Sentences with phrase «meaningful class conversations»

In my new column, Check It Out, I'll be sharing a variety of books that will spark and enhance classroom learning: books that are invitations to cross-curricular exploration and further investigation; books that can open doors to meaningful class conversations; books that let children peek into lives different from their own.

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In my late 20s I made a conscious choice to seek out people who supported what I value, like being in the outdoors, taking fun group - exercise classes, eating healthy food, traveling, being silly, having meaningful conversations about relationships, growing old, reading good books, parenting, and all the other things that fill me up.

Meanwhile, Cornelia joins Darby at hip - hop dance class (Watts, who rarely does comedy, is hilarious here), and the four of them gather for meaningful conversations, at which Josh is chided for whipping out his smartphone to help remember a fact.

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.

Conduct classes in ways that build capacity for personal reflection, meaningful conversation, ritual and group harmony.

After this type of observation, the class can work collaboratively to generate discussion norms, which is the start of a meta - conversation about what good, productive and meaningful conversations look like and sound like.

As part of the effort to do just that, the director of the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team and I recently visited advanced fourth graders in Amanda Klare's Beechwood Elementary class in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky to facilitate a conversation about meaningful student voice.