Sentences with phrase «other informal education»

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The Public Engagement with Science Guide is designed to help staff at informal science education organizations, and others who are interested, to develop, implement, and evaluate activities and events that incorporate the multi-directional dialogue and mutual learning at the heart of public engagement with science.

We also find that this online option expands access to education and does not substitute for other informal training, and that students denied admission do not pursue any other formal education.

The debate over what Apple's electronic textbooks will mean for our formal education system comes at a time when we have not yet determined what tablet technology and the availability of electronic books (or «e-books») can mean for children's learning at home and other informal learning environments.

Educators involved in public and private elementary and secondary education, higher education, non-formal education in community agencies, informal education in museums, parks, camps, and other recreational settings, or who are training in business and industry.

I believe that the overall and unifying goal of learning (via a lifetime of informal and formal education) is to develop and maintain cognitive, moral, physical, and spiritual knowledge and skills that help learners to solve or in other ways to cope with the problems they encounter.

Due process hearing — An informal administrative process before a special education hearing officer to resolve disagreements over such issues as a child's eligibility for special education and related services, evaluation of a child with a disability, appropriateness of a child's services and / or placement, or any other matter under free, appropriate public education, including disciplinary matters.

NURTURES is a collaboration among the university's education, engineering, and natural science faculty; local daycare centers and nursery schools; informal science centers; and other community resources to create a complementary, integrated system of science education.

In the reverse direction, teacher educators and future teachers would work together and with others to unobtrusively bring formal education into social media and informal tools, methods and content without destroying the hallmarks of participatory media — personalized creation of content and fluid social relevance.

Although some school systems like New Orleans require charters to backfill, others do not, resulting in, as education expert Andrew Rotherham (2015) has observed, an «informal selection process» in which the most successful students are those that remain in the schools.

At Teachers College, she is founder and faculty sponsor of the Racial Literacy Roundtables Series where for eight years, national scholars, doctoral, and pre-service and in - service Master's students, and young people facilitate informal conversations around race and other issues involving diversity and teacher education for the Teachers College / Columbia University community.

Programs in social studies education prepare educators in the disciplines of history, government / civics, geography, economics, and the other social sciences, including classroom teachers and educators who work in museums, nonprofit organizations, and informal educational settings.

Other tidbits of information in the article, such as «17 % said they have no idea of the proper age to spay / neuter» and «42 % of people who recently got a pet did no prior research, formal or informal» tell me that the crux of the matter is still education or rather, the lack thereof.

ARCUS» efforts to improve the national recognition and support of Arctic research include formal and informal education, liaison with other national polar research entities, working with government agencies, providing a central point of contact for inquiries, facilitating community science planning efforts, and disseminating information through reports, a newsletter, and the ARCUS website.

MSPCC offers formal and informal education programs and opportunities to engage with other families in social gatherings throughout the state.

SELF - HELP Self - help generally refers to groups or meetings that: involve people who have similar needs; are facilitated by a consumer, survivor, or other layperson; assist people to deal with a «life - disrupting» event, such as a death, abuse, serious accident, addiction, or diagnosis of a physical, emotional, or mental disability, for oneself or a relative; are operated on an informal, free - of - charge, and nonprofit basis; provide support and education; and are voluntary, anonymous, and confidential.

Mothers without any informal parenting support were more likely to report high parenting stress and home chaos compared with mothers with such support, even allowing for other factors such as mother's education.

After controlling for other influences, including mother's education, informal parenting support was associated with more frequent nursery rhymes or singing, and with visiting friends.