Sentences with phrase «on curriculum projects»

I am also a certified teacher, so I am happy to work on curriculum projects and copy editing.

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By that definition, just about every memorable entry on Parker's steadily growing curriculum vitae, from Napster and Facebook to current projects like music - streaming company Spotify and in - home movie service The Screening Room, counts as a hack.

They've increased the number of elective classes on entrepreneurship in the course catalog, and they've put startup projects into the basic MBA curriculum.

Startup Studio is the capstone of the experiential learning curriculum at Cornell Tech, where students complement their classroom experience through deep, hands - on engagements with entrepreneurs, companies, nonprofit organizations, early stage investors, and ultimately their own startup projects.

The project offers free online tools to help families make healthier meals, healthy cooking classes, child nutrition classes, cooking camps for kids, hands - on cooking instruction for families, first foods classes, and a teaching garden, They also offer a preschool nutrition curriculum, with 40 classrooms and almost 600 participating preschoolers.

Previously, she taught as a class teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School for five years and served there as a mentor on the Teacher Development Committee; she also worked with that school's administrator on curriculum - related projects and offered teacher support.

A project close to her heart has been designing the curriculum and training teachers for Laurie Berkner's The Music in Me, an early childhood music program based on her music and classroom philosophy.

These sorts of studies led Loosli and Perry to develop a curriculum and philosophy that focuses on three main topics: taking care of the person inside the mom physically, spiritually and emotionally; focusing on family systems, including rules and consequences, family responsibilities and family culture; and organization, including ways to create projects and take action without feeling overwhelmed.

Rachel's newest project, «Rachel & The Treeschoolers,» takes on the ambitious task of teaching a full preschool curriculum in 12 musical episodes and activities.

Anna taught as a class teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School for five years and served there as a member of the Teacher Development Committee; she also worked with the Green Meadow administrator on curriculum - related projects and offered teacher support.

Focusing on the three decade long revolutionary period of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and sponsored by the British Academy, this project, has gathered original sources to create a university - level online curriculum through which to teach or learn about the Palestinian revolution through the eyes of the participants.

Mulgrew ended on a hopeful note by highlighting the union's efforts to move education in the city forward: the UFT's Community Learning Schools project; the union's fight to secure curriculum aligned to the new Common Core Learning Standards for every teacher; and its efforts to address the lack of lesson plans aligned to the Common Core through its new Share My Lesson website.

With another grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Roseman and her colleagues are leading work on a new curriculum project that builds on the THSB project to focus on energy concepts in high school biology.

In this exploratory study funded by the National Science Foundation, Project 2061 has developed an outline for a Green Schools Energy Curriculum and gathered feedback from the field on the feasibility of such an approach and what it would take to implement it.

Building on its work at the middle school level, Project 2061 has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to develop a six - week curriculum unit for high school biology students.

She also led Project 2061's evaluative studies of science and mathematics textbooks and currently serves as principal investigator on curriculum development efforts funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

As a result, the Project 2061 team drew on the experiences of teachers like Donovan and Drakes to develop a teacher's edition of the curriculum.

Ana Cordova is a research assistant at AAAS Project 2061 and works on its curriculum and assessment research and development efforts.

Repository: American Association for the Advancement of Science Archives, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20005, [email protected] Creator: AAAS Commission on Science Education Title: AAAS Science: A Process Approach Records Dates: 1963 - 1983 Extent: 37.5 linear feet (30 boxes) Abstract: This collection contains the records of Science: A Process Approach (SAPA) a curriculum project developed by the AAAS Commission on Science Education in response to the post-Sputnik crisis in science education.

Project 2061, a long - term AAAS initiative to increase literacy in science, mathematics, and technology, has released an outline for its Green Schools Energy Curriculum, which utilizes real - time data on energy generation and consumption from green school buildings to teach middle school students...

Project 2061, a long - term AAAS initiative to increase literacy in science, mathematics, and technology, has released an outline for its Green Schools Energy Curriculum, which utilizes real - time data on energy generation and consumption from green school buildings to teach middle school students the science of energy.

Now, with a $ 2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, AAAS's Project 2061 and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) are embarking on a project to develop chemistry and biochemistry materials for middle school students and teachers, based on the latest research in leProject 2061 and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) are embarking on a project to develop chemistry and biochemistry materials for middle school students and teachers, based on the latest research in leproject to develop chemistry and biochemistry materials for middle school students and teachers, based on the latest research in learning.

The study draws on examples from Toward High School Biology (THSB), an innovative middle school curriculum unit developed by Project 2061 and its partners at BSCS.

