Sentences with phrase «on literacy skills at»

To facilitate a better connection between elementary schools and the high schools they feed into, the Vallas administration started to focus on literacy skills at the early grades.

I love combining play dough with story telling — working on literacy skills at the same time as developing fine motor skills through the manipulation of the material is great working to two early years development skills.

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The Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at HGSE, Lesaux conducts research focusing on promoting the language and literacy skills of today's children and youth from diverse linguistic, cultural, and economic backgrounds.

If we look at digital literacy and its implementation in the classroom for the past 10 years, we can see the impact on students» writing and communication skills.

Focusing on teaching innovatively to improve literacy skills across all subject areas, the Theatre will look at assessment changes across primary and secondary educational institutions.

This threatens the state's ability to sustain the current economic boom and traps the workers themselves in jobs with little opportunity to advance, according to New Skills for a New Economy, a new study based on over two years of research conducted at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's National Center for Adult Literacy and Learning (NCSALL) and Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies.

Games, Bingo, Activities, A fun task for students to play at the end of term while at the same time focusing on literacy skills.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

At the end of study, researchers from Stranmillis University College determined that young children's numeracy, literacy and communication skills improve if they use iPads in school on a regular basis.

At the Edmund Rice Flexible Learning Centre in Townsville, Queensland, all students have a personal learning plan that includes a focus on literacy and numeracy, life skills, vocational learning and project - based learning.

In New South Wales, school educators use the Best Start one - on - one assessment to map students» literacy and numeracy skills at the beginning of Kindergarten.

On Wednesday, April 9, the forum, Adolescent Literacy: Translating Research into Effective Policy and Practice, brought together Ardice Hartry, senior research associate for MPR Associates; Timothy Shanahan, director of the Center for Literacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Professor Catherine Snow to discuss the problems of adolescent readers and what can be done to improve adolescent literacyLiteracy: Translating Research into Effective Policy and Practice, brought together Ardice Hartry, senior research associate for MPR Associates; Timothy Shanahan, director of the Center for Literacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Professor Catherine Snow to discuss the problems of adolescent readers and what can be done to improve adolescent literacyLiteracy at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Professor Catherine Snow to discuss the problems of adolescent readers and what can be done to improve adolescent literacyliteracy skills.

Motivated by research on written composition at a pair of colleges in Virginia, Dr. Hirsch developed his groundbreaking concept of cultural literacy — the idea that reading comprehension requires not just formal decoding skills, but also wide - ranging background knowledge.

«Our experience in producing a Reception baseline assessment in 2015 demonstrated that it is possible to undertake a robust assessment of children's language, literacy and numeracy skills at this age,» Carole Willis, NFER chief executive, said when its successful bid was announced on Wednesday.

Stephanie Gottwald, PhD, Co-Founder and Director of Content at Curious Learning said, «Curious Learning is changing the lives of children in Ethiopia, India and South Africa, as they learn fundamental early literacy skills and are on their way to becoming readers.

TRANSFERRABLE SKILLS Bill Mitchell, director of Education at the Chartered Institute for IT, said: «Based on what primary teachers who are already teaching the new computing curriculum are telling us, we believe that teaching children computing is not just important in its own right, it's also important because it improves numeracy and literacy sSKILLS Bill Mitchell, director of Education at the Chartered Institute for IT, said: «Based on what primary teachers who are already teaching the new computing curriculum are telling us, we believe that teaching children computing is not just important in its own right, it's also important because it improves numeracy and literacy skillsskills.

The Central Feature is the theatre at the heart of the show, filled with practical and engaging sessions focused on teaching innovatively to improve literacy skills across all subjects, addressing the changes to assessment facing both primary and secondary institutions, and other inspirational stories.

The success of the financial - literacy program at the Ariel Community Academy depends on three major elements: a financial - literacy curriculum that begins early on and is developmentally appropriate, community partnerships that provide connections to reality and parent involvement in financial - literacy learning, and a cultural sensitivity in the methods of instruction that encourage student choice and the development of decision - making skills.

