Sentences with phrase «traditional ideas of school»

Want to transform traditional ideas of school to adopt a pedagogy that puts students at the centre of their learning?

The Hoboken Charter School was created as a way not to improve traditional ideas of schooling, but to change them.

Not exact matches

In the same and in other schools uncertainty about the meaning of the ministry comes to appearance also in the feeling of conflict in a faculty between its loyalty to a traditional idea, such as that of the preacher, and its sense of obligation to denominational officials, alumni and churchmen in general who urge a more «practical» education.

Of course, the protest against inert ideas and a curriculum of disconnected subjects would be even more telling against an electronic image medium than against traditional school curricula, for the reasons Postman giveOf course, the protest against inert ideas and a curriculum of disconnected subjects would be even more telling against an electronic image medium than against traditional school curricula, for the reasons Postman giveof disconnected subjects would be even more telling against an electronic image medium than against traditional school curricula, for the reasons Postman gives.

Like Iain, I noted the role of ideas, but for me, the key ones were Manchester School Liberalism (as propagated by the pamphlets, letters and speeches of the Anti-Corn Law League); the appeals to class conflict and religiosity (again, as exploited by the League); and Peel's own redefinition of Conservative ideology as a means to preserve traditional aristocratic control over Parliament.

Staff at the college started with the idea of a traditional school garden typically aimed at a lower year level and imagined a redesign more like a laboratory for a senior cohort; a higher standard facility where students can do research, capture data and make use of technology.

The holding hinged on this idea of control — despite the fact that these charters are subject to more accountability than the state's traditional public schools.

Plenty of ideas in education drift along, find purchase with the right crowd, and as long as they present a more engaging method of learning than traditional schooling, are hailed as innovative.

Perhaps more importantly, by streamlining the «information absorption» aspect of education, online learning can free up traditional schools to do more of what they do best - that is, the more complex processes of discussing, reflecting on, and synthesizing information into new ideas, which is best done in person, through conversation and collaboration.

Ultimately I wanted to learn new skills and ideas to use in school leadership positions to positively impact traditional public schools in my home of North Carolina.

When the United Federation of Teachers first began to bargain collectively in the early 1960s, Albert Shanker was distressed that the New York City school board was willing to discuss only traditional issues like wages and benefits and rejected the idea of bargaining over broader policies that the union proposed, such as the creation of magnet schools.

In the end, Shanker's frustration with the traditional constraints of collective bargaining spurred him to propose, in a 1988 speech at the National Press Club, the creation of «charter schools,» where teachers would draw upon a wealth of experience to try innovative ideas.

The rush to privatize education will also turn tens of thousands of students into guinea pigs in a national experiment in virtual learning — a relatively new idea that allows for - profit companies to administer public schools completely online, with no brick - and - mortar classrooms or traditional teachers.

Graham's article includes quotes from professors at traditional ed schools who are critical of the idea of training teachers to focus on practical challenges of teaching rather than being able to grow over time by drawing on theories to reflect on how to teach.

The idea was born of frustration with traditional publicly funded schools and the persistent achievement gap between poor minority pupils and those from middle - income homes.

The idea of the virtual commons is interactive and participatory, and transcends the static and often overlooked role of the traditional school library website.

I was playing around with the idea of setting it in a virtual school, taking a traditional approach to school - yard bullying, but in cyberspace.

Bubbling opposition to the idea of a phased - in approach that entails co-locating charter schools within traditional public schools and allowing the charters to expand one grade at a time — a tactic that charter operators endorse as a way to gradually build community support and resources, but local school districts are reluctant to participate in.

Many of the ideas that initially attracted me to charter schools — community empowerment, authentic education for youth left behind, piloting promising practices to share with traditional schools — have often been drowned out by larger political forces.

Fuller said traditional prep schools have a similar problem, «since their students often come to see the insular world of ideas and knowledge as cut off from the problems and challenges facing real people back home.»

His excellent piece included such basic ideas as letting parents choose from a marketplace of options, including traditional neighborhood schools, magnet schools, charter schools, private schools, and virtual schools, with education funding following the child.

The vision for Adams Traditional Academy began at a kitchen table with a group of parents who wanted to incorporate some of their own ideas into starting a charter school.

Despite his fraught political history with charter schools, on the first day of class today Mayor Bill de Blasio said he wants to see charter and traditional public schools sharing ideas with each other more often.

Since everyone experienced schooling in their own way, and often in a traditional setting, educators» ideas are diverse and every teacher has their own «movies of the mind» as to how a student's educational experience should look like.

Australia provides significant government funding to independent schools in addition to their traditional public schools; the idea is that all parents should get to choose what kind of school their children attend (and they do, so Australia has a huge independent school sector).

The teacher candidates in this study were less familiar with VS compared to the traditional format of schooling that they had experienced as students, resulting in preconceived ideas about VS, ranging from what courses were not possible with VS to the traditional roles of a teacher.

The idea was to break the monopoly hold of traditional district schools.

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

Among them were new superintendent Walter G. Amprey, who promoted school - based management and independence from traditional bureaucratic control, and the school's selection as a Maryland site for the Carnegie Corporation's Middle Grade School State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hisschool - based management and independence from traditional bureaucratic control, and the school's selection as a Maryland site for the Carnegie Corporation's Middle Grade School State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hisschool's selection as a Maryland site for the Carnegie Corporation's Middle Grade School State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or HisSchool State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hisschool with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hispanic.

