Sentences with phrase «promote broad skills»

Since generalists, by their very definition, promote broad skills over specialties, how can an employer who hasn't yet met the candidate distinguish one generalist from another?

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«A teacher can support your child in the classroom by promoting positive social skills and helping her develop a broad range of friendships,» says Schenck.

«A teacher can support your child in the classroom by promoting positive social skills and helping him develop a broad range of friendships,» says Schenck.

The action implications of these findings, as well as some of the dos noted earlier, are to promote a genuine and broad sense of inclusiveness by educating for true understanding of diversity, especially as manifest in one's own school, to ensure that school codes of conduct and core values are integrated into everyday routines, including opportunities for student reflection and feedback on student report cards (versus being relegated to statements in handbooks or on web sites), and to require that all students are given systematic training in social problem solving or related social - emotional skills and encouraged specifically to use those skills in finding alternatives to mistreating others, seeking help effectively, and upstanding in the presence of injustice and inequity.

As broad as it can be, GCE includes all the knowledge, skills and values that promote a peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, secure and sustainable world.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Throughout nearly 300 years of policymaking in the United States, educators have promoted eight broad goals of schooling: basic academic skills, critical thinking and problem solving, social skills and work ethic, citizenship, physical health, emotional health, the arts and literature, and preparation for skilled employment.

These all promote the view that comprehension depends on having formal skills rather than broad knowledge.

By developing a sense of community and facilitating an environment where students feel safe to take risks, teachers can promote the development of a broad range of reading skills and interests.

In addition, prevention programmes that teach pupils a broad range of life skills not only can prevent problems, but also may promote educational success.

To collaborate with member firms to drive business growth in Africa through best legal practice by attracting, developing and promoting world - class professional skills for the continuing success of our network and the broader African continent.

Improve the comprehensiveness of the curriculum content and diversify the teaching methods used in the classroom to more accurately reflect the UNFPA definition of comprehensive sexuality education, and so place more emphasis on promoting practical skills, confidence and agency among students; eliminate fear - based and moralistic messages; and increase the focus on gender, rights and strategies for preventing unintended pregnancies that teach about a broad range of contraceptives (including long - acting methods) and negotiating skills within relationships.

Improve the comprehensiveness of the curriculum content and diversify the teaching methods used in the classroom to more accurately follow UNFPA's definition of comprehensive sexuality education, and to place more emphasis on promoting practical skills, confidence and agency among students; eliminate fear - based and moralistic messages; and increase the focus on strategies for preventing unintended pregnancies that teach about a broad range of contraceptives (including long - acting methods) and negotiating skills within relationships.

This multidimensional, broad - based framework helps promote father engagement across all levels of society and strategically tackle the diverse barriers that fathers face as they try to become better parents, partners, and providers by providing supports ranging from employment skills to low - income, noncustodial fathers, to reentry services for fathers recently released from incarceration.24 The OCF helps coordinate a variety of programs and events to promote father engagement.

EFFECT aims to improve children's wellbeing by helping fathers become more involved, responsible, and committed to their children through parent education skills, guidance, and support systems.17 Additionally, EFFECT aims to increase protective factors — family functioning and resilience, social support, knowledge of parenting and child development, concrete support, and nurturing and attachment — to reduce the risk of child maltreatment and to promote positive family wellbeing.18 In addition to investing in fatherhood programs through EFFECT, Texas is committed to considering a broader system of supports for fathers.

Promoting social success provides both a broad overview of the issues involved, as well as the attention to detail to assist primary school teachers to implement a social skills curriculum.

Group, Standard, Self - Directed Triple P Broad focus program focusing on parent - child interaction and the application of parenting skills to a broad range of target behaviours, and the use of generalisation - enhancement strategies to promote parental autoBroad focus program focusing on parent - child interaction and the application of parenting skills to a broad range of target behaviours, and the use of generalisation - enhancement strategies to promote parental autobroad range of target behaviours, and the use of generalisation - enhancement strategies to promote parental autonomy.