Sentences with phrase «teachers and parents did»

Teachers and my parents did the best they could with what they knew at the time.

As a professional reading specialist, Amy Kilpatrick Mascott is committed to helping teachers and parents do their very best for children.

It's probably fair to say that most teachers and parents don't understand the accountability systems that states currently have.

So what can teachers and parents do to improve children's understanding of the risks?

Today, more and more, teachers and parents doing all they can to encourage and motivate children to read and write recreationally.

EW: What can teachers and parents do to reduce the possible physical risks associated with extended computer use?

What can teachers and parents do to ensure that their concerns are addressed by policymakers?

Not exact matches

If you avoid problems in your teens, your parents and teachers will either solve them for you or chase you around until you do what you have to.

Go out and do what your teachers and parents thought could not be done — and what they never thought of doing.

If you naturally come alive at night and feel like a zombie before midmorning no matter what you do, you've no doubt spent most of your life being nagged by well - meaning parents, teachers, and advice peddlers to mend your ways and become a morning person.

Go out and do what your teachers and parents thought could not be done, and what they never thought of doing.

Specifically, the NRA's extremism makes many reasonable Americans, including, importantly, NRA members, seem like gun nuts who don't give a damn about the mass slaughter of children, teachers, and parents.

But I discovered that these young innovators were far more intrinsically motivated, and when I looked at the pattern of what parents and teachers had both done to encourage intrinsic motivation, I found a kind of remarkable emphasis in the classrooms and among the parents of play, passion and purpose.

No parent, teacher, friend, or spouse was going to tell me what to do, and quite frankly, I was exhausted debating it with myself.»

To every parent, teacher and child who is hurting so badly, we are here for you, whatever you need, whatever we can do, to ease your pain.

I have always been a questioner who doesn't like formulaic thinking and was a real pain in the butt to my teachers and parents when I suspected I was being fed drivel.

Do you also urge parents to keep their children away from other family members and school teachers?

They're like teachers and parents, in the sense that what they say and do (or fail to say and do) is going to echo in their congregations forever.

A pilot programme will pay participants up to $ 5,000 per year for doing things such as attending parent - teacher meetings, going to a doctor and opening bank accounts.

But more and more, I'm realizing if you're able to receive constructive feedback from a boss, parent, spouse or teacher and then implement what's needed to do it better the next time, you care more about learning than your ego.

Although parents (and indeed governors and teachers) are often uneasy about early or explicit SRE or providing access to family planning services, their feelings are sometimes ambiguous due to a concern that, if they do not follow such a course, children will be at greater risk of underage pregnancy.

Like most moderns, I once thought all the connotations of «discipline» were about what parents and teachers did to you when you failed to conduct yourself as they thought you should.

The issue here is the parents and teachers don't know they are lying.

I have every respect to those angels and consider bringing such subject up as disrespect for what those do to our world with their kindness... Those nuns and popes were once my teachers in the kindergarden in Aden Colony of Southern Arabia although I was considered as Muslim from Muslim parents... so you can say I hold for them great respect although we are from different religions beliefs...!

Most of us learn from our parents» / family / teachers» examples and the education they impart to include that of human history and from our mistakes to formulate one rule: Do No Harm!!!

In such a situation, the important thing for the church school teacher is to recognize the severity of the disturbance and to do everything possible to encourage the parents to obtain professional help for themselves and the child.

A growing child does not think of language in terms of freedom, because his parents and teachers regularly correct his errors and remind him of the «right» usages.

I have already stated that the evidence indicates that the chief contribution to happiness is the quality of relationships with those with whom one has most to do, parents, siblings, other relatives, neighbors, playmates, teacher, employers, and others.

Just out of curiosity, though, do you find it wrong that many teachers, doctors, lawyers, ministers, coaches, and parents like to molest little boys and girls?

Finally, a vertical group composed of two trustees, administrators, teachers, parents, excellent students, and failing or dropout students is held on the theme: «Our schools: What I like and don't like about them, and what I want them to be.

So I was bullied by teachers, parents and what I did to myself in terms of the self - belief I had.

And if your children do the washing up every night, complain that church services aren't long enough, ask their teacher for extra homework, and you've already drafted your «12 Steps to Perfect Parenting» ready to share with less able parents... then you, too, probably aren't our kind of persAnd if your children do the washing up every night, complain that church services aren't long enough, ask their teacher for extra homework, and you've already drafted your «12 Steps to Perfect Parenting» ready to share with less able parents... then you, too, probably aren't our kind of persand you've already drafted your «12 Steps to Perfect Parenting» ready to share with less able parents... then you, too, probably aren't our kind of person.

In the real world, parents and children do not stand on an equal footing, nor do teacher and learner.

I shall be reflecting largely from my own experience, as process thought enables and indeed requires us to do; but the nature of that experience is essentially that shared by all who nurture — whether, for example, single social workers, middle - aged adoptive parents, teachers who care about their students or, I suspect, those artists and poets who cherish and give birth to the world.

We did have to take home a flier and have our parents sign it stating that is was ok for us to learn evolution the correct way taught by our teacher who by the way won all kinds of awards for being an outstanding teacher.

We need something that can fire contemplatives and other religious, priests, preachers, teachers, catechists, theologians, parents, youth leaders, «the men and women in the pew» and the youth of today's Church as they all do their bit to learn from God's Word and announce the Good News revealed by Jesus Christ in His words, miracles, Passion and Resurrection.

Teachers and parents always used to reiterate «it does not matter where we come from» or «if we look different» because «we are all the same.»

One is reminded of the boy Jesus, how, according to the story in Luke 2:46, asking and answering questions in the Temple at the age of twelve, he threw the teachers of his people into astonishment, and not less so his parents: «Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?»

It also allows parents to stay parents, instead of becoming teachers, which it seems many parents are reluctant to do (and I don't blame them!).

Helping students make the shift in attitude that Sommers describes can seem daunting in our current educational climate, where performance is valued over learning, and where parents and teachers often resort to questionable motivational techniques («if you don't do well, you'll end up working at McDonald's») to encourage students.

«Our ensemble is very diverse... [and] they're doubling as parents of the students who go to the school — very elite, well - to - do people, and they also get to play the teachers — they really transform.

In the same way that responsive parenting in early childhood creates a kind of mental space where a child's first tentative steps toward intellectual learning can take place, so do the right kind of messages from teachers in school create a mental space that allows a student to engage in more advanced and demanding academic learning.

«Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well - known standard effects: (1) escape — education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack — vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy — a sullen do - nothing withdrawal.

Would you help us by, you know, learning how to teach this course, going on the road, so - to - speak, and doing the parents and teachers allied program because parents need the school system to understand what's going on inside their homes, and they don't.

Overall, it can indeed be challenging and disheartening for a parent to have a child who does not easily or happily leave each day for school because of their sensitivity or adaptability to a formal classroom setting; you'll feel better if you and your child's teacher can work together as a team.

During supper that evening, more tears flowed as I told my parents what happened and begged them to, «Please talk to my teacher so she doesn't make me play with the second - graders again.»

They don't normally find out, however, when a teacher goes up to the front of their classroom and just says out of the blue that Santa isn't real and that their parents are lying to them, because that would be pretty crazy behavior from a teacher.

Thank a teacher for making a difference in your life, hug a friend who has helped you in a time of need, and be sure to thank your parents for all that they have done and will continue to do for you as you embark on your next adventure.

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

What I needed to hear more than anything from my parents and teachers and coaches was what I was doing well.