Sentences with phrase «as a teachable moment for»

Oh, and as a bonus, you can use this as a teachable moment for personal financial planning!

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When mistakes happen, look at it as a teachable moment not just for the employee but the leaders as well.

In fact, a learning vacation, or educational travel, is a rapidly growing genre of travel as parents seek to combine the excitement of travel with the opportunity to create teachable moments for their children.

Look for teachable moments and narrate them as often as possible.

Relevant news stories that highlight bias and especially those where someone stood up to it and justice prevailed — like the nine - year - old boy who was banned from bringing his My Little Pony backpack to school because it was the source of bullying, or the story of Misty Copeland becoming the first African American appointed as a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theater in its 75 - year history — are terrific teachable moments.

Recalling his reaction to student hate messages, guest blogger Chris Friend considers how he could have reframed the incident as a teachable moment, and how «coming out» can be a valuable model for identity issues.

Educators should thus use their AUPs as «teachable moments» to promote programs to focus on the positive uses of the internet and technology while warning about hazards such as contacting strangers or loss of respect for others by accessing pornography that can come about as a result of unrestricted use.

Re: thinking Re: thinking blends personal reflection with a challenge to rethink school culture and policy as 9th grade teacher Ben Wildeboer finds teachable moments in events like the Japanese quake and explains the importance of «hard fun» for students.

As the Paul Vallas court case heads for the Connecticut Supreme Court, public education advocate and Stamford Advocate columnist, Wendy Lecker, writes an outstanding, must read piece, which explains why the Vallas saga offers a teachable moment the abuse of power.

This is a teachable moment for NYC schools, as Chancellor Fariña recognized in that town hall in Dyker Heights.

Acting as a role model for preservice teachers, the faculty member explained the need to be able to enact curriculum around «teachable moments» and enlisted the preservice teachers to record the host students» comments as he asked them how problems might be resolved without the use of violence.

Many school districts have also been supportive of the student efforts: At Missoula, Montana's Hellgate High School, for example, principal Judson Miller stopped short of openly endorsing a walkout on February 21 by hundreds of students, but told staffers to use the protest as a «teachable moment.»

Teaching students how to engage safely in conversations beyond our walls is of absolute importance and allows for authentic «teachable moments» about cyber safety as an extension of their learning work through technology.

For Hampton kindergarten teacher Todd, who is in her ninth year as a teacher including five with DoDEA, the training for incorporating the new math standards has already helped her turn once - routine classroom tasks into teachable momenFor Hampton kindergarten teacher Todd, who is in her ninth year as a teacher including five with DoDEA, the training for incorporating the new math standards has already helped her turn once - routine classroom tasks into teachable momenfor incorporating the new math standards has already helped her turn once - routine classroom tasks into teachable moments.

They probably need a simple savings account for you to have some teachable moments for them to learn about banking and so forth as you go along, and they definitely need a college savings account — something like an Education Savings Account (ESA)-- in a good growth stock mutual fund.

But this close encounter does provide a teachable moment for Rusty Schweickart, the Apollo astronaut who, through the B612 Foundation, has been on a mission for years to get the world's powers focused on planning for the inevitable day when we have a losing spin in this never - ending game of «Solar System Roulette» — as a smaller, but still cataclysmically dangerous, comet or asteroid is identified as having an earth - intersecting trajectory.

At a time like this it is easy to forget that a lot of the extra traffic may never have even heard of things as basic as PDO; it's a teachable moment... and throwing up interesting wallpaper for the guests needn't become a laborious endeavor, but if it's not feasible, no worries — and whatever — and rest assured that the tireless volunteer hours are appreciated.

But as President Obama likes to say, the Vice President's misuse of literally is teachable moment for lawyers who want to improve their legal writing.