Sentences with phrase «high value skills»

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Cisco values a diverse and inclusive environment and believes in an effective high - skilled immigration system.»

In the case of a senior businessperson, the value of their time in their best skill might be far higher than $ 500 an hour.

WLES underpins other, more complex skills, so if you organize formal or informal higher levels of training — such as quality - assurance systems or computer use — you could be missing out on the full value of those programs if your employees don't have foundational literacy and numeracy skills.

If an employee knows that every three years they'll have an opportunity to test the market value of their skills there's a higher likelihood they'll make the investment to learn something new.

There's much higher levels of interest in testing the hypothesis of a deal's value in terms of technological transformation - skills, products, services, business models.

The irony is that while millions of Americans are unemployed or underemployed, companies which want to manufacture high value products in the U.S. have a hard time finding workers with the math and computer skills needed to operate factory equipment.

Join us as we shape the manufacturing industry of tomorrow — a high tech, highly skilled, high value and high paying industry that isn't dead, dying or on life support.

But if it's about figuring out how to get involved, consider offering your high - value skills for free — and be honest: «I'm just trying to add value and get my foot in the door.»

When we speak of an elite, do we mean people of high accomplishment, people who do valuable work with great skill, people who create standards and articulate values?

If I interpret the prospectus of the CMC correctly, the objective of the CMC namely to «impart to men and women an education of the highest order in the art and science of medicine and to equip them in the spirit of Christ for service In the relief of suffering and promotion of health», that is, the idea of a combination of training in professional skills, moulding the technically trained in a culture of human values and motivation, equipping them to utilize technology to serve «with compassion and concern for the whole person», the people especially the weaker sections of society, and giving spiritual reinforcement of that culture by the «spirit of Christ» and the motto «Not to be Ministered unto but to Minister» derived from him, goes back in tradition to the founder herself (Prospectus MBBS Course p. 5).

The predator's skills and attitudes are also those cherished by the economic establishment, and successfully learning them is the way value is most profoundly appropriated at MIT and at other institutions of higher education as well.

With our high - tech and high - skill workforce, Oneida County is still a leader in the information age - and a county where value of quality workmanship, pride in community heritage and a commitment to making government work on behalf of the people endures and flourishes.

High - value services and high - skill manufacturing need to be underwritten by common standards and competition laws.&raHigh - value services and high - skill manufacturing need to be underwritten by common standards and competition laws.&rahigh - skill manufacturing need to be underwritten by common standards and competition laws.»

He said higher education must raise a value system that will enable graduates to have an impact in national development and not deviant in society adding that it must create the relevant knowledge, skills and solutions to challenges impeding national growth and development.

Our vision is for a Welsh economy based on skills, creating high - value jobs to revitalise our market towns and rural communities.

We need to get behind the industries of the future so we're backing the skilled, high - value industries like green technology, aerospace and life sciences in which Britain has a real comparative advantage.

Given that the armed services put a high value on technical skills in recruiting and training, the proportion of science and engineering student - veterans is likely to be even higher.

Their value in higher education is varied and appreciated, as they can provide unique perspective and skills, access to new networks, and knowledge concerning how to craft win - win partnerships between universities and companies.

The authors discuss the value of skill - training programs with a preventive mental health focus and their application within higher educational settings.

He saw the value of my skills and relied on my experience to start a high - risk project.

Apart from high school teaching's value to students and society, Cruzan recommends it as a very satisfying career for those fellow scientists who have the needed skills, values, and interests.

They place high importance on family values, learning homemaking skills from early childhood.

The next generation of mathematicians may also put an end to the gender divide in maths related professions as girls and boys alike place high value on numeracy skills.

There's strong evidence that college adds real value in terms of students» skills, knowledge, and career preparation, value that translates into higher earnings.

If a teacher's apparent success was due to his or her students (and not to the teacher's talent and skill), then we should not see scores move when a particularly high value - added (or low value - added) teacher moves between schools or grades.

The demand for different technology skills including construction and 3D modelling was extremely high, printers were tough to service and maintain and, crucially, it was difficult to find value for the money spent for most users and organisations.

Here was a report that placed the highest value on the teacher, even as it recommended «develop [ing] a career continuum and compensation systems that reward knowledge and skill.»

