Sentences with phrase «good curriculum materials»

One of the project's goals is to help teachers make and find good curriculum materials.

Choosing better curriculum materials can indeed lead to gains in student achievement, according to a report in the The 74.

Not exact matches

Most of us home schooling parents were not home schooled, so it's important that we learn «how» to home school, as well as learning about the materials, curriculums, field trips, etc. that we can use to home school.

We all begin with pre-conceived ideas of what curriculum and materials we need, but these tend to change over time as we listen to advice, become more experienced and better informed.

We encourage our parents and families, staff, faculty, grandparents, alumni, alumni parents and other supporters in our community to consider making a meaningful gift so that we can continue providing the best curriculum, materials, and training to ensure an incredible Waldorf Education and experience for the whole child.

They are fighting for us to have better materials, smaller class sizes and a better curriculum — not just a longer school day.

Our curriculum draws from Penny Simkin's childbirth prep materials as well as the Birthing From Within philosophy.

He wonders how a student is been assessed since a pupil's standard is required as well as a curriculum, a syllabus as well as learning materials.

Mulgrew said that the continuing and severe delays in getting curriculum materials to schools and the unevenness in how well - prepared schools are for the new standards is ultimately unfair to not only teachers but also their students.

As well as meeting the requirements of the national curriculum, the Australian programme will be relevant to children's experiences at home, at school and in their neighbourhood, and will use simple materials and equipment.

Helping teachers make this dramatic shift requires curriculum materials that are not just aligned to the new standards but also draw on the best available research about teaching and learning.

Boston Globe, 6/14/15» «There's a big marketplace out there selling curricula and teaching materials to teachers and school districts, and not all of them are good,» says Heather Hill, a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

Curriculum - sharing websites can be a fantastic way to collect materials and best practices beyond the four walls of your classroom.

They selected resources that aligned with the curriculum and their own approach to teaching, as well as materials they felt were appropriate to the age range and abilities of their students.

Montgomery County, Md. is creating a comprehensive elementary school curriculum aligned to the Common Core standards as part of a $ 2.25 million agreement with Pearson, an education publisher that will make the new curriculum (as well as supplemental training materials and tests) available worldwide.

As teachers striving to be culturally relevant, we do our best to include relatable materials into our curricula — articles, media, song lyrics, speeches, websites, and film and documentary clips.

These online systems actually generate better material and more comprehensive testing than typical classroom curriculum.»

So we created curriculum materials aligned with national standards, as well as state standards, that demystify the Model United Nations.

Though New York was the only state to spend the money it won from the federal Race to the Top competition to build a curriculum, its policymakers seem to have tapped a nerve — and a deep well of demand for Common Core - aligned materials far beyond their borders.

• From January 10 2017, LEGO Education will also be offering digital content, including software, curriculum material and extension pack downloads as well as eLearning, free of charge

There is good evidence to suggest that we are making a serious mistake by not paying more attention to curriculum, classroom materials, and instructional design.

But it's been widely hoped the new standards would create a robust nationwide market for innovative new materials — especially in English language arts (ELA), where Common Core explicitly states the standards «must be complemented by a well - developed, content - rich curriculum.»

Over the next three years, teachers who volunteer to take part will be given professional development, as well as curriculum material they can weave into what they are already doing.

The study group on multicultural education, which will meet for the first time in January, will examine how teacher training and curriculum materials can better reflect the increasing cultural diversity of the classroom, said Brenda L. Welburn, NASBE's deputy executive director.

«The curriculum materials were developed with middle and high schoolers in mind, but there are some applications for elementary schoolers as well.

While it is best to hold regular grade - level meetings with teachers in your school, and even your district, curriculum sharing websites are re-defining the realms teachers can explore to find new methods and materials.

«We want to offer teachers more complex materials and more flexible curriculum for the topics they are required to teach, and we want to help them to use it well,» McKinney says.

«Our key research question is to understand how educators provide the teaching and support that offers the best outcomes when teaching year - level material from the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics,» Dr Faragher told RD.

By instructional leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the school are properly aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of instructional materials.

