Sentences with phrase «of social studies courses»

The activity - based teaching of social studies courses is one of my strong points.

Thanks to our LDC work during the 2010 - 2011 school year, District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) contracted with Inspired Teaching from 2011 to 2015 to work with cohorts of teachers to create Common Core - aligned curricula for every unit of every social studies course grades 6 - 12.

In any given year I can be teaching any grade level of English including newcomers and mainstream students, along with every type of Social Studies course and an International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge class.

Not exact matches

For the study, the researchers split socially anxious volunteers into three groups — one was asked to perform random acts of kindness, one was told to follow the usual course of exposure therapy and force themselves to participate in more social situations, and another was a control group who did nothing special.

Of course, there have been countless studies that have documented B2B marketers successes in driving results in social.

During the 1997 provincial election, as part of my Grade 8 Social Studies course at École Georges H. Primeau School in Morinville, we were given an assignment that required us to collect news paper clippings of media coverage of the election.

The basic issue is indeed how to unify a clutch of courses into a course of study that honors and is adequate to genuine pluralism of construals of the Christian thing and to profound pluralism of the social situations in which the Christian thing is practiced.

There is a dubious link between genuine scholarship and such fashionable courses as peace studies, feminist literature, seminars in social activism, consciousness raising, semiotics, and a host of other current preoccupations.

As the new literature about «theological education» began to grow during the past decade it quickly became clear [l] that for some participants the central issue facing «theological education» is the fragmentation of its course of study and the need to reconceive it so as to recover its unity, whereas for others the central issue is «theological education's» inadequacy to the pluralism of social and cultural locations in which the Christian thing is understood and lived.

Of course I have been talking, in the first story, about the beleaguered but unbowed Mark Regnerus, the sociologist whose New Family Structures Study was published in Social Science Research in 2012.

Justice and peace, social service, awareness of and care for the environment, volunteer work; or liberal arts, discriminating inquiry, courses in professional ethics, gender studies: these are presented as the contemporary surrogates for faith.

It is, of course, important in noting the striking differences between the findings of this study and those of its predecessors to recall the enormous social and cultural changes that had taken place in the intervening twenty years.

Second, Niebuhr proposes to ground the integral unity of a school's course of study in the social dynamics of the school as a community, a «collegium or colleagueship» (117).

She was formerly a professor of family and human development at Arizona State University, where she developed and evaluated social - emotional learning curricula for early childhood classrooms and instructed courses in early intervention, child development, and gender studies.

At New Legacy, language arts and social studies are combined into integrated theme - based humanities courses; math is taught in a blended environment that enables teachers to effectively support and challenge a diverse group of learners; and science is taught in six - week modules that focus on scientific inquiry and the scientific process.

Milestones End - of - Grade (EOG) exams are administered every spring in Grades 3 - 8 in the subjects of English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies; Milestones End - of - Course (EOC) exams are administered for designated high school courses... and, middle school students who are taking any of those courses for high school credit must also take the EOC for that subject.

One study published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology demonstrated that expectant moms who did 45 minutes of water aerobics twice weekly over the course of 6 weeks experienced an increased sense of well - being, and a reduction in stress and fatigue.

She has previously taught on courses at the Refugee Studies Centre and the Department of Geography at the University of Oxford, and has an ongoing affiliation as a Research and Teaching Fellow at the College of Arts and Social Sciences in Eritrea.

In the course of the examination, five papers: English Language 2, Religious and Moral Education 2, Integrated Science 2, Social Studies 2 and Mathematics 2 leaked, compelling the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to cancel them for the candidates to rewrite those subjects.

In a population - based Canadian study of children with epilepsy, each of whom had access to universal health care, those from poor families had the same medical course and remission rate as their wealthier counterparts, but they had a less favorable social outcome as adults.

«Focusing on the period from 1970 to 2008, our study shows what may be one of the steepest turning points in the long, zigzag course of China's social and value development,» Zeng and Greenfield wrote.

Also valuable are classes that focus on a particular group of people — African - American studies, Native American culture, for example — as well as social science and history courses.

During the course of the experiment, sixth, seventh and eighth graders learned about science and social studies in one of two ways: 1) material was presented once, then teachers reviewed it with students three times; 2) material was presented once, and students were quizzed on it three times (using clickers like the ones in Bain's current classroom).

The study from Zurich investigated structural brain changes in patients suffering from social anxiety disorder after a specific ten - week course of CBT.

The study was conducted by Dr Belén López - Pérez, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Developmental and Social Psychology at Plymouth University, and Ellie Wilson, a recent graduate of the BSc (Hons) Psychology course.

University of Gävle has approximately 15 000 students, more than 50 study programmes and second - cycle programmes, about 500 courses in humanities, social and natural sciences and technology.

The Harvard Intergroup Neuroscience Lab uses social psychological and cognitive neuroscience approaches to study how group membership and prejudice change the course of social cognition.

Sharon has a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University and teaches courses on Buddhism, gender, race, and social engagement at Seattle University and was thrilled by the idea of further exploring the connection between mindfulness and the body through her teacher training.

