Sentences with phrase «also focus on literacy»

Kindergarten readiness screenings also focus on literacy and, to a lesser extent, math, giving teachers some added motivation to teach those subjects regardless of how much they like them.

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Apart from focusing on news literacy and changing functionalities, Facebook also took steps last year to stop publishers from monetizing from adverts on false news content.

Robinson said they aimed to focus the program on «our communities, our «under - served» communities,» and that the entrepreneurship grant would also go toward financial literacy training.

It can also include providing materials such as alphabet stickers, magnetic letters, and children's games that focus on literacy skills.

The project will also develop opportunities for local residents to participate in stewardship projects and climate literacy discussions that focus on taking meaningful action at home and in their communities.

Teachers may also feel pressure from policymakers and school administrators to focus on literacy — to the possible exclusion of science.

In addition to their focus on language and literacy — by creating a space in the home, however small, where children can access books and educational materials — Gads Hill also provides resources that help support family stability, Garcia noted.

In rushing to meet a tight deadline set by NIH, Snow said her panel also avoided examining how literacy is acquired, both at school and in informal settings, and focused just on adult literacy.

Study should also include a stronger focus on transferable skills and key qualifications like computer literacy, economics, and foreign languages, the commission says.

The state also invested substantial support for early readers and focused on retaining 3rd graders who fail to read at grade level; state law allows for, but does not require, those students to be held back, which both Skandera and Martinez criticized as insufficient in a state with exceptionally low rates of adult literacy.

A # 5 million investment to trial evidence - based home learning environment (HLE) support programmes in the north of England, which focus on early language and literacy, was also announced.

Host events like math night (we always get a great, diverse turn - out for ours) or literacy / reading event where the focus isn't only on books, but also including materials like newspaper comic strips or sports pages.

Teachers in these schools may also design occasional projects that focus on literature or applied math, as long as they are still following the guidelines of their literacy model.

For example, a focus on literacy, language, and mathematics predictably leads to stronger vocabulary skills and stronger geometry knowledge — but it has also been found to lead to a stronger working memory and greater flexible thinking.

The fact that he is focused on the support of literacy instruction, a topic that is crucial to promoting the improvement of educational quality worldwide is also very important.»

While reducing class sizes and increasing teacher quality have also been estimated to increase student achievement by roughly 0.1 standard deviation, the costs of such programs far exceed those of the literacy hour program, which focuses only on changing teachers» practices.

We know that there's a renewed emphasis and focus on reading nonfiction, but we also know that English and literacy teachers love their fiction as we do.

To that end, Moje also leads Clinical Rounds in Secondary Teacher Education, an extensive research, development, and teacher education project focused on developing sophisticated disciplinary literacy teaching practices and assessment tools among both novice and veteran middle and high school teachers.

In addition to providing movement skill activities it also focuses on language and literacy readiness skills, comprehension, and math readiness skills.

All three resources also focus on science literacy.

An author and literacy consultant, Opitz provides inservice and staff development sessions and presents at state and international conferences and also works with elementary school teachers to plan, teach, and evaluate lessons focused on different aspects of literacy.

The Skills Builder titles provide consolidation activities for children who need extra learning opportunities and also focus on scientific literacy for ESL children who find this a barrier to learning.

Just as we expect all teachers, including those focused on the arts, to teach honesty, self - discipline, and organization, we can also reasonably expect all teachers to regard literacy not as a diversion from their primary subjects, but as a useful way of helping students think about their subjects.

She also encouraged states to use this opportunity under Title IV, Part A, to provide a «well - rounded education» for young students, noting that early elementary grades tend to focus on literacy skills such as letter and word identification, while dual language learners — as well as all young children — would benefit from increased attention to building comprehension, vocabulary, and background knowledge.

However, Visible Learning for Literacy by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey and John Hattie also focuses on student outcomes and their strategies are far easier to implement as I strive to accelerate learning for students in special education.

She has also assisted districts and organizations with diverse student populations across the country, and her work over the last two decades has focused on literacy and its role in the larger curriculum, particularly in the core subjects.

The program also stands out because of the breadth of its education and classroom certification programs that focus on literacy and educational technology, which supports literacy across content areas and the use of technology to assess student learning.

Roderick is also the owner of Fireside Publishing House, creator of the young prime ministers book series that has captured national media attention for its focus on increasing Canadian youths» historical literacy.

Also this month, we trained over a hundred teachers, instructional coaches, and district leaders from a dozen districts across Maryland in inquiry - based techniques — with a special focus on infusing inquiry into the study of environmental literacy.

It is also important to recognize that social studies provides an important avenue for focusing on literacy.

Morales also assigned instructional coaches in literacy to every campus, who are focused on helping teachers go beyond language - arts - achievement scores to understand their students» reading abilities.

He also said he would focus on early literacy and wants to build on the district's strategic plan.

Lisa Guernsey explains why efforts to improve early - literacy outcomes must not focus narrowly on teaching reading but must also leave room for play that develops children's critical social — emotional and self - regulatory skills.

In contrast the RWA conference is more focused on workshops for the writers although they also have a day where donated books are sold to raise money for literacy.

The training occurs over six months and focuses not only on solar engineering but also financial and digital literacy, women's health, human rights, and sustainability.

Our findings add insight into the pathways linking early childhood adversity to poor adult wellbeing.29 Complementing past work that focused on physical health, 9 our findings provide information about links between ACEs and early childhood outcomes at the intersection of learning, behavior, and health.29 We found that ACEs experienced in early childhood were associated with poor foundational skills, such as language and literacy, that predispose individuals to low educational attainment and adult literacy, both of which are related to poor health.23, 30 — 33 Attention problems, social problems, and aggression were also associated with ACEs and also have the potential to interfere with children's educational experience given known associations between self - regulatory behavior and academic achievement.34, 35 Consistent with the original ACE study and subsequent research, we found that exposure to more ACEs was associated with more adverse outcomes, suggesting a dose — response association.3 — 8 In fact, experiencing ≥ 3 ACEs was associated with below - average performance or problems in every outcome examined.

At the moment there's quite a focus on nutrition and healthy eating, so I know there was a little parent seminar organised earlier this year for parents, there's also been a bit of information provided to parents about early literacy and numeracy, because I think that's something that families are often really interested in but perhaps we don't understand how literacy and numeracy are tackled, in early childhood these days.

Participants also called for greater recognition of the high levels of media literacy among Aboriginal children, which belied the mainstream media's focus on the NT's poor NAPLAN results as a justification for the abolition of bilingual education programs.