Sentence examples for teach toward from inspiring English sources

African schools teach toward set exams, which determine who passes and who leaves school.

"We can't teach toward a test because that cheats the children," said Ricardo Taylor, the principal of Roosevelt Elementary School in Pennsauken.

Students: Tell us how, if at all, you think schools should re-imagine the school day, and what is taught and assessed during it, to take advantage of students' "digital prowess" and teach toward the careers of the future.

So now we teach toward the practice test, for the practice tests, for the standardized tests.

A schools watchdog expressed misgivings about the curriculum plan, although Mr. Emanuel said it would help Chicago "stop teaching toward standardized tests".

His victory helped to reshape the institution away from a focus on teaching toward sabbaticals and primary research.

"I want us, the city of Chicago, to be the first city to adopt the curriculum that teaches toward the common standards," he said in an interview with the Chicago News Cooperative.

Once the new proficiency standard was adopted, classroom instruction had to change too, says Baumann: "The goal becomes teaching toward functional ability, instead of teaching toward knowledge about grammar and vocabulary". Put simply, students no longer learn about the language like a linguist might — to understand its structure and subtleties, or to compare it to other languages.

Hence, teaching toward student "acceptance of evolution as the best scientific explanation currently available" (p. 341) is a more ethically defensible educational goal as long as it is not required of students (Southerland et al. [2001]), a conclusion similarly reached by Smith and Siegel ([2004]).

CPS recently partnered with the Chicago Workforce Investment Councel to identify the hottest job market areas in the city and figure out where they should be beefing up their programming, where the jobs are and what they should be teaching toward, so they can tailor their curricula to match, Dhupelia said.

John Dewey and the Art of Teaching: Toward Reflective and Imaginative Practice.