Sentences with phrase «point about curriculum»

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In our homeschool curriculum we learned about The Ice Age from a Biblical stand point.

At a celebration of the one - year anniversary of the launch of its Maker Ed Initiative (also an Educator Innovator partner), Maker Faire's founder Dale Dougherty pointed out that making is not about curriculum.

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point, suggests that our public schools would benefit from a spirit of innovation rather than one of regimentation.Those of us who have been hanging around public education for more than, say, 15 years may remember a time when words like creativity and imagination were an important part of our conversations about curriculum design, teaching, learning, and lesson planning.

This report makes some vitally important points about why this is so damaging, and why the pursuit of exam results and accountability metrics therefore has to be informed by an understanding of the curriculum, and of what it means to master a subject.»

I'm particularly enthusiastic about a big bet on curriculum, which, as my colleague Robert Pondiscio points out, is finally having its time in the sun.

Although Bloom's pedagogy may not be the perfect solution, it is a launching point for a discussion about how curriculum that uses mobile technology can help to develop higher order thinking skills.

May has said she wants to ensure each school has a single point of contact with mental health services and plans to include more about mental wellbeing in the current curriculum.

As Tyler points out, the «purpose of a statement of objectives is to indicate the kinds of changes in the student to be brought about... Hence it is clear that a statement of objectives in terms of content headings... is not a satisfactory basis for guiding the further development of the curriculum.»

He said: «I think the process which has been put in place has a pretty fair chance of getting us to the point at which by 2018 and beyond schools will be able to move forward with thinking about the curriculum and its implications for their young people.

I think we should start the year talking about it,» Platt says, adding that administrators can support teachers by pointing them to curriculum resources about racism and social justice and saying «loud and clear, «We confront racism head on at this school.

Standardized test scores are an important data point that can tell us something about the overall effectiveness of our curriculum, instruction, and school programming.

I believe that curriculum should be the starting point of any dialogue about student evaluations, testing, and even parent involvement.

In an article in the March 2004 issue of Library Media Connection, «It's All About Learning: Ensuring that Students are Effective Users of Information on Standardized Tests,» Mike Eisenberg points out the necessary connection between library, information literacy skills instruction, and state curriculum standards.

At points in the past 25 years we have appeared to be moving away from a 5 - 16 assumption about the curriculum to thinking about 5 - 7, 7 - 14 and 14 - 19 curricula: that trend, certainly in terms of the implications for secondary seems to have been parked.

I hope you'll find my musings helpful in some way and that you can use them as a start point for your own discussions about curriculum.

This means many are at breaking point, with school leaders being forced to make difficult decisions about staffing, the curriculum and crucial services such as counselling.

Geetha is generally the first point of contact for many schools who enquire or express an interest in learning more about Fieldwork's curriculums.

To help educators become that trusted voice, ASCD's next issue of Policy Points, to be released in the coming weeks, dispels those aforementioned Common Core myths, addressing widespread questions about federal involvement and local control of schools as well as other misunderstandings related to the standards» relationship to curriculum, their cost to states, student privacy, and more.

Medical schools have tradition - bound curricula and really don't see the point in teaching future doctors about carrots and quinoa.

Predictably enough, you retreat from engaging entirely substantive points about unfamiliar geophysical realities by passing them off as «semantical» and then finding comfort in the handwaving notions of soft - science curricula.

The New York drivers ed curriculum includes instruction on the state point system for driving records, information about traffic laws and DUI regulations, strategies for defensive driving and advice for following the road rules.

The «Core Curriculum» requires instruction about both the role of the medical assistant as a patient navigator and the ways to facilitate referrals to community resources.5 The Content Outline includes these points, as well as interpersonal skills, such as displaying impartial conduct without regard to race, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, physical challenges, special needs, and lifestyle choices.6

About Blog Your source for to - the - point reviews of curriculum, answers for your children's ministry questions, help with recruiting, encouragement for you and your volunteers... and a whole lot more!Lynda Freeman has 40 years of experience working in Children's Ministry.

Until this point, we have been talking about what may be called the substantive knowledge base within the group care worker curriculum.

STEM in Early Childhood is a starting point to learn more about how the content areas of Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (STEM) link with other curriculum areas and programming in early childhood settings.