Sentences with phrase «learning focused curriculum»

She was previously the Director of Curriculum and Staff Development at the International School of Bangkok for 11 years and has worked as an educational consultant training teachers and administrators in the US and internationally in school improvement, learning focused curriculum, and teacher leadership.

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She also led the development of HBS's innovative FIELD curriculum, which focuses on learning experiences that are experiential and immersive, with the goal of advancing the School's mission to develop leaders who make a difference in the world.
By focusing on the day - to - day necessities of a healthy schedule; an engaging, personalized, and rigorous curriculum; and a caring climate, this book is an invaluable resource for school leaders, teachers, parents, and students to help them design learning communities where every student feels a sense of belonging, purpose, and motivation to learn the skills necessary to succeed now and in the future.
EL's whole - school reform model combines a highly detailed, interdisciplinary curriculum that focuses on active learning, teamwork, and character education with training and coaching for teachers and school leaders.
We believe that by focusing on specific elements within the classroom environment will support curriculum and therefore help foster children's learning.
By integrating academics and the arts, the Waldorf curriculum responds to the developmental needs of the child, focusing not only on what children learn, but how they learn.
We have invested and focused on child development over the years, inviting experienced educators to advance our curriculum to ensure that your child will be learning and growing with us while having fun.
This blog focuses on the philosophy of school, which sometimes is also called «restful learning,» or «joyful learning» as well as unique curriculum philosophies as alternative ways to homeschool children.
Schoolchildren do not sit at their desks memorising - Natasa Pantovic The system needs a shift in focus: from one that teaches children a curriculum, to the one that inspires lifelong learning.
Focusing on the three decade long revolutionary period of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and sponsored by the British Academy, this project, has gathered original sources to create a university - level online curriculum through which to teach or learn about the Palestinian revolution through the eyes of the participants.
In schools that are focused on achieving high scores on the state tests, she said, the curriculum becomes geared towards test day at the expense of deeper learning.
Eva Moskowitz, founder of the growing charter network, said she hopes sharing her curriculum and teacher training resources at no charge will help shift the focus of debates on education from politics to the nitty - gritty of what children need to know, how they learn best and how to pace instruction.
While teaching the Science of Yoga, KAY provides a curriculum that is specifically designed to help children be active, learn to relax, improve focus, and have FUN in a non-competitive environment.
Learn K - 12 curriculum, be more present and focused.
Teaching the new curriculum outside the classroom will focus on inspiring and engaging opportunities for learning outside the classroom (LOtC) in the new national curriculum at the University of Derby Enterprise Centre on 4th December 2014.
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).
I'm not suggesting that the entire curriculum should be focused on what the students want to learn.
John Bishop makes the case for requiring high schoolers to pass curriculum - based exams in order to graduate, pointing out that students learn more and schools become more focused whenever these exit exams are in place.
Currently VP of Education for Almost Family Inc., he served as National Leader for Curriculum and Technology Solutions with Humana Inc., serving a global learning community focused on improving performance in the business ecosystem.
Susan Caldis, Secretary of AGTA and President of the Geography Teachers» Association of New South Wales (GTANSW), says the focus has been on inquiry - based learning and fieldwork, and how those teaching methods can be linked to the new curriculum topics in the primary and secondary years.
Our school looks for ways to incorporate digital technologies all throughout the curriculum into rich learning tasks — focused on fostering student creativity and critical thinking.
The plan focuses on personalized learning and integration of the 4Cs into curriculum and teaching frameworks.
MC2 (Metropolitan Cleveland Consortium) STEM High School is a year - round public school in Cleveland, Ohio, where instruction is through interdisciplinary project - based learning, and the focus is on providing students with an integrated curriculum that is informed by real - world experiences.
Previous conferences focused on themes of Australian Curriculum, Teachers driving school improvement, and Improving assessments of student learning.
The curriculum focuses on hands - on, integrated learning, while following the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme.
Their focus was always on learning, engaging students, what pedagogies they were doing, what they were doing with curriculum, just the whole focus was on that sort of professional discussion and that focus.
My work has focused on developing engaging math and science curriculum, team teaching, supporting teachers as they grow in their expertise and area of interests and most importantly, cultivating a culture of curiosity where my students see themselves as authors of their own learning
This practice works best as a response to gaps in cultural learning and representation that happen when curriculum is perceived to have too narrow a focus on a white, middle - to - upper - class, male - dominated view of the world.
