Sentences with phrase «grade teacher told»

Like your third - grade teacher told you, «there are no stupid questions.»

A third grade teacher told me the mother of one of his students left twenty - minute messages on his voice mail every day and showed up in his classroom unannounced.

«This is a good class,» another fourth grade teacher told me about the group I was about to meet, «but very needy.»

As one fourth - grade teacher told the writer, «The demands of No Child Left Behind have made it almost impossible to devote enough time to science.»

A fifth - grade teacher tells you that she believes reading aloud is an important component of reading workshop time, but she doesn't use it often because the students don't listen during the reading.

Not exact matches

In third grade, her Catholic school teacher Sister Stella Marie (or «the nun from hell») told her she wouldn't amount to anything if she couldn't read.

«I was in 3rd grade and one of my teachers told us to decide what we wanted to do when we grew up and then interview someone who had that job.

«My fourth - grade teacher, Mrs. Benton, was the first person that I really could see believed in me,» Winfrey told Parade magazine.

«The mother told us that she sees Teddy [a CHP] as a kind of doctor to her and that she has known her for a long time because Teddy was her teacher in grade school.»

And I never said that GOD would tell the name of your seventh grade teacher but trust He knows their name.

There was the day my grade two teacher typed up my first story and told me I should be a writer someday.

I had a real «Habit wearing» Nun for a 6th grade teacher, told us she was at the site of an exorcism where there was blood on the walls.

Imagine for a moment, those of you who have children in grade school, if your child came home from school tomorrow, and told you that at school from now on, the children were the teachers, and the teachers were going to learn from the children.

She was devastated to tell me that, for the first time in 18 years, she has been told they are not «allowed» to celebrate Pi Day as Pi is no longer a sixth grade standard (she had very grand plans with every teacher in every subject).

At Castilleja, the only prize you get for a senior talk or 8th grade speech is flowers — flowers and the comments of teachers and students alike who will tell you «congrats on your speech» and «great speech,» whether you have spoken to them before in your life or not.

I spent almost five years reporting in Harlem, attending parenting classes and sixth - grade math lessons and basketball games and parent - teacher meetings, and the time I spent there turned out to be a period of great change, not only for Geoff and the scope of his project but also for plenty of individuals whose stories I've tried to tell in the book.

The teachers were never told the kids were allergic and — the kids 3 — 5th grades didn't check the labels.

Our students in grades one through eight experience — rather than being told about — confidence, conflicts and their resolution, and respect for the world and all its creatures within an enduring relationship with their classmates and teacher.

Your teen may be tempted to blame other people by saying things like, «My science teacher never told me that project was due,» or «I did the work but my math teacher never graded it.»

At one point, Heaps began teaching nutrition with seventh - grade science teachers but found she could not reconcile what they were telling the children in class with what the children were being served in the cafeteria.

But if you are at the receiving end of this inappropriate question, respond with an upbeat informative answer like, «Before I had kids I was a [NASA engineer, defense attorney, 3rd grade teacher] and I have to tell you, it was a lot easier than the job I do now!»

Lastly, my father tells the story of how, back in the early 50s when he was in first and second grade, his school teacher would have the whole class, every day, put their heads down on their desks after lunch for a 10 - minute rest.

At the same time, teachers were being told they would be graded as professionals based on the results of scores from these flawed — and really, still experimental — assessments.

But Tisch told the Daily News that new teacher data measuring student growth between fourth and eighth grades is due by mid-August.

«As an at - risk teacher my entire career,» Mulgrew said, «I am telling you this will make a difference in thousands of children's lives so they can get back on grade level.»

Whether it is helping a teacher to troubleshoot a kit in the classroom, helping a fellow scientist to find an age - appropriate science activity to do with an eighth - grade classroom, or telling funders why our programs are worth funding, writing and communication skills are key to our work.

My fiancé has called me a Bob Ross look - alike before, he has even told me that I look like a second - grade substitute teacher, an art curator and that I work for the United Nations, «You just look political,» he said to me the other day.

Mallin, the fourth - and fifth - grade teacher, said she's occasionally heard of parents telling their children that they might have to leave if they don't perform well.

When they told their colleagues about it, the sixth - grade teachers put in a few extra days over winter break, implemented some plans on the fly, and reopened in January with team teaching in place.

The state assesses students writing in fourth grade, so teachers spend a lot of time on writing skills, Maldonado told Education World.

At the same time, the first - grade teacher has told me that her students» families appreciate the postcards.

Simon Clarkson, a Leicestershire based science teacher, told the conference that Ofqual, the exam regulator, is right in its intentions to stop practical lessons counting towards GCSE and A Level grades.

«The president is right; all kids can learn,» Paige told an audience of students, teachers, reporters, and city and state officials at Amistad, a grade 5 to 8 school.

Those monies were used to set up a very successful technology mentoring program, in which trained lead teachers worked with individuals and teams of teachers,» Richards Elementary School fourth grade teacher Mary Kreul told Education World.

Students told me how little sleep they were getting, parents described how stressed out their kids were, and teachers commented on how they spent endless hours grading the very work they had assigned.

He tells the story of a would - be Yalie with good grades and test scores but whose personal essay described a conversation with a teacher she admired — a conversation too important and stimulating to interrupt.

The lab day was created about five years ago, to tie in with a reading assignment, Julie Craig, an 11th grade English teacher told Education World.

«We've introduced a new grading system and reporting system to our teachers, students and parents,» Fred Holmes told Education World.

But Dunn knew there was much greater trouble when, in 5th grade, Victoria returned from vacation with a tan and her teacher told her, in front of the class, that she «looked like a chocolate bar.»

«The Morning Sing allows us to gather as a community and share many wonderful experiences,» Jenn Simanski, a third - grade teacher at Lake Street School in Spencer, Massachusetts, told Education World.

Second, because there is no guarantee that a waivered class can be assembled for the next grade in the following year, teachers in bilingual - education classes told me they were preparing their students for the possibility that they would have to go into an English - language classroom because there were no bilingual - education classrooms available.

A lot of teachers teaching «combo» classes (classes that include two grades), have told me how MathStories.com has helped them to teach such heterogeneous classes by providing them with appropriate work sheets.»

«I think the story of Cinderella has lasting appeal because it is the classic story of good versus evil,» Solomon, a sixth - grade language arts teacher, told Education World.

As a rookie high school history teacher, with the best of intentions I often told my students that a single upcoming test or assignment would significantly impact their overall grades.

«This is Emilio,» his new teacher, Tammy C. Johnson, tells the 6th grade class at Waynewood Elementary School here.

At the recent launch event for the CUNY Institute for Education Policy, David Coleman, now known as the «architect» of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards, was asked by a member of the audience why a teacher, who cited the Common Core standards emphasis on «informational texts,» would claim that she was told to «put away her literature books and photocopy microwave instructions» for her eighth - grade students.

'' (Students) get more individual attention so they feel like they're truly important and what they do is important,» Loretta Poland, a second - grade teacher at the district's Northridge Elementary School, told the Bee.

A former teacher told me: «When I taught 4th grade, I got a call every night from one parent or another.»

«My favorite computer - related experience was the first Internet project I ever ran myself,» sixth - grade teacher Jane Scaplen tells Education World.

«I think there is some sort of age - old comfort in «story time,» something about the teacher reading a story,» eighth - grade teacher Holly Sessions told Education World.