Sentences with phrase «8th grade teachers»

However the 8th grade teachers with the exception of 3 have control issues.

MERITO Academy Multicultural Education for Resource Issues Threatening Oceans MERITO Academy is multicultural education professional development program for 5 - 8th grade teachers which includes lesson plans, classroom visits and field trips.

Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade teachers in both private and public schools who desire to introduce a pet into the classroom or already have a pet in the classroom are welcome to apply.

I have also gained content knowledge from having coached Pre-K through 8th grade teachers at Friendship Blow Pierce.

The 8th grade teachers?

For 6th - 8th grade teachers, Carbon & Climate helps introduce students to some of the complex issues involved in climate change.

At the middle school I work at, 7th grade teachers are on one «team» and 8th grade teachers on another.

94 The percentage of Canadian 4th — 8th grade teachers who incorporate peer feedback into their writing instruction.

In the middle schools, the 60 6th, 57 7th, and 59 8th grade teachers were all math specialists and implemented the intervention in each mathematics classes that they taught.

In a paper just published in the Economics of Education Review, Matthew Chingos and I look at the characteristics of effective 4th through 8th grade teachers in Florida over the period 2002 to 2010.

He was my principal; I was an 8th grade teacher.

John Dunworth has held jobs ranging from education school president to 8th grade teacher to district superintendent.

For example, the NRC committee acknowledges that 8th grade teacher absenteeism declined significantly between 2007 and 2009.

«If anything, [the accident] has made me want to accomplish this even more,» said Robyn Whitton Meckel, an 8th grade teacher at the 1,000 - student Fairgrounds Junior High School in Nashua, N.H., as she prepared to meet with parents who...

Mission Hill 7 / 8th grade teacher Anne Ruggiero wanted to help her students become aware of the possibilities around career and life outside of school.

In this interactive webinar, Lynne Munson and Rachel Stack of Great Minds discuss and model art instruction with an 8th grade teacher, highlighting how the study of visual art builds cultural knowledge and fosters academic achievement for the widest range of learners.

Editor's Note: Some of these pointers are taken from the notebook of a 7th and 8th grade teacher, and are reprinted here with her permission.

I've gotten two consistent forms of feedback as an 8th grade teacher; either «Thank you; math is easy because of your class,» or» I wish I paid attention in your class; we're doing the same thing!»

An 8th grade teacher in Avon dealing with a class that averages under.25 for the social promotion Index can't be compared with a teacher in high poverty area with kids with a 4.5 on the Social Promotion index — indicating they were socially promoted 4.5 times out of 6.

He was followed by the 8th grade teacher who talked about defending all the schools.

We also interviewed Amy Hiebel, a 7th and 8th grade teacher at Maplewood K - 8 in the Edmonds School District in Edmonds, Washington.

In Year 1 (2017 - 2018) a 7th grade teacher participates and in Year 2 (2018 - 2019) an 8th grade teacher participates.

Not exact matches

«I actually rallied my entire team of science teachers in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades to set our plans aside and focus on the same thing for that day,» she says.

Katie Haslup, an 8th grade science teacher in her 30s who lives in Maryland, plans on participating in the movement.

He called you by your last name (a practice I use to this day), he had a way of instilling fear into kids who would goof - off and cause distractions in other classes (a practice I was very much unable to duplicate during my one - year stint as an 8th - grade English teacher), and you had to run the gauntlet of sentence - diagramming grammar, which advanced to a pretty complex level, before the more «cool - teacher» aspects of Mr. Pacilio were unveiled — and even then, the tests on those rock songs were no joke!

At Castilleja, the only prize you get for a senior talk or 8th grade speech is flowers — flowers and the comments of teachers and students alike who will tell you «congrats on your speech» and «great speech,» whether you have spoken to them before in your life or not.

Of the many subjects taught in the eight - year cycle of a class teacher, few are more challenging than the science main lessons of the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.

«the care and dedication of individual teachers»...» the loving approach of the teachers»...» the personal attention my child receives in the classroom»...» the depth in teaching the developing human being»... «that the teachers and staff are well - acquainted with my child and every concern I've had about my child has been met with the staff's full attention, concern, and capability to professionally address the matter at hand»... «how the teachers «hold» each child and class»...» mindfulness toward the children's needs»... «love that the teacher stays with the child through 8th grade»

Although you had to wonder why the 8th - grade art curriculum was so heavy on nutrition and ethics, it did seem like overkill for a middle school principal to chide a teacher for sharing ideas or literature meant «to influence the students against our school lunch program.»

The school has over 1040 students Pre-K to 8th grade and 220 teachers and in the adjoining school PS 168 with grades K to 5 located also at 3050 Webster Avenue in their Annex where they have an additional 200 special needs students with 108 additional teachers.

«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.

Adding to a system that includes ELA and Math tests from 3rd to 8th grade, the New York State Report Card and AYP ratings (Adequate Yearly Progress), New York State is incorporating the new Annual Professional Performance Review or «APPR» which measures teacher performance based, in part, on standardized state tests.

At the UW, Mukherjee helped represent the CSNE at the UW College of Engineering's annual Engineering Discovery Days, which shares work from all UW engineering departments with 4th to 8th grade students, teachers, their families and the community.

My 8th grade gym teacher showed us a movie of handicapped or elderly athletes, like Larry Lewis who at 105 ran five miles back and forth to work every day as a waiter.

ya know, 8th grade was a tough year for me too, i couldn't imagine a teacher (of all people) saying that and making me feel «all eyes on me».

I have taught for 16 years in 4th grade, self - contained 5th grade, 6th - 8th Reading Intervention at the middle school level, and 12 years as a 6th grade ELA teacher.

About Blog My name is Jen White and I am a 7th and 8th grade Language Arts teacher in Illinois.

I am an 8th grade earth science teacher.

Currently an 8th grade Humanities teacher in New York City, Valencia facilitates her class on the foundation of intrinsic motivation and critical thinking.

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.

Some of what I attribute to the 8th grade might have occurred in previous years, if the student had had multiple years of schooling from a teacher of the same gender.

For eight years, Kamras has worked as a 7th and 8th grade math teacher at the John Philip Sousa Middle School in Washington D.C..

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

Drawing on the results of computer - adaptive tests given periodically throughout the year, the 7th and 8th grade humanities teacher and her students at Oak Valley Middle School in San Diego set classroom goals that target the areas the youngsters struggle with the most.

Among the reform milestones they achieved were a new requirement that 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on student achievement; raising the charter school cap from 200 to 460; and higher student achievement goals on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 4th grade and 8th grade reading tests and Regents exams.

Two completed teacher surveys are available for 21,324 of the 8th - grade students — a bit smaller than the full sample of NELS students because some teachers did not complete their questionnaires and some students did not have a class in one or both of the academic subjects randomly assigned to their school for which teacher surveys were administered.

Although these percentages decline in later grades, 83 percent of the English teachers in 8th grade are female, as are more than half of 8th - grade math and science teachers (see Figure 2).

My 8th - grade history teacher, a flinty old horror, never gave an A. «Read Chapter Three,» she would say, «and we'll have a test tomorrow.»

The TSR contains 253,463 observations of 54,550 unique teachers in 3rd, 6th, and 8th grades during our analysis period.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.