Sentences with phrase «while the students sit»

Teachers sat in the back or in a corner of the classrooms, while students sat at computers, wearing headsets.

Learning is no longer confined to classroom settings where the instructor stands in front of a room to teach, while the students sit down to listen.

Not exact matches

The ovation lasted for several minutes as the brothers returned to their places at the back of the gym, eyes down, faces flush, sitting while each student stood and turned to face them.

You go to school, and the students sit while the teacher stands.

When we think of discipleship as only being a student or learner, we usually think of sitting in a classroom or auditorium and listening to someone lecture at us while we listen attentively and take notes.

The few games I've been able to get to this year, attendance in the student section is so bad that you'll see clusters of students sitting down, taking advantage of the leg room available while there is a group down at field level about 10 rows deep, standing and cheering as you'd hope.

is the thinking, as if the nutrition services folks were all just sitting around in their gleaming state of the art cooking kitchens, hoarding stockpiles of healthy tasty food locked in their giant SubZero freezer, while doling out plastic wrapped containers of unidentifiable processed lunches and cackling madly over their success in cheating the low income students out of a wholesome meal.

I know many of us parents say, «If I could be a fly on the wall of their classroom...» While it would be kind of silly to see one of us sitting in an elementary school desk or hiding under our college student's dorm room bed, there are plenty of ways that our kids can «take us with them» to school, or at least the most important advice we can give them.

During this engaging program students will listen to a guided imagery story while sitting in a natural setting; learn the life cycle of a bird through imaginary play and determine what makes a good home for specific native animals as they explore and compare the resources available in forest and field habitats.

My students could probably sit and read it for a while.

While some colleges no longer require SAT or ACT scores for admission, most college - bound students will need to take at least one of these tests.

Arrange for the principal and teachers to serve the food for one day, while your staff is treated to a «sit - down» lunch with the student government members serving them.

«When we came into office we found that the thirty eight colleges of education were in fact operating at less than 40 % of their capacity while 1000s of eligible students sat at home.

The headteachers of some Senior High Schools were interdicted, while one of them at the La Presbyterian Senior High School in Accra was transferred for asking parents of new students under the Free SHS policy to pay for the purchase of plastic chairs to enable their wards to sit on them in class.

It amounts to a great deal of effort and energy and political capital expended on one policy matter, albeit an extremely important one affecting over 1 million students, their parents, teachers, and others, while the rest of the de Blasio Albany agenda sits somewhat neglected.

The researchers suggest that while many smartphone functions may promote sedentary activity, they are hopeful that playing physically - interactive, smartphone based video games like Pokémon GO may help promote walking and reduce sitting in college students.

For example, once a student can create a neutral spine in mountain pose or while seated, they can then try to hold that alignment when moving from sitting in a chair to standing or when practicing poses like chair, bird dog, plank, and side plank.

Yoga for Scoliosis 4 - week class series THIS CLASS SERIES IS DESIGNED FOR STUDENTS WITH SCOLIOSIS, a lateral curvature (s) of the spine.The focus is on lengthening the spine, de-rotation of the curve, and reducing compensatory patterns while standing, sitting, and lying down.

The four students at the American School for the Deaf, sitting on mats in the cafeteria, take direction from yoga instructor Aaron West, while interpreter Vicki Watson translates into sign language.

We should be telling parents about ways to limit device usage (see Curbi Parental Controls for iOS), other than just the plain old every day discipline of taking a device away or sitting beside a student while they use technology (by the way, these two things are the best way to be proactive with our children).

Some of my students actually prefer to sit in desks, which surprised me, while others tuck themselves away in the Harry Potter reading nook.

In 1997 - 98, Los Angeles students in grades 2 - 8 scored in the 24th percentile in reading on the SAT 9, while Houston scored in the 32nd percentile, a gap of 8 national percentile ranking points.

But instead of asking them to work silently and alone, and then debrief in a classic question - and - answer session with one student at a time (while many sit inattentively), use a mix of collaboration and competition to eliminate what could potentially become dead time.

Additionally, one student approached Michelle on the next day and expressed that her mother was sitting next to her while the student was tweeting.

