Sentences with phrase «of educational preparation»

Accreditation of specialized professional and occupational schools, such as veterinary technology, is undertaken primarily to provide the public with assurance of the quality of the educational preparation of that profession's members.

The answer is not to back down on standards, defer accountability, and «dumb down» the curriculum, but to tell the truth about the current state of the educational preparation of our children.

Who will the professors be in this program if it materializes, and what kind of educational preparation must they have?

It is not, in fact, the lack of educational preparation on the part of Boards of Education that is the issue, though.

Nothing in this agreement shall be construed to repeal or otherwise modify any law or regulation of a party state relating to the approval of programs of educational preparation having effect solely on the qualification of educational personnel within that state.

She devoted her time to promoting well - prepared nurses with a minimum level of educational preparation, reducing nurse to student ratios, and successfully lobbied to the State Board of Education for an appropriate salary schedule for nationally certified school nurses.

With more thorough preparation in foreign language, both written and spoken, American students will be in a better position to learn effectively from travel and residence abroad as part of their educational preparation.

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Evelyn Jacks is Founder and President of Knowledge Bureau, a national educational institute for the continuing professional development of tax and financial advisors and author of 52 books on the subject of tax preparation, planning and wealth management for Canadian families.

When maximum production and continually increasing economic growth, measured by income and expenditure figures, are taken as the measures of social well - being, then occupations and the educational preparation for them are dehumanized and made narrowly vocational; and persons are degraded into interchangeable parts in a giant social machine designed for generating and gratifying acquisitive hungers.

Since 2013 the Diocese of Westminster has been working with the Explore educational charity to provide a «remote marriage preparation» experience in the diocese's high schools and parishes.

While education in such a society contributes to the preparation of workers, the whole educational effort is not vocationalized.

A marital enrichment group, a family camp, a child - study group, a youth fellowship, a preparation for retirement group, a nursery program, a senior citizen club, premarital counseling, marriage counseling, pastoral care in bereavement, parent - child counseling, and the entire spiritual growth and educational thrust of the church — all these are examples of resources which are designed to stimulate the growth of personality toward the realization of each individual's potentialities.

022 PA Code 49.102 (1999) states that an Educational Specialist I Certificate will be issued to those applicants who have successfully completed a Department of Education approved educational specialist preparation program, have satisfactorily achieved in the prescribed assessments [see 022 PA Code 354.33 (2000) for specifics], and has the college or university preparing program's recommendation.

022 PA Code 49.102 (1999) states that an Educational Specialist I Certificate will be issued to those applicants who have successfully completed a Department of Education approved educational specialist preparation program, have satisfactorily achieved in the prescribed assessments (see 022 PA Code 354.33 (2000) for specifics), and has the college or university preparing program's recommendation.

The minimum lactation - specific educational preparation accepted is 90 hours, however IBLCE strongly recommend that students complete a comprehensive, evidence - based LEAARC - approved program of 120 + hours duration.

Our local team of community experts will help meet the needs of parents as they tackle many challenging parenting issues... sleep, breastfeeding, maternity education and preparation, child and environmental safety, food and nutrition, parenting, and educational and special needs advocacy.

Inspectors will look for evidence of how children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities (or both) are identified, how their needs are assessed and met, and how they are supported to move on to their next stage of education, the world of work and wider preparation for adulthood.

The contestants had been camped at the Swiss Spirit Hotel & Suites Alisa in Accra, in preparation for today's grand finale, and had been taken through series of fun - packed and educational events in and outside the hotel.

The applications are then reviewed by a panel of state educational leaders from various professional associations, including the School Administrators Association of N.Y. State; N.Y. State United Teachers; the United Federation of Teachers; and the N.Y. State Parent Teacher Association, along with the assistant provost for educator preparation at the State University of New York (SUNY).

Since we heard news of our new building, we have been fully involved in the planning and preparation of the building to ensure that it meets the holistic needs of our pupils who all have special educational needs.

It has been evident for some time that the Federal Government is keeping a close watch on teachers and educational leaders and that it has a preferred, if not popular view of the nature of teacher preparation, professional development and training.

Whilst quality and accountability is essential to teacher and principal development, and the notion of professional standards is supported in principle, it is of concern to many educators that the complexity of professional growth, development and training has been reduced to a set of basic competencies that may not truly reflect the complex nature of teaching, the principalship, teacher education and the preparation of teachers and educational leaders for contemporary times and a challenging future.

