Sentences with phrase «own curricular materials»

Beginning in the 1930s, a flood of new curricular materials was produced by Beacon Press.

Recent expansions of curricular materials, in addition to the sexuality unit, have moved into situational ethics, cultural anthropology, and a very open exploration of biblical materials and works of religious experiences.

But just as many more have served as models or examples; quick, now, if you attended Sunday school, think back, and some of those teachers will come to mind, Not all imported curricular materials missed the point.

The three best guides to deciding what to teach are your colleagues (either at your home institution or at comparable institutions), textbooks, and Web sites that disseminate curricular material.

What is noticeably Christian about Christian schools is the content of the curricular materials they use.

The week this announcement was made, Edutopia had an article on the use of open source curricular materials - a growing trend being driven, in part, by the extraordinary cost of commercial textbooks.

With these standards and assessments in place, the question reasonably arises, where do educators find the curricular materials that best help them tackle the standards?

Perhaps most important, global education's believers exercise a strong degree of influence among textbook publishers, whose teams of multicultural advisors examine curricular materials for hints of bias or cultural insensitivity.

In 2003 schools chancellor Joel Klein appointed her and the project, through a no - bid three - year $ 5.4 million contract, to the task of revamping the way literacy skills are taught in more than 100 district schools, including most of those in Brooklyn and Queens, the project's mission is to retrain — through onsite workshops, leadership seminars, curricular materials, and an intensive summer institute — primary and upper - grade teachers, administrators from principals up through district superintendents, and central department policymakers.

And yet our system of education — in everything from textbook design to assessments to curricular materials and their sequencing — is built on the opposite premise.

Into this mix has walked the Open High School of Utah, a charter school that is offering a virtual education that is based almost entirely on curricular materials available free - of - cost from open sources.

Each student could access curricular materials at his or her specific level of accomplishment.

Educational opportunity is about to be revolutionized by powerful notebook computers, broadband and the open - source development of curricular materials (a la Wikipedia).

Under the proposal, made by the Houston - based firm Performing Schools Corporation, the firm would provide the schools with curricular materials, teacher training, and a guarantee of improved student performance.

Some current projects include: Cultures of Computing, an examination of how K - 12 teachers design learning environments to support novice programmers, focusing on teachers» design intentions and how those intentions are enacted; ScratchEd, a model of professional learning for educators who support computational literacy with the Scratch programming language, involving the development of a 25,000 - member online community, a network of in - person events, and curricular materials; and Cultivating Computational Thinking, an investigation of the concepts, practices, and perspectives that young people develop through computational design activities.

The story of its early success is in the numbers: Code.org says that 750,000 teachers use its curricular materials, and that 25 percent of U.S. students have accounts on the website — 45 percent are female, and 48 percent are from underrepresented minority groups.

Professor Howard Gardner and the GoodPlay Project recently released a casebook of curricular materials called, Our Space: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World.

Students spend about half their time on core subjects and work through personalized playlists built around third - party curricular materials.

A search for more effective models is underway, involving more intensive coaching and feedback, buttressed by strong curricular materials.

Downloads of math curricular materials outpace ELA almost precisely two - to - one.

Once educators and local (and state) officials see how poorly their kids do on tougher assessments and what the standards really require, they will start looking for better curricular materials and training.

Teachers will want to click on the Education link at the top of the page and scroll down to find links to curricular materials and classroom activities that cover a variety of topics.

To date, however, that has seldom included the development and dissemination of curricular materials that are not just «aligned» with the Common Core but that also embody the spirit of the standards» call for building knowledge through a content - rich curriculum.

There was one catch: If the new standards were going to take hold, teachers would need new curricular materials and textbooks.

Secretary Arne Duncan: Ask the two testing consortia to sign agreements swearing not to mandate — directly or indirectly — the use of curricular materials they develop.

Icahn Superintendent Jeff Litt (left) employs the curricular material developed by E. D. Hirsch (center) at the network of charter schools founded by Carl and Gail Icahn (right).

Educational opportunity is about to be revolutionized by powerful notebook computers, broadband, sophisticated cooperative and competitive game playing over the Internet, curriculum in three dimensions, and the open - source development of curricular materials.

Hirsch had recently launched the Core Knowledge Foundation to develop curricular material; Litt immediately decided that he wanted to employ the curriculum in his school.

One math teacher has discovered that creating his own visual curricular materials helps his students.

Educators are rightly focused on ensuring high - quality instruction, developing new and improved curricular materials, and creating more engaging school environments.

To do this, we start from the Global Citizenship Education approach, where the creation of alternative curricular materials and activities support our appropriate methodological tool to capture human dialogical constructivist cohesion between different local educational agents: the students, the families, teachers, institutions and the media.

I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.

The needed curricular materials have been developed by the Center for Civic Education.

Before passing out any curricular materials or resources, an SEL leader must begin with a clear conversation about what the vision is, how things will look and feel once the changes have taken place, and why those changes will be beneficial to all — students and teachers.

I am certain that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence and validity of my sexual orientation and family structure.

Here you will find Holocaust education resources tailored for classroom use — films, lesson plans, and curricular materials.

First, it explains that by helping to insulate teachers from backlash or retaliation, the challenged statutes allow teachers to act in students» interests in deciding when and how to present curricular material and to advocate for students within their schools and districts.

Moreover, these features give parents a greater incentive to economize and foster increased competition not only among schools, but also between schools and other education providers, such as tutors, online courses, educational software, and homeschool curricular materials.

Holland also purchases textbooks and curricular materials for her son, and pays for music therapy, among other educational therapies.

Full years of curricular materials are currently available on EngageNY for grades Prekindergarten through 12th grade in Mathematics and Prekindergarten through 12th grade in English Language Arts (ELA).

Driven by the goals and values of its flagship project, Poetry in America, Verse Video Education develops video and accompanying curricular materials in the arts and humanities and beyond, creating a body of educational content capable of reaching a very broad community of learners: formal and informal, online and residential, young and old, American and international.

By making the Core Knowledge Sequence and other curricular materials freely available, we work to put into practice the principle that every child in a democracy should have access to shared, enabling knowledge and language.

Evidence that the school has eliminated low ‐ track classes and, more generally, evidence of the steps the school has taken to increase the access of students to challenging curricular materials and high - quality instruction (e.g., letters sent to parents and regular outreach by teachers or counselors).

It is «in the nature of markets» that those who make the best use of new curricular materials and new technologies will become dominant — to the benefit of us all.

Once educators and local (and state) officials see how poorly their kids are doing on these tougher assessments and what the standards really require, they will start looking for better curricular materials and training.

My earnest hope is that the politicians — from Arne Duncan to Bobby Jindal and everyone in between — stop misbehaving and give educators the room to focus on the real work at hand: selecting good curricular materials, improving teaching and learning, and getting ready for the much more rigorous tests that will be given nine months from now.

Implementing accountability requires incentives (as well as sanctions) plus training for staff and curricular materials for schools.

As Andy notes, that was a needless and ridiculous controversy, but it was one that the administration invited by issuing a raft of curricular materials that reflected Obama - mania and were tone - deaf to skeptics.

Set clear standards, align assessments to those standards, hold educators accountable, and help them find solid curricular materials that sync with the standards.

In coming months, Fordham will point to some good examples of textbooks and other instructional materials that are aligned and high quality; other organizations are also gearing up (better late than never) to review curricular materials.