Sentences with phrase «student holding a pencil»

asked Jakob Lindaas, a Harvard student holding a pencil and clipboard.

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He cites the work of Rosemary Sasson, who contends that we teach our students to hold a ballpoint (or pencil) using a grip originally developed for holding fountain pens.

A kindergarten student in Great Britain born with short limbs, a birth defect from the drug, uses a pencil - holding device to learn to write.

And good teaching can be done in classrooms with students sitting in desks in rows, holding pencil and paper, or it can be done in classrooms with students sitting in beanbags holding iPads and Chromebooks.

Conducted by Associate Professor Linda Graham from the Queensland University of Technology's School of Education, the study has revealed teachers forced to teach a curriculum children are not ready for, with some students unable to hold a pencil or even know the difference between numbers and letters.

In a Title I school where 99 percent of students qualify for free or reduced priced lunch, many of Bonnie's students have never attended preschool and start the year having never held a pencil.

* Teachers alone can not be held responsible for poverty, apathy, neglect, abuse, hunger, sickness and uneven distribution of resources that leaves some of them spending their own money to buy pencils for their students.

Mulgrew stated that both State Education Commissioner John King and Chancellor Dennis Walcott told him they were against standardized testing for pre K to grade 2 but Mulgrew went on to say that 36 schools were giving bubble tests to kids of this age and that he talked to a teacher who reported that some of these students could not even hold a pencil.

Many of these students came into school not knowing any letters of the alphabet, how to write their name, and had no idea how to hold a pencil.

You will want to shape the instructional strategies to your student's communication and fine motor skills (often they hate to hold a pencil).

Imagine kindergartners bubbling answer sheets just after they learn to hold pencils, high school students who complete all their graduation requirements but aren't able to pass the exit examination and graduate because they haven't received the remediation they need, or students being asked to take high - stakes tests in a language they haven't mastered yet.

In my first year as a special education teacher in a pre-kindergarten setting, the signs were small but profound — a nonverbal student who started to greet me in the mornings, a student who didn't know how to hold a pencil properly who learned to write full sentences about books he read, a student who memorized over 100 sight words, and a student who didn't know his numbers who began to start adding and subtracting.

I used to tell students to hold it like a pencil, not like a weapon, which made them laugh but got the point across.

It is amazing to see students enter the classroom not even knowing how to hold a pencil and seeing them learn to read and write by the end of the year.