The curriculum focuses on personal development and team learning projects sourced from students» home regions.
The main focus of coaching and mentoring conversations for school improvement is to build the competency and capability of teachers, so that they can take steps towards achieving the school's strategic vision and priorities in the curriculum, teaching and learning, and assessment, and can effectively make judgments about students» progress and outcomes.
While it is suggested in the Australian Curriculum that the personal and social capabilities be addressed in all learning areas and at every stage of a student's schooling, the ASD - ENA findings suggest that work on the personal and social capabilities needs to go beyond integration in other learning areas and, for many students on the spectrum, will require far more explicit instruction and ongoing focus on these capabilities.
«This curriculum is exciting because it is future - focused and recognises that HPE will provide students with opportunities for personal interaction in learning environments increasingly dominated by screen - based technologies.
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).
The organizations are focused on supporting schools with 21st century school and classroom design, customized project based learning curriculum, deep learning strategies, and educational technology, to name a few.
When Sparks and his team in Charlotte were revamping their curriculum to focus more deeply on socialemotional learning, abandoning lip - service measures such as the Character Trait Word of the Month and other window dressing in favor of devoting a full 45 minutes to Morning Meeting, they were questioned by some in the school district.
After researching and sampling a variety of curriculums, Anfield Primary settled on the «Learning Challenges curriculum», which was introduced to them by Clive Davis, founder of Focus Education, whom they met at a conference.
As a result, the curriculum is concentrated in three basic areas: leadership and management (focused on real behavior that goes on in organizations), teaching and learning (focused on how successful learning and teaching happens and how to recreate it), and understanding and transforming the sector (focused on the history and politics that surround the sector).
Funders are wise, then, to focus on new initiatives around curriculum development and adoption, student assignments and grading, next - generation professional development, and efforts to integrate technology and personalized learning into the classroom.
According to Becky Smerdon and Kathryn Borman, who led the Gates - sponsored research team that evaluated the initiative, by the late 1990s some consensus had emerged among reformers about what made schools successful: «a shared vision focused on student learning, common strategies for engendering that learning, a culture of professional collaboration and collective responsibility, high - quality curriculum, systematic monitoring of student learning, strong instructional leadership (usually from the principal), and adequate resources.»
Knee then hits his stride, showing how these factors played out when Murdoch's News Corporation acquired the learning analytics company Wireless Generation in 2012 to create an ambitious new «Amplify» division focused on educational tablets, games, curriculum, and data.
I was a founding faculty member of Mid-Pacific Institute's eXploratory Program, a core subject curriculum with project - based learning as the primary focus of student work, with 10 years of experience in the Social Studies classroom.
How Shanghai Does It: Insights and Lessons from the Highest - Ranking Education System in the World says teachers are supported with ongoing professional development which is often collaborative in nature and focused on improving instruction, and a framework of clear learning standards, regular student assessment and well - aligned curriculum.
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.
and «Making Education More Relevant,» Fadel's research into education, and more specifically, curriculum, has focused on developing innovative ways to revamp education systems to make learning more relevant.
The piece focuses on Teach To One, a math curriculum used to power the Individual Rotation blended - learning model whereby students receive an individualized schedule and instructional plan each day based on their performance the day prior.
Tracey Mackin, Director of Curriculum and Pedagogy, adds: «Quite early on we latched onto the recognition that if any report is going to have any value for students across multiple year levels... it needs to be focused and specific enough to prompt questions, and to get the student talking to the teacher, or their parents, about what they might need to support their future [learning].
Although much of the debate surrounding Common Core has focused on the nature of the curriculum for each grade level, proponents have also sought to raise the proficiency level on tests that assess student learning.
The GLC works to eliminate loneliness, helplessness, and boredom in aging populations; the district's curricular vision, says Shan Glandon, director of curriculum and instruction, is «to make learning as engaging and purposeful as we can,» focusing on integrating content with real - world ties.
They decided to focus on the Holocaust as an example of the harm prejudice can do and modified a high school curriculum Smith had learned about at a workshop.
Learning in HPE is enhanced when primary teachers are aware of the five interrelated propositions underpinning the Australian Curriculum: HPE; focussing on the educative purposes, developing health literacy, including a critical inquiry approach, taking a strengths based approach and valuing movement.
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