The breakdown in
collaboration skills existed at the director, manager and individual contributor level across each of the critical teams involved.
Not exact matches
For example, we know from
existing research that social and emotional
skills are critical to young people's academic success (Farrington et al., 2012), and that children must have the opportunity to practice and develop SEL
skills such as empathy, perseverance, and
collaboration, in order to thrive in careers, in family, and in community as adults (CASEL, 2015; Farrington et al., 2012; Pellegrino & Hilton, 2012).
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).
Over the course of this grant, FOI: (1) is producing professional development materials to help staff representing multiple state agencies better understand the basic science of child development generally and the promotion of executive function and self - regulation
skills more specifically; (2) is supporting the creation of small learning communities, building on
existing relationships at the site and policy level and connecting to other learning communities across North America; (3) is supporting the Washington cross-agency working group to sustain its current gains and momentum during the upcoming executive branch transition in January and to share lessons learned with the broader national FOI community of states and Canadian provinces; and (4) is beginning conversations with stakeholders at the community level to explore mutual interests and is beginning to chart a path toward enhanced
collaboration within the state.
Language and reading
skills were assessed, primarily using tests created by Snow and Chall as well as
existing science textbooks and passages developed in
collaboration with local pediatricians.
Intel Teach professional development empowers teachers to integrate technology effectively into their
existing curriculum, focusing on their students» problem solving, critical thinking, and
collaboration, which are precisely the
skills required in the high tech, networked society in which we live.
In this global
collaboration of essays, chefs, scientists, and cooks put the innovations of molecular gastronomy into practice, advancing a culinary hypothesis based on food's chemical properties and the
skilled use of
existing and cutting edge tools, ingredients, and techniques.
Developed in
collaboration with educators and creative professionals, Everyone Can Create includes teacher and student guides, lessons, ideas and examples to help teachers bring creativity and new communication
skills into their
existing subjects like English, math, science and history.
Progressively enhancing
skills based on
existing proficiencies in design and development from conception to completion, cost - effective problem solving, green design innovations and effective team
collaborations.