Not exact matches
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.»
The latest RE
curriculum framework for teaching prior to GCSE level was
produced last year and recommends the
study of non-religious worldviews like Humanism alongside religions — a simple codification of the developing place of non-religious beliefs in RE which has evolved over many decades.
All were
produced by a $ 5 million Biological Science
Curriculum Study (BSCS) project.
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.
Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to
produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based
curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based
curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social
studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).
This bundle includes resources that provide detailed teaching pedagogy, learning objectives for the Maths
curriculum to share with students and staff, a help booklet which summarizes the learning plans to assist students with their independent
study, and examples of the 36 homework assignments and the 22 homework assignments that I have
produced.
Differences in the content of the tests could also prompt changes in
curriculum or instruction that might later
produce differences in college success; our
study can not assess this possibility.
In social
studies, while rightly criticizing the tendency of earlier American citizenship educators to
produce America - Firsters by teaching a sanitized, celebratory U.S. history, Giroux overcorrects in promoting a
curriculum calculated to
produce America - Worsters, focused on the country's warts, as schools serve as «sites of struggle that address the suffering... of the oppressed.»
Whereas social scientists have bent themselves out of shape
studying the effects of, say, test - based accountability, charter schools, and other «structural» reforms — and have
produced some reasonably solid findings about what works for whom under what circumstances —
curriculum is relatively little
studied and what's learned almost never makes the New York Times (or even Education Week).
Cloud has developed exemplary
curriculum units and full courses of
study, and has
produced a set of EfS Standards and Performance Indicators that schools are using to innovate their own
curricula to educate for sustainability.
The purpose of this article is not to
study and interpret the research, so we won't go into that research in detail, but we all know, both intellectually and emotionally, that a guaranteed and viable
curriculum produces results, so let's get to work on that piece of the solution first.
Even a teacher who is content to use geospatial tools at the current, shallow level of representation (Figure 3) will be nudged toward more sophisticated uses, whether via student project work with geospatial tools or by adopting materials
produced by teaching colleagues,
curriculum support staff, or social
studies education researchers.
Many social
studies teachers have found that integrating the Carmen Sandiego story line with instruction and practice in the development of databases can
produce significant added value to the
curriculum.
The NRCCTE
produces and publishes videos that highlight and explore issues of urgency to both the field of CTE and the nation's higher education system, recovering economy, and evolving labor market, addressing such topics as programs of
study / career pathways,
curriculum integration of CTE and academic content knowledge and skills, postsecondary student retention and completion, and professional development for educators in the areas of data use for program improvement and support for alternatively certified CTE educators.
Obviously, it is the fact that teachers and professors very rarely take it into account that you have an entire
curriculum to deal with and assign tasks to you in a manner that suggests that they believe theirs is the only subject you
study, and you can
produce custom research papers at an industrial pace.
She has developed exemplary
curriculum units and full courses of
study, and has
produced an EfS framework and a set of EfS Standards and Performance Indicators that schools are using to design and innovate their own
curricula to educate for sustainability.
The
study found that the traditional first - year
curricula, teaching methods and assessment methods that predominate in contemporary law schools
produce «a striking conformity in outlook and habits of thought among law school graduates» (p. 186).