Sentences with phrase «class hours grade»

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And if Sis is like her friends, she will have logged l6, 000 hours of television by the time she graduates from high school — more time than she will have spent in classes from Kindergarten through l2th grade.

Applicants for the first grade will be invited to visit one of the mixed - age kindergarten classes for a morning, followed by an hour long first grade readiness evaluation conducted by one of our trained early childhood faculty members.

Start by determining how much time you can afford to give to teaching, including grading, class and exam preparation, office hours, and e-mail consultation.

But a TA may not be paid as well, and there's more work to do, with hours spent in class, making up and grading assignments and exams, and office hours.

Consider that, for each class, a professor must prepare a lecture or discussion; assemble handouts; prepare overheads or PowerPoint slides; deliver the lecture; write and grade exam questions; and maybe even have office hours to answer students» questions.

Mingguang He, M.D., Ph.D., of Sun Yat - sen University, Guangzhou, China, and colleagues conducted a study in which children in grade 1 from 12 primary schools in Guangzhou, China (six intervention schools [n = 952 students]; six control schools [n = 951 students], were assigned to 1 additional 40 - minute class of outdoor activities, added to each school day, and parents were encouraged to engage their children in outdoor activities after school hours, especially during weekends and holidays (intervention schools); or children and parents continued their usual pattern of activity (control schools).

Despite Bad Grades, Many Boston Teachers Stay In Class WBUR, May 25, 2011» «The amount of work that a principal has to do with data and other evidence of lack of performance and meeting standards can take hours and hours of time,» [Professor Thomas] Payzant says.»

Instead of spending hours grading your students» work, you can spend 15 minutes of class time having students grade each other.

Michaelson estimates that the process of administering the test to a class, hand - grading each one, analyzing the class results, and discussing them with him takes each teacher anywhere from three hours for the reading assessment in the early part of the year to seven hours for math near the end of the year.

Those who do not are issued another invitation to join music classes during school hours at the beginning of fourth grade.

This lesson includes: - Clear learning objectives, - Fully differentiated resources, - Opportunities for group work, class discussions and extended writing, - Pace and challenge throughout, - Differentiated homework task to extend learning, - High level analysis of challenging texts, - Links to relevant clips, - Lesson graded as outstanding by observers, - 2 hour lesson with a clear split for 2x 1hour lessons.

So every year, at least 800,000 teachers in the U.S. are chronically absent, meaning they miss about 9 million days of school between them, resulting in roughly 1 billion instances in which a kid comes to class to find that his or her time is, more often than not, being wasted (or if you prefer, about a billion hours of wasted class time, since students in the early grades don't have «periods»).

By design, we move students forward grade by grade based largely on the amount of instructional hours they have spent in class — dubbed «seat time» — rather than their mastery of academic skills and content.

As the report states, by the time they reach 6th grade, «middle - class students have spent 6,000 more hours in learning activities outside school than students born into poverty.»

Three classes and homeroom back to back, a lunch gobbled among grading and prepping, two more classes, and an hour working in a school office.

«By sixth grade, middle - class kids have spent 6,000 more hours in extracurricular learning programs than poor students, according to The After - School Corporation.»

Oval Office Simulation: North Koreans Cross the DMZ Time required: 2 class hours Grade level: 11 and up Class size: 10 - 23 Pages: 79 Contains: Detailed teacher instructions, 23 profile sheets for students, 9 «news» updates to give to selected students during the simulation, 2 rubrics for grading writing and participclass hours Grade level: 11 and up Class size: 10 - 23 Pages: 79 Contains: Detailed teacher instructions, 23 profile sheets for students, 9 «news» updates to give to selected students during the simulation, 2 rubrics for grading writing and participClass size: 10 - 23 Pages: 79 Contains: Detailed teacher instructions, 23 profile sheets for students, 9 «news» updates to give to selected students during the simulation, 2 rubrics for grading writing and participation

For two hours a day, for thirty - six rigorous weeks a year, BHSFX students at all grade levels work in teams with a unique set of materials and class requirements (read: silicone, latex, and a syllabus that includes the phrases «eye fabrication» and «hair punching») to produce work of professional quality — as professionals.

