Sentences with phrase «first thing any teacher»

The first thing the teacher needs to do is to understand what kids do and the range of it; she has to understand what her own children do.

The first thing any teacher needs to read in order to understand attachment is Inside I'm Hurting by Louise Bomber.

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«Being listened to, first of all, is a really key thing [for young people] and of course we can all play a role in that: as parents, as friends, as uncles, aunts, teachers and other professionals.

The first two things that made Jesus a popular teacher I like to think of as the teaching twins.

This article first appeared as «Permeating all things with divinity: Jesus in Selected Writings of the Teachers of the Early Church in the Second Century,» in Gnana Robinson, ed.

Let's give thanks and Praise God for those first responders, for the Police and firemen, for the neighbors, for the teachers and for the other hundred's of good things that happened that prevented a worst crime.

I really don't understand how you can be a teacher if you clearly don't know the first thing about government.

After Skillshare contacted me about being a teacher and before filming my own classes, the very first thing I did was get an account of my own to check out the platform.

My son is in preschool, but his teacher said they do snack first thing because of the handwashing issue.

The first thing, as with any kind of an issue, is to go in and talk to the teacher.

As a teacher, one of the first things I would do before starting a new unit was assess prior knowledge.

Millennials, who as a rule like to do things their own way, are finding unusual, special and varied names for their babies, leading to grandparents who have learned to keep their opinions to themselves and classroom teachers who may have to guess at a child's gender before the first day of class.

Here's how it came about - I was lamenting on Instagram about the note JJ's teacher sent home saying that he had eaten his entire lunch when he got to school first thing in the morning (and I'm not sure how that happened if they were keeping an eye on him and he had eaten a full breakfast before he got on the bus...... but I regress).

Joni is a first time mommy (with another on the way), former teacher and lover of all things writing and cooking.

Kids Don't Sweat Like Adults, But Things Can Get Grubby: It wasn't until I completed my first adult teacher training that this fact hit me hard on the head (or in the palms of my asana - adjusting hands): adults can sweat a lot in yoga, but kids generally don't.

And when I finally met my first yoga teacher I acknowledged two very important things: that I had to return to the basics of some poses and that I could go a little deeper on others — I ended up doing my very first headstand with this teacher.

«I have found that if I don't do my ritual first thing in the morning, my day consumes me,» says Boulder, Colorado, yoga teacher Amy Ippoliti.

While the story in Whiplash seems rather straightforward at first - a young musical prodigy is noticed by a prestigious jazz band teacher, who brings him in to improve and hone him - it doesn't take long for things to start twisting and turning.

Using a structure created by the Responsive Classroom approach to teaching and learning, the first thing on the agenda is a greeting between students and students and students and teacher.

«AISD officials had to struggle with the competing agendas of numerous outside partners such as Austin's business leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that....

Gurian: We've got ten years of action research and success data that shows that the first thing you should do is get professional development training [for teachers] in how the male brain actually learns.

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The first thing to do is jump in and start wading in the same direction as your fellow teachers.

One of the first things I'd ask when I go into schools and I'm supporting children with disabilities and the teacher is: are their needs being met?

Since bias is often unconscious, one of the first things a culturally responsive teacher can do is be aware of assumptions about themselves and their students.

The WILL TO LOVE means calling on that love first, so when you disagree with a teacher, or a principal, or a policy maker, talk to her and not about her, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it is the productive thing to do.

«The very first thing I did was have the secretary make photocopies of every contract — teacher, support staff, clerical — for all the administrators,» says Manuel.

«I don't have a teacher's desk in the room, not a formal one, I've just got a student desk with a computer on it — that was the first thing to go because it was just taking up so much space.

School boards and superintendents are faced with a situation where they lose enrollment so quickly that the only thing they can do is close schools, lay off teachers according to seniority not quality (thanks to «last in, first out» requirements), increase class sizes, and slash their central office staffing and support levels.

During the first training, Daniels shared tips and lessons she's honed so far as a Parachute teacher — the things you can't learn from a manual or online training course.

It didn't help Emanuel's relationship with CTU that nearly the first thing he did was to declare that the district was in a «fiscal emergency» and to rescind the teachers» 4 percent raise for 2011 — 12, the last year of the final Daley contract.

First, improvement in teacher capacity which impacts positively on student outcomes involves «learning to do the right things in the setting where you work» (Elmore, 2004, p. emphasis added).

«Any teenage boy who is into sports, no matter how many times they tell you they're not into maths, they can quote hundreds of statistics to you about their favourite team and their favourite players, that's so natural to them... so that's the first big, important thing, showing a connection to their lives,» he told Teacher last month.

If you believe that teachers need to use cooperative learning, mind maps, or lesson framing, then help teachers by first stating that is what you want, and then focus training in faculty meetings on those things so teachers have a clear picture of your vision.

I totally agree that schools staff well - being is the first thing administration should pay attention to to keep the best teachers.

«At the first teachers» meeting, I mention that one of the things I like to do is visit classrooms, even if it is only for five minutes or less,» said Tibbetts.

Is it still the same things that inspired you when you were a first - year teacher?

He also pointed out that University of Virginia researchers studying first - grade classrooms found low - income and nonwhite students were more likely to be in «lower overall quality classrooms» (which isn't quite the same thing as having lousier teachers).

Shortly after I began teaching as a provisionally certified elementary - school teacher, I remember counting myself lucky that I was assigned to teach 5th grade, since I hadn't been taught the first thing about teaching children to read.

The kids decided that the first thing to do was to survey classrooms to find out what kinds of problems students and teachers were experiencing.

According to Lisa Molinaro, the principal of Woodbrook Elementary School, the first thing that needs to happen for Albemarle teachers to successfully create a flexible classroom is:

So, I think one of the reasons why there's been a successful take - up of teachers is that we haven't rushed things — first they can see why we're doing this, but it's been about that slow, strategic implementation, keeping those goals, setting them up for the semester and just building it up slowly.»

The very first thing you notice when you consider the consequences of this effort is deep engagement by teachers and students.

If you're a teacher and you're suddenly told you have to teach this thing called Computer Science (which you may not even know what it is really), then being able to work with familiar resources is a really easy way to get into it, rather than being told «by the way first of all install this, buy this robot kit and get funding for this and learn how to do that... it's not compatible... sort that out» and so on.

BL: I think the first thing to draw attention to is the lack of awareness that teachers had of the significance of history upon Indigenous students» success in schools.

The first thing their classes do every day is read the paper (in print) and write about an article the teachers have chosen, matched with a prompt they've devised early that morning.

I recall they talked about how we might have to take the «low road» to convince people to do things differently (this might involve sufficient motivation positive or negative) that, in turn, will lead to positive outcomes and will help teachers see why they were persuaded to do it in the first place.

EW: What are the three most important things a new teacher should do to prepare for his or her first year?

These efforts have paid short shrift to the simple and frustrating fact that, while public policy can make people do things, it can not make people do those things well... First, state and federal policymakers do not run schools; they merely write laws and regulations telling school districts what principals and teachers ought to do.

The first time the kids lose out might be hard on the teacher who realizes that just one or two students have spoiled things for the others.