Sentences with phrase «based language skills»

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Those who have had basic courses in the biblical languages and are willing to devote 20 minutes a day to such language study should gain enough language ability to base their sermon text study on the original text, and they should have enough linguistic skill to use the best of the great philological commentaries, which often cite words from the original languages.

Perhaps Rubio might consider that shifting future immigration to a system based on skills and language proficiency would be a better policy fit than the Gang of Eight deal that he helped negotiate.

The Preschool and Kindergarten curricula is based on a daily rhythm of healthy movement and activity, practical skills, handwork, woodwork, gardening, speech and language development, singing, traditional circle games and storytelling.

Receptive language skills are the basis for later speech and communication.

The Hanen Centre is a Canada - based not - for - profit charitable organization committed to promoting the best possible language, literacy and social skills in young children.

The Society for Neuroscience says that this system of mirroring is the basis of many things, right from social skill development to language to empathy and so on.

The teacher works with a team of educators to implement a multi-sensory, hands - on / minds - on, nature - based science curriculum; incorporating emergent language and math experiences along with creative arts, music, cooking and the development of social skills.

Mr. Espaillat, of course, is of Dominican descent and his electoral base includes many voters whose English language skills are still rudimentary.

The campaign includes short web - based videos in multiple languages that make preparedness manageable through the use of everyday skills and small, low - cost steps.

Instead of treating DLLs as a homogenous group, researchers created two categories — Spanish - English bilinguals, who can function in both languages; and DLLs with limited English skills — based on ability entering Head Start.

And reclassification varied dramatically based on a child's initial language skills, in their native language and in English.

The objective of Project Hope is to support Syrian refugee children in Turkey by providing them with digital game - based education opportunities to improve Turkish language proficiency, executive functions, and coding skills while decreasing their sense of despair and increasing hope.

To qualify for the PSW scheme, a postgraduate needs to accrue 95 points, which are earned on the basis of whether he or she has completed a degree in the United Kingdom, has good English language skills, and has sufficient funds.

A new study has found that infants and toddlers from low - income families who attended a high - quality center - based early education program do better in language and social skills after only one year than children who do not attend the program.

ESDM, which combines applied behavioral analysis (ABA) teaching methods with developmental «relationship - based» approaches, was previously demonstrated to achieve significant gains in cognitive, language and daily living skills compared to children with ASD who received commonly available community interventions.

They found that children's language skills greatly improved when spoken - and social - communication therapy was tailored based on their individual progress and delivered using computer tablets.

The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in Computer Science (completed or soon to be completed), a combination of strong theoretical and practical interests, expertise in language - based and systems security, a substantial publication history, good teamwork and communication skills, including excellent spoken and written English.

The study showed improved language - based skills, increased brain processing, and improved brain functioning in ADHD students practicing Transcendental Meditation.

Catherine Snow: Incorporating Rich Language in Early Education Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «Taking on the task of improving reading skills, for all children and especially for those scoring at the bottom of the skill distribution, requires three simple things: first, we must provide all children with experiences designed to ensure a broad knowledge base and rich language before entry to kindergarten; second, we must redesign post-primary instruction to focus on discussion, analysis, critique, and synthesis; and third, we must redirect resources from testing children to assessing what is actually going on inside classrooms,» writes Professor Catherine Snow.

California Distance Learning Project: Adult Learning Activities These stories based on real news events help adult learners improve basic English language skills.

The lessons progress through a range of tasks that engage student's interest, encourage them to: -: interact and share what they know -: develop their abilities to extract information from text and graphics -: view information critically -: check the credibility and validity of information -: develop online research skills -: use web based tools to create surveys and data visualisations The lessons cover a range of topics including: -: Advertising and how it influences us -: Body language and how to understand it -: Introverts and extroverts and how they differ -: Emotional intelligence and how it impacts on our relationships -: Facts about hair -: Happiness and what effects it -: Developing study skills -: The environment and waste caused by clothes manufacturing -: Daily habits of the world's wealthiest people -: The history of marriage and weddings Each lesson includes: -: A step by step teachers guide with advice and answer key -: Worksheets to print for students

Beside focusing on developing communication and reading skills, Marilee Sprenger — an expert in brain - based instructional strategies and author of Teaching the Critical Vocabulary of the Common Core — recommends that ELLs learn high - frequency academic language terms that are embedded in the Common Core State Standards.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

For today's students who aim to be career - ready, appropriate curricula might include exposure to more electronics, with applied physics and computer science as the base; or health care, with a strong grounding in biology and chemistry; or travel / tourism, with a strong communications, management, accounting, and second - language skills curriculum.

