Sentences with phrase «get kids and teachers»

Really, most structural changes and educational reforms make little difference in and of themselves, except to the extent that they get kids and teachers excited about school.

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Science fairs, all year long How to get teachers to think beyond the textbook and kids to think like scientists.

When you get a tablet, which allows the teacher to assess each child day by day, it's a huge teachers» aid and a huge aid to kids.

I read books about the female brain, met with science and math elementary school teachers and nonprofit educators who were doing programs to get kids interested in STEM.

«Someone could have approached a faculty member, a guidance counselor, a teacher and said, «This kid gets bullied a lot, someone should do something,»» said student Manolo Alvarez, 17, who had history class with Cruz.

Even with the promise of a special classroom, getting anxious kids to Roxbury High each morning demands a herculean effort from the program's teachers and therapists.

Paul Critelli, one of the program's teachers, told me that many parents feel overwhelmed trying to get two or three kids ready for school each morning, and that their instinct is often to «sacrifice the anxious kid» in order to avoid morning hysterics and keep the family train running on time.

Getting kids into school isn't enough to solve illiteracy so Rotary focuses on improving education by training and mentoring teachers.

So, until you are willing to condemn the child's family members, his or her teachers, and his or her sports coaches, get off the soapbox and stop pretending that clergy members are somehow more likely than average to abuse kids.

When I was a kid, I once asked my Sunday school teacher if little children got washed away in Noah's flood along with all the other animals and rebellious people.

In later years, I was busy getting my kids ready for back - to - school time, and for many years, as a teacher myself, I was preparing classroom activities.

Larry Bird chose my high school to do his student teaching after the ISU Sycamores run to the NCAA championship game and several of us from orchestra kids got to shoot around with him at what would have been our fourth hour orchestra class which was delayed half an hour for one semester while the teacher had younger students from the new middle school built together with the high.

The teachers were so rigid and the workload was so overwhelming that the kids were always in a state of panic, afraid of answering a question incorrectly or getting a detention for incomplete work.

With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

I'm lucky my kids are awesome, they get complemented often and I've had teachers request my kids for their classes so I think they are turning out OK.

This kid gets raised, parented, by almost every adult around her - her fabulous pre-k teacher, her aunts and uncles who discipline her as well as entertain her, her grandparents, me, her favorite sitters, her best friends» parents.

In elementary and middle schools, the end of the school year tends to bring with it a long string of outdoor games, field trips, and parties, as teachers let kids rejoice over having made it through to June (and try to keep them from getting so much spring fever that they actually gnaw through their desks in frustration).

We send our kids to school and try to get them a good, well - rounded education, mostly so that they will not grow up to be ridiculous and afraid of things like solar panels sucking up the sun, but one of the biggest opponents to the solar farm was actually former science teacher Jane Mann.

One woman who had seemed defiant and tough in junior high apologized to the PE teacher, telling her that she hadn't meant to be the teacher's «nemesis» but in fact was a military kid who got moved around a lot.

In contrast, teachers were more controlling, had lower expectations, got angry more often, and showed less nurturing toward the children with difficult attachments — and who, sadly, had a greater need than the securely attached kids for kindness from adults.

So if something is bugging you about kids and food — whether it's the unnecessary «refueling» with Oreos at the 10 am soccer match, the prevalence of highly processed food on your child's lunch tray, or the Sunday school teacher who hands out candy for good behavior — speak up and get involved.

We like to document what we do, and asked principals if we could use testimonials from the kids; we got testimonials from teachers as well.

Look, you can always expect a little resistance [from stakeholders] but our teachers understood that our goal is to get the kids fed and ready to learn.

As parents and teachers we have to not be undermining the effort to get our kids to eat better.

Simply put, schools can't be trusted to get it right for the kids because the kids are the last thing they concern themselves with after teachers unions, administrative organizational charts, bus garage projects, etc., etc., and oddball foodie notions.

I can only imagine how much more challenging it can be as they get older and are eating school lunches, with no teacher reporting back about how much was consumed or making sure to send home the containers from home lunches so Mom and Dad can see what actually went into the kids» stomachs.

Compared to students whose parents are uninvolved, kids with involved parents get better grades and are thought more highly of by teachers.

If I decide to send my kid to school, I'll get into voluteering and every parent «teacher group imaginable lol.

We got along on her new teacher salary of about $ 30,000 / year and just only on that, we had two kids and supported the whole household for 3 years into the marriage.

My amazing teacher writes to the mayor of Taiwan and gets a list of kids who would like to be penpals to kids in my class.

