Sentences with phrase «of classroom moments»

Allows teachers to share a stream of classroom moments with parents through photos, videos, and messages»

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(It was one of those rare, delightful moments when bathroom humor was allowed in the Sunday school classroom.

The classroom also offers remarkable moments of interreligious exchange, as when a Hindu student queries a Muslim classmate about various aspects of the Islamic tradition, and vice versa.

The crew is all skiing (well, excepting those who are in high school classrooms at the moment, but be assured they get plenty of weekend time on the slopes), and as always, I have grand hopes for my Tuesday's at home.

Confronted with rising rates of child obesity and a surge of youth allergies, many local schools seized the moment to take a firm stand against junk food served anywhere and any time in the building — including fare offered by parents for classroom parties, bake sales and club meetings.

The idea of teachable moments is not new, although, until relatively recently, it's been a term more often used in classrooms than at home.

Cooper is able to visit any classroom, not only providing educational moments for nutrition, but incorporating parts of her demonstration into English, science or math curriculum with interactive lessons, such as recipe fractions, voting and graphing.

I applaud any measures that improve the nutritional content of our children's school lunches, but here's my problem: meals served in our school cafeterias are as much a «teaching moment» as what happens in the classroom.

At the moment, several of its scruffy denizens, including Sam Kendig, 22, are ramming sectional couches down a corridor of classrooms as fast as low - tech human power can, past lab - coated professors and graduate students, none of whom blink an eye.

Dead Poets Society reflects, likewise, that adolescence is no picnic — but for a brief moment, it can be painfully glorious, with Robin Williams channeling Walt Whitman at the front of the classroom.

Lafia intriguingly employs childhood iconography in the more troubling moments (Chucky destroys another Good Guy doll and buries it beneath a swing set, and he commits a brutal murder with a plastic ruler in a kindergarten classroom), so when the film's final set - piece takes place in the actual Good Guys factory, filled with countless clones of that godawful doll, you'd expect there to be some appropriately traumatic imagery backing everything up.

In the name of #schoollove, I've committed to Tweeting one classroom / school «little moment» of loving connection between teacher and student a day for each day of the school year.

The prompts that you select should build toward those more personal moments of sharing that unify a classroom culture.

Teachers can see when something is off with their students from the moment they enter the classroom, and know that students may need support in cooling off or letting go of the emotion before they can focus on academic content.

For 37 doctoral candidates, an entire year's worth of research recently came down to a single moment in Larsen's G - 08 classroom.

There's a growing smorgasbord of initiatives and resources beyond the classroom supporting the push to improve STEM learning outcomes, so finding one to fit your students» needs at any given moment in time can feel a little overwhelming.

Regular classroom teachers get — and deserve — their moments in the limelight, but in many cases non-academic teachers make immeasurable contributions to the personality of our schools.

To my utter surprise, this spontaneous student / teacher moment began a classroom tradition that continued until the end of the year.

When your lesson is failing, you can't tell a classroom of thirty 6 - year - old children «Let me get back to you about that» or «I miscalculated — give me a moment to revise my thinking.»

But there are still moments in the classroom that can be taken advantage of as time for grading.

Educator and positive classroom management consultant Marvin Marshall recommends a simple strategy of asking a disruptive student a simple question, either in the moment or afterward: «What would be the long - term effect of doing that?»

Ignoring for a moment the use of audio - visual aids and other classroom technologies, without good design for speech, teaching, at its most basic form, becomes redundant.

We all know the student, the one whose stress response goes from zero to 100 at seemingly small triggers; whose defiant moments test the teacher's hourly resolve; and whose initial resistance towards a classroom task can lead to the tanking of an entire school day.

Author and teacher, Thomas Newkirk, calls these moments «molecular moments» ---- the tiny successes of humanity that happen in the classroom.

Building school community: Miyake - Trapp observes that administrators in the classroom «can also openly engage in reflective processes by sharing moments of classroom success as well as challenges.

And like most of the best classroom moments, we had some fun in the process.

The context of knowing each individual student holistically, combined with the intuition of assessing the richness and complexity of a «classroom moment» is simply out of reach for AI.

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Takes advantage of the teachable moment Many of the advantages of one - to - one classroom computing also can apply to computers in a lab or at a small classroom computer center.

When we finally get a moment to ourselves, we hole up in our classroom to prep for the next class of students.

Although we never feel that our acting is very convincing, we have been amazed to see and hear the intensity of student responses to these moments of classroom confusion and leadership uncertainty.

And at this moment in American history, King's philosophy of nonviolence can help bring balance to classroom discussions.

«One of the things I learnt very quickly in the maths classroom is that a lot of the kids in high school didn't have that mathematical literacy, that numerical thinking that they needed,» she tells Teacher, adding that it was after reading a research paper about numeracy moments she was inspired to implement change across the school.

For busy teachers, there are limited opportunities within the school day to be observed, to observe other teachers, to pause and reflect on the details of specific classroom moments, and to receive support from colleagues.

Like the courageous students who participated in the Freedom Summer project in 1964 and fought for the right of African Americans to vote in Mississippi, this summer may also be a moment to reflect on how you can bring discussions of freedom into the classroom.

All this is encapsulated into a reinforcement - based approach for recalling or evaluating what people have assimilated from the program or session through the use of interactive quizzes, sharing of best moments, or creating a plan for applying classroom practice in real life.

«It was a great moment of shining connection from classroom to central office, changing the culture from one of compliance and fitting into expectations,» says Teitel.

That student then getsto show it off to somebody personally, notgrandstanding in front of the classroom, but in the moment of discovery, beingable to say, «Look, I figured this out.»

But more than that, the real challenge lies in how we can liberate formal learning from its existing confines (in an Learning Management System or classroom) and allow it to seep into the moments and places where learners actually learn: in their workplace, with their peers, and in the time of need.

For Meyer, now in his fifth year of teaching, a lightbulb moment happened three years ago when he acquired a projector for his classroom.

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Teachers are on overload; but if you can stand back for a moment and connect with your heart, you realize you have to devote your real effort to managing the classroom and creating an atmosphere of civility, grace, compassion, and safety.

What other things can teachers do to stay on top of their own memory challenges and avoid the stereotypical senior moments,» especially in the classroom?

Of course, there are many serious moments in the classroom, but I was so much more engaged when a teacher would add humor to the mix.

Such visits are almost always social, in that learning is collaborative and allow for planned and unplanned — often the most personal — moments of wisdom which we can not replicate in the classroom, despite our access to YouTube and other multimedia offerings available to us at the touch of a button.

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So many things can happen in a classroom in any one minute — have you ever thought of freeze - framing one instant in a classroom and going back to reflect upon how many teachable moments are present within this moment?

Such moments aren't mere indulgences or distractions from learning, says Mary Kay Morrison, a former classroom teacher and author of «Using Humor to Maximize Learning.»

Then he brings us back to the magic circle of the classroom, where games create teachable moments for engaged, inspired learners.»