Sentences with phrase «of establishing a curriculum»

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The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

One may certainly refrain from insisting, as some Jewish leaders have, upon mandated Holocaust studies in the public school curriculum: for many people, such «mandates» might appear as an effort to establish the passion of the Jews as the larger culture's defining story, thus, ironically, giving plausibility to anti-Semitic claims about Jewish power.

Our developmentally appropriate, play - based curriculum encourages children's creativity, fosters self - esteem and socialization, and establishes a love of learning.

The Handwork stream of the Applied Arts curriculum in a Waldorf school stimulates the creative powers and establishes a heart - related aesthetic and confidence through a conscious guidance of the student's developing will.

In 2006, state lawmakers passed legislation establishing a Farm to School grant program, which helps fund school gardens, teacher professional development, farm field trips, local food taste tests and the integration of nutrition into the curriculum.

Lesley Moffit: Practical Arts Teacher The handwork and practical arts curriculum in the Waldorf School stimulates the creative powers, while at the same it establishes aesthetic confidence through the conscious guidance of the student's developing will.

As an established school with a more than 40 - year history, we offer a deep curriculum, and have the unique experience of having a working biodynamic farm on the same campus as the school.

Embracing a historic change, the Boy Scouts of America announced plans to admit girls into the Cub Scouts starting next year and to establish a new program for older girls using the same curriculum as the Boy Scouts.

«It is well - established that there were significant issues with the roll - out and implementation of the Common Core Standards causing parents, educators, and other stakeholders to lose trust in the system,» the report's executive summary says, noting the failure to involve educators, lack of transparency and «complicated and difficult» state - written curriculums.

Sponsored by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the boot camp is like a condensed version of the curriculum for one of those degrees, offering a 2 - week cram session in business skills and various core competencies to postdocs looking to break into bioscience management, whether via entrepreneurship or employment at established companies.

Although national funding organizations are involved in developing curricula and establishing «best practices,» I think you'll find that most organizations — even these funding organizations — consider this to be the responsibility of the university.

By establishing the Institute, SEAS has committed to fostering graduate training and research in applied computational science, infusing the curriculum with new courses and student research opportunities that will focus on the use of computation to power discovery and innovation.

The curriculum is designed to establish an understanding of workplace wellness, the principles and practices of health behavior and self - care, and the principles of population health and health education.

TRX develops a comprehensive educational curriculum to create the TRX Academy, effectively establishing the industry gold standard for Functional Training Education of fitness professionals.

A teachers» contract adopted last year, which was engineered by Gov. Roy Romer, established «collaborative - decisionmaking» committees at each of the city's 110 schools and gave them broad authority over instructional and curriculum issues, faculty selection, and other matters.

Even the most effective attempts to push a government - established curriculum into classroom practice will drag out over a decade, because it just takes so much time to communicate the goals and methods through the different layers of the system, and to build them into traditional methods of teacher education.

We recommended the DfE to strongly urge schools to review the curriculum time they give to Computing as a discrete subject, in view of the changes to the Computing curriculum, with a view to treating it like other longer - established disciplines.

«The shared mission of the four parts of the University of Cambridge who established this project and their unique breadth of experience — from curriculum design and learning materials to teacher support and mathematical insight — is giving the Cambridge Mathematics team the means to turn the insights from their work into practical impact for teachers and students around the world.»

Establishing alliances with the Ministry of Education in order to incorporate, through the curriculum and / or training teaching staff in sexual and reproductive rights; furthermore, incorporating the Information, Education and Communication component into projects.

The OECD's Andreas Schleicher calls Fadel's book a «first of its kind organizing framework of competencies needed for this century which defines the spaces in which educators, curriculum planners, policy makers and learners can establish WHAT should be learned.»

The center will use the grant, announced this month, to develop educational resources for teachers, disseminate information on curriculum developments, and establish a national advisory board of early - adolescence experts and education leaders.

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.

While the curricula of accredited medical schools must instruct students in «the fundamental principles of medicine» and accredited law schools must impart the «basic principles of public and private law,» the essential and fundamental principles of teaching have yet to be established.

teaching is seen less as the process of delivering the same curriculum to all students in the same year of school and more as the process of establishing where students are in their learning and providing appropriately targeted teaching and learning opportunities;

These twin, established facts about learning have guided my framing of the concept of knowledge - based constructivism or, in language friendlier to teachers and the general public, academic rigor in the thinking curriculum.

Between 2010 and 2012 we've participated of the Global Curriculum Project — www.globalcurriculum.net — born in the context of the Development Education Exchange in the European Project - DEEEP platform and its Summer Schools, spaces where educators from the global North and the Global South could establish an horizontal dialogue promoting mutual learning.

According to Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills at the OECD, Fadel's book, Four - Dimensional Education: The Competencies Learners Need to Succeed, provides a «first of its kind organizing framework of competencies needed for this century which defines «the spaces in which educators, curriculum planners, policy makers and learners can establish WHAT should be learned.»

Appointed by the National Education Association (NEA), the committee, composed mainly of presidents of leading colleges, was charged with establishing curriculum standardization for public - high - school students who intended to go to college.

