Sentences with phrase «out of the curriculum in»

Don't let Art get squeezed out of the curriculum in your school!

Unfortunately, most schools today have forgotten the importance of touch typing for students, and as such typing classes and lessons have been left out of the curriculum in favor of other skills that are deemed more important.

Infante and others add that the Academic Performance Index and the federal No Child Left Behind law squeezed history out of the curriculum in most districts during the past decade.

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They're doing it through dozens of workshops held in community centers, libraries, YMCA's, and municipal buildings, where anywhere from 40 to 60 women (and sometimes a few men) work their way through a two - hour curriculum that teaches them how to figure out how much they should be paid, how to make their case to an employer, and how to gracefully exit a negotiation that might not be going well.

The memo from Saskatchewan Government Insurance said details are still being worked out, but the curriculum is to include at least 70 hours of training in the classroom, yard and behind the wheel.

The startup, called MBA Bee, comes out of Harvard's newly revised MBA curriculum in which student teams are given seed money by the school and then required to create a new product or service development project.

The Rotman One - Year Executive MBA curriculum integrates the strengths and research coming out of the school with exposure to the Creative Destruction Lab, Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman (BEAR) centre, and the Leadership Development Lab.

A handful of schools in the New York area is rolling out an experimental new curriculum designed to educate students on how to use cellphones safely, CBS News reports.

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.

As to curriculum, Dupré points out that many Catholic schools have reduced the ideal of a Catholic liberal education to «a few courses on religion, ethics, and a smattering of philosophy in an otherwise wholly pragmatically oriented curriculum.»

If out of fear or ignorance any real consideration of religion is excluded from the school curriculum, the educational program is thereby trivialized and the school fails in its central educative mission.

Devotion to what is supremely worthful is the one aim of the curriculum, to be worked out in all of the special areas of instruction.

His article is based on his convocation address in 1996 inaugurating a new academic year in which YDS, under the leadership of its new dean, Richard Wood, set out to develop new curriculum and programs recommended by a review committee, which was chaired by Kelsey.

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.

FTR, I come at this having been born, raised and educated in the Mennonite faith, where as a part of the curriculum they handed out conscientious objector forms.

Our method educates the whole child through a rich and meaningful, age - related curriculum devoting lots of time to play, being out in nature, incorporating a vibrant arts curriculum, and supporting core academics with integrated subject classes.

All that he wished to learn he found in the Waldorf school curriculum, created out of Steiner's philosophical principles.

I worry that after the teacher explains her curriculum she will hand out a math test — the kind where every problem is filled with a combination of numbers, letters and those odd symbols that look like they belong in foreign street signs.

I'm not sure that the boys are covering everything on the National Curriculum - Tim in particular doesn't appear to be doing a lot of maths - but they're certainly learning plenty of other things, and enjoying life considerably more than some of their friends who go to school out here.

Her interest in birth issues grew out of her work in breastfeeding education and support, and she subsequently co-wrote a biblically - based childbirth education curriculum.

However, don't count it out the potential benefits of valuable tips and techniques offered in a structured curriculum designed by those who have been there before.

This curriculum has grown out of the experiences I have had in teaching my own preschool age children at home.

The report painted a worrying picture of extremist ideology in schools in Birmingham, with a campaign to introduce governors who would tailor curriculums to their own personal beliefs and force out head teachers who did not comply.

«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.

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.

«In this curriculum, no child should be coerced or compelled to learn or be taught in school any religious studies subject but only one (out of the two) that restrictively relates to the belief system professed by the child and his / her parents.&raquIn this curriculum, no child should be coerced or compelled to learn or be taught in school any religious studies subject but only one (out of the two) that restrictively relates to the belief system professed by the child and his / her parents.&raquin school any religious studies subject but only one (out of the two) that restrictively relates to the belief system professed by the child and his / her parents.»

Ms. Elia has not been in her role long, but she's been busy: she inherited the Common Core curriculum, the roll - out of which most people seem to agree was botched by her predecessors at the State Education Department.

Peers spoke out against the continuing power of «faith» schools to discriminate in admissions, the appointment of governors and the employment of staff, about homophobic bullying, about extremist (including creationist) groups setting up Free Schools with unbalanced curricula, about the need to repeal laws on collective worship and about the need to maintain community cohesion.

«According to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request carried out in March 2011 by the NUT and National Association of Language Development in the Curriculum (NALDIC) almost a third (29.3 per cent) of Local Authorities in England are not holding back the EMAG grant to meet the specific educational needs of minority ethnic pupils.

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said yesterday that it has drawn out a training curriculum to ensure professionalism and efficiency as well as adequate on the job preparation in protection of life and property...

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said yesterday that it has drawn out a training curriculum to ensure professionalism and efficiency as well as adequate on the job preparation in protection of life and property especially as it concerns the activities of private security guards in the country.

«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.

«We are narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, and children are missing out on a rich and meaningful education,» said Shirley Verrico, a parent who lives in the Williamsville Central School District and is a member of Western New York Allies.

«It is well - established that there were significant issues with the roll - out and implementation of the Common Core Standards causing parents, educators, and other stakeholders to lose trust in the system,» the report's executive summary says, noting the failure to involve educators, lack of transparency and «complicated and difficult» state - written curriculums.

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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.

This also changed the roles of the various players who define education policy in the schools: «Whereas school superintendents and the directors of teachers» colleges had once decided what was to be taught in schools, the curriculum was now being influenced by scientists and as well by teachers to an ever greater extent,» Criblez points out.

«The ideas of the basic research of the 1970s and»80s played out in the curricula in the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century,» he says.

A law approved last June by Italy's parliament spelled out that ISS presidents must be «equipped with high and recognized professionalism documented through the presentation of curricula in research and experimentation in the fields of activities of the institute itself.»

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

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.

Yet the curriculum first and second year medical students learn about finding meaning in medicine, learning to cope with loss, standing wide - eyed and humble in the face of awe and mystery, and nurturing the wholeness in ourselves and our patients is often beaten out of doctors during the trauma of the next six to eight years of medical education.

November 9, 2011 • Even as home economics classes have been phased out of a lot of schools in recent years, some schools are adding cooking classes back to the curriculum.

G. From me, Chris Reed: This film spells out something that has been very much on my mind of late, thanks to the many hours I have to spend thinking of how to devise a curriculum at Stevenson that best address the challenges of media production and media education in the 21st Century.

In the state of Oklahoma, low - income high school students who agree to make good grades in a prescribed curriculum, attend school, and stay out of trouble can get free tuition at public and private colleges in the statIn the state of Oklahoma, low - income high school students who agree to make good grades in a prescribed curriculum, attend school, and stay out of trouble can get free tuition at public and private colleges in the statin a prescribed curriculum, attend school, and stay out of trouble can get free tuition at public and private colleges in the statin the state.

This is an ideal poem to meet the National Curriculum requirements: preparing poems to read out loud and perform; learning a wider range of poetry by heart and; participate in discussions about poems.

When you start out embedding making in the curriculum, it is essential to share with teachers the relevance of making as problem solving and the importance of process so that they don't end up with glitter catapult assignments or extra crafty English language arts assignments that turn out more like craft experiments than true project - based learning.

There are new curriculum and teacher collaboration models arising in schools — STEM, in particular, is one that is going to mean teachers are out - of - field.