What does this information
mean about curriculum, assessments, discipline procedures, staff training, whole school routines, family engagement?
Not exact matches
For example, Urban Ministries Inc., the African American publisher of the
curriculum I analyzed for the book, has hired young seminarians who are thinking
about what it
means to be both a worker of justice and a faithful Christian.
Rigor is
meant to be a synonym for high standards in the
curriculum, but the word reveals much
about our culture's attitude toward learning.
-- Discover what eurythmy reveals
about human development — Work your way through the development of the child by
means of exercises appropriate to each developmental phase — See how the Waldorf
curriculum comes to life through movement and gesture — Learn
about the interplay between eurythmy and academic experiences — Acquire the language and understanding to talk
about eurythmy to Waldorf parents in a valuable way — Work, play, laugh, and have fun!
Promoting inclusive education
means ensuring that
curriculums include the voices of marginalised or historically marginalised populations; ensuring that the academy speaks to and with people, not just
about them; enabling classrooms to be spaces in which all voices are heard and valued; and creating faculties that recruit fairly and inclusively.
The Regents, which are elected by a joint session of the State Legislature, approved a slate of regulatory and policy changes last week that are
meant to address teachers», parents» and lawmakers» concern
about the rocky rollout of the more difficult
curriculum guidelines.
Yet the
curriculum first and second year medical students learn
about finding
meaning in medicine, learning to cope with loss, standing wide - eyed and humble in the face of awe and mystery, and nurturing the wholeness in ourselves and our patients is often beaten out of doctors during the trauma of the next six to eight years of medical education.
This is a paper
about the basic issues concerning reflective thinking,
meaning, informal logic and the application of reflective thinking skills across the
curricula.
This report makes some vitally important points
about why this is so damaging, and why the pursuit of exam results and accountability metrics therefore has to be informed by an understanding of the
curriculum, and of what it
means to master a subject.»
'... An alternative is to think
about the
curriculum as a roadmap... to think
about the
curriculum as a description of what it
means to improve, learn, make progress, develop within a particular [domain of learning].
Instead, they are
meant to complement your
curriculum — getting students to think
about, interact with, and reflect on the major concepts they are studying.
And by that we
mean that it's not just
about teaching the
curriculum — it's more than that, there's a reason for doing it, maths is connected, coherent.
When the
curriculum was completed, I felt confident
about the lessons we had created, but knew this
meant nothing if they did not resonate with the students.
By instructional leadership, we
mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the
curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments
about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the school are properly aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of instructional materials.
«The
curriculum itself is very simple, you could cut it down to one sheet of A4, but it's
about - What does that
mean in reality, as a series of [lessons]?
However, being a Native American school
means having the unique task of including lessons
about the tribe's heritage, cultural values, and language in the
curriculum.
If you have any additional questions
about what the
curriculum changes
mean for you, don't hesitate to email us.
It covers the following National
Curriculum learning objectives: - develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by: listening to, discussing and expressing views
about a wide range of contemporary and classic poetry, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently - becoming increasingly familiar with and retelling a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales - drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher - making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done - answering and asking questions - predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far - using dictionaries to check the
meaning of words that they have read - checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding, and explaining the
meaning of words in context
Driven by compelling cognitive science, a renewed focus on
curriculum in the wake of the Common Core State Standards, and a culture of innovation encouraged by the Every Student Succeeds Act, curiosity has piqued
about what «knowledge - rich schooling» really
means — and how the heck you do it.
The commemoration, he argues, was always
meant to put «explicit attention on structures of domination that need to be thought
about and reflected on when we shape
curriculum and decide how we're training up students to challenge the status quo and to imagine social transformation.»
He said, «The charters are specifically looking for educators who have not had the experience of being in a union, which
means that, by and large, they're looking for teachers who may find it more challenging to raise their voice
about curriculum or school conditions.»
