Sentences with phrase «existing student skills»

To target effective interventions, it is essential to have a clear, accurate understanding of existing student skills and strengths.

Not exact matches

Universities exist to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and culture that will prepare them for life, while enhancing the intellectual capital upon which we all depend.

At that time, the tutors and industry specialists who worked in the department training young chefs recognised that there were no existing seafood specific competitions, aimed at colleges to showcase the skills of their students.

It also reflects the noncognitive behaviors and mindsets and traits that enable students to leverage their existing cognitive skills more effectively in school.

These ten main knowledge and expertise skill sets I wish I had when I embarked on the journey of starting and growing my own private midwifery practice are among the sort of guidanceI am passionate about providing to prospective, student, and new midwives, as well as any midwife who wants to start a practice or improve an existing one.

A student who transfers to a school during the school year may seek to immediately join an existing team if the roster for the specific interscholastic or intrascholastic extracurricular activity has not reached the activity's identified maximum size and if the coach for the activity determines that the student has the requisite skill and ability to participate.

«Start with the existing skills of the students in math and reading, and determine what they need,» Hrabowski advises.

Fewer than half (375, or 44 %) of respondents representing 134 institutions (59 % of the total) reported having existing formal programs for graduate students to develop skills for non-academic careers.»

Fortunately, an increasing number of opportunities exist for students to learn about and hone the skill sets needed to be competitive for a nontraditional career.

Students at universities that do not offer transferable skills training can take advantage of existing resources available online or use the opportunity to network and demonstrate leadership skills by coordinating a local skills training event.

Unfortunately, when majority students are not exposed to minority professors, they are more likely to buy into the myth that we do not exist or that our skills are not up to par with everyone else's.

This funding enabled them to initiate or enhance existing programs designed to help students obtain the skills necessary to partner with clinician - scientists in the application of emerging biological knowledge to medical practice.

Our classes refine our students» existing massage therapy skills and aid them in expanding the services available to their clients.

Students understand that they need to have these skills in order to exist in this world, so they're way ahead of us.

This resource includes activities to help students to take stock of their existing skills and plan to develop future skills through all their activities including academic learning, hobbies and social time.

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.

As importantly, it appears that existing survey - based measures of non-cognitive skills, although perhaps useful for making comparisons among students within the same educational environment, are inadequate to gauge the effectiveness of schools, teachers, or interventions in cultivating the development of those skills.

They use their existing scientific method pre-assessment from the previous year, and to assess the skills they design a simple performance task for students to complete.

We boldly stated that our school existed to help our students gain the basic skills that will enable them to

Start by promoting student awareness of their existing organizing skills.

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.

Most of the current research is at the granular, curricular level, focusing on the particular cognitive skills and there exists little by the way of international comparative case studies that looks at the processes by which a balance of cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal skills are developed in students.

Now, more than ever, educators, parents, business leaders, policymakers and students have a responsibility to recognize modern needs and foster the pertinent competencies — knowledge, skills, attitudes and behavior — that will enable new and existing generations to deal with the social, economic and environmental challenges that face our world.

Instruction should begin where the student's skill level currently exists.

The primary purpose of formative assessment is to understand where students» skills exist so that we can diagnose gaps (and extensions for gifted), and develop and implement a differentiated lesson that meets each student's needs — and then repeat the cycle.

Or, plenty of jobs could still exist, but today's students could be locked in a fierce competition for a few richly rewarded positions requiring advanced technical and interpersonal skills.

Teachers receive training on how to prepare students for the digital workplace and integrate digital skills development into existing lessons.

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.

Our consultants can provide guidance for states, districts, and schools on translating the NGSS into classroom practice, developing assessments aligned to the NGSS, analyzing gaps in knowledge and skills, and identifying opportunities to embed NGSS into existing courses to support student learning.

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.

And we must provide support for new and existing teachers so that they can continue developing their craft and hone their leadership skills for themselves, their students, and their communities.

-- Define social & emotional learning (SEL) and why it is essential to students» success — Understand key research relating SEL skills to student success — Relate district / organization goals to SEL — Integrate SEL into existing district / organization frameworks and protocols — Design a comprehensive approach to screening, assessing, promoting, and evaluating SEL competencies using the DESSA — Select a quality SEL curricula aligned to your specific needs — Learn how to integrate SEL - supporting practices into everyday interactions — Use SEL data to plan for instruction and intervention

It enhances existing skills, and gives students distributed practice and spaced repetition of each concept.

Whereas many schools operate as if their primary purpose is to ensure that students are taught or are merely provided with an opportunity to learn, PLCs are dedicated to the idea that their organization exists to ensure that all students actually acquire the essential knowledge, skills, and dispositions of each unit, course, and grade level.

Our students must improve their skills while also examining the important questions of justice and morality that exist in history and the world around us.

TGR Foundation, A Tiger Woods Charity and Discovery Education have partnered on an exciting new initiative to champion breakthrough transformations by digitizing and scaling existing TGR Foundation curriculum and programs as we equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to exceed any and all expectations.

Districts should use these opportunities to gather formative information from students about their existing learning mindsets, skills, and habits.

There is no single metric that can evaluate student writing skills in the same ways that exist for reading and math.

Since no one single assessment of writing skills exists, the best alternative is to collect multiple student writing examples over time.

Students were being prepared for jobs that no longer existed and were missing out on learning key skills.

Fortunately, policymakers at all levels have clear opportunities under the new law to expand existing research and apply evidence - based interventions in support of students» learning mindsets and skills, and the Every Student Succeeds Act provides fertile ground for policymakers who seek to prioritize students» learning mindsets, skills, and habits and promote student sStudent Succeeds Act provides fertile ground for policymakers who seek to prioritize students» learning mindsets, skills, and habits and promote student sstudent success.

We seek to continuously improve our existing programs as well as identify new programs that will develop student leadership skills and positive character.

(3) Adaptions or modifications in existing curricula or instructional approaches which allow the student to develop skills necessary to make a transition from the school environment to community life and employment.

Broadening accountability systems in this way is the practical means by which states can raise expectations for student learning beyond the basic reading and math skills existing achievement tests emphasize.

Most educators would agree that their students are not well - skilled in critical thinking and less likely to be aware that fake news even exists.

Learning opportunities take into account existing knowledge, skills, and abilities, set high expectations, and push students in supportive ways to reach their personal goals.»

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).

With Thinkster, your student is given a personalized curriculum after an initial assessment gauges their existing knowledge and skill level.

These are self - awareness, self - management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision - making.26 While there are existing assessments that measure aspects of SEL for particular groups of students, none of these assessments» purpose is to hold schools accountable for students» SEL.27 Nonetheless, providing local educators with insights into how well students are developing their SEL can be useful to inform instructional practice.