Sentences with phrase «do classroom work»

Do your classroom work on line, and then bring your referral to us to finish up your certification with confined water skills instruction and four open water dives.

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He recommends using Livemocha, a social network that connects users with native speakers around the world, or podcasts to supplement work done in the classroom.

I am a graduate student, worked in top offices, and one of 30 students in the world selected to do research with integrating technology in the classroom.

Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

First, discussion of Intelligent Design's argument against neo-Darwinism is out of place in a high - school science classroom because most scientists working in the area do not accept the Intelligent Design criticism of neo-Darwinism and because understanding the scientific issues involves sophisticated arguments far beyond the capacity of nonspecialists, let alone high - school students.

When I walk into work every day now, I look out at a classroom of students in their khaki pants and crew - neck sweaters, and all I can do is think about Newtown.

She turned around and she did her work neatly and carefully in the classroom!

I really think that the biggest thing I could leave you with today is to take pleasure in the work that you do, whether in classroom or community, and enjoy it.

They concluded that when it comes to comparing students at one school or in one classroom with students in another, self - assessments just don't work — especially in cases where they are used as tools for accountability.

For now I'm going to try to stay positive (especially around Ava) and go to a volunteer orientation this week so I can start volunteering in the classroom and do some reconnaissance help out and see how it all works.

Overall, it can indeed be challenging and disheartening for a parent to have a child who does not easily or happily leave each day for school because of their sensitivity or adaptability to a formal classroom setting; you'll feel better if you and your child's teacher can work together as a team.

What worked or didn't work for them, both in the classroom and in the school community?

But when it comes to the food in «packed lunches and snacks, bake sales and booster sales, fundraisers, and class birthdays and holiday parties,» as well as food used classroom rewards, the medical organization finds that much work remains to be done.

Do you work in a district in one of our ten target states, and would like to see breakfast - in - the - classroom in your school?

While the preschool teacher is going to be your child's strongest ally in the classroom, the reality is that your little one isn't going to be bullied while grownups are around, so you need to help her work out what to do right then and there if another child bothers her.

The BIC model (breakfast in the classroom) didn't work very well for us.

Whether you're trying to convince a reluctant principal, or a room full of skeptical classroom teachers, it pays to do your homework — and show your work!

Early reading in schools is necessary so that the teacher can give children classroom assignments rather than working individually with each of them, but at home it doesn't matter.

We will ask them what works and what doesn't, learn their best practices for a successful breakfast - in - the - classroom program, and learn more about what students want on their school breakfast menus.

From methods taught in the classroom to techniques used by major retailers to bring in the big bucks, I've tested them all to see what works and what doesn't when it comes to selling handmade at craft fairs.

While one is at work, the other is able to do social outings, plan trips with small children, and help around the classroom.

I drug myself to work yesterday and it suddenly became very apparent to me just how much I do in the morning: get up, shower, dressed, put on makeup, make breakfast, make my decaf pumpkin spice latte, eat breakfast, pack lunches, get kids teeth brushed (hubby got them up, dressed and fed), get kids shoes and coats on, get everyone in the car, drive 45 minutes in traffic, get kids and their stuff out of the car, walk to each kids» classroom, take out lunches and put in the fridges, get kids to put their stuff in their cubbies and wash their hands, go back to the car, drive to my office, get out, walk across the lot, down stairs and through two heavy doors to my office, and finally sit down.

But I don't think it's an accident that many of the interventions I write about aren't classroom - based, but are the work of mentors or psychologists or pediatricians or coaches.

If the classroom is chaotic, can your child move to a quiet spot in the room or the hallway to do their work?

«The information in [The Wellness Impact] validates what those of us who have been doing breakfast in the classroom have found — that the program works.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

Although our methodology is such that all children are taught the same curriculum, a child who is gifted in certain areas, such as in science, music, or the arts, may go deeper or do more advanced work within the general classroom setting.

