Sentences with phrase «freedom on the curriculum»

For those that found autonomy to have a positive effect, most cited freedom on the curriculum (63 per cent) and control over resources (60 per cent).

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The reading curriculum, drawn from classic texts in the Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish traditions, will touch on major themes according to the classical understanding of freedom and its relationship with truth, religion, the public interest, and other important concepts (see syllabus below).

Through a curriculum based on the developmental stages of the human being and on the integration of art and academics, our children learn to meet the world with clear and creative thinking, compassion and moral strength, and with the courage and freedom to act.

«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.

Or to be more specific: when Balls takes the need to respect diversity away from the curriculum of faith schools, he takes away the freedom of vulnerable, young children to explore their desires without being crippled by the stigma and idiocy which faith will impose on them.

For primary schools, the removal of assessment levels and a «freedom» to assess and track their students» progress using whatever method they wish, combined with the arrival of the new curriculum, adds to the demand on teachers» time.

Schools who are keeping back some budget for the new curriculum announcements in 2014 should remember that to date, every prouncement made by Rt Hon Michael Gove has been based on the foundations of «freedom» for schools to do what they see is best for their individual students.

Give a principal or superintendent a clear mandate and clear expectations; a reasonable timeframe in which to meet those expectations; and the freedom to act decisively on staffing, budget allocations, and curriculum, and you will find no shortage of talented applicants.

These were: well - being and welfare — insisting upon the adoption of well - being policies in all education settings; empowering and enabling — identifying the balance between empowering and overburdening staff; freedom and flexibility - reversing the trend for testing and increasingly structured curriculum frameworks and trust and train teachers to do their job with a focus on reflective practice; and celebrating success — making sure we all better celebrate the amazing experiences and achievements of teachers to help stem a current tendency for public pessimism.

Keen to explore the causes of variation in performance across different types of schools, I'll be looking at the possible driving forces behind a school's high or low performance, such as its geographical location, changes in leadership, freedom to innovate, the nature of the curriculum, recruitment of teachers, and so on.

This could involve approaches to assessment and curriculum or organizational innovations like giving more site based freedom over budgets and personnel to other district schools, based on successful charter experiments.

The coalition document, released on Thursday, also says schools will be given more freedom over the curriculum.

Although ESSA does include some tighter regulations on special education students (which CCSSO president Tony Evers called «even more onerous» than NCLB's), the basic premise of the law is that states will have greater freedom to set their own curriculum, identify low - performing schools, and craft appropriate remedies to improve them.

«Emanuel wants to bring it back to give the best - led, best - performing schools freedom to innovate around curriculum and instruction and allocate resources for school specific needs... On charter schools, Emanuel said it's not charters versus public schools, but quality versus non-quality.»

Many teachers are concerned about what they see as a lack of freedom in curriculum planning and personal teaching style, and fear being evaluated based on their students» Common Core test scores.

The Quebec Court of Appeal based its decision on last February's Supreme Court of Canada ruling (previously noted on Slaw) in another case, where the highest court refused to find that the mandatory nature ERC curriculum infringes on the parents» and the students» freedom of religion.

That said, I also doubt that argument fundamentally based on the academic freedom of professors to teach what they want is likely to sway the Law Societies that make up the Federation away from their fascination with standardizing curriculum in as many areas as possible.

As for the curriculum you teach, you may have some freedoms about how you present the material, but for many subjects and grade levels the curriculum is determined by the school and by government legislation with an emphasis on standardized testing requirements.