Sentences with phrase «language programs began»

Dual - language programs began to spread in the 1960s and 1970s but lost ground when concerns about immigration increased.

Laval's French - language program begins with a full week of classes, and thereafter students attend in - person sessions every other Saturday.

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We've started world language immersion programs in which students spend half of each school day learning in Chinese or Spanish, beginning in kindergarten.

With his good friend Paul Allen, who was working at Honeywell Inc.'s Boston facilities, he began writing a programming language.

Ende, an interpreter for the deaf, began learning sign language several years ago when she was working with the hearing - impaired in programs offered by the Oak Lawn Park District.

Soon her lack of language began to trouble me, and we had her evaluated by the Early Intervention program, where she qualified for speech therapy.

This year has been a year of great independence — Tyler began first grade, joined the French Immersion Program that requires him to complete his homework independently, speaks a language that neither of his parents understand, runs around the neighborhood alone calling for friends, plays independently at home with his sibling and peers, and generally has a whole life at school and on the playing field that feels mostly separate from his father and me.

The ads, which begin with a warning disclaimer, «This program contains subject matter and language that may be disturbing to some viewers,» shows a small group of men and women sitting in a circle staging an intervention for a struggling friend.

Beginning this September, the DOE will offer a dual language program in Bengali in New York City public schools.

The break for New York City developers expired at the beginning of 2016, and Senate Republicans had backed budget language that would both renew the program and expand it into outer borough condos, a move seemingly designed to benefit breakaway Democrat Simcha Felder.

«While many state - funded preschool programs in the U.S. do not begin until age three or later, this study provides some of the first large - scale evidence that public early education for children as young as age one can be critical for children's language skills,» said Dearing.

The three - year graduate degree program that Gross has developed for elementary school teachers begins with the concept of mathematics as a second language.

The new computing curriculum began in September 2014 and sees pupils taught how to code and use a range of programming languages.

In keeping with the global emphasis, students study foreign language from the beginning of the program to the end.

In 2005, we began a new program to for Miami - Dade Public Schools to introduce students with autism, learning disabilities, and visual, physical, language and emotional impairments to dance instruction by developing a new and unique dance residency program.

As such, they are not really programming languages (they are actually mark up languages) but they do provide a relatively simple way to begin.

As more and more education leaders become cognizant of the importance of these fundamental nonacademic skills — and as more and more programs and funders seek to develop them — it is vital that we begin using a common language and understanding of what children need.

Recently, programming languages «ordinary «people use have begun to emerge.

To help build schools» capacity for teaching the language, the nation's first Mandarin Chinese immersion school, which will celebrate its 25th anniversary next year, has begun offering professional - development programs and resources.

We also serve a high percentage of special education students relative to other district schools, and currently house the district - wide program for beginning and intermediate English language learners.

The schools will develop individualized plans for the social services they need — which could include medical, mental, or dental health services, English language or computer classes for parents, or a specialized food program — by the spring, and the plans are expected to be implemented by the beginning of the 2015 - 2016 academic year.

The six booklets — on the arts, English, foreign language, mathematics, science, and social studies — are part of the board's ongoing «Educational EQuality Project,» a 10 - year program begun in 1981 with the aim of both strengthening the academic quality of secondary education and ensuring that all high - school students have «equality of opportunity» for higher education, College Board officials say.

Although the kindergarten program provides a foundation in emergent literacy and oral language development, the core of Emerald's early reading program begins with grade 1.

The Aspiring Leaders program — combined with an additional program for principals called Leading for Better Instruction, also funded by the Orchard Foundation — creates a cohesive movement where all levels of the school begin speaking the same language.

We have 12 % ELLs and we are actively working on expanding this number and developing a dual - language program that will begin in...

We have 12 % ELLs and we are actively working on expanding this number and developing a dual - language program that will begin in September of 2016.

Major goals of newcomer programs are to acquire beginning English language skills along with core academic skills and to acculturate to the U.S. school system.