«The Commission recognizes that perhaps one of the most acute educational problems facing this nation — one most directly related to assuring quality in higher education — is the need to improve the preparation of those who teach in the primary and secondary schools.

Moreover, prominent voices in teacher preparation continue to question whether clear - cut measures of student outcomes — such as graduation rates or test performance — are legitimate measures of educational performance.

This resource is useful with a range of ages and educational contexts — Nursery / Primary / Secondary to focus on numeracy skills and / or coin recognition - Special Educational Needs - preparation for adulthood and acknowledging the value of different coins.

With some research a preparation, you could find yourself on the forefront of the online educational movement.

Which was that we wanted to make a commitment not just to the accountability side of the reforms, but also to what might be called the instructional core and to invest in capacity and the capacity of people on the front lines of the educational systems; to give them better preparation, to give them better tools, to give them better professional development.

It's no secret that the American educational system today lists under the weight of some massive, seemingly intractable burdens such as poor college preparation, modest achievement results compared with other nations, high dropout rates, significant teaching and performance disparities across racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, and a deficit of graduates equipped with the necessary skills for tomorrow's workforce.

Given that 48 states require principals to be certified in educational administration, the disappointing state of principal preparation is disturbing news.

As the president of the sole specialized accreditor for educator preparation, I certainly agree with Dr. Chard's assertion that «[i] mproving educational attainment for all students in today's schools can only happen if we improve the quality of teaching.»

Risk assessments play a key role in preparations designed to safeguard the health and safety of pupils on educational visits, writes the ATL.

This program encourages teacher preparation programs to commit to the four key principles identified in the 2016 National Educational Technology Plan for the use of educational technology in teacher preparation: Focus on the active use of technology to -LSB-...]

The expansion of charter schools, less university - based teacher preparation, and putting digital technology before superb teaching as a way to personalize learning for students do not characterize the policies of international educational leaders like Canada, Finland, or Singapore.

She is directly responsible for the development and advocacy of NJPSA's legislative agenda which covers a broad spectrum of educational issues including the preparation, support and development of school leaders, school finance, collective bargaining / employment issues and school reform issues.

In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

Because vocational students typically seek to enter the workforce without further training, deficiencies in their preparation are immediately visible — and have contributed to the growth of a multi-billion-dollar «shadow» educational system in the private sector designed to upgrade worker skills.

The University Council for Educational Administration is a consortium of higher education institutions committed to advancing the preparation and practice of educational leaders for the benefit of schools and children.

The University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) and New Leaders have partnered to create a set of resources and tools designed to help states improve principal preparation by reforming their current approach to evaluating educational administration programs.

These data may also be used as part of a larger multi-institutional state or national database that could capture trends in educational leadership preparation.

Preparation Program Edition (INSPIRE - PP) The INSPIRE Preparation Program Features (INSPIRE - PP) Survey is designed to describe core features of educational leadership preparation programs.

The journal's editorial staff seeks a wide range of cases that embody relevant and timely presentations of issues germane to the preparation of educational leaders.

On this page are publications, tools and resources designed to support states in the development and implementation of a high - quality evaluation system for educational leadership preparation.

360 Edition (INSPIRE - 360)-- This instrument enables the educational leadership preparation program to document leadership practices and school improvement and organizational indicators in the schools where program graduates work from the perspective of subordinate teachers and superordinate district leader (s).

The University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) is a consortium of higher education institutions committed to advancing the preparation and practice of educational leaders for the benefit of schools and children.

After nearly a year of preparation, my team and I are ready to take on an ambitious goal in partnership with our city's educational leaders: adding 7,000 seats to Boston's high - performing schools by the year 2020...

UCEA's mission is to advance the preparation and practice of educational leaders for the benefit of all children and schools.

UCEA has a single standard of excellence for membership: superior institutional commitment and capacity to provide leadership for the advancement of educational leadership preparation, scholarship, and practice consistent with UCEA's established mission.

Many educational leadership programs have or are developing partnerships with local schools and districts in an effort to increase the relevancy of their preparation programs to the particular needs of local educational communities.

Leader in Practice Edition (INSPIRE - LP)-- This instrument enables the educational leadership preparation programs to document leadership practices and school improvement and organizational indicators from the perspective of program graduates who are working as school principals.

Program evaluation is an essential tool for program improvement and UCEA has invested in the development of a number of program evaluation processes and tools that can benefit educational leadership preparation in universities and a variety of other sectors.