Sentences with phrase «elementary grade teaching»

I still hold California credentials for elementary grade teaching and secondary mathematics and history.

In addition, she has over a decade of practitioner experience at the elementary grades teaching in the brick and mortar setting.

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Ina is a co-founder and long time teacher of the Denver Waldorf School, bringing decades of experience to her teaching in both elementary grades and high school.

When a typical school teacher starts their day they know that they will most likely teach only one grade in the elementary years.

In elementary grades, how children are taught is as important as what they are taught.

In addition to achieving my goal of having a business, I am also certified to teach Family & Consumer Sciences (K - 12) and elementary grades K - 6 in Pennsylvania.

«Nutrition should be taught in the elementary grades and we should be following up with lunches that reflect sound nutrition,» says Claudie Phillips, assistant director of food service for Chicago Public Schools.

«Most teachers do not teach tested subjects and the state must now spend many millions of dollars to test teachers of the arts, early elementary grades, physical education, and high school subjects,» she said.

Current state frameworks for teaching mathematics to children in elementary and middle school (kindergarten through grade 8) can include more than 100 objectives for a particular grade, says Francis «Skip» Fennell, NCTM president.

I teach elementary school, grades 3 through 5.

A day spent split between assignments in an elementary school gave me the chance to teach two fourth grade classes, observe some quality teaching, and work with students individually.

Biemiller's current research involves vocabulary development identifying specific vocabulary needed during the elementary years, analysis of developmental factors in vocabulary development, and testing new teaching methods for promoting vocabulary and language development in both primary and junior grades.

Although 43 states are employing strategies that encourage elementary teachers to teach higher - order thinking skills, few have developed comprehensive policies for reforming the curriculum to include such skills in the early grades, a study by a federally sponsored research center shows.

Teaching elementary students, as young as first grade, to research is no easy task.

Hill says the quality of math instruction varies widely, especially in elementary schools, where generalists typically teach all subjects, up through fourth or fifth grade.

Before coming to Butler University, Lori was an Assistant Professor at Marian University in Indianapolis and earlier on taught children and adolescents with emotional challenges in the upper elementary grades, worked as a school counselor in Indianapolis, was a private practice counselor and co-owner of the Indianapolis Counseling Center, and was a behavioral consultant for Methodist Hospital, in Indianapolis on the adolescent psychiatric unit.

Even if the teacher was from the distant past, for instance, during the elementary school grades, they remember the teacher's passion, energy, caring, love, and commitment and that became a driving force for choosing to go into teaching.

Illustrations by Blair Kelly Once upon a time, teachers taught students to read on grade level in elementary school.

For elementary teachers, work with other grade level teachers and dive into the math and science books, for example, and find common topics to prepare to teach math and science jointly rather than separately.

In another example, I observed an elementary teacher that was teaching vocabulary to her second - grade students.

«In the 1970s and 1980s, policies and practice favored bilingual education, in which children were taught partially or entirely in their native language, and then transitioned at some point during the elementary grades to English - only instruction,» wrote Johns Hopkins researcher Robert E. Slavin and colleagues in a study published in 2010.

Miami - Dade superintendent Alberto Carvalho wants to stop teaching 30 minutes of Spanish a day in elementary school — nobody learns much — and offer a rigorous, intensive dual - immersion program for students with grade - level skills.

«Things were different right after the shooting — parents were at school a lot more,» said Jeanne Shirley, who teaches fifth grade at one of the county's 92 elementary schools.

After graduation, she taught grades K through 4 at two different schools (including the elementary school where she had tutored).

He has taught elementary and 7 - 12th grade English and co-developed the Tar River Writing Project.

If you teach the upper elementary grades or middle school, chances are your students will enjoy the movie Hoot.

For example, we at Fordham and the Knowledge Matters Campaign are fanatical about getting elementary schools to teach history, geography, science, art, and music in the early grades.

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

With 20 years of experience, Clare Forseth, a 5th - and 6th - grade mathematics teacher at Marion Cross School in Norwich, Vt., could be expected to be fairly certain about how she teaches math to upper - elementary students.

Shortly after I began teaching as a provisionally certified elementary - school teacher, I remember counting myself lucky that I was assigned to teach 5th grade, since I hadn't been taught the first thing about teaching children to read.

This year Ellis is back in the elementary school — teaching fifth grade at Engleman Elementary.

Her experience teaching elementary school students in New Orleans as a first - grade teacher and then working as a reading immersion specialist had shown Grayson the importance of literacy for young children.

I returned back to my elementary school roots to teach sixth grade.

She has taught Pre-K, Kindergarten, Gifted and Talented 3rd - 6th Grades, Dr. Shipley was an elementary principal, a cheer coach, and was on...

LOVING LITERACY with Ann - Maree Thompson: Ann - Maree has taught in elementary schools for over 17 years, many of which have been spent teaching grades 1 and 2 in both urban and rural locations.

He has experience teaching across all grades in elementary / primary schools in England, Germany and Asia.

Telia Kapteyn Learning and Teaching Hometown: Atlanta Experience: Taught kindergarten as a Teach For America corps member in Brooklyn, New York; high school English teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classrooms

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

With science educator, Betsy Davis and the ELECTS team, she has recently conducted a series of studies investigating the value of educative supports for science teaching in the upper elementary grades.

She compares the approach to the way many elementary schools teach reading — by offering 83 minutes of math instruction on most days and teaching students by grade level and by ability.

She is a former elementary teacher and in her last classroom position, she taught fourth grade in an urban school.

Katz, who has been teaching in the elementary grades for 17 years, will be looking for another job.

In urban schools learning is offered in disconnected jolts.The work of the day is unconnected with the work of preceding days or subsequent ones.Life in urban schools is comprised of specific periods and discrete days each of which is forced to stand entirely on its own.If homework is not done, or books not taken home (behaviors which are universal for males and almost so for females by the completion of the upper elementary grades), everything students are taught must be compressed into isolated periods of «stand alone» days.Teachers and principals, as well as students, survive one day at a time.

«Social studies and science just weren't being taught» in the elementary grades, says Grossman.

In the elementary grades 3 through 5, students of new Teach for America teachers gained an average of 5.8 percent of a standard deviation more on the TAAS reading exam than did students with other new teachers, a difference that fell just short of statistical significance (see Figure 2).

Nine U.S. teachers taught elementary grades, and six taught at the secondary level.

Learning Mathematics through Representations (LMR) is a research - based curriculum unit for the teaching and learning of integers and fractions in the elementary grades, using the number line as the principal representational context.

She has extensive experience coordinating interventions for struggling readers in grades K - 12 and has taught Language Development classes to elementary ESL students and to adults learning English as a second language.

Those interested in mathematics teaching at the elementary grades should take ME 503 instead of ME 360 and ME 504 instead of ME 559.

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