Word: teacher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...women among its 11 members. One month later, Skocpol filed a grievance for sexual discrimination against the University—the first use of the Faculty’s grievance process—saying she was glad that such a channel was open to her.Today, former colleagues, students, and teachers praise Skocpol for her scholarship and energy. “The students were as you could expect quite upset,” recalls Peter Bearman, who was the graduate student coordinator when Skocpol’s petition for tenure was rejected, in an e-mail. He now chairs Columbia?...
...remember, Valentine “always seemed to just love” poetry. When she was about nine years old, she carried around poetry books wherever she went and began writing her own poetry a few years later. “I was encouraged by my school teachers, and then I was encouraged in college,” she says. “That made a huge difference I think.”Valentine’s first encouragement at Radcliffe came in 1952 when she met Dean of Instruction Wilma A. Kirby-Miller.Valentine says the dean told...
...idea: to make a list of the people who matter most to me. I wish I had started that list a long time ago. At my age, 75, not everyone on my list is alive today, which is regrettable. I never took the trouble to tell a high school teacher or a business mentor or a beloved grandfather what a significant influence each had on my life. I urge young people to make a list every 10 years and make sure you take the time to tell those people why they have had an influence on your life. All will...
...want to thank TIME for writing an unbiased review of Floortime and ABA. Too many articles prop up one approach over the other without giving an honest summary of both. I work within both models as a special-education teacher. Your article highlights the pros and cons of each in a fair, unbiased way. The goal is to choose what works for an individual child. Many, many children benefit from both models simultaneously or at different times in their childhood. Treatment is not a competition between ideas; it is a matter of finding what works at a particular moment with...
...girls' glee club. As students go at Central High, they are "good." His religion keeps him from drugs and vice, though it also holds him rather aloof from his classmates and the studies on the curriculum. She is short and round and talks well in class, pleasing the teacher. There is an endearing self-confidence in how compactly her cocoa-brown roundnesses fill her clot! hes, which today are patched and sequinned jeans, worn pale where she sits, and a ribbed magenta shorty top both lower and higher than it should be. Blue plastic barrettes pull her glistening hair back...