Sentences with phrase «teachers talked about her character»

WARRENSBURG With a memorial scholarship fundraiser approaching for beloved Warrensburg Central School teacher and coach Mary ann Bump, her former students and fellow teachers talked about her character and the positive impact she had on their lives

WARRENSBURG With a memorial scholarship fundraiser approaching for beloved Warrensburg Central School teacher and coach Mary ann Bump, her former students and fellow teachers talked about her character and the positive impact she had on their lives more

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Teachers and administrators at EL schools talk quite a bit about character — their term for noncognitive skills.

Some schools have developed comprehensive approaches to teaching character strengths, and in classrooms across the country, teachers are talking to their students more than ever about qualities like grit and perseverance.

Author Paul Tough talks with Hathaway Brown Head of School Bill Crist about why schools and teachers should focus on resilience and other non-cognitive character traits, August 2012.

She was one of the best teachers of character I met — yet not only did she not talk much about character, she wasn't even a teacher.

«It's the way that teachers talk about and model those character strengths that matters — and that goes for parents, too.»

We also talk about why her desire to also be a producer on the HBO series was non-negotiable; the necessary use of violence and exploitation of women to show the reality of the character; and another role in the upcoming Netflix Sundance acquisition The Kindergarten Teacher, which she says is the most important and challenging of her career to date.

Teacher, educationalist and examiner Anthony Kerr - Dineen delivered a much ‑ talked ‑ about presentation on the role of character education in young people: how zest, grit, self - control, curiosity, optimism, social intelligence and gratitude (the so ‑ called «super seven»), can be developed in young people through the performing arts.

Teachers can model the thought processes that accompany reading by talking about how the main character changes through the course of the book, about the author's use of language, and about surprises and disappointments they encounter as they read.

Those aspects include choosing great books with real characters working their way through real lives; reading the books with support from partners, volunteers, or tutors, a recording of the book, or a resource teacher; talking about books with other readers — confirming what you understand and adding your own insights; writing about books; and extending understanding through artistic response.»

Some schools have developed comprehensive approaches to teaching character strengths, and in classrooms across the country, teachers are talking to their students more than ever about qualities like grit and perseverance.

JE: The title of this particular paper mentions ventriloquism and just to let people know, when you talk about that it's not the teacher using the puppets is it, it's the student giving these voices to, well it was everything — figures, digital characters...

Teachers talk with students about how the values and traits they're studying apply to characters in the book.

Using the language that people who work in politics use to talk about schools, he explains how his experience was «transformational», how it «emphasised character» and he was «lucky with a lot of the teachers I had who were just extraordinarily brilliant teachers».

Jamie Raintree talks about her debut novel Perfectly Undone, the importance of balance and which of her characters probably has a secret life as a yoga teacher.