Sentences with phrase «of classroom readings»

The articles are based on my experience & learning while analysing stocks for my personal investments and the lessons learned during the academics and out of classroom readings.

The articles are based on my experience & learning while analysing stocks for my personal investments and the lessons learned during the academics and out of classroom readings.

The articles are based on my experience & learning while analysing stocks for my personal investments and the lessons learned during the academics and out of classroom readings.

The articles are based on my experience & learning while analysing stocks for my personal investments and the lessons learned during the academics and out of classroom readings.

Then, he'd choose an afternoon of intense Lego - ing over a half - day of classroom reading and group activities.

These initial student reading conferences always end up influencing many of my classroom reading strategies.

On a positive note, the one school that had made the most consistent gains in students» reading and writing growth was also the school in which teachers had made the most research - based shifts in the delivery of their classroom reading instruction.

Small - group activities were to include within - grade and across - grade study groups which focused on particular aspects of classroom reading instruction and student work (e.g. comprehension instruction, phonemic awareness instruction).

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In the classroom, they encourage the careful, fair, and patient reading of authors, before imposing categories and criticisms too quickly.

From the classroom reading of My Princess Boy, a book meant to normalize «gender expansive» behavior, to the adoption of a «gender inclusion» policy, parents and administrators at Nova were told that the Edwardses» demands had to be met as quickly as possible.

I still remember running out of the classroom in seventh grade to use the bathroom to avoid reading aloud.

Read loses sight of Buber's concept of dialogue, however, when he suggests that Buber's teaching shows how to replace the inter-individual tensions of the classroom by «an organic mode of adaptation to the social organism as a whole» and when he reinterprets the teacher's concentration of an effective world as a selective screen in which what is kept in and what is left out is determined by the organic social pattern through the medium of the teacher's «sense of a total organism's feeling - behaviour.»

The judge issued a detailed injunction that prohibits the governor, the attorney general, the state board of education, and everyone else from permitting religious activity in classrooms, including vocal prayer, readings of the Bible, devotional discussions, and distribution of religious materials.

Morrison's modernist approach to religion in 1912, tinged by both cultural and religious anti-Catholicism, still had room for a spirited defense of Bible reading in public schools when the Supreme Court of Illinois banned the Bible from the classroom.

After reading this article and some of the comments, It is obvious of the consequence we have paid for removing God from the classroom.

Battleground: One Mother's Crusade, The Religious Right, and the Struggle for Control of our Classrooms by stephen bates poseidon press, 365 pages, $ 24 The 1983 protest by a group of parents in Hawkins County, Tennessee, against certain stories and themes in the public school reading....

Anyone who reads John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University, published in 1852, and then ventures into the typical college classroom of today will suffer a similar case of mental whiplash.

Fine art adorns the walls of our schoolhouse, great literature is read in the classrooms, and Gregorian chant is taught in music class.

Central to this drama are two Supreme Court cases: Engle v. Vitale (1962), in which the Court decided that government - directed prayer in public schools was an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment's establishment clause; and Abington v. Schempp (1963), which declared unconstitutional a Pennsylvania statute that provided for compulsory Bible reading in public classrooms.

Like most of Noonan's books, Bribes is still in print and assigned classroom reading.

The Tangipahoa Parish Board of Education required its teachers to read a statement before any classroom discussion dealing with evolution urging the students «to exercise critical thinking and gather all information possible and closely examine each alternative toward forming an opinion» regarding «the origin of life and matter.»

Her many years of experience include: parent, classroom teacher, reading / learning specialist, elementary administrator, and clinician.

Read her blog for more information on how Texas Instruments is supplying a classroom full of calculators!

Comic books, now generally known as graphic novels, have increasingly been finding their way into classrooms and school libraries as teachers search for tools to not only help their students learn how to read, but to tap into the vivid imagination that is the hallmark of childhood and turn their students onto a lifelong love of reading.

Early reading in schools is necessary so that the teacher can give children classroom assignments rather than working individually with each of them, but at home it doesn't matter.

