Sentences with phrase «course focuses on child»

The first year of the three year Masters course focuses on child development and behaviour management.

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Since our inception, we have focused our financial contribution efforts toward two organizations we passionately support, Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and On Course Foundation.

A study by JAMA Pediatrics, which focused on children in Denmark and Sweden, found that those who'd experienced the death of a sibling before age 18 were more than 70 percent more likely to die during the course of the nearly four decade study than those who had not lost a sibling.

I have decided that the best course of action for me is to simply focus on my children and to raise them as best as I can without a «mother» role model.

«The course made me realise the importance of staying focussed on the most important thing — my children and not getting side tracked into conflict situations with their mother.»

Another benefit for those who have previously given birth is that the course provides a way for a couple to spend time together as a couple learning something new, and focusing on the birth of their next child.

Of course, she saw my growing belly, but we really focused on enjoying having our toddler as an only child for a while and spending time with her.

Parents often focus so much time and energy on trying to make their children obey in the small moments of life that they forget to step back and take a panoramic view of how their parenting choices may affect their children's life course.

That's why I created Parenting Your Adopted Child: Tweens, Teens & Beyond, a four - week a course that focuses on helping adoptive parents support adopted tweens and teens as the entire family navigates the sometimes tumultuous inner and outer terrain of growing up.

But I think this next stage, the process of expanding the zone model around the country, will require leaders of a different type — people who are passionate about the mission of improving the lives of poor children, of course, but more importantly people who are very focused on results and how to achieve them.

Her courses are taught primarily in medical centers, rehabilitation hospitals for special needs children, and other programs that focus on the zero to 5 populations.

While our Start Strong series focuses on pregnancy, childbirth and newborn care, Your Child's Health University are online courses designed for parents and their children through adolescence.

This package includes the courses Adopted: The Identity Project, Conspicuous Families, Finding The Missing Pieces, Open Adoption 101, and The Journey of Attachment and the recorded webinar: Attachment - focused Parenting: Create a PLACE with your Children for a total of 9.5 credit hours of training on topics required for Forever Bound Adoption.

Mary Anne teaches undergraduate courses that focus on children and families that combine play studies with interpersonal neurobiology and is an active community partner serving in various roles with her local Head Start.

Below are a few things your child will focus on through the course of this workbook:

That would not, of course, include the AG, who is studiously focused on his current job, announcing a crackdown on child porn during an upstate swing and largely avoiding the press in the process.

I also think it is important to note that these lunches don't have as much variety of vegetables and healthy fats as we would typically eat at home, but I focus on making sure that over the course of a day, our children eat a well balanced diet and get enough of each macronutrient, so I typically make more of their favorite foods and finger type foods for lunches to keep things simple.

Of course dad is focused on his work restoring the house, and Kim openly doubts her ability and desire to be a mother to someone else's child.

During the discussion in Weissbourd's Developing Effective School and Community Interventions for At - Risk Children course, Menino shared his opinion that the biggest challenge facing education is changing the focus from teachers or schools needing money to what's going on at home with students and...

Although, as a life - course developmental psychologist, she was particularly interested in the president's emphasis on the first five years of a child's life, as a designer and evaluator of early childhood programs, Brooks - Gunn is now curious about how his focus will affect future policy.

«You start with housing — the foundation of stability and permanence — quality housing, first class accommodations... you must have access to educational opportunities and focusing on the youngest the children to be the center of that community growth and of course, art is the vehicle that binds it together.

During the discussion in Weissbourd's Developing Effective School and Community Interventions for At - Risk Children course, Menino shared his opinion that the biggest challenge facing education is changing the focus from teachers or schools needing money to what's going on at home with students and their families.

According to Selman, the course — a yearlong apprenticeship that provides opportunities for students to gain hands - on experience by participating in ongoing faculty research and evaluation projects at several child - and adolescent - focused prevention and intervention sites — makes research «lovable, or at least understandable.

Whilst Matific is levelled, this isn't something I want to focus on; there is of course a starting point, but from there, children are encouraged to progress at their own rate.

The new course's focus on health and exercise corresponds with Sesame Workshop's latest initiative, Healthy Habits for Life, a multi-year campaign to help young children and their caregivers establish an early foundation of healthy habits that can last a lifetime.

Coded as «left - leaning» were course weeks that advocated concepts like social justice and multiculturalism, focused on inequality and race - based discrimination, emphasized notions of silenced voices and child - centered instruction, or were critical of testing and choice - based reform.

There is one focused course of study (history, language - English and Spanish - and the arts; mathematics, science, and technology; and health); everyone is enrolled in it; an appropriate path for each student is developed (every child has a «personal learning plan»); most teachers have responsibility for no more than 50 students (this on a per - pupil budget that is the same or less than in nearby public secondary schools).