Students are explicitly taught
about what respect
means through assemblies, the
curriculum and the wide range of enrichment activities that take place.
«Those will stay in place with the
curriculum narrowed for so many pupils as schools work to ensure they reach an ever - rising bar, which
means they are not deemed below the floor and labelled as failing,» she said, adding that the time had come to «stop moaning
about the test» and «put the nail in the coffin of testing».
I would like to hear more
about why Dr. Berkowitz says that integration into the
curriculum in prepared lessons is vastly overrated; what he
means by «a novice school» (no in - service?
In individual classrooms this can
mean integrating student voice into classroom management practices; giving students opportunities to design, facilitate, and evaluate
curriculum; or facilitating student learning
about school systems.
5This section shows the range of possible level scores and what they
mean about your student's progress toward meeting state
curriculum standards.
An emphasis on children practising their writing skills across a range of subjects
means that pupils regard writing as a key skill across the
curriculum, encouraging a focused, creative approach to quality topic and science based writing; pupils often prefer writing
about factual topics in a creative way.
In this book, Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe guide readers in thinking
about what it
means to establish classrooms based on
curriculum and instruction designed to ensure that each student is fully supported in developing the enduring understandings of a discipline and in mastering its critical knowledge and skills.
With the input of colleagues who teach writing pedagogies and linguistics courses at my university, I designed an interview protocol
meant to elicit a variety of information
about curriculum, instruction, beliefs
about teaching writing, and the particular qualities of their students from participating teachers.
First published in 1995 as How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed - Ability Classrooms, this new edition reflects evolving best practices in education, the experiences of practitioners throughout the United States and around the world, and Tomlinson's continuing thinking
about how to help each and every student access challenging, high - quality
curriculum; engage in
meaning - rich learning experiences; and feel at home in a school environment that «fits.»
This
means many are at breaking point, with school leaders being forced to make difficult decisions
about staffing, the
curriculum and crucial services such as counselling.
The common
curriculum usually
means about 30 or more major classes that correspond with state certification requirement, and additional course material that centers on theory and methods of teaching.
(4) develop
means of promoting the prompt utilization of engineering and other scientific research to assist in solving problems in education (including promotion of the development of
curriculums stressing barrier free design and the adoption of such
curriculums by schools of architecture, * design, and engineering), health, employment, REHABILITATION, architectural, housing, and transportation barriers, and other areas so as to bring
about full integration of handicapped individuals into all aspects of society;
Thinking
about a
curriculum means a consciousness toward edifying.
2.10.2 Intellectual freedom includes: (a) the rights of all Staff to express opinions
about the operation of the University and higher education policy more generally; (b) the rights of Staff to pursue critical open enquiry and to discuss freely, teach, assess, develop
curricula, publish and research within the limits of their professional competence and professional standards; (c) the right to participate in public debates and express opinions
about issues and ideas related to their discipline area; (d) the right of all Staff to participate in professional and representative bodies and to engage in community service without fear of harassment, intimidation or unfair treatment; and (e) the right to express unpopular or controversial views, although this does not
mean the right to vilify, harass or intimidate.
So, they have individual sessions themselves in the academic track but then part of what they baked into the programming was actually going out and attending sessions that are relevant to law schools and faculty, and talking to vendors in the hall and really getting a better feel for what practice management
means and why it's so important to start teaching in law school because as we all know they don't, and as a whole, I
mean, there is obviously a few schools that do, but as a whole it's not part of a standard
curriculum and they are very excited
about that and they even have one co-session that they are doing with the incubator consortium that's being held at the exact same time.
A CV (
Curriculum Vitæ, which
means course of life in Latin) is an in - depth document that can be laid out over two or more pages and it contains a high level of detail
about your achievements, a great deal more than just a career biography.
To me inclusive practices is
about knowing individual children and doing everything you can to ensure that the
curriculum or the program
meaning the child's whole experience takes into account that individual, that deep and broad knowledge of that individual child.