Sentences with phrase «classmates learned years»

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Juno is the tale of Juno MacGuff (Oscar nominee Ellen Page), a sarcastic 16 - year - old high school junior of suburban Minnesota, who learns at the film's start that she is now expecting a baby, the result of an encounter with her soft - spoken classmate Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera, Superbad).

Students routinely experience unexpected changes, like learning that a favorite teacher will leave their school, or that a classmate will move away, or that the band program they'd hoped to join the following year will no longer be funded.

«Finally,» Green continued, «on the day before school starts, students in the year's incoming class are invited in for a half - day to meet their classmates and teachers, learn to navigate their new school, and generally become more comfortable with the environment that will be their home for the next three years.»

Is it going to slow him down if his classmates are several years behind or still learning the language?

The number one, biggest surprise of the last year was... The biggest surprise from last year was learning as much as I did from Rick Weissbourd and my classmates about how to help young people have ethical romantic and sexual relationships.

Starting Learning Through Libraries with [classmates] Deb Gittler and Nell O'Donnell proved to be the best part of my year.

«Maritza Torres stands out this year as a strong force in promoting the learning of her classmates in the School Leadership Program, says Lecturer Lee Teitel, director of SLP.

Attending to learning tasks, remembering and observing class rules, and engaging with classmates in positive ways are other aspects of executive function that increase the likelihood that children will flourish as they begin school and throughout their years in the classroom.

Disappointed, I long for the day when she tells me a spontaneous story about some exciting learning going on in her classroom — something so meaningful that even at nine years old, she and her classmates are making an impact on the world in which they live.

«He always tells us nothing will stop us from learning and nothing will stop him from teaching us,» said Edwin Perez, a gregarious 12 - year - old, as three of his classmates nodded.

The beginning of the school year is the ideal time for your students to learn to work cooperatively with their classmates.

«It took me the better part of a year to adjust to the Cooper «style» of organizing,» she adds, «but I continue to learn more about myself as an organizer (and an Organizer) in the process of helping to sustain, with the rest of my classmates and fellow occupiers, a budding student movement.»

A child can be seen as successful in school when she or he: (a) develops positive attitudes and feelings about school and learning, (b) establishes supportive social ties with teachers and classmates, (c) feels comfortable and relatively happy in the classroom rather than anxious, lonely or upset, (d) is interested and motivated to learn and take part in classroom activities (participation, engagement), and (e) achieves and progresses academically each school year.