Sentences with phrase «more out of your curriculum»

Find ways to facilitate intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in harmony, and you'll see students and trainees alike get more out of your curriculum and modules.

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Saujani also called out the bias of tech - related curricula — and culture more generally — which she says is almost invariably written to «speak to a 13 - year - old boy from Silicon Valley.»

If you're just starting to consider home education, or have recently taken your children out of school to educate them at home, you probably have all kinds of questions about what to do, how to help your children to learn, whether to use a formal curriculum, how to organise meals around home education, whether you'll ever again get any time to yourself... These home education articles address these issues and more, from my perspective having «been there, done that!».

I'm not sure that the boys are covering everything on the National Curriculum - Tim in particular doesn't appear to be doing a lot of maths - but they're certainly learning plenty of other things, and enjoying life considerably more than some of their friends who go to school out here.

Just as technology - infused instruction has moved out of the computer lab, we will see media literacy begin to move across the curriculum, especially as teachers rely more and more on online resources and the access that students have to the internet for information.

When you start out embedding making in the curriculum, it is essential to share with teachers the relevance of making as problem solving and the importance of process so that they don't end up with glitter catapult assignments or extra crafty English language arts assignments that turn out more like craft experiments than true project - based learning.

«Instead of devising testing schemes, which commonly lead to more retention and dropping out, policymakers should focus on providing all students with appropriately certified teachers, challenging curriculum, high quality facilities, and ample supplies of up - to - date books and materials.»

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

So, I'm hoping to bring more of our work out of the margins and into the curriculum for K — 12 teachers in - training.

In many respects, out of necessity, the curriculum and teaching methods seem to be more high tech than in larger schools.

«We wanted to ensure that Envoys» experiential programs had the same intentionality, curriculum, and assessment that was so critical to a quality school,» Leighton says, pointing out that education outside of the classroom can be far more than the cliché of a field trip.

I think this same factor has come through David Gonski's most recent report that's just been out for the last couple of days, looking again at the administrative dimension of things, versus the more unadulterated educational leadership, curriculum, teaching, learning.

«The curriculum outcomes are at the core, but there's a whole host of other more socio - cultural outcomes that are just as important that come out of the program,» he said.

'' We can offer our teachers more time out of the classroom to be able to collaborate with their peers and develop the exciting curriculum we want our children to receive, without «burning out».»

It must include the names of any phonics or reading schemes being used in Key Stage 1 (KS1), a list of the courses available to pupils at Key Stage 4 (KS4), including GCSEs, as well as how parents or other members of the public can find out more about the curriculum.

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.

Including extracts from Dickens, Bronte and Shakespeare, but also more modern, accessible texts such as Willy Russell's Our Day Out, Harry Potter and Roald Dahl's Boy, this collection aims to provide a wide range of texts through which to study the range of skills vital in the new curriculum, such as pre-19th Century Literature, poetry, comparison of theme and time period, language and structural features.

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In addition to our academically challenging curriculum, we provide a variety of extra-curricular activities, including athletics, music, field trips, community out - reach and much more.

And, because of the small size of the district and limited teacher and course resources, advanced students interested in accelerated curriculum or more electives were often missing out on opportunities to get ahead.

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My children already attend after school activities and I think it's awesome children are doing activities which we would be paying thousands out of our own pockets I feel we working parents as a whole pay enough taxes for extra curriculum activities my children come home happy healthy content and don't have enough energy to roam streets so that means more family time

Despite this, critics say that the curricula and methods at the majority of the nation's 500 - plus university - based principal preparation programs remain subpar and out of step with district needs.10 A growing number of districts have become more assertive with universities and other training providers about improving their offerings, because district leaders want enough well - prepared leadership candidates to meet local learning goals and to lessen the expense and damage of early turnover among poorly prepared novice principals.

Braund and Reiss (2006) argued that to create a more authentic science curriculum requires learning both in and out of school, particularly capitalizing on virtual worlds through information technologies.

