Sentences with phrase «good teachable moment»

... «The past year was a good teachable moment in terms of the types of impacts we anticipate with climate change,» said Art DeGaetano, a climate expert from Cornell who was one of the report's authors.

The one up side to not being independently wealthy is that it does make for good teachable moments, and could help lay a foundation for a lifetime of responsible, money - savvy habits.

Not exact matches

When mistakes happen, look at it as a teachable moment not just for the employee but the leaders as well.

Instead, turn a mistake into a teachable moment and ask for feedback on how you can do better next time.

Did it have to take «Sandy» to give us, what will hopefully be, more than a «teachable moment», with regards to what happens when Republicans «work across the political aisle» with Democrats, for the good of American households, instead of «working the craving» to «occupy» the White House?

He saw the pain his good friend was in and committed to making it a teachable moment.

Each day offers parents a series of teachable moments to share with their children life lessons and skills, as well as opportunities to learn from our own parenting experience.

Turn those squabbles into teachable moments, and ask him how a good friend would have acted in the situation.

Turn these situations into teachable moments that will help them handle situations better over time.

A good player learns from mistakes (and a good coach makes the most of errors, turning them into teachable moments).

Use teachable moments to talk about what makes a good friend.

While it may be tempting to shy away from talking about physical disabilities that our kids notice because we don't have all the answers, it's better to seize teachable moments and address questions honestly in age appropriate ways the best we can.

Now some see school food as a teachable moment in which the first lady grows a vegetable garden at the White House and kids learn life lessons in how to eat better and stay healthy.

Parents will receive a copy of the 7 Steps to Good Digital Parenting, a Family Safety Contract, and guides for the Three Teachable Moments, maintaining digital reputation, and safe gaming.

I require manners, we talk about gratitude and I seize teachable moments as they arise with the hope of making my children good people.

Unfortunately, that strategy — however tempting and well intentioned — does not allow for the teachable moments that really get to the heart.

What are your best tips for teachable moments?

When I read those verse, I think of teachable moments — those times when we're with our kids, we see something or hear something — a good thing or bad thing — and help our kids apply God's truth to the moment.

This award - winning film follows naturalist and author Joel Greenberg, A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction, (Bloomsbury USA, 2014), as well as scientists, artists and teachers that are drawn to this literal teachable moment and its striking relevance to conservation challenges today.

In short, while we know our veteran teachers want to plan specifically, give directions explicitly, and offer student support intentionally, we also know they could probably offer teachable moments to the novice teachers as well as the instructional coach.

These devices allow educators to take better advantage of teachable moments.

«The best part of teaching my kindergarteners... were the teachable moments when our Catholic faith story could be told or we were peaceful enough to pray from the heart.

The best education journalism of the week was Leila Fadel's NPR segment, Turning rampant anti-Muslim bullying into teachable moments, which describes how a Muslim family near San Jose «pushed back against bullying and intimidation, at school and the local political arena.»

Your everyday decisions about what to buy and how to save can be teachable moments: opportunities to talk to kids about money so they learn good spending and saving habits early.

They probably need a simple savings account for you to have some teachable moments for them to learn about banking and so forth as you go along, and they definitely need a college savings account — something like an Education Savings Account (ESA)-- in a good growth stock mutual fund.

Before we continue talking about last week's «Speak About What's Unspeakable,» I thought it might be good idea to end the year on a constructive note by looking back at some of the most teachable moments - events, exhibits, chance happenings and other opportunities — that made for uncanny entry points in the classroom...

O. K. so now that I've eaten a good helping of humble - pie (more to come) and all that other good stuff, let me now convert my public humiliation into a quality - time teachable - moment:

On a teachable moment opportunity: I often used Internet defamation as a teaching example in teaching students how to effectively search the Index to Canadian Legal Literature (ICLL) online (the example also works well in searching a library catalogue using Library of Congress Subject Headings).

By treating conflicts not as disciplinary incidents but as teachable moments, teachers can help students develop better ways to deal with conflict while building their SEL skills.

In enhanced well - child visits, parents» questions and concerns about child development and behavior were addressed, using «teachable moments» and promotion of positive parent - child interactions.

Combining the credibility of scholarly research with lively and compelling stories, tools, and teachable moments, this book is designed to help associations and other nonprofit organizations achieve the entire journey to good governance, from first to last steps.