the development of new curricula, charter schools focused on students with special needs, and «research and development» for scalable models that could inform best practices.

Not surprisingly, these approaches are outmoded in this new world and can end up hamstringing virtual schools by tying them to existing authorization regimes, salary schedules, certification requirements, textbook adoption processes, curriculum development processes, assessment procedures, and accreditation regimens.

Reworking the school curriculum, testing students» numeracy levels and maintaining existing approaches to teacher professional development are unlikely to produce world - class improvements.

Surely, a school district could allow a public academy to use assessment measures better aligned to its SEL curriculum and standards framework than an existing model — but in addition to, not a replacement for, state and host district assessments.

Existing schools around the world simply disprove ed - school propaganda that a definite core curriculum, such as Kandel advocated for the sake of equal opportunity and national solidarity, must be connected to a lecture style of teaching.

Lamenting schools» preparedness for the transition, one teacher tweeted, «We start testing on standards we're not teaching with curriculum we don't have on computers that don't exist.»

John Cater, author of the report, commented: «There are worrying signs that the profession is failing to attract enough entrants and failing to retain existing teachers in sufficient numbers and with appropriate specialisms to deliver the revised curriculum to a rapidly increasing school - age population.

Maybe preceding such questions, we can add a dozen years of school curricula, delivered in places where the walls that so often exist between and among the disciplines have been folded.

Lamenting schools» preparedness for the transition, one teacher foreshadowed the implementation challenges ahead by tweeting, «We start testing on standards we're not teaching with curriculum we don't have on computers that don't exist.»

In other words, the policy response has been to confirm existing practice — to set clear curriculum expectations for each year of school and to judge and grade all students on how well they achieve those expectations.

The approach includes: adapting the existing curriculum to make it more relevant to rural environments - there is a particular focus on practical learning; teacher recruitment and training; and involving parents in school management and teacher training.

Students Taking Action Together (STAT) is a pedagogy tailored to help middle school students plan and, when appropriate, engage in feasible, personally meaningful social action within the existing social studies, history, civics, and current events curriculum.

This is in part due to the creative manner in which free schools have converted existing sites to suit their needs; for example Heyford Park free school is located on a former RAF airbase in Oxfordshire and has even incorporated the base's history into the curriculum, whilst Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form has just completed its move into Norwich's disused fire station.

She came to the Ed School hoping to learn ways in which alternative education curricula could be integrated into existing education policies.

And it protects public education from a nightmare scenario already developing in many schools, described by one teacher from California and relayed by Weingarten to the audience: «Within a couple of years, «we start testing on standards we're not teaching with curriculum we don't have on computers that don't exist.»»

A group of grade - level teachers, physical education teachers and counselors will analyze scholarly resources to determine how to integrate food, nutrition, health and culture (while maintaining Park City School District's rigorous academic standards) into existing curriculum.

He argues that the achievement gap between minority and white students can not be closed using existing models, which he sees as designed for standardization in teacher training, student grouping, curriculum design and school building layout.

Level of support may range from review and feedback on existing programs and / or materials (or drafts) to developing curriculum and assessment resources based on criteria developed by or with a school or program.

To proclaim that one test and one set of curriculum standards, the Common Core, can provide meaningful data about whether a child is college and career ready, that is, ready to attend one of the over 4,400 colleges and universities in the US or pursue one of the tens of thousands of careers that exist or those that don't but will by the time this year's preschool class, the class or 2029 or 2030 graduates high school, is educationally bankrupt.

Mitchel, the Bellwether analyst, said it's noteworthy that the KIPP schools align their preschool and early elementary curricula, particularly given that most elementary and preschool programs exist in silos.

Although CPD exists in English schools, sessions are often about curriculum changes, Ofsted and Prevent training, experts told the committee.

Solomon Schechter's principal found Eureka Math during the 2015 — 2016 school year after teachers realized their existing curriculum wasn't adequately aligned with college - and career - readiness standards.

A «lighthouse school» is an existing public school or a public school planned before July 1, 1997, in a priority school district that (1) has a specialized curriculum and (2) is designed to promote intradistrict and interdistrict public school choice.

Beginning with the 2010 - 2011 school year, the Department of Education shall incorporate the course curricula recommended by the Commissioner of Education, pursuant to subsection (1), into existing requirements for the continuing education or inservice training of instructional personnel.

Activities also include: the use of new or existing technologies to improve academic achievement; the acquisition of curricula that integrate technology and are designed to meet challenging state academic standards; the use of technology to increase parent involvement in schools; and the use of technology to collect, manage, and analyze data to enhance teaching and school improvement.

The SOTA House, with about 250 students, brings together the school's existing strong program in visual and performing arts and extends the program into the core curriculum.

We can support state education agencies, school districts, and tribes as they work together to implement Indian Education curriculum mandates or modify existing curriculum to make it culturally relevant.

One, he thinks that social justice exists outside the jurisdiction of school curricula, and second that those who would teach social justice approach it only from a liberal perspective.

- the end of MCAS as a graduation requirement; - the redesign and streamlining of the existing test; - the use of MCAS for diagnostic purposes only; - review of MCAS and the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks by professional education associations; - an independent review of MCAS for validity and reliability; and - a comprehensive assessment system for schools.

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(3) Adaptions or modifications in existing curricula or instructional approaches which allow the student to develop skills necessary to make a transition from the school environment to community life and employment.