Educational Model Clause Samples
Educational Model. Fox Elementary School will initially serve as the K-5 neighborhood-serving education solution for the Mill District targeted neighborhood. The education model in the initial years of this partnership will focus on establishing a foundation for student learning with the model being finalized by the governance body. The education model should address the following critical foundational elements for success during 2019-2020 school year given the local challenges:
a. A wraparound support strategy, primarily non-academic, that reduces the impact of toxic stress and works in partnership with families to promote healthy habits to improve academic performance
b. Stabilize a corps of school teachers and leadership personnel
c. Reduce student-level transiency
d. Improve academic performance and socio-emotional capacity of students The governing body will spend this initial term developing a budget and staffing model to support these priorities for full implementation.
Educational Model. Direct instruction is used to teach students information, facts and fundamental skills. The effects of direct instruction have been consistently documented (See Direct Instruction, Appendix M). At the Academy, we focus on building knowledge for students to develop their capability to apply, analyze, synthesize and evaluate. Both knowledge and skill development are important requirements for tasks of high cognitive demand. Teachers skillfully scaffold student learning, building on their success from year to year and increasing the cognitive demand. Instruction is fast-paced to develop not only the targeted knowledge or skill but the ability to focus and attend. In early grades, children learn basic math skills to a level of automaticity. Instruction emphasizes opportunities for students to develop thinking skills that acquire, integrate, extend, refine and use knowledge meaningfully. The Academy’s educational model is based on the Harbor Method, which is an instructional approach that provides students with a coherent system of learning from grade to grade. It is a synthesis of multiple instructional approaches that are well-documented for their effects on learning. Instruction of concepts and skills is frequent and integrated into multiple contexts. Concepts and skills are not taught in isolation but incorporated throughout the day. Teachers motivate students through instructional design and through behavior expectation training. Students develop a learning-ready posture through intentional instruction on attention. The development of character in children is integrated with the development of academic skills. As a student progresses through grades, teachers design learning to incorporate these areas and develop the ability of each student to be a critical thinker and a self-directed learner. (See Appendix D)