«Stigma, lack of awareness and fear around mental health care prevent many parents and teachers from getting kids the support they need,» said physician and Child Mind Institute president Harold Koplewicz.

Join award winning singer, songwriter and Wiggleworms teacher at the Old Town School of Folk Music, Little Miss Ann for her joyful mix of traditional kids tunes and thoughtful original musical fun and activities designed to get every child moving and singing and learning too.

Your kids might be lucky enough to get a few of the dedicated and brilliant teachers that still manage to get into the system, but they aren't going to be taught by those people exclusively.

We go out and pack milk, juice, fruit, into the coolers and put hot entrees in bags and put those onto the cooler, and the kids or a teacher comes down, gets their cooler, and carries it to their classroom.

In talking to some of my teachers [success is about] getting the routine down, teaching the kids to own their own space and do their own thing, and clean up after themselves.

And though she has cracked down on candy rewards given out by teachers, she also just instituted a program where kids get coupons for free shakes if their class has a high rate of homework compliance.

I don't give my kids sweets on any regular basis, love the no sweets policy, but the teachers unanimously believe it doesn't apply to them, while my kids are getting cavities, sucking down barrel juices they've never had before in their lives, and parents are stopped at the door by the secretary (happened to me last year) to undergo questioning of whether or not I was bringing in such banned treats.

The staff at the grade school didn't take her allergy very seriously though until a child died the next county over and then my child had a serious reaction to candy a teacher gave out at the end of the day as the kids were getting on the bus.

Bucking this trend can sometimes be hard, though, and many parents have reported getting a surprising amount of push - back from fellow parents, or recalcitrant principals, teachers or soccer coaches, when they've asked to improve the snacks and treats offered to their kids.

While many kids — including my own — are sad to see summer end, for too many of our of nation's children, back to school is more than new textbooks and teachers — it's about the relief of getting access to school meals again.

The French think this is practical for a few reasons: (i) it gives kids enough time to eat and digest their most important meal of the day; (ii) it gives teachers a proper break (they get a three or four course freshly prepared lunch (often the same thing the kids are eating) in a separate lunchroom!)

And if you're particularly concerned about the junk food offered to your kids in their school classrooms, such as food served at birthday celebrations, class parties and as teacher rewards, be sure to check out «The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom.&raqAnd if you're particularly concerned about the junk food offered to your kids in their school classrooms, such as food served at birthday celebrations, class parties and as teacher rewards, be sure to check out «The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom.&raqand as teacher rewards, be sure to check out «The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom.»

You want to surround your child with coaches and teachers who get that, who understand the need for kids this age to spread their wings and try out new activities.

* Positive Discipline * Positive Discipline for Developing Capable People * Building Self - Esteem through Positive Discipline * Keys to Developing Self - Reliance: A Gift to Our Children * The Significant Seven: Life Skills for Adults and Youth * Positive Discipline: Practical Application * Why Children Misbehave and What to Do About It * Parenting Teenagers: · Empowering Teenagers — and Yourself in the Process * Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: * Classroom Management: Shared Responsibility through Class Meetings: Eliminating your Role as a disciplinarian (The Kids Can Do It Better Anyway) * Positive Discipline in the Classroom (two - day training on class meetings) * We've Got to Keep Meeting Like This (teacher in - service on class meetings) * School Administrators: Positive Discipline in the Classroom (two - day training with Bill Scott, principal of Birney Elementary School)

I'd want to think that my parenting had set my kids up to make decent judgement about personal safety — whether to make that walk home alone, how much to drink in an evening and still get home safely, whether to ask a male friend to walk you home — and I think parents are the most important teachers.

The kid never gets better and the parents end up blaming the teachers.

Using sweets in class is a cheap and easy way for the teacher to get the kids» attention and affection, but it's not necessary and — as in the case of children like yours — possibly dangerous and definitely exclusionary.

I still recall somewhat irritatedly 5 years later how that resulted in my beautiful organic whole - wheat zucchini bread that I had made and sent in for his 2nd birthday, his FAVORITE, being fed to the teachers because the kids could only get store - bought junk (read: cupcakes with an inch of neon frosting) with an ingredient label.

As kids get older, says Dr. Ostrov, it's often so covert that parents and teachers may not be able to see it, especially if the bullying is relational (gossiping about someone, excluding someone, and so on).

Their parents and teachers may not notice that anything is wrong, especially since kids are often ashamed to admit how anxious they are about things that other people don't seem to get upset about.