Sentences with phrase «teach the curriculum more»

«We are conscious that parents will be able to benefit by taking their children on holiday when prices might be more affordable, but we also feel the longer half - term holidays will keep the terms short and therefore allow us to teach the curriculum more efficiently.

Not exact matches

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.

Valdis Krebs of Orgnet explains that «Schools are still stuck on teaching 20th century math for building things rather than 21st century math for understanding things» and suggests that curriculums focus less on the mathematics of engineering (e.g. algebra and calculus) and more on the mathematics of patterns (e.g. set theory, graph theory, etc.).

Evolution, Intelligent Design and Philosophy should be all taught together if you want a more accurate curriculum based on current known truths.

Ironically, this newsworthy curriculum evidently teaches a good deal less about etiquette than we learned back at Margaret M. Amidon Elementary School in the «60s, but that is still a good deal more than children learn in most places.

The current arrangement of the theological curriculum makes no more sense, he explains, than if a medical school were to claim that it had to keep students away from patients in order really to teach them about medicine.

We can see more specifically how religiously informed perspectives have fared in the university if we look briefly at the development of the actual teaching of religion in twentieth - century university curricula.

Which in turn left me with a huge desire to read and learn more outside of school than what the curriculum taught me I was far ahead in my American and British lit class due to video games although my teacher thought it was due to reading so much.

Scaffolding the main lesson are handwork and woodworking, Mandarin and Spanish, strings and music, eurythmy and movement, and more — all taught by specially trained teachers in a wonderful coordination and harmony of subject material throughout the curriculum.

Although our methodology is such that all children are taught the same curriculum, a child who is gifted in certain areas, such as in science, music, or the arts, may go deeper or do more advanced work within the general classroom setting.

Labour tried to change all this last year, with a proposal to get more teaching on the importance of sexual consent as part of the national curriculum.

However they have also shown the same thing about non-religious beliefs such as Humanism, the teaching of which stands in more urgent need of well - funded academic research by virtue of their more recent arrival on the curriculum.»

Yesterday, India's three science academies released a statement endorsed by more than 2000 scientists, declaring that «it would be a retrograde step to remove the teaching of the theory of evolution from school and college curricula or to dilute this by offering nonscientific explanations or myths.»

Some jobs might be just teaching, while others might be more involved in curriculum development, and the different roles may be more or less integrated into the department, so applicants need to know both what their career goals are and how the different opportunities may or may not meet their requirements.

The jury also wanted to determine how private universities use their advantages over public universities to develop efficient and innovative courses, the idea being that private institutions might offer models for introducing reforms to improve teaching, focus courses, and establish more vocationally orientated curricula at public universities.

Mandatory continuing medical education (CME) could increase doctors» awareness about early diagnosis and referral, as could more oncology teaching hours and rotations in the undergraduate curriculum.»

The well - rounded curriculum has allowed me to approach teaching more holistically, instead of focusing specifically on just one type of client.

Whilst current trends in teaching allow some of the teachers at the school to explore curriculum topics in new and engaging ways, the more traditional M. Lazhar is horrified to find his class unable to complete dictations and unfamiliar with classic French literature.

«If PSHE were to become a statutory part of the curriculum alongside other curriculum subjects, there would be a very real danger that parents would no more consider themselves responsible for these aspects of their children's physical, emotional and social development than they typically regard themselves as responsible for the teaching of English, maths, history and science.»

«A strong writing curriculum teaches the similarities and differences across multiple genres and purposes, which gives students the skills and knowledge to approach assessment writing more completely.

He told the audience current reforms in his country include new curriculum standards, teaching and assessment, and new textbooks focusing more on inquiry and cooperation.

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point, suggests that our public schools would benefit from a spirit of innovation rather than one of regimentation.Those of us who have been hanging around public education for more than, say, 15 years may remember a time when words like creativity and imagination were an important part of our conversations about curriculum design, teaching, learning, and lesson planning.

The Born Free Foundation, The Donkey Sanctuary and LionAid have collaborated with us to produce these teaching resources about animals, lions, donkeys and humans which tie in with Key Stage 2 science curriculum, so pupils can learn more about these wonderful animals who play a central role in the operas but who face such terrible threats today.

Aligning these lessons to the CCSS was purposeful in that it freed teachers interested in using the LVI Kindness Curriculum from adopting a «push - in» model that led to them trying to create more time in the school day to teach about lifeskills.

Confined to the undergraduate curriculum, teacher education has surrendered space - once occupied by foundational studies - to courses in the technical aspects of teaching and learning and to more clinical practice.

What's more the materials give teachers confidence when teaching the new curriculum.

