Sentences with phrase «critical area of development»

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Perhaps the most far - reaching development in this area is the increasing presence in British departments of members of different faiths who are interested in making critical and constructive contributions to their own and to other traditions.

Parents should be prepared to readjust their own schedules as the progresses in critical areas of learning and social development.

Here are the critical areas of newborn development you should pay attention to.

«Apart from proposing the sum of N2 billion for the provision of scholarships for critical areas of the State's manpower needs, we have also proposed to set aside another N2 billion to partner, encourage and support the development of private universities and improve access to tertiary education for Rivers indigenes in the State.»

The Genetic Interest Group, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust and UCL Institute for Child Health argue research in this area is «critical» to the development of treatments.

President Akufo - Addo said the new crop of African leaders had come into office at a critical time in the lives of the Africans, where old alliances were having to be reshaped, implying that Africa had to look for new sources and new areas of committing resources to the development of the continent.

Cuomo, in Buffalo to tout insurance company Geico's decision to expand in the area and bring 600 jobs — which comes with a state investment — lashed out at the Legislature after Assembly lawmakers held a hearing that took a critical view of his administration's economic development programs.

The Empire State Development Corp. on Tuesday pushed back against an audit released last week by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development that was critical of the way $ 22 million in tourism funding was spent for areas impacted by storms.

He said: «Setting the records straight, the idea of siting a tertiary educational institution in the crude oil and gas - rich Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State was first proposed and adopted under the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo as a critical component in the roadmap to peace and sustainable development of the Niger Delta.

«Atiku Abubakar urges all Nigerians to support the government at all levels noting that as a watershed year in the fight against terrorism, the attention of the nation would now focus on reconstruction and rehabilitation of the areas devastated by the insurgents as well as provision of critical socio - economic infrastructure in other parts of the country for development purposes.»

«Skills shortage for industrial development is one of the critical areas that the NPP will urgently address.

Armed with the feasibility study, the Town of Halfmoon will next discuss a number of issues critical to enabling development in the area, including infrastructure expansion, zoning and permitting.

«Understanding the host response will be a critical area in vaccine research,» says George Kemble, vice president of research and development for MedImmune Vaccines, recently purchased by AstraZeneca.

«It is unclear to what extent excessive televiewing in early childhood — a particularly critical time in the development of areas of the brain involved in self - regulation of emotional intelligence — can adversely affect social interactions,» said Pagani.

Protecting these important natural acoustic resources as development and land conversion progresses is critical if we want to preserve the character of protected areas.»

The Convention recognizes the importance of women in the implementation of the Convention, and identifies critical areas for their engagement: (i) awareness - raising, and participation in the design and implementation of programmes; (ii) decision - making processes that men and women adopt at the local level in the governance of development, implementation and review of regional and national action programmes (RAPs and NAPs); and (iii) capacity - building, education and public awareness, particularly at local level through the support of local organizations.

These cells can produce platelets and red blood cells, and a full understanding of their in vivo derivation and fate decision choices represent critical areas for our understanding of normal blood development and processes underlying cancer.

Regardless of the topic, the tasks of any World Development Report (WDR) are enormous: it has to synthesize a mounting amount of evidence; it has to provide a coherent framework of a critical policy area; it has to convene rigorous evidence for practical use in policy, using non-technical language; and it has to push the frontier of knowledge.

This scheme of work takes students through stages in making a successful composition Key areas covered are observation drawing skills, key terminology, rules of composition, critical referencing — contextual studies, development of ideas in range of media and approach and realisation of outcomes.

He designed MathStories.com to focus on what he sees as the weakest area of education — development of critical - thinking and problem - solving skills.

Children's thinking is clearly an interesting and complex part of children's development, but equally a critical area to ensure children learn by making sense of the world and questioning why things happen.

Under the system that is being adopted, students are assessed in the areas of academics, social / emotional development, critical thinking / problem solving, physical education, and fine and applied arts.

By 2015, the leaders pledged, the world would achieve measurable improvements in the most critical areas of human development: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV / AIDS, Malaria and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability, global partnership for development.

Strong foundations in the areas of language development and literacy are critical for young children and their future academic success.

The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.

Teaching requires a strong grasp of subject matter, an understanding of child and adolescent development, and the ability to spark creativity and critical thinking within a content area.

