Sentences with phrase «in establishing curricula»

For example, as my team reported in School Choice in the Real World, Arizona charter school teachers are more than twice as likely (62 - 25 %) than district school teachers to report having a role in establishing curricula, and more than three times as likely (55 - 17 %) to determine class schedules.

Work with Corporate Director of Education in establishing Curriculum for all new medical programs.

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The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

One may certainly refrain from insisting, as some Jewish leaders have, upon mandated Holocaust studies in the public school curriculum: for many people, such «mandates» might appear as an effort to establish the passion of the Jews as the larger culture's defining story, thus, ironically, giving plausibility to anti-Semitic claims about Jewish power.

The Handwork stream of the Applied Arts curriculum in a Waldorf school stimulates the creative powers and establishes a heart - related aesthetic and confidence through a conscious guidance of the student's developing will.

In 2006, state lawmakers passed legislation establishing a Farm to School grant program, which helps fund school gardens, teacher professional development, farm field trips, local food taste tests and the integration of nutrition into the curriculum.

Lesley Moffit: Practical Arts Teacher The handwork and practical arts curriculum in the Waldorf School stimulates the creative powers, while at the same it establishes aesthetic confidence through the conscious guidance of the student's developing will.

You'll gain practical hands - on experience and a strong foundation in the discipline through an intensive educational curriculum containing the necessary competencies and proficiencies established by the National Athletic Training Association (NATA) Education Council.

The curriculum is established by our professional teachers in partnership with the parents, who play an essential role in their children's learning by working in the classroom.

Advocates for culturally relevant education practices hope the new NYC schools chancellor, Richard Carranza, who once established a mariachi curriculum while teaching in Arizona, will support their efforts.

«It is well - established that there were significant issues with the roll - out and implementation of the Common Core Standards causing parents, educators, and other stakeholders to lose trust in the system,» the report's executive summary says, noting the failure to involve educators, lack of transparency and «complicated and difficult» state - written curriculums.

Sponsored by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the boot camp is like a condensed version of the curriculum for one of those degrees, offering a 2 - week cram session in business skills and various core competencies to postdocs looking to break into bioscience management, whether via entrepreneurship or employment at established companies.

The minority Stay in School program allows us to establish our self - identity, especially by including African - American studies in the curriculum.

Although national funding organizations are involved in developing curricula and establishing «best practices,» I think you'll find that most organizations — even these funding organizations — consider this to be the responsibility of the university.

This radical programme, which began in 1987, seeks to bring about fundamental changes in the way in which science is taught in American schools, not by «top down» reform — restructuring the curriculum and then expecting teachers to adopt the new improved version wholesale — but by establishing partnerships between science teachers and professional scientists working in universities and industry.

By establishing the Institute, SEAS has committed to fostering graduate training and research in applied computational science, infusing the curriculum with new courses and student research opportunities that will focus on the use of computation to power discovery and innovation.

Dr. Gupta has been credited for introducing and establishing Ayurvedic curriculum and medicine practices in various respected educational institutions in Canada, USA, and across the world.

Coupled with this was the Government's Curriculum Online eLearning credits scheme, established to support investment in multimedia resources.

ESEA should establish a group that registers curricula in those areas; if this marketplace proves effective and states struggle with the Common Core tests, this marketplace can easily expand to incorporate math and English.

We recommended the DfE to strongly urge schools to review the curriculum time they give to Computing as a discrete subject, in view of the changes to the Computing curriculum, with a view to treating it like other longer - established disciplines.

Establishing alliances with the Ministry of Education in order to incorporate, through the curriculum and / or training teaching staff in sexual and reproductive rights; furthermore, incorporating the Information, Education and Communication component into projects.

The OECD's Andreas Schleicher calls Fadel's book a «first of its kind organizing framework of competencies needed for this century which defines the spaces in which educators, curriculum planners, policy makers and learners can establish WHAT should be learned.»

While the curricula of accredited medical schools must instruct students in «the fundamental principles of medicine» and accredited law schools must impart the «basic principles of public and private law,» the essential and fundamental principles of teaching have yet to be established.

teaching is seen less as the process of delivering the same curriculum to all students in the same year of school and more as the process of establishing where students are in their learning and providing appropriately targeted teaching and learning opportunities;

These twin, established facts about learning have guided my framing of the concept of knowledge - based constructivism or, in language friendlier to teachers and the general public, academic rigor in the thinking curriculum.

Supporters are pressing for a uniform certification in California, but Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently vetoed a bill, Assembly Bill 1223, that would have established a statewide Linked Learning Lens curriculum.

Her tenure also established core courses in the school's curriculum across disciplines.

Between 2010 and 2012 we've participated of the Global Curriculum Project — www.globalcurriculum.net — born in the context of the Development Education Exchange in the European Project - DEEEP platform and its Summer Schools, spaces where educators from the global North and the Global South could establish an horizontal dialogue promoting mutual learning.

According to Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills at the OECD, Fadel's book, Four - Dimensional Education: The Competencies Learners Need to Succeed, provides a «first of its kind organizing framework of competencies needed for this century which defines «the spaces in which educators, curriculum planners, policy makers and learners can establish WHAT should be learned.»

The creative subjects have a firm place in the well - established International Baccalaureate (iBacc) curriculum [link]; and the government's own website states clearly in its English Baccalaureate (EBacc) FAQs: «Other qualifications remain valuable in their own right and we encourage all pupils to study non-English Baccalaureate subjects and qualifications, alongside the core English Baccalaureate in order to benefit from a well - rounded education.»

