Sentences with phrase «fostering academic knowledge»

The existing priorities of teacher preparation programs, however, are more aligned with fostering academic knowledge and critical thinking than with teaching these practical skills.

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Through a rich curriculum that integrates the academic, artistic and practical, Prairie Moon Waldorf School fosters the development of self - knowledge and helps children to engage fully in the world by awakening in them warmth of heart, clarity of thought, and strength of purpose.

Promote the parent as the child's first most important teacher for helping children not only acquire necessary academic skills and knowledge as well as teaching and sharing values, encouraging and supporting creativity and fostering curiosity and a love for learning.

She works directly with stakeholders to build models that foster adaptive learning about the dynamics of coupled human - natural systems and to integrate stakeholder knowledge with academic knowledge.

Rationale The rationale for describing this proposal as an initial step derives from a corpus of published research on the incorporation of research findings into policymaking (e.g the 1978 National Research Council report, Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection) as well as the project directors» own professional experiences in a number of academic and professional settings about the intellectual and networking challenges of fostering substantive dialogue across analytical perspectives, including the subfield perspectives on science policy.

The SMS fosters academic excellence and provides a core graduate education program encompassing knowledge, scholarship, communication and professional development.

The authors define digital learning games as those that «target the acquisition of knowledge as its own end, and foster habits of mind and understanding that are generally useful within an academic context.»

In this interactive webinar, Lynne Munson and Rachel Stack of Great Minds discuss and model art instruction with an 8th grade teacher, highlighting how the study of visual art builds cultural knowledge and fosters academic achievement for the widest range of learners.

CORE helps educators develop the knowledge and skills to implement sustainable MTSS frameworks that foster the academic, behavioral and social - emotional success of all students.

In doing so, teachers will foster academic optimism, raise expectations of excellence for every child, connect with each student's prior knowledge and deliver content knowledge in ways students can understand.

Presentations at the NCTE Conference were about narrative as a way of fostering student engagement and motivation, narrative as a way to understand other people's cultures or environments, narrative as a way to create student voice, narrative as a spur to innovative thinking, narrative as a way to learn any academic discipline, narrative as a form of persuasion, narrative as a way to create personal meaning and new knowledge, narrative as an impetus for social change, narrative as a way to inspire creativity, narrative as the beginning of inquiry, narrative as an expression of imagination, narrative as a reflection on one's own process of learning, and narrative as the basis of collaboration among those with multiple perspectives.

Amongst the student - related findings of the Banks study, the panel recommended that «schools should provide all students with opportunities to participate in extra - and co-curricular activities that develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes that increase academic achievement and foster positive interracial relationships.»

It is a comprehensive program that combines research and practice while equipping current special education professionals with knowledge and skills to provide services, mentor and coach other professionals and foster academic, behavioral and social success for students.