Sentences with phrase «higher education instruction»

I have experience working as a customer service representative and call center manager within both the for - profit and nonprofit sector, as well as a background in higher education instruction.

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With an over $ 25B spend on products and services annually, higher education leaders are using technology to support faculty and administrators; effectively market, recruit, and enroll students, and create new methods of instruction to deliver innovative programs.

Hyderabad, under the Muslim dynasty of the Nizams, had become a center of Muslim culture and Urdu literature and poetry after the establishment of Usmania University, the first institution to use Urdu as the medium of instruction in higher education.

Such liberal education is entirely consistent with a high degree of specialized technical instruction, provided the latter is carried out imaginatively and with continuous concern for the wider bearings and the deeper meanings of the specialty.

The selection of Carol Burlinski, associate principal for instruction at the high school since 2002, was approved last week by the Board of Education for Arlington Heights - based Township High School District high school since 2002, was approved last week by the Board of Education for Arlington Heights - based Township High School District High School District 214.

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At 6 p.m., the Education Panel for Educational Policy holds a public meeting, with the agenda including an update from NYC Education Chancellor Chancellor Carmen Farina, amendments to the chancellor's home instruction services regulation and approval of contracts, Prospect Heights High School, 883 Classon Ave., Brooklyn.

What we need in higher education is a place to take bright ideas and see whether they're viable, to explore new modes of instruction, new ways of collaborating around the arts and performance.

Los Angeles School of Gymnastics is a high quality gymnastics education center that offers programs for children ages 18 months, youth, teenagers and adults in gymnastics, cheer, dance, parent & me, private instruction, special needs and gymnastics production consulting.

Consider another example: the Progressive Education Association officially expired in 1955, yet 20 years later many schools were still providing the curriculum recommended by its Life Adjustment subsidiary - that 20 percent of high - school students should receive vocational training, 60 percent a «general» curriculum, including such courses as «marriage and the family,» and the remaining 20 percent academic instruction.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all too common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high quality instruction.

Launched in 1987, HSTW aims «to prepare students for careers and further education by improving curriculum and instruction in high schools.»

Michael FallonSpecial to Education Week Sacramento — California's student - dropout rate appears to be declining despite the establishment of more rigorous high - school - graduation requirements, Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig told a state l

At the very least, they can help to instill a sense of hope and optimism in their students — by getting them ready for college and / or a satisfying career, by embracing high - quality technical education, and by developing in them character traits like drive and prudence, both via classroom instruction and through extracurricular activities.

Every discussion of education policy, program design, implementation and evaluation on instruction, teacher policies and education, or school governance focuses on improving educational outcomes for young people and ensuring that all learners have access to a high - quality education relevant to the 21st century.

In fact ~ gifted education concepts can really assist general classroom teachers ~ as well as those who work with higher performing students ~ in meeting their learning goals by differentiating instruction and helping to build upon students strengths and interests.

This special report — the latest in an ongoing series on high - priority issues in K - 12 education — looks at how the Common Core State Standards are changing instruction in mathematics.

The Harvard Teacher Fellows program will be an innovative and important contribution to strengthening K — 12 education by giving new teachers the tools to succeed in the classroom and offering children throughout the country the transformative benefits of high - quality instruction.»

And there's another benefit, according to Steve Graham, an education professor who has studied writing instruction for three decades: When «teachers rate multiple versions of the same paper differing only in terms of legibility, they assign higher grades to neatly written versions of the paper.»

Driven by changes already happening at the higher education levels and the need to prepare students for the 21st century workplace, blended learning provides the school with a variety of ways to address student needs, differentiate instruction, and provide teachers with data for instructional decision - making.

Mike Petrilli talks with Education Next about the challenges of teaching high - achieving and low - achieving kids in the same classroom, and about one school in Montgomery County, Maryland, which is using a blend of ability grouping and differentiated instruction with great success.

While it's impossible to know at present whether Georgia Tech's online - only instruction is as high - quality as its face - to - face instruction — and this is something that, given the extant literature at the undergraduate level, may still be a real concern — this study makes clear that one of the promises of online education (expansion of access to satisfy unmet demand) may well be realized if enough highly - regarded institutions enter the online education marketplace.

How Shanghai Does It: Insights and Lessons from the Highest - Ranking Education System in the World says teachers are supported with ongoing professional development which is often collaborative in nature and focused on improving instruction, and a framework of clear learning standards, regular student assessment and well - aligned curriculum.

