Sentences with phrase «eighth grade language»

Taught Seventh and Eighth grade language arts education classes plus Eighth grade religion classes with an average of 25 students.

In 2013, program participant Carl Andersen developed a curriculum on global citizenship for his eighth grade language arts class, using the work of ART21 featured - artists to explore what it means to be a responsible global citizen, and to exist responsibly in terms of self, community, and society.

Myra Bridgers, an eighth grade language arts teacher who has been teaching for more than 20 years in Franklin County schools, said the past few years have been the worst she's seen in terms of budget cuts.

For the past four years, Emilio has taught seventh and eighth grade history and eighth grade language arts at the Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, where he also designed a middle school ethnic studies curriculum.

Before becoming a principal, Robert was an eighth grade language arts teacher at Old Court Middle School in Baltimore County, Maryland.

Mrs. Abaie has experience teaching kindergarten, first grade, and sixth through eighth grade language arts.

An inexperienced eighth grade language arts teacher relied on yelling, arguing with students in class, and writing office referrals to manage her fifth period class.

Eighth grade language arts teacher Charles Elliott is one half of of a dual teaching career couple.

«It was very different from what I was used to teaching in the past,» says Melissa Henderson, a seventh and eighth grade language arts teacher at Woodland.

«I've been working with ELL students my whole career,» said Scott Jensen, an eighth grade language arts teacher at Centennial Middle School in Portland, Ore. «I still feel like it's been only recently that I've been making tangible strides with these students.»

Prather teaches eighth grade language arts, eighth grade practical living, and an enrichment class for seventh and eighth graders at Silver Grove Independent School in Kentucky.

Jennifer Morrison, this year's Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's (ASCD) Outstanding Young Educator of the Year, is an eighth grade language arts teacher and department chair at Piedmont Open IB Middle School in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Not exact matches

Our dual - language program of both Mandarin and Spanish from first through fourth grades, followed by intensive study of Spanish from fifth through eighth grades, provides both an intellectual boost as well as a window into the cultural practices of the wider world — in Nashville and beyond.

According to Quote.com, Clinton's grammar and language are geared toward an approximately eighth - grade audience.

Before starting her writing career, Tanya Brown worked as an eighth - grade language arts teacher.

As an eighth - grade language arts teacher, I've experienced this myself.

In her assessment of four California public schools that use Waldorf methods, Oberman found that students tested below peers in language arts and math in the second grade, but they matched or tested above their peers in the same subjects by eighth grade.

For example, the challenging fourth - and eighth - grade language arts and mathematics tests have had a positive impact on teacher expectations and instruction.

On the eighth - grade academic research residency, students use their language skills to engage Japanese natives in conversation.

And more good news: the most recent sixth - grade proficiency scores surpassed AYP targets» for language and eighth graders met AYP language targets, missing AYP in math by one point.

In the early 1970s, when Strom was teaching eighth - grade language arts and social studies in Brookline, Massachusetts, community residents approached school administrators, asking if the district taught students about the Holocaust.

I'm told that eighth - grade math and tenth - grade English and language arts is the minimum you need to survive in this new economy.

Meghan Rosa, a UPCS seventh - and eighth - grade English language arts teacher, has her students share their low - stakes writing homework at the beginning of each class.

«To get more parents to come to open house, especially during that first open house, when grades and behavior may not be issues, I award keys to students who get someone to represent them at open house,» explains eighth - grade language arts teacher Anica H. Weeks.

Brendan Dotson learned about Urban Scholars Program while teach eighth - grade language arts and reading in SeaTac, Wash. «I was interested in the opportunity to spend time with educators who had been doing amazing work in urban schools all over the country,» he says.

Everything I know about the slow growing, cumulative nature of language proficiency suggests it is all but impossible to test prep your way to a high score on a third to eighth grade reading test, especially the more challenging Common Core tests.

Its «Readiness Pathway» assessment program reaches down to eighth grade, and its «Springboard» program to sixth — with «alignment» guides already prepared for Common Core standards in both English language arts and math for grades six through twelve.

