Sentences with phrase «from curricular material»

Instead, culturally relevant techniques (fifty - nine percent of overall time) included topics like «relating to students» experiences» and «social - emotional learning,» but was wholly separate from curricular material.

Not exact matches

In 2003 schools chancellor Joel Klein appointed her and the project, through a no - bid three - year $ 5.4 million contract, to the task of revamping the way literacy skills are taught in more than 100 district schools, including most of those in Brooklyn and Queens, the project's mission is to retrain — through onsite workshops, leadership seminars, curricular materials, and an intensive summer institute — primary and upper - grade teachers, administrators from principals up through district superintendents, and central department policymakers.

And yet our system of education — in everything from textbook design to assessments to curricular materials and their sequencing — is built on the opposite premise.

Into this mix has walked the Open High School of Utah, a charter school that is offering a virtual education that is based almost entirely on curricular materials available free - of - cost from open sources.

The story of its early success is in the numbers: Code.org says that 750,000 teachers use its curricular materials, and that 25 percent of U.S. students have accounts on the website — 45 percent are female, and 48 percent are from underrepresented minority groups.

Spelling Theme Page This theme page from the Community Learning Network provides links to curricular resources and instructional materials on spelling.

To do this, we start from the Global Citizenship Education approach, where the creation of alternative curricular materials and activities support our appropriate methodological tool to capture human dialogical constructivist cohesion between different local educational agents: the students, the families, teachers, institutions and the media.

First, it explains that by helping to insulate teachers from backlash or retaliation, the challenged statutes allow teachers to act in students» interests in deciding when and how to present curricular material and to advocate for students within their schools and districts.

My earnest hope is that the politicians — from Arne Duncan to Bobby Jindal and everyone in between — stop misbehaving and give educators the room to focus on the real work at hand: selecting good curricular materials, improving teaching and learning, and getting ready for the much more rigorous tests that will be given nine months from now.

Extends from 3 to 4 years the timeline for serial maturation of notes issued by a school corporation to buy curricular materials.

Using grade - level examples and their own curricular materials, educators learn how to help their students» write using evidence from informational and literary texts, review and revise their writing, and participate in conversations about writing.

To address the significant challenge of the absence of externally vetted, high - quality Common Core materials, districts and teachers are developing aligned curricular materials locally.31 While many districts report challenges associated with developing aligned curriculum, many also report positive responses from teachers involved in creating curricular materials.

To learn more about how states are supporting standards implementation and the extent to which they are drawing on materials from each other, or from different organizations, we created a database of the curricular and professional resources provided on the websites of all 51 SEAs, including the District of Columbia, during Fall 2015.

A recent report from the College Board investigates two key issues: grade inflation, in which teachers over time assign increasingly higher grades for a given level of achievement; and grade nonequivalence across schools, in which teachers in different schools apply different grading standards for the same curricular material.

While some subjects like literature do not suffer from not having cutting edge information, history and science can not wait ten years for the curricular materials to catch up to what advancements and events have taken place.

In fact, KidWind offers everything from do - it - yourself kits that teachers can use in the classroom, to all kinds of curricular materials, lesson plans, science fair ideas, and in - school seminars specifically for teachers to improve their own knowledge that have been given across the country.