Sentence examples for my classrooms from inspiring English sources
"I also want to have only good teachers in my classrooms".
After showing attention to the boys, calling on them in class, and challenging them to try just as hard as the girls, I noticed a significant shift in many of my classrooms.
Re "When Executives Say They Don't Have a Clue" (The Right Thing, Nov. 16), which discussed how executives plead ignorance as a reason for not addressing problems: Ignorance is the most-used excuse for plagiarism in my classrooms.
But the students who have come through my classrooms over the last 14 years offer the most convincing evidence that retention is one of the best things we can do for a child who needs that extra year to develop literacy skills.
Columbia prof James Shapiro's class "The Book Review" has been put on hiatus: "It's depressing — in large part because I see a lot of talent pass through my classrooms, and little opportunity for those talented students to have the opportunity early on... to review and get paid for it".
There are many explanations; here is the one offered most often in my classrooms: The girls believed that a boy's hitting his girlfriend proved how much he cared for her — indeed, loved her: He wouldn't hit me if he didn't love me, after all.
As a teacher, I am fortunate to have a built-in research lab: my classroom.
"The city really is my classroom.
I reached my classroom and sat down.
