Sentences with phrase «simply teaching the curriculum»

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Manners and Etiquette: Teaching Essential Ingredients for Success Whether they use a formal curriculum or simply take advantage of serendipitous opportunities, two teachers are taking good manners off the back burner.

They say having to focus on generic skills and content curriculum is confusing for teachers; that it encourages a «tick the box» approach to teaching; and, perhaps most naively, that the generic skills are simply educational «fads» that suck precious teaching time.

Existing schools around the world simply disprove ed - school propaganda that a definite core curriculum, such as Kandel advocated for the sake of equal opportunity and national solidarity, must be connected to a lecture style of teaching.

They would simply adopt a great curriculum that is aligned to the standards, then forget about the standards and teach the curriculum instead.

Throughout my teaching career, I have seen girls become reluctant exercisers simply because the curriculum they are offered in school is too narrow.

Our mainstream primary teachers simply have not been taught how to teach using the best evidence - based practices in English and how to modify curriculum to meet individual needs.

Even though value - added measures accurately gauge teachers» impacts on test scores, it could still be the case that high - VA teachers simply «teach to the test,» either by narrowing the subject matter in the curriculum or by having students learn test - taking strategies that consistently increase test scores but do not benefit students later in their lives.

He simply lacked the requisite education, hadn't taken the plenitude of pedagogic courses, expensive college credits in such vital subjects as: Methods of Teaching Science for Dummies; Educational Technology for Idiots; Band Aids & First Aid; Tae Kwan Do for the Inner City; Teaching & Testing the Test Takers; Touchy - Feely 101, 201 & 301; Understanding Special Kids, Gifted Kids, Not - so Gifted Kids, Kids with Attitude, and Kids with ADD; Curriculum Simulacrum; EL / Cross-Cultural AC / DC Current; Self - Esteem for the Worthless; and, last but not least: Foundations of Education: Sarcasm & Humiliation for Fun & Profit.

For Citywide programs, the standard NYC public school curriculum is simply taught a year in advance, so that kindergarteners are doing 1st grade work, 1st graders are doing 2nd grade work, etc..

Simply select a word list to teach your students spelling, definitions, and applications of key terms in any social studies curriculum.

There's also the fact that states have long allowed districts and teachers to simply come up with their own curricula (a legacy of the slapdash approach long in vogue within American public education) in the vain hope that they would actually align teaching with them.

This K — 12 teaching resource is suitable for a full human rights curriculum, enrichment of an ongoing program, or simply for a classroom discussion.

This is why standardized testing, curriculum and instruction will not benefit our programs if we simply teach classes without differentiating instruction.

This doesn't necessarily mean that you have to teach gifted students an entirely different curriculum — it might simply mean moving through concepts at a faster pace and delving deeper into certain concepts than you otherwise might.

Part of the problem is a confusion about the purposes of religion in the curriculum: Is it simply to teach students what different people believe?

Maybe, maybe... if you could hold other factors constant, such as the courses I teach, the number of students I teach, the curriculum, the technology and other resources, all the other teachers and all of their courses, the administrative policies, the school's schedule, school transportation, extra-curricular activities and field - trips that affect instructional time... if you haven't worked in a school, if you haven't administered the tests and watched the students» eyes glaze over as they go through a meaningless exercise with no consequences for them... then you simply do not understand this issue as well as you need to in order to make pronouncements about it.

In these cases, the teaching force remained stable, yet the introduction of a new school - wide curriculum created added value that can not be attributed simply to the aggregate quality of the teaching force.

A similar argument could be made in school settings: To get quick gains in achievement, reflection and innovation may be less important than simply executing teaching routines more effectively and implementing the curriculum more consistently.

The IDers differ from the Creationists in that the Cers tried to attack evolutionary theory while holding fast to a literalist reading of Genesis — the 4004BC flood, whatever — and the IDers simply aim for «teaching the controversy», meaning that they want «Intelligent Design» to be part of the Biology curriculum as a counterpoint to evolution, but they are willing to concede ground on evolution so long as the «grand design» is kicked off by a creator (tacit in their educational material but the teachers know what to say to the students on this).

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Successfully helped a child with special needs who was also a problem child, to overcome his learning disability and become integrated into a regular school curriculum • Correctly diagnosed a special child as being autistic after years of her being labeled as simply «retarded» • Effectively designed a series of special needs teaching programs to help children suffering from autism spectrum disorder • Wrote a book about the needs of special children, Our Special Children, that addressed children with needs that were hard to diagnose