Read Part 2 of our interview with Lori, where we discuss the new meal patterns, breakfast - in - the - classroom resources, and what's next for her BIC program.

At the first meeting, the topic of treats in the classroom came up and my friend... [Continue reading]

By now you've probably attended more than your share of classroom open houses and «back to school nights» but here's one more that might be of interest, especially if you have questions about this fall's new school food regulations and how they might... [Continue reading]

Well, good for you for sticking to your guns, but prepare to be furious when your child comes home on the last day before the winter break vibrating like a tuning fork from all of the «holiday» (read «Christmas») treats that well meaning parents send for the traditional pre-break party that happens in virtually every public school classroom on the last school day of the calendar year.

I've written a lot over the years (really, A LOT - see the Related Links below) about junk food in school classrooms, whether distributed by teachers as rewards for good behavior and academic performance or served as part of birthday or classroom... [Continue reading]

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

One big piece of my blog redesign was creating my new classroom junk food guide, and I wrote most of it over winter break,... [Continue reading]

One thing that really struck us when reading these case studies is how very important collaboration and stakeholder engagement are to the success of a breakfast - in - the - classroom program.

Teachers have observed that the process of writing and composing helps develop reading and writing skills, while the creative element contributes to positive dynamics in the classroom.

This can not be done in a classroom where twenty - five children congregate with one teacher... The learning disabled child should not have to share his teacher with more than six to eight other children, at least not during those portions of the day when the key subjects — reading and arithmetic — are being taught.»

Please read this letter from the Vermont Secretary of Education stating that meals served in the classroom count as instructional time.

But as a practicing pediatrician and associate clinical professor of pediatrics at George Washington University, Beard said that what children eat in a cafeteria «may be as important a determinant as the reading, writing and arithmetic they get in the classroom.»

«The NUTs Breaking the Mould project, in which the National Union of Teachers has worked with a small group of primary schools to consider how «traditional» gender stereotypes could be challenged in the classroom through reading materials, is a really useful resource.

Commenting on the success of the initiative, BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson said, «Alom's book is a perfect tool for helping young people to think critically about the world around them, whether used in the classroom to stimulate discussion or simply read at home for pleasure, with the warmth and colour that only autobiography can provide.»

«Take Your Class on a Wild Ride» is the theme of the classroom Winter Reading Challenge, and the Adult theme is «Escape on an All - Expenses - Paid Expedition.»

Others have reported that certain kinds of artificial light can improve sleep and reduce depression and agitation in people with Alzheimer's disease; that higher air temperatures seem to curb calorie consumption; that employees take more sick leave when they work in open - plan offices; and that children in daylight - drenched classrooms progress faster in maths and reading than do those in darker ones.

The researchers then examined whether playing the more difficult games improved performance on additional measures of working memory as well as enhanced other skills, including math, reading, writing and following instructions in a classroom.

They are supposed to be teaching kids at the cortical level of reading, writing, and arithmetic, but if they've got kids who are still hungry for play, it's gonna be classroom chaos.

The contribution Lew and Leland are making can be seen in some of their designs, including «Classmate» — a computer - based, speech - assisted reading and writing program that students can use for taking notes in the classroom — and an accessible Palm PC prototype.

«If thousands upon thousands of children are not learning to read, write, speak and compute, it is not because of overcrowded classrooms, the effects of poverty and social conditions, poorly developed educational programs and materials and inadequately trained teachers.

K - 12 teachers and community college instructors in scientific disciplines interested in increasing their knowledge of scientific research and bringing to their classrooms advanced info... read more

From background reading for classroom activities and post-activity quizzes to finding a science project, learning about the scientific method, or researching careers, you can assign Science Buddies content with the click of a button!

Making science reading assignments using our Google Classroom Integration is a great way to streamline the management of reading exercises in a paperless classroom.

Dean Madden from the National Centre for Biotechnology Education at the University of Reading, UK, describes how DNA was discovered - and how it can be simply extracted in the classroom.

Read on to discover the 4 elements that make the perfect outfit — in and out of the classroom!