Sentences with phrase «for traditional curriculum»

This may be because online learning programs that deliver content lend themselves to scale more obviously than do tools that surface and engage students» passions, because online learning is being swapped in for traditional curriculum products.

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Of course, the protest against inert ideas and a curriculum of disconnected subjects would be even more telling against an electronic image medium than against traditional school curricula, for the reasons Postman gives.

There was a character education movement in traditional public schools for years, but, apparently, that kind of curriculum didn't seem to change the dynamic that it was intended to improve.

Whether it is traditional learning, classical education, or the Charlotte Mason method we have the resources to help you put together a successful curriculum package for your children.

Tapping the brain's magic With traditional educational methods — its curriculum and its focus on examinations — students quickly lose motivation and interest for science and its magic.

A great way to give continuity to a Montessori preschool at home, supplement a traditional preschool, or for use as part of a homeschool curriculum.

Through the use of the five traditional Montessori Curriculums, we teach appreciation and responsibility for the environment, a sense of cooperation, and respect for others.

The most common preschool philosophy is play - based, which is an umbrella term for a progressive philosophy of education that research shows are the most effective versus a traditional or academic curriculum.

With traditional educational methods — its curriculum and its focus on examinations — students quickly lose motivation and interest for science and its magic.

For example, because there would be such a large gap between the final clinical years and the beginning of medical school, I did not think that a traditional, purely didactic curriculum would be as useful as those that also included a problem - based learning aspect.

The advent of international degree programs, as well as the distinguished traditional curricula at German universities, Fachhochschulen, and arts colleges, provide myriad opportunities for professors from the United States to contribute their topical expertise and teaching methods.

The curricula for all diploma programs in the School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine meet or exceed the licensing standards set by the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of British Columbia.

Finally, Joan Roberts, is a former home economics teacher, inspired us with her vision of a curriculum for the high school and college level to educate men and women of reproductive age to eat traditional nutrient - dense foods for at least six months prior to conception in order to fortify their bodies to give birth to optimally healthy children.

It proposes four distinct types; «know what», «know why», «know how» and «know who», and suggests there is growing demand for the latter three compared with the traditional curriculum of the «know what» category.

Second, the traditional resources I've used for planning — textbooks, curriculum documents, and educational Web sites — have given way to a new and exciting set of tools.

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).

For the thirty - four students who chose to enroll in this inaugural year of the program, arts@newman provides an opportunity to use the arts as an approach to traditional curriculum and educational expectations.

In this randomized controlled study on the impact of the arts on performance in traditional academic subjects, theater arts were integrated into language arts and social studies curricula for fourth - and fifth - grade students (14 experimental classrooms, 14 control classrooms).

For those units where we didn't see a strong fit, we left them as a more traditional curriculum.

School curricula tend to be designed for delivery in traditional classroom settings, at a time when new technologies are transforming how courses are delivered and learning takes place.

Successful schools receive up to # 30,000 to spend on a range of specially created packages, such as multi-sports areas, which can be tailored to meet their needs, for use both within the national curriculum and outside traditional school hours.

An argument for using badges in makerspaces to recognize the skills students gain outside the traditional curriculum.

Third, there are important descriptive questions to understand what goes on in themed magnets — are curricula and instruction different than in traditional public schools, for instance?

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.

Schools continue to be organised on traditional lines with students being assigned to year groups, and teachers delivering the curriculum specified for each year group.

For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a charter middle school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional public high school.

For those who aren't familiar with the School of One, it's a middle school math model that challenges conventions of the traditional teacher marching 30 kids through the familiar 180 day curriculum.

The call by some educators and policymakers for a back - to - basics approach to math and science to improve student achievement is based on a false assumption that curriculum and instruction have strayed from traditional roots, a new report argues.

First came the zealots of social efficiency such as W.W. Charters and John Franklin Bobbitt, who saw the progressive movement as a vehicle for the wholesale ditching of the traditional subject - matter curriculum.

And finally, and most depressingly, he says this: «Traditional proposals for improving education — more money, better curriculum, smaller classes, etc. — aren't going to get the job done.»

Unlike traditional public schools, choice schools often restrict the curriculum largely to mathematics, science, English, a foreign language, history, political science, art, and music followed by all students, which best prepares them for college, careers, and citizenship.

Australia has a moved towards an online national curriculum supported by digital resources, and is already administering sample online national assessment and moving to an online system for full cohort national testing; but at the same time, traditional pen and paper testing remains a feature of many states» final year assessment regimes.

All students had to pass courses in the traditional core curriculum, designed to prepare us for college; we did not have electives, as many students do today.

Outcomes Based Education (OBE), as promoted by Spady (1994), is focused on specifying what students should be able to do at the end of a given period of instruction — for example, an educational course or a traditional year - level curriculum.

This dual mission is evident in the school's modern curriculum and facilities and in a master plan for its 114 acres designed to promote gentle use of the site at the same time it pays homage to traditional Pueblo building techniques.

In the traditional curriculum, students progress through time and what they are taught is determined by where they are on this timeline, for example, Term 1 of Year 6.

A rounded curriculum that balances «traditional» academic study with creative subjects will ensure that youngsters are ready for work, writes the Design Museum's Catherine Ritman - Smith

Successful schools receive up to # 30,000 to spend on a range of specially created packages — such as multi-sports areas — which can be tailored to meet their needs, for use both within the national curriculum and outside traditional school hours.

Progressives and traditionalists battled over the curriculum in the first two decades of the twentieth century (practical vs. «book - based» learning), in the 1920s (project - based, experiential learning vs. traditional intellectual disciplines), in the 1940s (curriculum for personal adjustment vs. curriculum for knowledge and skills), in the 1960s and 1970s (student - centered, open classrooms and inquiry learning vs. teacher - led classrooms and basic skills), and in the 1990s (over standards, as described above).

These Tools for Success checklists detail success criteria matched to the age related expectations for Traditional Tales under the new 2014 National Curriculum for English in Year 1 and 2.

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These Tools for Success checklists detail success criteria matched to the age related expectations for Traditional Tales under the new 2014 National Curriculum for English in Year 1.

Traditional public schools are agencies of the state, so the state can and should decide the standards, curriculum, and method of assessment for those schools.

As an Articulate GURU award - winning developer, he has worked with companies in diverse industries, changing the face of training delivery by conceptualizing, designing, and developing e-Learning, guided and blended virtual learning programs, as well as traditional classroom curricula for more than 10 years.

The traditional education system in China is often criticized for encouraging conformity, being highly examination - oriented, discouraging the development of students» creativity, and bolstering authoritarian teachers for whom the rigid and centralized curriculum is a more important agenda than catering to individual differences among students (Cheng, 2004).

Leaders of The Indianapolis Project School — who teach to a hands - on, «project - based» curriculum — say they aimed to build a home for students traditional schools had cast aside.

The principal delegated responsibility for leading and managing the curriculum development work to traditional subject heads and teams.

In a traditional school, teachers are dispersed in separate classrooms throughout the building, and are basically responsible for implementing the curriculum in their own way.

This school is developing workshops for faculty and lessons for students to deepen understanding of Inuit art and help them connect this traditional art across the entire curriculum.

The study's authors speculate on four potential explanations for the large negative effects that their program evaluation found: misalignment of private school curriculum to the Louisiana State Standards; differences between serving scholarship students with achievement gaps and traditional private school students; success of other education developments, especially in New Orleans; and the overall quality of private schools willing to participate in the program.