Sentences with phrase «better academic preparation»

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The clergymen serving full - time on the staff on community mental health centers are generally well trained for their work, with a few exceptions, having had a minimum of a full year of special clinical and advanced academic preparation beyond graduate theological school.

Sylvan Learning also reminds parents that even with the best preparation many students still may need extra help to meet new academic challenges or to bolster study skills.

In order to assess student preparation and readiness for the naturopathic medical program, applicants will be required to document evidence of academic achievement, submit a personal statement and three letters of reference, as well as attend an in - person interview.

However, Schools Minister Nick Gibb claims that every child should study core academic subjects to provide better preparation for later life.

After surveying a large sample of adults and educators, Rothstein established eight areas of what people are looking for from schools including basic skills, academic outcomes / critical thinking / reasoning, appreciation arts / literature, preparation for skilled work, emotional health, physical health, good citizenship, social skills / work ethic.

Other work examines the effects of financial aid programs, the impact of postsecondary remediation on academic preparation, and how to better support families saving for college.

Thus one might interpret the finding of little difference between regularly certified teachers and their more pedigreed peers to show that teacher certification requirements compensate for greater intellect or better overall undergraduate academic preparation.

As a seventh - and eighth - grade math teacher in a K — 8 charter school in Massachusetts, he points to several factors that he believes contribute to the success of his school, including ongoing communication and collaboration among staff of all grade levels, as well as the development of a curriculum that «ramps up» each year, preventing gaps or holes in nine consistent years of academic preparation.

[xi] Possible reasons for this correlation include the higher levels of academic preparation at selective institutions and greater geographic mobility to attend college (and perhaps to move to take a higher - paying job), but other factors could be at play as well.

As Eva Moskowitz puts it: «If (we) backfilled older grades... the incoming students» lower relative academic preparation would adversely affect the schools» other students... We have an obligation to the parents in middle and high school, and the kids in middle and high school, that until the district schools are able to do a better job, it's not really fair for the seventh - grader or high school student to have to be educated with a child who's reading at a second - or third - grade level.»

In particular we are developing additional offers of student support and mentoring from our older students, as well as offering more opportunities for schools to attend the academic enrichment programmes we run on site such as for university and career preparation.

The ACE program is designed to provide the academic enrichment and skill support needed to boost student preparation for honors classes, as well as improve student PARCC test scores.

While the field of teacher preparation has made significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy changes.

33 And in a twist, the proposal also highlighted the importance of economic integration: «Although desegregation rules focus exclusively on students» race or ethnic background, family income levels better determine children's preparation for school and academic success.»

SAT scores and GPAs are important measures of the academic abilities of incoming prospective teachers, but they are only moderate predictors of later teaching performance.13 Both teacher preparation programs and alternative certification programs are beginning to search for other traits and dispositions that may be better predictors of teachers» abilities to drive student learning once in the classroom.

These students get a different type of academic preparation and normally take courses in «cram school» as well.

We focus on conveying Country Day's high academic standards and rigorous program offerings, including Harkness Learning, public speaking, and the emphasis on writing and self - advocacy skills, which give our students the best possible preparation for secondary school and college.

At Mastbaum Vocational Technical High School, which also has 1,400 students, YUC students are campaigning for better academic and vocational preparation.

The best preparation for me is probably the fact that I've surrounded myself with smart, funny, slightly profane friends, and because many of my friends are either artists or academics our conversations can shift rapidly across subjects and levels of import much like Tommy's and Stacey's.

If you think that you could have that patience and tact, together with very good communication skills, an dynamic personality and the right academic preparation, then maybe you should think of becoming a Physics teacher.

Well - trained teachers and home visitors work with parents to provide the academic and social - emotional preparation that infants, toddlers and preschoolers need to succeed in kindergarten.

Building off the best practices in LGBTQ foster care and adoption developed by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's All Children — All Families initiative, the film and accompanying materials are excellent resources for use in adoption preparation classes for LGBTQ families, adoption support groups, academic classes and LGBTQ cultural competency training for social workers.

The program focuses on decreasing dropout rates of immigrant Latino youth, which result in academic performance gaps that perpetuate poverty and create significant health disparities and costly social and economic impacts to the state as well as important concerns about the preparation of the future workforce.