Sentences with phrase «focus on academic skill»

«Reassessing the Achievement Gap: Fully Measuring What Students Should Be Taught in School» argues that NAEP results offer a «distorted» picture of student achievement because of their exclusive focus on academic skills and take attention away from nontested areas that often fall under the purview of schools.

As Haskins points out, the early childhood education community has resisted a focus on academic skills in Head Start, concerned that attention to academic skills will dilute efforts to promote positive social and emotional development and that the comprehensive health services that Head Start currently provides will be abandoned.

Jamie has found her home here at Thrive where a laser - focus on academic skills, a passion for deeper learning, and a culture of rich relationships pave the way.

Not exact matches

The MBA Global program focuses on academic theory and research - based learning, while the MBA in the Management of Technology and Innovation (MBA MTI) covers management skills while examining complex, technology - related business problems.

«Provocative and timely, Ellsberg lays bare what he sees as a giant hole in much of traditional education — a focus on «academic» knowledge and a de-emphasis on the knowledge and skills necessary to actually succeed in life.

You may recall that the original impetus for focusing on this previously unexplored set of skills, in How Children Succeed and elsewhere, was the growing body of evidence that, when it comes to long - term academic goals like high - school graduation and college graduation, the test scores on which our current educational accountability system relies are clearly inadequate.

We all want our kids to do well in school and to master certain skills and concepts, but our largely singular focus on academic achievement has resulted in a lack of attention to other components of a successful life — the ability to be independent, adaptable, ethical, and engaged critical thinkers.

A singular focus on academics keeps kids from developing other life skills critical for success in a global economy: the ability to self - motivate, collaborate, problem - solve, and persevere when the going gets tough.

The irony is that the very skills kids need to thrive in a global economy — collaboration, innovation, problem - solving — are the ones that get neglected when the sole focus is on academics.

While at a preschool like this the kids will learn more academics earlier, I feel the focus on developing positive discipline and good, self - respecting social skills is far more important for kids this age.

Eligible activities will include an activity that: contributes to the development of creative skills or expertise in artistic or cultural activities; provides a substantial focus on wilderness and the natural environment; helps children develop and use particular intellectual skills; includes structured interaction among children where supervisors teach or help children develop interpersonal skills; or provides enrichment or tutoring in academic subjects.

She looks at the students as whole people, and at this stage she is focused more on social and emotional skills, rather than academic milestones.

This intensive summer program focuses on building children's social, emotional and problem - solving skills through recreational and academic activities, and even field trips.

Focusing on the latest research dealing with environmental factors and non-cognitive skills (perseverance, attachment, relationships, etc.), this quick read provides insights on possible strategies and interventions which lead to greater academic and personal success.

It also reorganised secondary education into two basic types: grammar schools, which focused on academic studies, with the assumption that many of their pupils would go on to higher education; and secondary modern schools, which were intended for children who would be going into trades, and which therefore concentrated on basic and vocational skills.

However, a spokeswoman for the Department for Education and Skills said the new science GCSE would «maintain a clear focus on academic rigour» while engaging young people so more of them continued the subject after GCSE.

Though the course's focus stood squarely on the needs of the academic scientist, many of the skills taught, such as time management, project management, collaborations, and mentoring, carry over to nonacademic jobs as well.

«Despite budget cuts and increasing emphasis on academic skills, schools are choosing to focus on improving student health, which ultimately can support improved academic performance.»

BEC focuses on enabling members to explore alternative science careers and develop entrepreneurial skills through interaction with peers and professionals representing industry, government and academic career paths.

Our integrated approach focuses on the whole child and combines physical and sensory - motor exercises with academic skill training, healthy nutrition and confidence building.

Important Reminder: When you do these PBL skill - building lessons or mini-projects, make sure their focus is also on important content and academic skills drawn from your standards.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

If we take seriously the ways in which literacy skills drive academic success, focusing immediate reform plans on bolstering these skills makes good sense, and that tack has been widespread.

Ultimately, students did focus more on academic and grit skills (especially when I began returning quests instead of simply assigning low grades to mediocre submissions).

Beside focusing on developing communication and reading skills, Marilee Sprenger — an expert in brain - based instructional strategies and author of Teaching the Critical Vocabulary of the Common Core — recommends that ELLs learn high - frequency academic language terms that are embedded in the Common Core State Standards.

