Sentences with phrase «existing language skills»

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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).

The Programme has generated many different projects and activities such as Youth Forums, skills development training courses, educative workshops and seminars, the World Heritage Volunteer Programme and its main tool, World Heritage in Young Hands (WHYH), an educational resource kit for school teachers, existing in 37 national language versions, and which has reached at least 1 million young students.

Through her research, Uccelli has found that without understanding and addressing the immense variability in students» language skills, schools run the risk of maintaining or even exacerbating inequalities that exist in the larger society.

Defenders of the existing approach of teaching foreign - language - speaking students in their own tongues while developing their English skills vowed yesterday to fight the initiative campaign.

Visual Thinking Strategies for Preschool shows how teachers can add visual thinking strategies (VTS) to their existing curriculum to encourage language, critical thinking, and social skills for children ages three to five.

Existing research has shown that adequate development of academic language and literacy skills is crucial for students» school success (Fang 2012; Schleppegrell 2004; Schleppegrell and O'Hallaron 2011; Zwiers, 2008).

Also, because the population of English language learners is growing much faster than the numbers of well - trained specialists in ELL instruction, most schools will need to leverage their existing expertise by encouraging teachers to learn from and collaborate with skilled colleagues.

Pick up the local language before you travel, or improve on your existing skills, with Cactus Language Evening Courses in the UK.

Michigan Legal Help Program Location: Ann Arbor, MI Brief Description: The legal fellow will assist with content development and maintenance for the Michigan Legal Help website (reviewing & updating existing legal information content according to Quality Assurance Protocols; conducting research and drafting new legal information content for the website; learning plain language writing skills; etc..)

Age, educational levels, language ability and the transferability of existing work skills play a factor in the formulas.

If Google can make it easier for some existing English - language apps to become available in other languages, it could lead to more rapid population of voice apps in regional stores (i.e. skill stores in Alexa parlance).

«If you are already an Alexa developer and want to address new customers in France, you can optimize your existing skill by adding the new French language model...»

Recruitment Consultant Job Overview * Providing high levels of customer service to candidates and clients * Telephone and email marketing of company's service to prospect clients * Building relationships through Account Management of new and existing clients * Attending client visits across the UK * Searching and matching candidates to vacancies using our database and job boards * Reviewing candidate applications and suitability to a live vacancy * Telephone interviewing candidates * Write and advertise jobs online Recruitment Consultant Position Requirements * Self - motivated, strong work ethic with a positive attitude * A personal drive to be successful and ambitious * A minimum of 5 GCSE's (A * - C) including English Language and Maths (A Levels and Degree advantageous) * Proven written and verbal English language skills Recruitment Consultant Package * Salary # 15K — # 24K * Performance Related Salary Structure + Uncapped Commission Structure * Realistic OTE for Year 1 is # 22 - 28K, Year 2 is # 25 - 35K, Year 3 is # 30 - 50K + * Early Finish Incentive for Friday afternoons * Quarterly Performance Bonuses up to # 2000 per year * 20 days» holiday + 8 Bank Holiday + Paid Christmas Shutdown * Regular social events and annual high biller trips We, Bennett and Game Recruitment, a technical recruitment agency based in Chichester are acting as a Recruitment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Because toxic stress and behavioral allostasis underlie these well - established associations, important opportunities exist to minimize the impact of child adversity by promoting the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships that buffer toxic stress, and encouraging the rudimentary but foundational SE, language, and cognitive skills that promote resilience and the adoption of healthy, adaptive coping skills.

Given the variability that exists within the linguistically diverse population, there are multiple strategies for approaching the measurement of language skills among young DLLs, whether one is using direct child assessments or parent reports.

Other measures of caregiver - or parent - reported young child development exist or are under development, including the Early Development Instrument and the Index of Early Human Capability, which incorporate items representing each of these domains and are being used across high -, middle -, and low - income countries.1 Important complements to this form of measure are those assessments that can capture development in specific areas over time (e.g. growth in language or emotional skills).