Sentences with phrase «more academic curriculum»

Carbonaro and Covay (2010) confirm long - standing findings that Catholic school students benefit from a less - differentiated and more academic curriculum.

«We have been moving towards this more academic curriculum and if I was a head in a leafy area with English - speaking children, I would be following this type of curriculum.

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Through training and cultivating talents, FCAS helps prepare the right workforce for the banking sector, provide an internship scheme to students that combines both academic theory and practice, and build bridges between academia and the industry to make university curricula more relevant to the needs of their future employers.

The Church needs to find its way in a world where public school administrations are more preoccupied with transgender rights than restoring a rigorous academic curriculum.

A years - long scandal involving Tar Heels athletics and UNC academics has resulted in a massive document detailing a «shadow» curriculum in which more than 3,000 students were enrolled.

With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

However they have also shown the same thing about non-religious beliefs such as Humanism, the teaching of which stands in more urgent need of well - funded academic research by virtue of their more recent arrival on the curriculum.»

Mr Kennedy said he wanted to maximise «real choice» in education, which meant freeing up the curriculum so it was responsive to the needs of all pupils, whether academic or more vocationally - inclined.

Teachers leveraged the expedition across the curriculum to make academic subjects feel more salient to students.

They're sitting at individual desks and there's teachers and curricula, and more interestingly for us, very strict behaviour expectations and expectancies for the kids, not just in the academics but more in terms of how to behave in the classroom.

Although there is some indication that the implementation of MCAS testing has improved curriculum and helped push students and teachers to focus more aggressively on academic achievement, the potential consequences of depriving thousands of students a high - school diploma is simply unacceptable to most teachers.

Bear in mind, however, that education is more than the academic curriculum.

And schools themselves have developed increasingly sophisticated academic responses to accountability, ranging from closer examination of curriculum and assessment alignment, to more aggressive personnel strategies, to establishing relationships with outside support organizations that provide significant academic support.

Their comments come amidst the government push for a more «academic» curriculum, with the introduction of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), which requires pupils to study subjects such as English, Maths, Sciences and a language, but omits many creative subjects.

But the students chosen to receive the new curriculum might differ in a way that influences their academic progress - they might, for instance, have had better reading teachers in the past, be more motivated, or have access to more educational resources at home.

While Puleo works in more traditional counseling positions at public schools during the academic year, as a curriculum adviser at Explo she often combines instructional training and counseling.

(Such services take various forms but most commonly involve separate classrooms with more challenging curricula and specially prepared teachers, at least for core academic subjects.)

It means that we have the opportunity to develop a curriculum that's more creative and more inclusive, not one that's more academic.

Although acknowledging the need for strong, core academic curriculum, Wilshaw will argue that England is neglecting its less academic pupils at its own peril and will call for a more «inclusive» system that does not leave behind students who fail to attain targets.

On a more academic note, school programs that intentionally incorporate empathy into curriculum have also seen better test results, as described by John Converse Townsend in Forbes Magazine.

Read about how the Edwards Middle School uses more time to develop a rigorous core curriculum and supplements it with a tiered academic support program called Academic academic support program called Academic Academic Leagues.

Students with learning difficulties are more likely to demonstrate low academic achievement despite recent advances in curriculum design, assessments to inform instructional decisions, and research - based intervention strategies.

Delta Academies Trust, formerly the School Partnership Trust Academies, lost more than 100 staff last year and removed a number of creative subjects from its curriculum to prioritise the more academic subjects found in the EBacc.

Whether it is for stronger academics, safer learning environments, empowered teachers or more personalized curriculum, Americans are seeking school choice.

The latest draft of proposed common academic standards offers more - detailed expectations of what students should know and be able to do by the end of high school in math and language arts, but also notes that some decisions about curricula should be left to individual states and schools.

Common Core doesn't dictate curriculum or pedagogy Checker assured us, it only requires that «everybody's schools use the same academic targets and metrics to track their academic performance» and «then those schools can and should be freed up to «run themselves» in the ways that matter most: budget, staffing, curriculum, schedule, and more.»

