Sentences with phrase «as kids and teachers»

As kids and teachers head back to school, we wanted to turn away from questions about politics and unions and money and all the regular school stuff people argue about, and turn to something more optimistic — an emerging theory about what to teach kids, from Paul Tough's book How Children Succeed.

Not exact matches

«Education used to be thought of as a teacher sort of opening up a kid's brain and pouring in the knowledge,» Dr Meghan Groome, Executive Director of Education and Public Programs at the New York Academy of Sciences, said.

Instead of teaching to the lowest common denominator or watching the smartest kids complete their work and put their heads down with nothing else to do, the teacher is able to track, react, and adjust the information being provided to each student — as needed and on the fly.

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As a kid, Williams dreamed of playing professional baseball — he grew up loving the fast feet of Rickey Henderson and the 1980s Oakland Athletics — or becoming a teacher.

Cellphones are still absent from most U.S. schools but new data shows them steadily gaining acceptance as administrators bow to parents» wishes to keep tabs on their kids and teachers find ways to work them into lessons.

Retired Broward teacher Joe Carrier taught a woodworking class at Cross Creek while Cruz attended the school, and remembers Cruz as «a quiet kid» who kept to himself and appeared to be «mildly autistic.»

Yes and how we still have children in schools because there are child rapist teachers and how we still have kids in sports because there are child rapist coaches, that's all beyond me as well.

Furthermore, the policies, procedures, and requirements put into place are even more stringent than those that allow me to have access to kids as a teacher.

As we saw in South Hadley, instead of challenging these definitions, or even the kind of cruelty endured by kids like Phoebe Prince, teachers and administrators often adopt a hands - off approach.

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I'm in my first year as a Sunday school teacher to 8 and 9 year olds kids.

The teacher turned this discussion over to the students and, like good church kids, we ridiculed, rolled our eyes, and dismissed evolution as ignorant, liberal propaganda.

He called you by your last name (a practice I use to this day), he had a way of instilling fear into kids who would goof - off and cause distractions in other classes (a practice I was very much unable to duplicate during my one - year stint as an 8th - grade English teacher), and you had to run the gauntlet of sentence - diagramming grammar, which advanced to a pretty complex level, before the more «cool - teacher» aspects of Mr. Pacilio were unveiled — and even then, the tests on those rock songs were no joke!

Anyone who says women can't be teachers at all is betraying the fact that on some level, they don't think women and kids are as important as men are.

As a bookish kid struggling to find a place in a world of hunting, fishing, and athletics, I was offered refuge in art, literature, and music my ninth - grade English teacher.

As a mother myself, wholefoods chef, and former English teacher who's spent years helping kids grow academically, I've created a book that I hope will inspire and help families make better food choices.

In later years, I was busy getting my kids ready for back - to - school time, and for many years, as a teacher myself, I was preparing classroom activities.

As a teacher, I, and my kids go back to school in exactly two weeks.

All the kids are back at school, spreading cold germs as fast as their noses can run, and sharing the bounty with their parents and teachers.

It's as basic as your kids starting at a new school and finding out the main teachers are leaving — only, when it comes to multi million pound football contracts, agents are allowed to ask questions that demand straight answers.

Team Dragon's teachers are coaches who have played a lot of soccer and love working with kids as they start on their soccer journey.

There is a special place in hell for people who prey on kids — especially when coming from the trusted and revered role as a teacher.

With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

Even after adopting my own child and working for most of my life as a special Ed teacher, pre school handicapped kids, I learned so much from you.

This kid gets raised, parented, by almost every adult around her - her fabulous pre-k teacher, her aunts and uncles who discipline her as well as entertain her, her grandparents, me, her favorite sitters, her best friends» parents.

In elementary and middle schools, the end of the school year tends to bring with it a long string of outdoor games, field trips, and parties, as teachers let kids rejoice over having made it through to June (and try to keep them from getting so much spring fever that they actually gnaw through their desks in frustration).

We argue with the teacher about our kids» less than perfect grades in middle and high school, as if the teacher has made a mistake instead of our perfect kid.

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

If the kids seem happy and interact well with the teacher, chances are good that the teacher's classroom style will be a fit for your child as well.

We like to document what we do, and asked principals if we could use testimonials from the kids; we got testimonials from teachers as well.

Certainly there are not parties every day at school or birthday cupcakes but candy is actually handed out quite often at my daughter's school as a reward by her teacher and this may be enough to make the kids not eat their fruits and veggies.

At some point as a parent, you will likely be faced with the dreaded email from your child's teacher telling you that your kid has crossed the line and that you need to come in for another conference — or the principal will call to tell you that your teen has missed the last week of school... Read more»

As parents and teachers we have to not be undermining the effort to get our kids to eat better.

There's nothing I'd rather see than educational policymaking put back into the hands of the people who are most likely to treat kids as individual human beings — that is, their parents and teachers, preferably at as local a level as possible.

I can only imagine how much more challenging it can be as they get older and are eating school lunches, with no teacher reporting back about how much was consumed or making sure to send home the containers from home lunches so Mom and Dad can see what actually went into the kids» stomachs.

In his current role as neuropsychological consultant to several large school districts in the Boston area, he is on the ground, in schools and working with kids and their teachers several days each week.

And so those kids, especially if you're not trained to work with them as a teacher, they are harder to deal with.

Using the experience we have from gardening as well as the gardening club I used to run at a school I taught I'm putting together resources for parents and teachers on Gardening with Kids.

But the researchers did find two positive associations between working motherhood and well - adjusted children: kids whose mothers worked when they were younger than 3 were later rated as higher - achieving by teachers and had fewer problems with depression and anxiety.

They found that moms who reported being more supportive also rated their children as more socially skilled, but teachers said these kids had fewer socioemotional skills and more problem behaviors.

My Parents As Teachers Teacher came tonight and talked about appropriate servings for kids.

Both as a teacher and as a camp counselor, I have dealt with plenty of separation anxiety in older kids.

At best, the harvest of salad greens (for example) can make a nice big salad that every student in one classroom can enjoy as part of a class lesson (and here the teacher's creativity comes into play — the lesson can be math, with the kids figuring what percentage of the salad is romaine and what percent arugula, or it can be science, or even spelling.)

if school administrators weren't too busy to plan and would approve parent volunteer lunch monitors then parents could fill some of the lunch room void by left by over-extended cafeteria staff and teachers, explaining to kids what lunch options were and encouraging the healthier choices as well as providing more prompts in the cafeteria as students have their tray.

While we, (as parents, caregivers, teachers, etc) are meant to teach our kids how to stay safe and follow social norms, this doesn't mean that we need to hinder their creativity and original thought.

There are more things on my plate now than when my four kids were little and I was working full - time as an admissions officer and Latin teacher.

The staff at the grade school didn't take her allergy very seriously though until a child died the next county over and then my child had a serious reaction to candy a teacher gave out at the end of the day as the kids were getting on the bus.

Shirley, a teacher, blogger and busy mother of three, used to see the cozy little nook in her office as little more than wasted space, but thanks to a sudden burst of inspiration and a quick trip to IKEA, Shirley's kids now have a cozy reading room of their own, and all for less than $ 80!

While Carol worked part - time as a teacher's aide while the kids were in school, she was the primary caregiver and had the major responsibility for the kids» day - to - day lives.