By this fifth step in the process (creation of Unit Plans) ~ a curriculums framework has been established and all that is left to be codified are the unit goals ~ sample activities ~ and formative / summative assessments that will illustrate student acquisition of the goals.

Teachers and school leaders could facilitate this opportunity by: a) setting aside specific time for students to engage in this form of design - based education, for instance, by establishing design and innovation labs; b) infusing in the curriculum opportunities for students to establish links to this activity; c) structuring opportunities to inspire students to study and solve a problem, for instance showcasing current and past students» exemplary projects; d) providing opportunities for students to present their projects to an authentic audience of peers and members of the community; and e) not telling students what projects to work on by staying hands - off.

The government will consult on making assessments at the end of KS1 - both teacher assessment frameworks and national curriculum tests - in English reading, English writing, mathematics and science non-statutory once the new assessment in reception is fully established.

Similarly, while curriculum and instruction must address established standards, we always want to keep the long - term educational ends in mind — the development of important capabilities in the learner.

One thing the arts educators wanted to do was establish strong disciplinary standards for their respective fields, both to regularize arts instruction across the country and to win higher respect for the fields in the overall curriculum.

Depending on its outcome, the case, Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico, which has been in the courts for more than six years, could also establish a requirement that school boards base the removal of books from the school library or curriculum on more specific objective criteria than the school board used in this case.

About that Penna (2004, p. 23) says: «The current LDB (Brazilian guidelines for law), stating that «art education will be obligatory curriculum at various levels of basic education in order to promote the cultural development of students» (Law 9394/96 — Art. 26 paragraphs 2), provides a space for the arts in schools, as established in 1971 with the inclusion of art education in the full curriculum.

In the context of the school curriculum, an equitable approach is one focused on establishing the stages individuals have reached in their learning; using this information to identify starting points and ambitious targets for each student's further learning; and expecting every student to make excellent progress, regardless of their age, year level or starting poinIn the context of the school curriculum, an equitable approach is one focused on establishing the stages individuals have reached in their learning; using this information to identify starting points and ambitious targets for each student's further learning; and expecting every student to make excellent progress, regardless of their age, year level or starting poinin their learning; using this information to identify starting points and ambitious targets for each student's further learning; and expecting every student to make excellent progress, regardless of their age, year level or starting point.

A time - free curriculum also depends on the use of assessment processes to establish and understand where individuals are in their long - term progress — in other words, the points they have reached on a learning progression.

A new study asked school principals across the United States how much actual influence they have in two areas: establishing curriculum and crafting school budgets.

School principals across the U.S. were asked how much actual influence they have in two areas: establishing curriculum and school budgets in this study.

The education issues paper also hints that the Federal Government could reduce its role in the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) and the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) believing it had played its part through establishing a national curriculum and creating NAPLAN, and that these could be maintained by the states and teCurriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) and the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) believing it had played its part through establishing a national curriculum and creating NAPLAN, and that these could be maintained by the states and tecurriculum and creating NAPLAN, and that these could be maintained by the states and territories.

The Barefoot project, for example, was established in 2014 with the original aim to help primary school teachers in England get ready for the computer science element of a new computing curriculum.

The board of education or BOCES shall appoint the members of the team, a majority of which shall be teachers, which shall include the superintendent of schools or his or her designee in the case of school districts or the district superintendent or his or her designee in the case of BOCES; school administrators upon designation by the administrators» collective bargaining organization; teachers upon designation by the teachers» collective bargaining organization; at least one parent upon designation by the established parent groups in the district or in their absence, by the superintendent in the case of a school district or district superintendent in the case of a BOCES; and one or more curriculum specialists, meaning a teacher or administrator whose primary job responsibility involves the development or evaluation of curricula, upon designation by the district or teachers» collective bargaining organization or both.

A major step in implementing strong writing instruction is establishing routines for (a) daily writing instruction, (b) covering the whole writing curriculum, and (c) examining the valued qualities of good writing.

The team, a majority of which shall be teachers, shall include the superintendent of the district for which the team was formed or his or her designee; school administrators upon designation by the administrators» collective bargaining organization; teachers upon designation by the teachers» collective bargaining organization; at least one parent upon designation by the established parent groups in the district, or, in their absence, by the chancellor in the case of a high school division, a special education division or a chancellor's district, or by the board of education of the community school district in the case of a community school district; one or more curriculum specialists, meaning a teacher or administrator whose primary job responsibility involves the development or evaluation of curricula, upon designation by either or both the teachers» collective bargaining organization, or by the chancellor in the case of a high school division, a special education division or a chancellor's district, or by the board of education of the community school district in the case of a community school district.

This essay contains considerable material from longer research projects on the history of efforts to establish a national curriculum in America (sponsored by the Pioneer Institute) and on the history of conservatives and the public schools in America (sponsored by the Hoover Institution).

A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education advances policies that establish strong standards and curriculum in all schools and ensure sufficient funding for high - needs schools to reach them.

It is intriguing that this commonness managed to establish itself at a time when states were much less involved in setting a required curriculum and imposing state tests than they are today.

Especially in the areas of setting discipline policy and establishing curriculum, private school teachers in 1993 - 94 were more likely than public school teachers to report that they had a great deal of influence.