Sentences with phrase «children than educators»

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Only in a tradition where adults continue to refer to the family life of individual church members as «the Christian home» would pastors, educators, and theologians have continued to believe for so long that parents are more important than the church is to the faith of children.

She has been caring for children for more than 16 years, is the daughter of an educator, and the oldest of five children.

As educators, parents, and grandparents, we know of no greater fulfillment that a parent can receive than the upturned face of a child, eyes speaking wonders, and a face of confidence in discovering the world with you.

I had the honor of being guided through this experience by Mary Hartzell, a longtime early childhood educator whose approach acknowledges the toll of this experience, often more for the parent than child.

Stick Up for Yourself has been a standby for parents, educators, and child professionals for more than twenty years.

Rather than write this type of review, I wanted to offer my personal take on the film as a parent of a child with concussions and as concussion educator, and why I think parents should see Head Games.

The educator in me knows that all children develop at their own pace, but the mama in me is starting to get more anxious than usual.

For more than 14 years she has worked as a recreation and skill development leader, an early childhood educator and a teaching assistant, working in elementary schools and with special needs children between 4 and 11 years of age.

I've taught nearly 500 students and we as educators constantly hear parents talk about how their child is gifted but the implication they make is that their child is gifted over others, well guess what... every child's ability isn't better than another although each is uniquely gifted.

With more than 1,100 volunteers made up of breastfeeding counsellors, who are mothers who have breastfed their own children, have completed a Certificate IV in Breastfeeding Education and Community Educators who have also completed the Certificate IV in Breastfeeding Education.

It has been more than a year since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 children and six educators.

White educators, by contrast, may be acting on a stereotype that black preschoolers are more likely to misbehave in the first place, so they judge them against a different, more lenient standard than what they're applying to white children.

«For example,» suggested Dr. Choshen - Hillel, «We recommend that parents and educators encourage children, especially those who are seven years old or older, to make resource allocation decisions by themselves, rather than have the adults make these decisions.

The researchers hope that educators can use the findings to develop science, technology, engineering and mathematics curriculum that take advantage of young children's ability to learn through observation using less - than - perfect causal relationships.

Summer camp, I'd argue, plays a more important role in children's learning than most educators acknowledge, a chance to get outdoors, learn new hobbies, and form new friendships.

Rather than shielding children from news about hate, educators could prepare them for the real world by teaching what hate is and how to prevent it.

Many educators and elected officials, including more than a few members of Congress, regard «No Child Left Behind,» the well - known moniker of George W. Bush's 2001 education act, as a discredited «brand.»

With more than 30 years as an educator, the former superintendent of Washington D.C., San Francisco, and Philadelphia schools has been lauded for her long - standing commitment to children.

These and other education - related issues affect parents and educators more than they do other citizens, particularly those citizens who do not have children enrolled in public school.

As more than 5,000 educators gathered in Albuquerque, N.M., last month for the annual conference of the National Association for Bilingual Education, the prospects for their primary cause — instruction in a child's native language — looked as bright as they have at any time in recent years.

A federal study that shows black children die from asthma at a higher rate than white children demonstrates that many African - American families lack adequate medical care, child - health experts and educators said last week.

Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers are the authors of more than 40 books and professional articles for educators, including, most recently, Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains: Metacognitive Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas (ASCD, 2016), Smarter Teacher Leadership: Neuroscience and the Power of Purposeful Collaboration (Teachers College Press, 2016), Positively Smarter: Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well - Being (Wiley Blackwell, 2015), Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice (Teachers College Press, 2013) and Flourishing in the First Five Years: Connecting Implications from Mind, Brain, and Education Research to the Development of Young Children (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013).

My surveys of thousands of mental health professionals and educators show that their own children at home are four times more likely to be hit daily by a sibling than by another child in school.

So rather than encourage children to report bullying and then punish bullies, educators need to teach children not to be victims.

As I grew wiser, I realized it isn't that they fail to care — sometimes, when one is a young educator, it's easy to get fixated on assigning an «F» — but rather, that they are no more engaged by schools than their children are.

