Sentences with phrase «students as a teachable moment»

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«Meatless Monday is one more way in which we are using school meals as a teachable moment to educate students on the importance of making healthy choices.»

As a scientist and teacher, Mrs. Johnson realizes that this unfortunate incident provides a «teachable moment» — an opportunity to teach students how to use the tools of forensic science, understand the crime, and find the guilty party!

In short, while we know our veteran teachers want to plan specifically, give directions explicitly, and offer student support intentionally, we also know they could probably offer teachable moments to the novice teachers as well as the instructional coach.

Recalling his reaction to student hate messages, guest blogger Chris Friend considers how he could have reframed the incident as a teachable moment, and how «coming out» can be a valuable model for identity issues.

Re: thinking Re: thinking blends personal reflection with a challenge to rethink school culture and policy as 9th grade teacher Ben Wildeboer finds teachable moments in events like the Japanese quake and explains the importance of «hard fun» for students.

• Responding to strong postings with complementary feedback, asking follow up questions that redirect the conversation, encouraging more depth in student responses, playing devil's advocate, clarifying confusions, offering insights, etc. • Removing any postings that are not conducive to maintaining the safe space, then using the incidence as a teachable moment where safe space expectations are revisited.

Utilizing current events as teachable moments can make abstract science concepts relevant and exciting to students.

Sometimes schools need to let students explore their passions and view the problems they face as triggers of «teachable moments.»

Acting as a role model for preservice teachers, the faculty member explained the need to be able to enact curriculum around «teachable moments» and enlisted the preservice teachers to record the host students» comments as he asked them how problems might be resolved without the use of violence.

Many school districts have also been supportive of the student efforts: At Missoula, Montana's Hellgate High School, for example, principal Judson Miller stopped short of openly endorsing a walkout on February 21 by hundreds of students, but told staffers to use the protest as a «teachable moment.»

Topics range from using racial incidents as teachable moments and responding to the «n - word» to valuing students» home worlds, dealing daily with achievement gaps, and helping parents fight ethnic and racial misconceptions about their children.

Teaching students how to engage safely in conversations beyond our walls is of absolute importance and allows for authentic «teachable moments» about cyber safety as an extension of their learning work through technology.

On a teachable moment opportunity: I often used Internet defamation as a teaching example in teaching students how to effectively search the Index to Canadian Legal Literature (ICLL) online (the example also works well in searching a library catalogue using Library of Congress Subject Headings).

The point is that while few of us like what is going on in the U.S. right now, we owe it to our students to at least make use of it as a teachable moment.

By treating conflicts not as disciplinary incidents but as teachable moments, teachers can help students develop better ways to deal with conflict while building their SEL skills.