Sentences with phrase «over curriculum content»

As states and school districts across the United States continue to fight their battles over curriculum content, educators should not be satisfied — even if their state standards include the content they desire — unless schools make a commitment to also promote the values of ideological diversity and tolerance.

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Colin Hart, chief executive of the institute, accused the government overreacting, on Premier's «News Hour», he said: «You may or may not agree with it, but one thing you can't do is sue the school over the way in which history is taught or maths is taught or whatever subject there is, because the law excludes discrimination from the content of the curriculum, but that's to change for independent schools, free schools and academies»

The initial content will include over 1,600 Video Tutorials and 2,000 Study Aids on core subjects from primary to senior secondary school curriculum.

The team and schools in Havering helped to ensure that the resources were on the button in terms of content and ease of use, and over 6,500 schools nationally now use the resources to deliver a high quality computing curriculum to primary children.

From day one, there was a battle over the content of the new national curriculum.

Pitched and passionate battles over course content have made curriculum a third rail in many states.

Discovery Education Espresso is one of the UK's leading digital learning services, delivering dynamic curriculum matched content to 1.8 million pupils in over 6500 schools.

It states (in section 103b): «No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or content of library resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, except to the extent authorized by law.»

This is no surprise to fans of E.D. Hirsch, whose research over the last 25 years (from Cultural Literacy (1987) to The Making of Americans (2010)-RRB-, has shown that teaching children a wide - ranging but comprehensive content heavy curriculum actually improves reading more than teaching reading skills does.

The reformed curriculum content is due to become available to schools in Wales by 2018 and is said to be the biggest shake - up in what is taught in schools for over 25 years.

All content featured on the app is curriculum - aligned and inclusive, comprised of over 850 tracks covering a wide variety of music genres.

American education remains deeply reluctant to do this, since it requires overthrowing any number of traditions and practices — from child - centered pedagogies, assumptions about student engagement, and other progressive education ideals, to local control of curriculum, the privileging of skills over content, and the movement toward mass customization of education.

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At Costello this is completed over the period of a term and academic year, creating a full curriculum of online content.

This would be a major improvement over the other form of differentiated curriculum (rigorous content for the college - bound, nonacademic content for the rest) that A Nation at Risk warned against, while also respecting the fact that not all students can handle the same lockstep schedule of rigorous courses.

Rather than administering separate social studies and English tests at the end of the year, Louisiana schools participating in the pilot will teach short social studies and English curriculum units in tandem over the course of the year, pausing briefly after each unit to assess students» reading, writing and content knowledge.

Yes, we need more research on which curricula work best, but we already have ample solid research demonstrating the decided advantage that the traditionalist emphasis on content knowledge has over the progressivist insistence on active learning (disengaged from domain facts and concepts).

This move toward quality control could be the first step back toward renewing the drive for national curriculum standards that flared up and flamed out in the 1990s in disputes over ideology, pedagogy, course content, and control of the public schools, speculated Bruce Johnstone, former chancellor of the 64 - campus State University of New York.

A curriculum describes in much more detail how students and teachers should interact with specific content, in a specific sequence, over the course of a year in order to achieve a set of goals.

A new teacher candidate in Finland, for example, is given a copy of the elementary school curriculum, and the training over four years gives teachers deep understanding of the specific content they will teach at each grade and subject, including all the possible questions and misunderstandings students might have about that curriculum.

A key part of the curriculum - linked professional development approach includes a hybrid form of professional development that uses a limited number of face - to - face sessions and Web - based curriculum support materials delivered over the Internet to promote teachers» geospatial science pedagogical content knowledge in addition to science content knowledge.

In workshops conducted over the past two years, 2000 - plus teachers, representing 121 school districts, created and refined curriculum for 10 content areas of the new Colorado Academic Standards (CAS).

Those who have studied and implemented differentiated instruction over time are convinced that teachers who differentiate well are masters at knowing their students and content thoroughly such that adhering strictly to a particular curriculum can be detrimental, rather than helpful.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

While both groups learned about content - appropriate scaffolding and how to remove scaffolds over time, the professional learning sessions were each grounded intensively in the teachers» curriculum, Common Core State Standards, and content area practices.

It is not just that the national curriculum is too packed with content so that, in covering everything, too much is skimmed over, without the time to really foster, in our pupils, a deep understanding of what they are learning.

Coherence and commonality of curriculum, gained through specifying core content, has decisive educational advantages over our vague, laissez faire curriculum arrangements.

Planet Sherston has teamed up with the leading Romanian software house SIVECO, to deliver a project (co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund) to provide interactive digital content based on the Maltese Primary School Curriculum to over 100 schools in Malta, by the end of July 2014...

Schools around the country are leveraging the integration of online digital content and offline curriculum to allow for increased student flexibility over path and pace.

A Materials and Resources database, searchable by keyword, subject area, and by grade level, featuring over 100 Pennsylvania Common Core - aligned sample curriculum maps, as well as learning progressions, units, lesson plans, and content resources aligned to state standards.

This customizable content management portal delivers searchable Common Core standards, over 100 sample curriculum maps, and integrated online tools that enhance New York State educators» effectiveness where it counts — in the classroom.

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