Sentences with phrase «elementary classroom studying»

The fourth and final wall resembles something one might find in an elementary classroom studying social studies.

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A total of 120 kindergarten and first - grade classrooms across 22 urban, low - income elementary schools were included in the study.

«They're also prevalent in elementary and middle school science classrooms as live animals for behavioral studies.

When not studying yeast in the lab, he made a home in the classroom, teaching biology to a wide range of students, in elementary school, college and medical school.

A separate study of elementary school classrooms found that kids were «off - task» more than a quarter of the time.

Lesson study in elementary social studies teacher education helps prepare our interns for the classroom, giving them the opportunity to learn about collaboratively planning, teaching and revising a social studies lesson so that it interests and challenges their students.

I have seen teachers in higher elementary grades and middle school special ed classrooms adapt the material to their age group and course of study.

A study delves into the relationship between an educator's math knowledge and the quality of their teaching in actual elementary school classrooms

When Gracie Davis, the school's elementary native studies teacher, who is also a resident of the reservation, arrived to take the fourth graders to her classroom, they broke out of their end - of - the - day restlessness.

Yet he concedes there is no way to know the prevalence of cheating, and notes that a well - cited study on cheating's prevalence in the Chicago public schools suggests that it occurs in 4 to 5 percent of elementary classrooms annually (see «To Catch a Cheat,» research, Winter 2004).

Due to the lack of time to teach social studies and science, there has been an increased focus on this in elementary classrooms.

Wellness News P.E. May Improve Girls School Performance Time spent in P.E. does not harm elementary school students» ability to excel in the classroom and may improve girls» academic performance, a national study says.

A new study by the National Council on Teacher Quality rates 1200 U.S. ed schools and generally finds them to be an «industry of mediocrity» that produces teachers who are poorly prepared to work in elementary and high - school classrooms.

The Instructional Leadership strand is designed for individuals who have taught at least three years, seek to increase their knowledge of instruction and curriculum in their subject area (science, mathematics or social studies) or English Language Arts (ELA) at the elementary and secondary levels, and are interested in finding ways to extend their influence beyond the classroom into areas such as coaching, curriculum development or teacher research.

According to more than 40 studies of elementary, middle, and high school English classrooms, discussion - based practices improve comprehension of the text and critical - thinking skills for students across ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic contexts (Murphy, Wilkinson, Soter, Hennessey, & Alexander, 2009; Applebee, Langer, Nystrand, Gamoran, 2003).

According to the three - year study, which is being conducted by the Santa Monica, Calif. - based RAND Corp., majorities of elementary and middle school science and math teachers in all three states report in surveys that they are making positive changes in the classroom by focusing on their states» academic standards or searching for better teaching methods.

Now, in a recent study, Hill and her colleagues have dug more deeply into the relationship between teachers» mathematical knowledge for teaching and the quality of their teaching in actual elementary school classrooms.

The report, «Learning Her Place: Sex Bias in the Elementary Classroom,» integrates a variety of earlier studies of elementary education with current data describing the treatment of females in the classroom.

We study a sample of midcareer elementary and middle school teachers in the Cincinnati Public Schools, all of whom were evaluated in a yearlong program, based largely on classroom observation, sometime between the 2003 — 04 and 2009 — 10 school years.

This one volume brings together in readable, concise language the authoritative research on effective classroom practices in all major disciplines currently taught in elementary and secondary schools: the arts, foreign language, health, language arts, physical education, mathematics, social studies, and science, as well as generic practices that apply across all disciplines.

In an excerpt from his new memoir This African - American Life, former president of the National Urban League Hugh B. Price describes his elementary and secondary education in Washington, D.C. Price focused on his studies and dreamed of playing major - league baseball — all while he and his schoolmates made history in some of the city's first integrated classrooms after the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.

A new study by the National Council on Teacher Quality which has been published by U.S. News rates 1200 U.S. ed schools and generally finds them to be an «industry of mediocrity» that produces teachers who are poorly prepared to work in elementary and high - school classrooms.

We had a similar stack in the back of the classrooms in my elementary school and high school social studies classes.

Sixteen percent of black male elementary school students in the classrooms of white female teachers received exclusionary discipline in North Carolina during our study period.

The study «Pressing for Elaboration in Student Talk About Texts» by Dot McElhone examined the use of high - press questions in elementary level classroom discussions.

Predictors of teacher - directed student use of technology in elementary classrooms: A multilevel SEM approach using data from the USEIT study.

Other studies have also demonstrated the importance of autonomy - support for motivated reading and writing in elementary school classrooms.

