Sentences with phrase «at upper grades»

Now if you look at their upper grades, they are reasonably diverse.

At the upper grades, students might use an atlas to locate each city and mark the city's location on the map.

Some of those questions would be perfect ones for applying the Discussion Web strategy and format at the upper grades:

This fundraiser works best at the upper grade levels.

Many teachers are firm believers in reading aloud — even at the upper grade levels!

Chronic absenteeism is a community problem, particularly at the upper grade levels, as well.

Not exact matches

The Century supported the proposal made by Tennessee officials that «integration be started in the first grade and move gradually, a year at a time, through the upper grades» (September 1, 1954).

Under its rules, students are usually expected to achieve at least three B grades during the lower sixth year in order to progress to upper sixth.

Michael D'Aleo left a career in engineering to become an upper grades class teacher before helping to found the high school at the Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs.

As a bonus, my daughter knew all her letters — upper and lower — by sight and sign at 18 months old and now, at 4, can read at a first grade level.

Even though the elementary school is doing well academically, low test scores by students at the upper school have hurt the school's grade, Mulgrew noted.

A upper middle class higher managerial, administrative or professional B middle class intermediate managerial, administrative or professional C1 lower middle class supervisory or clerical, junior managerial, administrative or professional C2 skilled working class skilled manual workers D working class semi and unskilled manual workers E those at lowest level of subsistence state pensioners or widows (no other earner), casual or lowest grade workers

Chewing on a bran muffin (there are full kitchens and abundant munchies in all four of the El Segundo buildings), Musk waves a hand at the production floor, where technicians built the Falcon I's space - grade 2219 aluminum alloy fuel tank, its first - stage engine, dubbed Merlin, and the upper - stage engine, called Kestrel.

Volume 1 gives us the entire first U.K. season (the third season just started running in England), with one interconnecting, ongoing story strung across nine 45 - minute episodes, each of which takes the perspective of one of a gang of friends, students at a Bristol sixth - form college (roughly equivalent of the upper grades of an American high school and the beginnings of a postsecondary education).

Whereas the upper grades at the school had just one classroom apiece, all of which were 100 percent black, the program for three - year - olds had four classrooms that were racially and socioeconomically mixed.

At lower grade levels, students may simply respond to a question posed by the teacher orally as an exit or admit slip, but upper - grade students typically respond through writing.

Before coming to Butler University, Lori was an Assistant Professor at Marian University in Indianapolis and earlier on taught children and adolescents with emotional challenges in the upper elementary grades, worked as a school counselor in Indianapolis, was a private practice counselor and co-owner of the Indianapolis Counseling Center, and was a behavioral consultant for Methodist Hospital, in Indianapolis on the adolescent psychiatric unit.

They're an earnest bunch and they offer an attractive, teacher - friendly, alternative vision to the data - obsessed ed reform triumphalism that has the firm upper hand in education at present, yet too often defines well - educated as «reads on grade level and graduates on time.»

(And that's at the elementary level; all of this grows vastly harder in the upper grades.)

In the upper grades at Ralston, however, students learn how two subjects are connected.

Leaders at Haynes, however, are not giving up on boosting diversity in the upper grades.

With 20 years of experience, Clare Forseth, a 5th - and 6th - grade mathematics teacher at Marion Cross School in Norwich, Vt., could be expected to be fairly certain about how she teaches math to upper - elementary students.

Education world explores a sea of Internet resources — at primary, intermediate, and upper grade levels — that will bring the ocean into your classroom!

I believe this information should be used by education policy makers at all levels to consider how this technology will be used and integrated into their overall educational plans especially for programs in the upper grades.

At Mount Desert Elementary School, all K - 3 classrooms use the Responsive Classroom approach, and many Mount Desert upper - grade teachers also employ this technique.

So much research has been done on homework — and the results are murky at best, even in upper grades.

