Sentences with phrase «mind about all of their students»

Also, teachers must keep an open mind about all of their students.

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And when I say procto - parents, I mean parents who are totally into minding their kids» and everyone else's business, but don't know the first thing about effective education, or how to build the kind of self - sufficient, self - starting students that we actually do need to compete in the global marketplace.

My friends and i go to a christian church and some of the Muslim students have gone with us just to see and learn for them selves what it is like instead of going off rumors and here say... Unless you have experiences something on your own you have no right to talk smack about it... The reason the world is the way it is is because people are to stuck up THEIR butts and THEIR way, to even try and become educated about anything else... im not saying convert or change your ways... But be educated about something before you talk because if your not you really look like a fool... ever religion, race, culture,... they have their good people and they have their bad people and you CAN NOT judge a whole race, religion, culture... off one group... that just being single minded!!!

I have elsewhere attacked the current notion that colleges and universities should be about the Socratic function of allowing students to make up their own minds.

Our garden project enables students to try new foods, and learn about the importance of consuming healthy foods and how that translates into fuel for our bodies and minds.

Daniel T. Willingham, author of Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom

Keep in mind that under Provision 2, the school provides meals at no cost to all students, so it is key to financial success to have the number of students on paid status not exceed about 10 % during the base year.

Videos from Study.com shown to students in the Clarkstown and Nyack school districts depict Jews in a negative light and Carlucci is concerned about the impact the misinformation could have on impressionable minds of students.

«We appreciate that Micah Lasher has changed his mind about some of the misguided educational «reform» proposals he promoted when he worked for the Bloomberg administration and Students First [sic],» wrote UFT president Michael Mulgrew, in an email.

To learn more about the underlying causes of intentional and unintentional mind wandering, Seli and University of Waterloo colleagues Evan F. Risko and Daniel Smilek measured rates of these two types of mind wandering in 113 university students as they completed sustained - attention tasks that varied in difficulty.

Jose Rodriguez - Romaguera, a grad student studying behavioral neuroscience at the University of Puerto Rico, hasn't changed his mind about chasing an academic job, but he's now considering other possibilities.

The researchers, University of Illinois psychology professor Andrei Cimpian and doctoral student Shelbie L. Sutherland, said this «knew - it - all - along» illusion suggests that children's minds more readily absorb information about broad categories than about specifics.

With clear instruction, humor and innovation, he aims to make yoga fun and accessible to students of all ages and abilities while imparting a sense of wonder about the body and mind.

My goal as a yoga teacher is to give my students the opportunity to learn more about their body, mind, and spirit and to nurture and heal themselves through the beautiful experience of Rahini Yoga.

Also keep in mind that, because of their concerns about privacy, some students will simply not tell you everything that might be helpful to know.

Students have shared that it's very difficult for them to quiet the mind... that they are already thinking about the To Do list waiting for them on the other side of the studio door.

Oxford, Oxfordshire About Blog The Student Minds blog is the UK's biggest blog on student wellbeing and mental health, sharing student experiences of mental health difficStudent Minds blog is the UK's biggest blog on student wellbeing and mental health, sharing student experiences of mental health difficstudent wellbeing and mental health, sharing student experiences of mental health difficstudent experiences of mental health difficulties.

Cambridge About Blog This blog serves the purpose of bringing conceptual clarity to student's minds thereby making them fundamentally strong and successful in application.

The Choice (PG - 13 for sexuality and mature themes) Adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks best seller of the same name about the love which unexpectedly blossoms between a confirmed bachelor (Benjamin Walker) and the marriage - minded med student (Teresa Palmer) who moves in next - door.

Students gathered last Thursday in Larsen Hall to attend «Brain v. Mind: What is the Nature of Knowledge,» a discussion about varying conceptions of knowledge and how they can be applied within the education field.

Keep in mind that micro-learning is all about small quantities of information that leave a lasting impression upon the student.

Kathleen Cushman's latest book, Fires in the Mind: What Kids Can Tell Us About Motivation and Mastery, provides a unique exploration into the question of how teachers can better engage and inspire today's students.

In the second of two reader submissions about the Motivated Minds partnership between La Salle Academy Lithgow and Charles Sturt University, Associate Professor Jane Mitchell, Associate Professor Sara Murray and Jeffrey Larsen share a feedback strategy to encourage students to make a consistent effort in mathematics class, and to help them see a connection between their effort and achievement.

Professor Kurt Fischer, director of the Ed Schools Mind, Brain, and Education program, and doctoral student Chrstina Hinton recently spoke to the Swedish Parliament about connecting brain science with education.

At Match, we think teachers should spend more time planning how to teach — with the unique learning needs of their students in mind — and less time worrying about the basics of what to teach.

Dan Willingham, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia and author of the American Educator's «ask the cognitive scientist» column, offers a bridge between the laboratory and the classroom in his volume, Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The Classroom.

