Sentences with phrase «focused curriculum of»

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A report issued by Deloitte in 2011 called for revamping the K - 12 curriculum to expose kids to entrepreneurial concepts, and Stuart says government officials and policy experts are even considering the possibility of specialized, innovation - focused schools.Programs like the lecture series currently offered at Toronto French School that brings in entrepreneurs to talk to students can make a difference, he says.

Desautels» integrated core curriculum focuses on the key tennets of management, with workshops in skills like presentation and analysis.

Valdis Krebs of Orgnet explains that «Schools are still stuck on teaching 20th century math for building things rather than 21st century math for understanding things» and suggests that curriculums focus less on the mathematics of engineering (e.g. algebra and calculus) and more on the mathematics of patterns (e.g. set theory, graph theory, etc.).

Most business schools focus on a core curriculum of finance, accounting and operations.

Based on our research of current financial curriculums, the focus on investing and the inclusion of an entire unit on investor protection makes «The Basics» guide unique among the national curriculums available today.

The core focus of the Merage School's visionary curriculum involves three distinguishing factors: strategic innovation, information technology, and analytic decision making.

She also led the development of HBS's innovative FIELD curriculum, which focuses on learning experiences that are experiential and immersive, with the goal of advancing the School's mission to develop leaders who make a difference in the world.

The purpose of this program is to provide academic institutions Micro Focus training materials for inclusion into their academic curricula and for internal staff development.

Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

The curriculum of the seminary should be determined by and reflect the liturgical life of the church, for the most promising way to reclaim the integrity of theological language as the working language for a congregation is for seminaries to make liturgy the focus of their lives.

Therefore, rather than focusing on the «cognitive and characterological» development of the student, the curriculum of a seminary shoul concentrate on the cognitive and characterological development of the local church.

The focus of its curriculum in the seventeenth century and well into the eighteenth was logic — not formal logic as we understand the subject, but the art of reasoning and living well, and even the introduction of Cartesian logic in the 1680s was seen as a simplified way of discovering certainty and praised for its «use in the affairs of life.»

Aware of the limits of relying on one - to - one counseling and the expertise of the pastor, the pastoral care curriculum has focused increasingly on how congregations provide care and on clergy as developers of networks of care rather than as the chief sources of care.

Brown focuses far more than Kelly does on the structure and unity of a theological school's curriculum.

More often, efforts to deal with fragmentation and pluralism focus on reforming the curriculum of a school.

The complaint may be that the curriculum is too «academic» and insufficiently «Professional»; too «theoretical» and insufficiently «practical»; or, conversely, that it is too single - mindedly focused on producing «Professional ministers» in a certain model and too inflexible to allow individual students to pursue their own intellectual interests; and, above all, that the curriculum consists of too many small pieces of information that are not adequately «integrated,» that it provides not so much a course of study as — in H. Richard Niebuhr's wonderfully wry phrase - «a series of studious jumps in various directions.»

This hands - on program focuses on the business of craft beer, with curriculum developed by key figures in the Chicago craft beer industry and courses conducted at College of DuPage.

I am in the process of recruiting keen individuals from any sporting background to go into schools on a weekly basis and «take over» a Year 7 P.E session, following the curriculum but focusing on building key skills such as communication, trust and teamwork.

By focusing on the day - to - day necessities of a healthy schedule; an engaging, personalized, and rigorous curriculum; and a caring climate, this book is an invaluable resource for school leaders, teachers, parents, and students to help them design learning communities where every student feels a sense of belonging, purpose, and motivation to learn the skills necessary to succeed now and in the future.

Accredited by the German Government and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), the GISSV offers a dual - immersion program that follows ambitious curricula, focusing on science and social studies as well as arts and sports.

With a heavy focus on the importance of hands - on experience for their students, rather than standardized testing, Waldorf teachers help their students to explore curricula through diverse activities, with plenty of room to customize lesson plans.

The River Trails Park District's Expressions Dance Studio is founded with the principles of providing participants with a safe and fun environment where child development is nurtured through both an expressive and structured based curriculum with outcomes focused on skill development, self - confidence and an understanding of dance terminology.

Environmental studies are incorporated into many aspects of the curriculum, with specific focus in areas such as geography, science, creative arts, and the Gardening and Glen Brook Farm Programs.

He said that one of the most powerful sessions in the Quenching curriculum is focused on the partnership between moms and dads, and he mentioned an exercise using LEGOs ® that helps to make the point.

