Sentences with phrase «middle school content»

Their collection showcased elementary and middle school content, great for students below reading level or who wish to read to their siblings.

To ensure meaningful middle school content tests, the state should set its passing scores to reflect high levels of performance.

She has written and edited numerous books, chapters, and articles on adolescent literacy, most notably Reading and the High School Student: Strategies to Enhance Literacy (with Buehl & Klemp, 2007), Strategies for Enhancing Literacy and Learning in Middle School Content Area Classrooms (with Buehl & Radcliffe, 2007), and Teaching Middle School Reading (with Rycik, 2005).

The series of Math FlexBooks cover middle school content and high school courses in Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, and Precalculus.

Not only is middle school content finding its way into college classrooms, college credit is being awarded for learning it!

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According to a Stanford University study of 7,804 students, some 82 percent of middle - schoolers couldn't distinguish between an ad labeled «sponsored content» and a real news story on a website.

November 6: Bookshop brings middle schoolers together monthly to discuss a book, learn new technology, and create content based on the group's reactions (Cambridge)

I also raised the possibility of a middle ground solution, already instituted by some school districts, of lowering the sugar content and removing objectionable ingredients from flavored milk before -LSB-...]

I also raised the possibility of a middle ground solution, already instituted by some school districts, of lowering the sugar content and removing objectionable ingredients from flavored milk before banning it altogether, to the extent many parents and nutritional experts still want to see it in school lunch rooms.

Middle and high school teachers and informal educators receive content understanding and experience with hands - on activities and interact with scientists through face - to - face workshop opportunities.

Scores for the latest round of the Kentucky Education Reform Act's controversial assessment and accountability portion were released last week, and the results show gains in all content areas in elementary, middle, and high schools across the state.

HGSE will partner with Cambridge Public Schools, Boston Renaissance Charter School, Prospect Hill Academy Charter School, the Richard J. Murphy School in Boston, and the Education Collaborative — a consortium of 11 metro - west districts — to offer content training and classroom - based support to middle - school mathematics teaSchool, Prospect Hill Academy Charter School, the Richard J. Murphy School in Boston, and the Education Collaborative — a consortium of 11 metro - west districts — to offer content training and classroom - based support to middle - school mathematics teaSchool, the Richard J. Murphy School in Boston, and the Education Collaborative — a consortium of 11 metro - west districts — to offer content training and classroom - based support to middle - school mathematics teaSchool in Boston, and the Education Collaborative — a consortium of 11 metro - west districts — to offer content training and classroom - based support to middle - school mathematics teaschool mathematics teachers.

By all means, we should do everything we can to boost those numbers, starting as early as possible, and including common - sense reforms like reintroducing serious academic content to the elementary and middle school curriculum and replicating «no excuses» charter schools like KIPP.

Content: Steve Spangler is one of the more famous names in elementary and middle - school science, and his site is home to experiment ideas, teacher training tips and tons of other science - based fun.

Believe it or not, having middle and high school students identify ads on web pages is also an important skill, as is identifying sponsored content and articles that are fluff written to simply draw readers to a site that sells ad space.

In middle school, I think it's about pedagogy, whereas in high school content reigns supreme, and I am fascinated by the act of teaching.

In the typical mathematics classroom, especially in the middle years of schooling, we tend to use one model to connect maths with the real world; we start by teaching the maths content and skills, we then get students to practice and do some maths, and then we next might apply some of those skills into a real world context by using learning activities such as word problems.

After being a classroom teacher and a content - area teacher (math and science) at the early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school levels for over 10 years, I wanted to specialize and gain expertise in an area that I was passionate about: literacy.

An Attitude of Gratitude Middle - school students think «outside the box» to identify unusual things they're thankful for, and then use digital content (audio, images, movies) to represent those things on a PowerPoint slide.

Scriptwriting with a Wiki This middle - and high - school lesson plan uses a wiki — a Web site that allows users to add and edit content collectively — to write a one - act play.

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).

Give feedback on the quality of communication, not the content of the opinion: Recently, a very sweet middle school student gave me her speech on how we should all come together as a country.

