Example sentences of "opportunity for children " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE 1970 Education Act opened a new world of opportunity for children with mental and physical handicaps . |
| 2 | They offer very scant opportunity for children to express themselves in creative and cultural activities , while retaining a relatively generous allocation for physical education ( a subject which in all my years as an inspector and teacher trainer I never saw convincingly taught outside college teaching practice ) . |
| 3 | In the majority of cases work was prescribed to the extent that there was insufficient opportunity for children to incorporate ideas of their own . |
| 4 | Of course there was still some opportunity for children to earn money while they were at school , and where those opportunities were taken there is evidence that parents considered this as part of the household income and expected it to be handed over ( Jamieson , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | In sum , compared with homes , schools provide a significantly reduced opportunity for children to learn through talk with an adult , and in those conversations that do occur , children find themselves forced into the respondent role , their contributions for the most part only being valued if they contribute to the teacher 's predetermined line of thought . |
| 6 | Given the creditable support that the Minister has previously given to integrated education in Northern Ireland , will he ensure that provision is made within the citizens charter to develop integrated education and to facilitate the opportunity for children in Northern Ireland to enter such education ? |
| 7 | I have for long been concerned to provide an opportunity for children to revise their choice of school between the ages of 11 and 13 . |
| 8 | There is so much opportunity for children to look at the nature of the physical world around them which is n't taken advantage of , and which could be , and I think that may have something to do with the attitude of teachers as much as the attitude of children . |
| 9 | There is so much opportunity for children to look at the nature of the physical world around them which is n't taken advantage of , and which could be , and I think that may have something to do with the attitude of teachers as much as the attitude of children . |
| 10 | Offering after-school play and leisure opportunities for children with nowhere to go . |
| 11 | Extra-curricular activities including sports , drama , music , chess and gym clubs provide further opportunities for children to gain new successes so boosting their self-confidence . |
| 12 | greater range of opportunities for children to succeed ; |
| 13 | Others such as the improvement in the status of women , or educational followed by enhanced employment opportunities for children particularly to disadvantaged and poor sections , are much more difficult to achieve ( Cassen 1980 ) . |
| 14 | There are many incidental opportunities for children to need to put objects in one-to-one correspondence . |
| 15 | At this stage , however , we can offer many opportunities for children to arrange and re-arrange the objects in a set and see whether they need to re-count each time . |
| 16 | Smelser argues that male trade-union agitation against married women 's employment after the 1830s was due to the enforced decline of employment opportunities for children and hence the need for an adult presence in a newly constituted home life . |
| 17 | We need to see teaching , therefore , not as the transmission of pre-existing knowledge to passive recipients , but rather as the provision of opportunities for children to continue to exercise their in-built drive actively to make sense of their experience and , thereby , to gain understanding of , and control over , the world in which they live . |
| 18 | How can the time and opportunities for children to engage in these tasks be maximized ? |
| 19 | We argued for a more discriminating balance of questions , statements and instructions ; for fewer pseudo-questions and more questions of a kind which encourage children to reason and speculate ; for more opportunities for children themselves to ask their own questions and have these addressed ; for oral feedback to children which without being negative is more exact and informative than mere praise ; for both questioning and feedback to strike a balance between the retrospective function of assessing and responding to what has been learned so far , and the prospective function of taking the child 's learning forward ; and for much more use to be made of structured pupil-pupil interaction both as a learning tool and as a means of helping teachers to function in a more considered manner and therefore more effectively . |
| 20 | Also , there are big differences between social classes and regions in this country in terms of the opportunities for children to survive . |
| 21 | Before the coming of the cotton mill there were few opportunities for children to make a steady monetary contribution to family earnings . |
| 22 | A well-constructed drama session will also create opportunities for children to develop their own questioning skills . |