As Dropout Nation has pointed out ad nauseam since the administration unveiled the No Child waiver gambit two years ago, the plan to let states to focus on just the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps) effectively allowed districts not under watch (including suburban districts whose failures in serving poor and minority kids was exposed by No Child) off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

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

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.

And it took more than a decade to perfect the model: The districts faced a host of challenges, including persuading families to enroll and rolling out a robust curriculum.

Reformers have been less concerned about school closures in communities of color; more willing «to destabilize the democratic institutions»; more concerned about cutting costs; more willing to subject poor children of color to unproven experiments; less concerned about ensuring the presence of experienced, well - qualified teachers and small classes; more willing to impose test - driven curricula; less concerned about kids pushed out of school; and more willing to privatize education.

Instead of dropping your music program or elbowing social studies out of the curriculum, it makes more sense to bring text into those subjects.

Recently, most local authorities have been following a policy of reducing the number of principal teachers in secondary schools by combining departments and having PTs titled «curriculum leaders» or «faculty heads», who essentially carry out the same responsibilities but over more than one department.

In Williams v. California, for example, teachers, parents, and students from low - income communities described overcrowded schools that had to run multiple shifts each day and multiple shifts during the school year, alternating on - months and off - months for different cohorts of students cycling in and out of the building; classrooms with more than 40 students without enough desks, chairs, and textbooks for each student to have one; lack of curriculum materials, science equipment, computers, and libraries; and crumbling facilities featuring leaky ceilings and falling ceiling tiles, sometimes overrun with rodents, and lacking heat and air conditioning.

Nick Gibb is committed to systematic synthetic phonics which is now embedded in the statutory National Curriculum for English, and he is also committed to promoting a love of reading — pointing out, however, that children are more likely to love reading if they can actually read the words on the page in the first place.

Again, this observation was the first step towards a the eventual phasing - out of the teaching expert, and allowed for the teacher to explore some of the challenges of the curriculum in a more comfortable capacity.

«Texas charter schools are taking dollars out of the classrooms for facilities that they could be using to pay teachers, to help students with more innovative... curriculum ideas and to be able to serve their students better.»

They include investing more in excellent teacher pre-service training, in early - childhood education, in after - school and summer programs, in improved student health and nutrition programs in and out of schools, and in implementing high standards in math, reading and science curriculums.

After a review of literature on pull - out programs, the researchers for this study noted that teachers knowledgeable about gifted education in combination with more advanced curricula resulted in students» satisfaction pull - out programs.

The coalition government has been pushing the roll - out of the programme, which gives schools more freedom over their budgets and curriculum.

As graphic novels carry out their manifest destiny, swallowing up the real estate of library shelves and, more slowly, classroom curricula, the final frontier of acceptance may be the book group.

I'll be leading the course, but since I've always considered myself to be more of a BlackBerry Addict than Expert, we'll also be featuring a number of guest lecturers over the weeks ahead to help round out the curriculum (think you have what it takes to teach a class or two?!

Maybe he's just pointing out that the sentence makes a lot more sense if it started life as a description of how someone (maybe NCSE) was going to implement a pro-AGW curriculum, and then someone ham - handedly re-wrote it to have the opposite meaning.

One thing that has occurred to me in debating those who fall for anti-science propaganda is that there is a need for public school science curricula to include more emphasis on the basic principles of the scientific method, and how one can go about figuring out what's true and what isn't when faced with media controversies about science.

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By replacing old cars, classrooms and out - of - touch instructors with interactive technology, talented instructors and the most up - to - date curriculum, we are able to provide teenagers with the skills and knowledge they need in a more comfortable, learning conducive environment.

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.

Speaking of which, if you're interested in more things you can send out in order to get hired, then maybe you should consider sending a curriculum vitae instead.

Speaking of which, our website offers more Medical Curriculum Vitae for you to expand your choices so you're never out of options.

Those types of details will make your own curriculum vitae stand out more so you get that interview.

In terms of the content of programmes evidence, primarily from group - based formal parenting programmes, suggests that programmes with a manual or curriculum, covering emotional communication and relationship skills, and based on experiential learning in which parents» practices new skills like the use of «time out» were more effective.