Sentences with phrase «middle years development»

The wellbeing and engagement collection (WEC) was previously known as Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI).

The study, Our children's voices: The Middle Years Development Instrument, Vancouver MDI 2010, found that children with four or five assets are three to four times as likely to report medium to very high levels of well - being as compared to children who have only one or no asset.

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The authors developed a population - level, self - report measure of school - aged children's well - being and assets — the Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI)-- and examined its reliability and validity.

* Indicates the revised version of the scale with modified number of items (see Footnote ii); EATQ - R, Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire — Revised; FTI, Feeling and Thinking Index; HKS / MDI, Healthy Kids Scale / Middle Years Development Index; MSLSS, Multidimensional Students» Life Satisfaction Scale; QSL, Quality of School Life; PDSS, Pediatric Daytime Sleepiness Scale; PLEQ - C, Psychotic - Like Experiences Questionnaire for Children; SDQ, Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire.

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In March of this year Energinet, along with TSOs from the Netherlands and Germany, signed a trilateral agreement relating to the development of a vast renewable electricity system, involving artificial islands, in the middle of the North Sea.

Gahn has more than 20 years leading business development initiatives in South America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa in industries including maritime, aviation, mass transit, critical infrastructure security and defense.

Geer, the founder and president of Connecticut River Interactive LLC, a two - year - old Internet - development company, completed a deal for a $ 100,000 financing package from the Small Business Administration during the final days of October, «right in the middle of all that chaos,» he recalls.

In his most recent role, Delorey served as vice president of operations for the Middle East and Africa region for Marriott International, leading 40 hotels in the region and an additional 46 that were in development within the next 5 years.

Director of Industry Development Kenya Kondo has over ten years of experience in international marketing and strategic planning focused on initiatives for Canadian based interests in a number of countries in the Middle East, Africa, and South East Asia.

Six years after the start of a deep recession and a growing call for more middle - class manufacturing jobs, one American industry is tackling workforce development in a unique way.

Reflecting these positive developments, the Japanese stock market has risen by around 40 per cent over the past six months and long - term bond yields have risen by nearly 1 percentage point since the middle of the year.

Since so many evangelicals have traditionally resisted involvement in secular politics — most notably in recent years during the Vietnam war and in the civil rights struggle — it is a reassuring sign to see this development in the Middle East discussion.

JB: In my opinion, successful developments in the last 10 years have been in the Middle East.

Don't want a middling striker (no offence to the Bonys and Remys of this world) stunting Akpom's development in a year or so.

She has lived in many countries and U.S. states, including three years in the Middle East where she taught in an Arab university and did extensive research into Arabic child and family development.

Your child's growth and development during the middle school years will set the stage for high school and beyond.

Recent studies have shown that physical and psychological development of children up to two years of age benefit from scheduled sleep in the middle of the day.

Separation anxiety, a normal stage of development, can cause some babies between 6 months and 1 year old to call out or cry in the middle of the night.

Frances's previous work includes several years with the US Agency for International Development's (USAID) Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI), overseeing stabilisation and conflict mitigation programs in Afghanistan, Mali, and the Middle East.

We are thankful that the law establishing the Northern, Middle Belt and Coastal Development Authorities has been passed and that the authorities will be operational this year.

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) will announce its ambitious plans for the development and establishment of a Middle East region at the forthcoming Big 5 exhibition in Dubai, on the 23rd November 2008, the most important and largest construction event of the year in the UAE.

Melbourne Ports has become more middle class in recent years with accelerating inner - city gentrification and high density housing developments.

The data came from a Midlife Development in the United States study of 1,255 middle - aged adults whose cognitive abilities were tested two years apart.

The other, more popular explanation proposes that the advent of agriculture and the attendant development of human settlements in the Middle East around 10,000 years ago created scavenging opportunities for animals bold enough to exploit them and that wolves themselves thus initiated domestication.

«It appears that family dynamics occurring in the preschool years and in middle childhood are critical in the development of aggression and dating violence in the teenage years,» she says.

The results of Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development, which has taken place for more than 40 years, have been summarised in the book Human development from middle childhood to middle adulthood: Growing up to be middle - aged (London: Routledge) to be launched on 15Development, which has taken place for more than 40 years, have been summarised in the book Human development from middle childhood to middle adulthood: Growing up to be middle - aged (London: Routledge) to be launched on 15development from middle childhood to middle adulthood: Growing up to be middle - aged (London: Routledge) to be launched on 15 June 2017.

Economic development, accelerating steadily as the years passed, meant a newly monied middle class, and new airlines to take them to business meetings and beaches.