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).

Such interventions focus not on improving academic skills or knowledge, but on changing students» mindsets about learning — combating negative feelings, or increasing a sense of belonging, or reframing failure as an opportunity for improvement.

These charter schools have a «no excuses» orientation and an explicit focus on cultivating non-cognitive skills as a means to promote academic achievement and post-secondary success.

I got to try out the new thinking skills I was developing in my first intersession, a two - week period in which students put aside their usual academics and take classes focusing on extracurricular activities, design thinking, and real - world skill building.

Gamification and the focus on fostering practical business skills are a growing market demand and a powerful trend in corporate training as well as academic environment.

With a hyper focus on basic reading and math skills that has yet to lead to high academic performance, isn't it time to purge these reforms?

Despite the need to keep the focus on academic achievement, the Teacher Advancement Program acknowledges that research has identified pedagogical methods that help students learn, so it includes evaluation of classroom skills as part of its teacher compensation system.

During the first year of the ELT program, academic intervention courses focused on math skills since student performance data showed that all students needed support in math.

Instead of focusing on academics, the program targeted students» psychosocial skills — emotion regulation, empathy, friendship skills, self - control, and social problem - solving skills.

But these skills are not uniform, however, and unintentionally misnaming them can obscure the differences that research has identified — about when and how they develop, when it's most important to focus on them, and how they predict academic, social, and behavioral outcomes.

So we need more focus on what research shows works in improving academic standards, addressing essential life skills and preparing young people for higher education and apprenticeships.

But while today's high - achieving schools for low - income students (Knowledge Is Power Program [KIPP], for instance) are passionate about cultivating both character and traditional academic skills, schools built around the 7 Habits are focused on training confident kids who are good at planning, goal setting, and decisionmaking.

Third, there is the danger that a reliance on test - based measures will lead teachers to focus narrowly on test - taking skills at the cost of more valuable academic content, especially if administrators do not provide them with clear and proven ways to improve their practice.

Focusing on academic issues are the less strident but still determined critics who say many non-native English speakers are graduating from school systems with poor reading skills in both English and their native language.

Explorations take place on non-apprenticeship days and focus on building the academic skills of writing, data analysis, and oral presentation.

In a separate report, a council of 28 scientists called on schools to focus on SEL, making the argument that student success is tied not only to academic ability and cognitive skills (such as working memory and self - regulation) but also to emotional skills (such as the ability to cope with frustration) and interpersonal skills (including empathy and the ability to resolve conflict).

Responsive Classroom - An approach for elementary classroom management that focuses on increasing academic achievement, decreasing problem behaviors, improving social skills, and developing higher - quality instruction.

Letter writing is an academic skill — requiring students to focus on a specific purpose and an authentic audience — but it's also a perfect opportunity to get students thinking about who and what they should be thankful for.

In February 2011 the Pathways to Prosperity Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education released a report challenging our excessive focus on the four - year college pathway, arguing that we need to create additional pathways that combine rigorous academics with strong technical education to equip the majority of young people with the skills and credentials to succeed in our increasingly challenging labor market.

E-schools would be able to admit students best situated to take advantage of the unique elements of virtual schooling: flexible hours and pacing, a safe and familiar location for learning, a chance for individuals with social or behavioral problems to focus on academics, greater engagement from students who are able to choose electives based on their own interests, and the chance to develop high - level virtual communication skills.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

As evidence has mounted showing that failure is often determined by what happens in the toddler years, educators have converted kindergarten and preschool from «playful social experience to a more narrow educational opportunity focused on so - called cognitive and academic skills.»

Project 2: Kernels of Practice for SEL: Evidence - Based Strategies for Social, Emotional, and Ethical Development In recent decades many school based programs have focused not only on academics but on an inter-related set of skills that fall under the headings of social and emotional learning (SEL), character education, bullying prevention, life skills, and / or youth development.

Dexter says she credits her time at HGSE with giving her the skills, especially around human development in cultural contexts and statistics training, to bring an academic focus to her work on the committee.

The focus is on academic English; critical thinking; vocabulary building; and developing communication skills through listening, speaking, reading, and writing.