Sentences with phrase «sitting in classrooms»

Whether justified or not (and that question is disputed), these official efforts translate, at least initially, into more disruptive, disrespectful, and violent students sitting in classrooms with a socioeconomically mixed student population, which is bound to alienate teachers.

What are the things that I need to know as a leader when I'm sitting in classrooms?

Sadly, for thousands of schoolchildren sitting in classrooms every day, stories of grief and loss are all too common.

In all of my years sitting in classrooms as a student, in public schools that were highly regarded, I never once produced anything that resembled authentic work or had value beyond addressing a class requirement.

As debate rages on about Common Core and its implementation across the nation, students are sitting in classrooms waiting for things to change.

«We have our children being mowed down while they're sitting in classrooms, and we're trying to get the most basic concepts into law, which is making sure background checks are completed,» said Sen. Mike Gianaris, a Queens Democrat who backs the bill.

Approximately 650 children are sitting in classrooms, thanks to the work of Restore International, and more than 100 students from these schools are now attending universities.

Instead of sitting in classrooms learning facts about how to start a company, they are learning - by - doing and building real skills to reach the next level of performance.

A few years ago he went beyond critique and created the Thiel Fellowship, which gives a US$ 100,000 grant to entrepreneurial young people who «want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.»

«The worst kind of training for the folks we work with is to sit them in classrooms and make them listen to lectures.»

Given the dramatic rise of distance learning and new trends such as the flipped classroom model, dispersed student bodies must be able to access online applications and videos as easily as if they were sitting in a classroom.

I would trust God any day of the week over a doctor that sat in a classroom and learned from a so called professor.

I recall sitting in a classroom in a huge Southern Baptist seminary a quarter of a century ago, hearing my own favorite Professor John Doe explain all Mullinsism as being not only Southern Baptist but also «conservative [Wilhelm] Hermannian» (after a German theologian we had been taught to call an «I - theologian» more than a «God - theologian»).

I picture Christians around the country and around the world sitting in my classroom reading my lessons and setting out to share the truths about God's revealed Word with others.

One woman after another, sometimes in the background, sometimes in the kitchen, sometimes in the pulpit, sometimes in a home, sometimes singing a song, sometimes on the street with her stand of mangoes to sell, sometimes at the blackboard wearing a blue uniform, sometimes sitting in the classroom.

And, to my surprise, my online students seem more willing to enter into heated discussion than the students who sat in my classroom.

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.

She was bright and perceptive, but sitting in a classroom wasn't her preferred way to learn.»

«Before somebody's president, or a hero in society, or somebody who invents something, they were sitting in a classroom,» he says.

We talk about this in the locker room as football players and leaders, how you want everyone around you to feel like they can be great for having played with you, sat in a classroom with you, been a friend of yours.

«If they are required to take milk during the lunchtime and actually drink it, how are they going to feel after lunch sitting in that classroom?»

«It's not about just sitting in a classroom, but it's also about being outdoors and learning some life skills,» she said.

What I think is that even though, your child may not be going outside at school for 2 hours even the walk to car and drive to school in the car and sitting in the classroom there is still UV light that come the through windows.

If he had his choice, he'd sit in his classroom all day and do puzzles.

It's an extremely painful day for a lot of full - grown adults who have lost their mothers, and it's even tougher for little kids, especially if they're sitting in the classroom watching everybody else make popsicle stick frames for the moms they all still have.

The harder point of view came from sitting in that classroom on the South Side of Chicago with Kewauna and her classmates.

Sitting in a classroom and actually living out the experience are two totally different things.

Gardner is sitting in a classroom at 2938 E. 91st St., finishing a discussion on how to handle difficult family and workplace relationships.

They exert far more energy shooting baskets and playing tag than they do sitting in a classroom all day, so I like to give them snacks with protein to help sustain them.

These camps are far removed from sitting in a classroom and are anything but boring.

They go to the same neighborhood elementary school and sit in classrooms right next to each other.

Another great way to improve as a teacher is to sit in the classroom of the professors that you know students love.

This winter in the San Francisco Bay Area, many children will sit in classrooms and play on the jungle gyms at recess and then go home to attentive parents who work hard to give them every advantage in life.

For these children, voluntary exercise abruptly ends when they must ride in motorized vehicles to school, sit in classrooms, and have insufficient recess or physical education classes.

«Kids go to school and sit in a classroom full of germs, adults go to an office filled with germs.»

That's probably not the worst thing that could happen since I'm going to be sitting in a classroom for 8 + hours a day for the next year.

There I was, wearing a t - shirt and sandals, sitting in my classroom with my sunglasses propped on the table and the windows wide open, when I got a text announcing that two feet of snow had fallen on the...

There I was, wearing a t - shirt and sandals, sitting in my classroom with my sunglasses propped on the table and the windows wide open, when I got a text announcing that two feet of snow had fallen on the east coast.

The screenplay by Brin Hill and director Daniel Barnz lays the blame almost solely at the feet at the local teachers union, which, in this scenario, protects a teacher who sits in her classroom and uses her cell phone throughout class and ensures that no teacher will make the effort help Jamie's (Maggie Gyllenhaal) daughter Malia (Emily Alyn Lind), who has dyslexia, because school ends at 3 p.m. and so does the teacher's workday.

When I'm in that spot, I go sit in a classroom.

It's time for school districts to stop treating teachers as if they were ticky - tacky — little boxes, sitting in the classroom, all teaching just the same.

It's January 2, just a week after Christmas, and the dozen students sitting in a classroom in Larsen Hall are being asked to reach into a black Harvard tote, dubbed «the bag of fun,» and pull out an object.

Just picture it; it's basically kids sitting in a classroom, working on laptops.

Finish this sentence: I love what I do because... each person matters, and you never know who is sitting in your classroom.

Students of varying abilities still will sit in a classroom for a pre-determined period to learn the same amount of material.

13, and Mark Robertson It's January 2, just a week after Christmas, and the dozen students sitting in a classroom in Larsen Hall are being asked to reach into a black Harvard tote, dubbed «the bag of fun,» and pull out an object.

This kind of integration has tremendous potential for those students who are sitting in your classroom waiting for something different — because, suddenly, their learning is no longer located in silos.

Do you think it is mandatory for our students to actually sit in classrooms and take lectures at their colleges to obtain the certificate for a course?

«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?

But I've sat in classrooms and watched as «smart» kids twiddled their thumbs (or acted out) in boredom and frustration while the instructor toiled to get basic concepts into the heads of those who, for whatever reason, were finding it much harder to learn.