Sentences with phrase «of social studies curriculum»

The Iowa Testing Program states, «The questions on this [social studies] test measure objectives of the social studies curriculum that are not measured elsewhere in the ITBS tests» (Iowa Testing Program, n.d.).

The document published this week «recognizes religious studies as an essential part of the social studies curriculum,» according to the national council, and aids schools in developing curriculum for religious studies instruction.

In addition, many states are already requiring Civics education as part of the social studies curriculum, whether integrated in a general social studies course, or as a stand alone.

Teachers are expected to teach more economics as part of their social studies curriculum and the NeEconEd website helps teachers learn what is expected at each grade level and link quickly to good materials to use in the classroom.

Developed by teachers and leaders of social studies curriculum in the State of Michigan, each PASST item has been designed using a blended approach to assess both the knowledge and skills essential for student mastery of standards in social studies.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Any adequate discussion of the theme of love of God and neighbor and of its relevance to Church and school requires all the resources of the theological curriculum from study of the Scriptures through systematic theology, the philosophy, psychology and history of religion, Christian and social ethics to pastoral theology, Christian education and homiletics.

Those two worlds will collide on May 16 when the nation's largest atheist group holds a rally on the steps of the Texas state capitol in Austin to protest proposed changes in the state's social studies curriculum.

She has published curriculum and articles in the areas of special education, social studies, English, educational computing, ESL, multi-cultural education, study skills, and classroom organization.

Jim is a Venture Partner at Reach Capital, an edtech social impact venture fund, and co-founded Teachers» Curriculum Institute, widely regarded as the nation's most innovative publisher of K - 12 social studies cCurriculum Institute, widely regarded as the nation's most innovative publisher of K - 12 social studies curriculumcurriculum.

Accredited by the German Government and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), the GISSV offers a dual - immersion program that follows ambitious curricula, focusing on science and social studies as well as arts and sports.

Well somebody didn't read their Harry Potter, because an Ohio middle school is actually allowing some parents to opt their children out of part of the state social studies curriculum on the grounds that they don't want their kids learning about Muslims.

The relevant part of the Ohio Social Studies curriculum for seventh graders does not actually force children to become Muslim or start practicing a different religion.

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.

The senior high level school curriculum has core subjects and elective subjects of which students must take four the core subjects of English language, mathematics, integrated science (including science, agriculture and environmental studies) and social studies (economics, geography, history and government).

She also said that the city's social studies curriculum, which went out this year, has just been adopted by the U.S. Department of Defense as the curriculum to be used internationally.

This is something a lot of the social studies teachers are working in their curriculum.»

Lisa DiCaprio — Associate Director of Curriculum, Clinical Associate Professor of Social Sciences - Paul McGhee Division New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies

So much has changed but many schools are stuck in the past,» said Joel Breakstone, the director of SHEG, which has designed social studies curriculum that teaches students how to evaluate primary sources.

With PRO Template you can create professional A comprehensive collection of specific links and multimedia resources for middle school common core social studies curriculum.

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- Jean A. Luckowski is a professor in the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Montana, where she teaches social studies methods and professional ethics.

Events such as Election Day mock voting, Veteran's Day Memorial program, and our 9/11 Remembrance take place throughout the year and are integrated into our rich curriculum, which includes classes in physical education, music, Spanish, art, and technology in addition to the core subjects of reading, math, science, and social studies.

The full project covers a number of curriculum areas: literacy, numeracy, health and wellbeing, religious and moral education, social studies and technologies.

Not only is the game great fun and easy to integrate into the curriculum, it also reinforces standards set by the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE), the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS), the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and the International Society for Technology Education (ISTE).

The outcomes on standards - based social studies and content literacy assessments indicated that the project - based learning curriculum virtually erased the achievement gap between second graders of high and low - socioeconomic backgrounds (Halvorsen, Duke, Burgar, Block, Strachan, Berka, & Brown, 2012).

Sociologist James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, continues his crusade to encourage the honest teaching of U.S. history, warts and all, in this call for a social studies curriculum based on critical thinking and project learning.

In this randomized controlled study on the impact of the arts on performance in traditional academic subjects, theater arts were integrated into language arts and social studies curricula for fourth - and fifth - grade students (14 experimental classrooms, 14 control classrooms).

While this might seem to be outside the normal social studies curriculum, the teachers are experimenting with the adoption of the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Stansocial studies curriculum, the teachers are experimenting with the adoption of the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Stastudies curriculum, the teachers are experimenting with the adoption of the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State StanSocial Studies State StaStudies State Standards.

