Sentences with phrase «school elective courses»

The high school elective course that Smith and Bodin developed has significantly improved interfaith relations.

A middle school elective course designed around game development and programming skills, in which students create their own skill - based educational games

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While the elective courses are at the core of Stanford's approach to entrepreneurship, another obvious edge the school has over others is its location in Silicon Valley.

This school offers a generalist MBA program, but provides a number of elective courses to cater to individual students» interests, including entrepreneurship and international management.

The school offers a generalist MBA program, but provides a number of elective courses to cater to individual students» interests, including entrepreneurship and international management.

Hsieh discussed his unorthodox approach to building Zappos — widely praised in corporate circles as a playful, innovative, and zany company with a fiercely loyal customer base — during a talk as part of a business school MBA elective course.

This film was shown in the Bible classes in the school where I teach — Encina High, Sacramento — when, in 1973, we introduced a Bible course there as a junior - senior nine - week literature elective.

Largely because of his program, more than 30 per cent of the high schools in his state offer elective courses about religion.

Lau attends Monta Vista High School, a California Blue Ribbon high school, and works hard at her challenging Advanced Placement courses, such as Biology and Chinese, as well as at the electives she enjoys, including Dance, Photography, and Principles of BusSchool, a California Blue Ribbon high school, and works hard at her challenging Advanced Placement courses, such as Biology and Chinese, as well as at the electives she enjoys, including Dance, Photography, and Principles of Busschool, and works hard at her challenging Advanced Placement courses, such as Biology and Chinese, as well as at the electives she enjoys, including Dance, Photography, and Principles of Business.

Elective, Regents, classes with Corning Community College), and several AP courses are offered by the school.

The report says only five of the nation's 133 medical schools have required courses on pain, and just 17 offer such courses as an elective.

Elective requirements may be satisfied by successful completion of any curriculum course offered in the School of Western Herbal Medicine, School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and School of Holistic Nutrition.

Some doctors have limited nutrition training as elective courses at medical school, while even fewer have post-graduate nutrition training.

In the first legal skirmish over «intelligent design» since a federal judge declared it to be illegitimate science, a rural Southern California school system has agreed to drop an elective philosophy course presenting the highly charged topic.

Virtual schools make available a world of new courses — from obscure electives to Advanced Placement classes — that challenge students intellectually and open up new doors educationally.

At the suggestion of a friend who knew she missed working with data, she took an elective methods course at the university's vet school on epidemiology, the study of health and illness patterns.

Leveraging the ubiquity of the Internet, course choice policy gives many students a selection of electives, language courses, and AP courses that their schools do not have the capacity to provide or may not provide at times that work with the rest of a students» schedule.

The school offers 23 AP courses, a wide variety of electives, and classes for different ability levels.

Some want to explore an interest in an elective course or build fluency in a world language not offered at their school.

Core courses and electives are taught by recognized leaders from across Harvard's graduate programs in fields like data - based education reform, organizational change and innovation, and effective leadership strategies for urban schools.

«If this bill passes, students would no longer have an option to take electives, including some AP courses, beyond those offered at their traditional schools nor could they enroll in extra courses to catch up on graduation requirements,» Tucker said.

They report that in all of the Catholic schools they included in their study, community service work was available as an elective course.

Budgetary shortfalls, school district bankruptcies, teacher and administrator layoffs, hiring and salary freezes, pension system defaults, shorter school years, ever - larger classes, faculty furloughs, fewer course electives, reduced field trips, foregone or curtailed athletics, outdated textbooks, teachers having to make do with fewer supplies, cuts in school maintenance, and other tales of fiscal woe inevitably captivate the news media, particularly during the late - spring and summer budget and appropriations seasons.

Some schools quickly found that adding course requirements left little room for electives, such as music and art.

To demonstrate the possibilities and potentials, working in the University of Newcastle School of Education I developed an elective 10 - unit course that focused on the teaching of Science with Performance Arts, namely Dance, Drama and Music.

