Sentences with phrase «while speaking to students»

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While speaking at the Austin, Texas, student march for gun control on Saturday actor Matthew McConaughey urged law - abiding gun owners to «take one for the team» and give up their «assault weapons.»

As part of putting something back, I often speak to students about starting companies — ideally while they are still at university.

In Parkland, «while the students and parents speaking up were no more passionate than the young people of, say, the Black Lives Matter movement, it was clear that the political establishment was going to receive them a different way,» New Yorker contributor Emily Witt noted last week.

For example, in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford Waugh's fellow student Harold Acton used a megaphone to shout out lines from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land from an open window of his upper - storey college suite and was later thrown into a fountain by some drunken students in the middle of the night; while another student, Brian Howard, spoke with a stutter and gossiped his head off: all of which got fused in the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited.

I first heard Malcolm speak while I was a student at Garrett but I did not really listen to him.

The specific call for student - athletes to not wear LSU - branded gear when responding to the news on social media is a preemptive strike against players who might speak out against the decision while seemingly representing the university.

And some, while espousing one viewpoint, allow other approaches to speak for themselves so that students are aware of a variety of philosophies and belief systems.

I routinely speak with students that feel compelled to personally end hunger in Rwanda while they must also score high grades in several advanced placement classes, excel in multiple extracurricular activities and maintain a slender figure.

Mazzoli stated «ATEP programs need to speak more about the profession as a business opportunity for the student's future» while «clinical rotations need to show students the «Value» within their service to the organizations».

Hawkins will speak on the need to fully fund and desegregate public schools, while ending high - stakes testing, to provide a quality education for all students in New York.

The former vice-president criticized Trump's treatment of women while speaking to a group of students about sexual assault.

Barron spent the day in East New York visiting polling stations and also found time to speak to the 8th grade graduates of George Gershwin Junior High School with his wife, Inez, where the two later rapped some words of wisdom to the students while the marching band played behind them.

The Governor, who spoke through the State's Deputy Governor, Dr.. Mrs. Oluranti Adebule while receiving the six students who were rescued on Friday, said he remains totally committed to ensuring the security of all residents especially students and would spare nothing to ensure that schools remain safe from all forms of crime and criminality.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Speaking to an overflow crowd at the annual State of the City Address, New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson pledged to continue a comprehensive, community - wide focus on student safety, while also citing momentum on economic, environ

While we have no reason to believe any other students are involved in this matter, we encourage you to speak with your children and contact us if you have any concerns.»

«A lot of the privately educated students are incredibly articulate, and they are able to speak about their discipline... with what seems to be like supreme confidence,» Reay says, noting that it takes a while for working - class students «to recognize that supreme confidence isn't the same as ability.»

Scarlett Johansson's role as a show dog / love interest called Nutmeg, who bears a strange resemblance in grooming and deportment to Lee Remick, is off to the side — more so than Greta Gerwig's feisty, thatch - haired student protester, busy speaking truth to power on mainland Japan while being, a little inexplicably, white.

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.

This put the onus on unready - to - speak - up students to engage with me while reducing their own anxiety about being called on — they were already giving me eye contact.

Each student introduces their partner to the class, speaking as if they were their partner, while the rest of the class looks at the student being introduced.

Cesar Chavez Elementary School, a Spanish - immersion school, in Davis, California, has discovered a way to bring the Spanish - speaking world to life for its students while also allowing them to share ideas and resources with other kids: It found a sister school in rural Nicaragua.

Then ~ there are the students that fail to make eye contact while you engage them in conversation ~ instead ~ feeling more comfortable hiding their faces in a book while they speak.

I encourage the students to use the words while speaking and writing.

The organization aims to provide «parents and families with a powerful voice to speak on behalf of every child while providing the best tools for parents to help their children be successful students.»

According to a news release, «(Walker) will speak about the Wisconsin reforms he put in place, which empower local school districts to make the best decisions for their students, while effectively managing their budgets.»

Teenagers overwhelmingly favor the idea of allowing a moment of silence at school for students who want to pray, while a smaller majority supports spoken prayer, a poll by the Gallup Organization has found.

