Sentences with phrase «studies curricula on»

Well somebody didn't read their Harry Potter, because an Ohio middle school is actually allowing some parents to opt their children out of part of the state social studies curriculum on the grounds that they don't want their kids learning about Muslims.

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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.

From hands - on, how - to communication sessions, to practical case studies and management tips to technical, financial, and legal topics, you create the curriculum that's right for you.

Merrimon Cuninggim in The College Seeks Religion (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1947), pp. 298 - 300, reports on a careful study of seventy state - supported institutions and finds that 80 per cent have departments of religion or courses in religion offered in other departments of the curriculum.

When that happens, the study of a theory takes on a life of its own, and the curriculum becomes a clutch of unrelated courses instead of an integral course of study.

On the youth and adult levels, church school curricula ought to include serious study of mental illness, its causes, treatment, and the church's role in prevention.

For years, Christians have asserted that the removal of the study of the Bible from public school curricula has had a negative moral and spiritual impact on American youth.

It's not often that a small group Bible study curriculum for adults / students / kids becomes a # 2 trending topic worldwide on Twitter.

Those two worlds will collide on May 16 when the nation's largest atheist group holds a rally on the steps of the Texas state capitol in Austin to protest proposed changes in the state's social studies curriculum.

At the same time, certain complaints recur: traditional curricula are rooted in precritical assumptions, serve academic guilds, pre-empt feminist or minority studies, and are built on unviable ways of relating theory and practice.

The complaint may be that the curriculum is too «academic» and insufficiently «Professional»; too «theoretical» and insufficiently «practical»; or, conversely, that it is too single - mindedly focused on producing «Professional ministers» in a certain model and too inflexible to allow individual students to pursue their own intellectual interests; and, above all, that the curriculum consists of too many small pieces of information that are not adequately «integrated,» that it provides not so much a course of study as — in H. Richard Niebuhr's wonderfully wry phrase - «a series of studious jumps in various directions.»

His extensive credits include editing wine journals and magazines, writing monthly columns, serving on boards, teaching advanced wine courses, creating wine studies curricula for prestigious universities, and operating wine schools.

Accredited by the German Government and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), the GISSV offers a dual - immersion program that follows ambitious curricula, focusing on science and social studies as well as arts and sports.

Carolyn also does general consulting with schools on topics from curriculum development to teaching study skills to interpretation of student test scores.

This is one of the advantages of home education: a child can study and work on topics he or she enjoys, rather than having to pursue a «balanced» curriculum.

Food $ ense CHANGE Curriculum [external link] Created by WSU King County Extension, FoodSense CHANGE curriculum integrates nutrition education with reading, writing, math and science studies, while providing hands - on learning in cooking and gardening for elementary agedCurriculum [external link] Created by WSU King County Extension, FoodSense CHANGE curriculum integrates nutrition education with reading, writing, math and science studies, while providing hands - on learning in cooking and gardening for elementary agedcurriculum integrates nutrition education with reading, writing, math and science studies, while providing hands - on learning in cooking and gardening for elementary aged children.

The curriculum at a Waldorf school can be seen as an ascending spiral: the lessons that begin each day, the concentrated blocks of study that focus on one subject for several weeks.

Study it in - depth with Christian Kids Explore Earth and Space, a wonderful, hands - on elementary science curriculum that you and your kids will love.

These sorts of studies led Loosli and Perry to develop a curriculum and philosophy that focuses on three main topics: taking care of the person inside the mom physically, spiritually and emotionally; focusing on family systems, including rules and consequences, family responsibilities and family culture; and organization, including ways to create projects and take action without feeling overwhelmed.

In part II (Journal of Perinatal Education, 8 (1), a study on the use of this curriculum with parents will be reported.

South Dakota uses the Connections curriculum, which focuses on marriage and relationship communications skills; a 2004 study of the program found marginal success — some students felt somewhat more negatively about divorce and somewhat more positively toward premarital counseling.

Outdoor exploration is an important part of our curriculum: We immerse ourselves in nature, exploring plants and animals through hands - on studies.

The Education Committee reiterated what has been a long - standing concern of the country's liberal community: revising the curriculum of state school textbooks on Pakistan Studies, which glorify Muslim warriors and portray India as «Hindu» and Hindu as «the other».

