Sentences with phrase «of model curriculum»

«Over the past month, we have heard a groundswell of support from districts across the state for this type of model curriculum to ensure that the Common Core State Standards move from a concept in Trenton to a tool for every classroom in the state,» said Chris Cerf, New Jersey's acting education commissioner, in a statement.

The math and language arts portions of the Model Curriculum have been finalized and are posted online, officials said, but other sections pertaining to science, social studies and other subject areas are targeted for completion in late 2013 and 2014.

Furthermore, Bloomberg's Department of Education has listed Core Knowledge as one of the model curricula for New York City teachers to consider as they transition to the new standards.

Not exact matches

Four years after an overhaul of Desautels's facilities as well as its curriculum, the school is embracing its model of «integrated learning.»

But instead of a «learning center» where children came to a central location for classes — the model then used by chains like Sylvan and Huntington — Lucas provided one - on - one tutoring in the child's home, based on class curriculums and tailored to the family's schedule.

One of the issues that came up is whether the new lexicon of entrepreneurial ideas — Customer Development, Business Model Design, Lean, Lean LaunchPad class, etc. — replace all the tools and classes that are currently being taught in entrepreneurship curriculums and business schools.

For the rest of the afternoon, Steve and I brainstormed with Alex about how he could take his 20 years of entrepreneurial small business experience and use the Business Model Canvas and Customer Development to create a university entrepreneurship curriculum and vocabulary for the mainstream of American Business.

Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

The complaint may be that the curriculum is too «academic» and insufficiently «Professional»; too «theoretical» and insufficiently «practical»; or, conversely, that it is too single - mindedly focused on producing «Professional ministers» in a certain model and too inflexible to allow individual students to pursue their own intellectual interests; and, above all, that the curriculum consists of too many small pieces of information that are not adequately «integrated,» that it provides not so much a course of study as — in H. Richard Niebuhr's wonderfully wry phrase - «a series of studious jumps in various directions.»

FUZE is a privately - held, DOJ - certified, youth - only health club and curricula modeled after the principles of the Positive Coaching Alliance.

Wisconsin Model Academic Standards For School Counseling (2007) include three standards in the personal and social domain and support the delivery of social and emotional learning curriculum in the comprehensive school counseling program.

Character Education: State Board of Education Policy 2109 (2005) requires character education to be incorporated into the curriculum for all grades modeled by moral leadership from school administrators, teachers, and students.

«This new model integrates standards - based academic and career technical curriculum,» says Shari Meyer, Executive Director of Luther North College Prep.

Their curriculum is based on a structured developmental - interaction model that encourages children to learn their unique set of skills and abilities.

Differences exist in their underlying theoretical models, characteristics of target families, number and intensity of visits, duration, curriculum, approaches to services, degree of manualization, fidelity of implementation, and background, and training of the visitors.

This model gives students a portion of professional full day classroom instruction and a portion of home study days with curriculum provided by the classroom teacher.

Read the new model funding agreement for Free Schools: http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/leadership/typesofschools/freeschools/a0074737/free-schools-model-funding-agreement Changes to the Curriculum, curriculum development and delivery, and RE and collective worship section of the funding agreement include: Section 22 — it is no longer expected that Free Schools will have a subject - based sCurriculum, curriculum development and delivery, and RE and collective worship section of the funding agreement include: Section 22 — it is no longer expected that Free Schools will have a subject - based scurriculum development and delivery, and RE and collective worship section of the funding agreement include: Section 22 — it is no longer expected that Free Schools will have a subject - based specialism.

And the measure would have schools consult with state law enforcement officials at the Division of Criminal Justices to create a model curriculum focused on gang violence prevention.

The Council has formed a committee to explore the curriculum, operational model and potential sites for what will be a state - of - the - art Regional Workforce Advancement Center in the City of Buffalo.

A model for successfully implementing an early mathematics curriculum; University of Buffalo.

So Morton has spent a good chunk of her time at Colby developing a laboratory curriculum that involves starting students off with directed experiments (i.e., with explicit instructions and clear procedures) before giving them the chance — using the directed experiments as models — to design their own experiments.

But although the National Curriculum Council, which advises Patten, says that Model B is intended only for less academic pupils, there is growing evidence than an increasing number of academic girls are choosing it.

«The social model is a burgeoning area of research, so now is the time to begin making a shift in our curriculum and teaching,» she said.

So the team will retain this effective model of undergraduates teaching over 1300 local school students each year, but plans to update the curriculum to help students better see how plant genetics is pertinent to their world.

