Sentences with phrase «kinds of learning opportunities»

What kinds of learning opportunities does the parent create for the child to master both physical and mental tasks, including language development?

First and foremost, system leaders must come up with clear and coherent guidelines about who gets to make which decisions about local school improvement, how those decisions are to be made, what kinds of learning opportunities can be pursued, and how the district will ensure equitable access to and participation in the process.

«That information then can be used as a starting point to make decisions about the next steps in the learning process [and] what kinds of learning opportunities [educators] need to provide.

The unfortunate reality is that from what we know, many students have not been exposed to the kind of learning opportunities that would enable them to achieve at higher levels.

Too many children are missing out on the chance to learn through wider and extra-curricular experiences which provide the kind of learning opportunities needed to foster positive mental well - being and personal growth.

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«Each period, whether a day, a month, a year or longer, represents an infinite number of possible learning opportunities, revealing more and more about correlations, hedging, law, regulation, culture, sizing positions, trading versus holding, activism, bankruptcy law and practice, government action and political impacts on investing, organizational realities and growth, as well as the kind of personal characteristics that are required to do this job well.»

Liberal learning, then, includes a variety of opportunities for the practice of freedom, and the well educated person is one who skillfully and zestfully exercises his formative powers in the pursuit of these various kinds of understanding.

If as a pastor you have not had an opportunity to learn either kind of skill, you have several options: Arrange to get the training you need (perhaps your church will provide a sabbatical leave); or ask your church to employ a «minister of group life and lay training» (with academic and clinical training in pastoral care and counseling); or employ a part - time pastoral counselor or accredited chaplain supervisor to coordinate lay training; or simply find a competent supervisor in your community and get your own on - the - job training as a trainer by having him or her coach you as you do lay training.

The leading event of its kind has a brand - new format for its conference, as well as more cross-industry learning opportunities than ever before.

We have a good opportunity to show that we have learned from that and that we are capable of dealing with these kinds of opponents.

Any child learns the best when they are approached with all learning styles and they have an opportunity to have multiple kinds of input.

What a great opportunity to encourage kids to not only love the art of writing letters but also to learn how kind words truly connect us.

When this kind of opportunity is built into everyday life, many children will learn the rules of algebraic addition and subtraction without any struggles.

It is absolutely wonderful and valuable to expose kids to all kinds of learning environments and academic opportunities from birth on, but assuring you're there to provide guidance (not control) as they learn to socially interact, problem solve and resolve conflict is paramount.

And so, spending that time with your partner reconnecting and also for the partner to really kind of learn the baby's signals too, so that way, you know, the partner can help keep the baby awake while the baby's feeding in those first couple of week, rubbing the palms, rubbing the baby's back, rubbing the mom's shoulders, because a lot of women tend to breastfeed with their shoulders up to their ears, [Laughs] and they need, you know, some help to kind of relax their body, and partners can do lots of skin - to - skin before and after feedings, so, there is nothing like smelling a brand new baby on your chest and again, it kind of goes back to what you had mentioned about skin - to - skin being, you know, so important for the baby and so, mom's not the only person who has the opportunity to do that.

Teresa Pitman Photo: Robert Zuill I grew up on a farm, so I had the opportunity to observe different kinds of animals and learn about how nature intended them to live.

«That kind of item - by - item feedback is essential to learning, and we're throwing that learning opportunity away,» she says.

Interactive experiences like sharing toys, working in a team, and listening to a teacher may provide opportunities for children to learn about what constitutes a desirable reputation and the kinds of strategies that are effective for building a good reputation in their social environment.

The program was the first of its kind to provide doctoral level scientists and engineers with an opportunity to learn about policymaking, while bolstering the technical expertise available to Members of Congress.

We learned that the radiation ancestors had an opportunity to amass genomic variation of many different kinds.

As a blogger, I have the unique opportunity to learn about and partner with all kinds of different brands.

Instead, here is a man rightly enraged by the ignorance and bigotry of those who have no interest in learning what kind of player — let alone man — he is but knows that any public display of that anger and frustration would ruin his career and the future careers of any African American who could have the opportunity to play in the majors.

The workshop offers a very special opportunity for all educators, those new to the QFT and those already experienced in using it, to learn more about innovative ways to teach the skill of question formulation by applying the QFT for different teaching and learning goals in all kinds of classrooms.

Cloud technologies and Learning Management Systems have already given teachers the opportunity to provide lectures halfway across the world, while students get remote access to any kind of course materials.

If we agree that the arts can provide all kinds of benefits for kids, from intellectual to creative to social - emotional, then shouldn't all kids have the opportunity to learn about and experience them?

Max's projects and presentations represent the kind of work the Key Learning Community, a public K - 12 school in Indianapolis, expects of all its students as part of its commitment to providing opportunities for exploration and development.

Now is the time to experiment with different kinds of learning and training modes, OTS courses, or courses that have been specially customized for your employees, integrating social and mobile learning with its myriad learning opportunities and, in general, with different kinds of new technologies and platforms.

However, for teachers to engage in deep, sustained professional learning experiences of this kind, they need mechanisms to de-privatise their practice and opportunities for sustained collaboration within the contexts of their everyday work.

