Sentences with phrase «about basic life skills»

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But since they possess the basic skills required in relating, they know how to go about changing and deepening their marriage to meet the needs of the second half of life.

Access to good, fresh, real food and the basic skills to cook it has the power to transform lives, and that is what the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation is all about.

While in residence, students learn in a structured environment about handling personal conflicts, academics, basic life skills, anxiety and other skills or issues.

They'll learn lots of basic information about caring for children, as well as important life - saving skills.

Feldman told members this morning during a live Webcast from the AFT's 76th annual convention in Philadelphia that she is concerned about those students who have not benefited from high standard reforms in their early school years and now lack the basic literacy and math skills they need.

Some schools, especially in low socioeconomic areas, consider themselves «welfare» rather than «academic» schools and believe that the best thing they can do for their disadvantaged clientele is to teach them social and life skills, give them a grounding in the «basics» and make them feel better about themselves.

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

Most of us take our ability to read and write for granted and find it difficult to imagine how we would go about our daily lives without basic literacy skills.

«The session started off by giving the whole group a chance to learn some basic hockey skills and find out a little about what life is like as an elite athlete.

The «Money Management 1 -2-3: Be Smart About Money All Your Life» series focuses on basic money management skills at the beginner, intermediate and advanced level.

Jennifer along with her service dog Wellie spoke to the class about pet first aid, CPR and basic life support skills and how important prompt emergency response is in order to allow time to get the animal safely to a veterinary clinic.

• Supervised and trained new interns on selected projects.05 / 05 — 08/05 xyz music company New York, NYMARKETING INTERN • Responsible for developing marketing strategy for college market • Participated in developing firm presentations to research the market atmosphere • Contacted current and perspective partners to introduce the firm, inform about products and services, and gather pertinent records • Gathered and compartmentalized pertinent information on sales, clients, and demographics into XYZ Database, Outlook, and Excel and PowerPoint Documents • Set up one - on - one conferences and attended client and presentational meetingsSKILLS / PERSONAL • Study Abroad in city, Australia, February — June 2007 • Computer Skills: MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Bloomberg, Reuters, familiar with VBA, Flash, and web page design • Languages: fluent in Hebrew, basic Spanish • President, ABC Fraternity, 2005 — 2006 • Help the Homeless, AIDS & Relay for Life Walker • Social Activities & Hobbies: Avid runner and guitarist.

• To secure the position as a special education trainer and bring about positive changes in lives of individuals studying at XYZ via demonstration of expertise in life coaching, basic learning skills reinforcement and effective parent teacher interaction.

Allowing our kids to live out their own agenda as long as it doesn't conflict with the bigger picture is basic respect, which is what the next section about good parenting skills is about.