Sentences with phrase «based grading work»

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Fortune's ranking of 150 Best Small and Medium - Sized Companies to Work For, based on some 52,000 surveys compiled and graded by our partner Great Place to Work, offers insights into what makes for a meaningful work environment, along with a potential target list of desirable employers (though only some, obviously, will be hiring at any given momeWork For, based on some 52,000 surveys compiled and graded by our partner Great Place to Work, offers insights into what makes for a meaningful work environment, along with a potential target list of desirable employers (though only some, obviously, will be hiring at any given momeWork, offers insights into what makes for a meaningful work environment, along with a potential target list of desirable employers (though only some, obviously, will be hiring at any given momework environment, along with a potential target list of desirable employers (though only some, obviously, will be hiring at any given moment).

Note: The Co-op program is a course for which students obtain a grade of «CR» (completed requirements) or a grade of «F» (fail) based on a satisfactory work performance, performance evaluation and a passing grade for their work - term report.

Interesting enough, kidney specialists working with acid - base balance now recognize that most Americans, as they age, live in chronic, low — grade metabolic acidosis.

It is a double pump and a high enough grade and quality that it can be used for heavy duty breast pumping for working moms or moms who pump on a regular basis and already have a good milk supply established.

In my administration we established a principle of equal pay for equal work, based on a grade system.

A vital aspect of the problem for the U.S. is the effect that drastic disarmament steps would have not only on the economy as a whole but also on those special sections of high - grade, science - based and highly localized industries that are now so overwhelmingly involved in defense work.»

In grade six, when the curriculum started to get interesting and turn more logic - based, I started to pay attention and actually enjoyed just about every class — except history, which still had too much memory work.

The Environmental Working Group has compiled an excellent data base where you can personally look up the products you use and the level of toxicity is graded on a scale of 1 - 10 (10 being the worst).

What I have experienced works best for myself and my clients is purchasing high - quality, organic, therapeutic - grade essential oils and placing a few drops in a glass roller - ball bottle with a base oil of rosehip oil or fractionated coconut oil.

Based on Jesse Andrews's novel of the same name and directed with a restless visual dexterity that always serves its characters (Gomez - Rejon used to work for Scorsese, and it shows), Dying Girl refuses to accept the common wisdom that high - school films should be graded on a curve.

Last but absolutely not least is Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999), her remarkable feature film debut that was one of the best releases of its year and not only does it hold up, but it has been given a top grade reissue by Criterion and Paramount (I'm still celebrating the studio finally working with Criterion on a regular basis) in a Blu - ray edition as strong as when I first saw the film theatrically.

For the past four years, Stephen has been working at Cardinal Newman Elementary School in Brampton, Ontario where he has spearheaded the design and implementation of arts@newman, an arts - based, integrated, approach to the grade seven and eight curriculum.

I recently saw an Austin - based middle - school teacher's humorous yet effective door sign that describes how she is focused on intense planning or grading work.

For the past three years, I have been working on the implementation of arts@newman — an alternative, arts - based program for grades 7 - 8 designed to better engage some of those students who find themselves hanging out at the edges of this place we call school.

• Work with client schools to administer NAEP (or some other matrix - based test aligned to the standards) to 2,000 students each year in key grade levels; use their performance to set the curve for the summative test (think of this as «Curriculum NAEP,» the equivalent of the current state NAEP testing).

To foster collaboration and teambuilding, sixth grade students experience Boss Level in advisory groups known as Home Base, small groups of 12 - 15 students that meet with an advisor four times a week throughout the year to work on SEL skills.

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).

Journey through the Digestive System 7/13/2000 [Our Bodies, Science Grades 9 - 12 Submitted by Richard Lord] Students work in cooperative groups to design a theme park based on the anatomy and physiology of the digestive system, prepare a portfolio of the park's attractions, and construct an approximate scale model of it.

By the end of the last school year, I could write a personal letter to all the parents highlighting just where their children were based on the promotion standards and what areas they would have to work on in the pivotal fifth grade.

As the ninth grade humanities teacher of a completely project - based curriculum called MPX at Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu, I always have more student project work than I do display space.

With a goal to have all students reading at or above grade level by the end of third grade, Arizona's Literacy Director Terri Clark seized the opportunity to utilize the 16 memos, sharing them with partners as well as the communities that signed on to work with Read On Arizona — a public - private partnership that includes the Arizona Department of Education, Arizona Head Start Collaboration Office, First Things First, and other state - based foundations.

