Sentences with phrase «secondary curriculum»

Free secondary curriculum support posters to download or order as a pack to be sent direct to your school.

«Technology should be a natural component of everything [students] do,» says Heather Sinclair, district director of secondary curriculum and staff development for Lake Washington.

The first teaching of the new secondary curriculum was scheduled for Autumn 2008, with the first teaching of the revised GCSE beginning in Autumn 2009.

The theme of light is reflected in the primary and secondary curriculum across an array of topics in Science, Mathematics, Arts, Design and Technologies, Physics, Geography and Literature.

The unit plan is based on the Cambridge Secondary Curriculum, but you can use it from Year 6 through Year 11 (as a revision for EFL coursework assignment 2).

Suggestions and examples are given showing how ICT may successfully be linked with the Cambridge Lower Secondary curriculum for each subject.

Despite financial education now being part of the statutory secondary curriculum, the research shows that the government should encourage the importance of financial education in schools and support organisations that provide the resources needed to assist and train teachers to confidently deliver it.»

Secondary curriculum As with primary, the Secondary Key Stage 3 curriculum should also be underpinned by working scientifically, and not taught separately.

This book will be important reading for practitioners, professors, and researchers of curriculum and instruction and educational policy and will serve as a supplementary text in pre - and in - service courses in elementary and secondary curriculum development, curriculum and teaching, school organizations, educational leadership, educational policy, and implementation.

Spending across subjects With the new primary curriculum «going live» in September, closely followed by the new secondary curriculum, it would not come as a shock to see an up - turn in investment in curriculum aligned resources.

The Cambridge Lower Secondary curriculum has been mapped against the National curriculum for England.

The arrival of the new primary and secondary curricula and pressure on schools to raise standards in English and maths resulted in an increasing need for high quality, subject specific learning resources.

When Eric J. Smith became the superintendent of schools in Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools, in North Carolina, in 1996, he envisioned a primary grade program emphasizing basic skills and a secondary curriculum that would demand more from students.

The first thing that teachers will notice is the clear drive to raise standards; much of the content that would previously have been positioned in the secondary curriculum, such as long division and an increasingly complex understanding of concepts such as fractions and decimals, now appear in the primary curriculum.

The petition argued that the move would «slow the secondary curriculum, create a testing culture and reinforce a language of failure inappropriate at such a young age».

Meanwhile, the Technology in Education Theatre saw a host of sessions exploring the increasingly prominent role of technology in the classroom, including using augmented reality to enhance learning with James Pollock, teacher at Teeside High School, and computing for the primary and secondary curriculum in two separate sessions from CAS (Computing at School) master teachers.

Throughout the primary and secondary curriculum, the subject encourages both individual initiative and team work; it supports academic and vocational learning; introduces critical thinking and reflective practice; and promotes creative learning — so important in fostering lifelong skills of innovation, resilience and the ability to be flexible.

Options for half, one and multi-day course progressions to support pedagogy, digital literacy and the secondary curriculum.

Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders union, said many secondary schools already had strategies and tests to ensure pupils moving up from primary had the basic skills for the secondary curriculum.

Screening data show that only 39 percent of ninth - graders read at or on grade level, «very much mirroring what we knew about our middle school students, says Annie Wolfe, secondary curriculum and development officer.

They heard from television producer Rob Holloway before learning more about how Discovery Education harnesses the power of documentary video content to inspire students» learning across the secondary curriculum.

It called on the government to publish its plans for the secondary curriculum «as soon as possible».

NUT general secretary Christine Blower said: «Languages have long been among the subjects most severely affected by piecemeal changes to the secondary curriculum, especially the mistaken decision to make modern foreign languages optional.

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