By using the tools and language provided in the Instructional Leadership program, administrators will begin to see instant improvement in teaching practices.

One aspect of the study focused on how technology is integrated within the context of English teacher education programs, asking the question, «As an area of emphasis in the teaching of English, how do teacher educators prepare beginning English teachers to address the teaching of technology and new literacies in the context of the English language arts?»

Once the school year ends, Carson will begin a two - year process of building her own K - 8 charter school, one that will offer disadvantaged students the type of foreign language immersion program popular at many private schools.

After the charter takeover of NOLA public schools post Katrina, the state began issuing letter grades for all schools in 2011, and 79 percent of charter schools in the New Orleans district received a «D» or «F.» In 2014, RSD - New Orleans schools are still performing below the vast majority of the state's other districts at the fourth and eighth grades in subjects tested by the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, including English language arts, math and science.

The event will begin with students and families exploring language learning in fun, interactive ways with staff from GPA and the HASI SmartTALK Program.

Dahlia's teaching career began 23 years ago in early childhood development and early elementary programs, teaching pre-kindergarten and kindergarten in both bilingual immersion and English as a second language programs in District of Columbia public schools.

He began his career in radio, reporting for «Budapest Day & Night,» the first English language radio program to appear in Eastern Europe after the wall came down.

Compounding this problem, children from low - income families, on average, begin kindergarten approximately a year behind their peers in preliteracy and language skills.106 This fluency gap widens as students continue in school and has a significant impact on economic success later in life.107 As a result, gains from high - quality preschool programs — including improved health, better social - emotional skills, and better cognitive outcomes — are particularly beneficial for children from low - income families.108

According to one synthesis of best practices for English language learners, the core reading program is a good place to begin choosing words for instruction in the elementary grades (Gersten et al., 2007).

A new report from SRI Education reveals how a teacher induction program from the New Teacher Center (NTC) helped beginning teachers improve student achievement in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics.

As school districts begin to adjust their programs to meet the expectations of the CCSS, they are faced with the responsibility of ensuring that English language learners (ELLs) gain access to the curriculum and develop the academic language skills required by the CCSS.

Beginning in the first grade, paired English and target language teachers collaborate to support student mastery of both the core content standards and target language skills in a full day program.

My gravitation toward grant seeking began as a way to solve a challenge that may be familiar to other English language acquisition teachers: ELLs at higher levels of proficiency don't need to be pulled from their general education classrooms into specialized programs; they need their general education classrooms to incorporate project - based learning that focuses on authentic, relevant, content - related activities.

Teach English to students whose first language is not English Work with all proficiency levels, ranging from beginning to advanced and teach all skills as needed Assist with other program - related...

It is a great book, not just for beginning programmers, but also for computer users who would want to have an idea what is happening behind the scenes as they work with various computer programs.In this book, you are going to learn what the C programming language entails, how to write conditions, expressions, statements and even commands, for the language to perform its functions efficiently.

Python is a simple yet powerful programming language that can enable you to start thinking like a programmer right from the beginning.

No matter how many semesters of Spanish you took in college or Rosetta Stone programs you've begun (but never finished), nothing compares to first - hand immersion when it comes to getting serious about learning a new language.

Because there is not traditional programming language to master, users can quickly begin creating and learning how programming logic works.

Molnar learned the early programming languages of Fortran and Basic, and gained access to a computer at a research lab in Paris where she began to make computer graphic drawings on a plotter, several of which are included in the exhibition.

In 1996, Temkin taught himself computer programming and quickly began seeing the language of coding as a form of conceptual art.

Each month's program will begin with a wine and cheese reception, followed by a sign language - interpreted private gallery talk focusing on one of MoMA's special exhibitions.

In 1976 she moved to Manhattan, participating in the Whitney Museum's independent study program and beginning her first work with language, installation and public art.

To begin with, algorithms are written using programming languages that will largely remain opaque to the uninitiated even if they do happen to get a chance to evaluate them.