Sentences with phrase «history focused curriculum»

We encourage and develop empathy with a world history focused curriculum, service projects, and a progressive school culture.

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Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

A tighter focus — comparable to developments in methodology that occurred in literature, history and philosophy — is now prevalent in their counterparts in the theological curriculum.

The analysis of curricula looked at the entire range of subjects, while the analysis of textbooks focused on history, government / politics, native language and foreign languages, i.e. subjects that are of significance in matters of national identity and national policy.

The arts, and, in truth, the humanities, take a back seat to math, science, and technology, and while we have a focus on literacy, history, and the humanities broadly, and while they have a secure place in the curriculum, the arts are seen as peripheral.»

As a result, the curriculum is concentrated in three basic areas: leadership and management (focused on real behavior that goes on in organizations), teaching and learning (focused on how successful learning and teaching happens and how to recreate it), and understanding and transforming the sector (focused on the history and politics that surround the sector).

Tony Abbott has urged a rethink of the national history curriculum, saying it underplays the heritage of Western civilisation, gives too much focus to trade unions and overlooks conservative prime ministers.

The program ties in with the state's third - grade social studies curriculum, which focuses on local history.

History teacher, curriculum coordinator and NY Times contributor Jonathan Olsen introduces us to the six - word memoir, a simple, concise language arts tool for sharpening student focus.

In social studies, while rightly criticizing the tendency of earlier American citizenship educators to produce America - Firsters by teaching a sanitized, celebratory U.S. history, Giroux overcorrects in promoting a curriculum calculated to produce America - Worsters, focused on the country's warts, as schools serve as «sites of struggle that address the suffering... of the oppressed.»

Rather than sending students through each subject in isolation, these schools focus the entire curriculum around a single topic or subject - like caterpillars or a local bird species -, then examine it through the different lenses of science, math, art, history, etc..

In revising A Time for Living as a character education program, the TFL curriculum committee decided to honor the history and tradition of the school by retaining the Time For Living name, while focusing on universal ethical values that transcend religious or cultural differences.

This unnatural focus on testing produced perverse but predictable results: it narrowed the curriculum; many districts scaled back time for the arts, history, civics, physical education, science, foreign language, and whatever was not tested.

Nearby, on Tybee Island, Tybee Island Maritime Academy will offer a K - 8 career focused, project - based curriculum centered on the natural history of the island and coastal wetlands.

It focus on four areas: Teacher Education History and Theory, Teacher Education Administration and Policy, Teacher Education Curriculum and Pedagogy, Teacher Leadership and Professional Development.

Prof David Abulafia of Cambridge University has dismissed suggestions that the draft curriculum is «jingoistic» because it focuses heavily on British history as «absurd».

The seventh grade history curriculum focuses on the European Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Reformation, creating further links to several other cultural areas with whom the Europeans came into contact.

History curriculum and instruction, for example, still focus on survey courses driven by content coverage, be it «Plato to NATO» (Nash, Crabtree, & Dunn, 1997, p. 90) or «colonialism to Clinton» (Grant, 2003, p. 123).

She earned a B.A. in history and international studies, with a focus in Spanish from Southern Adventist University and an Ed.M (curriculum and development) from George Mason University.

English, reading or language arts World languages Arts Mathematics Economics Science Geography History Government and Civics In addition to these subjects, we believe schools must move beyond a focus on basic competency to promoting understanding of academic content at much higher levels by weaving 21st century interdisciplinary themes into curriculum:

If students are partnering with adults to create a classroom curriculum focused on local history, they should have opportunities to learn about curriculum design and delivery, as well as local history.

Two categories of data were examined for this study: (1) artifacts and documents generated throughout the project's 4 - year history (e.g., materials from professional development meetings, teacher questionnaires, district curriculum documents, teacher and student writings, conference papers, and scholarly publications); and (2) individual and focus group interviews conducted with MELAF participants from the four districts at the project's completion.

This important addition to the Holocaust curriculum is one of the few histories to focus in detail on Jewish resistance across Europe.

Rasheed is a former high school history teacher now working as a curriculum writer, teaching artist, and MFA professor focused on research - based art practices.

«Africentric» schools are supposed to provide a curriculum that focuses on the history and contributions of people of African descent, with the aim of increasing the engagement of black youths in the education system.

A number of well - written articles chronicle at least some of the history of legal writing in the law school curriculum.1 However, those articles were written with a different purpose in mind: the authors sought to employ history to show the pedigree of legal writing and argue for an equal place in the curriculum with doctrinal courses and an equal position for its teachers with other «case - book» faculty.2 Because of this purpose, they understandably focused a large part of their historical narrative on legal writing in the «modern law - school,» an entity that has existed only since the late 1800s.3 The articles paid considerably less attention to the era that preceded it, beyond brief mentions of the Inns of Court in England, apprenticeship in America, and the private law schools and early attempts at law teaching that preceded Langdell's introduction of the case method.4

The curriculum focuses on the legal system, dispute resolution, legal research and writing, legal reasoning and analysis, ethical decision making, jurisprudence, legal history, and substantive areas of law.

For example a functional Curriculum Vitae that focuses on your skills most, would be great if you have gaps in your work history.

Where the Professional Resume mainly focuses on work history, the Curriculum Vitae will focus not only on work history, but also on items such as Speaking Engagements, Publications, Research Papers, Graduate Training, Internships, Academic Appointments, Lecture Experience, Board Memberships, Professional Memberships, Fellowships, Media Presentations, etc..