She has worked on initiatives to revamp the curriculum and participated in a major remodeling project for the teaching labs.

Although most reformers say that they want to raise student achievement, many projects focus on interim targets, like attracting more students into STEM fields, training more and better math and science teachers or improving the skills of those already in the classroom, and strengthening curricula.

Before the conference, Jo Ellen Roseman, director of AAAS's Project 2061 science literacy initiative, gave a 2 - hour briefing on the program's extensive science learning resources to about 40 administrators and staff at Rwanda's National Curriculum Development Centre.

Criteria for the Outstanding Project Website award were: (1) visual appeal, (2) organization of material on website, (3) current content, (4) fellow bios are present, clear and interesting, (5) school partners and teachers are identified, (6) user friendly science activities, lessons / labs, curriculum, and presentations available, and (7) project News Events are avaProject Website award were: (1) visual appeal, (2) organization of material on website, (3) current content, (4) fellow bios are present, clear and interesting, (5) school partners and teachers are identified, (6) user friendly science activities, lessons / labs, curriculum, and presentations available, and (7) project News Events are avaproject News Events are available.

Among the activities, in addition to the From Billions to None film and project website, is a new book; K - 12 curricula; numerous museum and cultural displays and exhibits; outreach programs and engaging presentations including many that rely on the visual and performing arts.

The Silencing Genomes site is part of a National Science Foundation project to develop an integrated experiment - and bioinformatics - based curriculum on RNAi in C. elegans.

Jeremy has directed, co-directed or participated in a large number of national evaluation and research projects on curriculum change in the UK, with research council and governmental reports, journal articles, papers and books in this area.

The application should include a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a cover letter in the context of the QUEST project, and a short statement on past and envisioned research.

The core curriculum of each school will always reflect the Istituto Marangoni stamp, a contemporary and forward thinking approach to the world of fashion with a focus on execution in creative tasks and polished presentation in business projects.

Ripple Kindness Project - an on - going social and emotional learning curriculum for elementary schools

My bandwagon collection included books on mastery learning, portfolio assessment, cooperative classroom structures, technology integration, backward design, multimedia projects, personal learning paths, authentic task development and, most recently, differentiated instruction and integrated curriculum.

As standardized - test pressure bears down on even the youngest learners and their teachers, Lilli Land challenges other principals to adopt AEEC's project - based - curriculum approach.

Sit down with teachers and look through the curriculum for places where a hands - on project could create learning across disciplines.

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).

On the other hand, students» participation was not voluntary, the activities of the project were mainly included in the school curriculum.

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.

Successful projects require a school structure that encourages curriculum integration and innovation, with a special emphasis on ensuring that the technology is always on.

Summative assessments, or high stakes tests and projects, are what the eagle eye of our profession is fixated on right now, so teachers often find themselves in the tough position of racing, racing, racing through curriculum.

An analysis of student performance on the state's standardized science exam has repeatedly shown that our students do better on questions that relate to the project - learning curriculum.

Further information Teachers who are interested in learning more about how to incorporate outdoor learning into the curriculum, develop outdoor spaces and learn how to grow food in school grounds can attend a one - day workshop at the Eden Project on Friday September 28.

Summit's PLP (a free platform that comes with professional development tools and customizable, teacher - created, project - based curricula, including virtual textbooks, curated resources, and assessments) allows students to learn at their own pace, track their progress, and reflect on feedback.

It led to the school rapidly expanding its photography curriculum and incorporating advanced time - lapse photography on construction projects.

MC2 (Metropolitan Cleveland Consortium) STEM High School is a year - round public school in Cleveland, Ohio, where instruction is through interdisciplinary project - based learning, and the focus is on providing students with an integrated curriculum that is informed by real - world experiences.

To promote technology use among their students, Jennifer Wagner recommends that teachers encourage online projects, visit other teachers» Web sites to see how they are integrating technology, and get together with other teachers on a bi-weekly basis to go through the curriculum and share ways they can use technology in their lessons.

The book represents a culminating work of the ArtsLiteracy Project, a project that develops curricula and professional development practices based on the premise that linking literacy and the arts creates powerful learning opportunities for students both in core academic subjects and in thProject, a project that develops curricula and professional development practices based on the premise that linking literacy and the arts creates powerful learning opportunities for students both in core academic subjects and in thproject that develops curricula and professional development practices based on the premise that linking literacy and the arts creates powerful learning opportunities for students both in core academic subjects and in the arts.

School Reform Minister, Nick Gibb said: «I am delighted that BT is extending the successful Barefoot project, providing innovative support for primary teachers on the new computing curriculum.

The curriculum focuses on personal development and team learning projects sourced from students» home regions.