Section 28 does provide for designing and developing new assistive devices, teaching aids, special teaching materials or other such items necessary to give a child with disability «equal opportunities in education», but it could be better worded to extend beyond just equal opportunities in curriculum and academics, to a totally interactive learning process, thereby implying the integration of all students, disabled and non-disabled.

Further, a preliminary set of supplemental materials to support a CEMS approach within a variety of lessons within the Algebra I curriculum has been developed, with evidence that classroom teachers can implement the materials with good fidelity (Star et al., 2015).

The materials follow the different school curricula across the UK and come with comprehensive notes for teachers to ensure EAL learners in mainstream education are better supported.

Each participating school received a tailored toolkit of information to help them put on a whole day of activities across the curriculum, including supportive materials such as downloadable planning packs with suggested activities for various key stages, as well as certificates to celebrate their participation in the most active day of the year!

Once registered, schools receive a full range of simple yet effective learning materials, lesson plans and online training, making them better equipped to support their pupils and teachers to develop powerful memory skills and embed them in the curriculum.

Assessing the Common Core Standards: Opportunities for Improving Measures of Instruction Educational Researcher, May 2011 Responding to comments on their «Common Core Standards: The New U.S. Intended Curriculum,» the authors suggest additional perspective that should be considered when addressing quality and change, stating additional conceptualizations of mathematics and English language arts content as well as how to define and measure alignment among content standards, materials, assessments, and instruction should be explored.

Instead of wasted hours of mind - numbing test prep and reading - strategy lessons of limited value, the best test - taking strategy would be learning the material in the curriculum standards — a true virtuous circle.

EL Education EL Education (formerly Expeditionary Learning) offers a comprehensive, free ELA curriculum for grades 3 - 8, as well as upper - grades materials in science and social studies that engage students in substantive reading and writing.

A bit over four years ago, Russ Whitehurst and Matt Chingos put out a well - articulated call for greater research on curriculum materials and their effects.

Instead of letting each teacher in each school come up with his or her own curriculum and approach, resulting in an incoherent and in some cases ineffective system of instruction, Payzant gradually narrowed the range of options for schools and teachers to materials and teaching strategies that he and his teams of coaches thought worked best for Boston students.

At a more micro level, some of the most forward - looking reformers who began as «structuralists» — the leaders of such CMO's as KIPP and Achievement First, for example — have grasped the necessity of a solid, coherent, well - structured curriculum, have worked to develop the requisite materials, expertise, and staff training, and are systematically operationalizing the results throughout their networks.

As advocated by Russ Whitehurst and Matt Chingos, the search for more effective curriculum materials can yield outsized bang - for - the - buck, because schools are already buying textbooks and better textbooks do not cost more on average than less effective ones.

We publish ELT and school curriculum materials in print, digital and online formats to suit the needs of classrooms around the world, and we support teachers by offering the training they need to deliver the best experience to their students.

But by pushing back the timeline for adopting the framework, the board may now face a dilemma as to whether it should similarly extend the timeline for the next two major phases of implementing the science standards: adopting a list of curriculum materials aligned with the new standards, and developing and administering a science assessment or test to measure how well students are understanding the new standards.

By further dividing the materials into usable excerpts and overtly connecting the resources to the regular curriculum perhaps digital libraries can better support social studies teachers.

Learn more about our efforts to identify high - leverage practices and design curriculum materials and assessments focused on them, as well as about other major projects of this new organization.

Teachers are expected to teach more economics as part of their social studies curriculum and the NeEconEd website helps teachers learn what is expected at each grade level and link quickly to good materials to use in the classroom.

Their materials describe good character and talk about the attitudes a person needs in order to improve relationships and make ethical choices, and they have formed a leadership development program that can be accessed through training seminars, workshops, books, magazines, curriculum, and e-mail.

Providing embedded professional development within curriculum materials is a necessary and transformative educational mechanism to counter professional development constraints that challenge teachers who adopt and implement reform - based science curriculum in urban school systems (Fishman, Marx, Best, & Tal, 2003).

Curriculum designers can develop learning materials that better accommodate instruction by moving away from a one - size - fits - all - students instructional model and, instead, providing for flexible adaptations to instructional implementation.

Finally, this study, in conjunction with other work on differentiating instruction, should cause educators and policy makers to ponder that teaching well does not require changing curriculum and materials frequently.