Sentences with phrase «including curriculum choice»

Low - and high - poverty schools differ along many dimensions that likely influence what constitutes effective educational practice, including curriculum choice and implementation, instructional methods, personnel policies, and all the other day - to - day decisions that combine to create the educational environment.

Not exact matches

Specific Aim 2: Pilot test the revised OST CHOICES curriculum with female AI adolescents at - risk for AEP, including utilizing technology - based follow - up data collection methods.

If staff can be shown how to include outdoor time within curriculum learning then it will lead them to make more informed choices about facility development needs and priorities.

In the summer of 2015, Wildwood teachers are refining their IB planners, course maps, and quarterly curriculum maps to include opportunities for student voice and choice, personalized strategies and skills acquisition, daily and weekly goal setting, and ongoing reflection.

David Osborne, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, completed an analysis of D.C.'s two sectors, documenting how competition led the district sector to emulate charters in many ways, including more diverse curriculum offerings; new choices of different school models; and reconstituting schools to operate with building level autonomy, especially giving principals freedom to hire all or mostly new staff.

The Foundation for Excellence also embraces nearly every portion of the Core Curriculum State Standards initiative (including the onerous and very 1984 idea of collecting lots and lots of data on school children all in the name of getting them to graduate high school) excepting that of school choice.

Reviewed strategies for enhancing students» high school and college outcomes include: 1) participation in rigorous curriculum; 2) small learning communities / small schools of choice; 3) career academies; 4) dual enrollment; 5) early college high schools; and 6) college and career counseling.

Summary: There are ways to engage students in decision - making including providing feedback on learning experiences, granting more choice in curriculum, making student involvement in school governance more than a symbolic gesture, including students on interview panels for teachers, and asking for suggestions on school - wide needs, problems and challenges.

However, most of these tests are multiple choice, standardized measures of achievement, which have had a number of unintended consequences, including: narrowing of the academic curriculum and experiences of students (especially in schools serving our most school - dependent children); a focus on recognizing right answers to lower - level questions rather than on developing higher - order thinking, reasoning, and performance skills; and growing dissatisfaction among parents and educators with the school experience.

These include the widely distributed Guiding Good Choices (formerly Preparing for the Drug Free Years) curriculum which uses research evidence as the foundation to teach parents about risk and protective factors for drug use initiation.

Despite evidence that the complexity of the nation's education crisis requires an array of solutions — including strong curriculum standards and robust consequential accountability, the overhaul of teacher quality, revamp of curriculum and standards, expanding school choice, improving school data systems and giving parents their rightful decision - making roles in education — far too many reformers are busy touting and flacking their one grand solution and dismiss others that, in their minds, don't further their own.

Those battles occur precisely because the experts creating the curricula disagree on the subset and sequence of content to be delivered to students — and they don't have the means to include all possible learning pathways and progressions, so they make choices based on their pedagogical beliefs / preferences.

These interventions have included, for example, various educational curricula, teacher professional development programs, school choice programs, educational software, and data - driven school reform initiatives.

The authors outline key components of Linked Learning (including core and technical curriculum and instruction, work - based learning, and supplemental support services); essential characteristics of effective Linked Learning programs (such as informed student choice and alignment both to middle grades and to postsecondary); and options for designing Linked Learning in a district (such as deciding on the amount and focus of the pathways).

Taking the Brookings Institution's recommendations for a web site with individual schools graded for their willingness to entertain parent / student choice of schools one step further, I suggest also including indexes of the ability of students to choose or design their own curriculum; i.e. democratic education.

I disagreed with many of the policies of our union including tenure, attacks on school choice, and the single - minded focus on raises at the expense of a more well rounded curriculum for the children.

They include praise and encouragement from arts professionals; purposeful content relevancy to curriculum and life outside of school; active student participation in program design, planning, and art - making; group work with community and parent involvement; opportunities for students to make choices; and hands - on, high quality, and process - based learning.

Possible topics will include: How to facilitate / hold tough conversations with young students; diverse book choices and diverse libraries; the early elementary social justice history curriculum; celebrations and holidays in the culturally diverse elementary classroom.

NSBA believes that public funds should be used within public schools to advance curricula and choice, including charter schools authorized by local school boards.

Through using technology to challenge these teachers» beliefs, teachers may be exposed to new educational theories, as well as to the fact that the theories of curriculum, instruction, and learning have wide implications — including the choices about technology - supported teaching and learning.

The 2013 - 16 Strategic Plan for Catholic Schools and School Choice imagines a specific future for the Archdiocese, including efforts to improve curriculum and the leadership quality within teachers and schools, as well as raise funding to make the overall school system both higher quality and more affordable.

The curriculum includes a choice of three Associate's specializations — Medical Administrative Assistant, Pharmacy Technician or Medical Assisting — so you can develop the career - focused skills you'll need as a healthcare professional.

The «Core Curriculum» requires instruction about both the role of the medical assistant as a patient navigator and the ways to facilitate referrals to community resources.5 The Content Outline includes these points, as well as interpersonal skills, such as displaying impartial conduct without regard to race, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, physical challenges, special needs, and lifestyle choices.6

He is the author, co-author, or editor of ten books and three curricula, including Reducing the Risk, Safer Choices and Power through Choices, all designed to reduce the likelihood and risks of youth becoming sexually active.

Summary: There are ways to engage students in decision - making including providing feedback on learning experiences, granting more choice in curriculum, making student involvement in school governance more than a symbolic gesture, including students on interview panels for teachers, and asking for suggestions on school - wide needs, problems and challenges.