Sentences with phrase «for life in the classroom»

Did you feel your teacher prep programs prepared YOU for life in the classroom?

Students held hands, trembled and hid for their lives in classrooms and bathrooms as a former student stalked the school, shooting with deadly intent.

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It's more reminiscent of a child being noisy in a classroom than of a terrifying, dangerous, and life - altering experience for a woman.

Does it provide online classrooms for live training sessions, if that's something you want in your course?

Having, therefore, lived for years with Biblical scholars as my friends and colleagues and in the classroom having dealt with students, trying to gain a coherent and usable understanding of the Bible for practical purposes, I have dared the attempt to put together developments of ideas which the separate Biblical disciplines leave apart.

These groups, which encourage students to grapple with bold truth - claims about the nature of God and the meaning of life, are tapping into a hunger for truth too often ignored in the classroom.

Noting that we do not live in a sacred world valuing «received knowledge» from holy writ, but in a profane world harshly criticizing that tradition, Victoria Erickson of Union Theological Seminary in New York City wondered if we dared invite our worst critics into our classrooms for dialogue.

Poor performance in the School of Communion translates into failure in the classroom and trouble at work — places where the virtues gained in family life are essential for success.

Thus they enter into classrooms and share in dorm life, where they confront, perhaps for the first time, a plurality of codes.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

I associated Ice Cube with a horrifyingly ridiculous speech I heard in a classroom by some handsome full - of - himself black 12th - grader, about how Ice Cube was his hero because he had inspired him to avoid crack and gangs, as if it were some heroic thing for this guy who apparently had pretty middle - class parents to avoid falling into those, and as if Ice Cube had not in fact glamorized the gang life, overt misogyny, etc..

We are always looking for ways to integrate the classroom experience with daily life, as enjoying food should ultimately result in a healthy and varied diet, shared with family and friends.

They're the two nattering dopes in the back of the classroom who can't pay attention to the lesson and make everyone's lives more miserable for it.

When poor children grow up in an environment marked by stable, responsive parenting; by schools that make them feel a sense of belonging and purpose; and by classroom teachers who challenge and support them, they thrive, and their opportunities for a successful life increase exponentially.

While I've always felt that Waldorf teaching was my life's calling and absolutely loved my time in the classroom, I was looking for a way to put my expertise and love for Waldorf education to use in a new way - one that would allow me to continue working to promote Waldorf Education in the world, but also give me more time at home.

Plus, I volunteered in a lot in classrooms and was a teacher's aide for a while and worked closely with some of those kids — I know that having a «perfect life» when it comes to raising kids is relative.

It can be used to inspire discussions in your homes and classrooms about using life experiences as opportunities for personal growth.

They observe this correlation firsthand as they cultivate the school garden using materials they find in their everyday classroom lives, and in return, the garden provides educational tools, such as samples for botany classes and plants that can be made into natural dyes for fiber arts projects.

Find classroom management strategies that help students build community, prepares them for successful living, and increases academic achievement in the classroom.

A recipient of the National Educator Award, a former classroom teacher, a counselor for troubled youths, and mother of three grown sons, she lives in Palm Springs, California, with her husband.

The kit has been revised for two main reasons: this kindergarten life: loosely told stories Today I take a break from reflecting upon individual students for reporting to revisit the story I began in the last post: loose parts exploration in my classroom.

At the KIPP charter schools, established 18 years ago to improve the odds for low - income and underprivileged kids, fifth graders are drilled to sit up, listen, ask questions, nod, and track the speaker — a classroom acronym teachers call SLANT — to instill unfamiliar rules for appropriate behavior in school, college, and professional life.

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«Children who eat healthy meals have a much greater chance for success in the classroom and in life,» said State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia.

«By rewarding donations that support public schools, providing tax credits for teachers when they purchase classroom supplies out of pocket, and easing the financial burden on families who send their children to independent, parochial or out - of - district public schools, we can make a fundamental difference in the lives of students, families and educators across the state,» he said.

If built, the Family Community Life Center — a mixed - use project that has been in the planning stages for more than 25 years — would include an Olympic - size indoor swimming pool, a 25 - seat theater and media center, 24 - hour day care facilities, an indoor walking track, gymnasium, fitness center, classroom space, and 132 affordable apartment units intended as «workforce housing» for the area.

These students tend to need more help in and out of the classroom, to compensate for disrupted schooling and chaotic home lives.

«Dennis Walcott has been working his entire life to help New York City's school children, and I am confident that experience will help him build on the successful reform efforts of the past nine years and improve our classrooms for the generations to come,» Bloomberg said in a statement praising Steiner's decision.

All students, regardless of what zip code they live in, deserve a world - class education, not classrooms fit for the junkyard.

«They're also prevalent in elementary and middle school science classrooms as live animals for behavioral studies.

The gap between the science classroom and a real - life career in the sciences can seem distant for some students.

