Sentences with phrase «of listening to students»

It had to have a letter grade of C or better, practice restorative discipline, do a good job of listening to students and families, have low teacher turnover, and — my personal top priority — not require girls to wear plaid uniforms (that's a topic for another post but to sum up, they are gender discriminative and illustrate another form of «pink tax»).

«All the research [my own and from others], really indicates the importance of listening to students and what they desire within the school playgrounds, because they're the primary users of these spaces,» Hyndman tells Teacher.

Doing a better job of listening to student families as well as offering them concrete strategies for helping their kids can significantly improve not only our status with them but also their perception of the educational system serving their children.

Not exact matches

Though sparking students» curiosity and whetting their appetite for the world of energy is crucial, so is listening to their expectations and paying attention to their creative ideas.

My kid already uses Siri to send most of his texts and emails (except when he's in school; there he still uses the «hands under the desk while pretending to listen attentively» move perfected by students everywhere.)

Having the flexibility to listen to and incorporate leadership from faculty not only improves the quality of the faculty's experience, it makes things better for students too.

One German study, for instance, showed that participants who had listened to music with prosocial lyrics (such as Bruno Mars's «Count on Me» or Aretha Franklin classic «Respect») were equally likely to help students with German and Turkish - sounding last names (there is a large population of Turks living in Germany).

The first thing I teach my students about blogging is to listen carefully to (and take note of) the questions they get from their ideal customers.

The message from some opponents of gun control is that Stoneman students should not be listened to.

The mass shooting has prompted a wave of youth activism that has reverberated from South Florida to Washington, where hundreds of students gathered outside the White House gates on Wednesday before the listening session, chanting, «Enough is enough!»

VANCOUVER — New Democrat advanced education critic David Eby is beginning a province - wide advanced education tour by meeting with students in the Okanagan to listen to their concerns about the state of post-secondary education.

«If they continue to ignore us, to only pretend to listen, then we will take action where it counts,» Delaney Tarr, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where a gunman killed 17 people last month, told tens of thousands rallying in Washington.

Did Warren Buffett listen to four University of Nebraska at Omaha students who recommended that he invest in John Deere & Co..?

But when we come back, as I alluded to, we're going to hear from some of the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who are saying, «Enough is enough,» and are trying to get Washington to listen.

As to obligations of a more personal nature I have many people to thank — colleagues who have advised me, students at Union Theological Seminary who have stimulated me with their responsive interest, members of the congregation of The Riverside Church, New York, who, by their attentive listening to mid-week lectures on the subjects handled in this book, have kept alive my confidence that even difficult and recondite problems concerning the Bible are of vital, contemporary importance.

We were a group of 20 students at a mission school in Rome and by taking to the streets each week to speak and pray with the people we met, we put into practice what we learnt from the great Catechism of the Catholic Church and various encyclicals on mission and love: to listen and to love.

Seminary education must inculcate such critical abilities, inclinations, and knowledge of our tradition that students leave seminary listening to people — within the visible church and those outside it, especially the most alienated.

There was never any real trouble from the dean of students, a former Protestant, who reportedly listened to my lectures through the wall of his room with a stethoscope.

We must accentuate the positive of high art, telling our students and kids and friends not «The music and movies you consume are junk,» but «Today, let's try The Magnificent Ambersons, not Breaking Bad,» or «Let's listen to Mahler's Fifth, not Classic Rock — just for a change.»

She objects to the suggestion that «students who, at least in the case of commencements, have no recourse to meaningful and respectful debate ought to simply listen without objection or response to a speaker whose ideas offend them.»

Research findings on the group showed that the teachers had developed new listening skills, improved teacher - to - teacher relationships, and increased their understanding of themselves, each other, and their students.5

With little experience of church or synagogue, many students have no knowledge of what it means to sit and listen to a speaker or to a musical offering.

Be attentive to the students, teachers, staff and class - mates who may be very different from you; listen for God in all of them, even if you don't think you're going to find God there.

