Parental involvement in the development of children's reading skill: a five-year longitudinal study
This is a research digest from the DfES Research Informed Practice Site (TRIPS). The research took place in Canada and involved 168 children and their parents. It followed the children’s progress in reading from the age of four until age nine years and examined both their home literacy experiences and their performance in reading as measured by standard school tests.
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Enhancing the communication learning environment of an early years unit
This research paper, presented at BERA 2001, reports on an action research project in which a group of teachers, nursery nurses and teaching assistants worked with an Open University consultant, Melanie Nind, to improve the language and communication provision in an early years unit. The project took an inclusive approach, rather than starting with a deficit model, through which the learning environment was enriched for all children. The development and evaluation of changes was guided by the co
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2.4 Oral and written communication
There is increasing recognition that the reductionist mindset that is currently dominating society, rooted in unlimited economic growth unperceptive to its social and environmental impact, cannot resolve the converging environmental, social and economic crises we now face. The primary aim of this unit is to encourage the shift away from reductionist and human centred thinking towards a holistic and ecological worldview.
Author(s): The Open University

The Global Migration of Skill
 This lecture examined the growing phenomenon of international skilled migration with particular attention to its impact on developing countries. A framework was developed for understanding the different measures of ‘brain drain' and how they are related to wage and income differences across countries around the world. Based on new data sources, differences in the prices of skill across countries were estimated and were used to explore how skill price differentials affect the magnitud
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Great Ormond Street Hospital children and family VIDEO information: How to give your child liquid me
This podcast explains how to give your child liquid medicines using an oral syringe
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Great Ormond Street Hospital children and family AUDIO information: How to give your child liquid me
This podcast explains how to give your child liquid medicines using an oral syringe
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Bracero Tutorials - Conducting An Oral History Interview
The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America. In a partnership between George Mason Universitys Center for History and New Media, the National Museum of American History, the University of Texas at El Paso, and Brown University,
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The Crucial Skill for Tomorrow's Leaders
Management thought leaders share their ideas on what future leaders can't live without. Featuring: Angel Cabrera, Bill George, Daisy Wademan Dowling, Andy Zelleke, Batia Mishan Wiesenfeld, Evan Wittenberg, Dr. Ellen Langer, and Scott Snook.
Author(s): HarvardBusiness

The Global Migration of Skill
 This lecture examined the growing phenomenon of international skilled migration with particular attention to its impact on developing countries. A framework was developed for understanding the…
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Oral Social Sciences through Personal Narratives
Students apply their knowledge of story elements to art and literature of the 1950s by developing a story, comprehending someone else's story, and diagramming the five elements of plot. Students will then create, revise, edit, and publish their own personal narrative.
Author(s): Mary Magee

Science Studio vol 026 - Topic: Oral History - Guest: Nathaniel Comfort
Science Studio - Transcripts - Science Studio vol 026 - Topic: Oral History - Guest: Nathaniel Comfort - Arizona State University > CATEGORIES > Science + Technology > CHANNELS > Science Studio > Transcripts > Science Studio vol 026 - Topic: Oral History - Guest: Nathaniel Comfort
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Science Studio vol 026 - Topic: Oral history: the embrace of subjective understanding - Guest: Nath
Science Studio - Audio - Science Studio vol 026 - Topic: Oral history: the embrace of subjective understanding - Guest: Nathaniel Comfort - Arizona State University > CATEGORIES > Science + Technology > CHANNELS > Science Studio > Audio > Science Studio vol 026 - Topic: Oral history: the embrace of subjective understanding - Guest: Nathaniel Comfort
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The Crucial Skill for Tomorrow's Leaders
Interviews with management experts who zero in on key business ideas and how to implement them in organizations.
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Basics of Oral Business Communication
This book is suited for Business Communication and Business Oral Communication courses Basics of Oral Business Communication presents basic business communication concepts, vocabulary, models, and exercises in a clear, practical, and engaging way. Scott McLean provides a set of core chapters intended to provide a highly focused introduction to the field. Then, he provides an optional series of modules that provide instructors with complete flexibility to emphasize additional topics of their cho
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Robotic Surgery for Oral Cancer
In this video, Dr. Jeffrey Wolf discusses how oral surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center are now using the da Vinci Surgical System to perform trans-oral robotic surgery for early stage head and neck cancer patients. Dr. Wolf provides an overview of the da Vinci Surgical System, the types of oral cancers being treated with this technology and the benefits to patients who undergo this type of procedure in place of traditional surgery. Also shown is footage from the operating room
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Science Studio vol 026 - Topic: Oral History - Guest: Nathaniel Comfort
Course - Group - Science Studio vol 026 - Topic: Oral History - Guest: Nathaniel Comfort - Arizona State University > Science Studio - Transcripts > Science Studio vol 026 - Topic: Oral History - Guest: Nathaniel Comfort
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Science Studio vol 026 - Topic: Oral history: the embrace of subjective understanding - Guest: Nath
Course - Group - Science Studio vol 026 - Topic: Oral history: the embrace of subjective understanding - Guest: Nathaniel Comfort - Arizona State University > Science Studio > Science Studio vol 026 - Topic: Oral history: the embrace of subjective understanding - Guest: Nathaniel Comfort
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The Crucial Skill for Tomorrow's Leaders
Interviews with management experts who zero in on key business ideas and how to implement them in organizations.
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Algebraic thinking: a basic skill
The resources highlighted here aim to reflect students' growing mathematical capacity over the span of the middle school years. The activities and lessons, intended as supplementary materials, range from introduction to the fundamentals of algebra to work on linear functions. Uniformly, they take into consideration the preference of the middle school student for concrete models, visual representations, and interactive tasks.
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Teaching Oral Presentation Skills Using the "Virtual Presentation Assistant."
This site is and online tutorial for improving one's public speaking skills. The site is designed to help an individual target specific needs as a speaker by allowing access any or all of the contents listed, including determining purpose, selecting topic, researching topic, analyzing audience, etc
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