Sentences with phrase «out of curriculum for»

«We are confident that the continuing roll - out of Curriculum for Excellence, the new approach to learning and teaching in Scottish schools, will lead to greater achievement for all pupils in the years ahead.

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Is that because there's no way to prepare people for the role, a team of professors out of INSEAD recently wondered, or would it be possible to craft a curriculum to teach people the skills to be CEO?

There are even «time - out» options by which students can step away from courses for extended periods of time without forfeiting their curriculum or placing student loans into reimbursement mode.

Entrepreneurship educators have realized that plan - centric curriculum may get by for teaching incremental innovation but they're not turning out students prepared for the realities of building new ventures.

The single most discouraging thing to come out of the sudden leadership race for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario are new promises to roll back the sex education curriculum by candidates in this race.

By way of contrast, the Rev. Norman Dewire, the chief program coordinating executive for the United Methodist Church, pointed out that «the national United Methodist Church runs on five cents of each $ 1, supports 750 missionaries, 900 short - term missionaries, curriculum and worship materials, the largest network of private colleges in the United States, one hundred retirement homes, and the recruitment and training of ministers plus all communication materials.

De Bary also points out how John Erskine, one of the pioneers of the new program at Columbia, though he had little knowledge of Asian cultures, felt that a core curriculum based only on Western classics was inadequate for the global world in which we live.

HF: If anyone gets anything out of this conversation, I hope they take away this: The ongoing curriculum review is incredibly important for the University of Notre Dame.

If you are looking for a homeschool curriculum for your children, you might want to continue reading our Bob Jones homeschool review to find out if this type of homeschool curriculum fits what you plan to teach your children.

It's that little matter of love and devotion to the welfare of your own child that drives homeschooling parents to seek out the right curriculum, tutors, teaching techniques, and engaging activities for their children that makes homeschooling so successful no matter what the parents» «qualifications» may be.

Although Zoe hasn't officially started school yet, we loosely began last fall and have been experimenting with various curriculums, trying to figure out what will work best for our family and the official «first day of kindergarten» later this year.

Follow through on your state's recommendations for compliance - whether that is to fill out a letter of intent for the public school board or list your planned curriculum.

We were using a popular workbook - based curriculum for 3 years and then switched, out of desperation, to a computer - based program.

The BHA opposes state funding of Steiner schools because of concerns about pseudoscience on the curriculum (including scepticism of evolution and vaccinations and support for homeopathy), homeopathy being given to pupils by the schools» «anthroposophical doctors», and the fact that a number of private and at least one state school has opted out of providing vaccinations.

The speaker, a Democrat, also said the council would move to centralize the public schools» sexual education curriculum, and wipe out warrants from unanswered summonses that are 10 years or older for petty offenses like open containers of alcohol in public.

The BHA has long - standing concerns about Steiner schools including pseudoscience on the curriculum (including scepticism of evolution and vaccinations and support for homeopathy), homeopathy being given to pupils by the schools» «anthroposophical doctors», and the fact that a number of private and at least one state school has opted out of providing vaccinations.

Kevin Courtney, NUT general secretary, said: «That sums of this magnitude have been thrown away at a time when schools across the country are crying out for funding for staff, to provide a broad and balanced curriculum and to ensure essential resources and equipment are available, is criminal.

While it doesn't lay out specific curricula, such as lists of books or lessons, the initiative seeks to enact broad concepts to help ensure that students are truly ready for college or work after high school.

«I look forward to continuing my efforts to save our children's education from the mismanaged roll - out of the Common Core curriculum, advocate for women's equality and make smart investments to create good local jobs in Dutchess and Putnam counties.»

Director of Curriculum Assessment for the Peru Central School District, Scott Storms, attributed his district's decrease in opt - out rates to the state's parent education efforts.

The vice president said the curriculum vitae of the appointees were attached for the information of the senators even as he expressed the hope that the screening would, as usual be carried out expeditiously.

Core Knowledge Language Arts, a Common Core - aligned ELA curriculum for elementary schools, has considerable strengths, though like all curricula, it's not perfect out of the box.

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While some green efforts in schools set out to change students» behaviors, students conserving electricity by turning off unused lights, for instance, is a positive consequence rather than the driving force of the Green Schools Energy Curriculum.

