Sentences with phrase «spent on curriculum»

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Students spend a semester on their home campus studying a curriculum focused on NAFTA issues before acquiring an internship in the U.S. or Mexico.

Fest said she's heard that many parents are spending hundreds to thousands of dollars on private tutoring for their kids to take the test this year, when the curriculum is fresh in their minds.

Don't spend a fortune on new curriculum materials, unless you're certain that you will like what you're about to use, and have all agreed that it's the right way forward.

Under the Labour government, schools had to spend more time on paperwork and wasteful bureaucracy than ever before, the national curriculum became too rigid and discipline deteriorated.

New York adopted the Common Core in 2010 and has spent a tremendous amount of money developing curriculum resources and exams based on the standards.

«All the parents think too much time is spent on preparing kids for tests instead of learning the curriculum.»

While spending their summer immersed in the field of electrical engineering, Pang and Pike collaborated on the design of two curriculum units focused on circuits, sensors and sensory substitution devices.

But for the past four years, a small group of Seattle - area educators have elected to spend their summers on the UW Seattle campus, conducting engineering research in a CSNE - affiliated lab and developing a curriculum unit to bring the principles of neural engineering to their students.

I spent 6 years in school learning about health and nutrition, and vegetarian diets were part of our regular curriculum due to their benefits on the human body.

In the years I spent flipping through NYU school bulletins not once did I see XXX.6666 Annoyingly Incorporating French Idioms Into Film Criticism Only People Who Speak French Will Be Able To Understand anywhere on the curriculum.

G. From me, Chris Reed: This film spells out something that has been very much on my mind of late, thanks to the many hours I have to spend thinking of how to devise a curriculum at Stevenson that best address the challenges of media production and media education in the 21st Century.

Having personally spent some time in Louisiana recently studying the curriculum - based reforms engineered under state superintendent John White gives me confidence that Weiner and Pimental have done an equally fine job reporting on the Washington, D.C., and West Virginia case studies.

With schools spending an estimated # 900m on education technology every year, [1] and computer programming featured in the National Curriculum, technology is now a fully fledged part of a child's educational experience.

Successful schools receive up to # 30,000 to spend on a range of specially created packages, such as multi-sports areas, which can be tailored to meet their needs, for use both within the national curriculum and outside traditional school hours.

Even if I were to design my ideal history curriculum, whatever I decided to spend more time on or (God forbid) omit altogether will be influenced by my biases.

The Department of Education's survey found that success with online learning depended on time spent on instruction, as well as the quality of the curriculum and pedagogy.

But my students» performance on the district midterms and finals is relatively mediocre because I skimp on the mandated curriculum — in Fall 2005, because we spend time on Hurricane Katrina instead, and in Spring 2006 because students want to investigate the increase in youth violence in their neighborhood.»

But as I wade through the rows and rows of numbers in front of me, I speculate whether the time Im spending will justify the time Im not spending creating new and engaging curriculum, developing meaningful relationships with my students, providing meaningful feedback on assignments, or even applying new learning applications.

«The curriculum is meant to give adults some guidance on how to make the most out of the time their child spends playing with the toys,» Barreiro says.

High - stakes accountability with annual tests that are not tied to course content (which reading tests are not) amounted to a tax on good things and a subsidy for bad practice: curriculum narrowing, test preparation, and more time spent on a «skills and strategies» approach to learning that doesn't serve children well.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Braziller has spent a decade teaching Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO)-- a curriculum that leads students to reflect on themselves through in - depth study of history — and has taught at this public alternative school for 18 years.

Afterward, in 1980, I spent a year at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, steeping myself in research on what seemed to make some urban schools work, and then was hired as the chief architect of a new citywide curriculum.

Responding to critics who say that the state standards will cause a dumbing - down of the curriculum, one administrator said, «TAAS is the floor, but we're trying to make sure that the schools aren't spending all of their time on the floor, that they are enriching their curriculum.

Juriaan said she teaches the standard literature curriculum, but that her Davidson classes focus on analysis; in her public - school classes, she spent her time helping students comprehend the plot.

In primary schools, a crowded curriculum and an increased emphasis on time spent in «on the job» training in schools have meant that students who hope to become music coordinators in primary schools have much less training in actual musical skills.

