Sentences with phrase «teachers opening class»

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If you start by opening PowerPoint and haphazardly typing bullet points, you're off to a rough start, says Adam Sigel, a Boston - based product manager at New York City - based streaming TV startup Aereo, and teacher of Skillshare's Slide Chi: Advanced PowerPoint Design / Workshop Class.

I took classes for a year, then became a teacher, and am now opening my own studio.

The students seemed caught up in routine school tasks — opening lockers, talking and laughing, fidgeting in class as teacher talked.

Lowe, 40, a math teacher at Greenwich High, has coached the Cardinal swimming team to 15 league, 13 state Class LL and 10 state open titles in 15 seasons.

I'm currently taking a lactation support class (taught by RN and IBCLC Gini Baker, who trains many doctors, nurses, doulas, teachers and other breastfeeding counselors / educators), and it has really opened my eyes to many of the points you make — including the possible relationship between fertility issues and breastfeeding issues (and between breast augmentation and breastfeeding issues).

Lower class sizes, higher teacher - student rations, better facilities — would open up a lot of opportunities, if people cared enough to take advantage of them.

To truly get a sense of the learning environment in and outside the class room, as well as meet teachers, families and alumni, we encourage you to attend one of our lively open houses or RSVP for a group tour.

Some children take longer than others to adjust to a daily classroom routine or to a new school, teacher, or class, but they eventually open up.

Join us for our open house to discover our world - class curriculum, meet our engaging teachers, and explore our bright, inviting classrooms.

I thought I was giving birth on Jan 2017 so I filed sick leave for a month and used my service credits for that month, when my pretty LO decided to have her bday on Feb 11 I filed my ML until April 11, luckily govt teachers has almost 2 months vacation and so my leave was extended... I'm so much enjoying my breastfeeding with my pretty LO until class opening where she's already almost 4 months... God is good..

Robotutor marks the homework of a class of thousands No human teacher can keep up with thousands of students in massive open online courses.

We've been open for 8 + years and offer immersions, teacher training, unique workshops as well as our Healing Annex where you can receive massage, Reiki, Pranic Healing, private yoga, and meditation classes.

My yoga class this morning opened with a thoughtful proposal from the instructor, a suggestion to devote today's practice to our teachers.

And if you wonder what kind of school was that, where you discussed food during a math class, well that was our math teacher; she would have, from time to time, a nice 10 minutes discussion with us, (math unrelated), to make us think, to open our minds.

It also opened the doors for me to take an adult Yoga Teacher training program and now teach adult yoga classes.

Our newly refined 200 and 300 hour yoga teacher trainings have opened ways for our trained teachers to offer a variety of classes — ranging from Basics and Intermediate to Advanced classes.

Most teachers are very helpful and might correct you if you aren't doing a pose properly, especially if you let them know you're open to correction before class.

To date, there are class action lawsuits pending in areas of teacher firings and unions, and an onslaught of new charter school openings that have left many wondering whether New Orleans schools have truly seen improvement.

Obviously, there will be teachers open to having students using these computers within their classes.

Cady Ching, a biology and AP environmental science teacher at Summit, incorporates opening activities into all of her classes: «In my freshman classes, we do them every class period.»

And because he does not visit classes just for teacher evaluations anymore, Schweitzer says teachers have become more relaxed and open to his presence.

Having such a resource open to students takes the burden off the teachers to solve every problem during class time.

This dire sequence started, he says, with A Nation at Risk, the 1983 Reagan administration report that launched America on «experiments» such as «open classrooms, national goals, merit pay, vouchers, charter schools, smaller classes, alternative certification for teachers, student portfolios, and online learning, to name just a handful.»

The Friday - night firings came one month into the new school year, and only weeks after Rhee hired 900 teachers to help open classes for the fall.

With painting, drawing, singing, and dance classes dwindling in public schools, Sarson hopes the half - hour special opens up a dialogue between administrators, policymakers, parents, and teachers about the importance of such activities and the potential consequences of raising generations of children that aren't encouraged to appreciate the arts or think outside the box.