Led by Stanford University professor Linda Darling - Hammond, a panel of experts outlined a comprehensive system that includes summative and formative tests of higher - order thinking skills, reflecting a marketplace that they say places increasing value on such skills.

Historically, the U.S. has dominated the world in high - skill, high - value - added production, in large part because its workers have had more human capital when compared to workers in other countries.

What we have learned to value in schooling is verbal and mathematical skills, and perhaps we have been excessive in the degree to which we value the kinds of intelligence that lead to high achievement in these competencies.

So are schools where teachers have 120 or more students to get to know (with this 120 shuffled at the end of each semester); where serious learning is broken up into snippets of 50 - minute «subject matter periods» arranged in no intellectually coherent order; where assessment keeps knowledge tightly packaged in separate intellectual domains; where short - term memory work is rated as deserving the highest value at the expense of original, long - term analytic work; and where the intellectual engine of the curriculum comes at most students and teachers as a list of subjects and skills, usually far too long for the careful savoring and devoted practice that leads to deep understanding and worthy habits.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

B&FC places strong emphasis on developing the skills needed to secure high - value employment and works with a large number of businesses to deliver training - including Ford, Morrisons and BAE Systems.

• The Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Select Committee in the House of Commons should monitor and report on higher education funding and provision each year, assessing the impact of changes on disadvantaged students, as well as mature and part - timers; • Better co-ordination between higher education ministers from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to rationalise student funding policies across the UK; • An investigation by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) into the impact of the latest changes to grants and loans, to ensure value for money for students and taxpayers; • Stronger evaluation of university spending of # 750m a year on outreach and access programmes to maximise their impact.

The mission of El Camino Real Charter High School is to educate our diverse student body by developing students» talents and skills so they will succeed in a changing world, value and respect themselves and others, and make a positive contribution to our global society.

Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) might also fit this situation if they are intended to capture higher - order learning and if the standardized tests (on which value - added measures are based) capture more basic skills.

We assess what we know to be of value: deep subject knowledge, conceptual understanding, and higher level thinking skills.

Perhaps most importantly, we point out to Secretary Duncan that teachers with ineffective teaching skills nevertheless might have strong value - added scores, especially when they teach high - achieving students (Hill, Kapitula, & Umland, 2011).

She is a constructivist that values the role of the arts in encouraging higher level thinking and building 21st century skills.

«The public clearly sees the value in Board certification as an assurance that teachers have met the profession's highest standards and have the knowledge and skills necessary to advance student learning,» said Ronald Thorpe, president and CEO of the National Board.

Hearing these divergent voices helps us understand better what different groups mean when they talk about school reform: policymakers and business leaders want new skills and higher standards; parents in disadvantaged communities worry about their children's lack of hope and eroding values; teachers and principals want the central office to take their concerns seriously; students want schools to be more respectful and engaging.

In addition to the fact that the tests are narrow and do not measure higher - order thinking skills, researchers have found that value - added models of teacher effectiveness are highly unstable: Teachers» ratings differ substantially from class to class and from year to year, as well as from one test to the next.

He said creating a «service ethos» in schools would emphasise «the importance of character formation and high ethical standards and values, as well as greater focus on advanced vocational skills.

Assessment requires that students demonstrate their knowledge and skills by performing tasks that are valued in the workplace, in higher education, and throughout society.

The highest value is often the collective wisdom of an experienced and highly - skilled team, whose understanding of quality is well aligned and routinely fine tuned.

High school students will learn the value of supporting their buddy in gaining independence, leadership skills and advocacy.

One is that high value - added scores in the initial year reflect teacher efforts to «teach to the test» rather than to produce meaningful skills.

The Country Day advising process allows students to expand their self - knowledge and gain greater awareness of their skills, interests, what they value, and what new areas they may want to explore in high school.

Baboquivari Unified School District, in partnership with families and communities, prepares students as leaders by providing a high quality educational environment where students excel with skills and knowledge needed to compete in a global society while retaining traditional values, cultures, and heritage.

Rather than focusing on management skills, knowledge or values, the assessment homes in on leadership behaviors that research has shown lead to higher student achievement.