Sentences with phrase «tried talking to the teachers»

I tried talking to the teachers and contacting the school's wellness committee but the health initiatives were not high on the principal's list of priorities.

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If your child is spending a great deal of time on their homework each night, more than 10 minutes per grade level, talk with your child's teacher to see if the work needs to be reduced or if there is a different approach to doing the work that your child needs to try.

Here are five quick solutions to talk over with your child's teacher and try for everybody's relief.

I know it's often challenging to find the right time to talk with a teacher since they are often trying to do other things (especially during drop off or pick up times).

She said she's tried to talk to the head teacher about the punishment, but he's refusing to offer clemency on the grounds that, «he says if he lets one student off with it the other 1,400 might follow.»

If you're concerned your child is going through a difficult period, try talking with her regular caregiver or teacher and the parents of her friends to see what they're observing.

If your pre-teen gets detention at school for talking back to the teacher, don't intervene and try to arrange for a more convenient punishment.

It seems like everything I try to do (teach nutrition, organize parents, talk to kids about what they are eating, etc.) is viewed as unprofessional??? I can live with an unsatisfactory in professionalism because I know I'm doing the right thing and I don't want to give up, but what's teacher to do?

She tried to influence contract talks, she's worked to require greater background checks for teachers and has voiced support for a lawsuit in California to weaken teacher tenure.

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: «From the very start ministers have quite obviously tried to suffocate the pensions talks, to bully and mislead, and to impose their will on millions of civil servants, teachers, council staff and health workers.

In the next group, a second student learned how to make the tools by simply watching the first subject and trying to duplicate what he or she did with no interaction at all between them; in the third group, subjects actively showed each other what they were doing but without gesturing; in the fourth group, gesturing and pointing were allowed but no talking; and in the fifth group, the «teacher» was permitted to talk to the «learner» and say whatever was necessary.

If one class is the instigator, then the counselor can try suggesting that the student moves his seat, or talks to the teacher.

Lesson includes: Starter to recap solving linear equations with only one unknown Title screen with the lesson objective Visual, animated slides to enable students to develop the thinking process needed to solve equations with unknowns on both sides Example slide for the teacher to explain the process more abstractly 8 practice questions of increasing difficulty for the students to try with answers Example slide for the teacher to talk through where the answers are negative or fractional A further 8 practice questions of increasing difficulty for the students to try with answers Choice of two plenaries so student's can step back and think about what they have learnt

Her book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

During these visits, I often tried to spend some time with teachers and administrators talking about the school's science and mathematics curriculum.

I've seen students with their backs to their teachers and their teachers trying to talk through or to their backs, rather than saying «you need to be turning around, thank you, and facing this way and listening».

Most teachers, if they plan for that establishment phase with positive core routines, thoughtful behaviour expectations published in a user - friendly and age appropriate way — and positively, you know not «don't call out» or «don't talk while the teacher is talking» but positively «hands up without calling out» rather than «don't call out», «facing the front and listening» rather than «don't talk while the teacher's trying to teach».

Over the years, she has tried to talk to the principal and her son's teachers, but it always felt as though no one was listening to her concerns or willing to work with her to address them.

Their teacher told them, «Pretend that you're talking to your parents, and you're trying to convince them into allowing you to do something you're not allowed to do.

Her forthcoming book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

As I explored the topic, talking to teachers, former teachers, and other educators from Massachusetts to Illinois to California, I learned that simple answers are elusive; it was like trying to photograph a speeding train.

During the course of the programme, the teachers talk about the role they see creativity playing in cross-curriculum teaching and learning; the different ways in which they ensure that the cross-curriculum work involves shared experiences (including pretending to be a penguin); and how they try to develop their pupils» transferable knowledge and skills.

Language support: During a math discussion, the teacher tries to talk as little as possible, setting an expectation that everyone is to be ready with a question or comment for the sharer.

«We've been trying to talk teachers into integrating technology into the classroom for thirty, maybe forty years.

