Sentences with phrase «skills programs prepare»

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Now in its fourth year, the Digital Cookie platform continues to keep Girl Scout programming current and relevant to today's girls, including by providing them with valuable business and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) skills that prepare them for 21st - century leadership.

Our doctoral program provides both technical and theoretical instruction, strengthening your skills and preparing you for placement at a top university.

In this curriculum, three disciplines represent the theoretical side of the dichotomy (biblical studies, church history and systematic theology), while practical theology represents the task - oriented program providing the requisite skills for those preparing for the professional ministry.

The Huskies have been working hard to check off as many of Truesdale's skills and situations during practices, and early nonleague games including a Feb. 27 opener at Oak Ridge (the only program with more SJS titles [9] than Sheldon [8]-RRB- and the prestigious Queen of the Mountain Tournament in Pleasanton against top Bay Area competitors will serve to prepare Sheldon for when the games count the most.

Formerly, it provided academic counseling, skill training, and online study to prepare high school players for collegiate programs.

The high school program prepares students for 2 - or 4 - year college completion and careers by ensuring they are college - ready, which includes preparing them with 21st Century Skills (communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and technology skSkills (communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and technology skillsskills).

Start Smart programs are opportunities for staff, parents and children to work together to prepare children for sports by teaching them basic motor skills and also sport - specific skills, with the intent of starting children on a lifelong path of health and fitness.

Welcome to Parenting is a free online prenatal program that provides expectant parents with the knowledge, skills and confidence to have a baby and prepare for parenthood.

In order to meet New Legacy Charter School's mission of empowering teen parents with the skills needed to raise healthy children and graduate prepared for success in college and careers, developing a Coordinated School Health Program is a necessity.

We offer different French camp programs for 4 to 6 years old to prepare them to enter a French program or to reinforce previously acquired French verbal skills.

Skill development is accelerated to prepare for college or job training programs.

«Study after study shows that summer reading programs raise students» learning levels and help children, teens and young adults retain and enhance their reading skills — meaning they are better prepared for school each fall.

Graduate programs that are recognizing this have developed courses and programs to prepare students for lives after their theses or dissertations; lives in which the capacity to fix problems is a critical survival skill.

Professional societies such as the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) and AAS are concerned about the situation and have been engaged in continuing discussions in recent years about how to improve current postgraduate training programs in order to prepare students not only for research careers, but to give them a broad skill set that would enable them to pursue more diverse career paths.

Bio-Link is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is designed to improve and expand educational programs that prepare skilled technicians to work in high - tech fields in the U.S.

Now in its second year, this unique program teaches graduate students a variety of professional skills — ranging from preparing an effective conference talk to budgeting an independent consulting business — that will help them in any career they choose, either inside or outside the Ivory Tower.

As well as giving her a head start on teaching, Crone says her PFF program taught her how to «assess institutional fit,» gave her practice in things such as preparing statements of teaching and research philosophies, and improved her interviewing skills, all of which «helped tremendously» in her successful search for a faculty position.

Even if you're not in a formal program, as you prepare to re-enter the work force, take some time to learn about topics such as networking skills, presentation skills, science writing, work / life balance, and preparing job application packages.

The NIH expects that such programs will: help attract young students to careers in science; provide opportunities for college students to gain valuable research experience to help prepare them for graduate school; and enhance the skills of science teachers and enable them to more effectively communicate the nature of the scientific process to their students.

In this video, directors and students associated with the program talk about what it's like, how it's structured, and how the skills taught in this program prepare students for a career in medicine and the sciences.

This is a complete and thorough professional certification program in culinary nutrition that offers practical, everyday, natural cooking skills as well as a deeper exploration into the therapeutic properties of the foods we eat and how we prepare them.

The Nutrition and Integrative Health programs at MUIH will prepare you with the advanced skills and expertise to fill this growing demand and become a leader in the field.

Bent On Learning's training shares the knowledge and skills developed over 15 years teaching yoga in public schools and prepares participants to deliver an age - appropriate yoga program for the urban classroom.

The program is designed to prepare you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence you need to connect meaningfully with clients, partner effectively with practitioners, and find fulfillment in a career you love.

As a graduate of the Master of Arts in Health and Wellness Coaching program, you will be uniquely prepared to fill the growing demand for coaches with advanced knowledge and skills to help people take charge of their own health and create sustainable change.

This program will prepare you with the skills and expertise to empower people to take charge of their health and create sustainable change.

