Teachers at Waldorf schools are trained to
focus on the individual child as well as the group.
«In addition to INSIGHTS»
focus on individual children's strengths and needs, our study illustrates the importance of understanding and supporting classrooms as a whole at the transition to formal schools,» said McClowry, professor of applied psychology at NYU Steinhardt and the study's senior author.
She cultivates a broad generic understanding of classroom practices for the Literacy Program and a more fine - tuned
focus on the individual child in her Reading Recovery role.
Best thing to do is to embrace Steiner Education and actually
focus on the individual child without high stakes testing.
It's important that parents don't just
focus on the individual child exhibiting this behaviour.
Not exact matches
Finally, we also offer licensed pre-kindergarten programs which
focus on supporting
children in becoming independent and confident learners, through our unique curriculum that respects each
child's
individual development.
With a 1:10 player to coach ratio, our experienced and educated staff is able to evaluate
individual players and
focus on developing your
child's athletic and team building skills.
Being grounded in progressive education principles means the school community has a
child - centered approach to learning that
focuses on the social, emotional, and academic needs of each
individual.
This misunderstanding may then lead to responses that
focus on providing care for
individual children rather than supporting the families and communities that care for orphans and are in need of support.»
I am convinced that the way to change the culture of youth sports from one
focused on winning to one that puts safety of our
children ahead of, or at least
on a par, with team and
individual success, is what the sports parents of this country want.
Along with utilizing a DIR / Floortime approach, Melanie provides
individual, dyadic, family, and group therapy to
children, adolescents, and adults, with a special
focus on developmental delays, anxiety, depression, social skills, and emotional regulation.
Their sacrifices tend to be more
focused on the family as a whole and less
on individual children.
While counselors might have to spend a lot of time
focusing on individual education plans, testing, and other educational issues, school personnel should also be available to talk with
children about emotional issues that affect their performance and demeanor at school.
Conversely, Attachment Parenting
focuses on healthy attachment, mutually - trusting relationships, and responding to the needs of the
individual child.
Part I is intended to help a responsible
individual or group through the steps proposed, and
focuses on the process involved in developing a national infant and young
child feeding strategy.
There are about a million or more good things parents can do to help their
children grow up to be stellar
individuals, but study after study has found there are some simple, doable things parents can
focus on to give their
children the best chance at being successful and happy throughout their lives.
Contrary to their claims, these precepts are potentially unhealthy for the
child, and leave parents
focused on the clock, the rules, and the book, rather than
on what their
individual baby needs in order to grow and develop physically and emotionally.
Encourage your
child to
focus on individual goals and support them in pursuit of those goals.
It has also been extended to refer to all of our relationships with
individuals, but the
focus has remained
on the parent -
child attachment relationship, most likely due to the extreme importance of this initial relationship.
Rather, like the Consensus Statement, the
focus of the various state concussion laws is
on educating and assigning responsibility to those
individuals who have direct contact with the players to prevent a
child suspected of having suffered a concussion from returning to play without first obtaining clearance from the
child's medical provider.»
They
focus is
on one another as opposed to a third dependent
individual — a
child.
and
Focus On Transition (two therapeutic programs for
individuals with aphasia and cognitive - linguistic deficits), Hear It, Say It, Learn It (a
children's program for developing language and literacy), and co-author of a best - selling textbook Acquired Language Disorders: A Case - based Approach, in its 2nd edition.
Wellspring Community Services
focuses on serving
individuals,
children, and families who are experiencing crisis through five programs: Baby Boutique, Domestic Violence Intervention, Early Learning, Housing, and Parent
Child Services.
The Welsh Liberal Democrat manifesto contained a pledge to reduce infant class sizes, establishing a dedicated fund to ensure teachers had the time to
focus on a
child's
individual needs.
The 2003 primary strategy emphasised «enjoyment and a
child's
individual needs», today's research states, before noting that many consider this approach «contradictory» with traditional
focus on excellence, attainment and standards.
Given that the tax system is
focused on individuals rather than families, the change could lead to perverse outcomes which see an arbitrary cut - off point for families receiving
child benefit.
While most initiatives are
focused on sequencing patient genomes, Ken Mandl, Isaac Kohane, and Joshua Mandel of Boston
Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School argue that an
individual's genetic information could be put to even better use if it was linked to app - fueled, electronic health record systems.
They
focus on enhancing philanthropic support and partnerships with
individuals, families, businesses, and foundations to benefit Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro
Children's Hospital.
Today, however, there are many other
individuals (men and women, young and old,
children, and patients with a stable chronic disease) whose main
focus is
on using weight training to improve or maintain strength.
