Not exact matches
At the heart of the changes at Wharton is what the
school is calling «pathways for fulfillment» — essentially required courses in six different «
content areas» that are broader than the traditional disciplines
taught at most business
schools.
I opened this email immediately because I
teach a
content marketing class called Blog
School.
The Haskayne
School of Business supports its faculty to use blended learning
teaching techniques for
content delivery.
I was
taught as early as Sunday
School to be
content with what I had, to count my blessings and to keep myself from «coveting» the life or possessions of my neighbors.
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»
As Religious Education co-ordinator in a Catholic
school, I have encountered a range of views from staff regarding the
content of SRE to be
taught in our primary
school.
WOB staff goes through an extensive «Beer
School», which continues to get more robust with ongoing education and interactive ways of
teaching including videos and bite - sized digital
content.
Guidance Materials: The Department of Education is required by Statute 18.1003.453 to provide on its website links to information regarding the nutritional
content of foods and beverages and to healthful food choices in accordance with the dietary guidelines of the United States Department of Agriculture and provide examples of wellness classes that offer nutrition education for teachers and
school support staff and encourage
school districts to offer classes that are
taught by a licensed nutritional professional for the
school nutrition department.
I applaud any measures that improve the nutritional
content of our children's
school lunches, but here's my problem: meals served in our
school cafeterias are as much a «
teaching moment» as what happens in the classroom.
If not, charges of having your cake and eating it will inevitably be levelled at a department that decides teachers should have responsibility for running
schools, yet less so for the
content and manner in which they
teach.
«Even though I find the
content that might be
taught in some or many of these
schools to be offensive and deeply contrary to who I am, that doesn't mean that these
schools aren't entitled to some basic standard of
school safety,» he said.
Philip Newton, Director of Learning and
Teaching for the Swansea University Medical
School said: «We did a few simple qualitative analyses of the
content of the books, hunting for anything and everything to do with academic integrity.
Through interactions with teachers and students in K - 12
schools, graduate fellows can improve communication and
teaching skills while enriching STEM
content and instruction for their K - 12 partners.
In response to this article by 24 year old «writer, editor, researcher and blogger» Ms. Deinse Minger, I too am a writer, currently creating original
content writing for company websites, having also developed from scratch my own original English language course which I
taught myself at a language
school in The Netherlands (having obtained my English
teaching qualification in 2012), and a writer as someone who keeps a journal with extensive writings on various topics including exercise, health and nutrition.
Her current passion is working on and developing
content for this Website, as well as distributing SelfQuest ®, the software program that
teaches Inner Bonding ® and is donated to prisons and
schools, as well as sold to the general public.
The first is exceptional
content knowledge in the
school subject the KSTF Fellow intends to
teach.
Some teachers do hear what the students are saying, Constantine says, and even at the high
school level, where some teachers believe that their job is strictly to
teach the
content and that's it, they are doing icebreaker activities in class that have nothing to do with subject - matter knowledge.
«Teacher prep programs spend a lot of time on the science of
teaching and subject area
content,» but little time on those other areas, noted Deborah Harbin, principal at Holbrook Elementary
School, in Houston.
As educators, we are designing every single day — whether it's finding new ways to
teach content more effectively, using our classroom space differently, developing new approaches to connecting with parents, or creating new solutions for our
schools.
But that may be because blended
schools offered youngsters more learning time, more
content, or perhaps both, rather than because of the different approach to
teaching.
The past decade has seen a relative surge in research conducted in urban, underperforming
schools focused on doing exactly this — providing students with deep, language - and
content - based instruction, with a focus on
teaching both specialized vocabulary and the specialized structures of language in academic speech and text.
It is this vertical description of learning progress that can be missing when the curriculum is viewed merely as a body of
content to be
taught and learnt in a particular year of
school.
In middle
school, I think it's about pedagogy, whereas in high
school content reigns supreme, and I am fascinated by the act of
teaching.
The report recommends improvement in both the
content and delivery of programmes by universities through stronger partnerships with education systems and
schools, and the government has accepted most of the recommendations in the report, instructing the Australian Institute for
Teaching and
School Leadership (AITSL) to act immediately.
In the typical mathematics classroom, especially in the middle years of
schooling, we tend to use one model to connect maths with the real world; we start by
teaching the maths
content and skills, we then get students to practice and do some maths, and then we next might apply some of those skills into a real world context by using learning activities such as word problems.
These sessions have concentrated on ways to
teach the curriculum
content as well as ideas for how to use some new hardware and software
schools are using.