Taught by leaders in the fields of health, wellness, and coaching, the curriculum includes evidence - based models such as Motivational Interviewing, Prochaska's Change Model, Positive Psychology, Immunity to Change Theory and the emerging field of brain science.

Michael Gambon and Imelda Staunton stand out as the two duelling headmasters of Hogwarts School, at which Harry and his friends assemble a small band of students to rail against a blinkered educational system modeled, one stretches, on the Kansas School Board's recommended curriculum.

This is primarily due to the fact that this particular Instructional Design Model is centered around the activity of the learners and allows them to gain maximum benefit from the curriculum.

The curriculum will be delivered through a fusion of teaching methods modelled on the best of British and the extremely successful Chinese systems.

To help teachers achieve this, together with input from Microsoft, Google, Cambridge University Computer Science department, Computing at Schools (CAS) a BCS partner, has created a model computing curriculum to which Gove referred to in his announcement at BETT and which has also features in the recent DfE consultation document on the subject of ICT in schools.

«There's still plenty of work ahead and some pretty radical changes taking place,» explained Mike Martin, director of curriculum and technology at Montpelier Public Schools in Vermont, whose district starting transitioning to a competency - based model in 2013.

Help can include targeted, high - quality professional development; curriculum improvements; additional time for student learning after school or in the summers; establishment of wraparound services, including community school models; redesign of schools to support personalization and more authentic work in classrooms and internships; or pairing of struggling schools with successful ones serving similar students.

I believe most students would prefer to spend their time in school learning to apply to some useful end the information and algorithms of the curriculum model that preceded the information - technology revolution.

This extraordinary response reflects the demand for a practice - based doctorate in education and the attractiveness of a model that integrates curriculum content in education, management, and policy, delivered by faculty from HGSE, Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).

There are new curriculum and teacher collaboration models arising in schools — STEM, in particular, is one that is going to mean teachers are out - of - field.

A consequence of not challenging the current model is likely to be that large numbers of less advanced students will continue to fall behind in their learning as each year - level curriculum becomes increasingly far ahead of them.

During that time they have seen a lot of change in terms of the curriculum and support needs of schools, as well as having to adapt to the challenges of moving from a grant funded model to a full cost recovery traded service providing services for schools in Havering and beyond.

The heart of Gonski's model is an alternative way of structuring the curriculum.

However, this model of scaffolding and enculturation could be scaled across the curriculum.

When you consider the classic learning model, and the way many of us were educated, teachers have typically been required to teach all students the same curriculum level content.

Now we have a Learning Cadre (also voluntary, only [for] people of interest who have that as a passion) and they're working now to develop curriculum and to learn themselves, and then model that for their students and bring it in to their students.

Prime examples include textbook and software publishers, information - management systems, developers of curricula and «comprehensive school reform models,» and transportation providers.

On the one hand, she champions strong charter schools (such as Achievement First) that support the Common Core and a common curriculum and that embrace her model of teaching (see below).

Participants learn how to design interdisciplinary curriculum that attends to the ethical, aesthetic, and social dimensions of learning, and they explore instructional methods that deepen student engagement, model intellectual curiosity and rigor, and make learning more visible.

«Equally worrying is that efforts to promote and embed these important values within the curriculum were undermined by the failure of leaders to model good practice, for example through the work of governors.»

To Klein's credit, he eventually came to see the errors of his ways, and in his last years as chancellor he embraced the Core Knowledge program — a coherent, content - rich curriculum that is a model for what kids in New York, and nationwide, need if they are going to become strong readers.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new investment of $ 1.7 billion for K - 12 education over the next five years, with the bulk of the funding aimed at existing traditional public schools that show progress in improving educational outcomes, the development of new curricula, charter schools focused on students with special needs, and «research and development» for scalable models that could inform best practices.

The specific details, program models, curriculum, and of course, quality of teaching, matter.

While one is called the «turnaround model» and the other is called the «transformation model,» they amount to the same thing: using the same types of interventions applied over the last number of decades to try to improve struggling schools — replacing some staff, improving professional development, changing the curriculum, etc..

Our own theories would suggest that companies offering one - off learning games or «the best» math activity that complements the main curriculum — in other words, companies that do not offer a full course worth of curriculum — will struggle to sell into public schools because their business model will remain challenged in the current environment.

Just as mathematics textbooks from Singapore have built a following among educators in America, the Southeast Asian nation is looking to the United States for models of science curricula.