Sentences with phrase «teach elementary school children»

Resume for Physical Education High School Teacher with experience teaching elementary school children.

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Classes are taught in many facilities, including child - care and recreation centers, elementary schools and YMCA / YWCA centers.

They have two children, James, an army officer who is headed for Afghanistan as a translator of Farsi, and Caitlin, who finishes up at Washington University in St. Louis this May and then plans on serving a two - year stint teaching inner - city elementary - school kids for Teach for America.

For four years I taught Spanish in an elementary school, and I taught a cooking class with the children — we made empanadas!

This annual fundraiser benefits Veggie U < http://www.veggieu.org >, a non-profit children's education program that teaches the importance of nutrition and sustainable agriculture by providing interactive lesson plans with a classroom garden kit to elementary schools and special needs students.

but if enough real food advocates step up and say «does it really make sense to serve candy and soda at an elementary school function» or «can we encourage parents to send non-food treats for bday celebrations» or better yet, «can you do what you do best and help my child learn to like fresh produce just like you taught him to read?»

Debra specializes in teaching reading and writing to elementary school children who are learning disabled, on the autism spectrum, have attention deficit disorders, dyslexia, and who are «twice exceptional» (gifted with learning differences).

She taught me play dates - She taught me carpooling, she taught me swapping child care, she's now teaching me the world of elementary school.

Spunky and outgoing 6 - year - old who attends a local Christian private school where I teach elementary age children.

i taught elementary school age children in my early 20s, and i can tell you the one thing that every child that was falling far behind had was parents that were not involved.

and continuing on to become an elementary school teacher and Literacy Specialist, coaching parents and educators on how to best teach children to develop a love for reading, writing and language.

This 4 1/2 minute slide show teaches elementary school age children without food allergies why kids with food allergies need to do things a bit differently.

Recently, GFI translated their material to secular publications (e.g., Babywise) This presentation focuses upon four of the teaching modules: Preparation for Parenting, newborns to age four months (PFP); Preparation for the Toddler Years, from five to fifteen months (PFTY); Growing Kids God's Way, for toddlers through elementary school age (GKGW); and Reflections of Moral Innocence, the GFI sex education curriculum for all ages of children.

Focuses on the energy change and logistics of having a child in elementary school, and includes creating and teaching your child to manage their own routines, dealing with the wider exposure to other kids and families, talking about difficult topics, and just managing all the paper, meetings, and stuff elementary school brings.

For more than 14 years she has worked as a recreation and skill development leader, an early childhood educator and a teaching assistant, working in elementary schools and with special needs children between 4 and 11 years of age.

Paul) region of Minnesota, teaching science to elementary school children as a contractor to the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul.

Current state frameworks for teaching mathematics to children in elementary and middle school (kindergarten through grade 8) can include more than 100 objectives for a particular grade, says Francis «Skip» Fennell, NCTM president.

Compelling documentary focuses of elementary school age refugee children being taught in Holland

That changes when he pursues a story pitched by journalist Thomas Gnielka (André Szymanski) about an Auschwitz SS officer who now teaches children in an elementary school.

This leaves teachers with the difficult task of teaching this complex skill to elementary school children.

Guest blogger Cathy Knutson, an elementary school librarian and media specialist, suggests a summer home study in digital literacy for parents who want to teach their children safe, smart Internet research skills.

One of those teachers, Alex Castro - Wilson of Benson Hill Elementary, says that his return to the district sends a powerful message to the elementary school children he teaches.

Before coming to Butler University, Lori was an Assistant Professor at Marian University in Indianapolis and earlier on taught children and adolescents with emotional challenges in the upper elementary grades, worked as a school counselor in Indianapolis, was a private practice counselor and co-owner of the Indianapolis Counseling Center, and was a behavioral consultant for Methodist Hospital, in Indianapolis on the adolescent psychiatric unit.

Before beginning graduate school in psychology, my experiences teaching in elementary schools led me to believe that the relationships between children and teachers are powerful mechanisms for change.

And elementary schools may also have mixed motives: older children are easier to teach and they perform at higher levels, just by virtue of being older.

