Sentences with phrase «into curriculum standards»

At the same time, we must be careful not to turn benchmarks into curriculum standards or instructional activities.

We have also seen some advances in integrating technology into curriculum standards and materials, the availability of curriculum - relevant digital resources, the number of teachers who have participated in technology - related professional development, and the use of assistive technologies for students with special needs.

Many states are requiring technology standards as part of their state standards (either built into the curriculum standards or separate).

Not exact matches

When local LDS authorities decide they are ready, new members are moved into regular where they study «Doctrines in the Curriculum» from standard lesson manuals published at Mormon headquarters.

Character Education: § 115C - 81 (h)(2003) requires each local board to develop and implement character education instruction that is to be incorporated into the standard curriculum.

The faculty artfully integrates State - adopted educational standards into the school's curriculum while creating a vibrant and stimulating environment that not only engages, but improves student attention and develops a life - long passion for learning.

It is an academic school that fully integrates the arts into the teaching of a unique curriculum that surpasses all standard educational learning goals and benchmarks.

Your project would fit nicely into the Instructional Materials for Students component, which «supports the creation and substantial revision of comprehensive curricula and supplemental instructional materials that are research - based; enhance classroom instruction pre-K-12; and reflect standards for science, mathematics, and technology education developed by national professional organizations.»

In order to raise awareness about the importance of plants and bring them into the limelight in science education, it is important that teachers are provided with high quality, engaging activities that complement their curriculum and align with state and national standards.

However, we must work to incorporate information and digital literacy standards into the K - 12 curriculum as early as possible.

Not only is the game great fun and easy to integrate into the curriculum, it also reinforces standards set by the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE), the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS), the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and the International Society for Technology Education (ISTE).

Three schools participated in the Opening Minds through the Arts curriculum, which incorporated music, opera, dance, theater, and visual arts into reading, writing, math, and science, while the other two schools used standard teaching methodology.

Though he sees potential in the «commonness» of the Common Core, he argues that true learning gains will only follow if states turn more demanding ELA standards into a mandate for knowledge - rich curricula and if test makers understand that «close reading» of texts could make things worse unless those texts are integrated with such a curriculum.

All this is mostly good — and, yes, a little bit risky, if the national standards go squishy or the national curriculum falls into the hands of zealots.

Susan Sclafani, vice president of programs for the Pearson Foundation shares insight into the new digital curriculum being developed to adopt the common core standards.

For one thing, in getting a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana (like other states) promised the Obama administration it would adopt standards that met federal criteria; align curricula and teaching; select, pilot, and administer new tests aligned to the standards; and integrate the standards into both school - and teacher - accountability systems.

This performance - based conception of standards lies at the heart of what is needed to translate the Common Core into a robust curriculum and assessment system.

In a 2011 interview by Lynnette Guastaferro of Teaching Matters, Darling - Hammond says that whether the national standards are put into effect in a way that is «much more focused on higher - order learning skills» (that is, progressive education classrooms for all) depends on «building curriculum materials,» «transforming» testing, and changing in - service teacher training.

It has, as you know, historically been very much left to not only the local districts, but often the local school and I think while we have standards of course, those standards have translated uncomfortably into what we would call a curriculum.

Those standards, they said, represented an inappropriate intrusion by the NCAA into curriculum and policy matters.

That model, I think, is now well known across the state: standards - based curriculum, radically better assessments,... a fair but rigorous accountability system which, as you know, the Regents will soon put into regulations creating the framework of evaluation for principals and teachers.

Teacher Erin Okata integrated social studies, language arts, science, math, fine arts, and technology into the project as a way to help students develop an awareness of ocean life and to meet specific Hawaii state curriculum standards.

Recent conversations, highlighted by the papers and discussion at the ETS gathering in Atlanta, suggest to me that we're rapidly blowing past the happy talk of «fewer, clearer, higher» standards and into the more potentially divisive question of how one designs assessments, curricula, and instructional materials that fit those standards.

The value of a faculty's dividing into teams, for example, is to enable teachers to work effectively together to improve instruction and enable students to meet or exceed rigorous standards that are embodied in the curriculum.

I think one of the legitimate controversies here is, how quickly do we integrate these new standards into the curriculum and into assessment?

