Sentences with phrase «other kids in the classroom»

Talk to her about the importance of respecting other kids in the classroom.

So there was this jump with the children themselves, both in terms of rating themselves and rating the other kids in their classroom, everything was going along fine in First and Second Grade, and then the jump from Second to Third grade produced some staggering results that changed direction fairly precipitously.

Parents choose KIPP, she said, because the network is «promising parents and kids a certain level of expectation that they are not going to be distracted by other kids in the classroom.»

Yes Alyssa was killed, but there are 15 other kids in that classroom that watched the bullets being sprayed and missing them and they are just grief - stricken.

Teachers need to give children a message that they're a safer person to talk to, but they also need to be mindful of protecting the other kids in the classroom from hearing the traumatic experience that this child's gone through.

Not exact matches

That's the motto of a new charity - Classes 4 Classes was started this year - that encourages students to give back by sponsoring kids in other classrooms all over the United States by raising money and resources.

Notley quickly pointed out that some school boards had some reserves but others did not so children would continue to be packed into classes that are well in excess of the recommended 27 kids per classroom standard.

I know the temptation to catch up on housework or waste the day away sitting on the computer will be great, but I hope to use some of that time every Wednesday to nurture myself (as well as volunteer in Ava's classroom for two hours every other week — see, I can't give up focusing on my kids that easily).

I've written a lot on this blog (and, really, I mean, a LOT — see the «Related Posts» below) about classroom birthday treats, soccer snacks and the many other ways in which kids are offered junk food by people other than their parents on a regular... [Continue reading]

And since kids tend to spend more time indoors in the fall and winter months, and younger children in particular tend to play closer together and share toys and other classroom items, infections are easily passed from one person to another.

I know other people who have 35 kids in one classroom and no paras.

If your child hasn't already encountered a person with a disability, it's likely he will at some point in school, where children with special needs are often in the same classroom with other kids.

Kids who bully or taunt others on the playing field aren't likely to change their behavior when in the classroom or in social situations.

We have an allergy policy in my town (Lexington, MA), and it states that there can be no food in the classroom other than what the kids bring from home or the food service provides.

What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.

I've already mentioned that kids behave and perform better in school once they've got something in their bellies, but there are other benefits associated with school breakfast — and with universal breakfast in the classroom in particular.

«In other words, he is holding children hostage to the demands of his Wall Street donors and his personal political motivations, while kids go to school in overcrowded classrooms without arts, sports, or counselorIn other words, he is holding children hostage to the demands of his Wall Street donors and his personal political motivations, while kids go to school in overcrowded classrooms without arts, sports, or counselorin overcrowded classrooms without arts, sports, or counselors.

Kids tend to get more colds during the school year because they are in an enclosed classroom surrounded by other children who are sharing these very common viruses.

The decision was controversial, and the question remains: How do you discipline rowdy students and keep them in the classroom while still being fair to other kids who want to learn?

Many of our little kid activities are stored in the bins on the other side of the classroom and not pictured, but some of their favorite activities are:

The film starts with Melanie in her dark cell willingly letting herself be strapped into a chair and taken to a classroom with other secured kids.

The issue with that is that if we have students in a classroom who are ranging from below Low, barely able to read and make sense of their text, to students who are reading at this Advanced level, it is very difficult for a teacher to be able to teach to a class with that wide a variety of literacy levels, and the problem is that these children who are not reaching the Low benchmark or are at the Low benchmark are, if you like, starting the race quite a long way behind all of these other kids.

«You make a kid sit in a classroom for 45 minutes and if he understands that material (right away), what's he doing for the other 35 minutes?

That event, which lasts an hour, gives students a chance to go to their classrooms and find their desks, cubbies, or backpack hooks, and to meet some of the other kids who will be in the class.

Growing interest in «blended learning» and other classroom uses of technology, which help teachers customize and individualize learning by letting some students move at their own pace online while teaching other kids in smaller, perhaps more homogeneous groups.

«The kids who had not been interested in school became very interested, and the kids who were very shy and not really communicating with other kids suddenly became the stars of their classroom,» she adds.

The research from Marzano, the research from Anita & Hughes, and various other... Hargreaves, Fullan, all suggest [to] get the kid out, teach them their literacy and numeracy skills so that they can cope and then pop them back in the classroom.

Given that kids already spend ample screen time at home or, nowadays, walking down the street with their noses in their smart phones, the school classroom provides an opportunity to luxuriate in real - time, face - to - face exchanges with other human beings.

