Sentences with phrase «academic skills while»

How can we ensure that emerging bilingual students develop English proficiency and strong academic skills while they maintain and develop literacy in their home language?

The SIATech program is computer - assisted which results in students learning fundamental academic skills while improving their computer and technology skills.

Miss Shipley's table works on academic skills while the other table works on creative hands on, science, art and cooking activities.

Mr Tough's book is one of many in recent years to argue that education policy in rich countries has emphasised academic skills while neglecting emotional and psychological development.

Not exact matches

The MBA Global program focuses on academic theory and research - based learning, while the MBA in the Management of Technology and Innovation (MBA MTI) covers management skills while examining complex, technology - related business problems.

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

While at a preschool like this the kids will learn more academics earlier, I feel the focus on developing positive discipline and good, self - respecting social skills is far more important for kids this age.

Activities like Square Panda provide a fun way to balance the work with play, while helping kids learn new academic skills for reading.

And in today's classroom, where teachers must compete with digital distractions for their students» attention while trying to satisfy increasingly demanding academic standards, it is more important than ever that educators be able to combat apathy, instill vital problem - solving skills, and create a climate that maximizes learning.

Some daycare facilities take great pride in their formalized academic preschool curriculum, while others adopt the adage that all skills learned by toddlers and youngsters is a form of learning, and that a child's most important tasks each day are learning to get along and to grow through play.

However, a spokeswoman for the Department for Education and Skills said the new science GCSE would «maintain a clear focus on academic rigour» while engaging young people so more of them continued the subject after GCSE.

While research training primarily prepares scientists for academic careers, it also allows young researchers to develop skills that are valued by a range of employers beyond academia.

Having students and professionals serve as mentors, they reason, assists younger students and professionals while also enhancing the mentors» own leadership and academic skills.

The review process, and all of the critical thinking, analysis, organizational, and communications skills that are sharpened while pursuing it, is an essential element of academic science.

In other words, while their advisers mostly satisfy their needs for research guidance, availability, and emotional support, they — the advisers — lagged behind other mentors in teaching academic survival skills and respecting the ideas of their protégés.

Our facilitator - led support sessions provide opportunities for students to collaborate with peers while learning necessary skills for managing stigma, strengthening campus support and relationships, and assessing readiness to increase academic and social demands.

For example, while many black children begin developing English oral - language skills years before formal schooling, many Hispanic children must develop English language proficiency as they are simultaneously learning academic content.

Dole and other teachers who use lessons on marine science hope to inspire students to take care of the oceans while simultaneously helping them improve their academic skills.

Reality: While it's true that younger students, whether they be elementary school students or freshmen at your high school, need a more fundamental set of skills for both academics and behavior, students of all ages can work to know themselves better, relate better to others, and make responsible choices.

While measures of teachers» general academic skills, such as SAT scores and college selectivity, are often statistically significant predictors of teachers» effectiveness in raising student achievement, their effects are modest in size.

All of those things are happening while they're getting these academic skills.

Next, ask yourself: While teaching students the required skills and academic standards in the curriculum, in what ways can I center this as a topic in our unit of study?

But while today's high - achieving schools for low - income students (Knowledge Is Power Program [KIPP], for instance) are passionate about cultivating both character and traditional academic skills, schools built around the 7 Habits are focused on training confident kids who are good at planning, goal setting, and decisionmaking.

Stipek found that children in didactic, content - centered programs generally do better on measures of academic skill than do children in child - centered classrooms, while children in child - centered classrooms worry less about school and have higher expectations for success than children in content - centered classrooms.

While the core academic subjects are still very important, themes of global awareness, economic and civic literacy, and life skills need to be incorporated into curricula.

Each scenario gets students thinking about real issues, while drawing on the academic skills (like writing and reasoning) that they use all day.

«While a handful of SEL programs have been tested and shown to improve children's SEL skills as well as academic, mental health, and behavioral outcomes, the effect sizes are smaller than we would expect,» says Jones.

While we want students to develop greater self - control and the ability to delay gratification, assisting them in the mastery of academic skills requires that we chop some tasks into smaller chunks and help students overcome procrastination by offering shorter - term rewards.

