Sentences with phrase «teaching high school kids»

I just ended up teaching people about investing, instead of teaching high school kids about history or math.

I've even met people who are teaching high school kids how to «eat low on the hog» with skills for using the cheaper parts of animals.

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If high school kids are willing to go spend an hour each day being taught those things, I can't imagine why anyone would think that's a bad thing.

Reflecting on Kevin Kiley's article «Long Reads» at Inside Higher Ed, Erin O'Connor writes: Teaching high school for a year at a very interesting little Berkshire boarding school got me onto shared class reading projects — the kids I was teaching were very smart, but, Teaching high school for a year at a very interesting little Berkshire boarding school got me onto shared class reading projects — the kids I was teaching were very smart, but, teaching were very smart, but, like....

Everyone makes their own decision at some point, so as much as I love Bill Nye, I disagree with him on this topic, as parents should teach their children however they want and in high school the kids will make their own choices.

But anyone who reads it as some proclamation that all regulation should fall away should take a trip to their high school english class and let the kids there teach you something...

One of the resons I thought there would be a higher percentage of atheisim is that evolution is being taught as fact in schools, but apparently most of the kids are not buying it, they just answer the questions on exams for the best grades.

Larry Bird chose my high school to do his student teaching after the ISU Sycamores run to the NCAA championship game and several of us from orchestra kids got to shoot around with him at what would have been our fourth hour orchestra class which was delayed half an hour for one semester while the teacher had younger students from the new middle school built together with the high.

Bless the man for teaching America kids lack nutritional education and pointing out our high fat diets excluding school, but lets get to the real solutions and quit blaming others around him.

Even though Val and I hadn't been skiing since high school, we decided we were going to teach our kids to ski.

While many schools require foreign language instruction in middle or high school, parents are also choosing to teach their kids foreign... more

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Just a quick post today to tell you about a neat program going on here in Houston in which high schoolers teach other kids about the benefits of healthy eating and regular exercise.

But I think the idea that teenagers can have bipolar disorder, that children can evidence some of these same kind of behaviors is progress for the field, because a generation before me was taught that children couldn't have depression, and we know that there are kids in junior high school that are trying to kill themselves as a result of untreated depression.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

Dr. Cox began his career in the classroom as a high school physical education and health teacher so he truly understands the importance of teaching kids to develop healthy habits.

That's why she loves homeschooling her kids, leading Sunday school for two and three year olds and teaching at the local homeschool group's coop for students from grades kindergarten through high school.

But for now my goals are more modest: just more freshly prepared food, more whole foods, fewer highly processed and chemically - preserved entrees, and a more varied menu, particularly at the middle and high school levels, so we don't teach our kids it's OK to eat pizza and burgers five days a week, week in and week out.

Middle and high school kids need their parents to teach them how to be good people who do the right thing, online and off.

The trend to learning centers is partly due to high parent and school expectations; it's also attributable to research that shows that kids are capable of learning early academics and other skills that previously were not taught until later.

Teaching your kids these lessons and setting these expectations for them for middle school means they will have time to master them by the time they hit high school.

But are high schools — most of which have had to lay off teachers and staff because of budget cutbacks and are struggling to boost academic scores to keep up with new legislation — the best place to teach kids about marriage?

«It's important that kids playing in the park and at school are taught to play to the highest standards right from the beginning,» Haselhurst says.

Among those already using the program with his students is Gerald Smith, who teaches conceptual physics and advanced chemistry at Bishop McNamara High School in Washington and plans to attend the march.Students who completed the print - out activity sheet illustrated how headphones work through physics — among the examples Smith intends to post to Twitter after spring break, the week after the March for Science «The kids definitely like to probe their brains a lot in terms of seeing science in real life, not just something far - reaching for geniuses to dobut as something that we exist in every day,» said Smith.

I completed an M.A.T. in secondary education, specializing in biology, at Winthrop University with the intent of teaching high - school science, but I decided instead to enter the University of Toledo's doctoral program in biology because the kid in me still wanted to learn how things worked.

She spends some of her time teaching marine biology to high school students at UCSC's Long Marine Lab, and she says that before Blackfish came out, «the kids were giddy to meet our dolphins.

I loved this book as a kid and I even taught it when I taught high school... I've been wanting to reread it before I go see the movie!

There's a lot of work left to do, Hammond says, primarily around ensuring that all schools foster a culture of equity and all kids have access to high - quality teaching and learning.

Later, teaching middle and high school history (an equally tough sell by the way), one of my goals was always to get kids jazzed about learning.

Local high school students designed science lessons — connected to the district's science curriculum — to teach elementary kids about photosynthesis and plant anatomy as they garden.

What stands out are the faces of the kids I taught, the images of their faces as they learned something new, the conversations with their parents, the visits to their homes, the joy of being at their high school graduations, the love I felt for them (swells of gratitude for those opportunities).

«Elena» was me, and I was then a 37 - year - old teacher in the same high school, teaching English to the same kids among whom I sat that September day.

Mike Petrilli talks with Education Next about the challenges of teaching high - achieving and low - achieving kids in the same classroom, and about one school in Montgomery County, Maryland, which is using a blend of ability grouping and differentiated instruction with great success.

17 Sports should teach more than just winning, coach writes; brains of kids with ADHD develop more slowly; some childrens bodies have high levels of chemicals; school offers fitness and wellness program for faculty.

«It stunned the kids into silence,» said Marilyn McPheron, student program coordinator for the College of Agricultural Sciences, the Pennsylvania State University, who teaches in a summer program for high school students.

Sometimes called «exam schools,» because test scores are typically part of their selection process and a handful of them rely solely on such scores, they tailor their curricula and teaching to high - performing, high - potential kids who want a high school experience that emphasizes college - prep, or college - level, academics.

You're surrounded by kids like you — some smarter than you — and taught by capable teachers who welcome the challenge, teachers more apt to have doctorates or experience at the university level than high school instructors elsewhere.

TFA sent White to Jersey City, to 3,000 - student Dickinson High School, overlooking the Holland Tunnel, where he taught English for three years and learned that «there are a lot of challenges and we shouldn't kid ourselves.

As Gates pointed out, «Training the workforce of tomorrow with the high schools of today is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50 - year - old mainframe.

«I've taught high school English and seen those same kids navigate a public school environment,» she says.

Bravo Medical Magnet High School gets parents engaged by offering night classes on parenting taught in several languages and by having freshman orientation programs that parents are expected to attend along with their kids.

Says Jodee Rose, a former art and math teacher who developed a middle school lesson plan for teaching the method, «It's low tech, but it's high tech ideas, because it's working through computer language, which kids are going to need to learn eventually.»

Sometimes the kids trek to the college campus but more often the course is taught at the high school itself.

While teaching kids to think critically in the information age can seem like a «monumental task,» Carl Hooker (@mrhooker) recommends this Stanford University study which «shows a variety of activities shared with high school students to determine whether or not a news story is real or not.»

Lee, who at the time was teaching high school history, focused on this population because, he says, «there was a lot of emerging research that middle school was really a critical juncture, especially for kids with limited experience.

One of the things that bothered me, and I noticed it particularly when I was up at Bremer State High School in Ipswich [Gould's last teaching role], was that the kids seemed to be a lot smarter than their results showed.

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Waiting for Superman tells the story of several kids trying to get into schools with high - quality teaching — it's literally a lottery that will decide the fate of these young people.

Already high achievement kids may not show that same added value in a year of school even with excellent teaching.

I worked at summer camps, taught at the Bronx Zoo for a summer in high school and I tutored low - income kids when I was in college.