Sentences with phrase «in particular curriculum»

For 10 years, Curriculum • Technology Quarterly (CTQ) showed how classroom educators use technology to improve learning and teaching in a particular curriculum area.

Professor of Post-14 Education Policy and Curriculum, Jeremy has research interests in education and training policy for 14 - 19 year - olds, in particular curriculum innovation and change and school - based vocational curricula.

Not exact matches

But both Gates and Zuckerberg, in addition to other big names in Silicon Valley, also back an education model that is taking the opposite approach: pursuing learning gains with curricula standardized to each particular country.

[10] «ln our view there is an important difference between this factual information being imparted in a descriptive way as part of a wide - ranging syllabus about different religions, and a curriculum which teaches a particular religion's doctrinal beliefs as if they were objectively true.»

The curricula of such schools is designed to be of particular usefulness to teachers, physicians, clergymen, social workers, law enforcement and probation officers, industrial leaders, directors of alcoholism programs, and other persons interested in alcoholism education, research, and rehabilitation.

In particular, should the schools leave the teaching of recreation to parents and to other social agencies specifically designed for that function, or should instruction for the right use of leisure be a part of the school curriculum?

In a curriculum series for church leaders published by The John Lloyd Ogilvie Institute at my school, Fuller Theological Seminary, I detailed some of the educational challenges we are facing and some potential solutions Christians in particular can undertake in addressing those challengeIn a curriculum series for church leaders published by The John Lloyd Ogilvie Institute at my school, Fuller Theological Seminary, I detailed some of the educational challenges we are facing and some potential solutions Christians in particular can undertake in addressing those challengein particular can undertake in addressing those challengein addressing those challenges.

In our view there is an important difference between this factual information being imparted in a descriptive way as part of a wideranging syllabus about different religions, and a curriculum which teaches a particular religion's doctrinal beliefs as if they were objectively truIn our view there is an important difference between this factual information being imparted in a descriptive way as part of a wideranging syllabus about different religions, and a curriculum which teaches a particular religion's doctrinal beliefs as if they were objectively truin a descriptive way as part of a wideranging syllabus about different religions, and a curriculum which teaches a particular religion's doctrinal beliefs as if they were objectively true.

Each school in the 60 countries where they are located adapts its curriculum to its particular culture.

I'm not sure that the boys are covering everything on the National Curriculum - Tim in particular doesn't appear to be doing a lot of maths - but they're certainly learning plenty of other things, and enjoying life considerably more than some of their friends who go to school out here.

In addition, if the homeschool curriculum takes a particular approach, such as being literature or text - based, it may not be the best approach for teaching biology or chemistry, which are lab - based sciences.

The stories for each grade meet that child, and we tailor our stories and curriculum to our particular locality, our particular place in the world!

A Waldorf curriculum writer is not going to know about my tiny location in the Southeast, our particular ethinic and cultural background as a family, our particular interests, our health challenges, and what is around me regarding places of geographic, cultural, and historical interst!

A faith school is a school in the United Kingdom that teaches a general curriculum but which has a particular religious character or formal links with a religious organisation.

The findings highlight a pressing need for new curriculum and professional development for teachers to help students, and English learners in particular, to develop their academic language skills, Thompson said.

Instead they have to search for studies on the particular curricula they are considering — and not all of them are in the database.

A primary role of school systems, states, districts, and charter - management organizations, the pair write, «is to create the conditions in schools through which teachers can become experts at teaching the curriculum they are using and adapting instruction to the needs of their particular students.»

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

In particular, it identified gaps in assessment of phonics skills and a lack of an early years numeracy assessment covering all numeracy descriptors in the Australian CurriculuIn particular, it identified gaps in assessment of phonics skills and a lack of an early years numeracy assessment covering all numeracy descriptors in the Australian Curriculuin assessment of phonics skills and a lack of an early years numeracy assessment covering all numeracy descriptors in the Australian Curriculuin the Australian Curriculum.

It is this vertical description of learning progress that can be missing when the curriculum is viewed merely as a body of content to be taught and learnt in a particular year of school.

In other words, the curriculum is developed not simply as a top - down specification of what somebody believes students in a particular year of school should be learning, but as a description and picture of how long - term progress in an area of learning typically occurs in practicIn other words, the curriculum is developed not simply as a top - down specification of what somebody believes students in a particular year of school should be learning, but as a description and picture of how long - term progress in an area of learning typically occurs in practicin a particular year of school should be learning, but as a description and picture of how long - term progress in an area of learning typically occurs in practicin an area of learning typically occurs in practicin practice.

There are new curriculum and teacher collaboration models arising in schools — STEM, in particular, is one that is going to mean teachers are out - of - field.

In an experiment I ran 16 years ago using a system based on these core ideas, there was some success because the systemic drivers, in particular the reporting system and syllabus structure, was consistent with the desired approaches to curriculum, assessment and pedagogIn an experiment I ran 16 years ago using a system based on these core ideas, there was some success because the systemic drivers, in particular the reporting system and syllabus structure, was consistent with the desired approaches to curriculum, assessment and pedagogin particular the reporting system and syllabus structure, was consistent with the desired approaches to curriculum, assessment and pedagogy.

«Now, for primary teachers in particular, trying to be an expert in every area of the curriculum is quite problematic and we know, for example, two areas that people struggle with are maths and science, in some cases.

The survey found that while almost all the teachers (95.3 per cent) say it is their job to teach and promote literacy, just two in five (42.4 per cent) say they have particular strategies for teaching literacy that they feel work well and almost a quarter (23.9 per cent) do not feel confident teaching the literacy set out in the new National Curriculum.

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).

Activate Learning will develop the colleges» curriculum and management in partnership with GEMS Education Solutions, an international educational consultancy already delivering education in Saudi Arabia, and Moulton College, which will provide particular expertise in the agricultural programmes.