Finally, I describe two public charter schools that succeed in teaching their predominantly minority students both rigorous academic content and 21st - century skills, while holding themselves to the standard of graduating 100 percent of their students, and sending nearly all to four - year colleges.

Near the end of the 1999 - 2000 academic year, all of these students and their parents were invited to attend testing sessions where parents completed surveys while students took the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) survey version.

Follow - up outcomes (6 months to 18 years after students participated in SEL programs) demonstrate SEL's enhancement of positive youth development, including positive increases in SEL skills, attitudes, positive social behavior, and academic performance while finding decreases in conduct problems, emotional distress, and drug use.

Working in close collaboration with school - and community - based partners, a team of researchers and program developers at Harvard University is developing, implementing, and evaluating a dual - generation program that supports low - income children's academic and social - emotional development while simultaneously building skills and social capital among low - income parents.

The research team launched their study into four different stages to assess student coping skills, academic engagement, family engagement, expectations, mental health symptoms, and alcohol and drug use while discovering what the main cause of chronic stress was for today's youth.

Some tests, such as the Stanford Achievement Test, are developed for general use by any school district in the country, while other tests are developed for a specific state, such as the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), and the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS).

«College and Career Readiness: The Importance of Early Learning» by Chrys Dougherty This short but powerful report by an ACT principal research scientist shows the importance of a knowledge - rich, well - rounded curriculum through which all students master basic skills while also building an academic foundation in the early grades.

After collecting a century's worth of academic studies, summer - learning expert Harris Cooper, now at Duke University, concluded that, on average, all students lose about a month of progress in math skills each summer, while low - income students slip as many as three months in reading comprehension, compared with middle - income students.

While a growing number of studies have evaluated K - 12 school voucher programs along academic dimensions, few have focused on the development of non-cognitive skills and civic values.

Many academic institutions supplement classroom degree programs with online lectures and other coursework, while many continuing education programs offer the convenience of online exclusivity to students who work full time while they pursue completion of a degree, or need to return to school to obtain new skills.

Our mission at Meadowview Middle School continues to be one that delivers a challenging core academic curriculum aligned to ACT College and Career Readiness Skills for the diverse needs of each student, while providing opportunities for the adolescent learner to participate and explore in a wide range of exploratory courses and to participate in extra-curricular activities.

What makes our schools unique is an emphasis on helping students master academic concepts while obtaining the career skills they need whether they want to go on to more education or directly into a career.

While academic content standards such as NGSS lay out concepts and skills students should learn at each grade level, the curricular framework serves as a blueprint for delivering those standards and includes criteria for evaluating instructional materials aligned to the new content.

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The free school was put in special measures after the inspection, which found students showed «a lack of respect and tolerance towards those of different faiths, cultures or communities», while safeguarding procedures, recruitment processes and academic progress in writing skills were also insufficient.

This requires educators to ensure rigor and integrity across academic content areas, while also integrating opportunities for students to learn transferable skills and to cultivate essential habits of mind.

His stories reveal how these «soft skills» can be honed while meeting and exceeding academic standards of 21st century learning and redefine the purpose of the work you do so you will aspire for nothing short of excellence!

His stories reveal how these «soft skills» can be honed while meeting and exceeding academic standards of 21st - century learning.

While multiple meta - analyses and large - scale research studies have found that models following the bilingual approach can produce better outcomes than ESL models, as measured by general academic content assessments or measures of reading comprehension or skills, other studies indicate that the quality of instructional practices matter as well as the language of instruction.

Academic progress at Zion school shows promise of new system Third and 4th graders at Beulah Park Elementary School in Zion are gaining crucial skills as they make inferences while reading books as varied as Junie B. Jones and a biography of 19th century scientist Mary Anning.

While teaching is broadly intended to help students live fulfilling lives, we must be more specific about the elements of performance that contribute to that goal — differentiating contributions to academic skills, for instance, from those that develop social skills.

The choice afforded them by the framework and the assignment, combined with the technology tools and freedoms of the approach, allows them to pursue their interests, while also developing important academic skills.