Sentences with phrase «with curriculum reform»

They're trying to cope with curriculum reform, a recruitment crisis and justifying the meagre money they've managed to get from government to create some services to sell.

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When there is a deep dissatisfaction with a school's course of study, theological educators characteristically undertake a reform of its curriculum.

More often, efforts to deal with fragmentation and pluralism focus on reforming the curriculum of a school.

EL's whole - school reform model combines a highly detailed, interdisciplinary curriculum that focuses on active learning, teamwork, and character education with training and coaching for teachers and school leaders.

Education: The mayoral candidate wants to reform the curriculum for pre-K through 12th grade to better incorporate vocational studies and apprenticeships, as well as upgrade schools with new technology.

With its interdisciplinary and vocationally orientated curriculum, Witten - Herdecke has helped to pave the way for reformed courses in medicine at public universities.

Houston's reform program - systematically tying standardized tests to a back - to - basics curriculum and combining teacher training with recognition - does not involve punishing teachers whose students fare poorly.

L., From what I have learned about RTTP, I would say that the reform priorities will be much in line with what our district will have to consider if (or should I say when) we adopt national standards and curriculum.

In Boston, MCAS is an important part of a seamless standards - based reform effort that includes clear expectations for what students should learn, curriculum aligned with the standards, high - quality instruction and professional development to help teachers improve their practice, and assessments that provide students with a way to demonstrate what they have learned and how they can apply it.

• Supporting the teaching of computer coding across different year levels in schools; • Reforming the Australian Curriculum to give teachers more class time to teach science, maths and English; and, • Requiring that new primary school teachers graduate with a subject specialisation, with priority for STEM.

The list includes some good news for education reformers, including an examination of how one state is already seeing positive results from its decision to put a high - quality curriculum at the heart of its reform efforts; a look at how the hottest show on Broadway is inspiring a generation of students to explore American history; and a deep dive into the world of higher education with an array of new experiments that are making college degrees more accessible, especially for at - risk students.

China's reforms, however, contrast starkly with those occurring in the United States under the No Child Left Behind Act, according to Hua Zhang, a professor of curriculum studies at East China Normal University, who was recently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at HGSE.

Race to the Bottom Michael McGill Focusing on the push over the past few decades to «save» the nation's schools by applying rigorous business strategies, Michael McGill, M.A.T.» 67, C.A.S.» 70, Ed.D.» 72, a former superintendent, argues that corporate reform has actually weakened public schools, with narrower curriculums and a slashing of «nonessentials» like art and languages.

A number of schools appear to have responded with whole - school reform models or a new curriculum — also options for schools in corrective action.

Although Riley's approach to turning around Lawrence has included several key reforms, such as the «implementation of a new curriculum, establishment of Acceleration Academies, and a focus on data - driven instruction,» creating a Match - style tutor corps with help from Match leaders was also a top priority.

The state's landmark 1993 Education Reform Act introduced not only high academic standards, accountability, and enhanced school choice, but curriculum frameworks with a subject - by - subject outline of the material intended to form the basis of local curricula statewide.

He writes and speaks extensively on education and education - reform issues, with an emphasis on literacy, curriculum, teaching, and urban education.

In a new book, An Empty Curriculum: The Need to Reform Teacher Licensing Regulations and Tests, (Rowman and Littlefield: 2015), I make the case, with empirical support wherever possible, that the revision of the licensing system for each stage in a teaching career and the construction of new or more demanding teacher licensure tests contributed significantly to the long - lasting effects of the state's first - class standards.

It would be bigger and better funded, but it would similarly offer extra money to states if they pursued certain types of policies, including preschool expansion, teacher quality reforms, extra funding for schools with extra challenges, and curriculum changes.

The OECD also stated that the focus of continuing reforms should be on «developing high - quality teaching profession, making leadership a key driver of education reform, ensuring equity in learning opportunities and student well - being, and moving towards a new assessment, evaluation and accountability that aligns with the new 21st - century curriculum».

In the early 1990s, the superintendent, the school board, the chamber of commerce, and corporate leaders formed an alliance to implement several reform initiatives, including an active, project - based curriculum designed to connect school directly with real - life experiences.

Curriculum reform was also prioritised, with a core curricular developed with the goal of providing schools with greater autonomy and responsibility.

Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Dr David Zyngier, has called upon the new Education Minister to dump Christopher Pyne's proposed Higher Education reforms, replace religious chaplains in schools with well - trained and professional welfare officers, and to end the «culture war» over the National Curriculum by replacing education policy adviser Dr Kevin Donnelly.

• Describe those essential skills in the context of curriculum reform and show how they are consistent with most common educational improvement initiatives today.