Keep in mind that this was the same Joel Klein who was trashing the federal Reading First program for being too prescriptive, lavishing money on Lucy Calkins and her hare - brained «writing workshop» ideas, and arguing that the content of a particular curriculum didn't matter; what was important was picking one and sticking to it.

In the current curriculum, rugby is a compulsory part of physical education from the age of 11, and there is particular emphasis on it in the independent sectoIn the current curriculum, rugby is a compulsory part of physical education from the age of 11, and there is particular emphasis on it in the independent sectoin the independent sector.

She adds when she started working with Do, they deliberately selected topics that weren't specifically highlighted in the curriculum or assigned to a particular year group to allow teachers more of a «sense of creativity» and get them to think of mathematics more broadly — and in turn encourage students to think creatively.

If it takes longer than a year, in most cases you then have to account for a whole pile of new variables to do with the assignment of students and teachers to particular classes, the effects of other teachers and the effects of the curriculum.

The OECD folks offer some explanations, terming Shanghai a «leader in reform» and citing in particular its near - universal education system, its competitiveness (including admission both to universities and to the best secondary schools), a very high level of student engagement, a modernized assessment system, an ambitious new curriculum, and a program of intervention into weak schools.

Without a common curriculum, he said, «our teachers are learning how to teach nothing in particular to no one in particular.»

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which administers NAEP, the determination of proficiency in any given subject at a particular grade level «was the result of a comprehensive national process [which took into account]... what hundreds of educators, curriculum experts, policymakers, and members of the general public thought the assessment should test.

Geoff Masters: «When we think of teaching as... primarily the delivery of the curriculum for a particular year level and we think of assessment as the process of judging how well students have learnt what we've just taught, there is a problem because students don't start the year at the same point in their learning.

If only educational systems internationally would appropriately recognise the need for all students to experience a broad curriculum and, in particular, acknowledging the role that Sport can play in developing resilience and engagement.

In the first instance we had significant concerns about reviewing a curriculum that had yet to be fully implemented, and around the country in many states and territories there was a timeline in terms of curriculum implementation, and in particular the secondary sector had some curriculum areas that were being implemented this year and in 201In the first instance we had significant concerns about reviewing a curriculum that had yet to be fully implemented, and around the country in many states and territories there was a timeline in terms of curriculum implementation, and in particular the secondary sector had some curriculum areas that were being implemented this year and in 201in many states and territories there was a timeline in terms of curriculum implementation, and in particular the secondary sector had some curriculum areas that were being implemented this year and in 201in terms of curriculum implementation, and in particular the secondary sector had some curriculum areas that were being implemented this year and in 201in particular the secondary sector had some curriculum areas that were being implemented this year and in 201in 2016.

Under that heading, I had to demonstrate how this particular building would be used in the curriculum.»

One issue is that accountability in general, and test - based accountability in particular, can have negative effects on instruction, such as a dumbed - down, narrowed curriculum.

Bundled into this debate have been arguments about the content of the history curriculum in particular, which has been labelled by the Coalition as biased towards left wing values.

A commitment to every student's progress, or growth, invites particular ways of thinking about learning, learners, teaching, the curriculum, assessment and the reporting of student achievement, as summarised in the following diagram:

As Lisa Hansel of the Core Knowledge Foundation notes in the first sentence of her recent Education Week commentary, «The Common Core Needs a Common Curriculum,» the CCSS themselves clearly warn against this conflation (here): «[W] hile the standards make references to some particular forms of content,... they do not... enumerate all or even most of the content that students should learn.

In particular, a focus of my research at the University of Newcastle has been the role that the Creative Arts can play in inclusive learning in the curriculuIn particular, a focus of my research at the University of Newcastle has been the role that the Creative Arts can play in inclusive learning in the curriculuin inclusive learning in the curriculuin the curriculum.

There were multiple classrooms / teachers in each condition, making it possible to separate the effects of curriculum from the effect of particular teachers and classrooms.

For example, you have curriculum fairly early on and teachers and parents talking about things in a particular way that might limit choices for girls.

In particular, Totley cite the «Learning Challenge Curriculum» — a curriculum designed by Focus Education to identify and progress through the subject - specific challenges children encounter in learning — as having had a great impact on their teaching philosophy, which has allowed the end - of - year KS2 results to improve year - on - year for the past five yearIn particular, Totley cite the «Learning Challenge Curriculum» — a curriculum designed by Focus Education to identify and progress through the subject - specific challenges children encounter in learning — as having had a great impact on their teaching philosophy, which has allowed the end - of - year KS2 results to improve year - on - year for the past fCurriculum» — a curriculum designed by Focus Education to identify and progress through the subject - specific challenges children encounter in learning — as having had a great impact on their teaching philosophy, which has allowed the end - of - year KS2 results to improve year - on - year for the past fcurriculum designed by Focus Education to identify and progress through the subject - specific challenges children encounter in learning — as having had a great impact on their teaching philosophy, which has allowed the end - of - year KS2 results to improve year - on - year for the past five yearin learning — as having had a great impact on their teaching philosophy, which has allowed the end - of - year KS2 results to improve year - on - year for the past five years.

Of course, at this stage in any relationship, there comes the inevitable power struggle, only in this relationship it was more about positions on the board and whether we had to fall in line with particular curriculum approaches rather than creating joint bank accounts and whether or not it's still ok to play football on a Sunday.

They actually know that if they deliver the curriculum in this particular way, that they will get good results and every kid will reach their potential — whatever that is.

«In particular, we needed support to ensure that our curriculum was inspiring, skills - based and progressive.

«The New Zealand curriculum is focused on developing capabilities in young people rather than particular content and topics,» writes Richard Wells (@EduWells).