scholarly journals MOTHER TONGUE LEARNING IN THE ESTONIAN NEW HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-153
Author(s):  
Natalia Zamkovaja ◽  
Irina Moissejenko
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
School Level ◽  
High School Level ◽  
High School Curriculum ◽  
Written Text ◽  
New Curriculum

This article considers the content and structure of the new State Curriculum for high schools in Estonia, in which drafting the authors participated. The curriculum was applied in 2011/2012 academic year, and has being put into action gradually, starting from the 10th form. It is totally separated from the curriculum for middle schools. The main objective of teaching and education in high schools is that students are to find a field of activity of their interest and ability, which will be included in their further training. They are formative assessment and feedback that are of great attention in the new curriculum, as well as the need for conducting researches is emphasized, including mother tongue. Under the requirements of the new curriculum, studies in every subject are student-centred, i.e. they are brought in accord with students’ interests and everyday needs, e.g. in mother tongue courses the need of text-centred approach is highlighted. The number of required courses is reduced; there are more opportunities for options. In comparison with the previous curriculum, the courses on mother tongues (Estonian and Russian) are unified. Before, only 3 courses on Russian as a mother tongue were set-out, now 6 compulsory courses and 1 elective course are scheduled (like Estonian). While developing curriculum for the Russian (native) language, cross-cutting topics were taken into account. The article thoroughly describes the structure and content of the subject; it is shown how the new curriculum is being implemented in teaching practice; the realization of new text-centered courses “The Perception and Creation of an Oral Text” and “The Perception and Creation of a Written Text” as an implementation for the basic concept is instantiated. Key words: curriculum, teaching at high school level, mother tongue, text-centered approach, students’ needs.

Finding the connections between a high-school chemistry curriculum and nano-scale science and technology

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 903-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Blonder ◽  
Sohair Sakhnini
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
School Level ◽  
Chemistry Curriculum ◽  
High School Chemistry ◽  
High School Level ◽  
Nano Scale ◽  
Chemistry Research ◽  
Chemical Concepts

The high-school chemistry curriculum is loaded with many important chemical concepts that are taught at the high-school level and it is therefore very difficult to add modern contents to the existing curriculum. However, many studies have underscored the importance of integrating modern chemistry contents such as nanotechnology into a high-school curriculum. When students are exposed to nanotechnology, they perceive chemistry as more relevant to their life, and more modern than the chemistry they usually study at school, and consequently, their continuous motivation to study chemistry and related subjects increases. In the current study we identified topics in the high-school chemistry curriculum in Israel into which the essential nano-scale science and technology (NST) concepts can be integrated. Insertion points for all 8 NST essential concepts were found. We discuss the importance of ways in which chemistry educators can implement the results for updating the chemistry curriculum, thus making it more modern and relevant to the actual chemistry research that is conducted.

scholarly journals Comparing the Performance on the MI and SAT/PSAT for the Purpose of Monitoring Student Achievement

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 590-596
Author(s):  
Michael McDonald ◽  
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Yulei Pang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Student Growth ◽  
School Level ◽  
High School Level ◽  
School Year ◽  
School Time ◽  
Math Problems

This paper will discuss the correlation between the SAT and the Math Inventory Test. Many school districts adopted the Math Inventory as a tool to measure student growth from grades kindergarten through high school. The Math Inventory is a computer-administered test that gives students math problems spanning from counting to high school level math. When completed, the students are given a quantile measure, much like a Lexile score for reading skill. The purpose of this study is to figure out if success on the Math Inventory is a good indicator for performing well on the SAT. For most high schools around the United States, objectives and lessons are aligned with those of the SAT. The goal of high school teachers is for students to excel on the SAT so that they can go to college, which means the tests used in middle school should be aligned with that goal. If the Math Inventory is not, then it might not be a very good use of school time and resources. Data was analyzed from the 2017-2018 school year from ten different high schools in an urban school district to determine the correlation between Math Inventory score, and the math score/sub scores of SAT/PSAT. The value of the Pearson’s correlation coefficient is used to suggest a fairly moderate positive relationship between these two variables.

