Sentences with phrase «left out of curricula»

«It's teaching lessons we've historically left out of curricula,» says Rachel Gutter, who oversees the Green Building Council's schools sector.

Unfortunately, most schools today have forgotten the importance of touch typing for students, and as such typing classes and lessons have been left out of the curriculum in favor of other skills that are deemed more important.

Not exact matches

Even leaving out the idea I was also taught, that removing oneself from the system was a laudable act of counter-cultural liberation, with which I still have some sympathy, to teach one's children oneself, being able to choose curricula and readings and customize the teaching to every child's needs and gifts, is the kind of thing I was taught, by teachers of impeccable liberalism, to praise.

«The curriculum centered on Western culture and left out narratives about people of color.

I don't think they left that subject out of the curriculum by accident.

When you produce 97 % of your own food, compost all manure (human and animal), make your own clothing, shoes, diapers, wraps, menstrual pads, washable toilet paper, soaps, lanolin, and herbal tinctures, and grow your animals feed, make your house out of a recycled tobacco barn with reclaimed building materials, have no electricity (even solar panels / wind generators leave a huge footprint from manufacture), water coming from your spring / creek, home school your children without fancy curriculum, make your living from your land and being a home birth midwife, etc... then you will see what real life could be.

She asserts that «Typical university curricula leave out contributions of people of color to American culture, except in special courses in African American studies,» a flatly false claim.

Our children's education is not limited to the school curriculum and, just as schools can not be left out of community projects, so the community should not be left out of school projects.

However, due to the multitude of factors left up to educators, including managing students, providing resources for the projects, mapping out a reasonable timetable and ensuring the projects meet curriculum guidelines, making project - based learning a reality can be a daunting task.

The removal of national curriculum levels — previously the main system for primary teachers to rate the attainment of pupils — was one of the most significant reforms to assessment carried out by the coalition government, but some have complained that scrapping the measures left a gap.

As some leading educators have recommended, this may require «leaving things out of the curricula» rather than «squeezing more in.»

I agree with you that good teachers recognize the value of phonemic awareness and phonological awareness, but if the curriculum they are assigned doesn't include it adequately and they didn't receive proper training on the essentials of reading instruction, it's left to them to make up curriculum out of whole cloth.

Infante and others add that the Academic Performance Index and the federal No Child Left Behind law squeezed history out of the curriculum in most districts during the past decade.

«We are carrying out a root and branch reform of the National Curriculum to set out the essential knowledge that children need, while leaving schools free to decide how to teach it,» he said.

Math programs which leave out this essential part of the math curriculum are giving families false promises of reaching math excellence and leaving children with an outdated view of math.

But, he said, the process is demanding enough that about 10 percent drop out before the lottery, leaving him with a pool of kids he knows are motivated to embrace the rigors of his curriculum.

Meg, our curriculum developer, has assembled a committee of health experts, and experts on the NWEI process, and they are very busy reviewing an amazing amount of material (and if you have suggestions on books and articles we should be sure to check out, leave a comment!).