Sentences with phrase «language curricula said»

If enacted, such a mandate would make Dallas the only major U.S. district to require study in a specific foreign language for a high - school diploma, experts in language curricula said.

Not exact matches

He said, «While the former in its nomenclature and innovative curriculum demonstrated the urgency and possibility of decolonising the study of literature in our environment, the latter equally acknowledged the necessity of appreciating the uniqueness of studying and using English in a second language environment.

«The government must conduct a serious review of its stance on modern languages in the key stage four curriculum and examine how it should be promoting these subjects rather than presiding their decline,» he said.

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.

School Reform Minister Nick Gibb said: «All pupils should have the opportunity to study foreign languages as part of a core academic curriculum that prepares them for life in modern Britain.

The authors said «our results question whether many of the youngest children in the classroom have the language skills to meet the demands of the curriculum, to integrate socially with older peers and to regulate their own emotions and behaviours.»

If you engage your students with a variety of activities, provide personal feedback on assignments, boost your curriculum by taking advantage of the internet tools and resources, and provide safe places for formative assessments (such as practice tests), lots of visuals and a clear direction for success, your body language says: I care about you.

I've learned five languages at various levels, traveled to about 100 countries, taught a whole mix of national and international curricula, and done things I never thought I'd do before I left Australia,» he said.

To be successful in their learning, students need to understand the language of the curriculum — not only to comprehend what's being said, but also what's being asked of them.

This is relevant for pedagogy, she says, because many of these language challenges are invisible to educators, curriculum designers, and researchers.

Some teachers say that they are already teaching with grade - level - appropriate texts, and that they already include at least some informational texts in their English language arts curriculum.

Crystal Hoel, a former middle school language arts teacher at a school in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, said, I think public schools can implement the same strategies, but only if the principal and / or curriculum director truly believe that all kids can achieve and teachers are held accountable.

They say the overreliance on data has harmed education by narrowing curricula and focusing on test preparation to ensure that students pass mandated tests in math and English language arts.

School officials should reach out to parents of English - language learners and encourage both student and parental literacy, says a study by the Education Policy Research Unit, a division of Tempe - based Arizona State University that conducts research on student - performance standards and curriculum.

The Stand Up Say No to Bullying curriculum helps to build a consistent language and a consistent approach to dealing with conflict across a school community.

District officials said the new curriculum being launched in all schools this fall stresses developmentally appropriate teaching and flexible grouping to bolster the language skills...

English learners are relying on teachers to help them quickly advance in language proficiency, says specialist Valentina Gonzalez, and writing is a life skill that can deepen learning in every curriculum.

Suzanne O'Farrell, curriculum and assessment specialist at the Association of School and College Leaders, said if the drop in languages was not reversed, poorer pupils and those outside London were at risk of reduced job prospects, particuarly in the light of Brexit.

A spokesperson for the Department for Education said languages had become a compulsory part of the primary curriculum and the EBacc.

Judith Rowland - Jones, head of curriculum for languages at AQA, said the exam board wanted a greater emphasis on «expressing and developing thoughts and ideas spontaneously and fluently», adding this was «different to the rote - learning in assessment at the moment.»

Greensboro Islamic Academy says in its fundraising video that it uses the same curriculum as Guilford County schools, in addition to offering Islamic studies, Arabic language classes and Quaranic memorization.

The math and language arts portions of the Model Curriculum have been finalized and are posted online, officials said, but other sections pertaining to science, social studies and other subject areas are targeted for completion in late 2013 and 2014.

This school year, the district is implementing new English language arts curriculum in elementary and high schools that is aligned to the new Common Core standards, Chau said, which officials hope will improve those results.

She said she believes the scores show high school students were more successful in making the transition to the Common Core - aligned English language arts curriculum than students in earlier grades.

Science and languages had become the «poor relations» of the primary curriculum as a result, he said.

Their studies, Pandya said, were aligned with the Common Core curriculum in math and English language arts and with the recent emphasis on providing high school students with hands - on projects and real - world learning experiences.

While some say this practice of designing teacher preparation curriculum around the PACT bears resemblance to K - 12 teachers «teaching to the test,» many educators at Northridge say the PACT is focused on critical areas of good teaching, like planning lessons with strong student assessments, and modifying lessons for English language learners and students with disabilities, and that it therefore only reinforces what candidates should learn anyway.

Based on this and earlier studies, Reynolds and Temple say the key to CPC's success lies in both the quality of the program and its teachers, the opportunity for more than one year of participation, small classes, comprehensive family services, structured activity - based curricula focusing on language and literacy, and attention to continuity of learning from preschool to the early school grades.

«We actually worked with the authors of the bill and have language in the bill that will prevent regulation of curriculum,» Lambert said.

«There's a combination of reasons for this, including «crowding out» of the curriculum, that is, having as few as three options, from a range of around 25; the perception that English is the only important international language and that everyone else can speak English,» she said.

School directors had a few questions about the curriculum, which Mauser said is rigorous and includes foreign language starting in kindergarten.

NUT general secretary Christine Blower said: «Languages have long been among the subjects most severely affected by piecemeal changes to the secondary curriculum, especially the mistaken decision to make modern foreign languages optional.

At the regional level, there are no librarians leading the professional development sessions; it has been relegated to English language arts curriculum,» said another.

«We work with English language arts classes to offer eBook versions of the titles that serve as the cornerstone of K - 12 ELA curriculum — they will identify popular books that they are using for class,» Hadie said.

Another poster to this thread has demonstrated via the wording of said post that the correct usage of the English language (both spoken and written) ought to be part of the real estate salesperson (read consultant / advocate) licensing education curriculum.