Sentences with phrase «kids and teachers reading»

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By harnessing data about their reading habits, EyeRead helps teachers and parents pinpoint kids» reading difficulties

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.

One example that I read about, Stanford University, a teacher in artificial intelligence offered a class, a couple of hundred kids in the class, he offered it online to 30,000 people, or 20,000 people, and if I remember correctly when he gave the test there were 400 people, or something like that, that did better than the number one kid at Stanford.

If I am a teacher instructing children about how to read, and every child in the room has learned to read but one, should I just say «tough toenails, kid» or should I try different ways of instructing the child (that doesn't include punishing or killing them) so that the child understands?

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

At some point as a parent, you will likely be faced with the dreaded email from your child's teacher telling you that your kid has crossed the line and that you need to come in for another conference — or the principal will call to tell you that your teen has missed the last week of school... Read more»

(If you don't have a kid in US public school and don't know why lunches would be disgusting, read the blog http://fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot.com/ in which a public school teacher photographed and ate everything the kids were served since the beginning of the year.

Shirley, a teacher, blogger and busy mother of three, used to see the cozy little nook in her office as little more than wasted space, but thanks to a sudden burst of inspiration and a quick trip to IKEA, Shirley's kids now have a cozy reading room of their own, and all for less than $ 80!

My son Ahmed now he is so happy with teachers and kids, and he can read a lot of words and stories in the school.

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I can change diapers, fix bottles (formula or breast milk), put down to nap, fix / cook any meals, play, educate (reading, writing, math, etc.) I am currently a substitute teacher so that's given me more experience with teaching and educating children if I'm wanted to work with kids throughout the summer.

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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.

The book concludes with «Mrs. Q's Guide to Quiet Revolution: An Action and Resource Guide» which provides advice for different stakeholders — parents, teachers, kids, teenagers, chefs and nutritionists — as well as a Resources Guide to point would - be school food reformers toward helpful organizations, blogs and reading material.

Teachers use read - alouds as well as poems, songs, and rhymes to teach topics across all subjects, and classrooms are filled with signs and labeled objects which help kids make connections between objects and words, and words and letters.

The sports programs could remain - the music and arts programs could go on, no classes would need to be eliminated, kids could still learn how to read by second grade and the teachers could maintain a living wage and benefit package.

Seizing on a sharp drop in reading and math scores after students took their first Common Core tests, the teachers fed fears that kids would somehow suffer because their grades had fallen, when the opposite was true.

Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author of Raising Kids Who Read: What Parents and Teachers Can Do, responds:

I had left over fabric from this quilt and it was just enough to make 3 zippered pouches to give to the kids» teachers for Teacher's Appreciation... [Read more...]

semi retired psychology teacher and counselor - coach youth baseball and tackle football - also work at a boys summer camp - my likes are - being in nature, long walks, photography, animals, kids, working out, movies, reading, good conversation, sense of humor, romance, and much more!

To gain a greater appreciation for this film, check out the elaborate «Teacher's Guide» produced by Disney Studios located here (and yes... kids can read it too!)

This film is full of stereotypical characters including a smart Asian student, a dumb fat kid, a brilliant European scientist, a romance - reading suburban housewife and a loud - mouthed female gym teacher.

Some school leaders and classroom teachers may not believe in the value of independent, for - pleasure reading, or that kids can read for as long as they truly can.

Whether you are a teacher, parent or play another role in the life of a child, you have the ability to positively or negatively influence a kid's eating and reading habits.

* Nearly all of the teachers surveyed (95 %) said they need more help and advice finding great books to get kids excited about reading.

In some classes, kids listen to teachers talk about reading far more than they actually read themselves, while in other classes, independent reading is kept sacred and kids have ample time to explore books of their own choosing.

Teachers that stick with this on a daily basis find that kids read for increasingly longer periods of time, and that the biggest challenge becomes bringing it to an end and moving on.

I read an article years ago, in which an inner - city teacher taught kids spelling by having them stand up and form each letter with their bodies.

