Sentences with phrase «uses a base curriculum»

This program is free for teachers and schools, and uses a base curriculum aligned with the Common Core.

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But instead of a «learning center» where children came to a central location for classes — the model then used by chains like Sylvan and Huntington — Lucas provided one - on - one tutoring in the child's home, based on class curriculums and tailored to the family's schedule.

We consider schools using a guided play curriculum to be play - based schools.

Girls on The Run We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience - based curriculum which creatively integrates running.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

Curriculum standards were taught using garden and food based activities 346 times.

The People's Garden Garden - Based Curricula Database [external link] This database has Garden - Based Curriculum for all grades levels (Pre K - 12) and many subjects that you can search by grade level and subject categories, and using key words.

Jubilee Prep is a Christian based college preparatory Academy using Abeka curriculum for Toddlers through Second Grade.

The facility uses a play - based curriculum that is designed to support children's development.

Yet they are the least likely to be used in class in favor of curriculum - based learning.

In our history homeschooling I have been teaching about the Ice Ages using a Christian based curriculum called Mystery of History.

The Grace Academy uses a bible based homeschool curriculum.

We were using a popular workbook - based curriculum for 3 years and then switched, out of desperation, to a computer - based program.

If you want a traditional, Bible - based curriculum then Abeka might appeal — this is used in schools as well as homes, and uses bright and colourful text books, appealing particularly well to younger children.

If we had our time over again, we would probably have used some of the ideas from Ambleside Online — a totally free curriculum based on Charlotte Mason's ideas, with activities that can be used or adapted alongside an extensive reading list.

Curriculum - based, but infused with a spirit of fun, it's loved by kids, trusted by parents, and used and recommended by teachers because it works — and entertains, too.

Students of teachers using Cognitive Tutor, a computer - based curriculum for Algebra I students developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers, for a second year showed a meaningful improvement in test scores.

They are hoping that the insights gained from this study and the follow - up studies can be used as a basis for developing educational materials such as videos, computer games and curricula for preschools.

Competency - based medical education is an outcomes - based approach that uses competencies to organize and structure curricula.

From this starting point, there exist different approaches to developing this global awareness, such as: 1) curriculum design which embraces themes of awareness, empathy and a more holistic educational approach; 2) the use of technology that fosters connections between classrooms and destinations around the world; 3) social action projects that use service - based learning to create a deeper awareness of global issues; and 4) extra-curricular projects that offer a variety of tools to promote global citizenship.

This is inconsistent with curriculum documents which suggest that by Year 3 students will predominantly use retrieval - based strategies.

Courses use project - based learning or other engaging instructional strategies that provide real - world context and relevance to the curriculum.

In 2004, I became involved in a professional development with SCALE, a group of educators and curriculum designers who were working on redesigning widely used curriculum to make it more inquiry based.

It's applicable to a whole range of curriculum contexts and age ranges - why not use as the basis for your own lessons and then let everyone know how you have used it by uploading your own resource?

Abstract: In response to growing demands to provide more real - life experiences for children during the school day that are based on improving critical thinking and increasing awareness and use of lifeskills, Life Vest Inside ™ (hereafter referred to as LVI) has designed a Kindness Curriculum.

She criticized state education leaders for not upholding their end of the standards - based reform by not developing curricula for their own teachers to use in following the new standards.

Develops web - based curriculum units using the latest HTML 5 compliant tools.

Kits arrive with specimens, activities, and lesson plans, which teachers can use to prepare their classes for upcoming field trips and also to translate state - mandated science curricula and concepts into engaging project - based activities.

There exist four major ways to develop global awareness within the international schools: 1) curriculum design which embraces themes of awareness, empathy and a more holistic educational approach; 2) the use of technology that fosters connections between classrooms and destinations around the world; 3) social action projects that use service - based learning to create a deeper awareness of global issues; and 4) extra-curricular projects that offer a variety of tools to promote global citizenship.

This bundle will help the teacher not only to structure a comprehensive material based on the curricula, but a sound material used and updated during 8 years as IB Business teacher.

Our curricula are standards based, research - based, and peer - reviewed, so teachers can be assured of using high quality, common - core, administrator - approved materials that are highly engaging for both students and their teachers.

In an experiment I ran 16 years ago using a system based on these core ideas, there was some success because the systemic drivers, in particular the reporting system and syllabus structure, was consistent with the desired approaches to curriculum, assessment and pedagogy.

Q Design Packs from Institute of Play, based on the tools and methods used by teachers, administrators, curriculum designers and game designers at Quest to Learn and CICS Chicago Quest, provide detailed infographics, worksheets, and rich media resources to support school design, curriculum design, and professional development.

• Work with client schools to administer NAEP (or some other matrix - based test aligned to the standards) to 2,000 students each year in key grade levels; use their performance to set the curve for the summative test (think of this as «Curriculum NAEP,» the equivalent of the current state NAEP testing).

To promote technology use among their students, Jennifer Wagner recommends that teachers encourage online projects, visit other teachers» Web sites to see how they are integrating technology, and get together with other teachers on a bi-weekly basis to go through the curriculum and share ways they can use technology in their lessons.

In order to incorporate technology - based activities and projects into their curriculum, those teachers first must find the time to learn to use the tools and understand the terminology necessary for participation in those projects or activities.

At PCC, the purpose of STEM Studies is to use problem - based learning techniques to develop both higher - order thinking skills and 21st Century skills (Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority, 2015).

The BPS program uses research - based curricula and coaching of teachers; is taught primarily by master's - level teachers; and is open to any child, ages 4 — 5, from racially, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse backgrounds.

Japan has «national curriculum standards» and insists that individual schools use them as the basis for planning what they will actually teach and how they teach it.

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).

Among the many issues that teachers and administrators in ABC have tackled together are curriculum development, textbook selection, recruitment and hiring, mentoring, teacher evaluation and support, and use of data - based decision making to improve student performance.

Amplify, developers of tablets and digital curricula for education, has developed more than 40 digital games based on core content and then forbidden their use in the classroom or as homework.

Teaching Strategies Inc., the Washington - based early - childhood - education company that publishes the widely used Creative Curriculum program, has acquired MindNurture, a Hillsborough, N.C. - based publisher of educational materials used in home - visiting programs.

Based on the relevant data collated, an Instructional Designer would then «design a curriculum», identify which methodologies would be used to deliver curated content, and zero - in on existing and emerging technology that will form part of the final course.

The piece focuses on Teach To One, a math curriculum used to power the Individual Rotation blended - learning model whereby students receive an individualized schedule and instructional plan each day based on their performance the day prior.

The unit plan is based on the Cambridge Secondary Curriculum, but you can use it from Year 6 through Year 11 (as a revision for EFL coursework assignment 2).

In the header, visit the Curriculum - Based Measurement (CBM) Warehouse, where you can print out paper graphs to track kids» skill growth or use the «ChartDog» tool to enter your data and generate custom graphs.

An online project uses the Internet to enhance curriculum - based lessons.

There are now a considerable number of evidence - based classroom and family - based curricula that have been shown to reduce adverse mental health symptoms, substance use, and associated risk factors.

This resource can be used: - For students - For CPD - Support other entrepreneur or business based curricula