Fourteen teachers arrived from schools as close as Ithaca and as far as Anaheim, Calif. to attend the BTI Plant Biology Curriculum Development Projects (CDP) teacher institute July 13 - 17, to begin their year - long journey to translate plant research into classroom learning opportunities for middle and high school STEM students across the country.

He has published and worked for 20 years on issues related to health systems development, equity, and ethics in low - and middle - income countries of Africa and Asia.

«It appears that family dynamics occurring in the preschool years and in middle childhood are critical in the development of aggression and dating violence in the teenage years,» Livingston said in a university news release.

The coalition government led by Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has launched a 20 - year Strategic Development Plan that began in 2011 aiming at transforming Timor - Leste in the course of the next two decades, from low middle income country to upper middle income with an annual per capita income of at least $ 10,000.

Jennifer Morrison, this year's Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's (ASCD) Outstanding Young Educator of the Year, is an eighth grade language arts teacher and department chair at Piedmont Open IB Middle School in Charlotte, North Carolyear's Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's (ASCD) Outstanding Young Educator of the Year, is an eighth grade language arts teacher and department chair at Piedmont Open IB Middle School in Charlotte, North CarolYear, is an eighth grade language arts teacher and department chair at Piedmont Open IB Middle School in Charlotte, North Carolina.

It's a very distinct developmental phase — each year of middle school, even, is quite different — and if you want them to learn, you have to adapt your teaching to their development.

Shannon Darcey, a middle - school English language development teacher at Urban Promise Academy in Oakland, California, tackles this at the beginning of the year by asking her students to create a video tour of their school, narrated in English.

The lesson was delivered successfully to a middle ability year 9 class who enjoyed the exploration of a different culture, consideration of African proverbs and development of key exam skills needed to gain confidence before tackling the more challenging questions later in the paper.

The Brookings Institution's Harry Holzer's recent report on workforce development made the case that there will be many middle - skills jobs available in the years ahead and that skills development via provider / industry partnerships can produce «large and lasting impacts on earnings for participating workers.»

This year's team leaders spoke at a yearbook workshop sponsored by the company and shared their development process for the Brawley Middle School yearbook.

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) published «Achievement Effects of Four Early Elementary School Math Curricula: Findings for First and Second Graders,» as well as first - year findings of an ongoing study of professional development for middle - school math teachers.

The participants in this qualitative research study were a 13 - year veteran social studies teacher and the student intern who worked with this teacher during a year - long professional development school experience in a culturally and economically diverse middle grades school.

In my second year at Harlem Prep Middle, I began to see a need for additional leadership at my campus and decided to apply to Leader U. DP's emphasis on top - notch professional development and a mission rooted in civic engagement left no doubt that this was the leader training program for me.

Next school year, Cheatham said, in addition to building on student achievement gains, the district plans to put special focus on middle schools through steps including increased teacher training and more student mentoring and career development opportunities.

With strong knowledge of C#, JavaEE, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, RESTful, Spring WebSockets, Unity, Query, Python, SQLite, MySQL database, Oracle Database and experience in AWS, Matt has been tasked with leading the architecture and development of large - or middle - scale projects over the past years.

Dr. Johnson served Columbus Public Schools for nine years in the capacities of middle and high school teacher, curriculum coordinator, and professional development facilitator.

After completing a year - long Fellowship with Building Excellent Schools, a nationally - recognized charter - development organization, and a leadership residency at KIPP: Academy of Opportunity, Hrag founded Valor Academy Middle School, a high performing 5 - 8 grade charter school in Los Angeles.

Talent Development Secondary, a comprehensive school reform effort, has emerged after over 20 years of research, applications and practices, well equipped to respond effectively to the needs of schools and districts seeking the strategies, tools, materials, supports and personnel needed to dramatically improve middle and high schools marked by low achievement and low graduation rates.

In her journey to expand professional enrichment and to share knowledge, Molly has been invited to present and share best practices at conferences and workshops over the years, including the U.S. Department of Education, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the Michigan Association of Public School Academies, the Michigan Association of Middle School Educators, the Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools and The Governor John Engler Center for Charter Schools at Central Michigan University.

Going back 25 years, he has been a classroom teacher at the middle and high school levels, a central office professional development coordinator in Los Angeles Unified School District, a school founder and administrator, and university professor in teacher education at the Cal State University.

Recognizing the importance of his own professional development, Kevin has devoted much time and energy into growing his knowledge base through conference and workshop participation with the Association of Middle Level Education, Advanced Cognitive Coaching, Adaptive Schools Training, Michigan Association of Middle School Educators, Middle Years Program International Baccalaureate Training, Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning, and NanoTechnology — to name a few.

Cheri was a 22 - year - old African - American woman who was 3 months into her first semester as a professional development school intern in the middle grades program of a central Illinois university.