Sentences with phrase «middle school curriculum students»

Special Dog «Guides» Middle School Curriculum Students in Bryan, Texas, are raising a guide dog named Penny.

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The larger effort will now support 200 middle school STEM programs by 2020 and aim to reach 5 million students with free technology resources, teacher training, STEM curricula, and connectivity.

Berkeley Business Academy for Youth summer program for middle and high school students fosters creativity, innovation, and collaboration through a project based curriculum, taught by Haas faculty and with students from across the global.

This curriculum for middle and high school students includes classroom activities, identification sheets and a dichotomous key for identifying salt marsh plants, and data sheets for salt marsh field trips utilizing lessons developed by Kristen Grant and the salt marsh science protocols developed by Dr. Robert Buchsbaum and Dr. David Burdick.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

Waldorf is dedicated to providing its middle school students with an academic curriculum with rigor and purpose — one that is creatively designed to meet the particular needs of middle school students — along with exceptional teachers, regular class travel, a no - cut athletic program, and fine arts and performing arts courses.

She designed a neuroscience curriculum for homeschoolers in Southern California, where she also teaches middle and high school students.

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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.»

Toward High School Biology — Developed with support from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences and in partnership with BSCS, AAAS Project 2061 has developed and tested an innovative eight - week curriculum unit designed to integrate physical and life science concepts to help middle school students understand chemical reactions and their role in the growth and repair of living orgaSchool Biology — Developed with support from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences and in partnership with BSCS, AAAS Project 2061 has developed and tested an innovative eight - week curriculum unit designed to integrate physical and life science concepts to help middle school students understand chemical reactions and their role in the growth and repair of living orgaschool students understand chemical reactions and their role in the growth and repair of living organisms.

Building on its work at the middle school level, Project 2061 has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to develop a six - week curriculum unit for high school biology students.

Donovan, who has been a middle school teacher for more than 20 years, explained that other science curriculum materials are often subject - specific, focusing lessons on individual scientific fields like biology and excluding disciplines like chemistry that can provide an essential foundation for students.

Educators involved in the assessment of student learning in science, including middle and high school science teachers, science specialists, assessment directors and coordinators in states and school districts, assessment and curriculum developers, university science education faculty, education researchers, and informal science educators.

Project 2061, a long - term AAAS initiative to increase literacy in science, mathematics, and technology, has released an outline for its Green Schools Energy Curriculum, which utilizes real - time data on energy generation and consumption from green school buildings to teach middle school students...

Project 2061, a long - term AAAS initiative to increase literacy in science, mathematics, and technology, has released an outline for its Green Schools Energy Curriculum, which utilizes real - time data on energy generation and consumption from green school buildings to teach middle school students the science of energy.

Now, with a $ 2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, AAAS's Project 2061 and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) are embarking on a project to develop chemistry and biochemistry materials for middle school students and teachers, based on the latest research in learning.

«This new curriculum unit is being designed to take on high school - level ideas about atom rearrangement during chemical reactions that build on ideas that are introduced in a companion unit that we developed for middle school students.

The «keepin» it REAL» substance - abuse curriculum focuses on elementary and middle - school students» decisions, not drugs

Fourteen teachers arrived from schools as close as Ithaca and as far as Anaheim, Calif. to attend the BTI Plant Biology Curriculum Development Projects (CDP) teacher institute July 13 - 17, to begin their year - long journey to translate plant research into classroom learning opportunities for middle and high school STEM students across the country.

This SLP trains undergraduate students enrolled in a non-science majors» introductory biology course in the SLP curriculum and takes them to middle and high school classrooms to lead the younger students through the curriculum.

Traumatic Brain Injury - A Neural Network Journey is a seven - lesson curriculum unit aimed at middle and high school students.

Participants will examine their personal strengths, fears and cultural histories in relation to their role as a teacher, understand the needs of students and schools, learn classroom management techniques, write lesson plans and practice teaching Bent On Learning's yoga curriculum for primary, middle and high school students.

Anne has been practicing yoga since 1995 and is co-creator of Bent On Learning's curriculum and training for middle and high school students.

Baltimore school officials are standing by their decision to use popular magazines and other nontraditional texts as part of a strategy to engage middle school students, despite criticism from some teachers and community members that the new language arts curriculum lacks rigor and downplays formal grammar lessons.

These study skills may be implemented for any subject and should begin in the upper elementary years before students encounter the more challenging middle and high school curriculums.

Middle school students learn social studies through Historia, a paper - based simulation game that incorporates a world cultures curriculum aligned to state standards.