The subject is being taught more widely in stand - alone courses — mostly in middle schools — and its content and methods are being integrated into history, economics, and other parts of the social studies curriculum, geographers say.

A more middle - ground perspective from small - school founders on the issue of content would be refreshing and productive.

Another widespread problem is that most middle schools do not put forth common expectations for the content knowledge and skills needed by all students to be ready for high school work.

Currently I am a Principal Investigator of Project ESCOLAR (Etext Supports for Collaborative Online Learning and Academic Reading) a five year grant funded by the Office of Special education Programs (OSEP) to develop, test, evaluate, refine, and disseminate Collaborative Online Projects designed to support academic reading of science content for middle school students with learning disabilities.

The state gives tests aligned with its content standards in elementary, middle, and high school for English and math.

«I think as middle school and secondary educators we can get caught up in the pressures of covering academic content and skills, and it sometimes feels we don't have enough time for rituals like this and that students will feel that they're being babied anyway,» she observed.

Heather Wolpert - Gawron is the author of the new Writing Behind Every Door: Teaching Common Core Writing in the Content Areasand «Tween Crayons and Curfews: Tips for Middle School Teachers (Eye on Education.

Whether teaching elementary, middle, or high school, read alouds connect students to the content they need to learn, peak student interest, and provide information.

Engaging students across the content areas while addressing the Common Core State Standards can be a daunting task for middle school teachers.

And each week's content is connected to two related lesson plans — one aimed at middle school level, one aimed at high school level — written by curriculum specialists with the National Science Teachers Association.

«In the decades before Common Core, an enormous amount of the instruction in American elementary and middle schools has been with leveled text,» says David Liben, a veteran teacher and Senior Content Specialist at Student Achievement Partners.

New Ways Use Read Alouds to Complement Content Learning Whether teaching elementary, middle, or high school, read alouds connect students to content, peak student interest, and provide inforContent Learning Whether teaching elementary, middle, or high school, read alouds connect students to content, peak student interest, and provide inforcontent, peak student interest, and provide information.

In contrast, the content and skills we teach from middle school on are increasingly abstract and theoretical, so getting buy - in from SLIFEs is a potential challenge.

Look at it this way: your teaching every year is like a narrative, and... if the A-story is the standards - based content, then the B - story is the tween - based content, and there is a huge difference between a middle - school classroom run by a teacher who takes on this added curriculum and a middle - school classroom that doesn't.

Second, it restates the case for a sequential, content - rich curriculum for America's elementary and middle schools.

Thus to serve both the students and teacher's needs, I wanted to discover how to promote an extension of the current conceptualization of a middle school teacher's role — one that includes both content - area and literacy instruction.

Content: A very basic Web site, MiddleSchool Debate offers a list of possible topics for middle - school debates.

After teaching for six years, I recognized a recurring story: middle school students lacked the literacy skills — speaking, writing, reading, and listening — to contribute to the community, to succeed academically across content areas, and to, perhaps most importantly, create their authentic narrative.

«Content - area teachers in middle and high school feel less prepared to teach reading skills, and they also view reading skill as something that should have happened at the elementary level,» says Lecturer Pamela Mason, M.A.T.» 70, Ed.D.» 75, director of the master's program in language and literacy and the Jeanne Chall Reading Lab.

For example, many of the middle - school teachers who hold only elementary multiple - subject licenses do not have sufficient depth of knowledge in the content areas they teach.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

As someone who entered the profession with a generic certification for grades 1 - 8, I would now need additional certification to teach content in middle schools.

Diagnoser is a Web - based assessment tool for middle and high school students that helps to reveal students» underlying reasoning about content areas (Thissen - Roe, Hunt, and Minstrell, 2004).

This requirement, in turn, led to development of content tests to ensure the subject proficiency of middle school teachers.

After some initial friction, North Whitfield Middle School started using High Tech High's procedure for constructive criticism to help teachers learn to go «hard on the content, soft on the people,» as High Tech High describes it.

For instance, sometimes middle school teachers, in the name of increasing rigor, focus all our attention on content and academics.

Embedding writing instruction, as well as opportunities to write, into all content areas is key to improving student achievement at the middle and high school levels.

Use these strategies to help middle and high school students identify relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability in the content they read.