Sentences with phrase «developmental impact of school»

«When we talk about empathy, perspective - taking, and mindfulness, those things are circulating around a broader framework of social - emotional learning,» says Associate Professor Stephanie Jones, who researches the developmental impact of school - based interventions targeting children's social - emotional skills and aggressive behavior.

Not exact matches

As is true in all aspects of development, how your child feels about his skills and competence in other developmental areas (e.g., how he is doing in school) effects how he feels about himself socially, and impacts what challenges he is willing to take on.

Academic learning that comes to mind includes more prosaic elements of law, such as contract vs criminal vs administrative law; the developmental history of their own city; recent (50 years) political history of their city; basics of land law; current vs past thinking in urban planning; specific budgetary investigations at both the state and local level; school funding law in their state; essentials of Leadership, EPA impacts on dismantling abandoned structures; economic price theory; or the competitive strengths and weaknesses of their own city or region.

Schools should regularly look to invest in training courses for its teachers, however, to really reap the benefits and gain real value, a school must first identify the specific developmental needs of its staff to ensure that the proposed training sessions will positively impact student outcomes.

If you peel back the bottom 1 or 2 percent of schools in performance in any state, there are a lot of things that are not well done in those schools, but we also haven't done enough to wrestle with the massive challenges and developmental issues that impact these kids before they walk through the school door.

Schools serving students with ASD often must address the impact of this developmental disability on social skills, communication skills and behavior functioning.

Father figures can have a major impact on a young girl's self - esteem, says Harvard Extension School professor of human development and developmental psychopathology Dante Spetter in the article, «Celebrating Fatherhood and the Role of Fathers.»

The clear social gradient associated with children's vocabulary, emerging literacy, well - being and behaviour is evident from birth to school entry.1 These trajectories track into adolescence and correspond to poorer educational attainment, income and health across the life course.2 — 10 Neuroimaging research extends the evidence for these suboptimal trajectories, showing that children raised in poverty from infancy are more likely to have delayed brain growth with smaller volumetric size of the regions particularly responsible for executive functioning and language.11 This evidence supports the need for further effort to redress inequities that arise from the impact of adversity during the potential developmental window of opportunity in early childhood.

We use the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) to assess the simultaneous impact of family, school, and community risk and promotive factors on several commonly studied positive (social competence, 25,26 self - esteem, 27,28 health - promoting behavior29) and negative (externalizing and internalizing behavior, 30 academic problems31) developmental outcomes.

[9] Levenstein P, Levenstein S, Shiminski J A, Stolzberg JE, «Long - term impact of a verbal interaction program for at - risk toddlers: An exploratory study of high - school outcomes in a replication of the Mother - Child Home Program,» Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.