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Mom passed with flying colors because the authority she exerts as a fourth grade teacher is over males who can't yet spell «authority,» but my college professor friends scored «Cs» because their males students (mostly) count as men.

Last week I volunteered, as I do every month, with a group of fourth grade students at an economically disadvantaged elementary school participating in Houston's Recipe for Success program.

Food Service Staff have created a two day, one hour a day lesson plan to use in the third or fourth grade that teaches nutritional information including proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, encourages eating a varied diet, and ends with the students creating a lunch menu for a day that all students in the district will eat.

They also learn to read and compose music, and all students begin private lessons by the fourth grade with the help from the city's music community.

KidsQuest KidsQuest is a CDC website designed for students in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, to get them to think about people with disabilities and some of the issues related to daily activities, health, and accessibility.

At 10:30 a.m., state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia visits with fourth - grade students at the North Colonie Central School District, Blue Creek Elementary School, 100 Clinton Rd., Latham.

Medical record data from newborns with normoglycemia (normal blood sugar levels) or transient hypoglycemia were matched with their student achievement tests in 2008 when they were 10 years old and in the fourth grade.

When she talks with her fourth, fifth, and sixth grade classes about the science fair project assignment, Lisa says she «highly recommends» that they choose a Science Buddies project, and she allots valuable classroom time for her students to use the Wizard.

More than one - fourth of the 2,500 largest U.S. school districts have at least one full grade of students with their own laptops — a figure expected to rise 50 percent in three years.

I am now in my fourth year of using a poem to start class each day with my ninth - grade English students.

A day spent split between assignments in an elementary school gave me the chance to teach two fourth grade classes, observe some quality teaching, and work with students individually.

In fourth through 12th grade, active discussion and debate should be the primary activities of language and literature classes, with older students increasingly transferring those oral language skills into writing.

«This was a logical way for our students to practice their Spanish in a real way while making connections with Nicaraguan students,» says fourth - and fifth - grade science teacher Sarah Fonte.

Guest blogger Ross Cooper, a fourth grade teacher with a creative approach to literature study, gets his students into the authors» heads by having them imagine an interview and then construct it via app smashing.

Since 2007, the proportion of D.C. students scoring proficient or above on the rigorous and independent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) more than doubled in fourth grade reading and more than tripled in fourth grade math, bringing Washington up to the middle of the pack of urban school districts at that grade level, while the city's black students largely closed gaps with African American students nationwide.

The article «The WWWDOT approach to improving students» critical evaluation of websites» (Zhang, Duke, & Jimenez, 2011 — see below) provides further detail about teaching the WWWDOT framework, with a description of and artifacts from instruction in a fourth - grade classroom.

«Once we started to gather information on the Orphan Train, we knew it would work well with the fourth grade curriculum on immigration,» said Tilmont, «and we thought it would be a great way to make social studies come to life for our students.»

Cooper, a fourth grade teacher with a creative approach to literature study, gets his students into the authors» heads by having them imagine an interview and then construct it collaboratively via app smashing.

P21's Learning Targets and Student - Led Conferences: Fourth - grade educators Doris Malmin and Kevin Armstrong explain how their school got started with student - led conferences, share the sample script they developed, and describe some of their lessons lStudent - Led Conferences: Fourth - grade educators Doris Malmin and Kevin Armstrong explain how their school got started with student - led conferences, share the sample script they developed, and describe some of their lessons lstudent - led conferences, share the sample script they developed, and describe some of their lessons learned.

A key way of doing this in the third and fourth grades is during the brainstorming phase [before students write] is to let the kids who want to and who think visually and graphically draw with colored pencils.

When Renee Krantzer, of the University of Missouri College of Education, heard of the Orphan Train project, she invited the classes to participate in a videoconference with Janice Uptegrove's fourth grade students in Smithville, Missouri, who were also studying the topic, and with Shirley Andrews, the daughter of Orphan Train rider Irma Craig.

So, as the school's instructional technologist, I teamed up with the science coordinator to develop an innovative method for teaching human - body science to our fourth - grade students.

Since third and fifth grades in my school were the two «promotion» grades (the grades when students are tested and when most promotion and retention decisions are made), the standards on the fourth - grade report card were the standards associated with fifth grade, not fourth grade.

