Sentences with phrase «eighth grade classroom»

Stigler and Hiebert reported that the average eighth grade classroom size was «thirty - seven in Japan.»

She is a certified kindergarten through eighth grade classroom teacher, a certified teacher of K — 12 mathematics, and a certified instructional leader working extensively with the New Mexico State Math Leadership Team and on the New Mexico Standards Based Assessment.

Education experience: I spent 12 years as a kindergarten through eighth grade classroom teacher and 11 years as a principal / director.

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In the 1990s, a researcher named James Stigler coordinated a vast international project that involved videotaping the classrooms of hundreds of randomly selected eighth - grade math teachers in the United States, Germany, and Japan.

With a total enrollment of around 5400 students from pre-school to eighth grade, Gadsden will be serving breakfast - in - the - classroom in all nine of its schools: six elementary schools, two junior highs, and a pre-school.

Whether it is helping a teacher to troubleshoot a kit in the classroom, helping a fellow scientist to find an age - appropriate science activity to do with an eighth - grade classroom, or telling funders why our programs are worth funding, writing and communication skills are key to our work.

As Kayla, Fisher guides us through the frightening halls and classrooms of her middle school during the last few days of her eighth grade year — and all of the fears, regrets and hopes that come with graduation.

The following quote is one of the first things my eighth - grade students see when they walk into their classroom in September:

She spent seven years as a classroom teacher ranging from first to eighth grade.

Making Tomorrow's Millionaires This site, part of an eighth - grade social studies project, includes portfolio templates for use in the classroom as well as links to sources for current stock prices.

We've organized our classrooms sequentially, from kindergarten to eighth grade.

I was already experimenting with flexible seating in my eighth - grade English classroom when I saw a video about combating writer's block by working in a box castle.

Eighth - grade students in Laura Bradley's flexible classroom make themselves comfortable to work.

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.

In response to administrators» and teachers» worries about the vocabulary skills of Boston Public School students, a group of researchers and educators — assembled by the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, and directed by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Catherine Snow — designed a curriculum supplement called Word Generation, for sixth - to eighth - grade classrooms.

A three - year study of teaching and learning in more than 400 third -, sixth -, and eighth - grade classrooms in Chicago found that when students were given writing and mathematics assignments calling for more authentic work, they performed better on tests used to judge basic skills.

«Kids do an awful lot of sitting in chairs and listening to people tell them things,» saysJones, whose idea for the outreach program came from a rather fruitless day as a visitinglecturer in an eighth - grade classroom.

In an eighth - grade classroom, conflict resolution might also necessitate empathy and cognitive flexibility.

First segment of a six - episode series about a workshop where eighth - grade students in New York City are asked to dream up the basic elements of the classroom of the future using design thinking.

More than half of American teachers say they use digital games in their classrooms, according to a national survey of 500 kindergarten through eighth - grade teachers conducted by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop.

Heather Wolpert - Gawron Student Engagement Blogger and English teacher Heather Wolpert - Gawron asked her eighth grade students what they find most engaging in the classroom

In IDRA's recent work with San Marcos CISD and Texas State University through a grant from the Texas Education Agency to improve science achievement for students in kindergarten through eighth grade, we identified seven umbrella research - supported strategies to help ELs achieve in the science classroom.

In our most recent study, we analyzed a set of student - created digital documentary projects constructed in a standards - based, eighth - grade United States history classroom (Swan & Hofer, 2013).

It will be a kindergarten through eighth - grade school and will feature multigrade classrooms for K / 1, 2/3 and 4/5.

Becky was teaching in an eighth grade English classroom kitty - corner from mine, and I wandered in.

I was so energized by my children's experiences at Christine Donnell School of the Arts that I returned to the classroom and became the school's eighth - grade teacher.

Principal Elise Matson and eighth grade teacher Cathy VanTreese spoke about what their classrooms look like now in comparison to previous years and how personalized learning has transformed their school.

Florida classrooms are also dealing with a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2002 limiting class sizes in certain subjects, such as math, science and language arts (18 students in prekindergarten through third grade; 22 students fourth through eighth grades; and 25 students in high school).

In general, through eighth grade there was not much difference in motivation or classroom relationships between the retained (See Retention, page 38.)

Eighth - grade teacher Carrie Pierce uses discovery and inquiry - based learning in her classroom (and no textbooks.)

If you use the Second Step program, you know that it includes easy - to - teach classroom lessons for early learning through eighth grade designed to enhance students» academic and social - emotional competence by building skills for learning, and empathy, emotion - management, social problem - solving, and self - regulation skills.

West Belden experimented with a first - through - third grade multiage classroom (which it no longer has), and its middle school is split this year into one departmental team for fifth and sixth graders and another for seventh and eighth graders.

A «note chart» displays ideas from classroom discussion in Newton School's eighth grade Writing and History class.

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.

Amy Youngman (left) helps Danny Shapiro plan for his next week of teaching in the seventh - and eighth - grade classroom they share at ERES Academy in Oakland, Calif..

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the project leadership conducted observations in eighth - grade science classrooms on December 9 - 11, 2009, and March 15 - 18, 2010.

The project targets seventh - and eighth - grade science classrooms that serve high percentages of Hispanic students.

Sunlight streams through the door as students walk into Jessica Lura's eighth - grade classroom at Bullis Charter School in Los Altos, Calif..

Our analysis of 2014 teacher survey data,... showed that 50 percent of eighth grade teachers reported spending 3 to 5 hours per week of classroom instruction time on social studies....

The tweetstorm singled out teachers like Jessica Harris, who built Jefferson's band program «from the ground up,» and Ashley Shepherd and Britany Locher, who not only teach students ranging from a first - to eighth - grade reading level, but also «maintain a positive classroom environment focused on rigorous content, humor, and love.

Each externally sponsored Learning Journey promises not only to help extend and improve classroom learning but also ensure that every MPS student is provided with a diverse set of experiences upon completion of eighth grade.

«Aha Pūnana Leo assists Kula Kaiapuni Hawai`i families of Hilo children in the sixth through eighth grades with renting a building to provide classroom space for an intermediate / high school program to be named after the noted Hawaiian scholar and politician, Joseph Nāwahīokalani «ōpu`u.

I knew Tim was going to be the kid who walked in my eighth grade English Language Arts classroom door.

The study reported here examines the implementation and impact of LDC in eighth grade social studies and science classrooms in two states: Kentucky and Pennsylvania.

R Character Council is a 48 - minute elective class that is taught by our team of three regular classroom teachers: Ann Asher (eighth grade English), Brandi Owens (art), and Ryan Wideman (seventh grade science).

St. Richard School, located in Chicago's Archer Heights neighborhood, serves students beginning at 3 years old in their pre-kindergarten classroom, and continuing up to the eighth grade (Archdiocese of Chicago, 2016b).

The program gives grants to pre-k through eighth - grade classroom teachers to buy small pets — a small animal, reptile, fish or bird — and pet - care supplies for the classroom.

«Seventh and eighth grade teachers will be able to incorporate classroom pets into many study areas, helping their pre-teen students gain a great understanding of the natural world and responsible pet ownership.»

«We are delighted to have this opportunity to co-promote Mr.Storad's wonderful book and our grant program,» said Steve King, executive director of The Pet Care Trust — the non-profit organization that established the Pets in the Classroom program, which gives grants to pre-k through eighth - grade classroom teachers to buy small pet and pet - care supplies for the classroom.

Managed a eighth - grade classroom of over forty students by executing lesson plans and behavior management strategies, and addressing administrative affairs