We are giving schools more freedom over the curriculum and teaching - not less.
The activities require users to analyse and interpret this information and to apply the ideas learnt to local curriculum and teaching contexts.
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Sweden has made mandatory by law and national curriculum the teaching and learning of sustainable development at various levels within the education system.
It leads to a narrowing of the curriculum and a widespread teaching-to-the-test mentality that is little better than teaching by rote.
Our reforms: tougher discipline, more rigorous exams, more freedom for headteachers, a more demanding curriculum and higher quality teaching, will drive up standards so our pupils have a first-class education that matches the best in the world.
He, and others, think the gains from SATs at any age are not worth the costs, which include a narrowing of the primary curriculum and ever-increasing teaching to the test.
But placing too much faith in tests will ultimately be self-defeating, creating a more narrow curriculum and a culture of teaching to the test that goes against the higher ideals of our public education system.
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They built a business called Exploration Nation around Enzo and his friends learning and teaching STEM curriculum on-line.
Education should be far more free-wheeling, with a much broader curriculum and more creative, diverse, and experimental approaches to teaching.
Today, UNESCO continues to be a leader in the development of national media literacy policies, media literacy teaching resources and curriculum.
The idea was to tie teachers to teaching the national curriculum and to give parents an indication of the relative success of schools.
It will be independent of Cornwall Council, with the freedom to choose its own teaching hours, curriculum and how to spend its money.
Lemon serves as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College, teaching and participating in curriculum designed around new media.
Education Secretary Michael Gove said the decision to fund development of the new curriculum should help revitalise maths teaching in schools and colleges.
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Schools would also be permitted to offer subjects outside the National Curriculum, and given funds to back up the teaching of those subjects.
Classrooms and labs for K-12 and higher education should have modern, rock-solid technology, but it needs to be coupled with effective professional development, sound teaching strategies and a rigorous curriculum.
Indeed, its proposals would probably mean more testing, but in a form that covers the full range of the curriculum, that does not bring high-stakes judgements for schools and teacher, and that neither narrows the curriculum nor constrains teaching.
Secondly, Claire Redfarn is correct when she says that the standard of music teaching (and, more importantly, the curriculum) is woeful.
In January 2012 Florida was among the first school districts to move their curriculum to the web, and in turn adopt Chromebooks as a teaching tool.
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What societies envisage as important teaching and learning constitutes the "intended" curriculum.
Starting in September 2012, the experts will also evaluate the teaching practices of the current curriculum, using two valid and reliable questionnaires developed for this purpose.
Testing was also used as a lever to change teaching methods and to tie teachers to the new national curriculum.
That is why we are looking at history teaching as part of the national curriculum review to ensure that pupils are engaged and inspired by the subject.
Progressive thinkers such as Piaget and Young have been squeezed out of the teacher-training curriculum, as first the Tories and now Labour have insisted that courses put more emphasis on practical teaching tips.
The mathematical sciences were neglected almost to the point of extinction within the mediaeval educational system, the schools teaching almost no mathematics and the universities only paying lip service to a narrow curriculum of mathematical topics at the very lowest level.
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Professionalization of a teaching profession that merely focuses on getting better PISA test scores or more efficient teaching of a common core curriculum will do no better than what we have now, and probably worse.
The group adds that the draft curriculum does not mention reproduction again until the end of primary school when the guidance for teaching 10 and 11-year-olds says "they should find out about different types of reproduction, including sexual and asexual reproduction in plants, and sexual reproduction in animals".
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The curriculum has been broken up into 90-minute, biweekly teaching nuggets on subjects such as setting goals and ensuring accountability.
Not only does the curriculum need to include entrepreneurial classes, but also faculty need to be trained in the pedagogies appropriate for teaching creative and predictive approaches for entrepreneurship.
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