While EL students likely need assistance accessing academic content, they are entitled to an education that is just as rigorous as their native - speaking peers.

Broadly speaking, the discrepancy formulation focuses attention on IQ and not on the reading process, irrationally favoring some individuals while allowing many deserving students to drift further and further from the education they need.

The Four Squares activity helps students get to know each other better, while getting both writing and speaking practice.

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.

The challenge is particularly testing when it comes to «live» events such as webinars, online group discussions, and other activities where international students will have to speak - up in their second language while watched by people they do not know.

You might signal the student that he needs to pay attention or get back to work by walking past his desk, making eye contact with him, or pausing while you are speaking.

Speaking to the Scottish Parliament's Education and Culture Committee, local government representatives warned that, while they would try to protect individual school budgets, cuts would fall on student support and services such as specialists music and art tuition.

I spoke with my students about Mary Beth Hertz's Edutopia post «Battling Fake News in the Classroom,» and I sensed that many of my students, while skilled at what Hertz fittingly calls «crap detection,» were still deeply troubled by what they characterized as a growing public aversion to the truth.

The mentors listened in while students spoke to different subjects.

Another way of increasing independent learning, while simultaneously improving pronunciation, extending speaking skills and deepening understanding, is to ask students to create their own digital language learning content.

Teachers need to build students» capacity to think before they speak, to effectively paraphrase, to honor others» thoughts while communicating their own, to ask thoughtful follow - up questions, and to synthesize ideas coherently.

While Trump has threatened to gut the federal Department of Education, he has also spoken about increased forgiveness of student loans, something Politico education reporter Michael Stratford notes would likely have to be handled within that very department.

While states received points (40 out of 500) for «adopting a common set of high quality standards,» strictly speaking there were only two eligibility requirements (i.e., what a state had to do in order to be eligible to apply and receive funds): (1) an approved plan for distributing funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and (2) no legal or regulatory barriers to linking student - level data and individual teachers.

Defenders of the existing approach of teaching foreign - language - speaking students in their own tongues while developing their English skills vowed yesterday to fight the initiative campaign.

Governor Walker spoke about the reforms he put in place in Wisconsin which gave local school districts the ability to make better decisions for their students while effectively managing their budgets.

Using unflinching language, Ms. Feldman — who said she would remain president of the New York City teachers» union while heading the national union — spoke at a news conference about the importance of creating high standards and denounced using vouchers that channel students and dollars from public schools to private schools.

According to recent figures from Ucas, over a quarter of English students accepted to university in 2015 held at least one BTEC (Business and Technician Education Council) in their qualification set, while business leaders have spoken in support of vocational study.

The Problem Solving activity enhances the learning experience and promotes mathematical reasoning, and the Math Talk section provides critical thinking questions to help facilitate rich discussions while developing students speaking and listening skills.

In this webinar, he introduces the Paideia Seminar and discusses how it provides teachers with a consistent and powerful way to teach these speaking and listening standards — while simultaneously enhancing students» ability to successfully read and write about demanding texts.

This teacher resource makes explicit what it takes to plan lessons that truly support student learning while also speaking to principals, coaches, and preservice educators who support teacher learning.

The report also helped better distinguish the difference between data literacy and assessment literacy — that is, while both speak to the use of data to drive student learning, it's important to realize that the data available to teachers goes beyond that garnered from assessment alone, to include attendance data, peer observations, and formative assessment (which as we know gets lumped into the assessment space, but is much more than that).

But these privatization supporters speak about the virtues of charters while failing to address how they have increased segregation, sometimes cherry - picked students, taken funding away from underfunded traditional systems, and operated in secrecy.

Images in newspapers and on TV of angry teachers in the streets of Chicago and New York with placards demanding higher wages while their students are locked out of their schoolrooms for days stand in stark contrast to the well - dressed, soft - spoken teachers of our childhood.

While standard Spanish is used for instruction, multiple accents are strategically used to expose students to the nuanced differences in the Spanish - speaking world.