After learning of Burger's methods, McGill University education professor Jon Bradley says he would consider taking a similar approach in his own classroom — encouraging students to analyze their work the way sports fans obsess over how the home team might do better next season.

«He has been called to Washington to be a very important voice for what goes on in classrooms across this country, and therefore, even though it was not our first choice for John to leave, a, on such short notice or, b, in the middle of the school year, we are deeply gratified that the president and secretary... think so highly of the work that John has done with the board,» she said.

But we fought to ensure that the new evaluation system includes an appeals process with a fair hearing for teachers whose ratings have nothing to do with their work in the classroom.

If it doesn't work, a «chronically ineffective teacher» must be removed from the classroom — a process that is now so difficult most districts don't try, Mr. Cuomo said.

Speaking during the BBC's Daily Politics election debate on education, shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said that anyone without - or not working toward - QTS by 2020 «doesn't deserve to be in the classroom».

«And if it's to do with education... then don't we need Michael Gove to get on with his heroic work of restoring rigour and realism to the classroom?»

-- Kids and teachers who did make it to school said classrooms were practically empty, and they spent the day watching movies and doing busy work but no schoolwork.

A $ 223 million midyear budget cut — the amount that Gov. David Paterson is threatening to take from city schools in January — will do real damage to classrooms if a union survey of the harm already wrought by the $ 400 million in city budget cuts this fall is any indication.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said, «Our ad shows the dedicated work our educators do in the classroom each and every day to move our public schools forward.»

Next Wave profiles two scientists who made the transition from researcher to science educator, but who do most of their work outside the traditional classroom.

Whether it is helping a teacher to troubleshoot a kit in the classroom, helping a fellow scientist to find an age - appropriate science activity to do with an eighth - grade classroom, or telling funders why our programs are worth funding, writing and communication skills are key to our work.

Both Cox and Newton say that their work keeps them close to schools — for example, doing research in classrooms or running professional - development workshops for teachers.

Others have reported that certain kinds of artificial light can improve sleep and reduce depression and agitation in people with Alzheimer's disease; that higher air temperatures seem to curb calorie consumption; that employees take more sick leave when they work in open - plan offices; and that children in daylight - drenched classrooms progress faster in maths and reading than do those in darker ones.

Enrollees, all of whom held graduate degrees and many of whom were either working scientists or recent doctoral recipients in STEM fields, did an intensive 1 - year program of summer classes, where they were drilled in pedagogical theory, then two semesters of supervised teaching in a classroom and night classes where they caught up on math or science areas in which they weren't totally proficient.

DART could do its work based solely on the overall level and type of noise in the classroom.

Others have you do a certain amount of work online followed by a face - to - face intensive in a classroom.

If my kids do not follow the classroom rules, they get a reminder of which rule they are breaking, and if the behavior doesn't stop, they can sit in a chair until they are ready to resume their work with courtesy.

Black sheep and the mysterious Uncle Bob by Keith Sands Im an English teacher working in Russia, and for some reason I really do nt like that classroom topic.

In Bob's classroom, there's a theological discussion (The movie doesn't hide its religious bent, but it doesn't preach, either) about the age - old questions of «why bad things happen to good people» and «why people who work hard don't always succeed.»

Typically in other classrooms, there would only be enough time to cover the material and not enough to do significant problem - solving practice, but here this system worked well.

While you're building students» skills for working in a PBL environment, don't forget to build the right classroom culture.

... Things like, I guess, wisdom and experience and being able to link concepts together, ask probing questions that encourage students to think at a deeper level, giving quality feedback... just because a teacher's recorded a video to explain a concept, doesn't necessarily mean that students have to watch that at home - they could be watching that in the classroom while the teacher's working with another student on something that can't be automated.

this is a great deal to do with the degree of political control now exerted over the day to day business of the classroom, unrealistic expectations of working practice and also the growing disparity in pay between teaching and the «top» professions.