Sentences with phrase «more about competences»

Not exact matches

In a 2012 survey, Canada's Asia - engaged professionals gave top priority to two other competence - building activities: gaining experience in Asia through internships, co-op placements and study abroad; and building a broader and more solid foundation of knowledge about Asian societies and economies.

He says, «My read is that Bachmann supporters who are worried about conservative authenticity think of Perry as more authentic than Romney, and Romney voters who are worried about governing competence think that Perry is more competent....

In other words, if politics is reducible to technocratic competence then there is something benighted about the clash of interests — out interests seem to be little more than idiosyncratic expressions of our rationally indefensible attachments.

Thus, he had to become more sure of what he was about and of his competence to carry it out; or face more potentialities of disaster.

The professional associations in the pastoral - care specialties have helped the denominations take pastoral competence seriously and become more critical about who has it and who does not.

It is beyond my competence to lecture Rivers about the validity or lack thereof of black rage; but surely there is a place for more than just «love» in successful political action?

Licensing would give consumers more information about individual midwives» education and competence as well as establish standards for care, they say.

But McDonnell is proving to be more multi-layered than his caricature, seeking late in his career to match expediency with belief, gripped by the need to prove economic competence (he reads the findings of focus groups as avidly as New Labour's leading figures used to do), knows the importance of narrative and how George Osborne impressively framed one about how Labour crashed the car and should never be given the keys again.

(And if the election really was about competence, then voters apparently thought Dukakis's opponent, George H. W. Bush, was more qualified.)

«This kind of behaviour is unacceptable in any office, but in a public service where they should have been processing long overdue payments for thousands of farmers it raises even more questions about managerial competence within the RPA,» Mr Paice said.

When considering unprecedented political phenomena, Ed Miliband, and indeed Ed Balls, might want think more carefully about where the party stands with voters on economic competence.

For more suggestions about teaching students to become citizens of the world, download a free copy of Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World (PDF) by Veronica Boix Mansilla and Anthony Jackson.

We also need to hear much more about creating increased opportunities for students to learn other languages, starting in early grades, so they may have sufficient opportunities to reach high levels of communicative proficiency and intercultural competence.

On the other hand, people who fail to develop this competence are considerably more likely to internalise stereotypes, prejudices and false heuristics about those who are «different».

If this is a new concept for you, a great place to start learning more about all the other variables that can affect performance is Thomas Gilbert's book Human Competence: Engineering Worthy Performance.

This one - hour webinar is an introduction for nonprofits that are curious about learning more about additional social emotional learning constructs including emotional competence, perseverance, grit, self - control and future orientation.

Knowing what is going on in the world around you, or the fact that there is more to be known about life outside of your town can be the beginning of anyone's global competence journey.

Decoding experts suggest that for most children, about 30 minutes per day is necessary to teach decoding in grades 1 and 2 (more and with greater intensity for struggling students).23 Where schools spend 90 — 120 minutes per day on reading throughout the elementary grades, that leaves at least an hour per day that could be devoted to imparting the language and world knowledge that is most important for competence in listening, talking, reading, and writing.

Through service learning, students feel useful and challenged, experience an increased sense of competence, hold more positive attitudes about the community and have a greater sense of responsibility.

In the RS 5 it's more about sheer, towering competence.

There's very little to dislike about the S3, though as noted above, drivers in search of a more involving or playful chassis may not be fully challenged by the Quattro's competence.

Thalia's plans for 2011 do involve opening more than ten stores, though Berle notes they are opening «much more selectively than we did a few years ago... it is not about whether or not to run stores, it is rather about what assortment we need to offer there --- besides books, which are of course our core competence and will always be available at Thalia... they will not lose their relevance for our customers if we manage to offer them an inspiring and attractive assortment built around books.»

(1) The circle of competence, which essentially relates to an information advantage and holds that you will do better if you stick to what you know more about than others.

To be fair, that's not a high hurdle to clear and says more about the incompetence of «citizen scientists» than the competence of a retired mining executive.

2.10.2 Intellectual freedom includes: (a) the rights of all Staff to express opinions about the operation of the University and higher education policy more generally; (b) the rights of Staff to pursue critical open enquiry and to discuss freely, teach, assess, develop curricula, publish and research within the limits of their professional competence and professional standards; (c) the right to participate in public debates and express opinions about issues and ideas related to their discipline area; (d) the right of all Staff to participate in professional and representative bodies and to engage in community service without fear of harassment, intimidation or unfair treatment; and (e) the right to express unpopular or controversial views, although this does not mean the right to vilify, harass or intimidate.

It is more about developing the competence and attitude towards using and following these standards.

While strides have been made to improve the cultural sensitivity of IRB members, more could be done to enhance the cultural competence of IRB members — charged with making decisions about the lives of LGBT persons seeking asylum in Canada.»

The focus here seems to be on competence, but what about being more than competent?

To learn more about the risks of dabbling, see «Diversify without dabbling: Don't expand your practice without expanding your competence!»

For example, the B.C. Health Professions Act stipulates that while a Registration Committee can impose limits or conditions (or refuse to grant registration) where an applicant has committed an indictable offence (i.e., something more serious than a summary conviction offence), the Registration Committee must be «satisfied that the nature of the offence or the circumstances under which it was committed give rise to concerns about the person's competence or fitness to practise the designated health profession.»

That may be the case in some areas of the law, but I think law — particularly as an associate in a large firm — is a lot more about cold, quiet competence and perfectionism.

[99 - 100] However, a five - member panel of the HPRB decided later, in another matter, that a registrar could dismiss a complaint based on the conduct or competence of a registrant being satisfactory [101]; see Decision No. 2011 - HPA - 0018 (a) at para. 71 (see more about that here).

In speaking about the evolution of electronic document discovery in Canada, Cole remarked that «a lawyer's ability to provide a client with sound electronic document management advice, as well as to efficiently and effectively produce a client's electronic documents in the context of litigation or regulatory investigation, is more than a strategic advantage - it has quickly become a matter of professional competence.»

We investigate the possibilities and make sure the candidate learns more about his personal interests and competences.

Sexually wise people seem to be less concerned with frequency of sex and perceived sexual competence and more interested in the planning of and conversations about sex.

In this session, participants will learn more about a parent coaching model, which offers a means to build parents» confidence and competence in the context of home visits.

They're also about working with people remotely, and these diffused work settings put a higher premium on social - emotional competence than old - school work environments ever did: It takes more effort and skill to connect on a human level with someone when you're not in the same room with them.

16 Parental knowledge is thought to provide a global cognitive organization for adapting to or anticipating developmental changes in children.17 Mothers who are knowledgeable respond more sensitively to their child's initiations, 18 while mothers with inaccurate expectations about their child's development tend to be more harsh.19, 20,21 Studies have indicated that when mothers have higher knowledge of infant and child development, they show higher levels of parenting skills, 16,22,23 their children have higher cognitive skills, 16,24 and there are fewer child behaviour problems.16 Furthermore, a positive association has been found between parental self - efficacy and parenting competence when knowledge of child development is high.

This indicates that a higher attendance rate was related to more decrease in parents» stress about their competence in parenting.

This indicates that parents of families who received additional therapy, compared to parents of families who did not, reported more decrease in parental overreactivity at posttest, and more decrease in parental internalizing symptoms and stress about their competence in parenting at 1 - year follow - up.

We have begun a new century of honor, competence, and integrity with REALTORS ®, now more than ever, focused on the Code's calls to service, to sharing the lessons of our experience, to being knowledgeable about the issues affecting real estate, and to doing the things critical to ensuring the best use of the land.