Sentences with phrase «8th grade language»

She started her teaching career at a high school before switching to 8th grade language arts.

Lesley Hagelgans, an 8th grade language arts teacher at Marshall Middle School in Michigan, said her focus in the discussion was on using multiple measures to evaluate teachers.

«It felt correct right away, like the right way to teach,» says Amber Weston, who has taught 8th grade language arts / social studies in the district since the literacy initiative was launched.

Teacher Bethany Smith with students in her 8th grade language arts class at Mooresville Middle School.

Were it not for the age of the students, this 8th grade language arts classroom could easily be mistaken for a modern office in some sleek, glass - and - steel building downtown.

Even though I'm a huge proponent of educational technologies, employing blogging, moviemaking, and other digital literacies in my 8th grade language arts classroom, I have felt reluctant to integrate cellphones into my lessons.

Megan Palevich is curriculum specialist and 8th grade language arts teacher in Chester County, PA..

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«The voucher system scares me to death,» said Lynn Harrison, an 8th - grade English language arts teacher at the East Fordham Academy for the Arts in the Bronx.

In addition to core studies in English, math, science, history, languages, and the fine arts, students take a required sequence in religion and philosophy: 6th - grade students study the Apostles» Creed and the saints; in the 7th grade, they focus on the Church and the Ten Commandments; 8th graders conduct an overview of the Bible and the Sacraments; 9th - grade students study the Old Testament, the Apologetics, and C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity; the 10th - grade focus is the New Testament and Church history; 11th grade introduces metaphysics and ethics; and the 12th - grade course features the philosophy and social teachings of the Catholic Church.

They agreed that Hope's 8th - grade language - arts teachers would concentrate on how better to teach «author's purpose,» a D.C. learning standard.

Based on preliminary results from the spring 2000 state test, 88 percent of the school's first 8th grade class scored proficient or above in language arts (compared with 47 percent citywide), and 66 percent scored proficient or above in math (versus 21 percent citywide).

Dowan McNair - Lee Age 36 Stuart - Hobson Middle School 8th grade English / language arts teacher and department chair

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Controlling for student demographics, 8th - grade test scores, English language skills, special education program participation, free or reduced - price lunch status (a measure of family income), and mobility during middle school does not alter the basic patterns of graduation and college attendance seen in the descriptive comparisons.

With March 10 bearing down, language arts teacher Yvonne Lancelin used every spare moment on Feb. 27 to reinforce such skills as comma usage to her 7th and 8th grade students.

A story and chart in the May 14, 2008, issue of Education Week about states that have curtailed bilingual education should have said that trends in student achievement identified by Daniel J. Losen of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, were based on test scores in reading of English - language learners in 4th grade, not 4th and 8th grades.

Suspense was crackling in the air as the five finalists stood on stage waiting for Dr. Smith to pronounce the winner: high school science teachers Kelly Burnette from Yulee High School and Allan Phipps from Broward County; 8th - grade language arts teacher Cristine O'Hara of Miami - Dade, and 4th - grade teachers Zachary Champagne of Jacksonville and Cheryl Conley of Vero Beach.

Education Week spent six months reporting on how the District of Columbia's vision of the common - core English / language arts standards is being put into practice in one 8th grade classroom at one school, Stuart - Hobson Middle School on Capitol Hill.

For nearly an hour, Dowan McNair - Lee has been walking her 8th grade English / language arts students through ways to identify the central idea of a text.

This project has three main aims: (1) to explore the factor structure over time of academic language for writing (CALS - Write) and Writing Quality (WQ) in a socio - economically diverse longitudinal sample; (2) to examine CALS - Write individual growth trajectories from 4th to 8th grade; (3) to examine the concurrent development of academic language for reading (CALS - Read), CALS - Write and WQ.

This project investigates individual developmental trajectories of malleable language skills that support academic writing from 4th to 8th grade.

A school with low proficiency rates for English language learners needs a different kind of support and strategy than a school with low growth rates in 7th and 8th grade math for all students.

Q: I'm an 8th - grade language arts teacher in a public school in California.

Through the world language program, students study French, Spanish, or Mandarin Chinese from Kindergarten through 8th grade.

As the principal of Belmont - Cragin, a school community of 575 students in Pre-K through 8th grade, including more than 90 percent who qualify for the free and reduced meal program and 68 percent English - language learners, she tackles all challenges to ensure that staff and students can achieve.»

We are a regional gifted (RGC) school that offers a gifted program to K - 8th grade students as well as provide native language instruction in Spanish.

In addition to teaching 8th grade English language arts, I lead my grade - level team.

Part II of the book consists of scoring scales with sample measurement topics for language arts, math, science, and social studies for kindergarten through 8th grade, and sample measurement topics for life skills for kindergarten through 12th grade.

In my 8th grade English language arts classroom, I often use the Socrative student - response system to ask students multiple - choice or short - answer questions at the beginning of class about the novel they are reading.

The field tests of the assessments produced by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium were intended to be a practice run for the full rollout this spring, when all of California's 3rd - through 8th - grade students, along with 11th graders, will take the assessments in both English language arts and math for the first time.

Students in 3rd through 8th grade must be tested once per year in reading or language arts as well as mathematics, and once more in high school.

Say that a teacher has devised a powerful way to teach 8th grade algebra, or to help English language learners master the language more rapidly, or to run a creative writing program in grade 5.

Starting in 8th grade, each student receives four years of Spanish - language instruction, beginning with either a native language arts class for Spanish speakers or a more traditional high school Spanish course.

In the aggregate for the tests given from 3rd through 8th grades, 65 percent passed in language arts and 75 percent passed in math, both representing very slight drops from 2011.

Designed for students at 5th through 8th grade reading level, the program can also be used by English language learners, learning disabled pupils, and remedial readers.

But if your jurors have difficulty understanding 8th grade level language, you need to dial down your vocabulary.

for students in the 6th, 7th and 8th grades diagnosed with language based learning disabilities, ADHD, and executive functioning weaknesses