Sentences with phrase «learning interventions as»

Every learner is on a quest to become their best and you can think of each learning intervention as an obstacle.

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As we have learned more and more, we have learned to stop attributing everything to the intervention of a god.

The English vicar and novelist Charles Kingsley wrote to Darwin, «I have learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of Deity, to believe that He created primal forms capable of self - development into all forms needful... as to believe that He required a fresh act of intervention to supply the lacunas which He himself made» (F. Darwin, 288).

Educare, which serves more than 3,000 children at its 21 centers, is intended primarily as a demonstration that even highly disadvantaged children can enter kindergarten ready to learn — but that in order to achieve that goal, they will need early interventions that are intensive (not to mention expensive).

Another study has reported on a unique intervention previously shown beneficial for preterm infants, using a «breathing bear» with gentle body motion rates that can be adjusted to match infant's breathing rates to serve as a comforting, nonintrusive crib friend for the infant, and a reassuring aid for the mother.47 As infant can use the bear at his own will, the infant can learn that he can either approach or withdraw from the bear providing him opportunity for positive reinforcemenas a comforting, nonintrusive crib friend for the infant, and a reassuring aid for the mother.47 As infant can use the bear at his own will, the infant can learn that he can either approach or withdraw from the bear providing him opportunity for positive reinforcemenAs infant can use the bear at his own will, the infant can learn that he can either approach or withdraw from the bear providing him opportunity for positive reinforcement.

Those models include: Child FIRST, Early Head Start - Home Visiting, Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers (EIP), Early Start (New Zealand), Family Check - Up, Healthy Families America (HFA), Healthy Steps, Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), Nurse Family Partnership (NFP), Oklahoma's Community - Based Family Resource and Support (CBFRS) Program, Parents as Teachers (PAT), Play and Learning Strategies (PALS) Infant6, and SafeCare Augmented.

Since learning of successful interventions for the prevention and reversal of dementia, she is eager to put this information into actionable plans to help her family, as well as others to live more healthfully into their second half of life.

Early intervention focuses on helping eligible babies and toddlers learn the basic and brand - new skills that typically develop during the first three years of life, such as:

The good news is that with early intervention, special education, and tutoring, the risk of cognitive and academic problems can be reduced, as can the severity of a learning disability.

Participants will learn to use selected art techniques as intervention tools to work with parents and family members as part of the process of play therapy.

As we learned during the API Reads discussion of this book, the author recommends allowing the siblings to problem - solve the matters themselves without your intervention, unless of course the interaction is physical and then separation is needed.

Participants will learn to use selected art techniques as intervention tools to help clients learn and practice more adaptive patterns of feeling as part of the process of play therapy.

I came to learn that other common hospital interventions like forceps use and episiotomy were surprisingly uncommon and seen as unnecessary in home and birth center births.

Participants will learn to use selected art techniques as intervention tools to help clients learn and practice more adaptive patterns of behaving as part of the process of play therapy.

In this presentation, participants will learn about the physiology that underlies birth, particularly the role of the sensory nerves, and how birth interventions, such as epidurals, Pitocin, or opioids, can influence this physiology.

The fairly shambolic nature of the response from the west, and the international community as a whole (and the fact that though shamefully belated it managed to avert the imminent catastrophe in Benghazi) shows that we have learnt little or nothing from Bosnia, Kossovo, Kurdistan, where intervention helped, still less from the many other areas where nothing effective was done, and we essentially abandoned people to their fate.

The study suggests that the NHS should explore using the FIT intervention and learn how best to implement it, as used properly it can be a really powerful tool.

And from the literature, we are learning that old styles of early intervention, such as debriefing sessions, are not as effective as once thought — and that more often than not, people are incredibly resilient and can recover on their own and should be given the opportunity to do so.

«If children as young as 6 can learn to use a cognitive strategy after just a few minutes of training, that has huge implications for interventions.»

As part of UBC's ongoing efforts to improve undergraduate teaching and learning, Code and colleagues selected two especially difficult topics covered in large first - year calculus classes, and designed week - long «teaching interventions» to more actively engage students.

«These findings point to the need for effective interventions during the elementary school years to combat peer victimization, as well as programs designed to help children who have experienced repeated peer victimization learn how to effectively cope with stress,» Troop - Gordon explains.

The intervention was most effective among children who are considered at highest risk for struggling in school — those from low - income backgrounds who are learning English as a second language.

The exercise intervention was also effective in improving word recall via a «list learning task,» i.e., when people were read a list of 15 words and asked to remember and repeat as many words as possible on five consecutive attempts, and again after a distraction of being given another list of words.