Hands - On Reform Leads to Big Student Gains When principal Stephen King decided that struggling readers needed earlier and better intervention, he plunged in with his staff to revamp instruction, assessment, and the curriculum.

When talk turned to educational equity, panelists stressed the need for comprehensive school reform which incorporates academics with school safety measures, curricula that encourages teachers to operate creatively, policies that promote safe local housing, particularly when involving children under age 5.

On the contrary, the model of self - governing schools — whether private or public — with significant control over their own operations, staffing, curricula, and budgets is far more likely to serve the ends of performance - based reform.

Our task was to reform the pre-service teacher education system, including 36 Colleges of Teacher Education, develop course content and textbooks, and train the teacher educators to apply the new methods and materials in alignment with the primary school curriculum.

It was when she moved to third grade, looping with some of the kids she had two years earlier in the first grade, that her passion for curriculum reform reached its peak.

One of Johnnie Watson's first moves after ending Memphis's experiment with whole - school reform was to order a new district - wide curriculum.

That, Klein aides argue, will show that major reforms in lower grades, like the citywide curriculum and the 3rd - and 5th - grade retention policies, will have combined with reforms to middle schools and high schools to produce their desired effects.

The real threat to national security is squeezing the democracy out of our schools with such «reform school» approaches replacing efforts at real school reform, and with standardized testing narrowing the curriculum so that our schools are simply no longer able to produce informed citizens.

Curriculum leaders and teaching staffs come and go, and with them the energy to initiate or sustain schoolwide reform.

There has been controversy about the need to memorize math facts since the introduction of significant reforms in math curriculum in the 1990s, which largely replaced rote memorization with a new emphasis on integrative math teaching.

A fearless champion of classroom - based education reform generally, and content - rich curriculum in particular, Barbara is a tactical leader with a keen ability to translate strategic initiatives into desired results.

School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said of the changes: «This is the culmination of a six year process of curriculum and qualifications reform, which has involved wide consultation with teachers, schools and universities.

The new qualifications are the result of a long process of reform that began in 2011 with the national curriculum review in England, involving extensive consultation with schools, FE, HE and employers on the principles of reform and subject content.

«With top - down reforms the people selecting the standards, designing the tests, setting the cut - scores, devising consequences for performance, writing the curriculum, and picking the instructional methods have to get it just right... for many different kinds of kids who may need different approaches.

The study analyzes student outcomes associated with specific aspects of curriculum and instruction and identified policy conditions - especially regarding standards - based reform - under which effective classroom practices were likely to flourish.

A government re-elected; impatient to press on with education reform; concerned about the way schools respond to change; determined to implement radical curriculum and assessment change.

In recent years, we have partnered with an urban school district in a systemic middle level science curriculum reform effort.

With any new innovation to be adopted as part of a system reform effort, teachers need to understand and embrace how the new technology - integrated learning experiences will enhance the existing curriculum.

New Jersey was awarded $ 38 million in late 2011 on the third try in a competition that cost one state education commissioner his job and ultimately gave the state a late start in several federally funded programs dealing with teacher evaluations, curriculum and testing reforms, and school choice.

The effort, in turn, builds upon the decades - long efforts of standards and accountability activists within the school reform movement — including conservative outfits such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and its president, Checker Finn — to improve the quality of curricula in schools; this began in the 1970s with the work of southern governors and chambers of commerce, accelerated during the Eighties with the Reagan administration's release of A Nation at Risk, and supported by Ronald Reagan's successor, George Bush, during his tenure as president.

They can't even entertain the possibility that those with whom they disagree on other political issues may actually be right about the need for overhauling curricula (a view shared by many of their fellow - travelers focused on school reform).

Outcomes from these institute discussions will help guide curriculum reform to better prepare school principals and will also inform universities on how to keep the connection with alumni vibrant and relevant.

The education secretary has in her grasp some key levers to head off the perfect storm that is beginning to gather: in seeking information, before the election, about the workload challenges facing schools, she knows that: Ofsted needs extensive reform, possibly replaced with validated peer - to - peer accountability and the incoherent sequencing and pace of curriculum changes need to be rethought with school leaders thinking about what will have a significant impact on children's learning.

With true inclusive school reform, schools provide all students — including those with identified disabilities — access to as much of the full curriculum as possiWith true inclusive school reform, schools provide all students — including those with identified disabilities — access to as much of the full curriculum as possiwith identified disabilities — access to as much of the full curriculum as possible.

Reforms - based instruction is based on flexible curricula, providing students with opportunities to construct scientific understandings through active learning.

Several online social studies curriculum reform efforts were reviewed, along with human - centered interface design, and ECM investigations that directly informed our work.