I am very confident that passionate teachers coupled with time to collaborate and produce
content will lead to some exciting and powerful outcomes for
teaching and learning in our
school.
Test scores are important and should play a central role, but
schools do much more than
teach kids
content, and we should start designing our measurement systems to be more in line with what we want
schools to be doing.
While the new programmes of study are set out on a year - by - year basis,
schools now have the freedom of when to
teach the
content within each Key Stage and are not restricted to following strict schemes of work or classroom based study.
One way to make learning relevant is to build a connection between home and
school by
teaching «real - life» lessons that expose students to
content which can be used to help them live healthy lives.
By examining the fundamental requirements of each program — admissions standards, course requirements, coverage of essential
content, preparation in the CCSS, how the student
teaching program operates, instruction in classroom management and lesson planning, and how teacher candidates are judged ready for the classroom — the Review will capture the information that any consumer of these programs would want to see, including aspiring teachers and
school districts looking to hire the best teachers.
The curriculum: An alternative to viewing the curriculum as a specification of what teachers are to
teach and all students are to learn in each year of
school (that is, an identified body of
content) is to view the curriculum as a roadmap — a picture of what long - term progress in an area of learning looks like.
The Lubienskis point out that both the NAEP and ECLS - K were altered, prior to the data collection for their study, to focus more heavily on the math
content that was being
taught in the public
schools but not as much in the private
schools.
It's reassuring to hear that you're using Teacher
content to inform your
teaching practice and to initiate change at an individual and whole
school level.
Science Teachers Learning through Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) is a professional - development program for upper - elementary
school science teachers in which teachers develop two lenses for analyzing
teaching, the «Student Thinking Lens» and the «Science
Content Storyline Lens,» to analyze videos of
teaching practice.
State funding systems are not closely linked to desired educational outcomes: despite the fact that all states have adopted educational standards, the commission found that only a few states have developed funding systems that enable
schools to
teach all students the
content of state standards.
«There is a difference between teachers that just
teach content and those that
teach students,» says Amy Adams, a high
school teacher in Iowa.
This is entirely predictable; in a country that values «local control» of our
schools, we blush at the thought of far - away elites dictating the
content to be
taught in our
schools.
«
Schools could play a leading role in growing students» talents and developing capabilities that are important for lifelong success, but this is often overlooked in favour of
teaching content for high ATARs.»
The subject is being
taught more widely in stand - alone courses — mostly in middle
schools — and its
content and methods are being integrated into history, economics, and other parts of the social studies curriculum, geographers say.
For example, the
content knowledge and problem - solving skills measured by the PARCC and MCAS tests are not identical, and the tests might differ in the extent to which they align with specific high -
school curricular reform goals or
teaching standards.
The authors offer thin evidence of whether their
schools are in fact
teaching and assessing
content knowledge and skills in the ways they promise.
Moreover, the training programs run by education
schools were heavy on pedagogy and light on
content, creating a situation in which half the newly employed teachers of core subjects were «not qualified» to
teach them, in the commission's view.
Specifically, she wanted to know how
schools in and around Detroit — the city in which she was born and, later, began her
teaching career — were cultivating literacy in English while also supporting ELLs to learn grade - level
content.
Somewhere in the midst of all this, there is a powerful, pragmatic way forward, and in a few places, Klein draws a breath and points to it: to balancing tougher entry into the
teaching profession with a more professional experience once inside it; to
content - rich curricula that are truly worth
teaching; to technology in the service of new forms of learning; and to sophisticated partnerships between those in the
schools and the families, community leaders, philanthropic institutions, administrators, and taxpayers beyond the
school walls.
The result is that the
content a child studies in an American
school is often based on what their teacher happens to believe is worth
teaching, and how skilled she or he happens to be in constructing and sequencing that material across a semester.
Of course, as with
teaching, much of a tutor's training takes place on the job, and once on the job, Match Corps members receive academic
content support from the teachers at the
school, who design the
content, along with constant feedback from administrators on how that it is being delivered.
Because the
content of what we
teach is so immensely varied, a child who moves
schools within a district, let alone into a new district or a different state, will find no consistency and no structure to her learning.
To do this, we need to think about
schools as places that
teach students themselves to take on the civil rights struggle, not just as academies that prepare students passively to receive the benefits — equal educational opportunities, equal
content knowledge and skills — that the struggle confers.
We have students in this state who are, through no fault of the teachers, but just because of the history in that
school, or the training and preparation of those teachers, or the lack of resources or whatever it may be — those teachers are
teaching material that is one year, two years below (in
content sophistication) what it needs to be.