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  2. Concerted cultivation - Wikipedia

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    Other aspects of concerted cultivation include emphasis on reasoning skills and language use. Parents challenge their children to think critically and to speak properly and frequently, especially when interacting with adults. These skills also set the child apart in academic settings as well as give them confidence in social situations.

  3. National Association for the Education of Young Children

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    This book explores multiple different aspects of the lives of low-income children and day care. The study also examines aspects of the family lives. For example, whether a home has a single parent, two parents, unemployed parents, or other odd family situations and how that affects the children and their abilities to receive proper education.

  4. Skills Development Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Skills Development Scotland (SDS) (Scottish Gaelic: Leasachadh Sgilean na h-Alba) is the national skills agency of Scotland. It is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government .

  5. Waldorf education - Wikipedia

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    A UK Department for Education and Skills report suggested that Waldorf and state schools could learn from each other's strengths: in particular, that state schools could benefit from Waldorf education's early introduction and approach to modern foreign languages; combination of block (class) and subject teaching for younger children ...

  6. Parent Effectiveness Training - Wikipedia

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    Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.) is a parent education program based on the Gordon Model by Thomas Gordon. Gordon taught the first P.E.T. course in 1962 and the courses proved to be so popular with parents that he began training instructors throughout the United States to teach it in their communities. Over the next several years, the ...

  7. Professional development - Wikipedia

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    Some examples for process skills are 'effectiveness skills', 'team functioning skills', and 'systems thinking skills'. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Professional development opportunities can range from a single workshop to a semester-long academic course, to services offered by a medley of different professional development providers and varying widely with ...

  8. Educator effectiveness - Wikipedia

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    Overall, the purpose of educator effectiveness is to build the capacity for teachers to enhance their skills. The effective teachers have an effect on student's ability to have a higher level of conceptual understanding of a topic and have displayed the ability to think more abstractly than peers taught by less effective teachers.

  9. Bloom's taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Bloom's taxonomy serves as the backbone of many teaching philosophies, in particular, those that lean more towards skills rather than content. [8] [9] These educators view content as a vessel for teaching skills. The emphasis on higher-order thinking inherent in such philosophies is based on the top levels of the taxonomy including application ...