Sentences with phrase «tested curriculum model»

Grounded in a research - based, time - tested curriculum model and fueled by a visionary commitment to early learning and robust family engagement, Elm City Montessori School is on the leading edge of New Haven's efforts to provide a portfolio of exemplary educational options designed to ensure that all New Haven students complete high school equipped with 21st Century skills and ready to lead successful lives.

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But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

The Education Department subsequently awarded $ 362 million to fund two national testing consortia to develop national assessments and a «model curriculum» that is «aligned with» Common Core.

In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

The effectiveness of the model has been studied in over 20 years of research and field - testing about: (a) the effectiveness of the model as perceived by key groups, such as principals, teachers, students, and parents; (b) research related to student creative productivity; (c) research relating to personal and social development; (d) the use of SEM with culturally diverse or special needs populations; (e) research on student self - efficacy; (f) the use of SEM as a curricular framework; (g) research relating to learning styles and curriculum compacting; and (h) longitudinal research on the SEM.

Japan's education system has long been viewed as a model because of its strong performance on international - comparison tests and its celebrated mathematics curriculum.

In the falsification models, we estimate «curriculum effects» on test scores prior to the year of adoption of the focal curriculum materials, and on test scores in English Language Arts (ELA) instead of mathematics.

A coalition representing «tens of thousands» of parents, teachers and education reform organizations is petitioning Governor Jerry Brown to veto a bill letting California schools off the hook for testing students while the state transitions to a new curriculum and testing model.

This study found the percentage of students scoring «Proficient or Above» on standardized Language Arts and Mathematics Mississippi Curriculum Tests, Grade 4 Mississippi Writing Assessment Tests, and 5th Grade Mississippi Science Tests was significantly higher at schools participating in the Whole Schools Initiative that had effectively implemented the WSI integration model when compared to student performance statewide and when compared to district level student performance for the school district within which the WSI school was located.

We need to leave behind standardized testing as the sole measure to determine whether students and schools are succeeding or failing, and adopt new models that include rich, curriculum - embedded performance assessments and multiple measures of assessing school quality.

Content area preparation is delivered through a blended model of online curriculum with differentiated support from licensed teachers based on results from approved GED practice tests.

BOOK Access 90 activities from the 5 Teacher Resource Books for Grades 7 - 8 Hands - on activities that model concrete representations of abstract mathematical concepts Teacher support that provides in - depth discussions of mathematical content Easy - to - use resources that offer classroom - tested lesson plans targeting big ideas of math INDEX Introduction of manipulatives and their uses by Marilyn Burns Organized by manipulative and strand Comprehensive scope and sequence aligns activities with any existing curriculum INCLUDES Activity Index 5 Super Source Books including — Number Geometry Measurement Patterns / Functions Probability / Statistics

Incessant testing with no relation to the real world, the mindless collection of trivia classified as data, forcing a «business model» like Enron or Lehman Brothers or General Motors on the public schools, driving the arts and the social sciences out of the curriculum, and watching every Chancellor, Superintendent, Commissioner, and Secretary of Education promote charter schools over their own public schools at every turn.

Gordon Lafer, in an in - depth report this year for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), notes that Rocketship's educational model rests on four strategies: «the replacement of teachers with computers for a significant portion of the day; a reliance on young and inexperienced teachers for the rest of the day; narrowing the curriculum to math and reading with little attention to other subjects; and even within these subjects, a relentless focus on preparing students for standardized tests.»

To connect different tests and measure student growth, designers of value - added models commonly assume that the curriculum in higher grades is nothing more than a harder version of that in the previous grade; in other words, 8th grade math is the same as 7th grade math, just more difficult.

Whether your state uses the PARCC test (or PARCC items) or not, thinking about the curriculum topics in terms of major content, additional and supporting content, reasoning, and modeling is helpful.

We describe a culturally responsive instructional model that prepares SLIFE to access curriculum and instruction, and succeed on standardized testing.

To assume that tests accurately capture teacher effectiveness is to overlook discrepancies among the official curriculum set forth by state and district officials, the curriculum that teachers actually choose to teach, and the learned curriculum that students pick up through teachers» modeling and expectations.

We present the Research on Curricular Design (RCD) model and describe its use to design, develop, and test the efficacy of early childhood mathematics and science curricula.

This study was conducted solely to gauge feasibility of conducting further tests of a mindfulness - based model of family skills training and was geared toward answering specific research questions regarding participant receptivity to and acceptance of the curriculum adaptations.