They judge them based on students» language, hygiene, dress and social skills.

Commenting on more academic skills, Fox and Geddes say basic science concepts can be explored through play - based inquiry and the foundations for more formal literacy and language learning can be laid by adults immersing youngsters in meaningful conversations and taking the time to listen carefully and respond.

Primary Talk training can help schools to create an environment that develops the speech and language skills of all children, and ensures effective school based provision for children with speech, language and communication needs.

Now, using a research - based curriculum that Strader co-created with Baka parents, local Baka members (whom Strader communicates with in French) record music, songs, and educational stories onto the hand - crank MP3 in their language to teach preliteracy skills.

AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School, a pre-K — only charter school that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional skills.

The second initiative involved setting up school - based enterprises, which Uibo hopes will contribute to a long - term solution that provides students with practical employment skills, develops their numeracy and language skills, and contributes to job creation within the community.

In the class, which combines inquiry - based science and English language arts (ELA), students build their research, literacy, and collaboration skills through small group projects aimed at effecting lasting change around real - world problems.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

These resources included briefs, which are generally short (approximately 2,500 words) documents that summarize current evidence - based informational on instructional practice related to the acquisition of English language oral and written skills by adult English language learners.

Read Well ® is a comprehensive research - based, K - 3 reading and language arts solution that helps students build the critical skills needed to be successful readers and learners.

Then they play a game that is based on a specific reading or language skill from the third grade language arts state standards.

The assignment concept is based on assessing comprehension skills in the target language.

The curriculum in the crucial eight grades leading to the high - school years should be specifically designed to provide a sound base for study in those and later years in such areas as English language development and writing, computational and problem - solving skills, science, social studies, foreign language, and the arts.

Great for oral language development, co-operative learning, topic based study, drama, performance skills, engaging reluctant learners, art (drawing faces), etc... Can also be used as a writing prompt (eg script writing, narrative writing, descriptive writing...) Your students will LOVE making up performances with these cute stick puppets.

Loveless recalls the whole - language vs. phonics battle in reading instruction; project - based learning vs. content - oriented instruction in science; problem solving vs. computation skills in math; and multiculturalist, «national - sins» history vs. Eurocentric versions (He doesn't use the term «Eurocentric,» but it's implied).

Bright Beginnings is an early childhood curriculum, based in part on the High / Scope ® and The Creative Curriculum ® models, with additional emphasis on building early language and literacy skills.

Specifically, they supported theme - based options such as technology - focused schools or dual - language schools that provided opportunities for students to master specific skills.

With expertise in Differentiation, Standards - Based Teaching Activities, Creative and Critical Thinking, Assessment, Underachievement, and Gifted and Talented Education, we publish supplemental Activity Books to improve student thinking and questioning skills, encourage creativity in the language arts, promote critical thinking in math and science, explore character education, present research skills and provide enrichment in social studies.

Starting point: Do you have unmet needs in your schools for a supplementary, technology - based language arts program to help build vocabulary skills?

This webinar provided participants an opportunity to identify the opportunities of SRCLP program to increase language and literacy skills of young children and improve practice of educators; share evidence - based research to improve reading comprehension of children preschool to third grade; and discuss considerations for state leaders in designing policy and professional learning to increase effectiveness of early language and literacy instruction, particularly for dual language learners, and children with special needs.

Educators will get the research - based guidance they'll need to organize their classrooms, routines, and lesson plans through differentiated instruction to meet instructional needs of students with learning differences, and their peers will improve every aspect of students» literacy, including reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills, by providing both oral and written language instruction.

English is the official language of the global business world, and employers want to hire people who have a solid skill base in it.

With no prior knowledge base, acquiring the language is not like learning a new technology skill to add to what you can already do.

Reading Horizons is a research - based methodology that teaches the foundational language skills in an explicit, systematic, sequential, and multi-sensory fashion.

As part of the Music - in - Education National Consortium, El Dorado's Music Learning Leadership Staff (administration, classroom and music teachers) received monthly professional development in a) M+MI curriculum unit design based on fundamental concepts of literacy shared between music and language, b) teaching for transfer strategies, c) music and music integration literacy skill assessment, and d) action research based documentation of student learning through collaboration with MuST, MIENC guided practices consultants, and SF Opera.

They stipulated that technology instruction should empower learners (preservice teachers for our purposes) to develop the skills, language, and critical dispositions toward technology that enable users to develop and implement technology - based learning experiences effectively in authentic contexts.