Sentences with phrase «class clown in»

He loves to entertain, and he'll often play the class clown in order to get the attention he craves.

These things need a little time to breathe in the mind of the public, which is still obsessed with asking inane questions of the movie star («Were you the class clown in school?»).

A native of Trinidad (with East Indian ancestry), Bednob originally attended the University of Toronto as a sociology major — a field far removed from acting, though Bednob had naturally played the role of class clown in school for years, which seemed to predestine him for stage and film.

The result — a longitudinal study titled The education of playful boys: class clowns in the classroom.

Not exact matches

Fanelli calls himself «a major clown in the universe,» but back home in Ardsley, Pa., he was just another class cutup.

Teams like City and Utd have world class players on their benches, why doesn't he say they should put in transfer requests, why is this coked up clown constantly trying to sell our players, and put the team he played for down.

My hubby and I have often commented about the media perception of the «class clown» type of father... he means well, but bumbles through his parenting duties... and the steady, responsible mom swoops in to set it all right, teaching the kids, and dad, a valuable lesson in the end.

The millionaire class has lots of representatives in government and this working stiff clown thinks they're going to give him a seat at the table.

I've often been dubbed as a «bully» but a lot of people, even more of teachers have called me a class clown before [although my humour is often pure mockery of the snobby bitch in class or just complete satire about a subject that deserved said satire]...

Remember the «class clown» in elementary school - the guy who was «cool and funny» all at the same time?

Keep in mind the «class clown» in primary school --- the gentleman who was «cool and entertaining» all in the meantime?

The joys of profane working - class humour are never far from the surface in Loach's films, but in The Angels «Share our protagonist's clowning and wise - cracking is allowed to come to the forefront.

Of course, along with playing the class clowns, the Malloys are also the hardest working members of Ocean's crew, often taking on multiple roles in each heist, and even going the distance on one particular occasion to help a group of Mexican factory workers fight for labor rights.

With great assurance Miles Teller (Rabbit Hole) creates an extremely cocky and arrogant anti-hero in Sutter, a class clown who broke up with his girlfriend due to a social misunderstanding.

They were problems, they interfered with learning, they could tell the teachers didn't like them and they now were calling them class clowns and using it in a negative, more of a derogatory way.

I think we found evidence for them in our study looking at playfulness and class clown behaviour and disruption.

And they showed more of a reluctance than the other kids did in terms of labelling themselves as «class clown», and it could be labelling in general — we just looked at that one label, I'm not sure.

It seemed to fit our data pretty well and we have from this rather unique perspective of looking at class clowning and playfulness which hadn't been done before, which we have yet further evidence to support the whole idea that there is this Pygmalion effect, this self - fulfilling prophecy that occurs in the classrooms with teachers and their students.

A review of «Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education» by Jonathan A. Knee

Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education by Jonathan A. Knee Columbia University Press, 2017, $ 29.95; 288 pages.

«In and out of class, Shawn has generously, though always humbly, shared the undeniable rigor of his thinking, the poetry of his language and images, and his wry sense of humor and pathos with all of us in AIE,» says Lecturer Steve Seidel, director of AIE, citing LaVoie's past training as a clown as one source of his depth and wisdoIn and out of class, Shawn has generously, though always humbly, shared the undeniable rigor of his thinking, the poetry of his language and images, and his wry sense of humor and pathos with all of us in AIE,» says Lecturer Steve Seidel, director of AIE, citing LaVoie's past training as a clown as one source of his depth and wisdoin AIE,» says Lecturer Steve Seidel, director of AIE, citing LaVoie's past training as a clown as one source of his depth and wisdom.

She's worried about being seen as a show off, or a know it all, so she sits in the back of the class getting in trouble for telling jokes and clowning around instead of revealing that she did all this three years ago, and can recite the lesson word for word if you ask.

While teaching in a credentialing program recently, she had an encounter with an adult class clown that left her shaking her head in wonderment.

«In alcoholic families, for instance, kids take on different roles — be it the scapegoat, caretaker, or clown — and if they are being validated in that role, then they bring it to school, where they suck up all the energy in the class and deprive others of quality learning time.&raquIn alcoholic families, for instance, kids take on different roles — be it the scapegoat, caretaker, or clown — and if they are being validated in that role, then they bring it to school, where they suck up all the energy in the class and deprive others of quality learning time.&raquin that role, then they bring it to school, where they suck up all the energy in the class and deprive others of quality learning time.&raquin the class and deprive others of quality learning time.»

In a recent radio interview, Henry «the Fonz» Winkler, who played a charismatic hoodlum with a heart of gold in the long - running television series Happy Days, confessed to having been an outrageous class clown, mostly as a way of coping with dyslexiIn a recent radio interview, Henry «the Fonz» Winkler, who played a charismatic hoodlum with a heart of gold in the long - running television series Happy Days, confessed to having been an outrageous class clown, mostly as a way of coping with dyslexiin the long - running television series Happy Days, confessed to having been an outrageous class clown, mostly as a way of coping with dyslexia.

Because class clowns are so often grouped in the bright - but challenging category, the question of what life holds for them is especially intriguing.

«With a class clown, you almost always find something deeper going on, and our job is to figure out what's pushing them that way,» says Margie Schwartz, counselor at Marin Country Day School, a K - 8 private school in Corte Madera, California.

Given the most common underlying factors for in - class funny business, a good guffaw is possibly the best first step to reaching an understanding with the clown.

If you clown around in class, you miss the lesson, then you miss the assignment; then when the test comes around, you've never seen the stuff before, and you probably fail it.

Stevens went on to major in philosophy and intellectual history at the American University of Paris, where he reinvented himself: Instead of the class clown, his earlier persona, he was now a scholar and an intellectual.

In the classroom boys may become the class clowns to seek attention; girls may hide their talent in order to fit in sociallIn the classroom boys may become the class clowns to seek attention; girls may hide their talent in order to fit in sociallin order to fit in sociallin socially.

A self - described class clown, he tried to bend the rules and in turn landed a flurry of detentions for minor offenses like talking out of turn in class and leaving his seat without permission.

I recall a question I once asked when dealing with a student who had a chronic habit of clowning around in class.

It's not necessarily a bad thing, being responsible in a room full of class clowns.

Description: In his new middle grade novel that debuted at # 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, James Patterson introduces his hilarious new heroine, Jacky Ha - Ha, a class clown who makes people laugh with her so they can't laugh at her.

Most are highly intelligent with quick minds that make them easily trained, especially in obedience class, and ever so much the clown or entertainer.

Arranged in rigid patterns, Feher's work had a tongue - in - cheek quality, like Donald Judd's stacked sculptures remade by the class clown.

Still, he never plays the class clown, taunting the girls in the hall.

But when the Museum of Modern Art introduces the public to the auteur's private paintings, sketches, photographs, and sculptures in a major retrospective, viewers may be surprised to discover a more lighthearted Burton — the class - clown doodler within filmdom's brooding goth.

NONE of the other non-renewable resources that any of you clowns have mentioned falls in this class.

«The effect, predictably, is that of the class clown mocking the smartest kid in the room.

LOL It was a blast, all in all, and she is still the «class clown»....