Third grade reading proficiency is up 15 percent at all community schools, based on end - of - year tests and Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills or DIBELS scores.

ED must also establish a comprehensive center on students at risk of not attaining full literacy skills due to disability.

Timothy Shanahan, a literacy researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago who has co-authored reports on the need for explicit instruction on basic skills, recently argued on his blog that «good teaching includes both didactic lessons and opportunities to practice and play.»

Reforms aimed at improving reading achievement seem to have propelled Russia, Hong Kong, and Singapore from middle to top rankings on an international assessment of literacy skills, even as U.S. performance stood still, according to results released last week.

For example, one study on the impact of program - family partnerships for Early Head Start showed program families were more likely to support their children's development and literacy skills than families not in the program.Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and Center for Children and Families at Teachers College, Columbia University, Building Their Futures: How Early Head Start Programs Are Enhancing the Lives of Infants and Toddlers in Low - Income Families, 2001.

Dr Kevan Collins, Chief Executive of the EEF, said: «We applaud the focus on what we know is a key juncture in children's lives - we want to find out what actually makes the difference in nurturing the literacy and life skills at the end of primary school that are so important for the springboard to success in secondary schooling and beyond.»

Strategies include: approaches that encourage parents to read and talk with their children at home or to participate in activities in the early years setting; programmes that focus directly on parents themselves, for example, providing training in parenting skills or adult numeracy and literacy support; and more intensive programmes for disadvantaged families or families in crisis, for example, through schools appointing a family liaison that work with parents through either home visits or other targeted approaches.

Building on the report's findings, Marianne Cutler, director, curriculum innovation at the Association of Science Education, said while literacy skills were important, they shouldn't overshadow scientific approaches.

«Early years policy must always, without exception, have the needs of the child at its centre - but with baseline tests, this is simply not the case,» said Mr Leitch, who warned that he remained «extremely concerned that the proposed tests focus so heavily on the narrow skills of language, literacy and numeracy».

Developed over the last 30 years at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning, SIM consists of learning strategies to increase students literacy skills and content enhancement routines to improve instruction and learning to promote student success on the Standards of Learning (SOL).

She included her students» scores on district literacy tests and the University of Oregon's DIBELS tests, short for Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills, given three times a year at 20 percent of elementary schools in theliteracy tests and the University of Oregon's DIBELS tests, short for Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills, given three times a year at 20 percent of elementary schools in theLiteracy Skills, given three times a year at 20 percent of elementary schools in the nation.

His scholarly focus has been on the role of instruction in the development of basic literacy and numeracy skills for students with learning disabilities or those at risk for school failure.

Because over 80 percent of their third and fourth graders were struggling readers, Principal Erskine Glover and other leaders at Quitman knew they needed to focus on early literacy skills, reading comprehension, and citing textual evidence.

There is much written about the disadvantages created at a young age when students can not read and it is extremely tough for elementary teachers to work on literacy skills if students are not at school.

This report from MDRC summarizes research conducted primarily over the past 10 years on how families» involvement in children's learning and development through activities at home and at school affects the literacy, mathematics, and social - emotional skills of children ages 3 to 8.

«At KIPP PEACE, we focus on cultivating each student's oral language development and foundational literacy and math skills so that our students leave fourth grade as «ready readers» and «mathematicians.»

But that approach comes at a cost for all students; they're missing out on the opportunity to learn valuable digital literacy and tech skills.

Under her leadership, Mississippi has initiated aggressive education reforms that have increased literacy skills in pre-K through the 3rd grade, pushed student achievement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to improve at a faster rate than most other states, and increased the graduation rate to an all - time high of 83 percent.

This issue of ASCD Express includes a look at Thomas Armstrong's practical MI applications in Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, examples of MI theory for differentiated instruction, ways to integrate multimedia and MI, and a video on using bodily - kinesthetic and spatial intelligences to reinforce literacy skills.

