Sentences with phrase «grades curricula as»

We'll explore ways to introduce the language of color into the early grades curricula as you work on seasonal themes, curriculum inspirations, color dialogues, painting techniques, and the important practical work of set up and clean up with children.

Facilitating the implementation of a common, rigorous preK - 8th grade curricula as well as the Partnership instructional model to ensure that all teachers have the tools they need to help students achieve at the highest levels

Not exact matches

Through the years, the Kelley School has fashioned a reputation as a true MBA innovator, from being one of the few programs that give a single grade for the entire core curriculum to having a series of first - year academies that provide experiential learning, consulting projects and coaching to students interested in six core areas that range from capital markets and strategic finance to consulting and supply chain management.

Well, it was hard, with continual grading of genuinely challenging assignments, and the curriculum was divided, as I recall, between old - time diagram - the - sentences grammar, an in - class debate tournament, the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, and poetry analysis, introduced through — you guessed it — rock song analysis!

She has served as executive director for Save the Children's field office in Jerusalem, where she created and published a cultural diversity curriculum for grades 5 - 9.

With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

In addition to almost two decades in the classroom, she has served as department chair, both academic and also grade level Dean, a parent and faculty educator, and a leader of curriculum reform.

The Kentucky Core Academic Standards (2010) require that mental wellness and individual well - being be taught in grades K - 12 as part of the general health curriculum.

In third grade, maintaining the on - site garden becomes central to the curriculum, as the children train in methods of biodynamic gardening.

The Grades curriculum is based on the understanding that the key to developing a critical thinking mind is to encourage the active and creative imagination as the child develops over time.

During my tenure, I worked as a Early Intervention Program teacher, a Curriculum Support teacher, a Special Instructional Assistance teacher, a Reading Recovery teacher, and a Kindergarten through Fifth grade classroom teacher.

We are currently doing a pilot in grades 6 to 8 offering French four times per week as we explore changes in our French program to reflect the new curriculum requirements for French in Ontario public schools.

Education: The mayoral candidate wants to reform the curriculum for pre-K through 12th grade to better incorporate vocational studies and apprenticeships, as well as upgrade schools with new technology.

Percoco's lawyers have argued that the consultant payments were tied to the downstate energy firm compensating his wife's legitimate work to develop a curriculum and teaching grade school students about energy as part of the firm's public relations effort.

The Common Core, as seen through the experience of one nine - year - old Brooklyn student, Chrispin Alcindor, who used to get top grades, but is now struggling and at the bottom of his class under the new curriculum.

This is particularly important for students in grades five through eight to nurture their interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) as the curriculum becomes more sophisticated.

As a public school teacher of 18 years, I have been dismayed by the reduction of recess time and by the pushing down of inappropriate curriculum into kindergarten and first grade.

«Students are inserting genes into bacteria as part of a 9th - or 10th - grade biology curriculum.

A Curriculum Vitae of the applicant: indicating the grade point average of the applicant bachelor's and master's degree, courses taken as relevant for the position, specific technical skills, and previous work related to the topic (master's thesis, reports and others).

After two years working in Portland, I found my way to Bay Area, California where I taught 9th grade social studies for 3 years while I supported faculty in developing their capacity to hold space for critical conversations around diversity, inclusion, and equity, as well as supporting social justice curriculum reform within the network.

• Work with client schools to administer NAEP (or some other matrix - based test aligned to the standards) to 2,000 students each year in key grade levels; use their performance to set the curve for the summative test (think of this as «Curriculum NAEP,» the equivalent of the current state NAEP testing).

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

As the ninth grade humanities teacher of a completely project - based curriculum called MPX at Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu, I always have more student project work than I do display space.

He calls instead for an «American core curriculum» in grades K - 8 — for all kids, all schools, all communities, all states — and outlines what that would entail, as well as why it's important.

The Heartwood Institute, which has developed an ethics curriculum for elementary school students, has compiled a list of multicultural children's literature (for students in primary and intermediate grades) that explore ethical themes, such as courage, hope, respect, and justice.