A teacher shares what she did and what she learned when she implemented Genius Hour in her fifth - grade class.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

Given a teaching load of five classes of 35 students, a one - hour writing assignment requires almost nine hours of grading if the teacher averages three minutes each.

(Rushowy, Toronto's late - start high school says absenteeism down, alertness up (May 15, 2013) thestar.com; Harris, Grades improve if classes start later, study finds (Aug. 16, 2011) The Gazette; Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute's Late Start: Year One Interim Rep. (Apr. 2011) Toronto School District Research Rep.; Crawford, Toronto school starts an hour later and grades improve (Jan. 18, 2011) thestar.com; Macleans.ca, Why you should let your teenager sleep in (Feb. 11, 2011) On CaGrades improve if classes start later, study finds (Aug. 16, 2011) The Gazette; Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute's Late Start: Year One Interim Rep. (Apr. 2011) Toronto School District Research Rep.; Crawford, Toronto school starts an hour later and grades improve (Jan. 18, 2011) thestar.com; Macleans.ca, Why you should let your teenager sleep in (Feb. 11, 2011) On Cagrades improve (Jan. 18, 2011) thestar.com; Macleans.ca, Why you should let your teenager sleep in (Feb. 11, 2011) On Campus.)

Deliver classes in line with school schedules (currently two classes: each of 2 1/2 hours in length daily but subject to change) that cover a range of competencies and topics encompassing 1st — 12th grade state and common core standards

For two hours each day, they had combined their second - and third - grade classes, and noticed their students absorbing much more information than they did when the grade levels were separate.

Educational grading policies have traditionally relied on time - based systems, which grant students credit for the number of hours in a class rather than their proficiency of skills learned.

One cited study of 112 eighth and ninth grade language arts classrooms found that students engaged in true discussion for less than one minute per hour of class.

In just a few short months, students across New York State in grades three through eight will spend a few hours of two days taking a standardized test in English Language Arts and math that, for many, will have significant implications for the classes they are placed in and the opportunities afforded to them in the upcoming grade.

Other important factors — the extra hours put in by teachers preparing for class and grading assignments, the school spirit felt by families, the involvement in sports, arts, or other extracurriculars — are crucial aspects of a school community, but are not reflected on the Report Card.

During the summers following fifth and sixth grades, students attend classes approximately eight hours per day, Monday through Friday, for five consecutive weeks.

Or of families that put their third graders through hours and hours and months and months of test prep so they would do well enough on the program entry exam to be accepted into the fourth grade class.

Whether it be a 5th grade graduation trip, end of school year field trip, or senior class trip, the Aqua Park and Aerial Park provide hours of fun for all ages!

Here's the basic arithmetic needed to calculate your GPA, presuming each hour of academic credit you've earned has been assigned a numeric grade, and that classes are weighted based on number of credit hours.

Require that a defensive driving school class not exceed a total of four and one - half hours, including any testing, reviewing and grading related to the defensive driving school class.

Assistant Professor — Stanford University, Stanford, CA2010 — 2013 • Conducted undergraduate courses, including Intro to Linguistics and Morphology I • Advised students on coursework and career potential • Held office hours and was available for feedback on essay first drafts • Graded over 80 student essays each semester • Adjusted coursework when standard textbooks turned out to be unavailable • Designed and taught popular class, «Linguistics in Pop Culture:

If you provide a GPA, be honest, but you can use the highest version; some students have a higher average in classes in their major while others may earn better grades in their last 60 hours.

• Clarified difficult material for students both in class and during office hours, and assisted professors with grading and proctoring of exams

They are both enthusiastic, disciplined in working significant hours and still maintaining top of the class grades, and I have never had to call them once for missing work or coming in late!