At the end of the study, the participants in the intervention group displayed significant improvements in their overall cognitive performance as well as in specific domains, such as cognitive speed, visual learning, and memory.

Furthermore, immigrant children who were learning English and participated in the intervention had achievement scores on those state tests that were nearly as high as the achievement scores of classmates who were proficient in English.

Such imaging could eventually help diagnose dyslexia in young children; even better, Eden hopes that by studying subtle brain differences as children with and without dyslexia learn to read, fMRI could eventually help teachers target reading interventions.

Developing a child's social and emotional learning skills in early childhood is seen as a key to the child's success in school, but researchers are still working to understand which interventions most effectively boost those skills.

She has developed and tested social and emotional learning interventions focused on games such as «Red Light, Purple Light,» which is similar to «Red Light, Green Light.»

It is difficult to know whether any earlier intervention may have altered her current condition as we are only just learning about the potential long term effects of Ebola virus disease and management of complications / secondary effects.

As impaired memory after TBI is a result of impaired learning, rehabilitative interventions need to address the deficit in learning.

In this course, we will learn the anatomy of the digestive tract, targeted interventions for specific conditions, as well as therapeutic foods and supplements that can be used to heal the gut.

This simple intervention can be used anytime in the session when the client feels anxious, tense, ungrounded, or in some pain, or as part of a goal of learning to connect with body sensations.

We are inspired by Jane Hart's call to «Walk the Social Talk», and consider this as the most significant «action» required on the part of learning designers to get equipped for handling the challenges of designing informal and social learning interventions for today's workplaces.

In 2004, «response to intervention» was introduced into federal special education law as a method of identifying children with learning disabilities.

They include: mindfulness training, through exercises like meditation or disciplined physical exercise, such as yoga; aerobic exercise, which has been shown to strengthen brain function; and cognitive behavioral programs, such as those used to help children learn impulse control, a type of intervention that falls into the broader category of «social emotional learning» (SEL).

Specifically, the course will explore (1) the historical and theoretical foundations of inclusive education; (2) research related to implementation; (3) research related to inclusive education; (4) whole - school change models of inclusive education including response to intervention and universal design for learning; (5) controversies surrounding inclusion; and (6) considerations and reservations concerning inclusion as it impacts specific disability populations and age groups.

As a developmental psychologist trained in child development, prevention science, and social policy, Jones» research focuses on social and emotional learning (SEL) in childhood and adolescence and on creating and testing innovative intervention models and strategies designed to foster competencies that help children become successful.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Such interventions focus not on improving academic skills or knowledge, but on changing students» mindsets about learning — combating negative feelings, or increasing a sense of belonging, or reframing failure as an opportunity for improvement.

[iv] Summarizing this work in Education Next, Dave Marcotte and Benjamin Hansen concluded that «expanding instructional time is as effective as other commonly discussed educational interventions intended to boost learning» such as reducing class size and improving teacher quality.

Many Learning Management Systems provide tools to help make intervention as simple and trouble - free as possible.

This can be used in class, dinner times or as Revision sessions after school as a method for intervention and to make students become more enthusiastic to learn and revise for their GCSE.

However, I warn folks, not to take the questions as written, but to instead modify them, tailoring them for the audience, content, and circumstances of the learning intervention.

We've written here and here about the importance figuring out as a nation how to «extend the reach» of great teachers to more students, since great teachers accountable for student learning are the one «intervention» we know can close achievement gaps and raise the bar for all students.

Such experiments randomly «treat» individuals and even whole institutions, such as hospitals or schools, with different interventions in order to learn which work better.

Much can be learned from the theoretical frameworks discussed here, which can be used as a guide for future research into the efficacy of computer - assisted reading interventions on struggling middle school students.

As Taylor explains, SEED - SCALE research has shown that communities become more invested when they learn together, through each other, and then make an effort to sustain an intervention on their own.

A 2005 NCREL report draft (which we received special permission to cite for this article) finds «new evidence supporting the apparent effectiveness of online programs and schools and generally demonstrating the potential of online learning as a promising instructional intervention that can, when implemented judiciously, and with attention to «evidence - based» practices, apparently improve student academic performance.»

Walcott et al. (2014) reported that a computer - assisted approach to learning was significantly more effective at providing intervention to inattentive readers as compared to their counterparts.

Inquiry - science intervention; measured impact of an urban instructional intervention in grades 3 - 5 using matched pre - and post-tests found substantial learning gains and a cumulative effect as students participate over several years.