Again, the reader is reminded that, while correlation is not causation, the introduction of consequential accountability in Texas and then across the nation coincided with impressive spikes in the performance of students in fourth - grade math, and in particular among the students of most concern to NCLB and the accountability movement more generally.

At some D.C. elementary schools, rather than settling into a healthy racial and socioeconomic balance, student populations are flipping from one extreme to the other, with fourth - grade classes dominated by minorities and preschool classes that are mostly white.

A student who fails to read in first grade has a 90 percent probability of reading poorly in fourth grade and a 75 percent probability of reading poorly in high school, with implications for success later in life.

Erin Burleigh, who taught third and fourth grade at Picnic Point Elementary School, in Edmonds, Washington, says students came to her for guidance in dealing with other teachers as well as their peers.

In the fourth grade, students are expected to «Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.»

Like all Daily Living Skills workbooks, this series is written on a high third / low fourth grade level and targeted to the mild - to - moderate population (although, you'll see in the ratings, many teachers of students with moderate - to - severe disabilities have used the program successfully.)

In each of these elementary schools, we sampled two fifth - grade math teachers, two fourth - grade ELA teachers, one teacher of students with disabilities (SWDs) and one teacher of English Language Learners (ELLs).

For fourth - grade students with disabilities, 91 percent of the gains occurred in just two years: between 2000 and 2002.

When the fourth - grade classes in her building scheduled an Earth science unit on rocks, she saw a perfect opportunity to introduce the students to the knowledge and experience of a true expert in the field — with the help of technology!

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Fourth - grade Spanish immersion teacher Tabitha Carro, in Lexington, S.C., shares how she uses Remind, a free messaging app that allows educators to communicate safely with students and parents via text.

While Student A may be struggling with learning the alphabet and initial sounds, Student B might be reading at a fourth - grade level.

Betsy Weigle, a fourth - grade teacher and district Smartboard trainer from Washington state, said that interactive whiteboards offer an opportunity for students to «gain hands - on experience with the curriculum if a teacher implements usage correctly.

In 1995, Brian Maguire, a teacher at Gilbertsville - Mount Upton Central School District, was studying the writing process with his fourth - grade students.

Third - and fourth - grade teacher Jessie Heckman says she empowers her students to become more resourceful by solving common problems with the support of their classmates.

In 2011, the five yearly testing cycle for PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) came in to alignment with the four - year cycle for TIMSS, allowing countries who were participating in both of these international studies to gain comprehensive information about the achievement of their fourth grade students in three core curriculum areas - reading, mathematics and science.

As with fourth grade, in eighth grade the lack of educational opportunities for African - American students is especially acute in the urban districts.

After spending their early elementary years on these alternative approaches, in fourth grade, students are suddenly expected to demonstrate mastery of the standard algorithm with large numbers.

With her fourth - and fifth - grade students, Brunelle pulls out a history textbook and asks students to examine the portrayal of Native Americans.

These and other findings with respect to the correlates of teacher effectiveness are obtained from estimations using value - added models that control for student characteristics as well as school and (where appropriate teacher) fixed effects in order to measure teacher effectiveness in reading and math for Florida students in fourth through eighth grades for eight school years, 2001 - 2002 through 2008 - 2009.

Exclusion rates in Maryland on the math test went down significantly in fourth grade this year, when the national testing officials began allowing some students with disabilities to use a calculator.

When students leave Success Academy schools for whatever reason, the administration stops replacing them with new students after the fourth grade, so the enrollment of each class dwindles over the years.

This fall, we're adding a second grade to our school, and we'll continue growing grade by grade until we reach full capacity in 2014 with 550 students in kindergarten through fourth grade.

In the fourth grade, 80 percent of ELL students showed a basic understanding of math, compared with 57 percent nationally.

Instead of reading aloud the story if you teach third or fourth grade you might provide students with a copy of the first nine paragraphs of the story for them to read to themselves.

The inclusion of larger percentages of students with disabilities — 11 percent in both grades in 2009 compared with eight percent in 2007 — did not impact overall achievement as average scores and proficiency levels for the commonwealth's fourth and eighth graders were similar to 2007.