The advisory board of Ask, Listen, Learn, which includes educators and physicians such as Family Physician, Parenting and Youth Development Expert Deborah Gilboa, have found that children, much like adults, are persuaded by science, more than by scare tactics.

S4S has so far worked with more than half a million children, educators and parents in different settings — including public and private schools, Indigenous boarding schools and centres for children with HIV.

For educators, the upshot of Hirsch's inventory is this: When schools fail to build a common knowledge base among our children — and particularly for those who come from low - income homes or are English - language learners — we are essentially condemning them to something less than full literacy and citizenship.

By investing in a child protection training, you're educating your staff about how to keep their students safe — and as educators, what could be better than that?

More than a first - ever research synthesis, this highly accessible book brings math difficulties into clear focus, helping educators and psychologists get inside students» heads so they can devise the best way to help children learn.

Rather than passively wait for history to take its course, or to succumb before the inevitable shifts that come ahead, we want to inspire educators and the society in full to make active decisions and take whatever roads we need so as to guarantee that every child in the world has the opportunity to thrive.

The problem, say some early - childhood educators, is that districts often have higher standards than other providers in such areas as teacher qualifications and staff - to - child ratios, and therefore have higher costs.

«More than any American educator of her generation, she possesses the practical experience to realize these reforms in Detroit for the benefit of our children,» asserted Lawrence C. Patrick Jr., president of the school board.

No other federal law has generated more hostility from teachers and other educators than the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

Peter Smyth, a retired educator and administrator, and also a co-founder of Community Voice, says, «After a career in education and research into educational reform, I have come to these conclusions: while South Carolina Superintendent Zais has applied for a waiver to No Child Left Behind, his proposals reflect those of Secretary Duncan and the current and previous administrations, policies which have not achieved their goals and have made raising test scores and graduation rates, rather than meaningful learning, the default goals of American education.

But the truth is that all of us working in education, whether in district, charter, parochial or independent schools, and especially the educators who work directly with our children, agree on far more fundamental things than we disagree on.

As an educator I can't think of anything more exciting than the fact that we might help children obtain the character skills to live a life, so as adults at the end they might feel they thrived instead of merely survived.

Under her leadership, IDRA's innovative dropout prevention program, the Coca - Cola Valued Youth Program, has made a visible difference in the lives of more than 795,000 children, families and educators.

It's no different than calling a child a failure, something a good educator would never do.

The free and exclusively online event — which attracted more than 900 participants last year — offers educators around the globe 24 sessions to support their work to implement and sustain a whole child approach to education.

Repetition is a part of learning, parents and educators agree, but research shows gifted children need far less repetition than most students.

After more than a decade of test - driven, high - stakes accountability in the No Child Left Behind era, many educators and policymakers in the United States are looking to move toward a more thoughtful approach.

However, most of these tests are multiple choice, standardized measures of achievement, which have had a number of unintended consequences, including: narrowing of the academic curriculum and experiences of students (especially in schools serving our most school - dependent children); a focus on recognizing right answers to lower - level questions rather than on developing higher - order thinking, reasoning, and performance skills; and growing dissatisfaction among parents and educators with the school experience.

«Not only are children and educators suffering, but with this untimed policy the state is in violation of its own law, which caps testing at no more than 1 % (9 hours) of instructional time.

Project - based learning's student - focused approach, which values the process of learning for each child rather than simply recording test grades, forces everyone in the building to work more closely together, Philadelphia educators in the project - based learning schools say.

Educators frequently perceive picture books, which are often marketed to young children, to be no more than simple illustrations and shallow text.

Scholar, educator, activist, W.E.B. Du Bois recognized the equal importance of both the mindset and actions of educators, «Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.»

Just after New Year's Day, Illinois educators introduced a major reform proposal to hold school administrators, school board members and teachers accountable for their work on behalf of school children statewide.Three unions representing more than 230,000 Illinois education employees, the Illinois Education Association (IEA), the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) termed their plan Accountability for All.

Through recognizing and emphasizing the characteristics of the child that relate to his or her giftedness, educators and parents can see the child as more than a problem waiting to be «fixed.»

Connecticut faces a representation crisis in classrooms, with fewer than 10 percent of educators identifying as people of color while 45 percent of their students are children of color across the state.