Sentences with phrase «value of school curriculum»

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Do we really want our public schools to be pushed further and further toward the blandness of a value - free curriculum?

«The school curriculum must include thorough teaching of the value of real food and what food to avoid,» said Dr. Jana Klauer, a New York - based physician and nutrition expert.

All the usual contemporary justifications for the subject of RE in the school curriculum — its contribution to social cohesion and mutual understanding, its presentation of a range of answers to questions of meaning and purpose, and its role in the search for personal identity and values — can best be served by including humanist perspectives and non-religious students.

This followed the publication of a new curriculum framework for RE last year, endorsed by the Secretary of State for Education, which included non-religious worldviews on an equal footing to each of the principal religions, as well as the issuing of Departmental advice recommending that schools meet the new requirement to promote British values by teaching about «beliefs such as... humanism» as well as religions.

Public opinion surveys reveal that over 75 % of parents want their religious values reflected in school - based sex education curricula.

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Wednesday, took its protests to the Senate, over the controversial introduction of National Values / Civic Education schools» curriculum.

Perhaps most interestingly, over 64 % of former RET participants still teach the curriculum unit they developed at the CSNE, which given that teachers may change grade levels, class subjects and school districts, demonstrates an ongoing interest in neural engineering and the long - term value of this curricula.

CEP describes character education not as an «add - on» to the curriculum, but as «a different way of teaching; it is a comprehensive approach that promotes core values in all phases of school life and permeates the entire school culture.»

It is also a good idea to consider LOtC providers and venues within easy reach of the school to identify educational visits which could add value to your curriculum delivery.

Monkey Music founder, Angie Coates, herself a teacher of music, values her own experience of working with children and teachers in a school environment and this is testament to Monkey Music's pioneering curriculum and teaching style which has become the template and standard for pre-school music education across the UK.

The Knowledge in Action project has redesigned the curriculum for two courses — AP U.S. Government and Politics and AP Environmental Science — at high schools in both Bellevue, Washington, and Des Moines, Iowa, to compare the value of these classes with traditionally taught courses.

Parents should, through membership of parent teacher associations and as parent governors, hold the governance and management of the school accountable for the appropriate time, resources, facilities and value given to art and design on the curriculum and in the professional development of its teachers and support staff

During the last two decades, programs in the closely related areas of moral, civic, ethics, and values education have been added to the curricula of many high schools.

Reporting on the statistics The effects of this disastrous triumvirate on the education pipeline is made apparent in the NSEAD Survey Report 2015 ‑ 16, that asked how, over the last five years, has government policy impacted on art craft and design education, looking at curriculum provision in art and design, the value given to art and design in schools and colleges, professional development opportunities and the well ‑ being and workload of art and design teachers.

WGU also has lower employee costs, as full - time faculty members serve primarily as student mentors and neither develop curriculum nor perform research (this also supports the school's narrow value proposition of providing professional rather than academic training).

So are schools where teachers have 120 or more students to get to know (with this 120 shuffled at the end of each semester); where serious learning is broken up into snippets of 50 - minute «subject matter periods» arranged in no intellectually coherent order; where assessment keeps knowledge tightly packaged in separate intellectual domains; where short - term memory work is rated as deserving the highest value at the expense of original, long - term analytic work; and where the intellectual engine of the curriculum comes at most students and teachers as a list of subjects and skills, usually far too long for the careful savoring and devoted practice that leads to deep understanding and worthy habits.

10, took to resurrecting the Peace curriculum, a school - based program that teaches young people the value of peace through literature and community service learning.

«By and large — both in public and independent school education — there is still a tendency to focus on the disciplines separately, and, frankly, there's a lot of value in that,» says Heidi Hayes Jacobs, a highly regarded education consultant, president of Curriculum 21, and author of several influential books on improving K - 12 education, including Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation and Active Literacy Across the Curriculum.

We foster a culture of respect for every member of our school community in our values, behaviours and through differentiated learning options in our curriculum and co-curricular programs.

«The communities understand the need for curriculum outcomes, but they also want to make sure that some of their own knowledge and approaches are valued in the education that their school students are getting.»

By showing they value this area of the curriculum and ensuring the sequential program becomes a standard part of the curriculum, this school is providing the best possible education for their students, not only making sure they receive knowledge but also skills and understanding.

• First, efforts to develop a civics curriculum are snagged by a basic truth about America: beyond a narrow core of shared beliefs (honesty, tolerance, obeying the law), Americans hold strong but often divergent views about the values they want their children to acquire and about the role of teachers and schools in inculcating those values.