So we were particular interested in how the noise from the other classes in the area in an open - plan class affects how well children can hear their teacher.

Whether open house at your school is held before classes begin as an introduction to a new school, teachers, and grade or as a way to foster a positive school and home partnership, once the school year has begun, bringing parents into the school for the evening is essential.

I've also provided a set of teacher notes to accompany the resource which opens up the activities to a variety of adaptations which does mean the eight activities can be used over-and-over again, even with the same class!

In one case, a science teacher in her second year had been given physical education classes, but wasn't comfortable teaching in an open space.

KM: Due to the adverse affects on the students and teachers, our findings suggest that open - plan classrooms that are unable to control the noise from adjacent classes are unlikely to be suitable learning environments for young children.

To the new teacher who is struggling to get students settled at the beginning of class, he suggests the time - tested «do now,» a silent opening exercise in which the teacher writes an assignment on the board before students enter the classroom.

This continued throughout his middle and high school years until one teacher, Mr. Minch, and a new class in graphics opened his eyes to the power of education.

In one Brooklyn Prospect classroom, the English teacher makes as many of her lessons open - ended as she can and coteaches half of her classes with a special education teacher.

The teacher - student relationship has so many subtle nuances across race, gender, and class lines that opening our eyes to these nuances would make us better educators.

When class resumed, most of the English teachers gave an opening essay assignment that related to The Gospel According to Larry.

Well, while the debate is still open to whether Barney taught Ted how to live, but I certainly learnt a lot from him.Well, putting aside the narcissist and mildly sociopathic tendencies, there are a lot of positive habits about Barney that can benefit a teacher while he / she is teaching a class.

more and more are embracing this idea that we can have 30 children in a class all working at (just above) THEIR level, all challenged and experiencing success (and becoming intrinsically motivated to be THEIR best) and these teachers then open their doors to others.

The open plan floors have encouraged teachers to experiment with different teaching styles, based on class groups of 60 to 100 students.

«Teachers have the ability to team teach much more easily now because those glass doors can be opened up or classes can gather together in the common spaces and conduct lessons together, which is really good,» Fuller says.

I started ESL classes and working with a new population of students that opened my mind to a whole new thought process as a teacher.

After opening with praise («Johnny is so energetic»), the teacher brings up a specific critique («With all that energy, he can become quite disruptive in class»), and closes on a positive note («But he adds so much to our learning community»).

Notes, newsletters, daily folders, phone calls, emails, visitations, open room nights, class web pages, postcards, and parent - teacher conferences are some of the most popular means in which to communicate.

Developing a marketing strategy for open positions that publicizes the advantages of rural schools — smaller class sizes, lower student - teacher ratios, and lower stress levels — has the potential to attract experienced teachers interested in a new environment and new teachers not interested in larger settings.

In short, the vision remains to create a model community school — where the doors are always open; where teachers, parents and members of the community work in partnership to provide world - class educational opportunities and where financial literacy is not just taught but practiced.

Modify and Remix Assessments — Download and modify teacher - created open educational resources (OER) to make valid for your class.

And the Northside Community School opens today, with four classes, six teachers, about 60 kindergartners and first - graders, and a board president who doubles as janitor.

It's quiet too inside teacher Joshua Biederman's AP history class as Jeremiah Garland, a tall junior, wraps up his opening argument in a mock trial of Lt. William Calley, the officer behind the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.

In one school, for example, we heard a teacher pose open - ended questions to the entire class.

Since opening its doors in 2011, the organization has backed legislation or policies to link teacher evaluations to student performance, including test scores; set higher standards for teacher tenure; lift restrictions on class sizes; and offer private school vouchers for disadvantaged students in academically struggling schools.

Reich, Levinson, and Johnston (2011) suggested that preservice social studies teachers benefited from conducting class dialog in the open social networking platform Ning, where in - service and preservice social studies teachers from around the nation could engage.