Tuesday, June 14 @ 12 p.m. EDT Transforming Curricula Through Multimedia Tools Our guests answered questions about how to incorporate multimedia tools into the core subject areas of science, math, social studies, and language arts curricula appropriately, effectively, and seCurricula Through Multimedia Tools Our guests answered questions about how to incorporate multimedia tools into the core subject areas of science, math, social studies, and language arts curricula appropriately, effectively, and securricula appropriately, effectively, and seamlessly.

Kelly A. (Brizendine) Blair Language and Literacy Current city: Chicago Current job: Education Consultant (Literacy, Curriculum, Assessment, Technology) Career highlight: Leading a team of managers and instructional designers in the development of K — 12 digital curricula and assessments in math, science, social studies, and language arts.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

REVIEW: Educators will find a wealth of resources for supplementing the social studies curriculum at The History of the Supreme Court Website.

This resource is written by teachers from across the country and presents the history of the Court thematically corresponding to the strands in the social studies curriculum.

«There are core issues to be resolved» about the scope and content of the social - studies curriculum, said Michael E. Melody, president of the school division of the Macmillan Publishing Company.

Moreover, the history curricula promoted by social studies experts insisted that teachers ought to encourage their students to look more critically at U.S. policy in the Middle East in the hopes of understanding the terrorists» motives.

On a recent Friday afternoon, for example, while trying to finish a very rough long - term curriculum map for social studies, I kept thinking that I had just enough time to finish the major topics, if I kept to my schedule and if nothing out of the ordinary happened.

Nevertheless, studies have found that, after controlling for the size and structure of the school and the social background of its students, schools in provinces with external exams taught their students a statistically significant one - half of a U.S. grade - level equivalent more math and science by 8th grade than comparable schools in provinces that did not give curriculum - based external tests.

In addition to this reflection, it is crucial that our institution actively recruits faculty and supports curricula that directly address issues of race, urban inequality, ethnic studies, and social justice.

In the pages of Social Education (the premier journal of the National Council for the Social Studies) and in rapidly assembled curriculum supplements, a clear effort was made to temper any hint of patriotic excess in the classroom and to stress instead the need for therapeutic healing.

EW: Many people are concerned that social studies is being pushed out of the curriculum because of the focus on math and reading.

I was a founding faculty member of Mid-Pacific Institute's eXploratory Program, a core subject curriculum with project - based learning as the primary focus of student work, with 10 years of experience in the Social Studies classroom.

Rodriguez» curriculum work has also been published in National Council for Social Studies: Middle Level Learning and the Organization of American Historians.

In our states social studies curriculum the comparative study of various religions is encouraged much as stated by Justice Clark.

«Here's the story on historical fiction in my classroom: It illuminates time periods, helps me integrate the curriculum, and enriches social studies,» says Tarry Lindquist, a fifth - grade teacher on Mercer Island, Washington, who was recognized by the National Council for the Social Studies as National Elementary Teacher of thesocial studies,» says Tarry Lindquist, a fifth - grade teacher on Mercer Island, Washington, who was recognized by the National Council for the Social Studies as National Elementary Teacher of thstudies,» says Tarry Lindquist, a fifth - grade teacher on Mercer Island, Washington, who was recognized by the National Council for the Social Studies as National Elementary Teacher of theSocial Studies as National Elementary Teacher of thStudies as National Elementary Teacher of the Year.

The Instructional Leadership strand is designed for individuals who have taught at least three years, seek to increase their knowledge of instruction and curriculum in their subject area (science, mathematics or social studies) or English Language Arts (ELA) at the elementary and secondary levels, and are interested in finding ways to extend their influence beyond the classroom into areas such as coaching, curriculum development or teacher research.

Two 4th grade teachers ride the rails of the «Orphan Train» as they use technology to add vitality to their social studies curriculum.

Inventing an ideology Jonathan Burack argues that a «global education ideology» has «captivated» social studies experts in recent years, resulting in a curriculum that is «deeply suspicious» of both American institutions and our role in the world («The Sun Sets on the West,» Feature, Spring 2004).

If teachers» response to uncertainty is to close their doors and teach what they know, most of what they now know is Louisiana's set of Tier 1 curricula, which has grown to encompass materials for early childhood, social studies, and science programs, along with math and ELA interim and benchmark assessment systems.