As any kindergarten teacher knows, DRA levels A through 3 do not measure comprehension but simply accuracy and some concepts about print skills.
Not exact matches
Ask all the questions you want, give them all the tests you can think of, call their parents and
kindergarten teachers as references, you still won't
know exactly what you're getting until they have been with you for several weeks or months.
-- Stephen Keith Sagarin Love and Knowledge: Recovering the Heart of Learning through Contemplation — Arthur Zajonc
Teachers» Self - Development
as a Mirror of Children's Incarnation: Part I — Renate Long - Breipohl Of Seeds and Continents: Reliability, Predictability, and Scientific
Knowing — Michael D'Aleo Reports from the Research Fellows Honest, Complete Assessment and Social Renewal: A Revolution — Patrice Maynard Crisis in the
Kindergarten — Joan Almon and Edward Miller Henry Barnes and Waldorf Education: A Personal Tribute — Douglas Sloan
As a mindfulness
teacher in an elementary school, I
know that even my
kindergarten students feel stress sometimes.
As a mom and a
kindergarten teacher at Maple West Elementary School in Williamsville, New York, Ifft - McGirr
knows young children.
In the Tennessee Student /
Teacher Achievement Ratio experiment,
known as Project STAR, children entering
kindergarten were randomly assigned to class types, which were randomly assigned to
teachers.
The program prepares pre-K and
kindergarten teachers seeking to infuse their mathematics instruction with the performing arts in an approach
known as arts integration, and consists of summer institutes led by trained teaching artists and school year residencies that pair
teachers with artists for coaching and collaborative instruction.
For example, the
kindergarten teachers are working on creating classroom environments that offer rigorous literacy curriculum but also honor the need for play
as a way of
knowing for their young learners.
But
as most
teachers know, students from
kindergarten to 12th grade are much better at spotting errors in other students» work than in their own work.
As Betsy Pon, a student and
Kindergarten Teacher in the program clearly states, «Assessment literacy ensures meaningful and timely feedback to the learner so that the leaner
knows where their ability / knowledge skill lay in progression to the standards, has capability to act upon the feedback, and can make decisions regarding self - assessments.»
Officials also agreed to provide
kindergarten teachers with a classroom aide and add
as many
as nine days of planning time for
teachers from preschool through third grade to help them learn how to use new technology such
as digital tablets and roll out new curriculum standards
known as Common Core.
You may
as well consider starting off
as a
kindergarten teacher assistant so
as to learn all you need to
know as a
kindergarten teacher.
How it blossoms in what appears to be the driest of places... You
know what else I noticed,
as a retired
kindergarten teacher?