Sentences with phrase «from traditional curriculum»

How do your Speedometry curriculum and instruction differ from traditional curriculum and teaching?

Not exact matches

Music Together in Susquehanna Valley is proud to teach the Music Together © curriculum which includes an award - winning mix of original songs and traditional tunes from a range of musical styles, including folk, blues, jazz, and world music.

The traditional medical school curriculum requires 2 years of academic study, followed by 2 years of general clinical exposure, which can range from emergency medicine to psychiatry.

The Department of Physics at East Carolina University BSAP degree allows the graduate to bring to the applied science environment a breadth in point of view not available from traditional engineering curriculums.

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.

From Dance, Ball Skills, Multi Skills, Imagine PE, and Water Dodgeball along with a variety of traditional sports the platform meets all curriculum requirements.

Rather than bouncing around from one education fad to another, our schools had no choice but to remain steadfast in their dedication to «back - to - basics» curricula and a traditional «no - excuses» culture.

The length of day, the hiring and compensation procedures, the employee training programs, and the curricula are substantially similar across all traditional district systems, from the 2,000 - student system with a 10 percent poverty rate to the 25,000 - student district with an 80 percent poverty rate.

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.

Researchers from the University of Michigan, the University of Arizona, and Detroit Public Schools studied 5,000 students in grades seven and eight in 18 historically underserved middle schools who learned science with traditional instruction or the LeTUS inquiry - based science curriculum.

This challenge is coming in part from the introduction of new learning technologies, but also under challenge are traditional ways of organising learning, such as timed, lock - step courses and age - based curricula.

Traditional public schools can use Great Minds» Wit & Wisdom curriculum, which just received nearly perfect scores and all «green lights» from EdReports.org.

Laurent, who immigrated to the Boston area from Haiti at age 12, was fortunate to have a solid education where he first learned English before enrolling in a more traditional K — 12 curriculum.

«A co-op on steroids,» she says.The curriculum, which runs from prekindergarten through high school, includes classes in traditional subjects like chemistry and music theory.

Online courses can be just as challenging as traditional programs provided you earn your degree from an accredited online university with a well - respected, challenging curriculum.

Unlike traditional classroom projects, 21st Century Project - Based Learning units enable students to learn from doing the content of the standard curriculum.

Students receive instruction from a mix of traditional teaching and online learning platforms as part of the school's core academic curriculum.

A potential factor behind the shift in KS3 curriculum time towards EBacc subjects is that some schools have shifted from a traditional three - year KS3 to a shortened two - year version, enabling study for GCSE courses to run over three years.

Reform - minded curricula, such as the Common Core, have been adopted by a number of states, often amid controversy from traditional education advocates.

Charter schools differ from traditional public schools in that they have more say in the hiring and firing of teachers, and charter school teachers and parents have more freedom to design innovative curriculum and teaching strategies.

It's different from the traditional way of doing education, where you have a central office and they distribute the curriculum.

As long as the curriculum is accredited, colleges are bound to accept diplomas from distance learning schools in the same manner they accept diplomas from traditional schools.

This approach differs from traditional arts education by including arts in learning and core curriculum, rather than an additional subject to learn.

Although the curriculum of an alternative school must be real - world and engaging, it must also be credit - bearing so that students can earn a diploma, which most dropouts from traditional schools still want.

We also offer concrete suggestions for educators who want to implement bigger changes at their schools, for example, changing from a traditional to a block schedule, creating an advisory program, developing a wellness curriculum, or reimagining grading practices and report cards.

We have heard the call from communities to better align our high school and elementary curricula; to strengthen our traditional neighborhood schools through programs such as International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes and STEM; and create opportunities for more students to attend Selective Enrollment schools, Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs, and service leadership schools These investments respond to those calls and build on several years of progress in which CPS has provided over $ 33 million for CTE, IB, and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math programs.

We need to move away from the idea that all students must learn the same thing at the same time, and that only students who reach pre-determined benchmarks in the traditional curriculum should have access to the arts, sciences and other exploratory fields.

Our Character Based Literacy Curriculum (CBL) offers easy - to - use lesson plans for more than 200 titles, ranging from high interest and engaging reads to traditional and challenging pieces of classic literature.

Separate Alternative Learning Center — designed for students needing a special curriculum, such as parenting skills or special job skills, and a separate location from the traditional school, many times located in business environments, churches, or remodeled retail centers with excellent transportation services;

[10] Other subjects like environmental education, ecology, or spirituality, not often found in more traditional school curricula, often emerge from the interests of learners and teachers in a more open - ended learning community.

Furthermore, there is evidence that teachers are increasingly turning away from the traditional textbook to a more teacher - assembled approach to curriculum (though tracking textbook adoption and use at scale is a daunting task).

Working year - round rather than in traditional nine - month terms, teachers grow personally familiar with students» needs not only through years of consistent interactions but also regular feedback from the data - rich curricula.

Charter public schools are free from many rules and regulations that apply to traditional public schools, so they have more flexibility to set curriculum and budgets, select teachers and staff, and offer more customized learning experiences for students.

As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high - quality teaching and curricula than the big city districts they fled.

For most of the past three decades, districts such as Carmel - Clay, Hamilton Southeastern, and Westfield - Washington have only had to provide teaching and curricula to the children of executives and middle managers of such Fortune 500 outfits such as drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co., and healthcare giant WellPoint, who fled from the Circle City for traditional district schools perceived to be better than the failure mills of woeful Indianapolis Public Schools and even the relative mediocrity of its 10 sister districts.

Following a brief introduction to charter school legislation, which paved the way for privately managed schools, Wilson considers how the seven largest of these varied from traditional schools and each other in terms of implementing school design (e.g., class structure, use of time, and curriculum), finding great leadership and creating effective school cultures.

The curriculum is designed to create a broad - based knowledge of photography from traditional photographic techniques to the digital darkroom, including aesthetics, history, and artistic and professional practice.

LOCATION: Providence, Rhode Island SPECIALTIES: Literally everything from furniture design to landscape architecture to painting, with the most popular majors being illustration, industrial design, architecture, and graphic design TUITION: $ 42,622 TIME TO DEGREE: 1 — 3 years; most students finish in 2 NOTABLE FACULTY: Dike Blair, Naomi Fry, Dean Snyder, Patricia Treib, Henry Ferreira FAMOUS ALUMNI: Roni Horn, Andrea Zittel, Janine Antoni, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker BIGGEST SELLING POINT: While many MFA programs offer a post-studio mix of critical theory and interdisciplinary experimentation, RISD's curriculum is firmly planted in the mastery of technical craft, with a curriculum that emphasizes traditional skill sets over conceptualism — in other words, this program is for those who like to get their hands dirty.

The photography curriculum is designed to create a broad - based knowledge of photography from traditional photographic techniques to the digital darkroom, including aesthetics, history, and artistic and professional practice.

OLD LYME — Under the tutelage of his mentor, Bauhaus master, Yale professor and famed color theorist Josef Albers, Sewell Sillman, artist and educator, played a significant role in transitioning the focus of the Yale School of Art from its traditional comfort zone during the mid-20th century to one of a more modern curriculum.

-- The Australian Law Reform Commission... urged an Australian curriculum re-orientation away from the traditional content focus towards skills and values acquisition and training — towards «what lawyers need to be able to do [rather than] anchored around outmoded notions of what lawyers need to know.»

A customer was scaling a private school model, taking the best curriculums and teaching methodologies from around the world, to a nationally branded concept, which was 50 % more affordable than traditional private schools.

This approach demands more active learning from participants than traditional job readiness curricula and incorporates methods that have been shown to improve outcomes of men in the justice system.