Sentences with phrase «call for a social studies»

Sociologist James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, continues his crusade to encourage the honest teaching of U.S. history, warts and all, in this call for a social studies curriculum based on critical thinking and project learning.

During this period, there were resounding calls for social studies educators to rouse the metaphorical «sleeping giant» (Martorella, 1997) and learn how to use digital technologies appropriately and effectively (Becker, 1999; Diem, 1999; Fontana, 1997).

In «Which Way to the Sleeping Giant,» Martorella (1997) called for social studies educators to embrace technology integration for both its potential to impact the classroom and the world outside the school walls.

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A month later, he was walking — and exploring a new fascination with the power of thought that prompted him to go back to school to study positive psychology and to launch a happiness - boosting social media platform called Smile Epidemic (think of it as Facebook for the Up With People crowd).

I'm looking to eventually teach theology, but in between my personal studies, an obsessive reading habit, and spending far too much money on coffee, I started a blog called New Ways Forward as an outlet for some of my random thoughts and a way to interact with others who share a passion for theology, Biblical studies, and social justice.

I find it odd that he calls for an «integrated» approach to social service endeavors but then is perturbed when I defend Evangelical ministries that adopt a genuinely integrated approach by combining material help with Bible study, worship, and spiritual mentoring.

It is one thing to list such obvious topics as war and peace, poverty and prosperity, and exploitation and social justice and to call for more studies and more understanding.

They call for increased use of case study teaching methods and of the practicum, for more attention to pressing social issues, for more deliberate globalization of the context of teaching, and for more care to teach students and not simply to teach subject matters.8

To make matters worse, they argued that many in the media - most especially, in my personal experience, those active in social media - not only ignore and / or severely criticize research findings that don't fit the football = CTE and CTE = suicide narrative, but label anyone who dares to challenge that narrative or call for further study a «CTE denier» or a «shill» trying to advance their own vested interests, * confuse the public and conflate the issues, or all the above.

I request you go back and study critically Nana Akufo - Addo Dankwa's posts for or five times aired in the social media ON THIS ISSUE OF CORRUPTION CALLING.

The study, called Influence Maximization for Social Network Based Substance Abuse Prevention, was published in the AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence student abstract section.

Functional imaging studies have also shown that autistic minds show decreased activity and connectivity in areas of the so - called «social brain» — regions important for language, face recognition and emotion.

They called for the international scientific community to help «analyze design plans of the canal and its subprojects for safety, social responsibility and sustainability; make recommendations to protect the region's water resources and biodiversity; and draft statements urging the Nicaraguan government to halt construction until studies can be performed and evaluated by experts.

Those cognitive styles turn up in a personality test called the Big Five, which assesses people for openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism; only the first two have been strongly linked to political tendencies, says New York University (N.Y.U.) social psychologist John Jost, another author on the study.

The first study of the social and ethical issues associated with a provocative approach to treatment for ulcerative colitis has found that the majority of potential patients are eager for what is now called «fecal microbiota transplantation» to become available, although many have concerns about donor selection, screening, and methods of delivery.

June 2, 2011 Patients with bowel disease eager to test «fecal» therapy The first study of the social and ethical issues associated with a provocative approach to treatment for ulcerative colitis has found that the majority of potential patients are eager for what is now called «fecal microbiota transplantation» to become available, although many have concerns about donor selection, screening, and methods of delivery.

Among other things, this authenticity addresses the call in the Common Core State Standards for students to «learn to appreciate that a key purpose of writing is to communicate clearly to an external, sometimes unfamiliar audience» and an emphasis in the Michigan second - grade social studies standards on the local community context.

These studies are called randomized field trials and are increasingly recognized by social scientists as the most definitive in establishing causality, although observational studies that control for other probable causes can also be valuable.

Growing Caring Citizens Through Good Works Social studies teacher Peter White always felt compelled to help the less fortunate, and he spread and channeled his passion through a student club called Students for 60,000.

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In light of this context, the 1999 principle called for researchers to «continue to evaluate the influence of technology on social studies, and should seek to provide exemplary models for the infusion of technology within the social studies methods of instruction.»

While empirical research in the field of digital technologies and social studies was limited, a small but growing number of cheerleading and how - to articles (Friedman & VanFossen, 2010 p. 53), alongside calls to wake the metaphorical «sleeping giant» (Martorella, 1997), in order for social studies to remain a relevant field of study in the information age (Fontana, 1997) emerged within the literature.

We designed ECMs to support the development of teachers» professional teaching knowledge as it related to a specific pedagogical approach called problem - based historical inquiry and its principles for social studies instruction, that learning should be purposeful, connected, active, and scaffolded (Saye & Brush, 2004).

This call motivated our design of a novel program of support for in - service social studies teachers.

