Sentences with phrase «year curriculum without»

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Denominations encourage this illusion in their continuing efforts to produce and market a new curriculum every three to four years — sometimes without even evaluating the effect of the old curriculum on learners.

Slattery agreed that while «they [public schools] haven't had overtly bad sex education, its covertly and without former curriculum: tie - ins and programs to escort school children to planned parenthood, it's been happening for 40 years.»

A year ago (see Chapter 3), I started taking my cumulative / qualifying / comprehensive exams: six fabulous questions on any topic within (or without) the curriculum.

Teachers often feel that the expertise they have gained from their experience is ignored and that they instead get a new, supposedly evidence - based curriculum every few years without much explanation of why the new one is so much better than the old.

I believe that after this year, I will be able to reflect on and fine tune my new assessments without having to redesign entire curriculum units.

Such a vision for academic excellence through digital learning is one that will allow curriculum teams to meet the challenges of today and the next few years without walking backwards into the future.

But after 140 years of American public education operating without standardized curricula and standards, this is clearly not so.

In the last generation, there has been no three - year period without reform of curriculum, testing, exams or school funding.

In this report, the authors, members of the Teachers Learning Collaborative, present the results of a three - year collaborative effort to create an innovative literacy curriculum framework that would support teachers» dual — and often competing — commitments in literacy instruction: (a) to make sure that all students have the opportunity to learn literacy skills and strategies with texts that are at their instructional level, and (b) to make sure that all students have access to, and instruction with, texts that are appropriate to their age level, even if the students are unable to read such materials without support.

In Williams v. California, for example, teachers, parents, and students from low - income communities described overcrowded schools that had to run multiple shifts each day and multiple shifts during the school year, alternating on - months and off - months for different cohorts of students cycling in and out of the building; classrooms with more than 40 students without enough desks, chairs, and textbooks for each student to have one; lack of curriculum materials, science equipment, computers, and libraries; and crumbling facilities featuring leaky ceilings and falling ceiling tiles, sometimes overrun with rodents, and lacking heat and air conditioning.

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS • Contributed highly to the implementation of a particularly challenging curriculum in the absence of a paraprofessional • Managed a class of 15 seven year old students for 3 days without the leadership of the class teacher, without incident • Saved a 5 year old from choking on a piece of food by employing fast and accurate first aide knowledge • Introduced the concept of «online materials resourcing», reducing the cost of ordering the same by 50 %