Sentences with phrase «other curricula like»

Students at Bates Middle School in Annapolis, MD, learn about art concepts such as photo composition (above) that are integrated into other curricula like math.

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The rest of its curriculum looks like any other business program.

If a colleague says, for example, «I didn't like the way everyone was talking about changing the curriculum at the meeting the other night,» several things might need clarification.

I guess you haven't had training in other culinary institutes, but I'm just kind of curious what it is like to go through a curriculum like that.

When we were home educating, we liked to use a variety of text books and other resources, such as CD - Roms, some of which tied in with the UK National Curriculum, some of which were for more general interest.

the other half of the equation are interventions like cooking classes, tastings, classroom curriculum, gardening, etc. without both pieces school food reform will not advance.

Like other states, it is complying with federal demands to develop a «common core curriculum» for its K - 12 schools that would better prepare students for college work.

Donovan, who has been a middle school teacher for more than 20 years, explained that other science curriculum materials are often subject - specific, focusing lessons on individual scientific fields like biology and excluding disciplines like chemistry that can provide an essential foundation for students.

Some schools have incorporated social - emotional learning programs — like MindUP and Roots of Empathy — into classrooms while other school systems, including the new B.C. curriculum, embrace it more systemically.

This statistic doesn't even take into account the larger multiplier effect of teachers like Bencivengo and Hart sharing their curricula with other teachers locally, regionally and nationally.

The RET program offers teachers like Bencivengo and Hart a way to meet these standards, while at the same time providing a hands - on research experience, guidance in designing neural engineering curricula and other professional development opportunities.

Like novels, films, plays, and other media, games can be high - quality materials a teacher uses to enable students to access the curriculum.

That suggests that schools should consider some other reason if they're thinking of shifting curriculum or students online, she said: Perhaps it's cheaper or there are social benefits, like making school more flexible for working students or for those with infants.

And when trying to implement large - scale initiatives like the Common Core State Standards that require rethinking professional learning, curriculum and instructional materials, family engagement activities, assessment and other aspects of the education system, collaboration is particularly important.

Gillispie: The successes we've had in this project garnered a lot of positive press for our district because [game - based learning] is still fairly cutting edge compared to the status quo; also it has opened up a lot of doors for other game - based curriculum initiatives — like the district - wide Minecraft project.

We recommended the DfE to strongly urge schools to review the curriculum time they give to Computing as a discrete subject, in view of the changes to the Computing curriculum, with a view to treating it like other longer - established disciplines.

For one thing, in getting a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana (like other states) promised the Obama administration it would adopt standards that met federal criteria; align curricula and teaching; select, pilot, and administer new tests aligned to the standards; and integrate the standards into both school - and teacher - accountability systems.

And it should touch many other fields like curriculum development, data systems, and student surveys.

Educurious looks a bit more like a curriculum company than the other two, with a focus on building project - based assignments with experts from a range of professions at the center.

In the end, the teacher professionalism agenda has functioned like a black hole, sucking in much of the available energy, attention, and funds and leaving little for other reforms - not just other teacher - related reforms (such as those urged by the Excellence Commission), but also a very different list of changes (technology, choice programs, preschool, new curricula) that might prove more effective and economical as strategies for boosting pupil achievement.

McDonald also runs her own company, Catalyst Education Consulting, allowing her to stay involved in all the diverse areas of education that interest her, from policy to research to curriculum design, as well as meet others who, like her, want to affect the education sector for the better.

We were lucky enough to get an eLearning Grant at the end of 2012 which gave us some sort of impetus to do a lot of the work in terms of development of the literacy and numeracy curriculum, but a lot of the other work has been ongoing in terms of developing the skills gap plans and developing some of the work around what that framework looks like and the assessment procedures that sit in and around that - so the frequency at which we're testing.

By the middle of year three, the district had pressured the school to begin using its core curriculum and, like other neighborhood high schools, administer biweekly benchmark tests based on it.

Our brains may hold clues to that disconnect and also may provide answers as to what an ideal curriculum would look like to target bullying and other violence issues facing children and schools.

Granted, the kindergarten curriculum, like every other aspect of education, must change with the times.

But of this group, over two - fifths (43 %) reported that rather than remain in classroom teaching for their entire careers, they would like to move onto other positions in education such as curriculum development, professional development, or administration.

The first step toward this core curriculum was the creation of a new course, Thinking Like an Educator (TLE), which utilizes the case method, an approach that has been successful in other professional schools, yet has remained largely untried in education.