Adopted in 2010, the new content standards in English language arts are now called the Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History / Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects.

In particular, the authors of the report called for more studies that look at which types of students benefit the most from social emotional learning programs.

Unfortunately, despite myriad calls from education scholars for a more critical and democratic pedagogy, most social studies classrooms still follow a knowledge transmission model, with the teacher dispensing facts to students and students regurgitating those facts back to them on standardized assessments.

A case in point: One D.C. elementary school teacher I've spoken with, who I'll call Ms. Smith, is responsible for teaching both English Language Arts (or literacy) and social studies — a common arrangement in elementary schools.

America in Class ® is designed to promote the analytical skills called for in the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and literacy in history and social studies:

The «layered model,» as it is called by researchers, collects between three and five years of test - score data for each student in as many subjects as possible, including reading, math, science and social studies, in order to make predictions about how a student will score on a given test.

This situation is what leads a growing call for a much broader energy quest, from the laboratory to the light socket, that starts with the «no brainers» delineated by many studies, particularly a McKinsey analysis of ways to cut energy waste, but also includes a direct, increased and sustained American investment in pushing the frontiers of knowledge on energy — and boosting efforts, from the classroom to the boardroom, to build the community of technological, financial and social innovators necessary to drive the needed change.

In a wide - ranging December 2013 study, conducted to support Our Children's Trust, a group advancing legal challenges to lax greenhouse gas emissions policies on behalf of minors, Hansen called for a «human tipping point» — essentially, a social revolution — as one of the most effective ways of combating climate change, though he still favors a bilateral carbon tax agreed upon by the United States and China as the best near - term climate policy.

One study, called «The Benefits of Knitting for Personal and Social Wellbeing in Adulthood» and published in the British Journal of Occupational Therapy, found that «knitting in a group impacted significantly on perceived happiness, improved social contact, and communication with others.&Social Wellbeing in Adulthood» and published in the British Journal of Occupational Therapy, found that «knitting in a group impacted significantly on perceived happiness, improved social contact, and communication with others.&social contact, and communication with others.»

Jennifer Farrell, who teaches income taxation and international tax law, has received a seed grant worth $ 21,292 for her project called «Blockchain and taxation: A case study on eliminating the sales tax gap» from the Western Social Sciences and Humanities Review Board.

I have mailed out 2 of the Teacher's Aide resumes and 1 of the Social Studies teacher resume - so far I have had an interview for a Teacher's Aide position and on my way home I was called for an interview for Social Studies Teacher position.

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsiSocial Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsisocial desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

NRFC relies on multiple avenues to share information including: the fatherhood.gov website, media campaigns, social media, virtual trainings, outreach and presentations at events, written products to advance the fields of responsible fatherhood research and practice, and a National Call Center for fathers and responsible fatherhood practitioners.10 In addition, the ACF's Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) is implementing several research and evaluation projects, including the Building Bridges and Bonds (B3), the Parents and Children Together (PaCT) Responsible Fatherhood Evaluation, the Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation and Cross-Site (FaMLE Cross-Site) project, and the Ex-Prisoner Reentry Strategies Study, all of which partner with Responsible Fatherhood programs.11 OPRE also awards grants to fund research on Healthy Marriage / Responsible Fatherhood, and provides information on the curricula used by Healthy Marriage / Responsible Fatherhood grantees through its Strengthening Families Curriculum Guide.12 To promote rigorous evaluation, strengthen the field of fatherhood research, and share information on effective fatherhood research and evaluation practices, OPRE funded the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN).13 FRPN provides grants to study responsible fatherhood programs, develops and shares measurement instruments for use in fatherhood program evaluations, and provides training and technical assistance to practitioners and researchers through webinars, written documents, and its Researcher and Practitioner ForStudy, all of which partner with Responsible Fatherhood programs.11 OPRE also awards grants to fund research on Healthy Marriage / Responsible Fatherhood, and provides information on the curricula used by Healthy Marriage / Responsible Fatherhood grantees through its Strengthening Families Curriculum Guide.12 To promote rigorous evaluation, strengthen the field of fatherhood research, and share information on effective fatherhood research and evaluation practices, OPRE funded the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN).13 FRPN provides grants to study responsible fatherhood programs, develops and shares measurement instruments for use in fatherhood program evaluations, and provides training and technical assistance to practitioners and researchers through webinars, written documents, and its Researcher and Practitioner Forstudy responsible fatherhood programs, develops and shares measurement instruments for use in fatherhood program evaluations, and provides training and technical assistance to practitioners and researchers through webinars, written documents, and its Researcher and Practitioner Forum.14

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The study compared scores on measures of cognitive and social ability for children whose parents had participated in the New Parents as Teachers (NPAT)[now called Parents as Teachers] demonstration program with a comparison group from the same community.