Sentences with phrase «engage the children intellectually»

The point — we have to engage the children intellectually and emotionally in their own search for a healthy diet.

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In The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and «Tougher Standards,» he argues in favor of schools in which students are intellectually engaged and encouraged to grapple with rigorous problems: schools, in other words, in which correct answers matter, but so does reaching those answers through a complex process that may involve making errors and misunderstanding concepts along the way.

«Opportunities for young children to engage intellectually with their peers are rare,» says Krechevsky.

Children experiencing emotional distress due to factors beyond their teachers» control quite often have trouble concentrating in class yet to be considered «highly effective» under Danielson, Virtually all students are intellectually engaged in the lesson.»

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The result is a beautiful book that engages children visually, intellectually, and inspirationally, with insight into the science of climate change.

At - risk children include children whose parents are involved in a contentious divorce; children who are unwanted or unplanned; children of parents who are unskilled or inexperienced in parenting; children whose parents engage in substance abuse, animal abuse, or domestic violence; and children who are socially isolated or intellectually or emotionally handicapped.13