Sentences with phrase «general education context»

First, it is designed to guide the delivery of instruction for adolescent struggling readers, particularly secondary interventions in the general education context.

Not exact matches

Catholic universities adopt many of their practices from the general context of higher education in the United States and around the world; since they emerge from the Church and draw from the heritage and teaching of the Church, it should not be surprising to non «Catholics that the Catholic universities also relate features of Catholic heritage to the university.

It may seem that professional schools are an exception to the rule; that social context and purpose need to be considered only in the case of so - called «general education.»

This call for more attention to «values» takes place in the context of a general structural revision in Indian higher education.

Commenting on the statement on licensing teachers by Tristram Hunt, Shadow Education Secretary, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «When this proposal was made by the last Government in 2010, it was in the context of a national framework of pay and conditions of service which recognised and rewarded teachers as highly skilled professionals and which provided them with rights and entitlements to working conditions which supported them in focusing on teaching and learning.

This context is fine in larger cities as it fits with the general social ideals and norms, this is however not the case for remote and regional centres, especially with regards to NESB indigenous Australia, where our education system basically serves as a tool (ethically / morally dysfunctional tool) for their assimilation into national Australian community where they find meaning through participation at all levels.

There have been recent newspaper articles calling for improved sex education in schools across the world.1, 2 Sometimes the focus is on sexuality and relationships education in a general context, other times it's concerned with specific areas of education that principals and educators believe should be implemented in as many schools as possible using a whole - school approach.

While there is a great deal of research on the TPACK model in general education settings, research regarding TPACK in special education contexts is scarce.

Kevin Courtney, the joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said that in the context of the «ongoing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention», the government would be «well - advised to consult with teacher training institutions, and take a hard look at whether the tests are assessing skills of a kind which it is absolutely essential for teachers to attain».

This BBA blog highlights a comprehensive approach to early childhood education in the context of the national election, which in general is not paying much attention to public education issues.

The Report's central conclusion is that, although traditional legal pedagogy is very effective in certain aspects, it overemphasizes legal theory and underemphasizes practical skills and professional development.5 By focusing on theory in the abstract setting of the classroom, the Report argues, traditional legal education undermines the ethical foundations of law students and fails to prepare them adequately for actual practice.6 Traditional legal education is effective in teaching students to «think like lawyers,» but needs significant improvement in teaching them to function as ethical and responsible professionals after law school.7 As I will discuss in greater detail below, in general, the Report recommends «contextualizing» and «humanizing» legal education by integrating clinical and professional responsibility courses into the traditional core curriculum.8 In this way, students will learn to think like lawyers in the concrete setting of actual cases and clients.9 The Report refers to pedagogical theories developed in other educational settings and argues that these theories show that teaching legal theory in the context of practice will not only better prepare students to be lawyers, it will also foster development of a greater and more deeply felt sense of ethical and professional identity.10

In this context, Dr Denvir acknowledges a general need in legal education in which Belfast may be well placed to provide a lead, «We have a responsibility to prepare students for a career in a new form.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

These videos present the Primary Level strategies within Elementary School and Secondary School contexts; Reading, Math, and Behavior contexts; Group Instruction and Individual Instruction classroom contexts; and students contexts including General Education, Learning and Behavior Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Moderate and Severe Disabilities.