Sentences with phrase «eighth grade teaching»

During Levinson's interactive PPE session, she presented participants with a case study focused on an eighth grade teaching team, which had to decide whether to promote or retain a 15 - year - old girl who had failed required classes and was reading way below grade level, but who also had worked hard to succeed in the face of numerous personal traumas.

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By 1919, the self - taught pioneer with an eighth - grade education was producing more than half the cars in the U.S.. By lowering the cost of the automobile — eventually to $ 350 — he made cars part of the fabric of middle class America.

Some years ago I was supposed to teach an eighth - grade Bible school class what a dysfunctional group is and why it is spelled with a «y.» I'm not sure if it was before that explanation or after that we were supposed to make pizza together, but what we had while we were working through the etymology of «dys» was not exactly group enthusiasm.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

W. H. Rockenstein, «Children and Religious Television: An Experimental Study of the Reactions of Children in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grades in Monogalia County, West Virginia to Children's Religious Television Programming,» Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, 1966, pp. 161 - 75; Frank Klos, «A Study of the Origin, Utilization, and Impact of the «Davey and Goliath» Series 1959 - 77 and Its Present Effectiveness in Teaching Religious Values to Children,» Ed.D. dissertation, Temple University, 1979, pp. 177 - 82.

The next year she moved across the San Fernando Valley to North Hollywood and Harvard - Westlake, where she also teaches seventh and eighth grade in the middle school.

Video from an eighth - grade geometry class in Japan collected as part of James Stigler's international study of math teaching

In May of 2013, Mr. Bucher graduated Woodland Star's eighth grade class which he began teaching when they were in grade 5.

Linda has shepherded one Steiner School class from first through eighth grades, taken another from sixth through eighth, and is currently happily engaged in teaching a lively band of third graders.

Her first class, which she taught from second through eighth grade, completed their eighth grade year in 2010.

In 2011 she retired after decades of serving on the faculty of Green Meadow Waldorf School where she took several classes from first through eighth grades and taught high school chemistry.

Educators who teach English and math to third through eighth graders will be evaluated based partially on the federally required state tests in those grades and subjects.

Release: Saturday, May 14, 2016 [Netflix] Directed by: Andy Billman Imagine growing up in a city where you're taught, almost assuredly from at least the eighth grade onward, that losing is a reality you must accept, simply based on some silly geographic lottery that you were thrust into at birth.

Brett is in his fourteenth year of teaching at Holicong Middle School this year, ten years in eighth grade and now his fourth teaching freshmen.

Some years ago I taught a life skills class to a group of eighth grade boys.

A recent study compared the videotaped teaching styles of 81 eighth - grade math teachers in the U.S. with those of teachers in Germany and Japan.

«I teach sixth - to eighth - grade communications arts in the inner city,» said Ellen McClurg of Turner Middle school in St. Louis, Missouri.

We should not leave it up to the students to accidentally stumble upon connections across disciplines, as my eighth - grade history student did when she realized that two of her teachers were independently teaching her about the Mayan civilization.

Several years ago when I was teaching eighth - grade Latin American history, we were engaged in a unit on the Mayan civilization.

But in our data set it was the graduates of Florida Atlantic who were significantly less effective at teaching reading to students in sixth through eighth grades.

In math the graduates of the University of Florida, the state's premier university, outperformed the other institutions at teaching students in fourth to eighth grade by as much as 10 percent of a standard deviation, even though NCTQ gave it no better rating than Florida State or Florida Atlantic.

In other words, the rallying cry for the establishment of a common core of content standards in 2008 explicitly acknowledged that for America to be benchmarked against top - performing countries we should teach algebra in the eighth grade.

As a social studies teacher, he had seventh and eighth grade students in a «looped» class in which he taught the same students for both years.

Then in 2002 - 2003 he returned to teaching mathematics exclusively at both the seventh and eighth - grade levels.

Writes Richard Bankert, an eighth grade science teacher, «The best teachers are artists who know the science of teaching.»

Jeff Schwartz, an eighth - grade U.S. history teacher at Lincoln (where Monastero used to teach), says Private Watkins's presentation gives students «something they don't get from a textbook.

Mary Bishop, who conducts STScI workshops and has taught at Saugerties Junior Senior High School, in Saugerties, New York, for all but two of her 42 years in education, says she uses both HubbleSite and Amazing Space with her eighth - and ninth - grade students.

Christopher Tsang has taught sixth, seventh, and eighth grade humanities at the Harbor School for the past seven years.

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.

Monastero, half of the Los Angeles - based sketch - comedy duo Ten West, taught for seven years at Santa Monica's Lincoln Middle School, five of those as an eighth - grade U.S. history teacher.

When Sandi Roberts and David Smith began teaching their eighth - grade students at rural Whitwell (Tennessee) Middle School about the Holocaust, they realized how difficult it was for students to grasp the enormity of human loss.

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.

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.

As Winters, who teaches eighth - grade history, explains: «We hope that by participating in past events, students will learn not only about their historical figures» lives and achievements but also about the times when those people lived.

After graduating from Lesley University in Cambridge (where he earned another master's), but before heading to Harvard, Yung taught eighth - grade U.S. history for six years in Milton, Mass..

Doose, who now teaches sixth through eighth grade English Language Development (ELD) at nearby King Middle School, was surprised that so many of the occupations discussed during career day were new to the students.

Colorado Education Commissioner William Moloney has suggested revisiting the concept of elementary schools that teach kindergarten through eighth grade.

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.

As Winters, who teaches eighth - grade history, explains: «We hope students will learn not only about their historical figures» lives and achievements but also about the times when those people lived.

A 2009 study found that eighth - grade students who were involved in hands - on science projects demonstrated a deeper understanding of concepts than students who were taught with traditional methods such as textbook readings, lectures, and tests (Riskowski et al., 2009).

As an eighth - grade teacher, I constantly hear from high school teachers how «we» don't teach certain topics in middle school.

These students at Claremont Middle School have just completed their slave narrative project, a unit that's been taught at the school by eighth - grade history and English teachers for three years.

Ask Dr. Shore About... A Student Who Stutters I teach eighth - grade English and a boy in my class has a pronounced stutter.

Even though Sessions teaches eighth grade, she finds that picture books are often great tools for making that transition.

In eighth grade, I had the good fortune of being taught history by Paul Murray, who was not only gifted at making the learning interesting, but also showed how much he cared about me — far beyond my performance in his class.

Birmingham Covington's student - centered philosophy is embedded throughout the curriculum, from third - and fourth - grade classes focused on teaching individual resourcefulness to an almost wholly independent capstone class in seventh and eighth grade called Thinkering Studio.

«The Blackboard Jungle helped me decide to become a teacher,» concurred Fran Borden, who teaches eighth grade at Unadilla Valley Middle School in South New Berlin, New York.

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.

The State Board of Education will be able to disentangle competing math standards that have been creating confusion over what should be taught in eighth grade, under a bill headed to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk.

Previously, he taught eighth - grade English in Oakland USD and ninth - grade humanities at Berkeley High School in California.