Sentences with phrase «teaching speaks to students»

Engaging, effective teaching speaks to students where they live.

Palmer is the author of the ASCD book Teaching the Core Skills of Listening and Speaking, as well as the publications Well - Spoken: Teaching Speaking to All Students and Digitally Speaking: How to Improve Student Presentations with Technology, and is a program consultant for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's English Language Arts program, Collections.

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My training, academically speaking, is in logic and rhetoric, and having taught first year college students I tend to read everything as though I'm grading.

Latorre is presently an accountant in a government agency, has taught Sunday School and Bible Studies for twenty four years, and is a Lay Speaker in the United Methodist Church, speaking to students at high school and adult levels in many churches, including his own.

What happens when young, Christian students aren't supported in their pro-life views from other Christian organizations, ones that supposedly follow Christ - like teachings of love and compassion and the calling to protect those who can not speak for themselves?

So my dad just returned from the International Forum on Higher Education for the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities held in Atlanta, where the hot topic of the week was teaching evolution in Christian colleges.Francis Collins, author of The Language of God and founder of theBioLogos Foundation, spoke at the conference, urging professors and administrators to beware of placing students in the position of having to choose between their intellectual integrity and their faith.

Such a system had serious drawbacks because the teaching materials were several centuries old, the study of Arabic — and no Chinese — was inadequate, so the students could read only a limited amount and could not speak the language, there was no general educational background for the religious courses, and the freedom allowed to the students often led them to form bad habits.

When I teach his works — and, indeed, any of the others in the curriculum — I look for ways to make them speak to my students.

«And then when you speak out to protect students from these invalid and oppressive tests that are impeding teaching and learning, the unions are accused of using kids,» he said.

Speaking today [Tuesday] at a seminar for journalists, Head of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Rev. Samuel Ollennu said the move will guarantee that the nine terms allocated to teaching and learning in second cycle schools are fully exhausted by students...

«As a student, I had met many female professors in the past, but my own experience taught me that inspiration is not about meeting any female professor — it's about meeting that one person that has a huge charisma and who is highly inspiring and speaks to you specifically.»

And speaking of Swarthmore: Research plans sent to predominantly undergraduate institutions should be carefully designed to coexist with substantial teaching loads and to benefit from the participation of undergraduate students.

These days, you can find Koch in Morotai, a remote island in Eastern Indonesia, where she spends her days teaching students of all ages how to surf, take photos and video that document their days, and speak English so they're better prepared for the island's burgeoning tourism market.

and her «sociological experiment,» the Ashtanga yoga community she leads which is based on transparency, trust, and value — she spoke about her teaching practice being based on «a deep sense that I have debts that I can not repay» and has open conversations with students about their monthly contributions to practice in community.)

(I touched on some of this in my recent interview with Angela Jamison and her «sociological experiment,» the Ashtanga yoga community she leads which is based on transparency, trust, and value — she spoke about her teaching practice being based on «a deep sense that I have debts that I can not repay» and has open conversations with students about their monthly contributions to practice in community.)

Dr. D'Eramo conducts online group training programs, and speaks internationally to doctors, medical students, and the general public to teach self - healing tools.

Running for nearly 20 years, English School of Canada has educated over 30,000 students from more than 50 countries.Students appreciate and are engaged with the multicultural student body they study with at our fully accredited school.Finally, the third class will illuminate how to write various academic, business, professional, and functional compositions.In addition to these practical objectives, this class will show students how to put themselves in the correct mindset to write, how to plan to write as well as how to implement editing and revision strategies.The program also teaches students the specific language skills and vocabulary needed in a health care workplace.It covers speaking, listening, and reading on a wide range of topics from technical skills to ethical concerns, from communicating with patients to discussing issues with colleagues.

Mixing archival footage from Wilson's life, video of the class she teaches, and interviews with both her and her students, as well as with fellow veteran actors like Frances McDormand and Tyne Daly, Nyswaner tries to speak to larger truths about acting and life while also recounting the details of Wilson's life.

Broadly speaking, we need to concentrate on improving the quality of teaching so that all students can learn at high levels.

Speak Up, a national initiative of Project Tomorrow, surveyed students, teachers, parents, and others in fall 2010 to determine the benefits of certain types and uses of technology for teaching and learning.

Teach the art of piggybacking ideas in class discussion so that students learn to connect what they are saying to the ideas of the person who spoke before them.

He also spoke about the issue of bullying — which would confront students when they started teaching careers — and about his passionate belief in the importance of providing support to children who had suffered loss of a parent or loved one.

Apple CEO Tim Cook visited the Woodberry Down School in Harringay earlier this year to see how students and educators are using iPads in the classroom.During his visit, Tim Cook spoke about the presence of technology in the classroom, noting that it's a «compliment to tradition teaching and not a substitute.»

Here are lots of different fun teaching resources for students who are learning to speak English as a second language, or for students who want to revise and improve their understanding of English.

A partial - immersion K - 12 Japanese - language program teaches students that it's easy to make friends if you speak the same tongue.

Either a majority or a near majority within each sector say they have spoken to a school staff member at least once within the past year about each of the following: their child's achievements and accomplishments; their child's schoolwork or homework; their child's behavioral problems; volunteering; the quality of teaching; and the behavior of other students at school.

