Sentences with phrase «whole language curriculum»

Her written work includes Literature to Think About (a whole language curriculum published with Weston Woods Studios), Changing Schools into Communities for Thinking, Assessment in the Learning Organization, Assessment Strategies for Self - Directed Learning, Habits of Mind series, Thinking - Based Learning, Using Curriculum Mapping and Assessment to Improve Student Learning, many as collaborative efforts.

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«the incredible curriculum»... «the developmental approach to educating the child and the emphasis on nurturing the whole child»... «the well - rounded education with languages, music, art, handwork, and movement»... «it goes beyond «the 3 Rs»»... «the nourishing and holistic curriculum»

• No less than a whole new curriculum was envisioned for high schools, one that would be stringent across the board, but particularly so in areas critical to the national interest - mathematics, science, foreign languages, and computer science.

Becky — in terms of an early childhood curriculum, I would encourage you to pay attention to the whole document — build students oral language skills as well as those reading fundamentals noted earlier (phonological awareness, phonics).

The Department for Education insists that every school must have a rigorous whole - school literacy policy which is implemented systematically across the curriculum, that all teachers view themselves as teachers of literacy and language regardless of their subject specialism and that all schools must do everything possible to ensure pupils can read.

There was no real sequential whole school approach to teaching and learning; by that I mean that the programs weren't sequential from K - 7, there was no common approach to teaching pedagogy in relation to delivery of curriculum, and, there was no real common language surrounding behaviour management.

I've learned five languages at various levels, traveled to about 100 countries, taught a whole mix of national and international curricula, and done things I never thought I'd do before I left Australia,» he said.

Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.

E. D. Hirsch has spent twenty - five tireless years bringing these findings from cognitive science to education policy and practice, but the reaction he has evoked indicates that the curriculum debates Loveless recounts may be shaped by a more fundamental opposition than whole language vs. phonics and multicultural vs. traditionalist.

As California labors to bring the new common core English language arts and mathematics curriculum standards in its classrooms, other states are dealing with similar issues - some further along in the process and some rethinking the whole idea.

Chapters address: (1) an overview of the whole language approach; (2) examples of how special education teachers use whole language to teach children with learning disabilities; (3) suggestions on how to create a child - centered classroom; (4) the role of the teacher in a whole language classroom; (5) examples of democratic classrooms; (6) assessment procedures that are compatible with a whole language philosophy and how assessment data can be used to respond to individual needs; (7) examples of different strategies teachers use to teach students with learning disabilities reading and writing; (8) literacy development in students with disabilities and how to foster self - directed learners; (9) how teachers develop learner - centered curriculums and how to move toward an inclusive environment; and (10) one teacher's move to the whole language approach.

Most texts used to teach reading had been written by proponents of whole language methods, and there was only fleeting exposure to the kinds of scripted, phonics - based curriculums, like Open Court, that are increasingly being adopted in the nation's schools.

English is both a subject in its own right and the medium for teaching; for pupils, understanding the language provides access to the whole curriculum.

By integrating efforts to support English language learning into content area lessons across the curriculum, the whole - school intervention described here presents a coherent approach to teaching and learning.

Second, even those supporters who are open to external forms of accountability, or at least reporting outside the boundaries of the classroom or school, often claim that standardized tests, state assessments, and other external measures of student accomplishment do not provide sensitive indicators of the goals of curricula based upon whole language principles.

approach to use with any and all students and to send the alternate message that there is no necessary conflict between authentic activity (usually considered the province of whole language) and explicit instruction of skills and strategies (usually considered the province of curriculum - centered approaches).

For what we have here is the reaping of what California has sowed in its public education policies for the past forty years — constructivist curriculum, whole language reading instruction, and the primacy of the pursuit of Rousseauite self - esteem.

Emergent curriculum, whole language, and developmentally appropriate practices are demonstrated as we explore thisI fascinating topic.