«On average in states with charter laws, students who qualify for services under IDEA made up 10.62 % of total enrollment in charter schools and 12.46 % of total enrollment in traditional public schools (i.e., non-charter public schools).

Traditional middle and high school science classes ask students to learn lots of new ideas.

Furthermore, the authors note, as the charter movement gained momentum and other states passed similar laws, a more market - driven vision of charter schools emerged that emphasized competition as an incentive for traditional public schools to improve, rather than the idea of charter - tested innovations that could boost public school practices broadly.

Making a persuasive argument for moving beyond the long - established idea of operating schools with traditional classroom instruction to personalized learning for individual students, the authors detail six crucial elements of schooling — community, instruction, time, technology, facilities, and funding — and how to address them concurrently to improve secondary schools.

In an interview in today's Star - Ledger, Newark Superintendent and former New Jersey Commissioner of Education Chris Cerf discusses the threat of a charter school moratorium, his views on «boutique» charter schools in leafy suburbs, why NJEA leaders and Save Our Schools - NJ fight so vociferously against public charters yet give discriminatory magnet schools (and their own access to school choice) a pass, the impending governorship of Phil Murphy, and how Newark charters are incubating new ideas and sharing them with traditional sschools in leafy suburbs, why NJEA leaders and Save Our Schools - NJ fight so vociferously against public charters yet give discriminatory magnet schools (and their own access to school choice) a pass, the impending governorship of Phil Murphy, and how Newark charters are incubating new ideas and sharing them with traditional sSchools - NJ fight so vociferously against public charters yet give discriminatory magnet schools (and their own access to school choice) a pass, the impending governorship of Phil Murphy, and how Newark charters are incubating new ideas and sharing them with traditional sschools (and their own access to school choice) a pass, the impending governorship of Phil Murphy, and how Newark charters are incubating new ideas and sharing them with traditional schoolsschools.

Student Voices, Collaboration, Real - World Connections The Centennial High School Learning Studio in Howard County completely transformed the idea of traditional teaching and learning with their Quarter 2 project on climate change.

Some opponents of traditional Christian beliefs complain that church schools participating in the program will teach skepticism or opposition to certain ideas, including the notion that the New Deal saved the country from the Great Depression, the belief that sexual orientation is set before birth, and theories related to evolutionary biology.

They are founded on a variety of different ideas, have different locations, different student populations, differing state charter laws governing them, and school - specific cultures that can differ more than the cultures found in traditional public schools.

In my experience, there are some aspects of KIPP that are truly outstanding, but KIPP can learn much about «systems» from traditional public schools, and where I teach, we do not have a strong special education program because of our belief that «hard work» is all you need and our school leader's philosophy opposing the idea of special education.

When state assessment results indicated students were not making the gains needed with a traditional learning model, IDEA Public Schools launched a comprehensive restructuring of their elementary school programs to better support individual student needs.

John Luczak of Education First — a consulting firm that provides support to districts in implementing school improvement programs — told the EWA audience that for all of the concern over where teachers are prepared, be it longstanding traditional universities or online certification programs, he has found many districts have no idea where their candidates were trained.

«Percentage-wise, someone said Gary had more charters than any school district in the country, so the idea of two more, I think certainly would impact negatively on traditional schools.»

People who point out that most charter schools aren't any better than the traditional public schools:» d) Are ignoring the fact that this is fine because the key aspect of charters is that they give the opportunity for new ideas to be introduced without constraints and that unsuccessful models can be discontinued.

Such naivete explains why the Obama Administration has continually promoted case studies of reform - minded school leaders working closely with NEA and AFT locals, why Class Struggle author Steve Brill floated the laughable idea of Weingarten becoming chancellor of New York City's traditional district three years ago, and why organizations such as Educators4Excellence and Teach Plus — which represent younger, reform - minded teachers who now make up the majority of NEA and AFT rank - and - filers (and are staffed by teachers who are themselves centrist and progressive Democrats)-- work so hard to aim to lead reform from within union ranks.

A major influence on the development of contemporary art in Scotland was the establishment of the Glasgow School of Arts» School of Sculpture and Environmental Art; where students learned to create art that explored ideas rather than a single traditional medium.

Perhaps there are less traditional influences here given how young Miami is compared to NYC where much of the academic structure and shared ideas have come out of established New York schools greatly influenced by post war artists coming from Europe.

Marisa Belger from TODAYshow.com shares, among a host of other great green school supply ideas, 3 great eco alternatives to the traditional PVC and vinyl based bags.

Perhaps it's an idea that more than a few schools could exploit, saving a few bucks on the reams of paper used to produce the more traditional paper each semester, while enticing kids who are loathe to pick up a book or a magazine to take a gander at an electronic version that fits right in with their daily routine.

The ad agency behind the idea, J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam has gone far beyond the traditional ad campaign for India's burgeoning «Free a Girl Movement» with its work to create a School for Justice where the victims of child prostitution in India are taught law, enabling them to prosecute the criminals responsible.

If the focus and curriculum are appealing to you, or you like the idea of a school that has more autonomy than a traditional school in the system, you might prefer a charter.