If we continue to treat reading like every other subject and march through the standards as if they were a curriculum, we will remain stuck in place.

Burt Carney is worried not only that other public colleges might follow the University of California's lead, but also that groups like the Educational Testing Service are considering classroom visits to make sure that teachers and curricula in AP courses, for instance, meet certain standards.

Like some other states, Alabama requires schools to choose reading curricula from a short list of programs that have been certified by the state as based on scientific reading research.

This could involve approaches to assessment and curriculum or organizational innovations like giving more site based freedom over budgets and personnel to other district schools, based on successful charter experiments.

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Then the word spread, other teachers liked the concept, the principal gave permission to set aside the regular curriculum temporarily, and 115 kids — fully a third of the students at Springfield Middle School, an urban school in Battle Creek, Michigan — wrote novels.

«We'll be developing computer coding curriculum, like «Hacking Minecraft» and «Technology in Music,» to create programming that engages this demographic that we will hopefully use to scale to thousands of other students to get them interested in coding,» Macalalad says.

Like all state schools, they have to teach a broad and balanced curriculum with a focus on English, Maths and Science; they are however free to vary their curricula in order to specialise in certain subjects such as STEM, to provide a bilingual education or to use teaching methods from other countries.

In urban schools students come and go all day.No 45 minutes is like the time that preceded it or the time that will follow.Urban schools report 125 classroom interruptions per week.Announcements, students going, students coming, messengers, safety aides, and intrusions by other school staff account for just some of these interruptions.It is not unusual for students to stay on task only 5 or 10 minutes in every hour.Textbook companies and curriculum reformers are constantly thwarted by this reality.They sell their materials to schools with the assurance that all the students will learn X amount in Y time.They are continually dismayed to observe that an hour of school time is not an hour of learning time.Many insightful observers of life in urban schools have pointed out that it is incredibly naive to believe that learning of subject matter is the main activity occurring in these schools.If one observes the activities and events which actually transpire — minute by minute, hour by hour, day in and day out — it is not possible to reasonably conclude that learning is the primary activity of youth attending urban schools.What does the process of changing what one does every 45 minutes and even the place where one does it portend for fulfilling a job in the world of work?If one is constantly being reinforced in the behaviors of coming, going, and being interrupted, what kind of work is one being prepared for?

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Word Within The Word offers middle and secondary level, vocabulary - building curriculum that is like no other.

Like all other successful school systems, the Harford County Public School System must continually ensure through curriculum that what is taught continues to reflect the very best knowledge and practice in all subject areas.

Though they get tested and graded like any other public school in the state, state laws give charter schools more «flexibility» to set programming and curriculum as they see fit.

She trains school personnel to use coach - like behaviors in order to experience success in implementing Common Core Curriculum and other educational innovations.

My district, like so many others, is changing our entire curriculum pre-K to 6th grade.

I want to be clear that this is not scripted curriculum or anything like that, but we are going to be utilizing common materials across schools so that when scholars move from school to school they have consistent instruction, teachers can collaborate and plan with each other and we can can provide common professional development across the district.

And parents don't know that our district will be the model for all others — because we do it best — we will collect SSP data in the form of social and emotional surveys, we will change our curriculum to socially engineer our children with social and emotional instruction without parents suspecting a thing, we will assess and survey up the wazoo about academics, school climate, cyberbullying, etc. while willing parents stand by, we will enhance our teacher evaluation program and refine it into a well - oiled teacher manipulation machine, and since our kids would do well no matter what because we have uber - involved parents, it will look like everything the Administrators are doing at the State's recommendation causes the success.

Yet while educators, like those at Sturgis, say IB's rigorous curriculum can prepare all students simultaneously for standardized tests, college, and career, others say not so fast.

Like academies, free schools have more freedom over the timetable and curriculum than other schools, and over the pay and conditions of staff.

All the energy they invest and the learning they experience get transferred to other areas like classroom management or curriculum.

Just like print curricula that educators develop or purchase, online learning curricula should be evaluated in light of its alignment with relevant Common Core and other standards.

The teachers unions, like so many others, have missed their opportunity to behave more like guildes, advancing the quality of their craft by working with administration to restore the liberal arts curriculum and the discipline necessary to the orderly classrooms necessary to learning itself.

Todd's Media Arts program is the first one like it in the state, and he hopes the curriculum he is developing can be a model for other schools.