Speaking in turns on a theme: «English Studies in Non-Native Environments; Reflections and Projections» at the 32nd Annual National Conference of the English Scholars» Association of Nigeria (ESAN), on Wednesday, at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile - Ife, a Professor of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis in the Department of English, University of Ibadan, Professor Akin Odebunmi, charged government and stakeholders to fine tune the acquisition of English language by introducing non-native English in nation's education curricula.

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 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).

Dr Peter King, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Oxford, commented, «Humanism is not a religion but at the same time, it is clear that Religious Education is the natural home on our current curriculum for the study of non-religious worldviews.

Students will study a core curriculum at the Albany campus, then move to the hub for on - the - job training, according to Alain Kaloyeros, who runs the college.

In this exploratory study funded by the National Science Foundation, Project 2061 has developed an outline for a Green Schools Energy Curriculum and gathered feedback from the field on the feasibility of such an approach and what it would take to implement it.

She also led Project 2061's evaluative studies of science and mathematics textbooks and currently serves as principal investigator on curriculum development efforts funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

«We believe a well - rounded science and technology curriculum is based on a broad spectrum of study, including fields not traditionally linked with the military,» Marks says.

In a separate study, instructors changed the curriculum in three different courses to place higher or lesser value on high - stakes exams (e.g., midterms and finals) and observed gender - biased patterns in performance.

«In participating schools, ADAP is delivered as part of the standard health education curriculum, which facilitates its sustainability,» says Holly Wilcox, Ph.D., M.A., associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the researcher who oversaw the study on the effectiveness of the ADAP curriculum.

Topics such as personnel management, tax, social security, work laws, etc. had not been on my curriculum during my studies in Rostock and Munich.

Now, with a $ 2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, AAAS's Project 2061 and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) are embarking on a project to develop chemistry and biochemistry materials for middle school students and teachers, based on the latest research in learning.

A recent study of students in the Netherlands explores one possible aspect of that complexity: the influence of average differences in competitiveness on students» choices of curricula.

The study draws on examples from Toward High School Biology (THSB), an innovative middle school curriculum unit developed by Project 2061 and its partners at BSCS.

Instead they have to search for studies on the particular curricula they are considering — and not all of them are in the database.

«Quite alarming for an educator from our research, however, is the implication that we are failing some students based not on subject matter, curriculum, teaching methods or assessments, but on providing them with study skills to make the most of their undergraduate study.

Take a course on healthy eating In one study, adding a nutrition science course to a students curriculum was an effective intervention against weight gain.

Our curriculum framework touches on practice, study, philosophy & life skills that extend far beyond the yoga mat.

In rebuttals to previous criticism on «The China Study,» Campbell seems to use his curriculum vitae as reason his word should be trusted above that of his critics.

He went on to study curriculum training as well as complete the Mindful Schools Year - Long Teacher Training Course.

Phyllis Smith turns a one - dimensional and dithering marshmallow into an interesting study in the conflict between desire and convention, Henry Michael Higgins, is the dolphin - obsessed but otherwise disengaged principal, and they are supported by the usual gaggle of kids found in flicks set in a middle school, played by actors who avoid cutesiness and given a script that sets them up perfectly for the bald truth Elizabeth dumps on them with matter - of - fact disengagement in place of the usual cheery esteem - boost called for by curriculum and compassion.

In this quasi-experimental study on the Learning Through the Arts (LTTA) program, 11 LTTA schools were compared to control schools over three years to examine the benefits of an arts - integrated sixth grade curriculum.

For example, in universities, sustainability curriculums are tacked on to programs or courses as an elective, therefore not compulsory, this is most common with business studies or economics.

Not only is the game great fun and easy to integrate into the curriculum, it also reinforces standards set by the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE), the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS), the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and the International Society for Technology Education (ISTE).

The outcomes on standards - based social studies and content literacy assessments indicated that the project - based learning curriculum virtually erased the achievement gap between second graders of high and low - socioeconomic backgrounds (Halvorsen, Duke, Burgar, Block, Strachan, Berka, & Brown, 2012).

All kinds of research are being produced that could count as «instructionally relevant,» after all, from studies of systems - level factors like curriculum quality and school operations to those focused on what's happening in learners» heads, to those examining classroom - level techniques.

Sociologist James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, continues his crusade to encourage the honest teaching of U.S. history, warts and all, in this call for a social studies curriculum based on critical thinking and project learning.