Sentences with phrase «having these conversations with teachers»

But now I feel like I can speak pretty intelligently about what good math instruction looks like and I'm more confident in having these conversations with teachers.

Additionally, ILDs learned how to help principals have conversations with teachers when their ratings change as a result of a principal's better understanding of how to assess instruction.

«I can have conversations with teachers based on data,» she says.

With children returning to classrooms in a few weeks, Roemer said school leaders should be ready to have conversations with teachers and students about what has taken place.

Not exact matches

The killings in Florida have also revived the debate over whether teachers should be allowed to carry guns in schools — an idea DeVos, while careful not to outright endorse it, said in an interview last week with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt should «be part of the broader, more robust conversation about how can we avoid these things in the future.»

In Chasing Francis by Ian Morgan Cron, the story's narrator has a conversation with a Fransican friar, in which the friar explains that he was once a teacher and then a hermit.

«I was not just having difficult conversations with students, but other teachers and administrators also emailed me to tell me I shouldn't be talking about white privilege,» Taylor said.

Sadly, I haven't read it yet... My views on faith have been picked up from numerous lectures, studies, and conversations I have had (and given) over the past 20 years with other teachers, scholars, and pastors.

In the autumn of 1960, in one of my first conversations with a full professor in Harvard's philosophy department, a teacher of metaphysics and ethics who confessed cheerily that he deeply admired Hume's happy atheism mentioned how nonetheless deeply impressed he had been with Jacques Maritain during the latter's presence on campus.

In my conversations with secular progressives, I have found positive conversations about faith tends to come from introducing people to Jesus first as a teacher.

... I can tell the very place where the blessed Polycarp used to sit [note the posture of the bishop as teacher or preacher upon his cathedra] as he discoursed, his goings out and his comings in, the character of his life,... the discourses he would address to the multitude, how we would tell of his conversations with John and with the others who had seen the Lord, how he would relate their words from memory... and I can testify before God that if that blessed and apostolic presbyter had heard the like [the Gnostic vagaries], he would have cried aloud and stopped his ears and said, as was his custom: «O good God, for what sort of times hast thou kept me, that I should endure these things?»

If your child were struggling in Math, you would have a conversation with the Math teacher.

At the World Waldorf Teacher's Conference in Dornoch, Switzerland, the big picture painted by these conversations has been shared with our many international allies.

But yet another conversation with Reid's daycare teachers about how many accidents he's having, (as though I'd totally dropped the ball as his mother) made me consider that perhaps the real issue here is not that I'm failing my son by not potty training him, but that I'm failing him by not advocating for him, for not standing up for the fact that he has every right to listen to his own body and to not feel pressured into trying to meet a milestone he's clearly not ready for.

Keep track of any conversations you have with your child's teacher, including emails, in order to give the counselor a complete picture of your child's problem.

All of this led me to have a conversation with my sister Margie, who I believe is a natural parent and teacher, and is able to strike a balance between kindness and firmness in both of these roles.

In a recent Teacher Training weekend, one of the trainees opened up about a conversation she had with her father.

I have had repeated conversations and pleaded with our mayor in Salem (who is a mother herself) where I live to help volunteer, write grants, and work on upgrading the school lunch program, and even though she cares, it is not a priority — especially when budgets are tight for good teachers and other necessary school supplies.

Those quibbles aside, though, I'd recommend the film to any parents or teachers who'd like to get a productive conversation going with children regarding where our food comes from and how our food's origins affect our bodies and our world.

Conversations with Michael D'Aleo — who developed the Teaching Sensible Science teachers» program — have deepened my appreciation for this approach to teaching science at lower grades.

And immediately after that thought, as if the Universe felt the need to slap me in the face, I very vividly recalled a conversation I had with one of my fellow teachers about sixteen years ago.

More times than I can remember, I have had conversations with fellow yoga teachers like you about how much they love teaching, but how difficult it is to make ends meet.

