Sentences with phrase «secondary school curricula»

Despite growing attention to the importance of grit and other character traits for achievement, developing them in students rarely finds its way into secondary school curricula.

The school fell victim to the same type of political maneuvering which led to the eradication of «ethnic» studies in elementary and secondary school curricula throughout the state.

Humane Canada recognizes the importance of biology studies within the elementary and secondary school curricula.

The objectives of the capstone technology course are that the preservice teachers will learn to employ computer - based technologies for analyzing mathematical content from secondary school curricula; that they will design, present, and assess the effectiveness of technology - enhanced mathematical learning activities; and that they will analyze mathematical content from secondary school curricula to interrelate topics, construct critical concepts, discover why relationships exist, discover why certain algorithms work, and apply useful topics to address real - life problems.

The initial content will include over 1,600 Video Tutorials and 2,000 Study Aids on core subjects from primary to senior secondary school curriculum.

The minister in his disclosure also maintained that history studies will be restored in primary and secondary schools curricula.

«The digital library will provide a repository of contents which include 2,000 study aids on core subjects from primary to senior secondary school curriculum, over 1,600 tutorials, instructional videos and selected e-books for primary to SS3 approved texts, brief history of Lagos State, online forum, podcasts and exam - mate (A Test Resource).

Sex and relationship education (SRE) needs to be an essential part of secondary school curriculum, with parents given the choice to opt their child out, the Local Government Association has announced.

Florida policymakers gave students the right to choose most any course in the state secondary school curriculum and receive school credit, without school permission — and used the student's pro-rated local per - pupil funding to pay the state.

With the secondary school curriculum having made a seismic shift to the STEM subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, a perennial obstacle for educators was the lack of tools to demonstrate practically what they were teaching in theory.

Those who wish to focus on the director emphasis will continue to study elementary school curriculum, middle school curriculum, and secondary school curriculum.

She currently advises to the Hong Kong government task force on developing a New Senior Secondary School Curriculum for students with intellectual disabilities and is a consultant to the Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training on developing curricula for preparing teachers for inclusion.

Not exact matches

Before entrepreneurship became a credible part of the curriculum at secondary and even elementary schools.

Callido also provides online courses to schools with progressive and international curriculum as well as to academic intuitions affiliated to CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) and ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education) board.

Matters came to crisis point a year ago when the last government's Children, Schools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageSchools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageschools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageschools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the age of 15.

In secondary schools, the requirement is only to teach the National Curriculum, which is nothing horrific per se.

Curriculum for education — for home schools, for secondary, and of course for college, are equally imperative.

It will not only help find the right people, but it also will help job trainers and instructors plan educational and skill training programs, and in developing curriculums at the secondary and post-secondary school levels.

Dayo Ojerinde The Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria has said that efforts are underway to review the Chemistry curriculum for Nigerian secondary schools.

«With no secondary national curriculum how will he ensure a rigorous approach to learning in all schools?»

Commenting on reports that the Secretary of State is proposing to scrap the current GCSE examinations and abolish the national curriculum in all secondary schools, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «This appears to be yet another example of the Secretary of State's ambition to create a two tier education system.

Meanwhile, the e-learning tablets for Senior Secondary Schools remains an initiative of Governor Aregbesola, the first of its kind anywhere in the world which covers 17 Core Subjects with over 5 Extra Curricula Subjects for Senior Secondary 1, 2 & 3 levels.

Shorthand has long since vanished from the curriculum in secondary schools, and government and politics was temporarily a school subject only in the canton of Ticino, even though its introduction has been repeatedly called for since the 1870s.

Some educationalists have argued that as maths, science and technology are compulsory for every pupil in state secondary schools until 16, the curriculum is overloaded with science.

Since «Intelligent Design» is not science, it does not belong in the science curriculum of the nation's primary and secondary schools.