By this fifth step in the process (creation of Unit Plans) ~ a curriculums framework has been established and all that is left to be codified are the unit goals ~ sample activities ~ and formative / summative assessments that will illustrate student acquisition of the goals.

Teachers and school leaders could facilitate this opportunity by: a) setting aside specific time for students to engage in this form of design - based education, for instance, by establishing design and innovation labs; b) infusing in the curriculum opportunities for students to establish links to this activity; c) structuring opportunities to inspire students to study and solve a problem, for instance showcasing current and past students» exemplary projects; d) providing opportunities for students to present their projects to an authentic audience of peers and members of the community; and e) not telling students what projects to work on by staying hands - off.

The government will consult on making assessments at the end of KS1 - both teacher assessment frameworks and national curriculum tests - in English reading, English writing, mathematics and science non-statutory once the new assessment in reception is fully established.

Similarly, while curriculum and instruction must address established standards, we always want to keep the long - term educational ends in mind — the development of important capabilities in the learner.

Depending on its outcome, the case, Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico, which has been in the courts for more than six years, could also establish a requirement that school boards base the removal of books from the school library or curriculum on more specific objective criteria than the school board used in this case.

The best eLearning practitioners and developers will need to establish ways of embedding these qualities back into the accessible, personalized and attractive curriculum being delivered.

About that Penna (2004, p. 23) says: «The current LDB (Brazilian guidelines for law), stating that «art education will be obligatory curriculum at various levels of basic education in order to promote the cultural development of students» (Law 9394/96 — Art. 26 paragraphs 2), provides a space for the arts in schools, as established in 1971 with the inclusion of art education in the full curriculum.

National Center for Construction Education and Research We are the 501 (C) 3 established by the construction and industrial maintenance industries to standardize craft, safety, and management education curricula related to educating individuals of all ages.

In the context of the school curriculum, an equitable approach is one focused on establishing the stages individuals have reached in their learning; using this information to identify starting points and ambitious targets for each student's further learning; and expecting every student to make excellent progress, regardless of their age, year level or starting point.

A time - free curriculum also depends on the use of assessment processes to establish and understand where individuals are in their long - term progress — in other words, the points they have reached on a learning progression.

For example, teachers often see themselves as teachers of particular year levels; textbooks are written for each year of school and encourage timed, lock - step progression through curriculum content; and all students are assessed at the same time to establish how much of the delivered curriculum they have mastered.

Teachers and curriculum designers are encouraged first to establish their program frameworks using the social studies standards as a guide, and then to use the standards from history, geography, civics, economics, and others to guide the development of grade level strands and courses.

Each program is tailored to meet specific needs described by the client, and uses the same instructional methodologies, curricula, and expert faculty that have established the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a world - class provider of professional development for education leaders and practitioners.

The Barefoot project, for example, was established in 2014 with the original aim to help primary school teachers in England get ready for the computer science element of a new computing curriculum.

The board of education or BOCES shall appoint the members of the team, a majority of which shall be teachers, which shall include the superintendent of schools or his or her designee in the case of school districts or the district superintendent or his or her designee in the case of BOCES; school administrators upon designation by the administrators» collective bargaining organization; teachers upon designation by the teachers» collective bargaining organization; at least one parent upon designation by the established parent groups in the district or in their absence, by the superintendent in the case of a school district or district superintendent in the case of a BOCES; and one or more curriculum specialists, meaning a teacher or administrator whose primary job responsibility involves the development or evaluation of curricula, upon designation by the district or teachers» collective bargaining organization or both.

A major step in implementing strong writing instruction is establishing routines for (a) daily writing instruction, (b) covering the whole writing curriculum, and (c) examining the valued qualities of good writing.

The team, a majority of which shall be teachers, shall include the superintendent of the district for which the team was formed or his or her designee; school administrators upon designation by the administrators» collective bargaining organization; teachers upon designation by the teachers» collective bargaining organization; at least one parent upon designation by the established parent groups in the district, or, in their absence, by the chancellor in the case of a high school division, a special education division or a chancellor's district, or by the board of education of the community school district in the case of a community school district; one or more curriculum specialists, meaning a teacher or administrator whose primary job responsibility involves the development or evaluation of curricula, upon designation by either or both the teachers» collective bargaining organization, or by the chancellor in the case of a high school division, a special education division or a chancellor's district, or by the board of education of the community school district in the case of a community school district.

The team recommended the district improve its collection and analysis of interim student performance data, establish and enforce expectations for student learning and classroom assessment, and ask principals to consistently monitor curriculum delivery and differentiation.

This essay contains considerable material from longer research projects on the history of efforts to establish a national curriculum in America (sponsored by the Pioneer Institute) and on the history of conservatives and the public schools in America (sponsored by the Hoover Institution).

Especially in the areas of setting discipline policy and establishing curriculum, private school teachers in 1993 - 94 were more likely than public school teachers to report that they had a great deal of influence.

The high priest (or, as McLaren puts it, «inaugural protagonist») of critical pedagogy is the late Paulo Freire, whose view of conventional schooling (a teacher instructing students in the canon of established academic curricula) was captured in the title of his seminal 1970 book, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

New insight into clarifying the essential standards necessary in a guaranteed and viable curriculum by establishing a collective understanding of best practices in teaching