In a recent study, elementary school teacher Mackenzie Eikenberry employed the regular use of poetry in her third and fourth grade dual language classrooms.

Gifted elementary students languishing in regular classrooms, studies suggest.

Unlike the NSF / IERI project implementations which are schoolwide, the majority of initial studies worked with classroom teachers at the upper elementary level.

This study explores the ways in which male students in 23 first through fourth grade classrooms in a single all - male Hong Kong elementary school viewed and experienced drama integrated learning.

The studies regarding single - sex classrooms in elementary schools often boast shockingly positive results: a 2008 Stetson University study in Florida found that teaching single - sex math classes in fourth grade increased proficiency scores on the FCAT by 27 percent for girls and 30 percent for boys.

The goal of the peer - reviewed journal Social Studies and the Young Learner is to capture and enthuse elementary teachers across the country by providing relevant and useful information about the teaching of social studies to elementary students.The teaching techniques presented in this peer - reviewed journal are designed to stimulate the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills vital to classroom sStudies and the Young Learner is to capture and enthuse elementary teachers across the country by providing relevant and useful information about the teaching of social studies to elementary students.The teaching techniques presented in this peer - reviewed journal are designed to stimulate the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills vital to classroom sstudies to elementary students.The teaching techniques presented in this peer - reviewed journal are designed to stimulate the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills vital to classroom success.

After studying early childhood, elementary, and special education, she received her Montessori training for the ages 3 - 6 classroom.

Units of study at the elementary level are organized into lab «kits» which are rotated into elementary classrooms during each school year.

He wanted to alert the preservice teachers of forthcoming developments in technology (e.g., greater accessibility of the Internet) that would influence their elementary social studies classrooms.

A large - scale study of more than 50 elementary school classrooms found that decorations, such as these in a 2014 kindergarten room, are a frequent source of distraction and off - task student behavior.

This commentary represents the perspectives on the revised guidelines of a social studies education university faculty member who is deeply entrenched in the preparation of both preservice and in - service social studies and elementary educators and an instructional design and technology university faculty member who works closely with preservice and in - service teachers of all subject areas on the effective and appropriate integration of technology into the K - 12 classroom.

Berman laughed, reeling off the major changes that his colleagues have collaboratively implemented in fewer than 24 months: environmental magnet schools, university lab schools, new vocational curriculums for the high schools, performing arts in the elementary schools, more physical activity in the classroom, and international studies programs that will celebrate the cultural diversity of Jefferson County.

A 2011 study of elementary students by Expeditionary Learning Schools found that students in project - based classrooms scored higher on state - mandated assessments than students in more traditional classrooms.

Miller, who was an elementary education major with a STEM focus, had many opportunities to develop STEM lessons and put them into practice in the classroom throughout her studies.

This section discusses a number of lessons learned based on our extensive experiences with an ongoing longitudinal research study of preservice teachers learning to use inquiry - based science methods in the elementary classroom.

After a thorough review of available digital video capture and code programs, our project selected StudioCode ™ as the most comprehensive and customizable software tool for analysis and study of elementary classroom based inquiry science lessons.

Doubet completed her master's degree in education and doctorate in curriculum and instruction at the University of Virginia, where she worked closely with Carol Tomlinson and studied the effect of differentiated instruction on student performance in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.

Though the test has undergone some changes, a 2007 study of North Carolina teachers found significant overlap in the effectiveness distributions of elementary teachers who did and did not pass the Praxis II Subject Assessment Test, while large numbers of teachers who did not pass the exam achieved the same or greater levels of effectiveness in the classroom.7

This report summarizes information from Research fo Action's evaluation of the second year of the Reduced Class Size / Balanced Literacy (RCS / EBL) Initiative, provides two case studies of elementary classrooms where the initiative was being implemented, and a summary of survey results about participation, opinions and attidutes of PEF Balanced Literacy interns.

This guide is intended for elementary classroom teachers to use in developing their arts lessons and units of study in terms of learner outcomes and achievement using the visual and performing arts content standards.

Back to basics: Rethinking what is basic to education through an interpretive study of the work of teachers and students in elementary school classrooms.

For example, a study at Stetson University in Florida showed that among fourth graders at a public elementary school in the state, 37 % of boys reached proficiency levels in co-ed classes, while 86 % of boys in single - sex classrooms did (the boys in the study were matched so that they were statistically equivalent).

Two of the 10 studies listed in Table 2 followed students from their elementary school classrooms into adulthood, obtaining data on long - term outcomes, including college attendance and the quality of the college attended around age 20, earnings at age 28, the quality of the neighborhood of residence during adulthood, and teen parenthood.