The lesson includes: - Starter - Introduction to mixed - case prepositions - Activities to teach the meaning of the prepositions - Writing exercise to consolidate using the mixed - case prepositions - Worksheet for further practice of using mixed - case prepositions - Picture description activity to practise using mixed - case prepositions - Grammar handout for student reference - Reading Exercise 4 with answers - Listening Exercise 5 with answers and transcript - Writing Exercise 6 with answers - Link to video of Berlin sights - Practice using the future tense (and other ways to express the future) to describe what students will do in Berlin - Speaking Exercise 7 - Plenary

Fewer and fewer courses are now taught by the traditional lecture model where a professor holds forth in front of a classroom, speaking to a group of generally silent students taking notes.

Think of three activities you could do to teach the concept of decimals to students who don't speak much English.

In addition to skills such as organizing and public speaking, the arts teach other skills that encourage students to take risks and help prepare them for becoming courageous leaders.

I created a huge set of teaching resources for getting students to speak in English and still have fun.

Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America and a personal hero of mine, speaks of the ingredients (frequent assessment, high energy, vision, etc) teachers need to achieve great success with poor, urban students, yet there is nary a mention of special ed in her latest book.

At School 21, the combination of teaching wellbeing, oracy (speaking skills), and project - based learning empowers students to create exceptional work that makes a real - world difference.

For example, the students listen to a professor speak about a particular teaching strategy or philosophy.

Candidates should intend to remain actively teaching, inspire all students, possess the respect of all members of their school, be involved in the community, and be prepared for public speaking.

- Fun games to get the students to speak in the target language (see explanation under the slide)- A listening activity on what you saw and did not see at the zoo - Vocabulary slides with lovely pictures - Plenty of mini-whiteboard games on colours with animals and on opinions about animals - Grammar explanation on negative forms and verbs of opinion - Several writing activities about your favorite restaurant - Survey activity on likes and dislikes - Translation exercises - A writing activity to use longer sentences and verbs of opinion + infinitive - Grammar explanation on the partitive with worksheets to practice - Grammar explanation on infinitives and conjugating - er verbs - A lesson on infinitives and how to conjugate - er verbs - A worksheet explaining the steps of conjugating an - er verb - A fun mime the verb game - A mini-whiteboard game to practise conjugating - er verbs - Grammar explanation on numbers and quantities - Learn high numbers to be able to give prices and quantities - Mini-whiteboard activities about numbers and quantities - Games with prices - Dialogue worksheets to build up to role - play activity - A number worksheet - Put the dialogue back in order worksheet to help with role - play activity - A grammar explanation of «il y a» and «il n» y a pas» - Grammar explanation «on peut + infinitive» and other grammar revision - A song with lyrics created and sang by me with a link to the Youtube video - Vocabulary building activities to teach directions - A grammar explanation on the imperative with exercises to practice - A grammar worksheet on the imperative in French - An iPhone activity - A grammar explanation on modal verbs - A grammar explanation of prepositions with «de» and exercises to practice - A grammar worksheet on prepositions in French I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message.

These exercises will teach the students be attentive to one another's needs, be more communicative, and think about the consequences of their words before they speak.

For over 20 years, Esquith has taught fifth grade at the Hobart Boulevard Elementary School in Los Angeles, where many students begin school unable to speak English, all students receive free lunch, and 92 percent live below the national poverty level.

Yet those students are now getting more of an immersion experience in English, while English - speaking parents are sending their children to schools where lessons are taught in Mandarin, Japanese, or another world language.

Classroom management, according to education expert Harry Wong (See Speaking of Classroom Management: An Interview with Harry K. Wong), is the practices and procedures that allow teachers to teach and students to learn.

Cristo Rey schools place students in real work environments where they are expected — and taught — to speak clearly and act like adults, responding to queries and looking people in the eye when conversing with them.

«An objective of mine is teaching and having students experience public speaking [and] communication, and also convincing people and being able to take questions on the fly,» Merseth says, noting that a the end of the course, students should be able to state why their charter school is needed in a one to two minute pitch.

After teaching for six years, I recognized a recurring story: middle school students lacked the literacy skills — speaking, writing, reading, and listening — to contribute to the community, to succeed academically across content areas, and to, perhaps most importantly, create their authentic narrative.

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Speaking to the audience that evening MSAT principal Bob Lenz talked about the value of projects and of student presentations: «How the students present is not only a reflection of their own learning; it's also a reflection of our teaching.

So pragmatically speaking, identify and focus on the topics that you have time to teach and that are relevant to your students.

The first step toward teaching students to speak a language well is understanding proficiency.

If you are teaching in an open space or would prefer to speak to students standing at the side of the room, double the personal space that you allow the student or stand side by side with him (or her) and it will have a similar effect.

Lessons are fabulous to teach and enourage students to identify mystery TL - speaking countries from a series of activities and clues (food, geography, music etc.).

When conversations plummeted into a tirade against testing or veered into rants that «our students can't learn, because they don't come to school / don't speak English / have special needs,» and so on, I redirected them back to the basics: What are you teaching?