Sentences with phrase «classrooms at all grade levels»

Southern Local received a Partners for BIC grant for almost $ 48,000, to assist the implementation of breakfast - in - the - classroom at every grade level.

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

In the typical site visit, we observed four or five literacy or math classes per school in classrooms at all grade levels, but we preferred grades 3 or 4, 5, 8, and 10, the typical grades in which students take state - wide AYP examinations.

More importantly, let's insist on an assessment system that is streamlined, reliable, and restores instructional minutes to the classroom at every grade level.

Transitions occur every day in every classroom at every grade level.

The Opportunity Culture model provided a roadmap to shift staffing from five classrooms at each grade level to three, freeing top teachers to become mentors to colleagues.

Southern Local received a Partners for BIC grant for almost $ 48,000, to assist the implementation of breakfast - in - the - classroom at every grade level.

The harder path of involving all teacher voices in identifying best practice in collaboration and calibrating on what does collaboration look like in my classroom at my grade level will develop capacity in our system.

Under the grant, county superintendents work with the business community and the arts community to begin a systemic state (research, resources, support) and local (data gathering, education, courses of study, and professional development) approach to bringing the arts into the classroom at every grade level.

In this video series you'll see differentiation in action in classrooms at all grade levels and in a variety of subject areas.

Not exact matches

Other possible changes may include a greater use of technology in the classroom or at home, or increased student responsibility (often the grade levels in preparation before transitioning to middle or high school).

As a K — 12 district math coach, I travel to 67 classrooms and participate in math instruction at different grade levels.

«There should be many opportunities for student teachers to be exposed to classroom situations — at different grade levels — during their years in college.»

And we know that many low - income students — especially strivers and high achievers — are not well served in classrooms with students that are three, four, or five grade levels apart at any given time, or that are overseen by administrators unwilling to enforce discipline standards.

Outlining the challenge facing classroom practitioners, Educational Initiatives says: «Research has found that the average eighth grade child is at the fourth grade level, and that the actual learning levels in the class range from grade 1 to 8.

Layering incentives at classroom, grade, and schoolwide levels creates a culture of positivity and achievement where students celebrate milestones in their individual and shared learning.

In addition, a survey of English language arts classrooms published by the Fordham Institute found that most elementary - school teachers, at least in the early stages of common core implementation, assigned books based on students» abilities, rather than grade - level complexity, as the standards state.

At the level of the principal's office, the focus might be on percentages of students with problematic scores by category by grade and classroom.

But principal Michelle Tubbs, a veteran of the classroom who holds a doctorate in education technology, had conducted a pilot program with blended learning at an Alliance school in the city's Watts neighborhood, where the average freshman read and did math at the 4th - grade level.

Written for both pre-service and in - service teachers, the book includes 11 cases, each with an objective to improve the teaching and understanding of mathematics at the 7th - through 12th - grade levels and to provide opportunities to examine classroom...

The following «classroom professions» can change as needed and are presented as guidelines and ideas for exploring and adapting at all grade levels.

This study introduces two empirical strategies that circumvent these obstacles by examining differences in cohorts of students - a school's group of 3rd graders in one year versus the next year's group of 3rd graders - rather than cross-sections of classrooms at the same grade level.

I've witnessed similar elements of greatness firsthand, while spending hours at campuses and in teacher classrooms in all grades levels and in nearly every type of school.

At JSIS, all teachers participate in weekly Wednesday meetings — which rotate through grade - level meetings, subject - specific meetings, classroom visits (called peer observations), and book - study discussions — and monthly PLC meetings.

Written for both pre-service and in - service teachers, the book includes 11 cases, each with an objective to improve the teaching and understanding of mathematics at the 7th - through 12th - grade levels and to provide opportunities to examine classroom practice and assess student thinking.

We measure peer domestic violence at the cohort level (that is, across all students in a grade at a school) as opposed to the classroom level due to the possible sorting of students into classrooms according to their achievement and behavior.