The curriculum at a Waldorf school can be seen as an ascending spiral: the lessons that begin each day, the concentrated blocks of study that focus on one subject for several weeks.

By integrating academics and the arts, the Waldorf curriculum responds to the developmental needs of the child, focusing not only on what children learn, but how they learn.

These sorts of studies led Loosli and Perry to develop a curriculum and philosophy that focuses on three main topics: taking care of the person inside the mom physically, spiritually and emotionally; focusing on family systems, including rules and consequences, family responsibilities and family culture; and organization, including ways to create projects and take action without feeling overwhelmed.

Arts make students smart When children are physically active and creative, they tend to focus better and work more enthusiastically with the rest of the curriculum.

Recently, GFI translated their material to secular publications (e.g., Babywise) This presentation focuses upon four of the teaching modules: Preparation for Parenting, newborns to age four months (PFP); Preparation for the Toddler Years, from five to fifteen months (PFTY); Growing Kids God's Way, for toddlers through elementary school age (GKGW); and Reflections of Moral Innocence, the GFI sex education curriculum for all ages of children.

South Dakota uses the Connections curriculum, which focuses on marriage and relationship communications skills; a 2004 study of the program found marginal success — some students felt somewhat more negatively about divorce and somewhat more positively toward premarital counseling.

This blog focuses on the philosophy of school, which sometimes is also called «restful learning,» or «joyful learning» as well as unique curriculum philosophies as alternative ways to homeschool children.

However, some have suggested that the recent failure makes nonsense of the processes, and emphasizes on the need for focus to be placed on restructuring the school's curriculum.

Focusing on the three decade long revolutionary period of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and sponsored by the British Academy, this project, has gathered original sources to create a university - level online curriculum through which to teach or learn about the Palestinian revolution through the eyes of the participants.

And the measure would have schools consult with state law enforcement officials at the Division of Criminal Justices to create a model curriculum focused on gang violence prevention.

Commenting on the plans, Paul Davies, Head of Policy at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) said: «While it's great to see a big focus on science subjects in the new EBacc, we are concerned that the plans to narrowly prescribe the curriculum in this way will effectively drive subjects like design & technology (D&T), as well as creative and artistic subjects, from the curriculum.

«The English Bac, by focusing on such a narrow range of subjects, may prejudice the National Curriculum review and should not have been introduced before this had taken place.

«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.

Mr McCarthy said teaching was the «foundation for civilised society» but suggested the curriculum was too narrow and the focus of the curriculum could be in the wrong place.

In schools that are focused on achieving high scores on the state tests, she said, the curriculum becomes geared towards test day at the expense of deeper learning.

«The Government has consistently sought to portray GCSEs as «broken» and «dumbed down» qualifications in order to push through its vision of an elitist, narrowly focused curriculum and qualifications system which risks failing to meet the needs of the majority of young people.

He said the focus must be the kind of knowledge passed on to the Ghanaian in at all levels of education so that «moral formation is part of the curriculum.»

Panelists discussed state testing, evaluations, standards, curriculums and what State Commissioner of Education MaryEllen Elia says was a main focus at the event: the pending state budget.

Eva Moskowitz, founder of the growing charter network, said she hopes sharing her curriculum and teacher training resources at no charge will help shift the focus of debates on education from politics to the nitty - gritty of what children need to know, how they learn best and how to pace instruction.

A current focus is matching local curricula to the needs of local employers.

With another grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Roseman and her colleagues are leading work on a new curriculum project that builds on the THSB project to focus on energy concepts in high school biology.

The rubric will also be useful, the researchers concluded, in focusing curriculum developers» and teachers» attention on the importance of engaging students with natural phenomena (or in solving problems) and making sense of them in terms of NGSS core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science practices.

The curriculum focuses on how to recognize symptoms of depression and how clinical depression is diagnosed and treated.

The analysis of curricula looked at the entire range of subjects, while the analysis of textbooks focused on history, government / politics, native language and foreign languages, i.e. subjects that are of significance in matters of national identity and national policy.

TM, a paper in the Focus section considered the best way to train people to function well in a translational science environment, reviewing a University of California (UC), Berkeley and UC San Francisco training program and describing the components the authors believe that any translational curriculum must have: «biomedical technology,» «clinical issues,» and «leadership and technology management» followed by a collaborative capstone project.

Rather than focusing on how games such as World of Warcraft or the socialnetworking services of Twitter and Facebook change our brains, Davidson believes we should foster these newfound skills, building curricula around interactive multiplayer games and training workers using virtual environments.