«In contrast to the whole idea of «silence,» Day of Truth has encouraged students to exercise their free speech rights and have an open dialogue while respectfully listening to others,» Cushman said.

Indeed, whoever listens carefully to the lyrics of Browne and Taylor will be initiated into the feelings with which a large number of today's students resonate — feelings of loss, lassitude, uncertainty, despair.

In other words, any school requiring students to listen to daily Bible readings or to recite the Lord's Prayer or other officially endorsed prayers is in violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution and the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment.

For the next few years, I was engaged mostly with parenting: working to develop the cooperative spirit and patterns so necessary for a department of 20 specialists if we were to listen to and learn from each other in such a way that we could train graduate students together rather than at cross-purposes.

Liberation theologians committed themselves from the beginning to «listening» to the poor and to organizing them (along with students, lawyers, journalists, and others of the middle class) in comunidades de base, or base communities.

I pray I grow secure enough to listen and learn as a student of the world.

I recall listening to the father of Reema Samaha being interviewed about his beautiful daughter, a bright student at Virginia Tech and a skilled creative dancer.

Maybe the best way to amplify and elevate President Trump's understanding of that word «pro-life» would be for a premier Catholic university — say, for example, the University of Notre Dame — to invite him to campus to offer its commencement address, to explain his personal evolution on the abortion issue, and to share, listen, and learn with a cross-section of students and faculty in a respectful dialogue on the meaning of human dignity.

He was an experimenter who listened to those about him, both colleagues and students, with interest in and openness to new ideas and modes of expression.

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As the crowd of student athletes listened quietly, Wuerffel went on to describe how a teammate picked him up and helped him adjust his helmet.

Two hundred people, many of them students, came to listen, and afterwards a small group approached her to solicit her help.

When we think of discipleship as only being a student or learner, we usually think of sitting in a classroom or auditorium and listening to someone lecture at us while we listen attentively and take notes.

At the end, students can choose to do one of three projects: research the archaeological remains of Solomon's kingdom, listen to and review Mendelssohn's oratorio, or chart the 14 wonders reported about Elijah and the 28 reported of Elisha by the books of Kings.

Meyer says the changes that are going on at the University of Nevada all begin with listening to students and finding out what they need and want from the dining program.

So is the prof finally listening to advice on Arsenal's transfer needs and agreeing with one of his former students?

The students were able to listen to what work goes into large - scale sports events and gained further knowledge of the logistics and operational challenges involved.

So come on out to the Family Jam Night at the Brown Ave location, or Vinnie's Bar and Grill in Concord and listen to students jam with owner Patrick Bradley, legendary Orestes Vilato of Santana, and other local professionals and instructors of Bradley School of Music.

Instead of looking outside themselves, I first want my students to look deeply inside, then listen and respond to others.

But you wouldn't know it by listening to an angry coalition of high school students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the food.

It was so special listening to one of my favorite illustrators and authors... one that I have admired for many years and now share with my students and own children too.

I know pregnancy and birth to be a time of immense growth and change for a woman and her family, and I look up to Nicole with her ability to listen to her students, and offer guidance that is beneficial not only to a group but is simultaneously highly individualized.

During this engaging program students will listen to a guided imagery story while sitting in a natural setting; learn the life cycle of a bird through imaginary play and determine what makes a good home for specific native animals as they explore and compare the resources available in forest and field habitats.

I was listening while trying to make breakfast and pack lunches, so he only had half of my attention until he said: «[Girl Student] is so bossy.»

I also applaud superintendent Tom Leonard for listening to the three students and agreeing to the trial of serving chocolate milk on Fridays and running a research study.

I can't play a game of ignorance when I have listened to my students talk for many a year.

As a taxpayer I am sick of paying for the unchecked growth of charters.I even got a flyer today offering a $ 100 incentive for those referring students to enroll in a local charter school.The charter school industry seems well funded enough to pay for all these ads — how about donating the funds for these ads to reduce local taxes — listen to local taxpayers!.