Sentences with phrase «on the character development of»

He and Grych went through some 30 years» worth of academic research on parenting styles and strategies and their observable impact on the character development of children to write «Fostering Goodness.»

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Yes it's nerve - wracking, but getting out of a comfort zone and tackling something head - on is what builds character and brings self - development.

Netflix, it turns out, has (unsurprisingly) found successful formulas for character development, as a number of characters from Netflix originals like «The End of the F *** ing World» and «Money Heist» appear on this list.

New friendships tend to be shallow, focused on sharing superficial pastimes rather than on the mutual development of character.

We should look to Palestinian Aramean Christianity as the source or the first influence on the East Syrian church for the development of its ascetic character.

The interrelated legs of his tripod — the development of an ethics of character and virtue grounded in a view of the self that is unclear and that lends itself to a substantialist interpretation, an essentialist understanding of the Christian story, and a separatist position on the church - world — are mutually dependent on each other for their internal consistency and coherence.

After this selection has gone on for some considerable number of generations, the new pathways of development will have gradually acquired a more pronounced chreodic character, which can itself be difficult to modify.

Interestingly, we can see now that major developments in the character of scientific knowledge today help to make possible this synthesis of cosmic belonging on the one hand and religious wandering or sojourning on the other.

How does Hume's emphasis on form and procedure (as opposed to Plato's emphasis on education and character) affect political culture and the development of political agents within such societies?

The match went on, and the participants did character development and interviews in the corner of the screen and social media.

During the development of Julia's character, the team at Sesame Workshop consulted with autism organizations, educators, and families on how to not only accurately portray a child with autism, but also how to explain the condition to young children.

I believe the life skill of understanding this lesson helps build on so many other skills and nurtures the development of good character.

Tough draws on neuroscience, economics, psychology and child development to show how qualities such as self - mastery and optimism are what make children succeed and persevere, and how, in the light of this, good parenting, supportive mentoring and thoughtful, character - based schooling can make all the difference.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

By studying campers» experiences and camp's impact on the lives of young people, ACA provides parents with the knowledge to make good decisions, to thoughtfully guide their children, and to offer opportunities for powerful lessons in community, character building, skill development, and healthy living.

But a leading child - development expert cautions that two - parent families are in trouble, increasingly hard - pressed to do the thing that human society has always relied on families to do: develop the competence and character of children.

The development taking place in both towns has sparked much debate, whether it involves efforts to make sure high - density housing and newly built retail spaces don't change the character of the historic downtowns or ensuring teardowns — new homes built on the site of razed ones — don't clash with neighboring homes or the town's character.

While it does spend much of its time looking at the «character» traits that help children succeed, it is broader focused than just character development, with many portions dwelling on evaluation of a variety of educa

This book has chapters on how inaccurate diagnosis can harm a child's development, how skills differ from morals and how to recognize immature behavior, and the «four cornerstones» of character development.

Speaking on education in the West, the Governor noted that the downward trend in education should be worrisome due to the role of education in development and bringing enlightenment to the human mind, platform for leadership recruitment and the means for character building and good citizenship.

Responding to the Abuakwa South legislator, the Organised Youth of Krobo said bringing development to an area should be national in character and not based on ethnicity, religion, economical status, race, or religion as propounded by the framers of the 1992 constitution.

However, if formal education is not grounded on a solid foundation of morality, aided by the development of personal character, the youth will be unfit to assume the positions of leadership.

But the review did not allay local concerns over the impact of the development on the community's character and whether it would lead to regular commercial air travel at Republic.

It's not OK that this type of character would be leading the effort on the county's biggest potential economic development project in decades.

Mark - Viverito's spokesman Eric Koch wrote in an email that «the speaker never supported the deal and still doesn't but looks forward to continuing to work with South Bronx United on issues ranging from keeping trucks off residential streets to expanding access to the waterfront to supporting development that respects the character of the community.»

Eric Vinal, who works for Onondaga County's economic development office, posted a picture of himself on Instagram earlier this month with Esposito, who played the character Gustavo Fring in «Breaking Bad» and stars in the television series «Revolution.»