With the World Bank documenting that in vast tracts of India on any given day, one public - school classroom in five has no teacher present, parents craving an education for their kids must look to other providers.

For a teacher with both types of students in her classroom, that means trying to challenge kids ready for middle - school work while at the same time helping others to decode.

Insofar as students benefit from peer effects in classrooms, corridors, and clubs, and insofar as being surrounded by other smart kids challenges these students (and wards off allegations of «nerdiness»), schools with overall cultures of high academic attainment are apt to yield more such benefits.

Our best high schools in the top suburbs have always done this, not just in their classrooms, but in their clubs, sports and other extracurricular activities, too, combined with what well - to - do parents did for their kids by way of music lessons and internships in Congressional offices and service in down - on - their - luck countries.

But there is something deeply powerful about hearing a classroom of your peers read life into a text by reading it with passion and understanding and inflection and... Instead of thinking when you're reading silently, «I wonder if anyone cares about this book,» seeing that every other kid in the class loves this book, wants to bring it to life, enjoys it, is relishing the fiction and the words in the story.

In other instances, the challenges of discipline problems at recess left some educators wondering if they could afford the time lost when conflicts followed kids back into the classroom.

«Often these experiences will have echoes for kids of other kinds of childhood traumas, or other experiences that they've had with discrimination or unfairness,» says Weissbourd, «things that are hard for them to explore in a classroom but that they can explore with their parents.»

Bob is the author of numerous publications, including Stand in My Shoes: Kids Learning about Empathy, Stand Up and Speak Up for Yourself and Others, Essential Math Skills: Over 250 Activities to Develop Deep Understanding, The Essential Skill Inventories (Pre-K to Grade 3), Fanatically Formative, Successful Learning During the Crucial K - 3 Years, Creating Classrooms Where Teachers Love to Teach, and The Juice Box Bully.

In some classrooms, every student competed for herself; in others, each kid was assigned to a group of fivIn some classrooms, every student competed for herself; in others, each kid was assigned to a group of fivin others, each kid was assigned to a group of five.

The first part of the students» summer learning teaches them about the basics — raising one's hand for questions, walking in an orderly fashion from classroom to classroom, and how to share nicely with other kids.

Other training options include additional training days for advanced Tough Kid strategies and / or training for special audiences (e.g., school leadership, behavior specialists, teachers of students in special education who are in self - contained classrooms or have EBD diagnoses, etc.).

If there is no support or training, we will see more in - school suspensions and other ways that teachers will remove kids from the classroom, and the kids won't be much better off as a result.

When other elements of gifted programs are combined with differentiation in the regular classroom, as described here, gifted kids can experience consistent opportunities to enjoy learning and to be as productive as possible.

But 74 percent did not teach teachers how to use praise in their classrooms to reinforce positive behavior or other day - to - day tricks to keep classes focused and get unruly kids under control.

«I think that ideally I would still want to work with kids in some capacity... I don't perceive leaving the classroom for a while, but I do want to have some other leadership opportunities before that.»

WINGS» forthcoming randomized control trial (RCT) study and other research show that WINGS kids have better behavior, are more likely to exhibit empathy, and have stronger self - management skills than non-WINGS kids in the same classrooms.

Although schools can access and use gratitude curriculum, parents and teachers can model showing gratitude at home and in the classroom by noticing when others — adults or kids — intentionally help others.

In any given classroom, some kids grasp the material easily while others struggle.

If the in - depth study, fun - and - games, projects, and field trips, add depth to the academic subject education the gifted child receives in the classroom, and it's depth that the other kids in the class do not need and would not appreciate, then it's easy to justify as an appropriate part of his education.

Our teachers are working towards a Math Workshop model in their classroom where they push small groups of kids towards working independently, but they need another program for teaching others at the same time.

Carol is author of more than 250 books, book chapters, articles, and other educational materials including (for ASCD): How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed - Ability Classrooms; The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners (2nd edition); Fulfilling the Promise of the Differentiated Classroom: Strategies and Tools for Responsive Teaching; Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: Connecting Content and Kids (with Jay McTighe); The Differentiated School: Making Revolutionary Changes in Teaching and Learning (with Kay Brimijoin and Lane Narvaez); and Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom (with Marcia Imbeau).

If you take that learning and harness it as an educator, and then figure out the kinds of questions to ask, how to really reinforce those types of positive interactions — over technological devices, and questions, collaborating, being able to be creative with each other — you can start building in social emotional learning with those kids in the classroom.