Sentences with phrase «national standard of practice»

The effect would be exponentially greater, though, as a national standard of practice.

In the United States, the naturopathic medical profession's infrastructure includes accredited educational institutions, professional licensing, national standards of practice, peer review, and a commitment to state - of - the - art scientific research.

In Canada, the naturopathic medical profession's infrastructure includes accredited educational institutions, professional licensing, national standards of practice, participation in many federal health committee initiatives, and a commitment to state - of - the - art scientific research.

In Canada, naturopathic doctors complete rigorous medical training at accredited educational institutions followed by professional licensing which holds them to national standards of practice.

ABE's main purposes are to issue advanced credentials to Clinical Social Workers based on uniform national standards of practice, and to educate the public and various audiences about the value of these certifications and the services of those who hold them.

Not exact matches

Thursday's decision by the National Labor Relations Board involving the Teamsters Union and Browning - Ferris Industries reverses decades of standard practice around the concept of joint ownership in business.

He has also come out forcefully against the National Security Agency's mass surveillance practices — all ideas that tend to fly in the face of standard Republican thinking.

The National Association for Business Resources has over 20 years of experience conducting Best and Brightest Company competitions and has identified numerous best Human Resources practices that provide benchmarking for companies that continue to be leaders in employment standards.

The Obama - era regulation — the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices rule — would have incorporated into the National Organic Program welfare standards that were not based on science and that were outside the scope of the Organic Food Production Act of 1990, according to the National Pork Producers Council, which maintains that the Organic Food Production Act limited consideration of livestock as organic to feeding and medication practices.

[25] However, under US federal organic standards, if pests and weeds are not controllable through management practices, nor via organic pesticides and herbicides, «a substance included on the National List of synthetic substances allowed for use in organic crop production may be applied to prevent, suppress, or control pests, weeds, or diseases.»

He has been very involved in many aspects of domestic and international agricultural policy and practice development, organizing, food labeling, standards, certification and accreditation work over the years, including: Founding Chair of the USDA / National Organic Standards Board, A founder of Domestic Fair Trade Association, National Organic Coalition, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Founding member of National Family Farm Coalition and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Board member of the International Organic Accreditation Service, Former NGO delegate to UN Codex / FAO / WHO Food Labeling Commission and WTO, Founding partner of Agricultural Justice Project, which has developed domestic fair trade standards for North America.

Prospective consultants are required to have a sound, general working knowledge of organic systems, including quality control and practices, conversion periods, national and international standards, basic financial implications, grant aid and support schemes, business practice and environmental management.

An Australian brewery's waste water recovery plant, designed to achieve world's best practice standards of water reuse and green energy generation, has won a Mercury National Materials Handling Award for Best Green Initiative.

The American College of Nurse - Midwives and the North American Registry of Midwives recommend that midwives should at minimum meet the standards of midwifery established by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), which include completion of a formal midwifery education program, national certification, and licensure in the local jurisdiction of practice.32, 33 Certified professional midwives (CPMs) may achieve certification through apprenticeship and portfolio evaluation without obtaining a formal midwifery degree; within CPM professional organizations efforts are under way to uniformly adopt ICM standards.33, 34 Oregon has followed this trend; in 2015 licensure became mandatory for attendants at out - of - hospital births.

In 2012, the home birth rate in Oregon was 2.4 %, which was the highest rate of any state; another 1.6 % of women in Oregon delivered at birth centers.11 Before licensure became mandatory in 2015, Oregon was one of two states in which licensure was not required for the practice of midwifery in out - of - hospital settings.12 Although the 2003 revision of the U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth distinguishes planned home births from unplanned home births, at the national level there is still no way to disaggregate hospital births that were intended to occur at a hospital and those that had not been intended to occur at a hospital.

Thanks to a grant from the Department of Health, we are setting up a neonatal branch of the National Infant Feeding Network (NeoNIFN), specifically to support neonatal units to improve practice and standards of care for sick and preterm babies and their families.