According to Bergsman, this growing library of neural engineering curricula aimed at secondary school teachers and their students is large enough now to justify promoting its distribution at a national level.

As part of Project WeCan, Lane Crawford works with Lok Sin Tong Yu Kan Hing Secondary School to provide its students with a wide spectrum of support, care and education from extra-curricular teaching, curriculum development, career planning and work experience.

This is particularly true in the senior secondary school, which then influences curricula in the earlier years.

It also causes many management issues for secondary schools in how they organise their curriculum, teaching day and assessment regime.

Apart from an increasing investment in maths books and resources, secondary schools are moving their attention away from all other curriculum areas.

For example, 61 per cent of secondary schools and 15 per cent of primary schools are now academies or free schools and so do not have to teach the national curriculum.

English teachers at The Forest Academy secondary school and sixth form have claimed they are choosing new texts to teach students, after curriculum changes came into effect across the UK last September.

Computing has been part of the national curriculum since 2014, with the changes gaining a mixed reception from both primary and secondary schools across the country.

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.»

The status of financial education in secondary schools seems not to have increased significantly after being added to the statutory Maths and Citizenship curriculum in September 2014, with 42 % of teachers revealing there had been no change in the emphasis put on the topic in their school.

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.

Australian secondary schools are digging into food education and introducing kitchen garden programs and activities into their curriculum.

These include: commissioning an independent evaluation of how CfE is being implemented «on the ground»; improving the quality of information available on the aspects of CfE that matter, not those that are most «readily measurable»; simplifying and clarifying core guidance on the CfE; giving local authorities a more central role in implementing the curriculum; and creating «stimulating and challenging learning environments» in secondary schools in areas of deprivation.

The curriculum has been changed in its entirety in primary schools, and secondary schools are coping with hurried changes to GCSE and A-levels and having to redo their curriculums and subject options as well.

For Australia, a curriculum challenge is to develop higher levels of these skills by the completion of secondary schooling.

In secondary school, the policy shifted and, all of a sudden, he could only study the Burundian curriculum in French and Kirundi.

When the $ 62 million facility opened in 2006 with a relatively small student population, a computer - based curriculum delivered with the latest technology tools, and a unique partnership with corporate giant Microsoft, it set out to upend a secondary school model that had changed little since the industrial era and had spelled failure for too many students here and in cities...

Designed by Surface to Air and constructed using a Yorkon off - site solution for the curriculum areas, the scheme comprises an 1,800 - place secondary school, a 630 - place primary school, a special educational needs (SEN) school, and a 55 - place nursery.

This 27 page pack has been designed by a sculptor with 20 years of teaching experience for teachers who want to know more about sculpture and how to teach it as part of a broad Art and Design curriculum for Secondary / High School students.

The OECD folks offer some explanations, terming Shanghai a «leader in reform» and citing in particular its near - universal education system, its competitiveness (including admission both to universities and to the best secondary schools), a very high level of student engagement, a modernized assessment system, an ambitious new curriculum, and a program of intervention into weak schools.

If other states also allow students to blend together a curriculum that combines on - site with online learning, and encourages competition among providers while checking to make sure that only quality courses are provided, secondary schools will move as quickly toward online learning as does the higher education sector.

I supported the idea of a national curriculum that defined core bodies of knowledge in English, mathematics, science, history, geography, art, music, physical education, information technology, design technology, and, in secondary schools, a modern foreign language.

What central changes in school curricula do you envision, both at the secondary school and college levels?

A quarter of British 11 - year - olds still leave primary school unable to read well enough to deal with the demands of the secondary - school curriculum.

Some of the gems here include a resource guide for environmental and marine science teachers, wetland activities, a resource guide for oceanography, and coastal processes: developed for elementary, middle, and high school teachers, The «marinated» classroom: a sourcebook of aquatic activities for the elementary classroom and another for the secondary classroom, water on the web: integrating real - time data into educational curricula over the internet and coastal capers: a marine education primer.