Sentences with phrase «done in classrooms at»

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At the time I was actively pursuing a BS in Business Management, but the pace was too slow for me — I didn't have another three years to wait and learn, so I started using all the resources available to me on line and in the classroom.

But I discovered that these young innovators were far more intrinsically motivated, and when I looked at the pattern of what parents and teachers had both done to encourage intrinsic motivation, I found a kind of remarkable emphasis in the classrooms and among the parents of play, passion and purpose.

At age 20, sitting in a college classroom in Georgia, Jim Scott leaned over to the guy next to him and whispered, «Rich, do you understand any of this stuff?»

The debate over what Congress and the president should do in response to mass shootings is once again confronting Washington after Nikolas Cruz, 19, allegedly killed 17 people at his former high school Wednesday, with authorities charging that he aimed his AR - 15 assault - style rifle and fired round after round into classroom after classroom in one of the nation's worst school shootings.

At times we may simply perceive in a particular classroom a sense of «sacredness» that says to us: Here is what we should be doing.

I use shock and awe in the classroom and try to do a little jiggle dance at the same time, provoke and pat pat.

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.

Pupils should be given information about abortion in the classroom because many do not discuss it at home, teachers have heard.

It might seem aggressive, but in all reality the kids who show up in my classroom as freshmen who are having those conversations at home don't need to be convinced that school matters.

The research that Farrington drew on didn't show any evidence of specific interventions changing a student's innate level of grit, but there was plenty of evidence that students» tendency to persevere at academic tasks was highly responsive to changes in school and classroom contexts.

How does adversity at home affect their success in the classroom, from preschool to high school?

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.

The results of a recent randomized trial of CSRP showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a CSRP Head Start classroom had, at the end of the school year, substantially higher attention skills, greater impulse control, and better performance on executive - function tasks than did children in a control group.

While my background is in education and not in retail or business, I do know and love the products I am selling, having used them in my classroom or at home with my children for more than fifteen years.

Teachers are overworked like everyone else, but as one teacher at Emerson Elementary pointed out that breakfast - in - the - classroom time can be valuable — learning how to do hygiene, table manners, using breakfast time to talk about how to eat properly, how to carry on a conversation while eating, even something as simple as handwashing!

«Everyone on my staff was all - for breakfast - in - the - classroom, so I didn't have to sell it at all,» said Spellman.

In an interview, CPS parent Joy Mollet said she was appalled by the classroom breakfast program offered by her children's public preschool and does not want to see it at their grade school, Hawthorne Scholastic Academy.

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.

The introduction of formal sexual education in the classroom varies; many schools start it in the fifth or sixth grade — and some don't offer it at all.

And if the teacher doesn't use it in the classroom for supplies, I'm sure he or she can find a use for it at home.

My thought is that until society changes, it will be a up - hill battle to convince children that the healthful choices they see at school cafeterias are great when outside of school many are seeing and eating the less - than - healthful choices in many of the ways we've talked about here before: classrooms, athletic practices, homes because parents are busy, don't have access to fresh foods and more.

But the main important thing is that the kids in these classrooms have a full tummy, with foods that are healthy and nutritious for them, and we know they are going to be able to learn, and pay attention, and when they go home at night they don't have to worry about whether they will have breakfast the next morning because they will have it in their classroom.

It's still possible to teach cooking — and many already do — using electric hotplates and other temporary equipment, or creating foodstuffs that can be prepared in the classroom and then finished off at home.

However, foods served at classroom parties and at other school functions aren't covered under these guidelines (even though they do compete with the federally subsidized meals program, at least in my mind).

In some ways, making change at the classroom level ought to be the easiest thing to do because there's the least amount of bureaucracy involved.

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.

So I think this would be a great one to do in the preschool classroom or at home with your own kids.

We do have exposure at our school... we have classroom gardens and have had Urban Harvest on our campus in the past.

This lesson was a hit with all my girls at their Montessori school in the toddler classroom, done on the deck the warmer months approaching summer.

And it has become clear, at the same time, that the educators who are best able to engender noncognitive abilities in their students often do so without really «teaching» these capacities the way one might teach math or reading — indeed, they often do so without ever saying a word about them in the classroom.

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It takee training but workslds as well at home as it did for me in the classroom.

This can not be done in a classroom where twenty - five children congregate with one teacher... The learning disabled child should not have to share his teacher with more than six to eight other children, at least not during those portions of the day when the key subjects — reading and arithmetic — are being taught.»

As with the previous posts in this series, I'll briefly discuss what is done in the Montessori classroom before touching on some ways parents can support children in their reading preparation at home.

Through a few simple yet meaningful things such as frequent conversations between his parents and teachers, his mother's involvement in the classroom, and stimulation of his natural curiosity at home, Dylan's parents have helped their son gain a sense that school is important and that doing his best at schoolwork is his current role in life.

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.

He is on the same page as I am and strongly discouraged all parents at back - to - school night from bringing high sugar foods and has instructed the teaching staff to do the same in their classrooms.

This is my third time hatching eggs with kids, though my first time doing it at home instead of in the classroom.

Every mum and dad knows that if you want your child to do well at school, and particularly to concentrate well in the classroom in the afternoon, a healthy meal at lunchtime is vital.

If authoritarian parents are demanding, doesn't that at least suggest they'd produce kids who are better - behaved and more successful in the classroom?

What does this mean for us, our kids, and their learning at schools and in their classrooms?

While that «live - and - let - live argument» doesn't fly with me when it comes to truly non-nutritive foods like sugary birthday treats in the classroom or junk food in cafeterias, I think there's enough evidence (or at least controversy) over the nutritive value of milk that I'd keep it available.

«What you've seen us doing on social media isn't necessarily something we can do at every single school, but we are able to test a recipe completely at a school where breakfast - in - the - classroom is served,» Pettit explained.

But did you know music and moving to a beat fosters learning at home and in the classroom?

Some schools don't allow phones at all, some use them as mini-computers to support research in the classrooms, others allow them only during lunch breaks and after classes.

Review general curricula for preschool, what to expect for each subject, and activities that can be done at home to support learning in the classroom.

Talk about the classroom snack time routine described in the story and how things they do at school, like washing hands, are also done at home.

Review general curricula for 3rd Grade, what to expect for each subject, and activities that can be done at home to support learning in the classroom.

Speaking with reporters Wednesday at a ribbon cutting for Manhattan's Public School 191 campus, Fariña said she would promote classroom diversity by rezoning schools, as she did in Manhattan District 3, in other neighborhoods.

The Buffalo School Board is taking a hard look at all of the programs outside of the brick and mortar classrooms intended to help students do better in academic achievement.