Working with HGSE students, she has developed case studies focusing on particular dilemmas of justice in schools and school districts like ethics of grade inflation, eighth - grade promotion and retention policies, lottery - based school assignment, disciplining socially fragile children, and teacher firings.

Most parents may not be able to work in the classroom on a weekly basis, but may be able grade papers at home or help out for a special event.

Of all of the work in the development of a competency - based learning environment, the work in developing competency - based grading systems came closest to day - to - day teacher practice and, as a result, has become the tail that wags the dog.

A team of eighth - grade teachers compares notes on the trials and rewards of working together on project - based «expeditionary» learning.

Systems for public grading of samples of students» regular class work would carry the concept of standards - based assessment still further.

Rather than purely basing performance on grades and academic performance, the use of a work board related activity can help to create an atmosphere of healthy competition where students can benefit from recognition and reward then and there.

At Quest, I teach a hands - on inquiry based course called The Way Things Work (TWTW) which gives my sixth grade students a chance to be scientists, designers, makers, and players.

My 4th grade students and I were working on our own small - scale project - based learning units at the time centered around questions of school citizenship and character values.

Transition to a grading system that is based more on the demonstration of mastery than simply on work habits.

A group of Georgia schools work together to emphasize project - based learning and STEM courses from the elementary years through 12th grade.

Like Fann, a growing number of people are thinking about how competency - based education and assessment might work in high schools and even lower grades.

In my research I have identified 34 different examples of charter school innovation, including small size; untenured teachers; contracts with parents; real parent and teacher involvement in school governance; outcome -(rather than input --RRB- based accreditation; service learning fully integrated into the curricula; unusual grade configurations; split sessions and extended school days and years to accommodate working students; and computer - assisted instruction for at - risk and other frequently absent students.

Others have since suggested that the use of the five - point scale to grade student work depends too much on assumed «common sense» notions of achievement that — in reality — are based on arbitrary teacher judgments with very little consistency between teachers, classes and schools, offering parents little in the way of useful information (London, 2012).

Standards - based grading allows me to clearly communicate with students about why they did poorly on the previous assessment, and to offer them a chance to work harder toward gaining mastery of the material and demonstrating their ability to achieve.

As a consultant I work with schools on systemic implementation of differentiated instruction, project - based learning, eliminating assessment and grade fog, and culture building — all with a focus on student voice.

Grading: This will be worth ONE test grade • 10 points for research • 20 points for written work which you will hand in based on the questions in your topic • 30 points for the poster / mapping the project • 40 points presentation (See oral presentation rubric)

As the teacher of gifted at my school ~ I had a first grade and a second grade student working together on a community - service based project ~ which involved collecting supplies for the local animal shelter.

«Kids need to learn teamwork - based skills because every other class in any other subject that they have — third through eighth grade — requires them to work in different sized groups accomplishing different tasks,» Heckman explains.

This infographic is based on his work http://www.pinnacle.org.au/homework-make-worthwhile/ (with the reported effect size being the average across grades).

Grades 6 - 8 Lesson: Art Show with the Masters Research information on artists» lives and works and prepare works of art based on their understanding of the artists, their time and place in history, and their works.

Seven P - TECH - model schools are part of ECI, following a 9 - 14 grade sequence where students follow a staged trajectory of high school, college, and work - based and technical learning experiences that result in graduation after six years with both a high school diploma and a 2 - year associate's degree.

``... extended information here that applies to today's Common Core Standards - based classroom environment,... this work is jam - packed with highly useful information that is adaptable for various grade levels and teaching styles....

This keynote reviews why Project - Based Learning works in all classrooms at all grade levels.

As the name suggests the grade is based on the student's habits of work or to put it differently the student's participation, productivity, and contribution to lesson objectives.

Typically serving between 150 and 200 students from grades 9 or 10 through grade 12, Career Academies are organized as small learning communities, combine academic and technical curricula around a career theme, and establish partnerships with local employers to provide work - based learning opportunities.

-- Teachers Discuss the Daily Challenges of Project Learning — A team of eighth - grade teachers compare notes on the trials and rewards of working together on project - based «expeditionary» learning.

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.

Uses both students target grades and working at grades, colour co-ordinating students based on whether they are working at, below or above their target, 2.

In London School the current principal and her predecessor both worked with a School - Based Management Team, grade - level teams, cross-grade subject teams, special program committees (gifted education, bilingual education, etc.), and specialist roles (counselor, literacy teacher, parent involvement coordinator, etc.).