Instead of a concrete curriculum or a test that students must be able to pass, the science and engineering standards lay out benchmarks for what concepts students should know at particular grade levels, each year building on those before it.

The core curriculum's flagship offering, an online bioethics course, grew out of a federal training requirement for postdocs supported on National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Research Service Awards.

Big Explosions and Strong Gravity is a curriculum for a day - long event for middle - school aged children in out - of - school - time.

The actions we are taking include (1) the development of new sustainable chemical technologies to reduce the magnitude and the impact of society's chemical and energy activities, (2) the development of a new multidisciplinary effort, The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry (http://bcgc.berkeley.edu/) to organize and enhance sustainability activities on our campus and to reach out nationally and internationally for coordination and best practices transfer, and (3) the reconfiguration of the delivery and content of our educational curriculum and activities at all levels to emphasize sustainable green chemical practice, concepts and awareness so that all members of our profession advance the sustainability of our society through their work and decisions.

Our comprehensive manuals and carefully designed curriculum has given us a reputation for turning out some of the most well - trained, skilled and accomplished yoga teachers in the field.

Just as technology - infused instruction has moved out of the computer lab, we will see media literacy begin to move across the curriculum, especially as teachers rely more and more on online resources and the access that students have to the internet for information.

Whilst planning for the roll out of the new national curriculum is time consuming, there is no doubt that it gives teachers the opportunity to get creative, trying out new ideas, themes and locations for learning.

As Minister of State for School Standards Gibb's responsibilities will include the roll out of the new national funding formula, curriculum and assessment, as well as teacher recruitment and retention.

Alternatively, if you are looking to plan out your curriculum delivery to include a range of non-classroom based options the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom website contains helpful guidance.

If, for instance, you just say, «Let's go out and get a really good culturally relevant curriculum,» but you haven't changed the mindset of your teachers or the expectations of students, the curriculum probably isn't going to work nearly as well as if you tackled all three components.

Given that school budget cuts, coach costs, changes in the curriculum cycle, staff cover, and health and safety legislation are largely beyond the control of out - of - the - classroom attractions, what exactly can be done to make school trips as painless and pleasurable as possible for those who want to undertake them?

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

So, when it came to designing this new building, the leadership team was keen to balance this out with the demands of a modern curriculum for 21st Century learners.

Developed by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and the First Amendment Center, the First Amendment Schools Project is designed to move First Amendment's ideas out of textbook discussions and into practice in classrooms and school hallways, while deepening educators» understanding of the First Amendment.

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.

Students check out of the learning process for a variety of reasons — including poor self - esteem, being under - or over-challenged by the curriculum, turmoil at home, boredom, or illness.

Steiner — an academic with Oxford and Harvard degrees who also had pioneered new teacher training programs as head of Hunter College's School of Education — had «charged out of the gate galloping,» observes Meyer, instituting greatly tougher benchmarks for the state's 3 - 8 tests and initiating a major effort to write a statewide curriculum.

And if you want a pretty darn good example of a pretty darn good curriculum, developed, paid for, and promulgated by the U.S. Department of Education, check out James Madison.

He says, for instance, that the teacher, Chris Doyle, used to teach current events, but «standardized testing and canned curriculums have squeezed most of that out of public education.»

On February 6, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited the Ed School for the Askwith Forum, «Fighting the Wrong Education Battles,» at which he discussed either - or orthodoxies about school reform, including competing claims about the importance of in - school and out - of - school influences on student achievement, and the struggle to advance both a well - rounded curriculum and school accountability.

At Scottsdale, teacher Marizza Bailey told me about the classes she was designing for 50 of her 11th and 12th graders who have maxed out the AP math curriculum.

There are many behavioral implications of this, in and out of the classroom, and that is why the skill area of emotional vocabulary is such a strong focus of curricula for promoting social - emotional and character development.

And he charged out of the gate, instituting tougher benchmarks for the state's 3 — 8 tests, initiating a major effort to write a statewide curriculum, and leading the charge to win a berth in the Race to the Top winner's circle.

Most importantly, a handful of references to film appearing in the English domains of the Australian Curriculum and some state curriculums, but also some bold international moves to roll out large - scale film literacy programs for primary level education.

The demands of EBacc are driving creative and vocational subjects out of the curriculum and are harming students» motivation, engagement and appetite for learning.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.