Students chuckled as McCourt described the sense of hopelessness each evening while he sat among «miles and miles of unread papers» that he never could read — despite students» pestering him to return theStudents chuckled as McCourt described the sense of hopelessness each evening while he sat among «miles and miles of unread papers» that he never could read — despite students» pestering him to return thestudents» pestering him to return their work.

While students across the nation walked out of school to protest gun violence, the 19 - year - old accused of killing 17 people and wounding more in the Florida school shooting sat in court silently, his head bowed.

In a fishbowl, a small group of students (4 - 6, in this case) sits in the middle of the room while everyone else sits around them in a circle on the outside.

Some students may be sitting on the floor, while others are on a couch or at a desk.

Do not expect that students only will talk about the lesson, class assignment, project, or other school related topics while you sit back at your desk doing paperwork or grading.

You might prepare a «making change work sheet for students who are eliminated in the opening rounds so they can get some extra practice making change while they sit.

However, the two researchers acknowledged in a 2007 Boston Globe story that while «students involved in the arts do better in school and on their SATs than those who are not involved... correlation isn't causation, and an analysis we did several years ago showed no evidence that arts training actually causes scores to rise.»

The student who selected the paper with the word «Rep» (short for representative) on it will sit still while the other members of the group are reading.

While SAT scores are not particularly useful for long - term analyses of high - school performance because they include only a limited and changing pool of students, they do tell us something about the elite group that does pursue higher education.

And while the applicant pools are fairly similar in terms of gender and race, OMSCS applicants come from colleges «with a higher proportion of low - income students... lower graduation rates, and lower SAT scores.»

While measures of teachers» general academic skills, such as SAT scores and college selectivity, are often statistically significant predictors of teachers» effectiveness in raising student achievement, their effects are modest in size.

While we all support the right of students with disabilities to opportunities in all aspects of education, compromising the SAT does not protect those rights.

Young teenagers will spend 45 minutes developing, and then trying to reconcile, these two ways of thinking about the problem, totally engrossed --- while 50 HGSE students sit and watch.

Schools are supported to get their students outside and «plugged in'to nature, even if it's sitting under a tree while reading a book about trees.

While there is about a 12 percent relative increase in white students scoring above 1100 on the SAT and above 24 on the ACT, there is a 50 percent relative increase for Hispanics, and an 80 percent relative increase for black students.

I gather the students with that need, do a mini lesson on it, and have them apply the strategy in their own book while I'm sitting there.

As much as I would like to sit down and do some grading, or prepare other work while my students are supposed to be engaged doing productive individual practice, if I want my students to take the individual practice seriously, I have to move around the classroom like a bee going from flower to flower, not staying too long in one spot.

A number of years ago while visiting Shanghai, the tour guide took us to a supposedly well known school which his nephew was unable to enter owing to the rather poor Maths standard; that was according to the school which required the students to sit for a test.

While the Maker Movement continues to grow, it hasn't yet gained its greatest traction, which currently sits untapped in the minds of the students in front of us.

For example, AUPs might allow elementary school children to use the internet only in the presence of adult supervision while rules for high school students might limit the amount of time that they spend online in one sitting.

To help calm kids without changing your existing seating, fidget bands (Amazon, $ 17) are a widely used, low - cost alternative that allow students to bounce or stretch their legs while sitting at a more traditional desk or chair.

Students can watch the screencast as many times as necessary so they don't need you to sit at the computer with them while they complete tasks you assign.

Findings from the study reveal that while the media makerspace helped some students develop, expand, and mobilize audiences and resources using new tools and networks, the making practices of the lab sat in uneasy alignment with the institutional arrangements of school, particularly for students who have been historically marginalized, disenfranchised, or alienated in schools.

No matter how students record information, Miller rightly reminds us that though it might be «very easy to sit down and catch up on email» (p. 94) while students are taking notes, this is actually a critical time to be circulating among students to help them stay focused and troubleshoot.

While charter school students aren't more likely to take the SAT, the ones who do perform better, mainly due to higher math scores.

A common sight when observing classrooms is to see students just sitting while the teacher works out.