Thus, when teacher training focuses on knowledge and skills involved in interacting with young children, it will likely have more beneficial consequences than simply requiring teachers to add a course here or there.

Drawing inspiration from dozens of interviews conducted over the course of a two - year period, Lawrence - Lightfoot focuses on the experiences of 11 individuals in particular, including an Iranian teenager forced to flee political strife and come to America alone, a middle - aged gay man and his coming out, a bullied child whose parents take him out of school, and a psychotherapist who guides abuse victims in an effort to finally «terminate» therapy.

Only 56 percent of programs required course content on leadership and management of public pre-K programs and about half of the principal certification programs reported having insufficient course content focused on programs for children before kindergarten.

Of course content area mastery and a deep understanding of technology and digital information are standard components of a successful 21st century learner, as teachers we must focus on playing a role in the development of the whole child, not just the skills we can more easily measure with an assessment.

Dr. Gadsden's research and scholarly interests focus on children and families across the life - course, from early childhood through the aging process, particularly children and families at the greatest risk for academic and social vulnerability by virtue of race, gender, ethnicity, poverty, and immigrant status.

Supt. John Deasy and the board have together brought an unrelenting focus on poor children of color and there has been much progress as a result of his leadership including increased graduation and attendance rates, increases in the numbers of African American and Latino students taking Advanced Placement courses and exams, and reduced suspensions along with an overhaul of the school discipline policy.

When you look at the visual provided here, it's easy to see that our myopic focus on student outcomes as the basis of accountability for No Child Left Behind set us on a tragic course destined to sink the U.S. education system.

Courses for educators are offered on a variety of topics, from «How to be a better reading teacher» to «Understanding how to teach children with ADHD or autism,» all with a focus on detailing education best practices, or skills and methods that have been proven effective through independent research.

A typical course of study for second - grade children focuses on reading fluency.

Over the course of this partnership, he has transitioned the district to a full - day kindergarten program, participated in the development of First through Third Grade Implementation Guidelines, and was the first district in New Jersey to implement a program for preschool through second grade that focuses on the academic and social / emotional development of children.

Of course, with so much recent attention focused on the accidental exposure of children to inappropriate subject matter in different ebook stores due to metadata miscalculation, OverDrive has taken measures to ensure that only age - appropriate content can be requested by patrons at public school libraries.

Her Photography focuses primarily on her family, her alternative course of education for her children and way of life in rural environment.

According to the APA's Monitor on Psychology web page, his «research focuses on the development, treatment and clinical course of aggressive and antisocial child behavior», and he has specialised in treating «at - risk behavior», such as teenage delinquency.

With focus on European and International Family Law Dr. Oldenburger is not only mandated in cases of international child abductions, but in delicate and challenging maintenance lawsuits and, of course, divorce proceedings.

Our Break Into Law project is a worldwide initiative focused on removing barriers to employment within the legal profession, while we have pledged $ 6.5 m over the course of our three - year partnership with Unicef to improve child justice.

During the course of the mediation process the divorcing couple will need to make many serious decisions about their assets and liabilities, parenting and child support, spousal support (if necessary) and the couple's living arrangements.We will focus on the future and make arrangements that take all family members into consideration.

Conflict Transformation: A 20 - Hour Training in Mediation & Custody, Visitation and Child Support for Advanced Practitioners Learn the skills and receive the certification required to mediate family disputes and custody issues Description: Advanced 20 - hour mediation and conflict transformation and resolution theory and skills course with a focus on the following: Understanding the domestic mediation process and mediator's role Hands - on skills necessary to mediate custody, visitation,...

Course objectives focus on understanding the relationship between financial stability and child maltreatment prevention, understanding the parent's role as a provider, available resources, and strategies for ways to connect families to resources in communities.

Advanced course focusing on; theoretical considerations and practical applications of observation as an important technique for studying and assessing children; and the history, research findings, and techniques of developmental screening and assessment.

A course taught by a scholar might not be as focused on dealing with instances of child abuse, but it may provide students insight regarding causes and effects of abuse.

I am convinced that under the collaborative practice, each lawyer must be responsible for moving his / her client away from artificial bargaining positions, in order to focus on their real needs and interests to seek «win - win» solutions for both partners, and of course — the children.

These longitudinal studies have used interview and maternal report measures to track the course of maternal depression, observational measures of parenting and mother - child interaction to assess specific aspects of parenting and the mother - child relationship, and outcome measures focused on children's social - emotional and cognitive development, school readiness and overall adjustment.4

By holistically supporting young children in the critical first years, high - quality early childhood programs with an intentional focus on health have the potential to change the course of children's lives.