In the course of writing his book, which is designed for businesses with social media presences, Piskorski studied the online dating habits of millions of users.

A recent study of how social networks lead college students to define, perceive, and participate in «hooking Recently I came across a course called PickUp Spanish.

In addition to core studies in English, math, science, history, languages, and the fine arts, students take a required sequence in religion and philosophy: 6th - grade students study the Apostles» Creed and the saints; in the 7th grade, they focus on the Church and the Ten Commandments; 8th graders conduct an overview of the Bible and the Sacraments; 9th - grade students study the Old Testament, the Apologetics, and C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity; the 10th - grade focus is the New Testament and Church history; 11th grade introduces metaphysics and ethics; and the 12th - grade course features the philosophy and social teachings of the Catholic Church.

Sherri Pritchard, the school's social - studies «learning facilitator» — there are no teachers and no principal here — said 95 percent of her online students pass Virginia's end - of - course history test, which would put them well ahead of both the Hampton school district's and state's pass rates.

Lots of free online social media posts linked to the OCR Business Studies GCSE 1 - 9 course.

We asked teachers in both groups to teach 80 social studies lessons over the course of the year, so that we would be comparing two different ways of teaching social studies, rather than teaching social studies versus not.

Content: C - SPAN Classroom is a Web site that features video clips for teachers to show classes in the course of teaching social studies, civics and U.S. history.

Grode: As a language arts and social studies teacher, I can understand both sides of the controversy about social studies courses often having less scheduled time and bigger class sizes.

For high schools: science and social studies end - of - course exams, strength of diploma credentials, ACT / WorkKeys

The subject is being taught more widely in stand - alone courses — mostly in middle schools — and its content and methods are being integrated into history, economics, and other parts of the social studies curriculum, geographers say.

05/05/2000 [Ed Technology, Social Studies, Special Ed Grades 6 - 8 Submitted by Heidi Slavin] Students put together puzzles created from pictures of items related to current courses of study.

Joining a session of the Learning and Teaching course, «Teaching History / Social Studies» with lecturer Sally Schwager, Forman expounded upon issues in teaching, education, and how the lessons of the classroom are often lessons of life.

In SSP, you will join a remarkably diverse cohort of leaders and life - long learners, each pursuing ambitious social and professional goals through individualized courses of study.

A second important outcome was that the lower - performing students, so these were students who were about the bottom third of our sample, these were students who were earning Grade Point Averages (GPAs) of a C or below in the semester prior to the intervention [and were] most likely going to be struggling in school; for these students, the intervention increased their GPAs and also increased their likelihood of passing core courses like Math, English, Social Studies and Science - and increased that by around 6.5 percentage points.

For example, past Specialized Studies candidates have included physicians interested in understanding the education of medical students, a career military officer interested in translating classroom practices into training, social entrepreneurs leading innovative educational ventures in the U.S. and abroad, teachers and administrators interested in implementing cutting edge reform in unique settings, as well as so many others who have benefited from designing their own courses of study.

In an economics course, for example, social studies teacher Michael Flannery doesn't lecture about the impact of industrialization.

Starting in the 1980s, states increased the number of courses required for high school graduation, and began mandating students take additional courses in core academic areas such as math, science, social studies and foreign language.

Fifty percent of Finnish students receive academic interventions before 10th grade, adolescents study courses in social needs, all grades break for physical activity after 45 minutes of instruction, all school meals are free regardless of income.

These resources include: - Power - points with plenty of questions to guide your students through the book - A booklet with all the main quotes from the first two chapters - An article study on the social topic studied in the book to have a better understanding of the context - Two comprehension exercises of extracts - A written analysis of many chapters - Different worksheet with main quotes from the chapters to analyse or questions that lead your students to analyse - Four quizzes to check students» understanding of the chapters - Answer booklets for chapters 21 to 26 (I will add the others progressively but the analysis answer most questions)- Vocabulary sheets for chapters 1 to 5 with a link to the Quizlet course (I will soon add the other chapters too)- A speaking game with cards and the rules to check students» understanding of the book.

These resources include: - Power - points with plenty of questions to guide your students through the book - A booklet with all the main quotes from the first two chapters - An article study on the social topic studied in the book to have a better understanding of the context - Comprehension exercises of extracts - Written analysis of many chapters - Different worksheets with main quotes from the chapters to analyse or questions that lead your students to analyse - Quizzes to check students» understanding of the chapters - Answer booklets for the last ten chapters (I will add the others progressively but the analysis answer most questions)- Vocabulary sheets for chapters 1 to 20 with a link to the Quizlet course (I will soon add the other chapters too) *** Offered *** 1 - A speaking game with cards and the rules to check students» understanding of the book.

The study of Richardson and Swan (2003) showed that students reporting higher social presence in an online course also perceived they learned more from the course than the students with low perceived social presence.

High course requirements were defined as a high - school curriculum that includes at least three years of English, two of social studies, one of science, and one of math.