Sentences with phrase «often focuses on literacy»

Her work often focuses on literacy, differentiated instruction, professional learning, and integrating support structures for continuous school improvement.

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Webb does not put much stock in those financial literacy tests, either, since they often focus on arcane issues that have little bearing on the basics of saving money.

Primary teachers, regularly involved in training and in - servicing around literacy and numeracy, often feel pressured to focus on these areas at the sake of other learning areas.

Common Core focuses kids» attention on what the text says, while balanced literacy often elicits a personal response to literature.

This article focuses on two attempts to improve the Jamaican literacy rate as well as the educational level of its people and aims to raise people awareness on the situation of the country which is too often considered through prejudices.

ASE's own research, she said, found primary teachers «often do not focus on providing feedback in pupils books (and elsewhere) on working scientifically but rather on English literacy skills».

• The «blended learning» model of education exemplified by the Rocketship chain of charter schools — often promoted by charter boosters — is predicated on paying minimal attention to anything but math and literacy, and even those subjects are taught by inexperienced teachers carrying out data - driven lesson plans relentlessly focused on test preparation.

Unfortunately, due to the influence of NCLB on instructional practice, scheduled learning time that once might have been devoted to science instruction is too often taken to focus on literacy and mathematics.

But due to the NCLB - era pressure to focus on literacy and mathematics, social studies is universally considered an often expendable, neglected content.

By Sharon Darling: An often overlooked strategy to achieve college and career readiness is family engagement that is focused on literacy development across generations.

At the moment there's quite a focus on nutrition and healthy eating, so I know there was a little parent seminar organised earlier this year for parents, there's also been a bit of information provided to parents about early literacy and numeracy, because I think that's something that families are often really interested in but perhaps we don't understand how literacy and numeracy are tackled, in early childhood these days.