Sentences with phrase «teach challenging curriculum»

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Everyone wants to be more global, to infuse ethics and integrity into the curriculum, to teach students to be more entrepreneurial and innovative, and to put more of a challenge into MBA programs that, at some places, have become little more than a two - year search for a better job.

Even if it has a stellar faculty and solid curriculum, a budding foreign business school still has to face the challenge of matching its teaching style to its students.

Some challenge specific parts of the curriculum (mandatory AIDS education, New York City's distribution of condoms to schoolchildren without the knowledge or consent of the parents, textbooks that propagate anti-Christian doctrines, gym - class dress requirements at odds with the modest dress required of Hindu, Muslim, and other children, «values clarification» classes that teach that there is no objective source of right and wrong, and so forth).

You have been challenged to provide the name of a single university or college that does not teach evolution as part of their biology curriculum.

The team then worked to integrate math, technology, and engineering into the same curriculum — a challenge, DeBoer said, as schools often teach these subjects separately, or not at all.

Professor Laura Penman, a participant in BTI's Plant Biology Curriculum Development Project and three - week summer Teacher Fellow, has infused her Biology 101 curriculum with plant science that engages students because it is being taught within the context of societal cCurriculum Development Project and three - week summer Teacher Fellow, has infused her Biology 101 curriculum with plant science that engages students because it is being taught within the context of societal ccurriculum with plant science that engages students because it is being taught within the context of societal challenges.

These challenges need to be met via regular mindfulness practices as norms in the following areas: school administrators, school union leadership, school structure and process, teacher and classroom structure and climate, effective mindfulness curriculum and QUALIFIED trainers, effective teaching skills, and optimal motivated learning by students.

With all the recent changes in the curriculum and in technology as a whole, it's definitely a challenge but schools are willing to acknowledge the need to have just as much ownership of the service and operational side of ICT as they do on the curriculum, teaching and learning side of things.

Like many educators, they grappled with the challenge of the seemingly competing needs for teaching curriculum and time for reflection.

«I love how the curriculum focusses very much on teaching transferable skills and not the old fashioned schemes of work approach — it means the kids don't get bored or disengaged as there are always new challenges to meet.»

When I started looking at the new primary curriculum as a whole, it appeared that the challenges are mostly based on the need to re-structure the teaching plans, learning and assessment.

The Computing Curriculum has provided us with a challenge but also accessible, motivating and enabling opportunities for creative, collaborative teaching and learning.

We rarely look at ADHD as an advantage, but I've found that having students with ADHD in my classroom challenges me to update the way I teach so that my curriculum is more versatile, interesting, and compatible with the skills all students will need in an increasingly fast - paced world.

Our greatest challenge in producing these weekly series was trying to pair them in some meaningful way to uncounted general science and high school chemistry curricula — teaching different chemistry concepts, in different sequences, to greatly different «prior knowledge» levels.

The AFT report concludes: Children can achieve when they are taught the basics early; when they are challenged by high standards and a rich curriculum; and when caring, firm adults pay strict attention to the quality of students» work and behavior.

«The track record of top - performing countries, early evidence of positive effects from faithful implementation of high - quality curricula here in the United States, and the persistent evidence that our classrooms are under - challenging our students at every level compel us to put materials that we use to teach at the core of serious education reform.»

Dr Miranda Jefferson, Teaching Educator, Challenging Pedagogy and one of the architects of the Learning Wheel says the Delany Connective has provided an opportunity to re-look at pedagogy and learning by changing the curriculum and teaching styles and focusing on tTeaching Educator, Challenging Pedagogy and one of the architects of the Learning Wheel says the Delany Connective has provided an opportunity to re-look at pedagogy and learning by changing the curriculum and teaching styles and focusing on tteaching styles and focusing on the 4 Cs.

I'm not a gambling person, but if I had to place a bet on one sure - fire method for engaging students, increasing test scores, reaching students who fall below standards, challenging students who exceed grade - level standards, accessing students» creativity and originality, maximizing brain connections formed, applying concepts to new situations, and making the learning process more fun for the students and teacher, I would place that bet on... teaching the core curriculum through the arts.

A «cyber curriculum» is expected to mix classroom and online teaching with real - world challenges and hands on experience.

In response to the feedback received on curriculum challenges, the DSH started to teach Digital Literacy, focusing on IT and Computer Science.

In particular, Totley cite the «Learning Challenge Curriculum» — a curriculum designed by Focus Education to identify and progress through the subject - specific challenges children encounter in learning — as having had a great impact on their teaching philosophy, which has allowed the end - of - year KS2 results to improve year - on - year for the past fCurriculum» — a curriculum designed by Focus Education to identify and progress through the subject - specific challenges children encounter in learning — as having had a great impact on their teaching philosophy, which has allowed the end - of - year KS2 results to improve year - on - year for the past fcurriculum designed by Focus Education to identify and progress through the subject - specific challenges children encounter in learning — as having had a great impact on their teaching philosophy, which has allowed the end - of - year KS2 results to improve year - on - year for the past five years.

Lamenting schools» preparedness for the transition, one teacher foreshadowed the implementation challenges ahead by tweeting, «We start testing on standards we're not teaching with curriculum we don't have on computers that don't exist.»

The challenge, Gaynord adds, is that for the primary curriculum to work in England it has to be taught, in the main, by generalist teachers who don't have degrees or any background in Computer Science.

The current curriculum is not designed to guarantee teaching at an appropriate level of challenge for each and every learner.