In urban schools learning is offered in disconnected jolts.The work of the day is unconnected with the work of preceding days or subsequent ones.Life in urban schools is comprised of specific periods and discrete days each of which is forced to stand entirely on its own.If homework is not done, or books not taken home (behaviors which are universal for males and almost so for females by the completion of the upper elementary grades), everything students are taught must be compressed into isolated periods of «stand alone» days.Teachers and principals, as well as students, survive one day at a time.

Goldhaber (2015) summarized this research and noted that in upper elementary grades (under NCLB, required tests begin in third grade), having a lower - performing teacher (one at the 30th percentile of teachers) is roughly equivalent to a student learning half as much in the school year compared to having a higher performing teacher (one at the 70th percentile of teachers).

It is written at a third grade reading level, so it would also be ideal for upper elementary school students.

Students of South Shores participate in intensive arts experiences such as primary grades creative productions, visual art shows, and for over three decades upper grades have put on a full - scale musical production in the campus theater at Cal State University Dominguez Hills, gaining a valuable real life professional theater experience.

Including students in a collaboration to solve technology problems, however, especially at the upper levels in grades 7 - 12, is skill that is a 21st Century goal.

During her fourteen year tenure at KIPP South Fulton Academy, Siobhan has been a fifth grade mathematics teacher, KIPP Through College advisor, and both an upper and lower school assistant principal.

This of course meant that, on average, ratios of students to teachers in the upper grades would be higher for at least a portion of the school day.

Although there was no statistically significant difference on mean beginning level of regular education, special education, and at - risk students, results showed that upper - class special education males and ninth - grade at - risk females had the largest increase in mean ending level within the program.

The plan was agreed to because the expectation was that students who stayed at Emerald would be better prepared when they got to the upper grades.

So, student achievement in grades 6 - 8 represent positive transfer to middle school resulting from the implementation of the Science IDEAS model at the upper elementary grades 3 - 5.

A completely new building will be built to house the upper grades at Centennial Place and, like the current building, include innovative use of space to support the instructional plan.

The Bierce story is at about the grade 8 level, the Conan Doyle excerpt is at the grade 8 level, and the text on estuaries is nowhere near college - level science reading, or even upper high school level reading.

I already do something similar with text sets of my own, but longer, culturally relevant, and at the upper end of the 6 - 8 grade band's text complexity criteria.

Mr. Rivers talked about how he is addressing this with his teachers: «I looked at the data and noticed that the ELs were in the lower levels of achieving success, and the gap was growing in the upper grade levels.

● The traditional school system plans to add new electives and extra-curricular offerings at its comprehensive high schools this year, including many more Advanced Placement courses, due to a budget increase for the upper grades.

Sixth grade students at this school were divided into three classes: the lower, the middle and the upper level.

It includes a first - time - ever cap on PE class sizes, increased access to electives, additional counseling support and additional social - emotional support at our highest - needs secondary schools, and reduced class sizes in the upper grades at the 55 highest - need elementary schools.

«Just looking at numbers, we certainly have enough to fill all our kindergarten and pre-kindergarten vacancies,» Dupre said, though upper - grade students in the French and Montessori programs are harder to replace.

Grade - level shortages: Shortages occur at all grade levels, but the problem is worse in upper grades, with 60 % of middle school districts reporting shortages and 62 % of high school districts reporting the same.

Steps can be taken at at the upper grade levels, grades 7 - 12, and Attendance Works offers several suggestions to counter attitudes that prevent students from attending school.

A master's degree is common for teachers at the upper - grade levels or those who want to specialize in counseling or administrative roles.

While ISL has not added new classes at its Camp Street building, increasing numbers of students are remaining at the school into the upper grades, straining the building's capacity of roughly 600.

Bridgemary recently introduced an «early window for learning»; they allow 50 upper - grades students to arrive at school at 7:30 a.m. and leave at 1:00 p.m., often to pick up siblings from school or pursue out - of - school activities.

The National Assessment for Educational Progress has consistently found that about 34 % of American students are at proficient reading levels by the beginning of fourth grade, leaving 66 % reading at non-proficient levels as they move ahead into the upper grades.