Sentences with phrase «teaching bright kids»
He was a master at teaching bright kids talented at math at warp speed and advancing them to their potential.
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As a mom of 4 bright, beautiful kids, I make it my top priority to teach them how to make good choices, lead a healthy lifestyle and stay active.
Just because kids are poor, doesn't mean they aren't smart and these brightest children are bored out of their minds by the non-stop test prep that serves «data - driven instruction» but fails to actually teach smart kids anything.
When I lived in Roma, I imagined the solution to the town's woes would be for the best and the brightest kids to return and fill the teaching positions held by out - of - towners like me.
Every student has something to teach, and peer tutoring shouldn't just be white kids teaching black kids or the bright teaching the slow.
Attract the «best and brightest» to teaching and every kid will get a great education, so the logic goes.
a) put the interests of adults before the interests of students (which is another way of saying being in bed with teachers unions) and b) are anti-innovation (which is another way of saying «like the status quo») and c) don't want the best and brightest teaching our kids 4.
He was an optical engineer who repaired aircraft instruments in Alaska in WWII, a mountain man who could turn a canoe into a sailboat with a folding machete, bed sheets and a few sticks, who taught me diffraction, color theory and relativity on paper when other kids were learning multiplication tables, who designed a potentiometer that went to the Moon by pointing the world's fastest camera at the world's fastest oscilloscope, who designed those traffic lights which only appear bright when you are in the appropriate lane, who didn't have to help me at all when I built my own Heathkit dual - channel scope in grade school, nor had to help me program my Apple II in machine language, who quit Honeywell to work for 3M when the Space Program turned into the nuclear missile program, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraption works!