Throughout the school year, Choi said, Summit's software engineers talk to teachers about their «pain points» — the obstacles and problems they encounter — and try to find solutions.

Teachers sweet - talk their computers while trying to load the school's online attendance system.

«If there are circumstances where things aren't going right in the parent's eyes, go and talk to the school principal, go and talk to the teachers and resolve those issues adult to adult — it's about engaging with each other for the benefit of the child and then we leave the child in a space of confidence and positive attention to what they're trying to do at school.»

There were all kinds of Common Core meetings and training sessions being scheduled by the school district, but Grossman and Palmer wanted to try their version of Common Core training again: Bring teachers together, talk about the standards, have teachers try a lesson, come back and talk about.

The multiple linkages model asserts a prominent role for «situational variables» — the size of the work group, organizational policies and procedures, the prior training and experience of members — which mediate what the leader is able to do.131 For example, the size of the school will have a significant effect on how well teachers know other teachers; it also will affect the way in which teachers form workgroups or departments to talk about their work.132 The fragmented nature of professional communities, rather than size per se, becomes a constraint on how principals try to organize professional communities to focus on instruction and student learning.

Another teacher appeared to be trying to have her students talk to each other one day, but the next day, there was no evidence of student - to - student conversation.

As soon as we started talking about these positions, I went to Ranson and I said to myself, «I'm already in a facilitator role, but I'm already trying to be more involved with my teachers in the classroom.

No one argues that teachers make lots of money, but that hasn't stopped some from trying to dampen talk of higher pay by claiming that, compared to educators in other industrialized countries, teachers in the U.S. have nothing to complain about.

As a teacher, you can either battle your whole career trying to get middle schoolers to stop talking, or, you can build lessons that have them talking about content.

Donna, a special education teacher, remembers, «In the beginning, we were told «Try talking to the kids and allow them to talk back.

Rubin, who walked around in front of the justices more than the other two lawyers presenting, talks about how charter schools that are not governed by the statutes do not perform better than some of the schools that are, and he tries to explain why some predominantly minority districts have low - performing teachers.

Co-teachers should talk often about their passions as a teacher, their successes at reaching students, and what they try to achieve each and every day in the classroom.

«I started getting calls from Atlanta teachers, people talking about cheating going on, or having tried to report cheating,» she said.

Something I talk about in my first book is something that concerns me — especially with standardized assessments — is that we try to boil schools, students, teachers down to one test result.

This is not the first time Mr Gibb has said this so he will continue to deny there is a crisis.Even if he was correct the solution is not to train as many teachers as possible because they would still be inexperienced and a great number of these will leave in the first 5 years after they have qualified.Mr Gibb needs to do some serious talking to teachers which is something I suspect he is reluctant to do and so the government will keep burying its head in the sand and the problem just will not go away.I take my hat off to all the teachers who ply their craft under very trying circumstances.

I think the easiest course in a circumstance like that is to really try to build a relationship with one or two interested teachers — focus your outreach on them, and engage them in talking about / trying things with you.

I sat there and tried to decipher what the teachers were talking about.

We tried to BS our teachers into thinking we knew what we were talking about.

Ask the teachers at preschool to also spend just two minutes before and after school trying to connect with your son and asking him to talk about himself, what he enjoys etc... the more the teachers can show positive interest in him — while at the same time setting clear limits the better.

do as I say because I am in charge, because I say so, because I am your mother and the more I pushed them the worst the result, I ended up yealling, punishing, threatening, and spanking, I was trying to break up their will... in only 3 weeks that i've been «practicing» PP... well kind of... I am still working on me a lot, I can see its really working, even teachers in school can see a change specially in my son JP 6, sometimes I receive answers I'd never heard before like, «ok mom», «yes mom», I have anothe boy LM 9 and a girl MJ of 3, everything is flowing better now, I've talked about your book and your blog to all my friends.

Try to talk to the other parent as you would a colleague, doctor or one of your child's teachers.

They may talk about your student to other teachers to try and get their opinion on how to help your child learn better.