Sentences with phrase «class conversation about»

Instead, we should deliver feedback as questions, as neutral observations of accomplishment («You gave five complete examples»), or as whole - class conversation about the choices various writers make.

Each group of students would bring something different to the class conversation about how far machines should go in our lives rather than some students reading a lesser version of the same text.

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In the meantime, they remain second - class citizens in most conversations about corporate governance.

Some of our friends and acquaintances put a great deal of effort into holding creatively themed birthdays and getting their kids into the right dance classes and sport programs, identifying peanut allergies and purchasing BPA - free water bottles, and having endless conversations about the negative effects of too much technology in the home, frequently interrupted by pinging phones and debates about which phone plan is best.

From overheard conversations in restaurants during our journey (and people seemed to be talking about the election everywhere outside of the DC area) at least some people, middle - class people who go to Ed's Steakhouse or Shakespeare's Coffee Shop, are convinced that Obama's reelection would unleash all the worst implications of the proposed policies of the last four years.

And seeing her questions reminded me about a conversation that took place in the Gluten Free Cooking School class FB group a while back.

You're expecting, and you've read the books you want to read, you've attended the childbirth classes, and had the conversations with your care provider about your birth.

During my last infant massage class (after the «hug - hug - kiss - kiss - kiss» stroke), we got into an interesting conversation about why we kiss babies.

I hear snippets of conversation about friends, teachers and classes.

SUNNY GAULT: We've talked about, just in our conversations on The Boob Group, definitely prenatal breastfeeding classes have definitely come up in the conversation.

Your baby will probably do the introductions for you at most classes and that smile will probably be enough for another mum to strike up a conversation about her little one.

Most of class was having conversation about our worries, learning techniques to help with labor, and getting familiar with the jargon.

Bonus - bashing and tax - hiking have left the privileged classes fuming, but their fury — in its candor and explicit exceptionalism — may have started the first frank conversation about money this town has had in years.

And while Ms. Moskowitz has numerous supporters within the Republican Party, particularly within its elite donor class, Edward F. Cox, the chairman of New York's Republican Party, said he had never had a conversation with Ms. Moskowitz about the possibility of her running for mayor as a Republican.

As soon as the conversation ended, Gomez - Marquez turned to his sister and remarked, «I knew there was a disparity between the classes, but they really don't give a shit about the poor.»

The confederates were trained to make the study participants feel excluded by talking about stereotypically masculine topics (sports, video games and a class in business statistics) or stereotypically feminine topics (shopping, yoga and Pilates, and a class in child development) and by subtly excluding the participants from the conversations.

In my late 20s I made a conscious choice to seek out people who supported what I value, like being in the outdoors, taking fun group - exercise classes, eating healthy food, traveling, being silly, having meaningful conversations about relationships, growing old, reading good books, parenting, and all the other things that fill me up.

Husband and wife Tim (Jake Johnson) and Lee (Rosemarie DeWitt) are housesitting at a well - off home, which offers ample opportunity for snooping and class comparisons (their conversations about whether to send their son to private school ground the film in issues not often part of the indie milieu).

It's about a middle - aged «office lady» whose niece convinces her to to take a package of English conversation classes.

It's a very entertaining film, people get swept up in the ride of it, but there is also a bigger conversation there, about class in America, and the disenfranchised and media and how we consume it without question.

This movement is intersectional, with conversations across race, class, community, ability and work environment, to talk about the imbalance of power.»

Too many spirited conversations with colleagues and young members of the movie industry, too much excited chitchat about how everything had changed, too many tweets riven with Sunken Place GIFs, and too much wonder over what it would mean for the future of the Oscars if the show could follow its historic Moonlight moment with a genuinely transgressive acknowledgment of Jordan Peele's social - thriller - horror - comedy - documentary as best in class.

A rollicking, lively, dinner - party conversation about race, class, marriage, creativity, womanhood, and what it means to be American today, The Meaning of Michelle offers a parting gift for a landmark moment in American history.»

Seek out and savor those conversations, and then rely on your classmates to help you learn about something they know well and bring in your own experience in class discussions.