By middle school, typical reading curriculums assume that students have the necessary literacy strategies to decode the writing in front of them.

Students at Bates Middle School in Annapolis, MD, learn about art concepts such as photo composition (above) that are integrated into other curricula like math.

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).

Integrated curricula, team teaching, and technology tools have built up the academic achievement and self - esteem of these rural Louisiana middle school students.

For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a charter middle school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional public high school.

HL: Programs such as Signs of Suicide or Break Free from Depression are essential curriculum for all middle school and high school students.

Another long - term effort could involve introducing middle - and high - school students to teaching careers through school curriculums.

Visualize a classroom with long bench - like seats that are set up around work tables and where there is no teacher desk — a place where the teacher uses a process called Q U E S T and BYOD to support middle school students in understanding what topics in the curriculum are important to them.

With the aid of technology in the classroom, Professor Heather Hill's newest study, the Mathematics Teachers and Teaching Survey, will be able to track and collect data on middle school mathematics instruction, providing key insight into teachers» mathematical knowledge, the curriculum, and the nature of mathematics instruction being offered to students.

These are among a handful of topics that middle school students in New York City have tackled as part of their Saturday debate program, which draws heavily from Word Generation, the innovative curriculum developed under the direction of HGSE Professor Catherine Snow.

Researchers from the University of Michigan, the University of Arizona, and Detroit Public Schools studied 5,000 students in grades seven and eight in 18 historically underserved middle schools who learned science with traditional instruction or the LeTUS inquiry - based science currSchools studied 5,000 students in grades seven and eight in 18 historically underserved middle schools who learned science with traditional instruction or the LeTUS inquiry - based science currschools who learned science with traditional instruction or the LeTUS inquiry - based science curriculum.

All were geared toward a system in which «elementary students were provided with career awareness integrated into the regular curriculum; middle - school students explored technology anchored in career applications; and high - school students were provided with early career counseling and assessment, and with structured programs of study, including appropriate work experience and seamless postsecondary articulation.»

Instead of using just one approach to stop bullying and better handle conflict, they are using several methods, including teaching elementary - aged students about tolerance and empathy through antibullying, curriculum - based programs sold to schools such as Side By Side and Second Step, and using the Step to Respect program in middle school.

2 - 3 — Portfolio assessment: «Using Portfolios To Assess Student Learning in Middle and High School Classrooms,» institute, sponsored by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, to be held in Washington, D.C. Contact: A.S.C.D., 1250 North Pitt St., Alexandria, Va. 22314; [phone]; fax: [phone].

Throughout the school year, Dekmar introduces her seventh grade students at Brooklawn Middle School in Parsippany, New Jersey, to note - taking and test - taking strategies and study skills tricks that complement her American history currischool year, Dekmar introduces her seventh grade students at Brooklawn Middle School in Parsippany, New Jersey, to note - taking and test - taking strategies and study skills tricks that complement her American history curriSchool in Parsippany, New Jersey, to note - taking and test - taking strategies and study skills tricks that complement her American history curriculum.

The organization has developed three curricula geared toward middle school - aged students: Industrial Revolution, Ancient Greece, and Slavery and Reconstruction.

While students at a Connecticut elementary school learn the «ropes» of respect, middle schoolers in California are making community service part of the curriculum.

And we set out to make a curriculum - aligned social studies learning game that would take our middle school students through the coursework for the entire school year.

She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on the topics of differentiation, formative assessment, student motivation, and curriculum design including the co-authored ASCD book, Differentiation in Middle and high School: Strategies to Engage All Learners (with Jessica Hockett), the AMLE book, Smart in the Middle: Classrooms that work for Bright Middle - Schoolers (with Carol Tomlinson), and the Corwin book The Differentiated Flipped Classroom (with Eric Carbaugh).

Then the word spread, other teachers liked the concept, the principal gave permission to set aside the regular curriculum temporarily, and 115 kids — fully a third of the students at Springfield Middle School, an urban school in Battle Creek, Michigan — wrote nSchool, an urban school in Battle Creek, Michigan — wrote nschool in Battle Creek, Michigan — wrote novels.

In Portland, Maine, middle and high school students have a 1 - to - 1 laptop program, strong school leadership, and project - based learning curricula that result in higher academic achievement.

Lady Bird Johnson Middle School hosts daily tours for students from across the district so they can see a science curriculum come to life.

Once students enter middle school, they begin to pursue different curriculum tracks, which complicates the reporting process.

The interdisciplinary project, appropriate for middle - and high - school students, helps students learn about people with disabilities while they participate in a variety of lessons and activities that supplement and enhance the entire curriculum.