Sentences with phrase «during early grades»

An analysis of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS - K) revealed that children who become overweight between kindergarten and 3rd grade have poorer school outcomes than those who did not become overweight during the early grades.

Teachers who notice a weight gain pattern in girls during the early grades can seek collaboration with school health personnel and, together, involve parents.

Most of the time, whatever boost was provided by preschool fades to the vanishing point during the early grades because the schools themselves fail to sustain it.

Many of the nation's young children already are faltering when they start kindergarten and achieve far below their potential during the early grades, a new report from the Carnegie Corporation of New York says.

Given the underrepresentation of students who enter during early grades, this difference suggests that the average effects of attending a charter school across all grades, 4 through 8, may be less negative than indicated by our final analysis, at least for math.

And the announced enhancements, which included kindergarten literacy assessments, full - day kindergarten, smaller class sizes, keeping teachers and students together during the early grades, and individualized learning plans for students at risk of being held back, gave no indication of how dramatic the changes were.

Children who transfer out of a Waldorf school into a public school during the earlier grades probably have to upgrade their reading ability and to approach the science lessons differently.

Group acceptance and close friendships follow different timetables and serve different developmental functions, with the need for group acceptance emerging during the early grade school years and filling a need for belonging, and the need for close friends emerging in preadolescence to meet newfound needs for affection, alliance, and intimacy outside the family.

Not exact matches

During my tenure, I worked as a Early Intervention Program teacher, a Curriculum Support teacher, a Special Instructional Assistance teacher, a Reading Recovery teacher, and a Kindergarten through Fifth grade classroom teacher.

These results suggest that motor skill training during early childhood may contribute to reading skills in boys during the first grades of primary school,» says Dr Eero Haapala from the University of Jyväskylä.

A 2013 study in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that teens who went to bed later than 11:30 during the school year had lower grade - point averages and were more vulnerable to emotional problems than those who went to bed earlier.

Another problem is that research available since the early 1980's indicated that even food grade carrageenan is probably converted during the digestive process to the degraded, highly toxic form.

More specifically, the researchers 1) examine possible differences by classroom, school, and literacy models; 2) explore the relationship between observable features of the classroom literacy environment and children's literacy growth during the first grade year; 3) characterize the variability in the levels of teacher understanding of the chosen literacy model and of early literacy development; and 4) assess whether there are qualitative differences in children's oral discourse skills and writing skills with the school's chosen model of literacy instruction.

Districts that participate in the program, which began during the early 1980s, receive state money to hire instructional assistants for the primary grades.

Close school - to - home ties, so carefully built during a student's early grades, have often loosened considerably by the high school years.

Adam Wellington, an eighth - grade social studies teacher at Coal Ridge Middle School, details how the support helped teachers during those early days of integrating technology en masse.

And, it is true, compared with peers who have progressed normally through early grades, students who repeat a grade during elementary school tend to have notably worse outcomes.

They claim that value - added studies that measure gains from one point in time to the next fail to account for the fact that «two students can have pretest scores and similar schooling conditions during a grade and still emerge with different posttest scores influenced by different earlier schooling conditions.»

BELLE CHASSE, La. — In the early elementary school grades, Zachary Davis and his classmates at Belle Chasse Primary School in suburban New Orleans wrote almost entirely from personal experience: describing their ideal vacation, trying to convince readers that a longer school year would be a good (or bad) idea, penning a letter about their adventures during summer break.

Starting to develop a student's growth mindset early in a student's academic career, during pre-school, kindergarten, and the elementary school grades can have long - lasting effects.

The study recommends that interventions be implemented during the early middle grades to prevent most dropout outcomes, and that non-traditional credit - earning options be offered to older enrolled students (17 and older) who already have patterns of chronic absenteeism and course failure.

But, says Matt DiCarlo, an education policy expert at the Albert Shanker Institute, those school improvements Bush points to have largely resulted from the fact that his changes to the metric during the early 2000s equated to gaming the system, producing artificially higher numbers of schools receiving As in the years after the first grades were released.

There is every scientific reason to predict that an intensive focus on oral language development during the classroom reading period in early grades will not only raise reading achievement for all students, it will also help narrow the gap between social groups.