• Around 1,000 more teachers • $ 6.1 million over three years to support an updated anti-bullying strategy and resources for teachers, students and parents • Funding of $ 88 million in 2017 - 18 as part of the $ 224 million for teacher professional development through the Quality Teaching, Successful Students initiative • Funding of $ 50 million in 2017 - 18 on student counselling and wellbeing services as part of the $ 167 million Supported Students, Successful Students program • $ 149 million on education standards for provision of services related to school curriculum assessment, teaching and regulatory standards in NSWTeaching, Successful Students initiative • Funding of $ 50 million in 2017 - 18 on student counselling and wellbeing services as part of the $ 167 million Supported Students, Successful Students program • $ 149 million on education standards for provision of services related to school curriculum assessment, teaching and regulatory standards in NSWteaching and regulatory standards in NSW schools

We have a set of 15 that we will hopefully be releasing by the end of this school year [in the US], along with accompanying student responses and rubrics, but we're also I think even more critically starting to think about curriculum — so thinking about how to support teachers in using these tasks in their classroom but also to go about teaching students to do a better job of evaluating information online.

His research interests include using hands - on activities to more effectively teach difficult mathematics concepts, focusing on causes and solutions to mathematics anxiety, strategies of teaching ahead of grade level, and presenting innovative curriculum to those needing creativity in the classroom.

• Supporting the teaching of computer coding across different year levels in schools; • Reforming the Australian Curriculum to give teachers more class time to teach science, maths and English; and, • Requiring that new primary school teachers graduate with a subject specialisation, with priority for STEM.

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.

Teaching, Leadership, and School Change: A year after introducing us to the schoolwide PBL curriculum at Sammamish High, teacher leader Adrienne Curtis Dickinson reviews how the school's seven key elements (more on this below) have played out in course design, professional development, and student learning.

Nevertheless, studies have found that, after controlling for the size and structure of the school and the social background of its students, schools in provinces with external exams taught their students a statistically significant one - half of a U.S. grade - level equivalent more math and science by 8th grade than comparable schools in provinces that did not give curriculum - based external tests.

Meaningful progress depends on informed modesty about the likely returns on current efforts; greater specificity and more emphasis on context in the curricula and school - level approaches to teaching soft skills; and the development and use of practical assessments that are closely aligned with a specific framework for teaching and learning.

«As more and more teachers become proficient in using PowerPoint, I think they will use it as a teaching tool that will enhance the curriculum.»

«The more narrowing of the curriculum occurs and the more teachers feel compelled to teach to Sats, the more teachers will be unhappy.

The subject is being taught more widely in stand - alone courses — mostly in middle schools — and its content and methods are being integrated into history, economics, and other parts of the social studies curriculum, geographers say.

During the group's annual meeting here, plans to create local speakers» bureaus nationwide to assist high schools in teaching about the war were unveiled, as well as a lobbying drive to convince more schools to adopt a highly regarded curriculum on the war.

The curriculum at a new Buddhist high school in Honolulu is likely to teach more about the likes of Mohandas K. Gandhi than Napoleon Bonaparte, says the school's principal, Pieper Toyama.

This 27 page pack has been designed by a sculptor with 20 years of teaching experience for teachers who want to know more about sculpture and how to teach it as part of a broad Art and Design curriculum for Secondary / High School students.

In a 2011 interview by Lynnette Guastaferro of Teaching Matters, Darling - Hammond says that whether the national standards are put into effect in a way that is «much more focused on higher - order learning skills» (that is, progressive education classrooms for all) depends on «building curriculum materials,» «transforming» testing, and changing in - service teacher training.

Somewhere in the midst of all this, there is a powerful, pragmatic way forward, and in a few places, Klein draws a breath and points to it: to balancing tougher entry into the teaching profession with a more professional experience once inside it; to content - rich curricula that are truly worth teaching; to technology in the service of new forms of learning; and to sophisticated partnerships between those in the schools and the families, community leaders, philanthropic institutions, administrators, and taxpayers beyond the school walls.

This movement has been making inroads into education - in textbooks, curricula, tests, and teaching - for more than 20 years now, but The Language Police discovers that «PC» has reached further and deeper than we realize.

L&T graduates are working as teachers, teaching coaches and mentors, department heads, curriculum specialists, outdoor education directors, technology specialists, professional development consultants, and much more, often pioneering new and dynamic roles within their existing institutions.

For K — 12 education, he proposes programs to «recruit math and science degree graduates» to teaching and «ensure that all children have access to a strong science curriculum at all grade levels,» more funding for «intervention strategies in middle school» for «teaching teams, parent involvement, mentoring, intensive reading and math instruction, and extended learning time» — all to address the «dropout crisis.»

They wanted to teach one inquiry or topic that covered two or more year levels of curriculum.

teaching is seen less as the process of delivering the same curriculum to all students in the same year of school and more as the process of establishing where students are in their learning and providing appropriately targeted teaching and learning opportunities;

Under the assumption that students in the same year of school are at broadly similar levels of achievement, teachers then teach the relevant year - level curriculum, accepting that some students inevitably will learn more of what they teach than others.

With regular changes to the curriculum and prescribed thinking on teaching strategies, as well as the more prominent role of IT in classrooms, retraining schemes were cited by 27 % of teachers, while a quarter (25 %) answered that a change in attitude within the education sector to become more accepting of older teachers would have a positive impact.

With decreasing budgets, regular curriculum and teaching practise changes, more external inspections and generally larger workloads teachers are finding their jobs more and more stressful.