There are a range of tools that researchers could use here — value - added measures that distinguish between the level of a school's test scores and gains of students on test scores (gains probably are what parents care about, and levels are a noisy signal of gains), school climate surveys, teacher observation instruments, descriptions of curricula.

However, being a Native American school means having the unique task of including lessons about the tribe's heritage, cultural values, and language in the curriculum.

Further, participants will examine the connection between Design Thinking and Making with the intention of bringing value to school MakerSpaces with the goal of moving beyond MakerSpaces and Making as an isolated location or experience outside of the curriculum.

The creative tension between the autonomy that our expert teachers value so highly, and the common aspects of shared accountability that enables BASIS Curriculum Schools to maintain academic quality control across the network, is the nexus at the heart of our classroom learning culture.

The other has been a deep belief in the value of a rich, coherent school curriculum, especially in history and literature, both of which are so frequently ignored, trivialized, or politicized.

In revising A Time for Living as a character education program, the TFL curriculum committee decided to honor the history and tradition of the school by retaining the Time For Living name, while focusing on universal ethical values that transcend religious or cultural differences.

As of November 2014, schools also need to promote fundamental British values as part of the school curriculum.

In part, the research was concerned with understanding teacher conceptions of British values and contentions of shared British identities which could be explored in schools as part of the citizenship education curriculum.

Internalizing Character Education Values By Living and Learning Within A Caring School Community By Jeanne Gibbs The issues of character and civility are not merely esoteric or an add - on to the curriculum, like driver's education.

Outside of my work at school, I am lucky enough to travel the world and experience various curriculum in action and support schools in the implementation of educational technology to add value to learning.

With our flexible programmes and qualifications you can shape the curriculum to the needs and abilities of your learners and build a curriculum that fits the values of your school.

This is done by overseeing the inculcation of values discussions in classes throughout the undergraduate and graduate curricula at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado.

The move comes as part of dramatic curriculum reforms designed to improve the value and reduce inflation of top grades, allowing schools, colleges and employers to better differentiate between candidates.

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Tony McAleavy, director of research and development at Education Development Trust, added: «It is encouraging to see primary school teachers continuing to value teaching languages, though there is a clear need for more curriculum time to be made available for the subject.»

While schools teach students these values through the curriculum and school - sponsored activities, school officials must also teach by example by respecting the rights of students and requiring that students respect the rights of one another.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

15:20 Dr. Montecel closes her speech: «The Quality Schools Action Framework speaks to the need and possibility of engaging citizens, leaders and policymakers around high quality data that call all of us as members of the community to act, to establish common ground, to strengthen education, and finally and most importantly and fundamentally, to align our values with our investments in the school system: fundamentals and features that we know are needed — from teaching quality, to engaged students, engaged parents and families, and a high quality, authentic curriculum so that students in every neighborhood and of every background can in fact have equal educational opportunities.»

As states and school districts across the United States continue to fight their battles over curriculum content, educators should not be satisfied — even if their state standards include the content they desire — unless schools make a commitment to also promote the values of ideological diversity and tolerance.

The development of character has been an integral part of The Avery Coonley School since its inception, with core values integrated into every aspect of the curriculum.

Some schools, such as the King's Leadership Academy in Warrington, have even adopted a whole school values and ethos approach, placing their «seven pillars» of character at the centre of their curriculum as well as using it to inform their day - to - day running of the school.

To create equity, we strive for a model of education where curricula reflect students» ways of knowing and their people's history, behavioral expectations respect students» ways of interacting, and espoused and / or implicit values of a school acknowledge what is learned at home.

What changes would need to be made so that your curriculum better aligns to the values of the school community, reflects the overall intention of the curriculum, and increases student engagement?

The devil will be in the details, of course, and there is much work to do to ensure that we find an appropriate balance between the consistency of expectations that schools and students need and the diversity of mission and curricula that higher education values.

We've found that a school that instills Facing History curriculum across the board becomes a school that values diversity of thought and identity, and where the most innovative and powerful changes can be felt.

The increase also reflects the value schools place on the digital literacy skills ECDL helps their students learn as part of the computing curriculum.

Steve DeLapp is right that his school should focus on the curriculum and not the test, but he has spent too much time in a high - functioning school if he doesn't see the overall value of testing.

Reimers discusses some ways in which global values can be incorporated into school curricula, and some of the obstacles to doing so.