In this text intended for both classroom and online learning, Chiang uses questions about our online lives to explore the technology and computer science behind the Internet, wireless, and Web industries.

Posted in his classroom is a sign stating, «As your math teacher I understand that I have the ability to crush the life out of your innate love for mathematics and I will try not to do so.»

With Science Buddies» broad mix of free scientist - authored resources for STEM education, including hands - on project ideas and activities, lesson plans, career profiles, science news articles, concept videos, and complete project guides for science and engineering projects, if you are teaching it to your science class, Science Buddies has materials designed to help you bring the material to life in - class or to supplement and extend classroom learning.

The Austin Culinary center is a famous kitchen to cook in, as part of the flagship Whole Foods it offers 2 unique cooking classrooms — one for live demos, and one for hands - on classes.

The Austin Culinary center is a famous kitchen to cook in, as part of the flagship Whole Foods it offers 2 unique cooking classrooms - one for live demos, and one for hands - on classes.

But then that got me to thinking about how life is kind of messy, but it's a beautiful mess, so I guess in the end, whether it is a jigsaw puzzle, or my inbox, or my house, or my writing projects, or my little classroom here for my online classes, or life in general... we should try to keep things tidy, but that doesn't always happen.

About Blog I believe education is for life and not just in the classroom, but in stacks of books, messy projects, adventures, cooking experiments, random questions leading to library excursions and Internet searches, the daily grind, and even lazy days when boredom makes way for creativity.

I am looking for a man that: - is educated but knows that life exists beyond the classroom - enjoys the journey AND the destination - is confident in himself but not arrogant - enjoys a great burger and beer, but loves trying new foods too... must I go on?

Perhaps having lived in Southern California for most of my life, I tend to think that the screenplay by New York native LaGravenese grossly overstates some of the depictions of the community here as largely violent and filled with racial tensions that cause conflicts on a daily basis in nearly every classroom and city block at all times.

In a middle school classroom in Bratislava in 1983, a new teacher, Maria Drazdechova (Maurery), asks each student to stand up, introduce themselves and tell her what their parents do for a livinIn a middle school classroom in Bratislava in 1983, a new teacher, Maria Drazdechova (Maurery), asks each student to stand up, introduce themselves and tell her what their parents do for a livinin Bratislava in 1983, a new teacher, Maria Drazdechova (Maurery), asks each student to stand up, introduce themselves and tell her what their parents do for a livinin 1983, a new teacher, Maria Drazdechova (Maurery), asks each student to stand up, introduce themselves and tell her what their parents do for a living.

What Goes Up (R for teen sexuality, profanity and drug use) Slice - of - life drama, set in 1986, about a reporter (Steve Coogan) sent from New York to New Hampshire to write a story about the hometown of ill - fated, teacher - turned - astronaut Christa McAuliffe who finds himself unexpectedly in charge of a classroom of dysfunctional students, including a shameless flirt (Hilary Duff), a repressed Peeping Tom (Josh Peck) and a scheming baby mama - to - be (Olivia Thirlby).

After being kicked out of her school, for basically being too much for them to handle, she's sent to a special needs school called Each One Teach One and put in Ms. Blue Rain's [Paula Patton] classroom in an effort to educate herself and try to catch up with the rest of the world and help lift herself out of this situation she's currently living.

As I saw it — and still do — movie theaters are modern day classrooms where audiences — youngsters of all ages — learn how to behave in arenas ranging from the bedroom to the battlefield, and where they form their standards for and expectations about life.

But then it could be argued that the hoops action is almost incidental in this fact - based story, for the title character, Richmond High School (though actually filmed at my alma mater, Long Beach Polytechnic High School, which somehow became the go - to ghetto high school filming location after I graduated) basketball coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson), is less concerned with how his young charges fare on the court than they do in the classroom and, ultimately, in the game of adult life.

In his book, Teaching for the Students: Habits of Heart, Mind, and Practice in the Engaged Classroom, Bob Fecho states that, «A classroom is a living thing.&raquIn his book, Teaching for the Students: Habits of Heart, Mind, and Practice in the Engaged Classroom, Bob Fecho states that, «A classroom is a living thing.&raquin the Engaged Classroom, Bob Fecho states that, «A classroom is a living thing.»

The above 5 options could easily be adapted and adopted in any classroom to reap the benefits of technology in our schools and to equip our students for the world beyond their academic life.

For years, sites have offered classrooms the opportunity to link up with other classrooms in order to learn about each other's cultures and countries, but the current trend is to take these partnerships beyond the traditional «what is life like in your country?»

This story raises questions about the changes that have occurred in society over the past century and the direction that life will take in the next that will provide fodder for classroom discussion.

A solar - panel system generates enough electricity to power 24 classrooms, a courtyard greenhouse shelters vegetables and native prairie Illinois grass, a small «living wall» of plants filters air and water in a freshman biology classroom, and a handcrafted biodiesel production facility provides a living lab for chemistry students and fuel for one of Bloom's minibuses.