Sentences with phrase «on academic skills while»

Miss Shipley's table works on academic skills while the other table works on creative hands on, science, art and cooking activities.

Not exact matches

The MBA Global program focuses on academic theory and research - based learning, while the MBA in the Management of Technology and Innovation (MBA MTI) covers management skills while examining complex, technology - related business problems.

While at a preschool like this the kids will learn more academics earlier, I feel the focus on developing positive discipline and good, self - respecting social skills is far more important for kids this age.

However, a spokeswoman for the Department for Education and Skills said the new science GCSE would «maintain a clear focus on academic rigour» while engaging young people so more of them continued the subject after GCSE.

Dole and other teachers who use lessons on marine science hope to inspire students to take care of the oceans while simultaneously helping them improve their academic skills.

But while today's high - achieving schools for low - income students (Knowledge Is Power Program [KIPP], for instance) are passionate about cultivating both character and traditional academic skills, schools built around the 7 Habits are focused on training confident kids who are good at planning, goal setting, and decisionmaking.

Stipek found that children in didactic, content - centered programs generally do better on measures of academic skill than do children in child - centered classrooms, while children in child - centered classrooms worry less about school and have higher expectations for success than children in content - centered classrooms.

Each scenario gets students thinking about real issues, while drawing on the academic skills (like writing and reasoning) that they use all day.

After collecting a century's worth of academic studies, summer - learning expert Harris Cooper, now at Duke University, concluded that, on average, all students lose about a month of progress in math skills each summer, while low - income students slip as many as three months in reading comprehension, compared with middle - income students.

While a growing number of studies have evaluated K - 12 school voucher programs along academic dimensions, few have focused on the development of non-cognitive skills and civic values.

What makes our schools unique is an emphasis on helping students master academic concepts while obtaining the career skills they need whether they want to go on to more education or directly into a career.

While federal legislation calls for «multiple up - to - date measures of student academic achievement, including measures that assess higher - order thinking skills and understanding» (NCLB, Sec. 1111, b, I, vi), most assessment tools used for federal reporting focus on lower - level skill that can be measured on standardized mostly multiple - choice tests.

While very young children are capable of learning skills and knowledge that will feed into academic performance later on, they need to learn it in ways that actually meet their needs.

By focusing on the need to simultaneously reinforce basic skills while developing higher - order thinking, our academic program meets the needs of our student population and helps them achieve at the highest levels.

WriteToLearn provides English language learners (ELLs) the opportunity to focus on fundamental writing skills, while improving reading comprehension and expanding their academic vocabulary — key components that align to the College and Career Readiness Standards and promote acceleration from ELL classification.

Knowing that students will rely on their foundational skills in literacy and math for years to come, we support students in making progress toward individual academic goals while meeting or exceeding U.S. national standards.

While The Children's Guild DC Public Charter is a public school, it offers an innovative approach to learning by placing a strong emphasis on the integration of the arts and technology throughout the curriculum as well as engaging students in hands - on application of academics and social skills to everyday problems encountered in family life, groups, organizations, communities, the United States, and throughout the world.

While our software engineering assignment help writers are working on your academic documents, you can learn the skills that will help you out in the future career.

Initiated in 2012 by the National Park Service National Capitol Region Urban Ecology Research Learning Alliance (UERLA) and George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication (4C), the internship program is designed to create opportunities for students of diverse academic and personal backgrounds to gain skills and experience in the synthesis, interpretation, and development of science communication products while increasing knowledge about climate change and its effects on parks.

My colleague Sean Reardon, for example, focused on the educational impact, demonstrating that «the difference in average academic skills between high and low - income students is now 30 — 40 percent larger than it was 30 years ago» (while providing links to his research paper).

While both Raymond and Rahim gained a lot of practical skills and experience from their extracurricular activities, Raymond advises first year law students to focus on academics and only participate in one or two extracurricular activities until they settle into law school.

While working on academic and extracurricular projects, I developed proven [insert 1 - 3 soft skills] skills, which I hope to leverage into the [position] role at your company.

While working on academic and extracurricular projects, I have developed proven [insert 1 - 3 soft skills] skills, which I hope to leverage into the [position] role at your company.

While a regular resume is mostly focused on academic qualification, experience, and skills, the resume of an artist highlights chiefly his / her exhibitions, achievements, and awards.

Employers look for a combination of technical skills and right academic background while recruiting a mainframe developer, so the Resume Format should also emphasize on both the aspects.

I bring expertise in creating successful game plans, working on each player» individual sport skills while ensuring they don't lose focus on their academics.

While you may not have many employment experiences, you can still make an effective resume 2018 by focusing on your skills, on your academic background and on your volunteer experiences.

While hiring managers are quite interested in what you have to offer in terms of experience and academics, they automatically zero in on the skills section, hoping to see something that will help them make quick hiring decisions.

Bayless Elementary School (43 % minority, 61 % economically disadvantaged): Through the school's Practical Parenting Partnership, parents are recruited and trained, and become active participants in school events that educate other parents on parenting skills and the importance of academics while engaging families in interesting and lively activities.

Everybody is different and while the difference in things like academics will only influence the job, pay or social status that a person has, difference in parenting skills will have a drastic effect on the child, his life and in turn his time as a parent and development of his parenting skills.

Yet while many recent preschool interventions have been found to have short - term effects on young children's language, literacy, mathematics, executive function, and social - emotional development, studies show that impacts on cognitive and academic skills tend to diminish in early elementary school — a phenomenon commonly known as fade - out or convergence.

While classroom - based programs showed significant improvements across all five social measures and academics, comprehensive programs showed no significant effect on students» social - emotional skills or positive social behavior, and were less effective at improving academic performance.