Sentences with phrase «influence over the curriculum»

They have influence over the curriculum taught, flexibility regarding the use of their funding, including salaries paid to staff, and overall, greater control of the school's strategic direction and ability to innovate.

Students seem to benefit from their teachers» having influence over the curriculum, but only when they act as individuals and not as part of a union.

But in schools where teachers acting collectively as a union had a lot of influence over the curriculum, students performed 32 points worse in math, 18 points in science.

Private school principals report more influence over curriculum than their public school counterparts report.

Yet overall private schools are reported by teachers to embody a greater feeling of community, offer more teacher autonomy, and more teacher influence over curriculum.

Please can teachers have back even a modicum of influence over the curriculum.

Not exact matches

The researchers found not only that the components and contents of school curricula have changed over the course of time, but also that educational reformism, which is generally regarded as the phase of major educational innovations in the first third of the twentieth century, did not have a strong influence on this development.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Principals Report More Influence Over School Budgets Than Curriculum Choice in National Survey

«This question has been glossed over as long as the AP has been perceived as basically good — a lot like collegiate introductory courses and not ideologically influenced — and the rest of the high - school curriculum has been seen as so flawed.»

It is right that ministers have influence over a core national curriculum and an accountability framework, but they should avoid excessive interference over what periods of history or particular works of literature are studied, and avoid a pace of change that risks errors and is inefficient for students and schools.

The 2011 Florida Legislature and Governor Rick Scott tied the future of nearly 200,000 professional educators to high - stakes standardized test scores, dramatically diminished their professional influence over classroom curriculum and cut their pay by 3 % calling it a «contribution» to the Florida Retirement System.

The assessments also exert influence over preparation programs, because they help define the curriculum to be taught as they instantiate much of the knowledge and many of the skills candidates are supposed to learn.

Students are passive recipients of the learning material and their views have little influence over what and how that curriculum is taught.

Having had a dog and several cats over the years, Dr. Tirozzi understands the positive influence companion animals have in our lives, and believes that our Curriculum has great potential to enhance the social and emotional development of children in our nation's schools.

Over time, I can see this network of teachers not only influencing each others practice but also contributing to new national arts standards, helping others to understand the importance of contemporary art in the curriculum, and continuing to facilitate workshops at national and statewide conferences in order to spread the love.

The American Chemistry Council denies any undue influence over the drafting of the curriculum, claiming its comments were submitted during the public comment phase, along with several other organizations.