Parents and teachers report that kids read much less in middle and high school than they did in elementary school.

The issue with that is that if we have students in a classroom who are ranging from below Low, barely able to read and make sense of their text, to students who are reading at this Advanced level, it is very difficult for a teacher to be able to teach to a class with that wide a variety of literacy levels, and the problem is that these children who are not reaching the Low benchmark or are at the Low benchmark are, if you like, starting the race quite a long way behind all of these other kids.

My teacher even read some books about how kids and parents pick schools, and those books say we're doing it wrong.

Teachers who want to introduce metacognition in their classrooms might begin by reading our post Engaging Brains: How to Enhance Learning by Teaching Kids About Neuroplasticity, and also teach students about the anterior prefrontal cortex, the brain area that researchers have begun to link with metacognition.

«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.»

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«It's great to see where kids are performing, where my gaps are, and what I need to do,» says Debra Bingham, a 16 - year veteran teacher who now specializes in 3rd - grade reading.

You want them to enjoy this experience for the same reason that reading teachers want to get kids to read anything, which is that the skill of reading is valuable in and of itself.

We've had some success in the last 10 years: reading scores have gone up some, teachers are using more effective literacy practices, and we've gotten a lot more parents involved,» a lot more parents reading to their kids, talking to their kids, and communicating with their kids» teachers.

We're developing resources [now] for kids operating around the reading age of five or six years of age, in order to be able to more adequately cater for our student population... I guess the next step as well is working with teachers in more of a coaching and mentoring focus as well, so that we'll work with them around their pedagogy to make sure that they're supporting each other through that teams approach and through that mentoring approach, but also through a more managed process so that we can give them that support that they need to develop their teaching expertise as teachers, but also as teachers within a detention centre context.

Parents are often critical of kids reading and spelling skills, said one teacher.

My website for teachers / kids has lots of geography activities, short reads, career surveys on many famous people, factoids, news, and more.

According to organizer and language arts teacher Martha Cosgrove, the club began with two ideals: to find ways for adults to connect with kids in the building beyond the classroom connections and to promote reading for pleasure among the kids through literary discussion and conversation.

The Washington Post and its Common Core - averse education blogger, Valerie Strauss, have been particularly aggressive in highlighting this report and running pieces from both parents and teachers arguing that «forcing some kids to read before they are ready could be harmful.»

«Kids who can't read yet won't be able to author completely on their own; however, teachers can still involve them by taking digital pictures of their artwork and getting them to journal about it.»

Several years ago, I read a book by educator Ron Clark called The End of Molasses Classes: Getting Our Kids Unstuck — 101 Extraordinary Solutions for Parents and Teachers, in which he describes an event that involves having students practicing social skills in a competition called The Amazing Shake.

Farina is notoriously in the thrall of Lucy Calkins of Teachers» College, a literacy guru whose approach to reading failed a generation of city kids and was wisely dumped by the New York City Department of Education before Farina took over and resurrected it.

And so as a teacher you read that and you think, «I don't teach maths, I teach kids» or «I don't teach fourth grade, I teach students&raquAnd so as a teacher you read that and you think, «I don't teach maths, I teach kids» or «I don't teach fourth grade, I teach students&raquand you think, «I don't teach maths, I teach kids» or «I don't teach fourth grade, I teach students».

«For example... every one of our workshop - style classes [will] begin with a meeting of the kids and the teacher to talk about a feature of mathematics or writing or reading... then kids will go off to do independent work and the teacher will circulate among them and help them with their individual projects.

The idea that kids will choose what they read, will choose the ideas they develop as writers... will choose the topics they decide to research, has made the school, I think, unusual and a model for other teachers.

So, it really became a community - building exercise in my class where all of the kids kind of sat in a circle and they read out to their peers what they wished their teacher knew.

«I've been in the public school system for some time, so I know that schools are full of great, dedicated teachers — and yet there are still some kids who aren't good readers or who aren't motivated to read,» says Coffey.