All the rules from which the school - wide rules had been distilled — the fourteen classroom rules posters and the four sets of grade - level rules — were displayed at the front of the auditorium.

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

In this post I cited a report which asserted that, in some American classrooms, as many as fifty percent of students are performing above grade level, and, in the majority of schools, at least ten percent are.

The promise of the Common Core included not just multi-state standards but also multi-state assessments, assessments in more - or-less every grade with results at every level of the K - 12 system: The child (though not by name, except to parents and teachers), the school (and, if desired, individual classrooms and, by implication, teachers), the district, the state, and the nation, with crosswalks (in pertinent grades) to international measures as well as to NAEP, the primary external «auditor» of state and national achievement.

His three years in the classroom at Dickinson High gives White a firm grasp of these fundamental teaching challenges, including trying to teach the same content to a room of children where the proficiency spread may be two to three grade levels.

These inconsistencies often result in wide discrepancies in letter grade meaning, as classmates at different skill levels receive similar letter grades, while students in different classrooms, at the same skill level, receive different letter grades.

For several days in early January, Michaelis and support staff members met with classroom teachers in grades three to six charged with identifying students in different subgroups (Hispanic, African American, English language learners, special education) at levels 1 and 2 with the best chance of scoring at a higher level on the math, reading, or writing section of the CMTs, if they received intensive, targeted remediation.

Another way to make the message of quality concrete is to arrive at a shared understanding of and commitment to high standards across classrooms, departments and grade levels.

The model was developed for rural schools because Colbert and her cofounders recognized that children in these communities have unique circumstances surrounding their schooling, such as the need to leave school during harvest season to work the family farm or single - classroom schools that serve many grade levels at once.

To help teachers in their efforts to integrate technology and science, Greece provides students and teachers with a number of technology resources: At the elementary level, each school contains a wired computer lab, capable of serving an entire class; a wireless, mobile computer lab; five student computers in each grade 1 - 5 classroom; and three student computers in each pre-K and kindergarten classroom.

(2) instruction at each grade level to help students learn about various careers and about career planning skills conducted by personnel certified or licensed as school counselors, or by classroom teachers in cooperation with school counselors;

Their newest book covers dozens of tips for teachers using Google tools in their classroom and is an awesome resource for educators at all grade levels.

Districts and BOCES are encouraged to reflect upon decisions made within Grades K - 2 to ensure testing is the minimum necessary for effective decision making at the classroom, school and district level.

How can we create high quality classroom inquiry experiences for any student at any grade level?

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.

Learn a rational process for evaluating grading systems at all levels, from classroom practices to national policies.

Analyze, share and act on behavioral and social emotional data at the student, classroom, grade, school and district levels

Still, if states» higher standards and tougher tests are leading to real changes in the classroom — especially as schools adopt high quality curriculum like Eureka Math — we ought to start seeing a bump soon, at least at the fourth grade level.

Follow - up pairwise contrasts indicated that children's reading achievement in every classroom was significantly different from that in every other classroom: On average, children in classroom 1 were reading at a primer level; children in classroom 2 were reading at an end - of - first grade level; children in classroom 3 were reading on a mid second - grade level; and children in classroom 4 were reading on a late second - grade level.

For example, Brittany, a fifth - grade teacher, explained that laptops were provided at her grade level for each student because the required end - of - grade tests were only available online: «We got them [carts with classroom sets of laptops] because of the science tests moving online.

It contains over 75 easy - to - use tools that help teachers at all grade levels respond to the key challenges associated with classroom assessment.

For one of the fastest - growing school districts in the state, space is at a premium which leads to challenges finding room for additional classrooms at the kindergarten through third grade level, where growth is highest.

Likewise, teachers who receive students from classrooms where instruction has not been strong have to work harder to build productive norms and prepare students to meaningful engage in the content expected at their grade level.

BERC's research and analysis on these projects between 2008 and 2011 will highlight school and classroom practices that equip students for success at the elementary, middle grades, and high school levels.