Lawmakers should move beyond Chapter 1's current
focus on individual remediation and use the program as a tool to force state and local officials to upgrade the quality of schools that educate disadvantaged
children, a panel of Chapter 1 experts has urged.
Focus on moving the
individual child forward, in other words, and de-emphasize ranking the performance among peers or against a fixed time limit.
Our open education philosophy
focuses us
on the whole,
individual child.
They tend to
focus on small,
individual research projects rather than supporting large - scale development and evaluations of alternative techniques and programs for helping all
children to succeed in school.
«We don't want to see any
children discriminated against and to help this we have introduced the biggest reforms to the Special Educational Needs and Disability system in a generation,
focusing support
on individual needs and aspirations.»
There is no compromise
on the quality of service rather more time and energy is spent
on each
child by giving
individual focus so that the
child emerges as a confident learner.
«As a Head teacher it's very important we're able to
focus on the
individual needs of every
child.
It
focuses on the development of the
child according to its
individual nature.
Whereas Froebel and Montessori
focused on having
children learn from their own
individual activity, Steiner's activities were more social and collaborative.
«Understanding [«troublemakers»] as canaries in the mine, as responding to poisons and toxins that are invisible to us in the classroom air, really shifted my whole
focus [as a teacher] away from thinking I need to intervene
on individual children and instead asking myself, what is this behavior a response to in the environment, and what is this kid making visible to us that, if altered, could actually make the classroom a healthier place for all of the
children?»
Our approach to achieving this goal
focuses on three objectives: (1) to develop a reliable, predictive panel of biomarkers (including both biological and bio-behavioral measures) that can identify
children, youth, and parents showing evidence of toxic stress, and that can be collected in pediatric primary care settings; (2) to conduct basic, animal and human research
on critical periods in development and
individual differences in stress susceptibility, thereby informing the timing and design of a suite of new interventions that address the roots of stress - related diseases early in the life cycle; and (3) to build a strong, community - based infrastructure through which scientists, practitioners, parents, and community leaders can apply new scientific insights and innovative measures to the development of more effective interventions in the first three postnatal years.
In the face of these powerful forces, MI theory has served as a reminder to educators to
focus on the strengths and weaknesses of the
individual child and has also offered conceptual support for educators seeking to prevent
individual students from being stigmatized by a low score
on one of these standardized tests.
Specifically, this project has two key elements: (1) a one - day convening (12/12/14) that forges relationships among stakeholders in Hampden County's early education field with influential leaders and experts from across the nation, where they engage in mutual learning and dialogue around the goal of strengthening
individual and organization capacities to advance early learning for all; and (2) a multi-pronged communication strategy, rooted in the convening and designed to provide guidance around the field's most pressing needs, with a particular
focus on strengthening the quality of Pre-K for at - risk
children, like many of those growing up Hampden County.
My planning template
focuses on three targets for each
individual child in EYFS.
Drawing inspiration from dozens of interviews conducted over the course of a two - year period, Lawrence - Lightfoot
focuses on the experiences of 11
individuals in particular, including an Iranian teenager forced to flee political strife and come to America alone, a middle - aged gay man and his coming out, a bullied
child whose parents take him out of school, and a psychotherapist who guides abuse victims in an effort to finally «terminate» therapy.
Now, an independent study of the Bay Area's five middle schools operated by KIPP (the Knowledge Is Power Program) concludes that its intense
focus on the academic and social success of each
individual child does have measurable benefits beyond what traditional schools have achieved - usually.
Daniels wanted more
individual attention and
focus on her
child — and she knew she wanted her to get the best possible education.
They tended to
focus on immediate concerns regarding
individual children and their progress in reading.
They are constantly sharing ideas and strategies to reach the
individual needs of the students while using a systematic approach to
focus on the whole
child.»
With a
focus on teaching the whole
child in an academically advanced environment, the staff work to establish norms of highly successful and socially - motivated
individuals in a community that promotes collaboration, leadership, and celebrates the diversity of the students, families, and staff.
Woven into this highly personal narrative about a boy's journey from silent sidekick to hero are themes that translate to public education: the challenges of finding the right school or instructional method to meet a student's
individual needs; the impact of social stigmas
on expectations and performance, particularly for «discarded students» in low - income neighborhoods, and the need for a culture of high expectations to counter those negative societal assumptions; the importance of tireless,
focused, caring teachers who do whatever it takes to help students succeed; and the ability for all
children — regardless of learning challenges or race or income level — to learn.