The program prepares young women to become future documentarians by instructing them on everything from aesthetics to technical skills.

The report — which also features a webinar and online chat — shows how professional development programs are now blending face - to - face and online training, incorporating social networking tools, offering administrators more flexible ways to hone their skills, and developing online PD to prepare educators for the common - core standards and assessments.

They constitute one of the pillars of the MBA program contents, which aim to prepare participants to take high - responsibility positions in sectors where their analytical and leadership skills will enable them to implement in - depth solutions to address complex problems.

Led by Professor Greg Craven, the Advisory Group was asked to make practical recommendations on improving teacher education programs to better prepare teachers with the skills they need for the classroom.

Program should strive to do more than merely prepare a corps of skilled individuals.

This intensive, two - week training program prepares mid-level managers early in their administrative experience with the skills to succeed in complex roles and shifting institutional and cultural landscapes.

Some candidates could prepare outside of a program and still be able to demonstrate the necessary skills — some, but not many.

Rather than providing students skills that have real currency in today's labor market and preparing them for gainful employment, accountability provisions in the federal No Child Left Behind Act and Race to the Top funding program have focused on increasing short - term gains that measure success or failure of schools.

They also use these skills to take part in the Students Feeding Students program where every day, students prepare a healthy meal for the entire school body.

First, we offer three curricular strands for our Ed.M program: a Counseling Strand to prepare you for a career in school counseling; a Prevention Practice strand that prepares you to work in or out of schools as a teacher, youth development advocate; and a Prevention Researcher strand that prepares you develop research skills to be used in a variety of settings.

The central mission of the PSP program is to prepare graduates with the skills and knowledge necessary to promote positive, healthy development and academic achievement.

Now the Bush administration has proposed reorienting the program to emphasize the acquisition of intellectual skills and to prepare poor kids for school.

Whether it's to prepare a pilot for landing a plane or teach a child basic programming skills, there are certain things to consider before choosing to develop a systems simulation.

«Content - area teachers in middle and high school feel less prepared to teach reading skills, and they also view reading skill as something that should have happened at the elementary level,» says Lecturer Pamela Mason, M.A.T.» 70, Ed.D.» 75, director of the master's program in language and literacy and the Jeanne Chall Reading Lab.

To be prepared for the demands of the 21st century — and to take advantage of its opportunities — it is essential that more of our students today learn basic computer programming skills, no matter what field of work they want to pursue.

Schools have increasing demands placed upon them to develop knowledge and skills and deliver programs to prepare students to be good citizens and community members.

The Ohio Performance Assessment Pilot Project uses Learning and Assessment Tasks to: • Help students learn and apply skills in multiple contexts, • Prepare them for the state's next - generation assessment program, and • Train hundreds of teachers to evaluate student work, use the results to improve instruction, and create their own learning tasks.

We also expect that some organizations will be more or less well - prepared on these two dimensions as they enter the program, and we expect that this diversity of skills and experience will be useful as teams will have the opportunity to learn from one another throughout and, in particular, on the final day.

HGSE's and HBS's new certificate program will equip current and aspiring principals with key management and leadership skills needed to lead and sustain high - performing schools, and prepare them to set and meet high expectations for all children, create conditions for excellent teaching, and engage positively with families and communities.

We offer a diverse portfolio of online courses, on - campus institutes, and blended programs that prepare educators to cultivate critical thinking and learning skills, practice new teaching approaches, and confront centuries - old structures in order to better design and deliver the kind of education and professional development required for today's educators and tomorrow's citizens.

Mathematica will prepare a series of analytic reports documenting the demographic characteristics, home environments, and school readiness skills of Head Start children and the quality of Head Start classrooms, teachers, and programs.

«We decided several years ago to study rich examples of complex student projects — often arts - infused, aesthetically rich, interdisciplinary, community - connected, long - term studies of important ideas, concepts, and skill sets — to see if they could help us «illuminate» specific standards — making those standards «visible,»» said Steve Seidel, director of HGSE's Arts in Education Program, in a prepared statement.

Supporting bold education reform, Microsoft's mission is simple: support bold education reform to help prepare students for today's highly competitive workforce, and support our U.S. educators with software and programs that fuel powerful learning and digital - age skills.

New elementary school teachers who were well - prepared in preservice programs to teach reading expressed greater confidence in their knowledge and skills, fostered richer literacy environments in their classrooms, and helped their pupils achieve higher levels of reading comprehension than did other teachers, according to the National Commission on Excellence in Elementary Teacher Preparation in Reading Instruction.