It is possible to help a beginning English - language learner (ELL) improve so much in a matter of months that he or she can pass the sixth through eighth grade state standardized tests.

Lenzy Wallace Jr., now the assistant dean for the School of Business at South Carolina State University, attended Connecticut schools as a child and remembers being told in eighth grade that he would never be able to learn a foreign language: «I was told, «You people can't learn a foreign language.»

Art, history, engineering, language arts, and technology, both old and new, come together for eighth grade students in this rich project learning expedition at King Middle School in Portland, Maine.

ESSA maintains an annual assessment, testing every child from third to eighth grade in math and English language arts each year and once in high school, as well as in science three times.

Another educator, language arts / humanities teacher Nancy Slentz of Meridian Middle School in Lynden, Washington, was searching for a way to boost the homework completion rate among her eighth graders, so she developed a system that allows students to record their own grades.

Top Teacher Ties History to Current Events By tying the lessons of history to the issues of the day, Deirdra Grode, a seventh - and eighth - grade social studies and language arts teacher at Hoboken Charter School in Hoboken, New Jersey, is teaching her students to be analytical and socially aware.

Alumni completion of challenging courses in middle school (by the end of eighth grade), as defined by the state — this is certain to include Algebra I but may include other courses, or even non-curricular achievements if sufficiently well - defined (such as the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme assessment, or proficiency in a foreign language).

The largest district in the state, Schaumburg CCSD 54 was undergoing a transformation, with diverse immigrant cultures bringing 89 new languages into schools and swelling the student population to 14,000 students from preK to eighth grade.

Supplemental Table 1: Demonstrates that students who won lotteries for SSCs and students who did not are virtually identical on all measured characteristics, including race / ethnicity, gender, poverty status, eighth - grade reading and math proficiency, and English language learner and special education status.

Polikoff of the University of Southern California and Andrew Porter of the University of Pennsylvania looked at the value - added scores of 327 fourth - and eighth - grade mathematics and English language arts teachers across all six school districts included in the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) study (New York City, Dallas, Denver, Charlotte - Mecklenburg, Memphis, and Hillsborough County, Florida).

Federal law requires all public school students in grades 3 - 8 be tested annually in math and language arts, science in fifth and eighth grades, and high school students must take one math, one English, and one science test before graduation.

In addition, the evaluations of about 20 percent of educators — those who teach math and language arts in third through eighth grades — include student test scores.

As an eighth - grade language arts teacher, I am one of those teachers who will receive an SGP rating.

n The report highlights data such as fourth grade reading scores, eighth grade math results and Kentucky's college - and career - readiness results showing a 30 percentage - point gap between students based on English language proficiency, a 25 percentage - point gap between African American and white students, a 20 percentage - point gap based on identified learning differences and also family income, and a 10 percentage - point gap between Hispanic students and their white peers.

Major sticking points included evaluating how much weight should be given to scores attained from language arts and math tests on the state's Assessment of Skills and Knowledge for fourth through eighth grades, and the High School Proficiency Assessment.

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 Dane County, the biggest jump in test score averages was in the Marshall (in eighth - grade science, eighth - grade math, and fifth - grade reading), Wisconsin Heights (10th - grade science, 10th - grade social studies), and Verona (eighth - grade language arts) districts.

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.

Ms. Potter also said that the network has made trade - offs, including not offering foreign languages until eighth grade, in order to devote more time to math, English and science, the only subjects in which all elementary and middle school students take state tests.

Currently, most English language learner students in the third grade through eighth grade take the same state assessments that are administered to all other students, and these assessment results are used to measure their growth.

More than three times as many English language learner students score below the basic level on eighth - grade national math and reading exams as their white, English - proficient peers.

Planet Health is an interdisciplinary curriculum focused on improving the health and well - being of sixth through eighth grade students while building and reinforcing skills in language arts, math, science, social studies, and physical education.

When you look at NAEP results for 2013, California's growth in eighth grade reading scores was the top in the nation, getting close to the national average despite high poverty and second language levels and ranking near the bottom in per - pupil expenditures.