The administrators believed that the ideal STEM teacher would not be intimidated by mathematics and science, but rather would have a passion for and a solid content expertise in both along with proficiency in related disciplines.
It recognizes that American students are underperforming in math and science at a time when our nation needs those skills the most, and seeks to increase students' proficiency in related subject areas, expand education and career opportunities for underrepresented groups, and retain America's leadership and innovation.
But their proficiency in Spanish was related to both home literacy support and school instruction.
This reflects the importance of teacher language proficiency as it relates to interaction with students in conjunction with the extent to which students are involved in and interact with teacher instruction in English.
Spanish proficiency related directly to how involved rotators became in patient care (e.g., taking a history, participating in rounds) but was not completely prohibitive, as a majority of physicians interviewed felt comfortable speaking in English.
Proficiency in auditory-verbal memory was related to white matter integrity in the left uncinate fasciculus as well as parietal and cerebellar white matter.
A second mechanism is related to proficiency in English or French.
This indicates that Stroop performance is largely driven by executive control abilities, which are related to proficiency in a second language, with increasing proficiency leading to stronger L2 activation and increased language conflict, and therefore a greater need for cognitive control.
In both Levy et al. and in the current study, skills known to require activation of ventral extrastriate cortex (reading and object recognition, respectively) were found to be related to proficiency in a known dorsal stream task (detection of motion coherence).
Even more speculatively, we might predict that versions of these genes will relate to language proficiency in opposite ways, depending on whether the language learned is a tone language.
Proficiency in recall of a complex design was related to integrity within parietal and temporal regions.
