Sentences with phrase «of curricular offerings»

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.

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Bremen's IUB is also broadening the curricular scope of the private institutions, offering natural sciences, engineering, humanities, and social sciences courses.

Into this mix has walked the Open High School of Utah, a charter school that is offering a virtual education that is based almost entirely on curricular materials available free - of - cost from open sources.

First, we offer three curricular strands for our Ed.M program: a Counseling Strand to prepare you for a career in school counseling; a Prevention Practice strand that prepares you to work in or out of schools as a teacher, youth development advocate; and a Prevention Researcher strand that prepares you develop research skills to be used in a variety of settings.

New funding, also announced in the Budget, will enable 25 per cent of secondary schools to extend the school day and offer further extra curricular activities such as sport and art.

NTT Docomo bought Buongiorno in 2012 and Boungiorno has bought a significant part of Little Smart Planet because they want to complement their children's play offer, called Kidzinmind, from zero to six years, with an offer of curricular games for Primary and Secondary.

Are you creating the site to make parents aware of classroom activities, to provide curricular hotlinks for students, to offer homework help, supplementary lessons, parental support, and community resources?

Instead of offering a full - time program that drew students away from traditional settings, the program focused on filling curricular gaps and expanding access to additional courses and learning opportunities.

The project explores in depth a diverse group of campuses in the United States that value liberal arts but differ in selectivity and demography, as well as in kinds of curricular and co-curricular offerings.

A Nation at Risk argued that much of America's decline in academic achievement could be traced to the «cafeteria - style curriculum» or «curricular smorgasbord» offered to high - school students.

Studying elementary schools in Arizona, Smith (1991) found other negative effects of testing on teachers: «Testing programs substantially reduce the time available for instruction, narrow curricular offerings and modes of instruction, and potentially reduce the capacities of teachers to teach content and to use methods and materials that are incompatible with standardized testing formats» (p. 8).

The recent standards reform movement offers much promise in reconciling the tension of ambitious instructional practice and pressing curricular demands.

Curriculum Crafter offers K - 12 curricular resources aligned to the Common Core, curated open educational resources (OER) and more than 1,000 sample lesson plans, as well as assignment of standards, standards tracking and full mapping capabilities.

Schools that primarily serve low - income students of color often have poor curricular offerings, few extracurricular and enrichment activities, and too many inexperienced teachers.

The guide, first - of - its - kind, offers information about curricular content and programmatic features that practitioners can use to make informed choices about their SEL programs.

The Museum School offers the accessibility of a public school with the organizational and curricular innovation of a museum school model.

Ranking colleges of education will have little effect — changing principal education in ways that accentuate a focus on learning, curricular analysis and classroom instruction offer significant promise.

Along the way, he emphasizes the critical ways in which assessment can and should influence instruction, advocates for a dash of curricular insurrection, and offers advice for maintaining both teaching excellence and teachers» sanity.

, one of 33 such centers across Michigan that offer STEM coursework to advanced students at the secondary level, as well as provide professional development for teachers and develop curricular materials.

The Wallace Foundation commissioned guide to 25 evidence - based SEL programs was released in May of 2017, offering detailed information about curricular content and programmatic features that practitioners can use to make informed choices about what to use to develop key skills and competencies.

Prioritize the creation of curricular units that offer all students choice and the opportunity to think critically about authentic problems.

Gulliver offers a wide variety of curricular and co-curricular experiences that require active participation and personal commitment, extending learning beyond the lessons of the traditional classroom.

We reviewed widely adopted models that offer a comprehensive set of services that support curricular, professional development, governance, scheduling, family and community relations and other changes needed to improve schools.

Through offering both professional learning and curricular resources — created and tested by experienced writing teachers in diverse classrooms — C3WP offers models of effective practice that shape teachers» approach to teaching and learning.

, The Best of Hoagies» Products: A Shopping Guide for Professional and Parent Products offers a variety of ideas, from Curricular Resources for the classroom or homeschool, Books for Parents & Professionals, Journals on gifted education and parenting topics, and Educational Products.

The programs «were established by the District in 1977 as part of its Voluntary Integration Programs [and] the goal of the programs was to establish and maintain programs with specialized curricular offerings that would draw students of various ethnic backgrounds» (Alkin et al., 16).

With both the Harbour and Botanic Gardens so close the hotel is able to offer an exciting selection of specialised Team Building or extra curricular activities to conference delegates

In fact, KidWind offers everything from do - it - yourself kits that teachers can use in the classroom, to all kinds of curricular materials, lesson plans, science fair ideas, and in - school seminars specifically for teachers to improve their own knowledge that have been given across the country.

Law schools and legal writing programs have long embraced composition theory as a basis for program innovations and curricular design.1 Furthermore, legal scholars have noted the importance of individualized instruction and the benefits produced by student conferences.2 Nevertheless, few law schools offer a peer - staffed writing center as part of the legal writing program.

The position offers an initial academic year contract that carries the possibility of re-appointment for up to three years based on satisfactory performance and curricular needs and contingent on administrative approval.

AR does have some structural regulations for driving schools, and provides a set of objectives and curricular goals for a classroom course which can be offered by a private driving school in Arkansas.

The group offers a variety of live events, an annual meeting for members, curricular tools and professional development programs.

Nationally accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs (CACREP), the program offers both advanced curricular experiences in counseling as well as courses designed to examine the fundamental issues and theory of teaching adults in higher education, research, supervision, and consultation.