President John Mahama has launched the Ghana import, export and transit process manual which will provide a legal framework for the smooth progress of the Ghana National Single Window and make it conform to international standards and practices.

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said after approving the appointments said «We hope they contribute and continue to sustain free and credible elections in Nigeria by ensuring that the practices of the national electoral body in this country meet global standards.»

I agree perfectly with him and that is my second recommendation is for the National Communications Authority (NCA), Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Bank of Ghana and the Ghana Police Service to collaborate to up their game, improve and insist on standards to ensure only best practices are implemented in the financial intermediation arena.

Scientific collaboration offers significant opportunities to advance biological science to address these and other national priorities and discuss shared principles and standards of practice to minimize risks associated with the research.

The six benchmarks are: 1) HDR brachytherapy procedures are supported with the appropriate team as described in the report of the AAPM TG 59 and the American College of Radiology HDR Brachytherapy Practice Standard; 2) commissioning of the treatment unit, treatment planning system and each new source is performed by a qualified medical physicist and verified through a QA process; 3) assay of the HDR brachytherapy unit source is performed using a well - type ionization chamber with a calibration traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and this assay is performed or confirmed for each source change.

«(VII) standards for practices and materials to achieve cool roofs in residential buildings, taking into consideration reduced air conditioning energy use as a function of cool roofs, the potential reduction in global warming from increased solar reflectance from buildings, and cool roofs criteria in State and local building codes and in national and local voluntary programs, without reduction of otherwise applicable ceiling insulation standards; and

Establishing standards for ESC media and cell lines «lays the foundation for moving toward [good manufacturing practice],» adds Derek Hei, director of the US National Stem Cell Bank in Madison, Wisc..

Dr Bark explains the difference between stand - alone health coaches and those who use health coaching to supplement clinical practice, trends in the healthcare field as health coaching is adopted by more clinicians to help with patient motivation and compliance, and how standards set by the National Consortium for Credentialing of Health & Wellness Coaches (now referred to as the International Consortium for Health & Wellness Coaching) will benefit those who use health coaching within a clinical setting.

The objective of the National Board Certification for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBC - HWC) is to provide a minimum standard and measure of foundational competencies: the knowledge, tasks and skills essential to the practice of health and wellness coaching.

The NCANP also serves as a referral resource for members of the public who are searching for Naturopathic Doctors in North Carolina who have met the rigorous national standards for the profession and who are eligible for licensure or registration in one of the 23 U.S. jurisdictions that regulate the practice of Naturopathic Medicine.

EW: The five candidates for national certification who journalled their experiences for Education World readers this year remarked frequently on the benefits of the process itself — an increased reflection on their teaching practices and an increased awareness of education standards, for example.

But if the science of best educator practice is combined with a national infrastructure of standards and testing, then local actors can not adjudicate among competing claims about what science says.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

The National Board's standards of good teaching practice guided the work of the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) as it began to develop a set of prototype standards for teacher licensure.

The strength of this relationship may be gauged by comparing the change in quality associated with changes in the school's position in the national test - score ranking: the results show that an increase of 50 percentile points is associated with an increase of 0.15 standard deviations in student perceptions of teacher practices (see Figure 1).

Systems that adopt content - centered approaches are more likely to appeal to research to support their efforts, while child - centered approaches are more likely to appeal to the opinions of practitioners as expressed by the professional organizations to which they belong (as with the standards for developmentally appropriate practice of the National Association for the Education of Young Children).

The literacy - intensive curriculum is partially based on the best practices developed by the National Writing Project, and it combines required state standards with literature by Latinos and other writers of color.

The National School Climate Center features high - quality, research - based information, even including a detailed set of national school climate standards that spell out best prNational School Climate Center features high - quality, research - based information, even including a detailed set of national school climate standards that spell out best prnational school climate standards that spell out best practices.

