Sentences with phrase «of curricular frameworks»

Nor can the Department justify its current activities by claiming that they are only funding the development of curricular frameworks and instructional materials.

Not exact matches

The purpose of the Life Vest Inside ™ (hereafter referred to as LVI) curriculum is to attend to the child, reengage him / her with discussions and experiences rooted in kindness, aligned with a theoretical framework to elicit critical thinking, all while attending to the current expectations of curricular instruction in schools framed around the United States Common Core Standards (www.corestandards.org, 2012).

Founded in 1998 in the education department at Brown University, the primary curricular framework of the ArtsLiteracy Project is the «performance cycle,» a flexible guiding structure for integrating arts and literacy practices across all disciplines.

«You know, the educators in the prior - to - school settings and then first years of school, they're working within very different curricular and learning framework structures so opportunities for collaboration of learning experiences might not be feasible.

Two national organizations have launched a two - year project to develop and implement a curricular framework for the study of civics in the schools.

States could, however, move closer to the international norm by specifying curricular frameworks, as Massachusetts does, or advancing widespread use of high - quality instructional materials, as Louisiana has achieved.

States promised to adopt «scalable and sustained strategies for turning around clusters of low - performing schools» and «clear, content - rich, sequenced, spiraled, detailed curricular frameworks.»

As Cuban remarks of recent changes in science curricula, «these curricular frameworks will have only a passing similarity to the science content and skills that teachers will teach once they close their classroom doors.»

The effectiveness of the model has been studied in over 20 years of research and field - testing about: (a) the effectiveness of the model as perceived by key groups, such as principals, teachers, students, and parents; (b) research related to student creative productivity; (c) research relating to personal and social development; (d) the use of SEM with culturally diverse or special needs populations; (e) research on student self - efficacy; (f) the use of SEM as a curricular framework; (g) research relating to learning styles and curriculum compacting; and (h) longitudinal research on the SEM.

From the early 1940s through the 1980s, community colleges changed in every conceivable way — their size, types of students they served, their prominence, breadth of curricular offerings, and acceptance within the larger framework of American higher education.

This process is an elaboration of the broader grade - articulated curricular framework.

Setting our sights on the bigger vision of 70 percent of alumni earning a college degree within six years, Uplift saw the International Baccalaureate (IB) program as the curricular framework that would best prepare our scholar populations for success in college and the global community.

Second, although the Swedish voucher scheme requires private schools to follow the same curricular framework as public schools, they operate independently in many respects and are not held to the same level of accountability.

By moving through the frameworks for Meaningful Student Involvement, students and adults can work in partnership to address countless issues across the entirety of the education system, ranging from curricular areas to identity, the physical plant to the societal purpose of schooling.

As Hammond and Manfra (2009) described in their discussion of TPACK in social studies education, TPACK is a conceptual framework in teacher education that «provides a common language to discuss the integration of technology into instruction and builds upon the concepts of pedagogical content knowledge, [as well as] teacher as curricular gatekeeper» (p. 160).

Discusses big picture mathematics curricular design ideas, including history of mathematics curriculum, development of national and state standards, curriculum frameworks, and implementation of effective practices into K - 8 schools.

Perhaps the task force's greatest contribution, according to Gorman, was to endorse the state's adoption of Common Core State Standards as a curricular framework for kindergarten through 12th grade education and the replacement of the watered - down HSPA with a system of end - of - course assessments tied to the Common Core.

Excel Academy Orient Heights English Teacher Curtis Perdue writes in MetroWest Daily News about the positives of the Common Core curricular frameworks in English class.

We fully expect approval of the revised frameworks, and held summer workshops to help teachers, administrators, and curriculum advisors to utilize the frameworks more intimately to inform their specific curricular work.

Two reasons drove this conclusion: (1) the belief that a separate course would provide a better framework for teaching analysis and writing; and (2) a concern about the practical implications of making the combined course structure work together with the other big change brought by the 2000 curricular review — consolidated, one - semester versions of most first - year courses.24 The proposed changes to the writing program generated quite a bit of debate, 25 and its ultimate approval came with an agreement that the new courses would be evaluated after a few years.