Sentences with phrase «on academic areas»

This session — called AIM (Aspire, Invest, Make the Grade)-- enables students to work individually with team leaders on academic areas in need of improvement.

Not exact matches

Quanser The Toronto - area company is primarily focused on health and academic markets, but its haptic technology — which replicates the sense of touch through mechanical vibration — is being used in commercial home robots.

We would also like any recommendations from the interns on which academic institutions or research facilities are well respected in their countries and areas of expertise.

These reflections on Brooke's scholarly work are but a «taster» of the whole sweep of his volume, which is in the area of his academic expertise.

We would also like any recommendations from the interns on which academic institutions or research facilities are well respected in their countries and areas of expertise.

Brigham and Rogers each offered experiential advice on how academic integration of school gardens can enhance student learning in all areas.

Her academic training and research has crossed areas of family - community interaction, developmental theory, and educational psychology, all with a focus on how to share information in a manner that supports children's and families» development.

Balance emphasis on academic success with interest in other areas of your child's development.

Interns are given responsibilities according to their areas of interest, and may take on independent creative or academic projects.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

According to the Governor, «I am glad that academic activities have commenced, we thank God for the successful start off of the Maritime University which will consolidate on the peace in the Niger Delta and attract sustainable development to the area.»

At Tuesday's meeting, Pryor and his staff reported on progress made in key reform areas, including a new teacher evaluation system and a new set of academic goals called the Common Core State Standards.

Meanwhile, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Friday hailed the successful rescue of the six kidnapped students of Igbonla Model College, Epe, assuring that the government would utilise the academic break to reinforce security in all schools in the State, especially in the suburb and riverine areas to prevent a reoccurrence.

To accomplish this work, RCP draws on a network of experts that includes researchers from all areas of science and technology; leaders from academic and government institutions; persons experienced in product development and technology transfer; and entrepreneurs and business managers from all fields.

In the brief space available I've only been able to touch on a very few of the career areas most closely related to academic research.

Rima Janusziewicz and Ashley R. Johnson, graduate students in DeSimone's academic lab, are co-authors on the paper and are working on novel applications in drug delivery and other areas.

As in other areas of academic science, success normally hinges on active publishing and getting out to the right conferences so that people know what you're doing.

It is my perception that most academic preparation focuses on preparation to work in a scientific specialty area.

Physician and academic Casarett takes readers on a guided tour of the increasingly broad gray area between those two states.

Building Bricks: Exploring the Global Research and Innovation Impact of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea, written by Jonathan Adams, David Pendlebury, and Bob Stembridge, highlights these countries» public and private investments in research and development, their scientific and engineering labor forces, their output of research papers and particularly active areas of research, their academic impact as measured by citations, and their economic potential based on innovation and patenting.

Academic investigators typically thrive on exploring an area — presuming that funding is available — for the sake of learning what makes things tick.

Howarth said that, as far as he knows, no academic studies have been done to investigate the effects of VR on children's eyes, though it's possible that VR headset manufacturers have done research in this area.

At the very least, more academics should become Wikipedia editors — writing on their areas of expertise.»

For those embarking on a chemistry career in Canada, the new resource at Careerchem.com helps students to identify leading scientists in emerging areas of chemistry, to locate alumni from a department or a particular advisor's group who were successful in obtaining academic positions in Canada and the United States, and to discover particular patterns of recruitment for faculty positions at chemistry departments in Canada.

Ford, an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and an investigator at the Neuroscience Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia, says that when he came to the historically black MSM four years ago he chose stroke research as the area he wanted to concentrate on for two reasons: The medical school recognized the racial and regional disparities of the disease and placed stroke high on its list of illnesses to study, and the field combines the several prongs of his varied academic training and interests.

Scores on standardized tests of academic areas such as reading, spelling, and math were analyzed.

A master's graduate would not necessarily be granted any advanced standing as the education programs are focused on teaching methods and theory, with usually no elective areas to which other academic subjects could be credited.

In fact, an accurate decision tree often includes research opportunities in the academic, industrial, and not - for - profit sectors, depending on your research area.

On the opportunity to undertake an academic stay in London, the doctor in electronics specializing in semiconductors emphasizes that it was a very valuable experience, because of the number of experts at the highest level in all areas, both in comprehensive training in business models, management of a company, presentation of the development to potential investors, as well as how to convey the message.

Something all can agree on, however, is that misconduct in the United Kingdom, particularly in the area of medical research, is an endemic problem: An informal survey released by BMJ at the meeting showed that out of 2700 responses by BMJ subscribers, 13 % of medical and academic researchers had witnessed misconduct and 6 % were aware of possible research misconduct at their institution that hadn't been properly investigated.

This spring's Bay Area Aging Meeting (BAAM), held at the Buck Institute, was a huge success — attracting hundreds of local researchers focused on aging from leading academic institutions and biotech companies.

Loyola is also the only academic medical center in the Chicago area accredited as a stroke specialty program by CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) International.

Within the framework of a SOCRATES / TEMPUS project, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) organised a Bologna seminar on «Student Mobility in the European Higher Education Area...

«Evidence shows that if you can hook students earlier in their academic careers, they are more likely to retain an interest in that area later on,» Dr. Chudler said.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) undertook a survey on behalf of the Information and Promotion Network (IPN) Working Group 1 that mapped higher education promotion and / or marketing initiatives developed by both national agencies and higher education institutions (HEIs) across the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) in late fall 2010.

Ciara — my advice is to do some research on the academics at your university and the pharmacists in your area, as well as those further away.

The National Board of Review, which owes much of its visibility to its place early on the awards calendar, consists not of film critics but of «knowledgeable film enthusiasts and professionals, academics, young filmmakers and students» in the New York area.

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

We group students based on an area of need ranging from academic to personal and social, such as conflict resolution, stress management, and self - management skills.

The language challenge This focus on academic subjects is also clearly going to disadvantage schools in certain areas.

«Reassessing the Achievement Gap: Fully Measuring What Students Should Be Taught in School» argues that NAEP results offer a «distorted» picture of student achievement because of their exclusive focus on academic skills and take attention away from nontested areas that often fall under the purview of schools.

The ASD - ENA data has helped to highlight a number of identified learning needs and offers some useful insights on how to best support students on the spectrum in the following areas: academic and learning; behaviour; sensory issues; communication; transition; school connectedness; student wellbeing; and, technology.

In the two schools that had reopened, the Ed School students provided administrative and academic support in a number of areas, including in - classroom support through reading groups, one - on - one tutoring, and substitute teaching; organization and distribution of school uniforms; help to renew the libraries; and organization of after school electives such as Latin dancing, basketball tournaments, soccer games, and chess clubs.

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).

For these reasons, Word Generation focuses on all - purpose academic words and attempts to increase content area teachers» willingness to teach them.

New approaches, he says, could focus on social and emotional development as well, since science now tells us that relationships and interactions with the environment sculpt the areas of the brain that control behavior (like the ability to concentrate), which also can affect academic achievement (like learning to read).

In the area of academic achievement, a few years ago the school's fourth graders had the highest scores in the district on the Connecticut Mastery Test, the state's standardized achievement test.

The institute's focus is on improving achievement in core academic areas, not the «diverse academic, developmental, technology, social, behavioral, and transition needs of children with disabilities,» said Kim Musheno, a policy analyst with the Association...

Because our goal for the first hour of ELT was to provide relevant academic support to each individual student, we had to focus tightly on the specific area of concern or need for each student.

On one end of the spectrum are schools that use PBL as a vehicle to teach all academic content areas, including literacy and math.