Mr. Elder earned National Board Certification in Early Adolescence / Social Studies - History in 2009, instilling reflection as a standard part of his practice and resulting in an unending quest to improve his teaching for all students.

The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) represents and supports the profession of school psychology by advancing effective practices to improve students» learning, behavior and mental health, and by maintaining essential standards for ethics and practice.

Dr. Joyce Epstein, who heads the National Network of Partnership Schools at Johns Hopkins University, created the gold standard for parent involvement programs — a comprehensive set of practices that encourage good parenting, strong home - school communication, volunteer opportunities, support for learning at home, a parent voice in school decision making, and community collaboration.

Current thinking about the school library as a learning commons, exemplified by Ontario's Together for Learning (Ontario Library Association 2010) and new national standards, Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons in Canada (Canadian Library Association 2014) is inspiring educators about realizing new potential for leveraging instructional leadership from the library learning commons.

Instead, the basic strategy of the Gates Foundation is to use science (or, more accurately, the appearance of science) to identify the «best» educational practices and then use political influence to create a system of national standards, curricular materials, and testing to impose those «best practices» on schools nationwide.

ARLINGTON, Va. — December 6, 2016 — The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, a nonprofit organization created by the teaching profession to set and maintain standards of accomplished practice, announced the election of three prominent education leaders to its board of directors, all of whom are National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs).

All Are National Board Certified Teachers ARLINGTON, Va. — December 6, 2016 — The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, a nonprofit organization created by the teaching profession to set and maintain standards of accomplished practice, announced the election of three prominent education leaders to its board of directors, all of whom are National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs).

The National Board standards also state that the most skilled librarians understand and apply principles and practices of effective teaching in support of student learning.

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, a nonprofit organization created by the teaching profession to set and maintain standards of accomplished practice, announced the election of seven prominent education leaders to its board of directors, including four National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs).

Districts should be allowed to develop systems on two main principles in the framework — basing 50 percent of an evaluation on student outcomes, and using national standards to evaluate classroom practices, Olsen said.

For example, a focus on literacy across the content areas is now considered best practice and is standard in many school districts, but many programs need to strengthen coursework on literacy instruction for prospective teachers seeking a content - area certification.16 Furthermore, all teacher preparation programs have yet to coalesce around a common understanding of accomplished practice, though the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, or the National Board, has taken steps to provide teacher preparation programs with access to model teaching lessons.

Advocacy is a huge component of the national family engagement standards and best practices.

Content and lessons that reflect National Association for the Education of Young Children's (NAEYC) developmentally appropriate practice (DAP); Service - Learning Standards for Quality Practice; Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics; national standards in social studies, science, fine arts, technology, and health; and Head Start Child Development and Early Learning FNational Association for the Education of Young Children's (NAEYC) developmentally appropriate practice (DAP); Service - Learning Standards for Quality Practice; Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics; national standards in social studies, science, fine arts, technology, and health; and Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Fpractice (DAP); Service - Learning Standards for Quality Practice; Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics; national standards in social studies, science, fine arts, technology, and health; and Head Start Child Development and Early Learning FPractice; Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics; national standards in social studies, science, fine arts, technology, and health; and Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Fnational standards in social studies, science, fine arts, technology, and health; and Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework

By the end of the program, a Trellis teacher will have mentorship experience, a Master of Arts in Education or a Master of Science in a STEM field, and National Board Certification in a STEM field.37 Along the way, the program also emphasizes extensive clinical practice to complement learning experiences, rigorous standards to select and prepare a strong field of STEM teachers, and the use of educational technologies to monitor and augment performance and development.38

Discusses big picture mathematics curricular design ideas, including history of mathematics curriculum, development of national and state standards, curriculum frameworks, and implementation of effective practices into K - 8 schools.

Neil has presented at state and national conferences on the topics of leadership principles and practices, legislative advocacy, standards and curriculum alignment, assessment practices, and data analysis.