As the school year ends and most teachers have the luxury of thinking about ways of continuing to improve their effectiveness in motivating students, I want to throw in some ideas that I've had on my mind.

Activities Ideas: - A range of ideas in the «Twilight» documents - Teach a Skill / Run an Activity Forms - student led in form time - Quiz on school rules and expectations (obviously will need to be adapted)- Settling in Meetings / Interview Question Sheets - Caption Competitions - Desert Island Disks Certificates (students talk about and present extracts of two songs that are important for them)- Puns and Riddles to keep their mind fresh.

The educational assessment tests states use today have two fundamental flaws: They encourage the sort of mind - numbing drill - and - kill teaching educators (and students) despise, and, just as important, they don't tell us much about the quality of student learning.

Students learn to: - Define key terms related to the historical context of The Holocaust; - Remember and understand key information about Anne Frank's experiences, that they learn from an engaging PowerPoint presentation; - Read extracts from Anne Frank's diary; - Answer a range of questions to demonstrate their understanding of Anne's diary; - Analyse the language features used by Anne Frank to create dramatic images in the mind of the reader; - Peer - assess each others» learning attempts.

There are video's to change your method of delivery activities to stimulate the most disengaged student and a quiz about barriers / overcoming barriers And for schools that require progress tests or exams (for this course work unit) there is also a mind - map for areas of revision, so students have a clear picture of the content, blown up into A3 gives them areas to make their revision notes with PowerPoint guidance of completing it Follow me on TES for BTEC HSC L3 and L2 resources; https://www.tes.com/member/HSCresources All resources are then in the same place, with a search facility: — RRB - I hope you find this useful and use the time you saved to do something lovely: --RRB-

In his book, «Dumbing Down America: The War on our Nation's Brightest Young Minds (And What We Can Do To Fight Back),» author James R. Delisle waxes poetic about a «gifted» student from Romania capable of learning algebra in the 4th grade.

A note of caution about medication: You might believe that one of your students will be helped by medication, bear in mind, however, that it is not your role to recommend it.

After gaining parents» agreement to a plan for managing his behavior, bring the student in so he can hear that you and his parents are of one mind about his behavior and how it will be dealt with.

In my mind, what is truly distinctive about these schools is how deeply invested they are in fostering the social development of their students, many of whom are reared in homes and communities that are dysfunctional and unsupportive in ways that undermine the youngsters» ability to function well in school, much less in life.

The principals chose the earliest grades in their schools, sixth and ninth, because students in those grades would more likely be open - minded about a new kind of learning.

Societies where high - stakes decisions are made by the age of 13, or even 18, concentrate students» and parents» minds wonderfully at a time when Americans, with their anti-intellectual traditions, are often thinking a lot more about Friday night football, cheerleader camps, drugs, and safe sex.

With that in mind, I'm often torn about accepting LinkedIn requests from current students — though I err on the side of caution — but I have no qualms about showing students my LinkedIn page and how I use it to enhance and grow my network.

So in the early days of [mental health initiative for secondary schools] Mind Matters it's interesting to note that to start with we thought we were engaged with teachers in only talking about students.

As a student in the Mind, Brain, and Education Program (MBE), Solis was constantly reminded by her classmates and professors about the work to be done in education, and how she could contribute to the success and health development of children around the world.

«Keep in mind that 91 percent of our students come to us about two grade levels behind and 21 percent are special needs.»

Considering how ubiquitous smartphones and tablets have become, especially in high school and middle school, questions about managing use and educating students about digital etiquette are on a lot of educators» minds.

There are people who are concerned about the collection and storage of data regarding students» moods and frame of mind is a violation of privacy and has potential to be abused.

The newest challenge that edTech companies are working on is digital education tools that collect data about the students» state of mind and mood, and then customize the learning experience based on that.

Our onging dialogue soon became a body of work we called the Practice Project — including our book Fires in the Mind, in which adolescent students talk about what motivates them to work hard at a challenge.

Perhaps one of the four groups made such a strong case that some students have changed their minds about their reaction to the statement.

Keep in mind that these are the students who made it to twelfth grade; since about 20 percent of American students drop out, the proportion of all young people in a cohort of eighteen - year - olds who make it to the college - ready level in either subject is more like one in three.

Keep in mind that the brain (maybe only part of the problem) of each teacher and student has about 100 billion neutrons, etc..

It seems we would avoid much of the fragmentation and lack of theory if social studies researchers began with the ends in mind — student learning — and examined the ways in which technology can be used to bring about the kinds of teaching and learning activities known to contribute positively to student learning.

If I totally lost my mind and any sense of why I actually became an English teacher, I could crank out students with great BS Tests scores who knew absolutely nothing about the literature, history and culture of their own country (or any other).