While nothing rivals a face - to - face conversation or phone call for important, personalized messages, when you just need to remind families about an upcoming field trip or assignment, apps such as Remind and Class Messenger are invaluable.

Rather than lecturing or delivering whole - class instruction though, the teacher, who can be armed with data about where students are in their learning, can meet one - on - one with each student and have meaningful conversations about the work she is doing.

The book resonates with me, since I have been studying Italian for about a dozen years now, mostly through classes that have by now evolved into weekly two - hour conversations with a private tutor — a fast talker from Turin who forces me to keep up with her onrushing molto veloce patter.

When he was a teaching fellow for Professor Judy Singer's statistics class, he remembers having a conversation with her about individuality.

Not long after Hurricane Katrina, Steve was having a conversation with his fifth grade math class about emergency shelters.

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You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class: - A brainstorming with a shopping list as a starter - A classification of items - A reading about breakfast with a comprehension grid - A matching up activity with breakfast items - A grammar point about count - non count nouns - A practice about the grammar point - An introduction to quantifier words (box, can, bottle, tube...)- A conversation with gaps and count / non - count / quantifiers nouns - A ranking activity with likes, dislikes and opinions - Vocabulary about other meals (lunch, snack, dinner)- Further vocabulary matching up about fruit and vegetables - A conversation with opinions in pairs - 2 writing activities about food and favorite dishes.

«While conversations about privilege, and experiences of gender - race - class oppression are being recognized, spoken about, and now considered legitimate concerns in many spaces, in so many spaces, the opposite is true,» writes Dominique Dryding.

This is a Slide - Show conversation about religion which starts with the answers that a Reception class, part of a workshop I gave in March.

Those two simple realities give you your starting point for a conversation about the student's inappropriate behavior in class.

Our work on gender and women's rights serendipitously coincided with the national discussion, and in our class we dove into a student - led conversation about the treatment of girls in school.

«The teachers in the classes would develop friendships with the students and could not only have discussions about the subject that's being taught by the teacher, but also have nice conversations with the students.

«Schools have a very big responsibility to teach their students to think in more sophisticated ways about social and political controversies, to talk across differences of culture, class, and ideology and to engage in conversation with others that might have very different viewpoints,» Bermudez says.

After observing the class, engage in conversation about the lesson to learn the story behind it.

It's also a great way for you to find out more about your students in class - especially if you have many shy students who usually struggle to keep a conversation flowing.

Introducing English - language learners to game - based learning brings the added benefits of conversation about their interests, discussion of in - class rules, and peer collaboration.

Recently, we spent a chunk of one of my world history classes discussing an excerpt from The Power of Myth, a conversation that Joseph Campbell had with Bill Moyers about enduring myths and the human condition.

Regardless of your students» age, take advantage of the first few days of school to include them in conversations about class expectations.

If we're clear from the beginning that we want to work with our parents and that we care about their child, then it's easier to have a conversation when a child has an issue in class.

Last year's conversation, moderated by prolific edtech ombudswoman Audrey Watters and me, sparked a series of discussions about the various ways in which race, gender, and class play into who gets to call themselves an expert, who gets to go to conferences, and whose experiences are often dismissed as a result.

By engaging teachers and the technology integrationist in conversations about the curriculum, specific class dynamics and capabilities of the technology, we are now able to talk about what we would like to do, the tools best suited for that purpose, ways to tweak units or lessons, and what is not working.

Instead, they're an excellent opportunity for teachers to show off the amazing work that students are doing in class, and also to have important conversations with parents about supporting students that are struggling.

My students would have rich conversations about the novel well into the night, creating one unified class beyond the four walls of the classroom.

The best example I've found is that just by having a conversation with members of the class, teachers can discover something about their pupils» knowledge, understanding and skills.

Mariam Durrani, an expert on Islamophobia and Muslim youth and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), says that even if there are no Muslim students in a class, «changing educational and society - wide demographics suggest that as young people come of age, we'll have even greater need for conversations about learning across difference and about addressing systemic inequalities,» whether about religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or other identifiers.

For example, I'll try and meet with each of my students once per semester at some point outside of class time and use the conversation to learn more about who they are, what their academic goals are, and whatever other concerns they have.