Sentences with phrase «more curriculum»

Unfortunately, we also are much more curriculum - oriented than we've ever been, and the classroom as a social context largely has been lost.

The data also emphasises the need for more curriculum time to be made available for language learning in primary schools.

He added: «We know that our colleagues in state schools often do a fantastic job with fewer resources, larger classes, more curriculum constraints and significantly different challenges and we do not presume to patronise them by suggesting we can necessarily run their schools better than they can.

«Teachers would approach me with questions about students with reading problems, and conversations with teachers became more curriculum - based and focused on what's best for kids.»

As technology provides more curricula, teachers can spend less time lecturing entire classes and more time mentoring students as individuals and tutoring them in areas in which they need help or seek additional challenges.

The search for effective curricula persists, with the federal government in the United States currently funding randomized clinical trials to compare various curriculum models to determine whether one or more curricula produce educationally meaningful effects for children's language skills, pre-reading and pre-math abilities, cognition, general knowledge, and social competence at the end of preschool and through the end of first grade.

Free from many state - mandated regulations, charter schools can offer more curriculum and design options to parents and children, such as Montessori, Core Knowledge (Back - to - Basics), Arts & Science, and a longer - day, longer - year, strict - discpline school for at - risk children living in urban areas (sometimes referred to as College Prep schools).

Or, a child who has been in a home - based daycare center may be ready for a more curriculum - based program.

For more curriculum - planning resources, visit Edutopia's Curriculum Planning and Lesson Plans pages.

As school systems add more and more curricula for teachers to cover — and put more and more emphasis on standardized test scores — many teacher say they have less time to be creative.

Tests, he argues, should be faster in terms of both time to complete them and time to receive scores, more curriculum - relevant, and more teacher, student, and parent - friendly.

Analysis of these rich curriculum data, along with our more curriculum - sensitive measures of student achievement, revealed that the mathematics content teachers covered in their classrooms was significantly related to their students» performance even when researchers adjusted this relationship for student background factors (ethnicity, parent education level, socioeconomic status, and so on).

Otherwise, we just don't need any more curriculum or teaching tools.

Teachers in these districts often teach multiple grades so they have more curriculum to prepare than a teacher in a larger district.

As a former teacher, I am aware of the demands on our schools to include more and more curricula with less time and less attention from students.