A national study released earlier this year (the most rigorous to date) finds that, while Head Start modestly boosts reading and math skills during the time children are in the program, those gains disappear by first grade.

Career readiness skills can be cultivated in the early grades during creative role - playing.

States can promote the inclusion of early childhood education theory and practices by stipulating that those teaching grades K - 3 receive training in early childhood development during their credential program.

Teachers are available at selected libraries during after school hours from September - early June to assist students in grades 1 through 8 and their parents.

Older students piled up in early grades, and many dropped out during the late 19th century and first half of the 20th century.

, says Matt DiCarlo [4], an education policy expert at the Albert Shanker Institute, those school improvements Bush points to have largely resulted from the fact that his changes to the metric during the early 2000s equated to gaming the system, producing artificially higher numbers of schools receiving As in the years after the first grades were released.

This report makes the case that effective parent engagement during the span from preschool through the early grades is a key contributor to children's positive academic outcomes.

During the early months of 2002, five first - grade (second year of school) teachers were enlisted from teacher - related internet listservs, to do a cooperative study of the relationship between fluency in writing the alphabet, and concomitant reading skill.

Using a difference - in - differences specification, we estimate the effects of Washington State's College Bound Scholarship Program on high school grades, whether students graduate from high school, and incarceration in state prison during high school or during early adulthood.

For example, during the early 2000s, corporate bonds rated as investment grade by Moody's had a historical default rate of 2.09 percent.

During the early stages of the disease, though a systolic murmur of grade 1 - 2 is heard there are usually no clinical signs.

Eligible activities under the Mid-South module include: 1) removal of rice straw from the field after harvest, 2) early drainage at the end of the growing season, 3) intermittent flooding during the growing season, and 4) increased water and / or energy use efficiency, achieved through measures including but not limited to: convert contour levees to precision or zero grade; use of side inlet / poly piping systems; use of more efficient diesel pumps; switch from diesel to electric pumps; use of soil moisture sensors to tailor flood to water needs.

An example of this comes with a report from the Telegraph that says cinema staff in the UK will use military - grade night vision headsets to combat piracy during the UK's early run of the new Bond romp Spectre.

«During an early morning discussion on the security deficiencies of the cryptocurrency market, he was appraised of CryptoSecure's military - grade hybrid Blockchain, Trusted Solaris OS, One Time Pad infrastructure project.»

Outlining the history of the association, he went on to add that «During an early morning discussion on the security deficiencies of the cryptocurrency market, he was apprised of CryptoSecure's military - grade hybrid blockchain, Trusted Solaris OS, One Time Pad infrastructure project.»

The Career Institute, a collaborative career development program, has been implemented in an early college (a 6th through 12th grade school) during the past seven years.

An association between achievement deficits and disruptive behavior has been found as early as first grade and is an important predictor of outcome during elementary and middle school.

The ACE score increased the risk of initiating illicit drugs during early adolescence, mid-adolescence, and adulthood and for lifetime use in a strong graded manner (P <.05; Table 4), with initiation during early adolescence having the strongest graded relationship with the ACE score, with exception of experiencing 1 ACE, which was not statistically significant.

During Phase III (third grade - sixth grade), the study focused on how the life experiences of children during the early and middle childhood years influenced their develoDuring Phase III (third grade - sixth grade), the study focused on how the life experiences of children during the early and middle childhood years influenced their develoduring the early and middle childhood years influenced their development.

The main purpose of Phase IV (seventh grade - ninth grade) is to investigate how earlier functioning and experiences in concert with contextual and maturational factors in adolescenc, influence social relationships, health, adjustment, and intellectual and academic development during middle adolescence.

During Phase II (54 months - second grade) the study continued to examine the role of early care and it's relationship to the child's development, as well as the child's transition to formal (elementary) school.

During the preschool and early grade school years, children are primarily focused on group acceptance and having companions to spend time with and play with.

Participants were 152 community - based early adolescent individuals (72 female, 80 male; mean age 12.6 years, s.d. 0.4 years; range 11.4 — 13.7 years), from a larger sample of 2479 grade 6 students (from 97 separate schools, representative of Victorian school sector type and socioeconomic classification) as part of a broader adolescent development study conducted at Orygen Youth Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, the aim of which was to investigate risk factors for psychopathology during adolescence.