«A Conversation with Davis Guggenheim» is not the extended on - camera interview you'd expect but a short, wittily - animated cartoon (1:49) set to the director's remarks on the high school teacher that inspired him as a mediocre student.

To come to a shared agreement with their colleagues about this has led to amazing conversations, passionate discussions and teachers daring to disagree with each other and challenge each other.

Unlike 20 years ago when teachers and parents had to intentionally raise current events topics with young people, nowadays students are already part of the conversation.

Teachers who have never made a podcast or video with their students might be prompted to give it a whirl as a strategy for capturing student reflection — and that means the conversation grows and grows.

In my conversations with teachers, I've noticed some common concerns that are worth addressing.

Rather than lecturing or delivering whole - class instruction though, the teacher, who can be armed with data about where students are in their learning, can meet one - on - one with each student and have meaningful conversations about the work she is doing.

«And with that information then they're in a better position to have a better level of conversation with their children's teachers.

I know I can do some of those examples of follow - up the article mentioned — for example, helping teachers use Backward Design to create a lesson and having ongoing conversations with teachers.

The last few years have brought some exciting advances in artificial intelligence and with it, many conversations about how it might render large swaths of the workforce, including teachers, redundant.

Starting a Critical Friends or Cohort Group to enable teachers to have structured conversations to help one another with instructional dilemmas and with dilemmas related to parents and classroom management

«Teachers would approach me with questions about students with reading problems, and conversations with teachers became more curriculum - based and focused on what's best for kidsTeachers would approach me with questions about students with reading problems, and conversations with teachers became more curriculum - based and focused on what's best for kidsteachers became more curriculum - based and focused on what's best for kids.»

For example in many schools, the vestibules are too small for parents to have relaxed conversations, or to wait with their other children to see teachers.

A conversation I had recently with a friend who's a veteran elementary school teacher revealed what may be a future factor in the rising tide of unruliness:

As a result of countless conversations with teachers and parents, I've found that there are some basic things for schools to do to make homework more appealing and meaningful.

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.

And again, there's plenty of very clear research that effective and positive teachers follow up with students one - to - one away from their audience, where they're able to have those behaviour conversations respectfully about the way in which that student has affected the rights of others in the room.

I remember well a telephone conversation with a new teacher I had just hired.

Along with phone conversations and class visits, Wiseman has made copies for her mentee and had teachers donate materials for her room.

«Teachers who are successful at getting students to buy into CPR have frank conversations with their students about the importance of using the morning meeting to build community, get to know each other, have fun, and have a good launch into the day.

«One of our messages in the end is there are still really important conversations parents and teachers can have with boys about the narrow stereotypes that are not benign but could have an effect on their propensity for violence or their performance in school or how they treat girls,» says Tappan.

And I discovered that doing it well means respecting what we know about teacher learning, which has to do with self - assessment, reflection on practice, and professional conversation.

She explains that the roles «have the potential of undermining students» natural conversations» and says that the chapter about discussion in her book Getting Started With Literature Circles focuses on alternatives for teachers who want students to learn to discuss without roles.

If you're able, have a 30 - minute conversation with a teacher colleague or an instructional coach.

Our early years teachers report students» oral language has improved, with students using their STRIVE words in general conversations.»

Depending on the age, conversations have to occur with the students, parents, and teachers about what is developmentally appropriate for the learner at that time, and to assure them as they get older they will be able to explore those areas with more knowledge, experience, and perspective.

These conversations are informal, says fifth grade French teacher Michelle Barnes: «Once they've built these relationships, it's just chatting with friends.»

«The teachers in the classes would develop friendships with the students and could not only have discussions about the subject that's being taught by the teacher, but also have nice conversations with the students.

Of course, because the reported sources of benefit are conversations with colleagues about student work and exposure to a wide range of student work of varying quality (Gambell & Hunter, 2004; Goldberg & Roswell, 2000; Masters & Forster, 2000), it stands to reason that similar activities in an Australian context would have similar impacts on teachers.