Sentences with phrase «builds essential academic skills»

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School districts can enhance their vocational - education programs by placing caring and competent staff members in key positions, building in evaluations from the outset, and insuring that the curriculum covers four essential components — applied academics, vocational - technical education, job - search skills, and life - coping skills, according to a report released last month.

Didactic instruction and testing will crowd out other crucial areas of young children's learning: active, hands - on exploration, and developing social, emotional, problem - solving, and self - regulation skills — all of which are difficult to standardize or measure but are the essential building blocks for academic and social accomplishment and responsible citizenship.

The approach trained teachers to build long - term small membership groups (tribes) for peer support and responsibility; to teach students essential democratic group skills; and to integrate academic concepts into cooperative learning strategies.

Afterschool programs provide quality, informal STEM enrichment that gets kids interested in these domains and provides them with essential 21st century skills.4 Afterschool and summer STEM programs build confidence in schoolwork, increase academic achievement, reduce dropout rates, and teach teamwork.

The innovative and flexible curriculum moves beyond the classroom to foster civic responsibility and build essential social, emotional, academic and workplace skills.

The innovative and flexible curriculum moves beyond the classroom to foster civic responsibility and build essential social, emotional, academic and workplace skills.