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.

The academic intensity of the student's high school curriculum still counts more than anything else in precollegiate history in providing momentum toward completing a bachelor's degree.

She has researched, written, and presented extensively on the topic of vocabulary instruction which is the subject of several of her books, including Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms, No More «Look Up the List» Vocabulary Instruction and Teaching Academic Vocabulary K — 8: Effective Practices across the Curriculum.

New Jersey, for example, defines an SGO as «a long - term academic goal that teachers set for groups of students and must be: Specific and measureable; Aligned to New Jersey's curriculum standards; Based on available prior student learning data; A measure of what a student has learned between two points in time; Ambitious and achievable» (for more information click here).

Government accountability measures such as the EBacc have been criticised for narrowing the curriculum in schools, with many seen to be prioritising more academic subjects at the expenses of creative areas.

For instance, the Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants help students gain access to more comprehensive curricula, and local policymakers can use these funds to provide instruction on learning mindsets and skills.

Outstanding educators, more time in school, a rigorous college - preparatory curriculum, and a strong culture of achievement and support help our students make significant academic gains.

As students become proficient in basic academic skills by fifth grade, the sixth through eighth grade academic program provides students with more challenging skills and a more content - rich curriculum.

«Academic freedom generally provides much more potent protection for what a teacher says as a citizen outside the school than for what the teacher says in the classroom, where the school board is largely in control of the curriculum» (p. 43).

«Teachers across America understand that social and emotional learning (SEL) is critical to student success in school, work, and life,» according to the Missing Piece survey of educators, commissioned by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning: «Educators know these skills are teachable; want schools to give far more priority to integrating such development into the curriculum, instruction, and school culture; and believe state student learning standards should reflect this priority.

As states adopt more rigorous academic standards, schools must define how special education fits into standards - aligned curricula, instruction, and assessment.

Medium - term plans are for the academic term or, more usually, half term, setting out what specific aspect of the curriculum will be covered in week - by - week format.

The original intent of the standards movement was to ensure that all students would have access to a much more challenging curriculum and therefore, would perform to higher levels of academic achievement.

More recently, Dr. Scripp has posted the Partnership in Arts Integration Research (PAIR) Report on ArtsEdSearch — a publication that details the expansive scope of arts learning research methods and findings in the Chicago Public Schools (see www.pairresults.org)-- and the Oakland Unified School District Principal Investigator's report, which demonstrates how a Music PLUS Music Integration Curriculum Intervention optimizes both music learning and its impact on academic performance when compared to conventional music control school programs.

It also — very handily — diverts attention from criticism of their changes to the curriculum towards a narrower more restricting academic offer.

We believe art made from an integrated curriculum is more compelling because of the constant exchange of questions and ideas from the academic to the artistic work.

With states and districts implementing new academic standards based on the Common Core State Standards, teachers have more opportunities than ever to collaborate around the shared goals of strengthening curriculum design, classroom practices, and student learning.

More than a Medal: A Sports Values Education Program combines this experience in the five International Olympic Committee values — Respect, Fair Play, Excellence, Life Balance, and Joy of Effort — with physical activity and academic curriculum.

And in recent years, kindergarten curriculums have been more oriented toward academic readiness and achievement, according to new research by the University of Virginia.

Yet, it is generally more effective in meeting academic requirements at an accelerated pace to follow a coherent curriculum than to attempt to create one de novo.

Reach Cyber students in grades K - 12 will have the option to participate in joint academic offerings with Harrisburg University students, including STEM curricula, activities, camps and more.

Both national longitudinal studies reach similar conclusions: «The academic intensity of the student's high school curriculum still counts more than anything else in precollegiate history in providing momentum toward completing a bachelor's degree» (p. xviii).

The economy was then becoming more global, and President Reagan embraced the report's recommendations to raise academic standards, measure students» mastery of those standards, and improve the curriculum that schools use in their classrooms.

With a focus on science and social studies and an archive of more than 10,000 nonfiction articles, Pro also teaches students the disciplinary knowledge and academic vocabulary they need to succeed across the entire curriculum.