Sentences with phrase «teachers across the grades use»

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Teachers can observe how students choose to use their learning time, manage their workloads, and work independently, with teacher support, or across grade levels.

This week, Education World offers three teaching masters for teachers across the grades to use to help students brush up on their study skills — using a search engine, using an index, looking for key words, skimming text for information, and more — while they learn interesting facts about the world around them!

Great bundle for special education teacher monitoring across grade levels!This bundle gives you a 20 % discount on the Math Concepts and Applications practice sheets for students who are progress monitored at the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade level using the MCAP assessment.

Larson, who presents a session called Classroom Walk - Through Training, says teachers benefit by learning to use reflection to increase their knowledge, skills, and performance; strategically aligning classroom instruction to district curriculum; and increasing student learning across grade levels.

Included: Comments from teachers across the grades who have used the CIESE projects!

The Center for Civics Education has specific standards that all teachers can use across all grade levels.

Four hours later, Bonne blows out of town leaving behind a beautiful U.S. map — and a booklet chock - full of activities that will help teachers across the grades make use of the new addition to their school.

Renaissance uses a «looping» model, in which most teachers remain with students for two years across all grades, including high school, so pre-K teachers generally follow their students into kindergarten.

Teachers agree, and they offer their thoughts on using read - alouds in classrooms across the grades.

Those include introducing and reviewing software, Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.

While not universal across all teachers, there is a definite trend, in the most effective schools, for grade 1 and 2 teachers to combine (a) explicit phonics instruction in isolation with (b) coaching students to use a range of strategies to figure out unknown words when they encounter them in everyday reading.

Teachers across the nation report being pressured to fudge grades, pass students who don't deserve it, and accept students into classes they can't keep up in, all because of school evaluation models that use these metrics to keep up appearances for taxpayers.

This study examined teachers» uses of virtual manipulatives across grades K - 8 after participating in a professional development institute in which manipulatives and technology were the major resources used throughout all of the activities.

However, if the validity and reliability vary, not to mention the ways in which test scores align with the desired goals, then treating teachers equitably may require using value - added unequally across grades.

Content is organized by grade not skill level, spread across multiple applications, and rarely flexible enough that teachers can creatively use it to personalize instruction.

But here's the real issue: In this case, and exponentially growing numbers of cases like this across the country, the district decided to use a national versus state test (i.e., the SAT 10) which can (but should not) be used to test students in kindergarten and 1st grades, and then more importantly used to attribute growth on these tests over time to their teachers, again, to include more teachers in these evaluation systems.

«And since Achieve3000's solutions are customized to meet each state's academic standards and build literacy in the content areas, our teachers can use them in all fifty - two of our regions, across many grade and ability levels, as they work to meet the individual needs of each learner.»

This kind of informational learning can be found in collaborative teacher teams in schools across the country as well: an ELA teacher team discusses incorporating a new book into the curriculum or a grade team learns how to use a new software program to input grades.

Most teachers across the agency use common grading and reporting policies, processes, and procedures based on criteria that represent each student's attainment of content knowledge and skills.

Rating: 2 - Most teachers across the agency use common grading and reporting policies, processes, and procedures based on criteria that represent each student's attainment of content knowledge and skills.

We hope this article will be a key to success for other teachers interested in developing and implementing relevant, challenging, integrative, and exploratory curriculum in the middle grades and, more specifically, for teachers interested in using chants and cadences to teach content area material across the curriculum.

SLOs, or Student Learning Objectives, are being used across states as a way to provide a student growth measure in non-tested grades and Read more about AIR offers Helpful Recommendations on Teacher Evaluation -LSB-...]

By 2015, the anti-testing backlash had gained steam across the country, in part because the federal government had pushed for test scores to be used to evaluate teachers across all grades and subjects.

Teachers used student work to inform decisions about instruction and to design a coordinated approach to writing across grades.

Accordingly, across the country we now have teachers, justifiably nervous, who without telling their students that their professional lives are on the line — which is true in many cases — or otherwise lying to their students (e.g., your grades on these tests will be used to place you into college)-- which is false in all cases — could face serious consequences, now because their students who as per Cuomo don't have to care about their test performance (e.g., for five years)

Oakland Technical High «s 9th - grade team is in their second year of partnership with Mills Teacher Scholars, using teacher - led collaborative inquiry in a cross-disciplinary group to promote learning across and within deparTeacher Scholars, using teacher - led collaborative inquiry in a cross-disciplinary group to promote learning across and within departeacher - led collaborative inquiry in a cross-disciplinary group to promote learning across and within departments.

If these groups» resources keep growing, more of their favored reforms — such as closing failing schools, expanding charter schools and using test scores to grade teachers — will likely spread across the country.

We recently shared a story from Montalvin Manor Elementary in West Contra Costa Unified, where teachers are using inquiry to understand how to best support students» academic language development across grade levels and subject areas.

Oakland Technical High School's 9th - grade team is in its second year of partnership with Mills Teacher Scholars, using teacher - led collaborative inquiry in a cross-disciplinary group to promote learning across and within deparTeacher Scholars, using teacher - led collaborative inquiry in a cross-disciplinary group to promote learning across and within departeacher - led collaborative inquiry in a cross-disciplinary group to promote learning across and within departments.

Regardless of the grade level you teach, Hunter's model has been adopted and used in various forms for decades by teachers across the nation and at every grade level.

We've built our Courseware and Assessment programs using tech - professional - friendly RESTful API so that you can easily integrate student, teacher, class / section, and course data from your SIS in order to sync grades and see student outcomes across programs.

Average teacher compensation increased $ 10,000 in 2013 - 14 and the Capistrano Unified School District used 3 Instructional furlough days and increased class sizes by 1.5 students across all grades to pay for that.

In this inaugural post of The Neighborhood, five classroom teachers from across grade levels discuss what happens when students teach each other using video.

This book, the first volume in the NSTA Press USI series includes 25 formative assessment probes that can be used across multiple grade spans, as well as pre-service teacher education and teacher professional development in life, physical, earth, and space sciences.

This book, the third volume in the NSTA Press USI series includes 25 formative assessment probes that can be used across multiple grade spans, as well as pre-service teacher education and teacher professional development in life, physical, earth, and space sciences.

We often directly help teachers across diverse grade levels do just that — and use that data to improve student learning.

When executed well, this process dramatically increases students» understanding of new information across content areas and at every grade level, which makes it a strategy that all teachers can use to great benefit.