However, that kind of frequency of training can not be achieved without the desire to also provide multiple training opportunities and provide new modalities of learning, including experiential and social learning, as opposed to simply traditional methods.

It was inspirational, and it was an opportunity to learn more of what it takes to prepare and support the kinds of outstanding leaders our schools need to ensure every child receives a great education and achieves at high levels.

It's also about learning some of the skills we are continuing to learn as a culture and it therefore gives kids a level of self - reliance that will set them apart from their peers who never have the opportunity to have these kind of experiences.

Whether you are delivering learning opportunities to students or a group of employees — who are balancing heavy workloads, family commitments and business travel — organizations of all kinds have much to gain from the blended learning approach.

Interactive learning is a prime opportunity to avoid this kind of passive information retention, as according to research, the majority of students learn more — up to 60 % more, in fact — interacting (with a resource, or other people) than they do reading.

At the same time, NCLB needs major revisions to make sure it focuses on the most important kinds of learning, accountability for improvement, and creates genuine educational opportunity for all our children.

We also call this «symmetry» in our work — that if, as a system level leader, you want teachers to teach students in a particular way, you have to give teachers opportunities to have those same kinds of learning experiences...

Professional learning opportunities are essential to keeping great teachers in the classroom and helping them use data effectively: to identify what their students have mastered, where they need help, and what kinds of help they need.»

This is a great opportunity to capture the lessons in each learner's working experience — the kinds of informal learning that can't easily be found anywhere else.

The excerpt below, taken from my recent book, Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap (Teachers College Press, 2013), describes what I call Equity Literacy, a framework first used by my super-genius colleague, Katy Swalwell, to describe a kind of literacy youth should learn in school.

Multiple studies have demonstrated that organizations that prioritize a performance - management system that supports employees» professional growth outperform organizations that do not.25 Similar to all professionals, teachers need feedback and opportunities to develop and refine their practices.26 As their expertise increases, excellent teachers want to take on additional responsibilities and assume leadership roles within their schools.27 Unfortunately, few educators currently receive these kinds of opportunities for professional learning and growth.28 For example, well - developed, sustained professional learning communities, or PLCs, can serve as powerful levers to improve teaching practice and increase student achievement.29 When implemented poorly, however, PLCs result in little to no positive change in school performance.30

Doing this kind of simple assessment can help ensure that Second Step lessons are taught and reinforced as intended, with students being given ample opportunities to practice what they've learned.

Improved pay will be most effective as a recruitment lever for high - achieving, diverse candidates if it is coupled with the kinds of working conditions that such candidates can expect in other professional fields, such as high - quality onboarding or induction, relevant professional learning opportunities, opportunities to collaborate with colleagues, and opportunities to advance within the profession.

The second report, Encouraging Social and Emotional Learning in the Context of New Accountability prepared by Learning Policy Institute discusses the opportunity schools have to measure new kinds of quality and success outcomes through the accountability mandate in ESSA.

Teachers, teaching artists and administrators take time to develop methods of collective inquiry; the kinds of conversations and processes that create collective responsibility for assessing and improving instructional practice and learning opportunities.

I also understand the need for «un-regimented» learning and have already supported many opportunities for those kinds of experiences in the schools.

The department should provide guidelines, for example, that describe the kind of professional learning opportunities that are most likely to result in improved teaching and greater student achievement.

Changing the common sense beliefs of teachers about heterogeneous grouping effects on the learning of struggling students requires those providing leadership to bring relevant evidence to the attention of their colleagues in accessible and convincing ways, to encourage actual trials with heterogeneous groupings under conditions which include opportunities for practice, feedback and coaching and to help teachers generate «the kind of assessment information that will make the impact of tracking and detracking more visible» (Riehl, 2000).

Several states have adopted «course access» initiatives that provide students with opportunities to take many kinds of approved courses for credit — another way to enable students to learn both inside and outside traditional school hours and locations.31 Such policies also might be especially important for smaller high schools, where economies of scale can make it difficult to afford certified on - site teachers for a wide range of specialized courses, such as world languages, physics, and calculus.32

There are many dimensions of action affecting this moment in time — a renewed focus and emerging consensus regarding the kinds of learning outcomes essential for success in today's globally connected world; significant efforts to promote innovation affecting all facets of education, particularly regarding new teaching and learning strategies and opportunities; and a renewed focus on key elements of necessary systemic change, in which the roles of the federal government, the states, school systems and schools are better aligned and more coherently understood.

While we work on the ground to support schools, we also work with partners of all kinds to change public policy and build sustainable public funding to expand learning opportunities across the nation.

Teachers whose preparation programs focused on the work of the classroom, provided a supervised clinical experience, and gave them the opportunity to engage in the practices of teaching were able to drive greater learning gains for their students once in the classroom than those who did not receive the same kind of clinically oriented preservice training.56 Prospective teachers who had a longer clinical experience reported greater confidence in their teaching abilities and were more likely to say that the length of time they spent as a student teacher was adequate, compared with their peers who had shorter clinical experiences.57