Sentences with phrase «on social studies curricula»

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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.

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.

Topics such as personnel management, tax, social security, work laws, etc. had not been on my curriculum during my studies in Rostock and Munich.

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).

«Once we started to gather information on the Orphan Train, we knew it would work well with the fourth grade curriculum on immigration,» said Tilmont, «and we thought it would be a great way to make social studies come to life for our students.»

Our students study North Carolina history and geography in accord with the eighth grade social studies curriculum, review math skills and science concepts with paper airplanes (it's a Wright brothers centennial year), and develop personal narratives in a travel journal they create on the trip.

The most exciting avenue in my experience was to build in a unit on education in our high school social studies curriculum.

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).

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.

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

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«During our social studies curriculum, we work a lot on mapping, and there's some great mapping software on the site,» she says.

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).

He sought to integrate math into other subjects, such as literature, science, social studies, and geography, so that users could easily adopt the activities and focus on more than one area of their curriculum at one time.

In the third - grade social studies curriculum at Friends School of Baltimore, where I teach, what used to be a mundane, teacher - led unit on Native Americans is now a semester - long PBL unit.

The program ties in with the state's third - grade social studies curriculum, which focuses on local history.

George Weber of the Council for Basic Education wrote afterwards that when you consider that these innovative national curricula math and in the social studies «not only didn't deliver what was promised» but instead may well have «even left us worse off than we were before,» there is natural proclivity on the part of the public to say, «We've been conned.»

California lawmakers passed a bill that will broaden social studies curriculum in the state's public schools to include lessons on gay history.

It is a middle school social studies teacher who partners with organizations to design an immersive schoolwide curriculum on civil rights.

Particularly in urban schools, the pressure from testing has narrowed the curriculum to focus on those subjects on which graduation and accreditation rest — at the expense of art, music, theater, physical education, foreign language, and even science and social studies.

Stephen Sawchuk covers curriculum and instruction, with a focus on the Common Core State Standards, literacy, social studies, and STEM.

It is easily integrated across your curriculum, with specific lessons focusing on Social Studies, Science, and Math.

It may require extra work when teachers alter their plans to integrate student - driven, hands - on lessons in their math, writing, social studies, and science curricula, but that work pays dividends in student engagement.

Future success is better predicted by students who have exercised an element of choice and autonomy in their learning and a broad curriculum focused on literacy, numeracy, social studies, science, and the arts.

The effectiveness of the model has been studied in over 20 years of research and field - testing about: (a) the effectiveness of the model as perceived by key groups, such as principals, teachers, students, and parents; (b) research related to student creative productivity; (c) research relating to personal and social development; (d) the use of SEM with culturally diverse or special needs populations; (e) research on student self - efficacy; (f) the use of SEM as a curricular framework; (g) research relating to learning styles and curriculum compacting; and (h) longitudinal research on the SEM.

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In social studies, while rightly criticizing the tendency of earlier American citizenship educators to produce America - Firsters by teaching a sanitized, celebratory U.S. history, Giroux overcorrects in promoting a curriculum calculated to produce America - Worsters, focused on the country's warts, as schools serve as «sites of struggle that address the suffering... of the oppressed.»

Participants will have the opportunity to hear from leading experts from the University of Minnesota on their climate science research, engage with hands - on activities, and learn about how Climate Generation curriculum supports language arts, social studies, and science standards, including the Next Generation Science Standards.

The core curriculum focuses on reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies and religion.

Building on theories of learning, motivation, and curriculum design, teachers next learn to apply newly developed technology skills to language arts, social studies, math, science, and technology curricular content.

This curriculum has an emphasis on basic skills and core subject matter in English language arts, mathematics, social studies and science, the arts, and a comprehensive support program that promotes healthy youth development, including preparing the students to apply their knowledge and skills for the benefit of the community and environment.

Social studies and science curricula are based on the Illinois State Standards and performance descriptors.

Our research - based programs have gone through rigorous studies and been endorsed by leading SEL evaluators like the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), so with a trustworthy curriculum, you can just focus on delivery.

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Rather than taking the place of the typical social studies curriculum, this project was an add - on for the teacher, requiring significant realignment of instructional time for work that would not directly prepare students for the state assessment.

«Choices, Changes, and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era» finds that since the enactment of NCLB, 62 percent of school districts increased the amount of time spent in elementary schools on subjects that are tested for accountability, while 44 percent of school districts cut time on science, social studies, art and music, physical education, lunch, or recess.

A recent study conducted by the Council for Basic Education confirms what many educators have feared: The curriculum is narrowing as schools zero in on reading, writing, and math at the expense of the arts, foreign languages, and elementary - level social studies.

Through 2005, there is little research focused on implementing technology in the K - 12 social studies classroom (Swan & Hofer, in press), yet many authors advocate that teachers need to explore this frontier without models of classroom success, examples of «tried and true» curricula, and evidence of increased student learning.

The Social Studies Assessment, Curriculum, and Instruction (SSACI) State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards (SCASS) harnesses the collective wisdom of state leaders and national experts to explore opportunities and address challenges within the field of social stSocial Studies Assessment, Curriculum, and Instruction (SSACI) State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards (SCASS) harnesses the collective wisdom of state leaders and national experts to explore opportunities and address challenges within the field of social sStudies Assessment, Curriculum, and Instruction (SSACI) State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards (SCASS) harnesses the collective wisdom of state leaders and national experts to explore opportunities and address challenges within the field of social stsocial studiesstudies.

The Social Studies collaborative focuses on identifying, developing, and sharing high - quality educational resources that support student and professional learning through rigorous standards, engaging curriculum, balanced assessments, effective professional development and attention to equity.

Recent studies have shown that merely adding technology to one's curriculumis not enough to bring about instructional reform in social studies education.There is a need for «thoughtful curriculum development, and careful instructionaldesign based on the thorough and on - going explication of assumptions aboutsociety, learners and learning, as these are critical to the productive useof technology as to any other teaching mode» (Shaver, 1999, p. 27).

Supporters of FMSD's traditional public schools claimed that Rocketship's educational program was unsound due to heavy reliance on uncredentialed teachers, computerized instruction, and a narrowed curriculum that excludes science, social studies, and the arts.

Through a daring and creative «escape» that focuses on cellular structure, teachers will learn how to adopt the concepts to focus on any area of the curriculum, including ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies and the Arts.

As a 6th grade social studies teacher, I built a curriculum based on teaching students to think, read, talk, and write about history as it relates to identity and social justice.

In my experience of working with teachers and conducting workshops on how to integrate picture books into the social studies curriculum, Jenna's initial response to using picture books is a common reaction.

We saw an example of these dynamics at NYC iSchool, where English teacher Fran Fay teamed up with Christina Jenkins, a social studies teacher with an interest in «design thinking,» on two curriculum modules involving both their classes.