As Daniel Peabody, Maryland's 2015 Middle School Counselor of the Year pointed out in a recent interview, the standards have brought the traditional focus of the school counselor — promoting college and career readiness — into the realm of day - to - day curriculum and instruction.

Guest blogger Karin Nolan, professor, author and lifelong music educator, assures teachers that they don't have to be musicians to successfully integrate music into a standards - based curriculum.

In this second of a five - part series, educators Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins note that educators will be called on to translate the Common Core standards into curriculum.

Read about how four teachers fit PBL into their curriculum through scalable projects that challenged and enriched students while meeting the standards.

School practices are organized into eight categories: student focus and support; school organ - ization and culture; challenging standards and curriculum; active teaching and learning; professional community; leadership and educational vitality; school, family, and community partnerships; and indicators of success.

The Common Core mathematics standards are grade - by - grade specific and hence are more detailed than the NCTM 2000 standards, but they do resemble them in setting their sights lower than our international competitors, by, for example, locking algebra into the high school curriculum.

We look at the conditions that are required if we expect to achieve the standards, we look at standard achievement and technology literacy; we look at our teachers» ability to integrate technology into the classroom curriculum; and we look at their readiness to do so.

Andson Money, a subset of Andson, developed their curriculum specifically for Bracken's Piggy - Bank program, taught it to their students, and then integrated feedback from teachers to ensure that it tied into ELA, math, and national standards for financial literacy.

Principals have a pivotal role to play in turning the common standards into good curriculum and instruction in their schools.

By projecting into the future, administrators also learned they needed to make adjustments in the curriculum to keep up with standards.

Patty Quinones, who was then the school's principal and is now the district's assistant superintendent of innovation, worked backward to translate the end goals into curricula that met the state's academic standards.

If you're looking for a deeper understanding of the CCSS and the strongest alignment possible, our experienced standards consultants offer a variety of services, including conducting curriculum audits, assisting with CCSS implementation, analyzing gaps in teacher knowledge and skills, identifying opportunities to embed CCSS content into existing courses, and ensuring instruction and assessment support the standards.

Newly elected conservative leaders should be concerned about the authority handed to centralizers by their predecessors and investigate how to bring standards and curriculum control back into the hands of state leaders.

OER might have great potential for homeschoolers, private schools, or parents who wish to supplement what their kids learn in school, but public - school educators will be hard - pressed to fit them into curricula that are driven by state standards and assessments.

The members of this camp praise national standards, a national (or at least statewide) curriculum that gathers the best thinking about how to reach these standards and shares this thinking with the teaching corps, authentic assessments that provide diagnostic information, and professional development (pre-service and in - service) that is seamlessly woven into all of the rest.

A group of grade - level teachers, physical education teachers and counselors will analyze scholarly resources to determine how to integrate food, nutrition, health and culture (while maintaining Park City School District's rigorous academic standards) into existing curriculum.

Wixson and Dutro (in press) conducted a document analysis of 42 state standards in early reading / language arts as a way to gauge how the variability in standards might influence their translation into local curriculum, instruction and assessment.

New insight into clarifying the essential standards necessary in a guaranteed and viable curriculum by establishing a collective understanding of best practices in teaching

testGEAR identifies students» weaknesses with an initial diagnostic assessment that prescribes a customized, standards aligned curriculum that strengthens content skills, introduces test taking strategies and builds confidence so students can walk into their exams feeling well - prepared.

(Calif.) Even as a press event by the state superintendent last week focused attention on a handful of schools already teaching lessons based on new science standards, legislation was being crafted that would delay until 2017 development of the tools educators need to bring that new curriculum into all California classrooms.

But she says with Indiana's transition to the Common Core, a set of new academic standards adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia, she's had to incorporate more nonfiction into her curriculum to prepare students for state tests.

With new state standards coming into effect, Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) is in the midst of revamping its entire social studies curriculum to better prepare today's students for the future.

Furthermore, in accepting public funds, religious schools run the risk of being mired in political debates, battles over regulation and accountability, and disruptive inquiries into their school standards in admission, curriculum, and hiring practices.

Forty - five states and three territories have adopted these standards into their curriculum.

Pressures from both the society at large and the standards movement are increasing the need for SCDEs to ensure that the teachers they are training are capable of integrating computer technology into the K - 12 curriculum.