Sentences with phrase «does arm his students»

Although the well - meaning educator is forced to add a cautionary note to his counsel after one student causes uproar on campus, his philosophy does arm his students with the insight to look beyond the traditional approach to poetry.

Not exact matches

«We did not have anything,» says Gen. Riho Terras, the commander of Estonia's armed forces, who had been a student activist at the time.

With the rapidly rising price of college tuition, many top students are realizing you don't need to pay an arm and a leg for a quality education, and that state schools are just as great.

Earlier in the day, about two dozen teachers at Stoneman Douglas waved signs in front of the school and said they did not want to be armed with guns in order to keep students safe.

The REAL ISSUE is that Romney doesn't have a darn thing to offer the middle class, students, women, minorities, gays, vets / armed services, etc..

If something happened on campus and we didn't have armed police there to protect students, would that make us liable?

With all of the activities at the three day event that is being planned, students and coaches understand that participating in The Honor Bowl is more than a win or a loss; it is a time to reflect on what our military has done and continues to do for the freedom America's Armed Forces provide us.

Abdul - Jabbar says he started thinking about coaching a few years ago when the Philadelphia 76ers brought him in to work with then rookie center Shawn Bradley, and he saw that his student, though eager to learn, «didn't know certain things that every pivot man should have tattooed on the back of his arm.»

First Daughter Ivanka Trump says she doesn't know if her father's proposal of arming teachers with firearms would protect students from gun violence.

«Even if you start doing push - ups it will not help,» said Yogacharya Venkatesha to a student struggling with an arm posture.

So, my first lesson to you is, DO NOT allow yourself within arm's reach of an agitated yoga student.

When I assist a student with this pattern, I do so by sitting behind her, holding her arms and gently pressing my foot into the dull midback to make the circular spinal movement from Upward Thunderbolt to Camel Pose more conscious.

For example, you can ask your students to do Setu Bandha Sarvangasana (Bridge Pose), and have them raise one arm up and bring another arm over the head.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

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.

So, armed with that information, she did a crazy thing after she submitted her application to CU — she applied to Stanford and Harvard and Yale, and she got in to Stanford, where she is now on the polo team, with a 4.0 GPA working for El Centro Hispano, and about to spend eight weeks in Ecuador tutoring elementary school kids while she works on launching her startup idea to create DreamIn circles for Dreamers, undocumented students, support circles based on Lean In.

Instead, though, what I generally do, either right then or at the next available opportunity, is to go over the student, put my arm around his or her shoulders, and have this kind of quick dialogue, with a smile:

As a high schooler and college student, when I read about new technologies, social policies, or arms control negotiations, I was intimidated just thinking about how much the people doing this stuff must know and how smart they must be.

We certainly don't want bad actors to know what our students do and don't know, but we desperately need to arm teachers with the tools that allow them to.

But armed with data and rapid feedback that was actionable — meaning students could use it to figure out where they needed to do more work and improve their performance — students would be able to achieve success.

In other words, we risk rushing ahead with promising structural changes inherent to personalized learning — reorganizing space, integrating technology tools, freeing up seat - time — without arming educators with reliable and specific information about how to personalize to their particular students or what to do, for which students, in what circumstances.

These are just some of the shifts that have impacted students» ability to manage their work and their schedules; if we want kids today to have a shot at negotiating their way through school, we have to arm them with the skills they need to do so.

By nearly all accounts, the administrators, teachers, and students at Sandy Hook elementary did everything right Friday — and long before that day — when a young man armed with powerful weapons blasted his way into the school with gunfire.

Teachers there are now prohibited from all forms of corporal punishment, including ordering students to do push - ups, run, hold their arms straight above their heads, and walk in a squatting position called a «ducks» walk,» said Chung Young - chul, a supervisor...

Years of research and work in the field have shown him time and again that teachers don't cause student achievement — students do, when armed with the right learning behaviors taught and modeled by others.

Since then, every time you've suggested students participate in activities you think are meaningful, they don't show up; worse yet, they smirk at you and fold their arms.

Educators now understand what a truly democratic and revitalized teachers union, working arm in arm with parents and students, can do to protect public education in New York City,» Kit Wainer public school teacher and MORE member, said.

Lowering class size is one of only four strategies proven by the federal education department's research arm to improve student achievement, a list that does NOT include school closings, wholesale staff firings, turnarounds, or conversion to charter schools.

But states and districts around the country are finding new ways to arm educators with rigorous, aligned instructional materials so that teachers can focus on doing what they do best: help their students learn and succeed.

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«It is not an enormous increase substantively in terms of what students can do,» said Jack Buckley, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, the U.S. Department of Education arm that administers the exams.

Armed with this type of information, educators and school leaders must confront some tough questions about how to ensure that the work students are doing is as meaningful as possible to their learning.

SCHOOL DISCIPLINE: The Atlantic: The Push for Harsher School Discipline After Parkland WSJ: Lawmakers Focus on Obama - Era Policies After Florida School Shooting VOSD: «Restorative Justice» Can Make Schools More Violent if Not Done Right AP: Armed security officers are on the rise in US schools [see also EdWeek] Texas Tribune: TX schools suspended thousands of younger students, report says

Teachers don't need training on how to confront their former students or to leave students shaking in fear as they hunt down armed intruders in their schools.

«Our students need more books, art and music programs, nurses and school counselors; they do not need more guns in their classrooms,» Eskelsen García said after Trump, in a listening session at the White House, proposed to arm teachers and school staff in an attempt to prevent mass shootings.

There are some great cafes and bars here, which won't charge an arm and a leg, especially if you do a bit of detective work and figure out where the students are heading (of course, you could obviously just ask them).

Armed with that insight, Rea tells her students, «You don't want to sell art.

Like law schools, undergraduate tuition has risen dramatically thanks to the «arms race» (in the form of new buildings and amenities having nothing to do with enhancing «value» to the students» education (as opposed to comfort), bloated administrative fiefdoms, an emphasis on faculty «scholarship» (see our Chief Justice's candidly caustic views on that one) and student «rebates.»

Though it wouldn't ban assault weapons as the students had advocated, and it would regrettably arm school personnel, it does raise the minimum age for purchase to 21, impose a three - day wait on gun purchases and bans bump stocks.

He says the network did not allow him to ask a question about arming veterans to protect students from school shooters.

(CNN)- The father of a student who was killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School said parents who don't like President Donald Trump's controversial suggestion that armed teachers could combat school shooters are free to send their kids to other schools.

Sen. Marco Rubio said at the CNN town hall «Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action that he does not support arming teachers with weapons

Scott has repeatedly said he doesn't support arming teachers and had pushed lawmakers adopt his own proposal, which called for at least one law enforcement officer in every school and one for every thousand students who attend a school.

The armed school resource officer assigned to protect students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School took a defensive position outside the school and did not enter the building while the shooter was killing students and teachers inside with an AR - 15 assault - style rifle, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said Thursday.

And we select another 195 students to finish the questionnaire, delete poor discriminated items, and finalize the formal critical situational behavior questionnaire of 30 questions, such as the question «If thugs armed with knives to rob you, what will you do» and the another question «Assuming the sudden death of one of the parents, how will you feel».

If you don't have a tripod, one trick Audra Slinkey, president of the Home Staging Resource, a home staging training and certification company, teaches her staging students in steadying your arms is to push your upper arms into your chest as you shoot.