Not exact matches
The College of Teachers, together with the faculty, sets and carries out important policy directions
affecting the school's educational programs,
academic standards, and curriculum
development.
Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive
development and adversely
affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37
As neurological disorders
affect approximately one - third of the U.S. population, and pharmaceutical firms are largely abandoning their research and
development efforts in neuroscience, the work of
academic research institutions is crucial in the effort to drive innovation and discovery in this field.
One after the other, they all identified redundancy, inappropriate qualifications, poor
academic development, declining productivity, questionable certificates, disciplinary matters among other as parts of the criteria for the disengagement of the
affected teaching and non-teaching staff of the institutions.
«Past research has found a link between violent crimes and performance on tests, but researchers haven't been able to say why crime
affects academic performance,» explains Jennifer A. Heissel, a PhD graduate in human
development and sociology at Northwestern University, who led the study.
They would also like to study whether policies regarding lunch and recess
affect risk for obesity, success in
academics and other markers of cognitive
development in children.
Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in
academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation
affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.
New approaches, he says, could focus on social and emotional
development as well, since science now tells us that relationships and interactions with the environment sculpt the areas of the brain that control behavior (like the ability to concentrate), which also can
affect academic achievement (like learning to read).
For SPEAK Mentorship, I am looking to collaborate with schools to provide mentoring programs to better understand how strengthening cultural identity can
affect academic and social
development.
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This pressure will also
affect university libraries and other
academic resources, and the accelerating «open access» movement will do the rest.These
developments amount to a «writing on the wall» for our traditional, universities.
In short, exposure to
academic language in contextually rich environments, such as the read - aloud experience and sophisticated caretaker speech, has a direct influence on
academic vocabulary growth, which in turn
affects reading
development.
«proposes a conceptualization of productive continuity in
academic instruction, as well as in the social climate and classroom management practices that might
affect children's social - emotional
development.
These changes
affect not only the
academic curriculum but also the vocational program, where the researchers found much more emphasis than before on the personal
development of the whole student, not just technical skills.
Social and emotional learning programs are designed to improve the quality of social interactions in schools and classrooms in order to positively
affect students» social, emotional, and
academic development.
School Counselor helps students to make right decisions that
affect their
academic and personal
development.
Performed student advisory functions regarding Advanced Programs policy and procedures, and counseled students in
development of schedules and identified obstacles that could
affect academic success.
In the United States, more than 1.5 million children are born to unmarried parents each year.1 Many of these children will grow up in single - parent households, a backdrop that can adversely
affect academic performance, emotional
development, and long - term socioeconomic outcomes.2 Moreover, without specific legal action on the part of unmarried parents, these children will not share the same rights as children born to married parents.
Background: Character strengths are important psychology resources, which
affect the
academic and social
development of students at secondary vocational schools.
Dr. Ramey specializes in the study of factors
affecting children's health and the
development of intelligence, social competence, and
academic achievement.
It was, as he wrote later in a 1988 Scientific American article, centered on his speculation that «the contrast between a child's experiences at home and those in school deeply
affects the child's psychosocial
development and that this in turn shapes
academic achievement.»
Abstract: This study examined whether peer groups can indirectly
affect children's
academic development in sixth grade (ages 11 to 13) by influencing their engagement in the classroom.
Parent - child interactions
affect many different domains of
development.41, 42,43 Child - focused, responsive and moderately controlling parenting attitudes have been positively associated with self - esteem,
academic achievement, cognitive
development and fewer behaviour problems.44, 45 Furthermore, high warmth and contingent responsiveness promote a wide range of positive developmental outcomes.46, 47,48,49 Parental management style and affective involvement may be especially salient for children's prosocial
development, self - control and internalization of behaviour standards.41 The quality of parenting has been found to be important for child socialization, 50,51 and parenting variables show direct links with child adjustment.52
Children enter school with different levels of skill, and these initial differences often
affect children's subsequent language growth, cognitive
development, literacy and
academic achievement.6, 7,8 Children who exhibit delays at the onset of schooling are at risk for early
academic difficulties and are also more likely to experience grade retention, special education placement, and failure to complete high school.9, 10,11
Postnatal depression, particularly in disadvantaged communities, has been shown to be associated with impairments in the child's growth, 36 and his / her social, emotional, and cognitive
development.37 By school age, children of women who suffer postnatal depression are at risk for showing externalising and internalising behavioural problems, and they have lower social skills and
academic achievement.38 A key way in which maternal depression
affects children's
development is by disrupting the mother - infant relationship as well as routine parenting functions, 37 and two studies have shown that HIV infection is associated with similar disturbances in mother - child interactions.13, 39 Currently, no studies in the HIV literature have examined maternal psychosocial functioning in relation to mother - child interactions or child
development.