Virtual schools make available a world of new courses — from obscure electives to advanced - placement classes — that challenge students intellectually and open up new doors educationally.

Our mentoring program is an elective course within the school's master schedule, so students get credit for participating (it's a credit / no credit course — no grades are given).

Every other elective activity in high school, including theater, band, newspaper, and art, also has higher costs per participating student than required courses, such as math and English.

Some have turned to before - and after - school programs to offer remedial help or elective - type courses, but those do nt reach all students.

For instance, schools might contract with local providers to offer electives or sports and might pay a distance - learning provider to offer AP courses.

As a high - school principal for the past nine years, I have observed Advanced Placement (AP) teachers working harder than teachers of most elective courses, but there is no bonus for them if student scores go up and there is no loss of pay if student scores go down.

Three electives (or a combination of courses and modules totaling 12 credits), including one to two electives that relate to the student's content area from any school at Harvard, MIT, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, or the Episcopal Divinity school at Harvard, MIT, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, or the Episcopal Divinity School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, or the Episcopal Divinity SchoolSchool

Some schools even have a tech team based in an elective course where students earn credit helping with technology throughout the school.

The four - year - old forensics course at Somers High School has become one of the school's most popular single - semester elecSchool has become one of the school's most popular single - semester elecschool's most popular single - semester electives.

Be it access to advanced courses or electives like foreign languages or personal finance, it's virtually impossible for all schools to offer all courses, particularly when funding is scarce.

D.C. public schools chancellor Kaya Henderson talked about signs of progress in her third annual State of the Schools event Wednesday night, including a recently released uptick in graduation rates, new investments in electives and college - level classes in the city's high schools, and more engaging courses systeschools chancellor Kaya Henderson talked about signs of progress in her third annual State of the Schools event Wednesday night, including a recently released uptick in graduation rates, new investments in electives and college - level classes in the city's high schools, and more engaging courses systeSchools event Wednesday night, including a recently released uptick in graduation rates, new investments in electives and college - level classes in the city's high schools, and more engaging courses systeschools, and more engaging courses system wide.

The city funneled millions of dollars of additional resources for high school electives and college - level courses this year, and the school system has for years been working on organizational improvements for tracking students in the highly mobile school system and monitoring their progress toward graduation.

EDA760 Current Issues in Educational Leadership (3 credits) EDA772 Administrative Theory and Practice (3 credits) EDA775 New York State Education Law and Policy Implementation (3 credits) EDA784 Curriculum Development (3 credits) EDA793 Leadership and School Organization (3 credits) EDA793 Principals» Institute (2 credits) EDA7xx Finance Course (3 credits) Internship (6 credits) Elective modules (4 credits)-- selected with an advisor

Following is an overview of suggested required courses for either a student going on a Career Preparatory Path or a College Preparatory Path along with electives one might find at a typical high school.

Electives may include science courses at the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

Under this policy, some popular high school elective classes — including courses in women's studies and social justice — could have been canceled before they got underway, because it took a few years for their popularity to build.

Check out the huge range of high school courses available online, including AP, honors and elective classes or visit our online education blog for related articles including Why online schooling is the future of education.

Facing History and Ourselves works with middle and high school teachers in history, language arts, government, arts, and elective courses.

In order to ensure that all students have access to Advanced Placement (AP) and electives, the state offers online courses to all high school students.

In many schools, students are required to enroll in mainly core courses with few electives, particularly at the early grade levels of high school.

There are typically three career academies in a school, depending on its size, each with a career focus in core subjects, as well as elective courses.

Our High School offerings include core courses, along with electives and World Languages.

Virtual high school students study core classes online including English, history, math, science and a wide variety of elective, AP and honors courses — all taught by experienced, Wisconsin state certified instructors.

Our online high school courses provide academic instruction like you'd find in traditional brick - and - mortar schools and supplements it with electives and other practical courses preparing online students for everyday life.

The West High School community is grappling with what new Common Core standards will mean for its elective system of courses.