This adjustment also accounts for unmeasured differences in high school and college policies, such as state spending on higher education, changes in high school curricula, and the relative competitiveness of college admissions in a given year.

The MCPS 1st - grade curriculum goals, for instance, contain a number of nonessential topics, such as sorting concrete objects (like Post-its with names of favorite pets on them) into categories, activities that take up instructional time which, critics of the MCPS curriculum argue, could be better spent laying the foundation for algebra in 8th grade.

sorting concrete objects (like Post-its with names of favorite pets on them) into categories, activities that take up instructional time which, critics of the MCPS curriculum argue, could be better spent laying the foundation for algebra in 8th grade.

Students will spend the first two years on campus, with a new customized curriculum that includes modules and both core and elective courses.

When it gets down to it, Grossman said, five historians gathered in a room would never agree on every bit of content to include in the curriculum, «but they can agree on what skills a student has to learn from spending a year indulging in historical thinking.»

Satisfied and energetic teachers spend their time focused on students and quality curriculum; exactly the outcome I was looking for at our school.»

Of course, not every minute of every class is spent on engaging, student - centered curriculum.

For mathematics, the over-riding major factor is the crowded primary school curriculum that fills the school day and limits the time spent on mathematics in the early years.

The NSW curriculum specifies the strands and substrands of mathematics to be covered by teachers in each of the four terms of Year 6, the recommended amounts of time to be spent on these strands and substrands each week, and the outcomes students are expected to achieve as a result.

International studies showed total national spending on schools, average class sizes, formal teacher qualifications and teachers» years of experience were poor predictors of how well students performed on tests in key areas of the school curriculum.

Teachers want time to learn about their students — not be so focused on getting through the curriculum that they spend their days teaching subjects rather than teaching students.

Successful schools receive up to # 30,000 to spend on a range of specially created packages — such as multi-sports areas — which can be tailored to meet their needs, for use both within the national curriculum and outside traditional school hours.

The Federal Government has released the long - awaited Review of the Australian Curriculum which has revealed the curriculum is overcrowded and not enough time is spent on numeracy andCurriculum which has revealed the curriculum is overcrowded and not enough time is spent on numeracy andcurriculum is overcrowded and not enough time is spent on numeracy and literacy.

In one year, he helped generate a 40 % drop in the number of students scoring below proficiency on a standardized math test by doubling the time all kids spent in math class and creating new, more accessible curricula that included using photography to teach calculation skills.

Especially at the elementary level, where very little time is spent on science, history or the arts, it's critical the texts that underlie the reading curriculum are carefully selected so they coherently build students» rich knowledge of key content - area topics.

Among them are a focus within preschool programs on teaching pre-academic skills; the conceptualization of the role of the adults who provide center - based care as that of a teacher; a bias towards delivering pre-K services through school districts; a press towards common standards and curriculum across pre-K providers; accountability regimens that are tied to children's performance on measures that correlate with later school success; disproportionate spending on four - year - olds as opposed to younger children; and marginalization of the family's responsibility.

John King, who stepped in as education secretary Jan. 1, spent his free time in college designing curriculum modules on Puerto Rican history.

To be sure, I don't want the federal government meddling in curriculum issues and can point to many examples where Washington regulations — on matters of spending, «highly - qualified teachers,» and student discipline — have done more harm than good.

If you add up the time already spent on behavioral modification curricula and their spin - offs — anti-bullying, anti-drugs, anti-gangs, anti-teen-pregnancy, character, self - esteem, individualized education plans — is it any wonder that our kids are getting the socks beat off them in international academic competitions?

The Learning Counsel research institute has analyzed various estimates and concludes that total annual K — 12 spending on print resources (textbooks and other materials) in 2014 was $ 10.4 billion, while digital content and curriculum spending came to $ 1.8 billion at the district level and $ 4.8 billion at the school or teacher level.

My Hamilton Project proposal explains how ESSA's new SNS language has the potential to unlock Title I funds for struggling students, allowing districts to spend Title I on broader school improvement strategies — such as improving a school's core curriculum, or implementing common planning time for teachers — rather than working around the edges.

Districts often would spend Title I funds on pull - out programs unaligned to the regular curriculum because it was easier to show a program was supplemental if it was different.

There is no reason to spend millions of dollars to implement a new curriculum, well, except for the leaches collecting on the corporate welfare involved in the process.

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