Sentences with phrase «life in the classroom as»

Mr. Turco graduated from Fairfield University and began his life in the classroom as a Fulbright English teacher in Germany.

Putting a playful spin on school, these picture books depict life in the classroom as a grand adventure, filled with good friends, fun activities and teachers that are wise beyond words.

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That's no longer the case, as social movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo have thrust the power dynamics that she highlights in her own New York City classroom onto a cultural main stage, and made her work more accessible and understandable.

The ASHI School also offers live classroom specialty training in such areas as radon, mold and commercial inspections.

If I were to live up to my experiences as a child, I wouldn't have a woman doing anything in a church or a classroom because what I saw then was out of control aggression and bullying.

Having, therefore, lived for years with Biblical scholars as my friends and colleagues and in the classroom having dealt with students, trying to gain a coherent and usable understanding of the Bible for practical purposes, I have dared the attempt to put together developments of ideas which the separate Biblical disciplines leave apart.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

I'm seeing a lot of comments where people accept that evolution per se occurs, but either deny that there is evidence of life arising by the theory of evolution by natural selection or just want to treat creationism as equal to that theory in the classroom.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

I associated Ice Cube with a horrifyingly ridiculous speech I heard in a classroom by some handsome full - of - himself black 12th - grader, about how Ice Cube was his hero because he had inspired him to avoid crack and gangs, as if it were some heroic thing for this guy who apparently had pretty middle - class parents to avoid falling into those, and as if Ice Cube had not in fact glamorized the gang life, overt misogyny, etc..

Learning to learn has become the primary focus of my classroom work, and this focus is expressed in such methods as dividing large classes into rotating discussion groups; assigning shorter, more frequent written work that can be rewritten; structuring group oral examination experiences; and stressing the application of what is learned to other disciplines and life situations.

We are always looking for ways to integrate the classroom experience with daily life, as enjoying food should ultimately result in a healthy and varied diet, shared with family and friends.

At St. Francis, education extends beyond the classroom walls as our students are encouraged to develop their talents and discover their passions in every area of their lives.

The youngsters from St Polycarp's Catholic School had previously taken part, and excelled, in classroom sessions which include discussions on cultural and religious matters and how these impact day - to - day life as well as a club like Chelsea.

As her report put it: «The research suggests that, while there may be little return to trying to make students more gritty as a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.&raquAs her report put it: «The research suggests that, while there may be little return to trying to make students more gritty as a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.&raquas a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.&raquas persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.»

As children grow, they will face increasingly complex dilemmas in life and in the classroom.

It can be used to inspire discussions in your homes and classrooms about using life experiences as opportunities for personal growth.

After babyhood, bouts of separation anxiety tend to crop up in the presence of other life stressors, such as moving, travel, divorce, or a new caregiver or classroom.

They observe this correlation firsthand as they cultivate the school garden using materials they find in their everyday classroom lives, and in return, the garden provides educational tools, such as samples for botany classes and plants that can be made into natural dyes for fiber arts projects.

Sunbridge's proximity to Green Meadow allows our students to experience the life and environment of Waldorf Education, including serving as assistants and student teachers in the classrooms there.

Qualifications: Candidates must be fluent in German and be able to provide instruction in both written and oral German up to the German IV level as well as bring elements of German culture to life in the classroom.

If we can change our policies and our practices in the classroom, and work with researchers devoted to finding ways to help our children, we can «make a tremendous difference, not only in the lives of individual children and their families, but in our communities and our nation as a whole.»

Through a few simple yet meaningful things such as frequent conversations between his parents and teachers, his mother's involvement in the classroom, and stimulation of his natural curiosity at home, Dylan's parents have helped their son gain a sense that school is important and that doing his best at schoolwork is his current role in life.

As a classroom teacher and writer, he teaches children, teens, and adults about the real keys to success in life.

If built, the Family Community Life Center — a mixed - use project that has been in the planning stages for more than 25 years — would include an Olympic - size indoor swimming pool, a 25 - seat theater and media center, 24 - hour day care facilities, an indoor walking track, gymnasium, fitness center, classroom space, and 132 affordable apartment units intended as «workforce housing» for the area.

They need to experience democracy as an ethos and way of life today - in their homes, classrooms and communities - if they are to meet tomorrow's challenges.