We want to be responsive to the children we teach, bringing their lives — their interests, challenges, concerns, ideas, traditions, and histories — into the center of the curricula we design.

The new computing curriculum has raised expectations of what the teachers must teach and what the children must learn, which is quite difficult, and coupled with the fact that the support we used to receive from the local authority (LA) has been significantly reduced, means that we were in a challenging situation, and I'm sure so many other schools are in the same predicament.

School practices are organized into eight categories: student focus and support; school organ - ization and culture; challenging standards and curriculum; active teaching and learning; professional community; leadership and educational vitality; school, family, and community partnerships; and indicators of success.

Introduced in September 2014 the new curriculum has had a profound impact; not only on the way the core subject is taught — with pupils expected to learn «fewer things in greater depth» - but also on the way teachers are expected to challenge and support their pupils.

The detail and specificity of our current national curriculum makes cross-curricular planning challenging enough in the primary setting where one teacher is responsible for teaching nearly all subjects.

Many teacher training programs are facing this challenge head - on, integrating it into their curricula and recognizing it as a part of the job that will consistently need vigilance throughout one's teaching career.

In this webinar we will hear from Teaching Channel about ways to ensure hands - on, DIY learning can be curriculum - linked and classroom - ready, as well as an engineering practitioner who will talk to the credibility of approaches such as Iridescent / Curiosity Machine's Design Challenges for application of real world skills for the workplace.

Elementary teachers will learn the importance of teaching pro-social skills and cooperative learning in the context of high expectations and challenging curriculum.

Annual teacher surveys between 2010 and 2013 asked teachers about the frequency of visiting another teacher's classroom to watch him or her teach; having a colleague observe their classroom; inviting someone in to help their class; going to a colleague to get advice about an instructional challenge they faced; receiving useful suggestions for curriculum material from colleagues; receiving meaningful feedback on their teaching practice from colleagues; receiving meaningful feedback on their teaching practice from their principal; and receiving meaningful feedback on their teaching practice from another school leader (e.g., AP, instructional coach).

Using an existing set of video cases from the Center for the Study of Reading's video series, «Teaching Reading: Strategies from Successful Classrooms,» we developed Reading Classroom Explorer (RCE), a hypermedia learning environment designed to help novices understand that there are many successful tools and approaches available to engage students from diverse cultural, linguistic, and intellectual backgrounds in challenging literacy curricula.

With the rigorous curricula demand, it is challenging when instructional delivery is dependent on technology integration, but the crux of the problem becomes who are determined most important in the building (i.e. math and ELA content) to receive the necessary technology to deliver the desired administrative expectations; although regardless of content, all teachers are held responsible for teaching literacy.

Allison has challenged me to think about my teaching and curriculum from the perspective of my students, their interests and their goals.

Noted challenges with: Time to teach all concepts Student ownership of materials via connection to study habits Teacher comfort level with math curriculum program being used Student demonstrating knowledge on performance tasks Student reasoning abilities Resources: Problem...

They believe that the teaching they're doing is correct,» Spruce says, adding that teachers are already making notes on how to improve their instruction next year.As with any new curriculum, the rollout was somewhat challenging at first, as teachers learned how to adjust their pacing, especially with students who had so much ground to make up.

Our challenging curriculum provides a comprehensive education that rivals any private or public school, meeting and / or exceeding state standards and emphasizing differentiated instruction, meaning every child is taught at his or her level, being ever motivated and gently pushed to meet their potential.

After some careful prodding, we figured out Jayna's knowledge was a product of the different approach to teaching her school had recently adopted — including a challenging and diverse reading curriculum aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

Activities also include: the use of new or existing technologies to improve academic achievement; the acquisition of curricula that integrate technology and are designed to meet challenging state academic standards; the use of technology to increase parent involvement in schools; and the use of technology to collect, manage, and analyze data to enhance teaching and school improvement.

The NAACP works to ensure that all disadvantaged students and students of color are on the path to college or a successful career by ensuring access to great teaching, equitable resources, and a challenging curriculum.

For educators, using varied teaching methods to cover specified curricula and meet multiple learning styles is challenging, too.

But digital delivery that makes the curriculum easy to teach at scale is only part of the challenge.

In the face of so many challenges and obstacles — designing new curricula aligned with Common Core, teaching a large population of English language learners and grappling with the reality that 75 percent of their students qualify for free or reduced price lunch — Burton's teachers wanted a protected, regular time slot to come together, look at data and figure out which of their teaching methods worked and which ones didn't so they could bring their students along on a path toward success.

Carter said the cash aims to create «less patchy» coverage of multi-academy trusts (MATs) and teaching school alliances (TSAs); launch more high quality training routes for teachers in challenging areas; make sure curriculum ideas such as «mastery» consistently enter all classrooms; and allow faster intervention when schools are failing.

The group is focused on securing key academic resources such as a challenging curriculum, high quality teaching, and positive discipline practices, as well as wraparound supports and strong community engagement.

Each year, 30 pupils will begin a different Year 7 to other students and be taught a specifically, highly academic curriculum that will meet and challenge their potential as learners»

Create a community of learners ready to tackle challenging curriculum by teaching them what's expected of them first.

He wanted the cash to be used to ensure «less patchy» coverage of multi-academy trusts and teaching school alliances, as well as to launch better training routes for teachers in challenging areas, to make sure curriculum ideas such as «mastery» consistently enter all classrooms, and to allow faster intervention when schools are failing.