While subject - area knowledge is privileged in the standards — INTASC has developed specific standards for science, mathematics, English language arts, and special education, and will soon release those for the elementary - school level, social studies, and foreign language — the standards also make clear that knowledge of child development, learning theory, and teaching approaches is essential.

Within this series, we've taught important factors that have been proven to enhance the happiness and social and emotional learning of elementary school age children, giving them a significant advantage for life.

One assignment popular with a number of elementary school instructors helps teach children about their neighborhood by assigning them to interview people who live near them.

What would American education look like if we had shunned IQ tests as a means of sorting children, used higher salaries to attract more able recruits to teaching, adapted the kind of engaging cooperative inquiry among both teachers and pupils that Dewey favored, and expected all children to do rigorous mathematics and science beginning in elementary school?

Shortly after I began teaching as a provisionally certified elementary - school teacher, I remember counting myself lucky that I was assigned to teach 5th grade, since I hadn't been taught the first thing about teaching children to read.

This approach to what's taught to young children would constitute a sea change for U.S. elementary schools in general and charter schools in particular.

Her experience teaching elementary school students in New Orleans as a first - grade teacher and then working as a reading immersion specialist had shown Grayson the importance of literacy for young children.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

What they are calling Netflix Academy is a collection of streaming videos that teach core content to early elementary - school children.

There you will find an elementary school full of compassionate elementary school teachers teaching young children tolerance, understanding and compassion for one's fellow human beings.

Undergraduate students preparing for a teaching career with bilingual children in the English as a Second Language (ESL) and Structured English Immersion (SEI) classroom settings at the elementary, middle, or high school levels.

Aside from developing students» computer science skills, teaching coding in elementary, middle, and high school may help children better understand the world around them.

She went on to teach elementary children for 26 years before spending the final decade of her career in school management.

As an elementary school principal, much of my time with planning reading instruction is spent on the ins and outs of teaching children how to read.

With teaching certification in elementary and special education, followed by graduate coursework in educational management and parenting studies, and then parenting three children, Tricia is committed to the rich, personalized learning and family connections that small schools cultivate.

She is a coach for Fowler's science fair competitions, and teaches forensic science workshops to elementary school - aged children.

Decoding experts suggest that for most children, about 30 minutes per day is necessary to teach decoding in grades 1 and 2 (more and with greater intensity for struggling students).23 Where schools spend 90 — 120 minutes per day on reading throughout the elementary grades, that leaves at least an hour per day that could be devoted to imparting the language and world knowledge that is most important for competence in listening, talking, reading, and writing.

We learned a great deal about teaching economics to elementary and middle school children during this period.

PS 446s principal, Meghan Dunn began her career as a Teach for America teacher at PS 335, a successful elementary school in Crown Heights where she discovered children do better if they stay with the same teacher for two years.

Her prior roles included teaching elementary and middle school children, 10 years as assistant principal at the Milwaukee Sign Language School and School of Languages, and 4 years as principal at Jeremiah Curtin Leadership Acschool children, 10 years as assistant principal at the Milwaukee Sign Language School and School of Languages, and 4 years as principal at Jeremiah Curtin Leadership AcSchool and School of Languages, and 4 years as principal at Jeremiah Curtin Leadership AcSchool of Languages, and 4 years as principal at Jeremiah Curtin Leadership Academy.

The authors of this article from the NCTM journal Teaching Children Mathematics, provide ways that elementary school teachers can help students with special needs build responsibility for their own mathematical learning.

If you are interested in the opportunity to teach and mentor elementary - aged children, then a career as an elementary school teacher in an independent school could be a good match for you.

Sometimes there seems to be a disconnect between educators who work with children prior to elementary school and those who teach in the early grades, but new survey results find a strong connection between the two groups.

Leads programming at Open Circle, which equips elementary schools with evidence - based curriculum and training to improve school climate and teach children essential social and emotional skills

It is my opinion after spending about 40 years teaching elementary school (K — 5th grade in rural, urban, and suburban schools) that standardized testing is a waste of time and resources for many reasons, one of which is that they do not test what you want to know about a child.