Just as the 1996 National Science Education Standards set the direction for science education over the last 15 years, these new standards will plot a course for high quality science instruction for decadesEducation Standards set the direction for science education over the last 15 years, these new standards will plot a course for high quality science instruction for decadeseducation over the last 15 years, these new standards will plot a course for high quality science instruction for decades to come.

For example, the blueprint for the next iteration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (current version is the No Child Left Behind Act, 2002) proposes more accountability - based emphasis on assessment and instruction that support content learning and higher - order skills.

With colleagues from the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, & Excellence, a federal research center at the University of California campus here, Tharp has identified five standards that he says mark effective instruction in classrooms with high concentrations of students from backgrounds outside the U.S. cultural mainstream.

A detailed description of high - quality instruction can be found in chapter eight of Positive Behavioral Supports for the Classroom, by Scheurermann and Hall (Pearson Education, Inc., 2008).

In my advocacy work I also find that more and more parents whose kids don't fit the cookie cutter mold of their neighborhood school are increasingly interested in the option of high - quality education online — even if it means missing teacher - led instruction.

Early childhood education programs can succeed only when consistent high levels of instruction are provided in ways that are adapted to the learning and behavioral needs of young children.

She is currently an assistant professor in the department of teaching and learning at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Education where she teaches courses on middle school and high school English instruction.

That paper investigates what competency - based education means in practice in New Hampshire, the first state to abolish the Carnegie unit and grant high school credit on the basis of mastery rather than hours of instruction.

The state Department of Education may consider investing in high quality formative assessment and data analysis programs as a tool for low performing schools to use in focusing instruction and preparing students for the MCAS.

«High - quality vocational education integrates academic content with career and technical instruction.

These calculations indicated that the highest per - pupil course expenditures were associated with foreign language, music, and science instruction (excluding special education costs).

Included in Education Week's lineup of print editions are three high - profile annual reports — Quality Counts, Technology Counts, and Leaders To Learn From — and a mix of popular reports on such subjects as literacy instruction, personalized learning, student assessment, school principals, and teacher professional development.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

Blended learning is poised to transform American education by personalizing student learning — uniting the highest - quality online content with highly - effective educators in «live» instruction and supervisory roles.

CAL specializes in developing effective solutions for educators and practitioners working with language learners at all levels of instruction (preK — 12, higher education, and adult education).

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all - too - common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high - quality instruction.

An Education Week Research Center analysis shows that many juvenile prisons and corrections facilities struggle to provide the same level of instruction that is offered in a typical high school.

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Lisa Wilson, Director of Assessment & Research, Blue Valley School District, KS Lisa Wilson has served in public education for twenty - seven years as a junior high and high school English teacher, lead teacher, Associate Principal for Curriculum and Instruction, and currently as the Director of Assessment and Research for Blue Valley School District, a public district in Overland Park, Kansas.

for all students in the eighth and higher grades, instruction in the history, meaning, significance and effect of the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and the amendments thereto, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the State of New York and the amendments thereto, as required by section 801 of the Education Law;

Supporting effective teachers and school leaders goes hand - in - hand with testing — without proper instruction, students can not be expected to live up to high expectations — and support for these education professionals is also a priority for Business Roundtable CEOs.

She taught math in traditional public middle and high schools for ten years, has provided instruction in math pedagogy, and is the director of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Teacher Education Program, which she founded in 1984.

Over the past few years, as higher stakes have been attached to the tests, we have seen schools devote more time to test prep, leaving less time and fewer resources for instruction in music, the arts, social studies and physical education.

Remaining passionate about the importance of equity in higher education, Rehva continues to support first - generation college students as a faculty member of the Trinity Washington University teaching undergraduate and graduate business related courses as well as the University of the District of Columbia's Community College providing instruction in foundational mathematics courses.

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) leads a statewide coalition of educational and advocacy organizations and families who have come together to urge the creation of multiple pathways to a diploma in New York State, each of which holds all students to high expectations, provides them with quality instruction, and opens doors to career and post-secondary education opportunities.

Doing linear algebra with peer instruction and Learning Catalytics December 18, 2012 Casting Out Nines, Chronicle of Higher Education

ESL students earned, on average, nearly $ 1,000 more per year than students receiving bilingual instruction, and they entered high - skill professional occupations at almost twice the rate of bilingual education students (36 percent versus 19 percent).