Sentences with phrase «lifelong skills of»

Access to arts and culture provides children, youth and adults with channels for self expression, critical thinking, and lifelong skills of creativity.

Throughout the primary and secondary curriculum, the subject encourages both individual initiative and team work; it supports academic and vocational learning; introduces critical thinking and reflective practice; and promotes creative learning — so important in fostering lifelong skills of innovation, resilience and the ability to be flexible.

We instill the lifelong skill of being a safe, defensive driver, too.

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«I will also be taking steps to create a culture of lifelong learning, helping people develop the skills they need at every stage of their life to succeed in the new economy,» hinted Morneau this past week.

«I will also be taking steps to create a culture of lifelong learning, helping people develop the skills they need at every stage of their life to succeed in the new economy.»

Morneau said the government wants to support a «culture of lifelong learning» with targeted help for unemployed youth looking for work, indigenous peoples with funding to assist with the cost of post-secondary education and adult students seeking to enhance their skills.

SEED is an important first step to ensuring that all of our families and young people have the resources to be resilient given the realities of a new economy, and to develop the skills necessary to be lifelong learners and critical thinkers.

Again and again such thoughtful writers as Alasdair MacIntyre and Robert Bellah tell us that moral rectitude, fundamental truthfulness, and all of the other virtues and skills that make us human depend upon society: upon our having a lifelong place within a social order and contemplating the historical «narrative» that defines the social order.

A social costs impact statement would mean that companies would find it cheaper not to abandon an established workforce but to enter seriously into lifelong retraining and updating of the skills of its already employed workers.

Take the final step and spend the warchest that our media friendly board members regularly boast of whenever the fans become restless, I am only me, Im not a skilled or qualified professional football manager BUT I am a lifelong fan of the club having supported Arsenal since the tender age of four and I have seen glory years and I have seen rubbish but what I have never ever seen in those 40 odd years is Arsenal Football club rise to the heights of the European Elite and I do feel that for a club that has been on the very brink and who have had to step back from it due to the worlds finances and the ever shifting world of the global media.

WHY: To ensure that all children are provided with competitive skills for the 21st century global world and to build a public groundswell about the value of play for fostering lifelong learning.

These passionate individuals work their hardest to teach a classroom full of children academic skills they need now plus the lifelong skills they need to be successful in life and are your partner in your child's education.

The Park District offers a variety of swim programs to encourage swimming as a lifelong skill.

Doctors also determined Amelia suffered a stroke in the womb that affected a quarter of her brain, damage that likely would cause lifelong difficulties with motor skills and speech.

The first weeks and months of life are a critical window for developing lifelong sensory processing skills that help your child make sense of the world around him.

Adapted from the Mindfulness - Based Stress Reduction Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center developed by Jon Kabat - Zinn, Ph.D., the class is an opportunity to learn a life skill that will serve us not only during this profound life transition, but can continue as a lifelong practice for healthy living and wise parenting.

The World Health Organization and Unicef estimated the average maternal mortality ratios for 1990 as 27 per 100 000 live births in the more developed countries compared with 480 per 100 000 live births in less developed countries, with ratios as high as 1000 per 100 000 live births for eastern and western Africa.4 The WHO has estimated that almost 15 % of all women develop complications serious enough to require rapid and skilled intervention if they are to survive without lifelong disabilities.5 This means that women need access not only to trained midwives but also to medical services if complications arise.

From Mommy and Me water introduction classes through private instruction, Kids First builds their swim programs on 8 levels of skills that their handpicked, highly qualified instructors work weekly to implement, helping to create lifelong love of the water through carefully built skill.

The emphasis of the Conference is placed on learning competitive skills, enjoyment of the sport, and lifelong participation in swimming.

Start Smart programs are opportunities for staff, parents and children to work together to prepare children for sports by teaching them basic motor skills and also sport - specific skills, with the intent of starting children on a lifelong path of health and fitness.

The company has offered summer camps since 1975 with the same mission that defines it today: to shape a lifelong enjoyment of athletics through high quality sports education and skill.

This package is perfect for infants that are ready to start the process of learning the lifelong skills needed to become an independent sleeper.

Things like the ability to problem solve and improvise in the moment, fine motor skills that help with so much more than just knitting - though I still do a lot of that - and most importantly, lifelong friends who know me better than anyone else and on whom I can always depend.»

Trained chef instructors and community volunteers teach participants to follow recipes and prepare low - cost, healthy meals with the goal of increasing the knowledge and skills needed to develop lifelong healthy eating behaviors.