Teaching Pupils How to Study Mathematics

1921 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 311-320
Author(s):  
Alfred Davis
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
The State ◽  
General Outline ◽  
High School Curriculum ◽  
Effective Manner

Of all the considerations connected with the study of mathematics, and indeed with the study of any subject, the most important is the mastery of the art of study itself. No topic has been so generally overlooked and neglected heretofore. This neglect is the source of many of our difficulties in teaching, and of many of the criticisms that have been heaped upon the various studies. A supervisor of the high schools of one of our states recently made a general outline for the reorganization of the courses in mathematics for the state. The matter of teaching pupils how to study had been entirely overlooked. His attention was called to the matter, and, realizing its importance, he made it a part of the program. After all, this is the chief thing to be gained from our schools. The pupil must leam the “how.” The “what” is not of so great importance. The “what” frequently changes. The “how” is relatively constant. In other words, the pupil should learn how to attack a problem with economy of time and effort, and with the greatest efficiency. The information he gains in the process is incidental, and illustrative of what he ought to expect as a result of his efforts after he has been trained. It is this sort of training that gives the educated man a measure of his powers, and ability to use these powers in the most effective manner in the various problems which he meets in his daily living. If education fails in this it fails utterly; indeed, it is then not education at all, it is a farce, and the school is a failure. Yet this is the point at which the schools do fail most lamentably. No subject in the high school curriculum is equal to mathematics in its opportunit ies for teaching the art of study. Geometry is especially valuable for this purpose.

Students Become Math-Minded through league Influence

1971 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-246
Author(s):  
Martha Ann McCormick
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
School Level ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
High School Level ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road

Can a college stimulate interest in mathematics in the high schools of its area? Can it, encourage more effective teaching at the high school level? Can it create rapport between the high school mathematics teachers and the college mathematics staff? We at Missouri Southern College believe the answer is YES ! We feel the MSC Math League has started us well on the road to achievement of these goals.

Higher Education Policy as Secondary School Reform: Texas Public High Schools After Hopwood

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thurston Domina
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
School Level ◽  
Public High Schools ◽  
High School Level ◽  
School Students ◽  
Higher Education Policies

The higher education diversity programs that Texas enacted after Hopwood v. University of Texas banned affirmative action had unexpected positive consequences for the state’s high schools. The Texas top 10% law, the Longhorn Opportunity Scholarship and Century Scholarship programs, and the Towards Excellence, Access and Success Grant program each explicitly linked postsecondary opportunities to high school performance and clearly articulated that link to students across the state. As a result, these programs worked as K–16 school reforms, using college opportunities as incentives to improve educational outcomes at the high school level. Using panel data describing Texas high schools between 1993 and 2002, the author demonstrates that Texas’s post- Hopwood higher education policies redistributed college-related activity at public high schools and boosted high school students’ academic engagement.

scholarly journals GAYA BAHASA NOVEL SANG PEMIMPI KARYA ANDREA HIRATA DALAM PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA INDONESIA TENTANG GAYA BAHASA DI SMA KELAS X

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Syarif Faqihuddin ◽  
Evi Chamalah ◽  
Leli Nisfi Setiana
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
School Level ◽  
The Novel ◽  
High School Level ◽  
School Students ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Language Style ◽  
Collection Selection

This research takes the novel Sang Pemimpi by Andrea Hirata as the basicreference of the study of the style of language as a class X learning at the level of high school. The problem studied in this research is to analyze the language style contained in novel Sang Pemimpi by Andrea Hirata in learning of Indonesian class X in high school level. This study aims to determine the style of language in the novel Sang Pemimpi by Andrea Hirata in learning the language and Indonesian Literature in high school students of class X. In this study, the method used is qualitative method. The application of this qualitative method is descriptive, which means the data produced in the form of words in the form of quotations. The data in this research is exposure of the language (written text), ie words, phrases, sentences contained elements of the language style contained in the novel Sang Pemimpi by Andrea Hirata. Stages of this research is data collection, selection of data,� analyzing data that has been selected, and make research reports. This research is expected to be an alternative of literary learning especially on the style of language in SMA level.

scholarly journals IDENTIFICATION OF BASIC HEALTH INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE AT HIGH SCHOOLS IN SWAT RURAL AREAS (A WAY TOWARD VEBH MODEL IMPLEMENTATION)

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-73
Author(s):  
Habib Ur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
School Level ◽  
High School Level ◽  
Basic Health ◽  
Common Diseases ◽  
Teachers And Students

Common diseases mostly occur due to lack of basic health information and knowledge to public at large. Therefore, basic health information and knowledge is very much important to reduce the outbreaks of different diseases especially in rural communities which is possible through proper education. Education is a natural and an inborn part of any community or society. High quality and healthy volunteers can be generated in a society by right education with full support of any kind of facility.The objective of this paper is to gather and identify information and knowledge about basic health from students and teachers. In this paper, first we study current basic health (information & knowledge) situation of teachers and students in high schools of District Swat (70% mountain rural areas and 30% urban areas), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan. Secondly, find out the willingness of high school teachers and students for basic health information and knowledge using information communication technology (ICT) i.e. through a proposed “Virtual Education for Basic Health (VEBH)” model at high school level. For this purpose a pilot research survey was conducted in seven tehsils of district Swat which contained 119 high schools, including 77 male high schools and 42 female high schools.The respondents are willing to learn basic health information and knowledge through virtual and commented that it will be better for rural mountainous areas of Swat especially for female health. VEBH model will make the students aware about common diseases and ensure future healthy society.  

