This serves not just to make schools accountable, but helps to identify the best teaching methods.
The trust will be used to support initiatives for improving education standards and to upgrade teaching methods.
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How do they transition hundreds or even thousands of educators and courses from legacy teaching methods and materials?
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Have we perfected teaching methods to deliver the same lecture experience via your computer as in a live classroom?
For others, it is a tool for streamlining and improving traditional teaching methods.
Inspectors have been sent in to check on the state of libraries and laboratories, staff qualifications, and teaching methods.
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Testing was also used as a lever to change teaching methods and to tie teachers to the new national curriculum.
On average, 86% of pupils in 3D classrooms improved in test results, compared to 52% of children using traditional teaching methods.
The researchers found that the Israeli scheme had much less effect on teaching methods in middle schools than in elementary schools.
New Labour pressed for nothing more radical than a return to more traditional teaching methods and echoed parents' concerns about school discipline.
Tung has begun to do so by mandating more creative teaching methods, better teacher training and shoring up woefully inadequate primary education.
The inquiry's report, in July 1976, blamed personalities rather than teaching methods.
The third explanation is the simplest: that the use of computers in teaching is no better (and perhaps worse) than other teaching methods.
Though this is Rolston's first job at the NHL level, he's credited by the Sabres for his attention to detail and teaching methods.
According to Pennings the advantage of simulations over other teaching methods is that they let users apply the theoretical knowledge they have learned.
We can do that thanks to the support of our administrators and the flexibility they provide us, enabling the use of innovative teaching methods.
Owen, a former pupil of the school, began teaching there in 1974 but resigned in 1991 following allegations about his unorthodox teaching methods and conduct.
Their informal teaching methods made it comfortable for me to learn.
Changes in teaching methods or technology "have had very little influence, " says Henry Levin, an economist and expert on learning at Teachers College, Columbia University.
But are teaching methods and curricular materials up to the challenge?
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Soon afterwards, Labour stopped claiming that schools' problems were mainly down to a lack of money, rather than their teaching methods or the way they were run.
The researchers believe that early assessment - which they say can be done reliably from the age of four - would enable schools to adopt new teaching methods.
We would give them the tools they need to be effective educators, from autonomy in lesson plans and teaching methods, to strong curriculums from which to work from.
Since then, most primaries have had inspectors calling, and Mr Woodhead has used the evidence from their reports to continue his campaign against what he sees as sloppy, progressive-inspired teaching methods.
To avoid facilitator-centred instruction, several teaching methods are used.
"Now if you go into schools you are going to see more computers, " says Lawrence Cuban, an emeritus professor of education at Stanford University and an expert on innovations in teaching methods.
But they say that too often they are used without a strong understanding of their power to transform education, and many schools still use technology to support 20th Century teaching methods and learning objectives.
Syllabuses and teaching methods have been specified narrowly.
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