Transracial Parenting Workshop The decision to adopt across racial and cultural lines is a lifelong commitment to exploring matters of race, confronting racism in all its forms and constantly developing new skills and aptitudes.

The exam boards are overseen by three regulatory authorities: in England - Ofqual (Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator); in Wales - DCELLS (Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills; in Northern Ireland: CCEA (Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessments).

Our mission is to foster a skilled and competitive workforce by promoting an understanding of workforce trends and issues in a dynamic economy and to facilitate lifelong learning for individuals and businesses.

The ability to attract more will depend on the availability of a skilled workforce, lifelong learning opportunities, the quality of life and the capability to be responsive to industry demands.

Our graduate professional development course made the participants aware of the skill set they will need for lifelong career development.

Discover new ideas, learn new skills, and make lifelong connections with other members of the team.

At the retreat, our mission is to not only teach you the effectiveness of a low - fat, plant - based, whole - food lifestyle for living with diabetes, but also equip you with the skills to take the information home and put it into practice for lifelong success.

An extensive background and numerous skills in architectural design, a lifelong passion for art, and a penchant for culture has provided Laura Dittrich, a visual storyteller based in Germany, with a keen eye for aesthetics and a unique creative vision materialized through aesthetic visuals such as cinemagraphs and experimental video content in the form of outfit editorials (cinematorials).

I have so many precious memories of learning to sew with my Mother & Grandmother and think this would be a WONDERFUL kit to do together with my nieces, practising a LIFELONG SKILL and finishing a HANDMADE ornaments to keep at the end of the day, I can see these being hung year after year = > AWESOME!!!

Kat's coaching services walk clients through four basic aspects of finding and keeping a lifelong love: Dating readiness, dating skills development, active dating, and relationship upkeep.

Possessing observation skills and humanity that her lifelong friends can't comprehend, Skeeter desperately wants to tell a story from the perspective of the maids.

Ed Helms performs with likeability and skill, not terribly different from his role in The Hangover as the sweet - natured loser, though more of a sad man in this one after suffering from lifelong arrested development.

The ability to ask one's own questions is, indeed, one of the most important lifelong learning skills a student can acquire in the course of their education and, yet, it is rarely deliberately taught to all students.

This program teaches children lifelong skills such as communication, empathy and compassion whilst also educating them about the ever - growing issue of dementia,» Mr O'Sullivan said.

Increasingly, in a world where knowledge itself is constantly growing and evolving, students need to develop a set of knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions, or general capabilities that apply across learning area content and equip them to be lifelong learners able to operate with confidence in a complex, information - rich, globalised world.

He identifies these attributes as successful habits of learning and suggests that developing these skills can help to raise both engagement and achievement, as well as promoting lifelong learning.

The police training is part of a larger focus on SEL within the Oakland district that started in 2011, driven by research showing that children with social and emotional skills are not only more likely to do better in school, but also have better lifelong success, such as attending college and getting good - paying jobs.

Lifelong learning about values -, knowledge - and skills needed for a sustainable way of living has been emphasized.

But when authenticity is a focus, students develop a deeper understanding of concepts and skills through real - world applications and practice — which develops lifelong learners.

Respondents said the main reasons to learn a language in school was to develop pupils» understanding of cultural practices (77 %), build pupils» interpersonal skills (74 %) and to establish a path for lifelong learning (61 %).

Using make - your - own books to solidify counting skills: It's hard to believe that counting is a skill so predictive of math achievement even into adulthood, but it's true: Those who count strong early on often have a lifelong math advantage.

At the same time, the Foundation will support the Center in developing play as a new area of focus that will center on the impact of play, whole child development and skills that are important for lifelong learning.

Quality lifelong learning: How technology can extend learning pathways and make them more flexible and relevant for learners of all generation as people remain in employment later and ageing adults need to update their skills to keep pace with technological changes.

To be considered educated, said the panelists, students should leave school with a deep understanding of themselves and how they fit into the world, and have learned what some call «soft skills» — complex problem - solving, creativity, entrepreneurship, the ability to manage themselves, and the ability to be lifelong learners.

Five years from now, as Powderhouse prepares to graduate its first cohort of students, Resnick hopes that students gain skills, agency, and enthusiasm for lifelong learning, that teachers are energized and eager to remain with the project, and that the community continues to embrace the principles of self - directed learning for more students.

If we agree that these types of learning skills are necessary to develop lifelong learners, then teachers need solid examples of exactly how to teach students these types of skills.