New Studies for New Students

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Nasaw
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Working Class ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
High School Curriculum ◽  
Saturday Evening ◽  
Saturday Evening Post ◽  
Institutional Solution ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Masses

The traditional high school education, by unfitting its graduates “for work with their hands,” encouraging them instead to look beyond the factory for their future employment, had become more of a problem than a solution. Still, despite its faults, it remained the only viable institutional solution to the “youth” and “worker” problems. To eject working-class youth from the institutions best situated to ease them through the perils of adolescence into the responsibilities of adulthood would serve no good purpose. The task confronting the business community and the critics of the high schools was a complex one: they wanted to bring as many “plain people” as possible into the high schools and keep them there through their teens, but in such a way that their expectations for life after graduation would not be inappropriately raised. Industrial schooling appeared to be the solution. Not only would such programs direct students towards realistic and realizable futures, but they would also attract many working class students who, the experts claimed, had been frightened away by the traditional secondary school curriculum. The masses, it was said, were not entering or remaining in the high schools because the high school curriculum had not been adjusted to their special needs. The muckrakers took great delight in calling attention to what they considered the failure of the high schools to move out of the dark ages. The secondary schools' exclusive emphasis on “culture,” it was argued, might have been appropriate to an earlier era, but was most definitely not appropriate to the modern age. “Our medieval high schools: shall we educate children for the 12th or the 20th century?” asked a Saturday Evening Post article somewhat ingenuously in 1912, the conclusion having already been reached that the schools were at least eight centuries behind the times. The critics of the public high schools, especially those from the business world, accepted without question the inability of the “masses” to proceed at the same academic rate as the “classes.” The working-class children were failing because they could not keep up with their middle-class counterparts and, in fact, were totally incapable of learning the same kinds of things.

Counting with 10 Fingers as a Man, with 8 fingers as a Hen or with 2 Switches as a Computer

2019 ◽  
pp. 497-502
Author(s):  
Marina Rugelj
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Binary Number ◽  
High School Curriculum ◽  
Proper Understanding

In the high school curriculum of mathematics in Slovenia one of the goals is “Students can convert from decimal to binary number”. In most high schools, an algorithm for conversion is presented, which the students learn by heart like a cooking recipe, without proper understanding. A different method will be presented, where pupils play, explore and find certain conclusions on their own. This helps students to understand and learn the new concept much more efficiently, comparing to when they only listen to the instruction. Hence, the knowledge gained this way is hopefully more solid and lasting.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Current Condition of Physical Education Curriculum of Iranian High Schools and the Prescribed Strategies to Improve Its Overall Situation Based on Expertise Ideas and Viewpoints

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Hossein Nazari ◽  
Syed Ebrahim Mirshah Jafari ◽  
Ahmad Reza Nasr Isfahani ◽  
Seyed Mohamad Marandi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
High School Curriculum ◽  
The Given

The ultimate goal of such inquiry and meticulous investigation is to evaluate the current condition of physical education curriculum of Iranian high schools and the strategies that can be employed in a path of improving its overall situation based on expertise ideas and their total viewpoint is such given pivotal affair. This investigation has been conducted in accordance with pathological phenomenology and sampling with regard of practical and feasible drawn-target and qualitative approach and method. The cited interviews were designated for 15 connoisseurs in the firmament of physical education. The figurative and the content narration of the study has evaluated in compliance with expertise viewpoints and ideas. The total findings and discovered entities as off-springs of expertise ideas in the fields of “fulfilling student’s expectances and their needs and desires”, “attention toward the reals of science, capacity and sight-perspectives”, has been extracted and summarized. The conclusion and overall gains of given investigation manifested that the criteria of high school curriculum were not expedient and appropriate in the fields of target, content, the employed pathological principle of instruction and the given evaluation in-use and it never satisfied the visualized expectance of expertise.

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