Sentences with phrase «traditional academic roles»

Many programs included preparation for more traditional academic roles, but other events highlighted other careers for postdocs.

Not exact matches

With so many of the learner's supporters having instant access to their respective learner's performance, there is an enormous role reversal in the relevance of a traditional learner academic report card.

Particularly with online learning giving way to a suite of flexible learning experiences, schools may indeed move beyond their traditional role as sole academic provider, offering a breadth of non-academic resources such as mentoring, health services, and community - building activities — all of which can support healthy development and serve as powerful antidotes to chronic achievement gaps.

Social and emotional learning, which gets beyond the traditional academic subject areas, has played an important role in District 51's changing school system, she said.

Critics charge that school - to - work programs displace basic skills and academic instruction, are impractical and wasteful, invade family privacy, narrow student options, promote societal change (by reducing ability grouping, integrating reshaping traditional gender roles, etc.), and allow the national government to shape school curricula and children's futures.

«Schools that adopt an intensive «No Excuses» attitude towards students are correlated with large gains in academic performance, with traditional inputs like class size playing no role in explaining charter school effects,» researchers write.

In line with the earlier literature, we find that schools that adopt an intensive «No Excuses» attitude towards students are correlated with large gains in academic performance, with traditional inputs like class size playing no role in explaining charter school effects.

The fate of neighborhood schools in big - city school districts is perhaps the most sensitive education topic out there, given their historic role in disadvantaged communities, their struggle to educate children to high academic levels, and the process of gentrification and the disruption of the traditional education system via charter schools.

The avenues and opportunities of the expansion of traditional roles into new areas of work and expertise are addressed in this volume, aimed at academic - and medical - librarian professionals.

There is certainly a role for blogging to play in academic discourse, but it is a role that is separate and apart from more traditional forms of academic communication.

Early childhood is an important time to build foundational skills in traditional academic areas, and may play a similar role for technology literacy.

Muktesh said the Greensborough Centre's role with Sikh Naujawan Sabha will be to conduct workshops for families exploring parenting styles and focusing on a more wholistic approach to parenting, beyond the traditional focus on the academic.