And in light of the recent critical study of teacher professional development by The New Teacher Project, schools and districts are asking hard questions about the impact of professional development on teacher practice in specific content areas like math or literacy.

Systematically measure children's growth in the critical areas of child development and early reading to identify students who are in need of more intensive instruction and to modify instructional practices.

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In addition, we prepare our students to be engaging, efficient, and critical educators through educational coursework that covers areas of instructional design, adolescent development, special education, language acquisition, and language teaching methods.

To address the first issue, a revamped NCLB would actually consist of a suite of assessment tools that would measure student development in areas such as critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity, in addition to subject matter.

C21 Canada and its members provide collaborative vision and support to help Canadian education organizations enhance learning in the foundation areas of literacy, numeracy and science while infusing 21st Century skills (creative problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, personal development, global citizenship and digital competency) into content, and instructional and assessment practices.

In addition to strengthening students» resiliency skills and teaching them critical social and emotional skills, the Success Highways Resiliency Curriculum for grades 6 - 10 supports the development of skills in many subject areas including English language arts, math, and social studies.

SEL lays the foundation for growth in all areas of development and is especially critical for children living in areas of concentrated poverty.

Her ethnographic research agenda has three broad areas of focus: (1) Theories of the state and state - society relations; (2) Social movements, critical pedagogy, and learning; (3) Latin American education and development.

The framework shares, in practical language, the critical practices of successful school turnaround in four domains, or areas of focus, that research and experience suggest are central to rapid and significant improvement: turnaround leadership, talent development, instructional transformation, and culture shift.

Derek joined New Visions in 2012 as a leadership development facilitator, and served most recently as a director of school support, responsible for managing a team of facilitators, coaches and consultants who work closely with the Manhattan / Bronx principals to help them meet their schools» performance targets in all critical areas.

For turnaround school leaders, NYCLA's coaching focuses on helping them hone their skill in these critical areas that are essential to the development of a positive school climate and culture, which is in turn key to turnaround success.

The brief first describes the elements of the intervention, including implementation, professional development and coaching support, in critical content areas.

The six - unit design incorporates school climate development and features a role for school leaders to reinforce critical topics in the communal areas of the school.

For example, many of the critical issues within the area of professional development involve principals acting as strong instructional leaders, prioritizing, providing resources, and allowing teachers to direct their own learning.

Three Critical Areas of Professional Development for Teaching in 21st Century Classrooms by Paula Johnson, IDRA Newsletter http://www.idra.org/resource-center/three-critical-areas-professional-development-teaching-21st-century-classrooms/

This resource provides critical questions to guide policy development around each of these areas, along with facts, guiding principles and core outcomes metrics for a quality college credit in high school program.

One of the key areas of cooperation identified in the new agreement is the development of P3s to advance critical infrastructure projects.

As you can see, many educational groups are focusing on this critical area of educational development and efforts here at the Department are encouraging.

The influence of postmodernism appeared to place both modernist abstraction and landscape painting in a more difficult critical position and the second part of this lecture will look at some of the developments in landscape painting and abstraction since the publication of Rosenblum's book in 1975 using examples of key contemporary painters and my own work in this area.

However, given the potential future expansion of oil palm plantations and other land developments onto selectively logged lands, the fate of much of Southeast Asia's biodiversity may ultimately hinge on whether the conservation community can overcome the opportunity cost of oil palm or can encourage the implementation of large - scale landscape planning in order to reliably protect areas critical for biodiversity.

The research, published in Friday's issue of the journal Science, casts doubt on the argument that deforestation is a critical step towards development and suggests that mechanisms to compensate communities for keeping forests standing may be a better approach to improving human welfare, while simultaneously sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services, in rainforest areas.

The order also calls for development of an Offshore Wind Strategic Plan for New Jersey that will focus on «critical components» of the offshore industry, including workforce development, data collection, environmental protection and others areas.

The current GOES - N - class sounder temperature and moisture profiles provide relatively coarse temporal and spatial coverage, which is informative for indicating the synoptic - scale severe weather threat to areas, but insufficient for «nowcasting» cell development on the mesoscale or adequately resolving boundary - layer structures critical for nowcasts of severe thunderstorms.