With different activities focusing on literacy, reading, physical activity and developing social skills, a group of the K - 6 school's students got to keep the summer slide at bay in exciting ways.

Trainees also now need to pass literacy and numeracy tests before they are offered a place on a training programme, instead of at the end of the course, filtering out those with weaker skills.

A Proactive Approach to Wellness VETVANCE, available at www.VETVANCE.com, offers learning modules on a range of non-technical topics that supplement the veterinary college curriculum, including 100 + multi-media modules that cover topics relevant to professional development, business skills and financial literacy, online networking, and job opportunities.

The new «Appeals Services Division practices and procedures», rather than simplify and streamline, increase bureaucracy, paperwork and delay — putting at a further disadvantage injured workers with limited literacy or English language skills, workers already on the poverty line or with mental health conditions.

Beware of the hype — the danger of which the Australian Nadia project seems, at least temporarily to have found out (IBM Watson was frankly just not good enough)-- but these could have a transformative effect on delivery moving beyond a need for literacy and keyboard skills to communication by voice.

If well done, a page like that will also serve as a great resource not only for the bar, but for the public at large by making law more accessible through reducing the barrier of one's technical skills or computer literacy on the path to finding useful results.

Based on our selection of resume samples for Television Production Assistant, required skills include flexibility, being available to work at odd hours, problem - solving orientation, communication and interpersonal skills, time management, and computer literacy.

Our findings add insight into the pathways linking early childhood adversity to poor adult wellbeing.29 Complementing past work that focused on physical health, 9 our findings provide information about links between ACEs and early childhood outcomes at the intersection of learning, behavior, and health.29 We found that ACEs experienced in early childhood were associated with poor foundational skills, such as language and literacy, that predispose individuals to low educational attainment and adult literacy, both of which are related to poor health.23, 30 — 33 Attention problems, social problems, and aggression were also associated with ACEs and also have the potential to interfere with children's educational experience given known associations between self - regulatory behavior and academic achievement.34, 35 Consistent with the original ACE study and subsequent research, we found that exposure to more ACEs was associated with more adverse outcomes, suggesting a dose — response association.3 — 8 In fact, experiencing ≥ 3 ACEs was associated with below - average performance or problems in every outcome examined.

We focus on these outcomes in kindergarten because academic skills and behaviors at that time point are strong predictors of educational trajectory.10 We hypothesized that ACEs in the birth - to - age - 5 time period would be associated with poor teacher - reported academic skills including emergent literacy and behavior difficulties.

Relative to children with no ACEs, children who experienced ACEs had increased odds of having below - average academic skills including poor literacy skills, as well as attention problems, social problems, and aggression, placing them at significant risk for poor school achievement, which is associated with poor health.23 Our study adds to the growing literature on adverse outcomes associated with ACEs3 — 9,24 — 28 by pointing to ACEs during early childhood as a risk factor for child academic and behavioral problems that have implications for education and health trajectories, as well as achievement gaps and health disparities.

Path analysis revealed that after controlling for clustering and all factors restricted to being equal across the time points, programme fidelity had a significant impact on the Emotional Literacy subscale scores at post-intervention: self - awareness: -LSB-(Estimate = 0.025, SE = 0.006, C.R. = 4.38, P < 0.001), Std Eff = 0.087]; self - regulation: -LSB-(Estimate = 0.024, SE = 0.006, C.R. = 4.04, P < 0.001), Std Eff = 0.08]; motivation: -LSB-(Estimate = 0.022, SE = 0.006, C.R. = 3.73, P < 0.001), Std Eff = 0.075] and social skills -LSB-(Estimate = 0.022, SE = 0.005, C.R. = 4.02, P < 0.001), Std Eff = 0.081].

These results point to the sustained positive effect of the programme on children's emotional literacy skills at 12 - month follow - up.

To address the first hypothesis and investigate the effect of the Zippy's Friends intervention on the children's emotional literacy skills at post-intervention and at 12 - month follow - up, a model for each subscale was fitted.