The group says health authorities admit that because of the «complex and rapidly changing character of the field, and the small spend on the service, they are not sufficiently in touch with developments in the field».

In addition to a «do - no - harm» ethic, geotourism seeks to enhance prospects for sustainable development based on the specific character of a given place rather than on standardized international branding, generic architecture and food, etc..

I found the complicated dynamic of these different personalities to be an interesting twist on the usual character development.

It started life as a remake of a UK show, but this US take on The Office quickly became its own beast — particularly when it came to character development.

This is not a Victorian novel that can spend three hundred pages on character development because the readers are the idle bourgeoisie living before the invention of smartphones.

It might have worked if you cared about the characters heading into Zoe's change, if you will, but there's next to no character development past Zoe and Frank being married, Zoe's recurring nightmare / childhood memory, Niko having a crush on Zoe, Clay being kind of a dick and Eva being the camerawoman.

Granted, these movies are based on superhero comics, which do this sort of character development a lot, with characters baldly stating what they're thinking or feeling because of the comparative struggle of comics to delve into their characters» heads, lacking consistent devices for inner monologues (as a more traditional novel would have) or the benefit of an actor's performance (as a movie or TV show would have).

The 3:47 «Meet Katie» focuses on the story of the furry little yak who just steals her scenes in the film, as the creators talk about the development of the character from a background drawing to full - fledged cult hero.

Hostiles, as indicated earlier, ultimately focuses too much on creating and maintaining its dour mood and tone, at the expense of its character / thematic development and sense of pacing.

Even thought the film is light on character development, and strove to be more of a pure action film (one of the most influential and parodied in fact), it is still entertaining, even though it's really just ok, and not all that good (unbelievable and unrealistic action aside).

Critic Consensus: Consistently thrilling, with solid character development and enough gore to please grindhouse fans, this season of The Walking Dead continues to demonstrate why it's one of the best horror shows on television.

Maybe I'll have a different perspective on this once I've played the other parts of the story as episode one may just be the character development.

In this third (and final) outing of the hugely popular Spy Kids series, writer / director / editor / cinematographer / production designer / composer / co-producer Rodriguez concentrates so heavily on the special effects that everything else — dialogue, acting, character and story development — comes off like an afterthought.

Are you walking into the same kind of costumed glut that threatened to turn the most recent Avengers film into Infinite War on Character Development?

Good acting, great development of characters; but you can summarize this way: you will be surprised with the strange sensation that someone has taken a peek into your memories and heart and put it on screen.

The sheer lack of effort poured into its plot and character development is frankly shameful, and for all its nostalgic quality it can neither hold a candle to the original nor adequately stand on its own.

As in season 1, the emphasis is on character development rather than cracking up viewers, though Doug Benson, Artie Lange, and Bill Burr inspire chuckles by playing versions of themselves.

Unfortunately the show is just kinda dumb after that... the scripted dialogue ranges from generic to awful; the characters are pantomimes, you know exactly whether they're good or bad right up front, and the show lacks any sort of organic development or growth, you just don't get into it like you would on a better created and wriiten show.everything is so predictable that by the time big jim kills his nth person it's just sort of «meh whatever» time.

The other major flaw is that so much time was spent in this movie on it's stylistic looks which as i said earlier were flawless but so much time and effort was spent on these that it seems to have taken away from the character development side of the film.

A sequel centering on Wahlberg's character is in the early stages of development.

There is more focus on character development, the storyline is fast - paced and intriguing and we are introduced to the best of the Jedi - Yoda!

It doesn't possess the strong character development of those other great films, but is so strong on the visuals that it is a feast for the eyes.

EXTRAS: There's a featurette on Sandra Bullock's development of the lead character, but sadly, that's the extent of the bonus material.

On a more negative note, the film is designed and crafted in such a way that you take one side, with a certain perspective more prominently presented than the other, while the fact we're dealing with an ensemble feature does mean there's a lack of emotionality attached, as with so many characters to explore, we drift between them without ever feeling as though we've truly got to the bottom of their respective character developments.