Foreign languages are often learned later in life in classrooms, and may not activate feelings, including aversive feelings, as strongly.

«They're also prevalent in elementary and middle school science classrooms as live animals for behavioral studies.

Posted in his classroom is a sign stating, «As your math teacher I understand that I have the ability to crush the life out of your innate love for mathematics and I will try not to do so.»

The Austin Culinary center is a famous kitchen to cook in, as part of the flagship Whole Foods it offers 2 unique cooking classrooms — one for live demos, and one for hands - on classes.

The Austin Culinary center is a famous kitchen to cook in, as part of the flagship Whole Foods it offers 2 unique cooking classrooms - one for live demos, and one for hands - on classes.

Whether I've taught writing in the classroom or tried to bring an abstract problem to life as a journalist, the one constant throughout has been the creation of a narrative with a beginning, a middle and an ending.

About Blog I decided to start a blog to keep a public diary of my life as a teacher in an autistic support classroom with middle schoolers.

Money, a gentle giant who lives with his grandmother, is applying himself both in the classroom and on the field with hopes of landing a scholarship as a ticket out of the «hood.

Perhaps having lived in Southern California for most of my life, I tend to think that the screenplay by New York native LaGravenese grossly overstates some of the depictions of the community here as largely violent and filled with racial tensions that cause conflicts on a daily basis in nearly every classroom and city block at all times.

As I saw it — and still do — movie theaters are modern day classrooms where audiences — youngsters of all ages — learn how to behave in arenas ranging from the bedroom to the battlefield, and where they form their standards for and expectations about life.

Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media platforms — as a means to help students engage with challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the classroom, especially in an age where students are finding it increasingly difficult to see over the wall between their school lives and their «real» lives.

• Relevance: Students have the opportunity to connect a current activity to previous in - classroom experiences, such as science investigations, and to their lives outside the classroom, such as a need they perceive in the community.

This resource can be used in a variety of ways, either as part of a sequencing / analysis task exploring the life of Jesus, or as part of a timeline display for the classroom.

The philosophy derives from Steiner's idea called anthroposophy, which includes the concept of an unseen world complete with angels hovering above daily life (and the classroom), as well as a commitment to developing the inner self in order to serve the community.

We also recommend schools purchasing a 3D camera, such as the Ricoh Theta S so teachers and students can make their own videos and bring those experiences back to life in the classroom

Activities such as service learning, discussing current events in classrooms, discussing civic and political issues with one's parents, non-sports-related extracurricular pursuits, and living in a civically responsive neighborhood had a positive impact on students» commitments to civic participation.

Undoubtedly, life skills such as having compassion for others, leadership, communication, responsibility and teamwork can be taught in the classroom, however, it is arguably outside the four walls where these skills are really put into context and developed on a deeper level.

Davis, in the first half of a pro-and-con discussion about social media in the classroom, positions it as a vital life skill and provides 12 positive examples of classroom use.

As editor of Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School, Pollock brought together 64 real - life tools and techniques for strategizing classroom practices and work space politics, as well as best practice for readers trying to be constructively conscious and open about race and racisAs editor of Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School, Pollock brought together 64 real - life tools and techniques for strategizing classroom practices and work space politics, as well as best practice for readers trying to be constructively conscious and open about race and racisas well as best practice for readers trying to be constructively conscious and open about race and racisas best practice for readers trying to be constructively conscious and open about race and racism.

It is desirable to have a variety of models in the classroom for investigating the properties of the «molecule of life», but I think the most useful are the easily manipulated kits that can be assembled and used for modeling processes, such as transcription and translation.

Often the core content and concepts are represented in the world beyond the classroom or school building — in ways that students can not see, as if they're walking through life wearing a blindfold.

It may be that attending a school that employs them enhances those basic cognitive skills — such as processing speed, working memory, and reasoning — that research in psychological science has shown contribute to success in the classroom and later in life.

Many teachers are excited about the ability to create a group on Facebook as a private way of interacting with their students in ways that a) not only meet the students where they already are and integrate their lives into the classroom more holistically, but also b) shows that school can be a lot cooler than the students thought by being on Facebook in the first place.

Using game based learning in tandem with learning styles will help more individual's complete tasks, retain information, and apply what they've learned to future projects and tasks as well as their lives outside of the classroom or workspace.