Sentences with phrase «working with disadvantaged children»

She will work with a group of assessment and SEND experts, as well as those with a background working with disadvantaged children, to find «a solution for a comprehensive statutory assessment.»

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Also, with the outreach work that I do for as an ambassador for NASA / JPL, I wanted to be able to have more technical activities for disadvantaged children centered around coding, space technology, and planetary science.

In the same way that the zero - tolerance approach to discipline sends precisely the opposite psychological message to disadvantaged kids than what we now know they need in order to feel motivated and engaged with school, so do many basic elements of traditional American pedagogy work in direct opposition to what the psychological research tells us will help those children succeed.

• In the US, Parents Fair Share which worked with only the most disadvantaged non-resident fathers, managed to effect slight increases in the amount of child support paid; and also brought about positive effects on father - child contact where levels had been particularly low (Mincy & Pouncy, 2002)..

He worked for 47 years as a coach, athletic director and administrator serving troubled youth, disadvantaged children and people with developmental disabilities.

«Outside of cities with mass transportation, undocumented immigrants are at a serious disadvantage without driver's licenses, making simple tasks like picking up groceries, picking up a child from school or going to work a struggle.»

The entry fee of # 5 per child to enter the Junior Language Challenge is donated to onebillion, a charity working with some of the world's most disadvantaged children, to provide tablet devices to schools in Malawi.

Rochford will work with a group of experts with backgrounds in assessment and working with SEND and disadvantaged children.

He wants people to know that children from disadvantaged backgrounds can master challenging work and perform at high levels if they are provided with the opportunities and the resources.

Determined to create a system in which his innovative instructional approach would work for disadvantaged children, Lenz co-founded Envision Schools with Daniel McLaughlin in 2001.

It sounds like the sort of story that would promote empathy in teachers who work with neglected and disadvantaged children.

Having worked for an organisation that dealt with integration of non-nationals and disadvantaged [5] children in Dutch society and the educational system for primary school children specifically, there was heartbreaking evidence and examples that those who needed to assess the environmental conditions young children were catapulted into, could not — and will never — understand the extent of trauma these children and their parents had been exposed to; subsequently, unable to realistically assess the cause of underachievement and trauma, nor adequate measures could be taken to equip fugitives with sufficient resources to overcome this disadvantaged position.

The Forum declared that Education for All must take account of the needs of the poor and the disadvantaged, including working children, remote rural dwellers and nomads, ethnic and linguistic minorities, children, young people and adults affected by HIV and AIDS, hunger and poor health, and those with disabilities or special needs.

Either this discordant plan is a front for public school expansionism, bent on adding another grade or two to its current thirteen, and adding the staff (and dues - paying union members) that would accompany such growth, or it's a cynical calculation: only by appealing to the middle - class desire for taxpayers to underwrite the routine child - care needs of working parents will any movement occur on the pre-K front, and the heck with the truly disadvantaged youngsters who need more than that strategy will yield.

The entry fee of # 5 per child is donated to onebillion, a charity working with some of the world's most disadvantaged children, to provide tablet devices to schools in Malawi, where classes have well over 100 pupils with a single teacher.

This new test is more about memory than application, and it could well disadvantage children with forms of SEND related to working memory.

Strategies include: approaches that encourage parents to read and talk with their children at home or to participate in activities in the early years setting; programmes that focus directly on parents themselves, for example, providing training in parenting skills or adult numeracy and literacy support; and more intensive programmes for disadvantaged families or families in crisis, for example, through schools appointing a family liaison that work with parents through either home visits or other targeted approaches.

Surely this was a chance for those schools in disadvantaged areas, who might perhaps have large numbers of children with poor language skills, to show off their hard work?

Failing to comply with the law only keeps children trapped and disadvantaged at a time when policymakers and educators should be working to build and support schools that nurture and empower our children to become their best selves.

Membership of this Network is open to grant - makers with an active interest in funding work to address educational disadvantage within state - funded schools and colleges for children and young people aged 5 - 18.

One of the most studied initiatives in this area was the Perry Preschool program, which worked with disadvantaged black children in Michigan in the 1960s.

He said grammar schools should look again at their admissions policies and ensure they were making provision for children from disadvantaged areas or with special needs, even if that means altering the entrance requirements, and do more outreach work in deprived areas.

Working with children in disadvantaged schools, «Tales for Trees» uses story - telling, music and ceremonial tree planting to share Wangari Maathai's passion for envrionmental conservation.

It works with carefully selected local partners that provide essential care and services to disadvantaged children in Southern Thailand.

Athr Gallery, in collaboration with Al Madad Foundation, is pleased to announce Pen to Paper, a group exhibition of works from private collections across the Middle East in support of literacy programs for disadvantaged children.

Working with children in disadvantaged schools, «Tales for Trees» uses story - telling, music and ceremonial tree planting to share Wangari Maathai's passion for envrionmental conservation.

«I have been associated with Anglicare Victoria for many years as their Bequest Ambassador and I can tell you that leaving a Gift in your Will is a wonderful way to support their great work with disadvantaged Victorian children, young people and young families.

It's clear that he hasn't taken the advice of his special Aboriginal Advisory Committee, because if he had, at least one of the members, Professor Ngiare Brown, a highly respected expert in Aboriginal child health with many years experience of working as a doctor in remote locations, would have most definitely advised him that these budgetary measures would increase the disadvantage gap well into the next generation and beyond.

Pilot Evaluation of a Home Visit Parent Training Program in Disadvantaged Families Leung, Tsang, & Heung (2013) Research on Social Work Practice, 23 (4) View Abstract Reviews the pilot evaluation and resulting promising outcomes of the Healthy Start Home Visit Program for disadvantaged Chinese parents with preschool children, delivered by trained parent assistants to make services more accessible to disadvantaDisadvantaged Families Leung, Tsang, & Heung (2013) Research on Social Work Practice, 23 (4) View Abstract Reviews the pilot evaluation and resulting promising outcomes of the Healthy Start Home Visit Program for disadvantaged Chinese parents with preschool children, delivered by trained parent assistants to make services more accessible to disadvantadisadvantaged Chinese parents with preschool children, delivered by trained parent assistants to make services more accessible to disadvantageddisadvantaged families.

Every one of the school nurses interviewed mentioned unmet basic needs as the main challenge they have to work with when caring for children from disadvantaged families.

WAVE Trust has been working in partnership with the Department of Health (DH) in order to identify the conditions required for successful implementation of a preventive and integrated approach to early child development and disadvantage.

This working paper, prepared for a conference sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, reviews evidence about the effectiveness of two strategies to strengthen family relationships and fathers» involvement with their children: fatherhood programs aimed at disadvantaged noncustodial fathers and relationship skills programs for parents who are together.

to support a number of projects in socio economically disadvantaged areas or specifically disadvantaged target groups engaged in collaborative approaches to working with parents of children from birth to 3 years.

PSI aimed to support a number of projects in socio economically disadvantaged areas or specifically disadvantaged target groups engaged in collaborative approaches to working with parents of children from birth to 3 years.

Preference given to individuals experienced in case work with disadvantaged or dysfunctional families from a variety of cultural backgrounds and those with experience in working with preschool children.

Psychologists work with vulnerable and disadvantaged families in the community, where risk factors such as abuse, alcohol and drug misuse, domestic violence and psychiatric illness can impact on a child's development, safety and wellbeing.

For example, parent behaviour - related adversities may reflect the quality of parents» relationships (e.g., conflict with the child's siblings or extended family members), their broader environment (e.g., stressful work environment, disadvantaged neighbourhood), or parental psychopathology — a possibility explored in more detail below.