However, a prescribed curriculum requires time reading teacher manuals, making copies, and grading benign assignments, where as a student - driven and teacher - curated curriculum, personalized to the needs of individual students and classes, redistributes your time.

During a semester - long program, students design their own curriculum, act as teachers to each other, and even grade themselves.

As PBL expands to other grade levels, develop a PBL curriculum map documenting each of the projects that we're working on with specific organizations.

While we want our children to reach curriculum and grade level expectations, as a huge country with very large numbers of children, we might have to spend some time and quite a bit of energy in just helping them catch up and build the basic skills first.

«Here's the story on historical fiction in my classroom: It illuminates time periods, helps me integrate the curriculum, and enriches social studies,» says Tarry Lindquist, a fifth - grade teacher on Mercer Island, Washington, who was recognized by the National Council for the Social Studies as National Elementary Teacher of the Year.

Two 4th grade teachers ride the rails of the «Orphan Train» as they use technology to add vitality to their social studies curriculum.

To be fair, primary teachers, teaching kindergarten or grades 1 - 2, would not teach fractions as part of their math curriculum and probably hadn't worked with a fraction in decades.

About thirty years ago, third - grade teachers Irene Wheeler, Mary Morgan, and Laurel Braaten proposed using Old Quasset as a regular tool to teach the third - grade curriculum.

Meanwhile, Kozlek has posted two lesson plans inspired by her eighth - grade yearbook class and has borrowed other teachers» curricula as well.

Kandel was dead - on when he described the real issue among current education «philosophies» as whether there should be a definite grade - by - grade core curriculum in elementary school.

As the starters are generic, they can be used when teaching any curriculum subject and are suitable for most grades.

As a result, for the first time, a media - literacy curriculum has been mandated in Ontario's language and English programs for grades 1 - 12.

Unlike the national curricula used in Europe and East Asia, curricula in the United States are uncoordinated, with insufficient attention paid to what students learn as they progress from grade to grade.

He holds a 3.9 grade - point average at the university, which is known as IUPUI; he has completed an entire freshman - year college curriculum and has taken all the math he'll need toward an engineering degree.

You should familiarize yourself with standardized tests, know the curriculum of the grade - level or content - area courses directly below and above that which you teach, and work to understand your curriculum as deeply as you can.

As Porter et al. note, «Whether these differences between Common Core and Massachusetts mean that Common Core represents a better curriculum is difficult to judge, although at least at grade 7 in [English language arts], there is a shift in the Common Core standards toward greater emphasis on higher cognitive demand.»

In Joe's case, he knew the curriculum (as evidenced by his skipping the sixth - grade a year after this story took place).

The MCPS 1st - grade curriculum goals, for instance, contain a number of nonessential topics, such as sorting concrete objects (like Post-its with names of favorite pets on them) into categories, activities that take up instructional time which, critics of the MCPS curriculum argue, could be better spent laying the foundation for algebra in 8th grade.

Accordingly, we should see an increase, by design, in problem - and project - based learning, small - group inquiries, Socratic Seminars, and independent studies as learners progress through the curriculum across the grades.

The curriculum might start as early as the 7th grade.

The expectation is that this collaboration will lead to the kind of systemic blend DesignShare lauds as «a seamless grade 9 - 16 curriculum» and that blur physical and program boundaries in a way some educators believe can lead to a paradigm shift for learning in all inner - city high schools.

I am 200 percent in favor of personalized learning, defined as enabling every child to move through the prescribed curriculum at his or her own speed, progressing on the basis of individual mastery of important skills and knowledge rather than in lockstep according to age, grade level, and end - of - year assessments.

With schools, the idea was to form a partnership to help educate parents and students, as well as develop a sleep curriculum tailored toward each grade.

The Seattle school district has been using a discovery - based math curriculum in the lower grades and clearly viewed the Discovering Series as an extension of those pedagogical choices.