Sentences with phrase «children along the continuum»

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As I mentioned above, one of the premises I'm working from here is that childhood is a continuum, and if we want to help improve outcomes for disadvantaged children, we need to look for opportunities to intervene in positive ways at many different points along that continuum.

Indeed, it is now possible to make a strong case that parent education programs can lead to better parenting all along the continuum of caretaking effectiveness, thereby achieving widespread gains in child development long sought by researchers and policy makers.

Home - schooling families of the 1980s and 1990s fell somewhere along a continuum of pedagogical practice bounded on the left with «unschooling,» a word coined by educator John Holt to describe the liberation of children from adult - imposed constraints on their learning.

Although the research team suggest mapping along a continuum is a useful framework for educators in monitoring a group of children as they move to the first year of schooling, they add a caveat that it should not lead to extra pressure on preschool educators to introduce visible pedagogical practices in order to «teach» literacy skills.

The virtual conference will explore the steps that schools and communities can take as they move along the continuum of a whole child approach to education — from implementation to sustainability to culture.

Foundation for Child Development FCD provides key resources on making the case for Prek - 3rd, financing and implementing, along with preparing and developing teachers and leaders for the full continuum.

Notable among her efforts was the design of a primary program model that would enable elementary schools throughout the state to educate young children along a non-graded, four - year learning continuum based on individual progress.

The Early Childhood Special Education program along with the Early Childhood Education Center enhances optimal functioning and improves the quality of life for each child from 3 through 5 years of age by providing a full continuum of comprehensive integrated services that match the child's / family's needs.

Fokina's baby exercises apparently stem from the beliefs of one Igor Charkovsky, who has long espoused childbirth practices and child - rearing systems that, depending on whom you talk to, fall somewhere along the continuum between tough love and waterboarding.

Cultural Competence Continuum Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition New York Defines the terminology and helps child welfare agencies assess their levels of competency by discussing the characteristics of five key points along the cContinuum Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition New York Defines the terminology and helps child welfare agencies assess their levels of competency by discussing the characteristics of five key points along the continuumcontinuum.

Instead, to maximize the health of children we must move along the integration continuum to partnership and merging of systems.

Communities Working Together to Help Children Exposed to Violence: Findings From Phase I of the Safe Start Initiative (PDF - 340 KB) Safe Start Center & Safe Start Promising Approaches Program (2011) Presents findings from Phase 1 of the Safe Start Initiative in which practitioners in the demonstration communities formed cross-disciplinary partnerships that responded to children exposed to violence at all points along the continuum of care (prevention, intervention, treatment, response) by screening for children exposed to violence, referring them to services, providing intervention and treatment services, and following up to ensure service lChildren Exposed to Violence: Findings From Phase I of the Safe Start Initiative (PDF - 340 KB) Safe Start Center & Safe Start Promising Approaches Program (2011) Presents findings from Phase 1 of the Safe Start Initiative in which practitioners in the demonstration communities formed cross-disciplinary partnerships that responded to children exposed to violence at all points along the continuum of care (prevention, intervention, treatment, response) by screening for children exposed to violence, referring them to services, providing intervention and treatment services, and following up to ensure service lchildren exposed to violence at all points along the continuum of care (prevention, intervention, treatment, response) by screening for children exposed to violence, referring them to services, providing intervention and treatment services, and following up to ensure service lchildren exposed to violence, referring them to services, providing intervention and treatment services, and following up to ensure service linkages.

The level of involvement may occur along a continuum from occasional participation in school programs to parents and the school working in partnership on issues impacting on the child's learning, health and wellbeing.

Results indicated that (1) the valence of imaginary relationships falls along a continuum, (2) children sometimes view their imaginary companions as autonomous and in control of the imaginary relationship (especially when this... relationship is not positively valenced), and (3) young children and those in less positive relationships (real or imaginary) were more likely to report that they could make their friend be nice to them.

Item response theory analyses provided item parameter estimates and information functions for 18 externalizing subscale items, revealing their quality of measurement along the continuum of disruptive behaviors in preschool - aged children.