An alternative is the «speed - dating» approach described by Nilda Soloman, a Brooklyn middle school leader: «
An entire grade team sits in one room at different stations.
Not exact matches
«I actually rallied my
entire team of science teachers in 6th, 7th, and 8th
grades to set our plans aside and focus on the same thing for that day,» she says.
In a culture where Cordova teachers used to fear losing half the football
team by Homecoming due to failing
grades, it's projected they won't lose one player this
entire season.
In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a
team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an
entire school day in 737 typical fifth -
grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third -
grade classrooms.
My
grade - level
team would have all of these amazing experiences but then across the
entire school it was very different.
The unit is designed for one
team of approximately 120 to 130 students but could easily be adapted to include an
entire grade level or school, each focusing on a local environmental issue or problem.
This year the four member teacher
team, science, math, english, and special education, will function as leaders in their school as they engage the
entire 6th
grade faculty in these investigations.
School or
team proposals impacting either an
entire grade or subject level and those impacting an
entire school population or division are encouraged as are individual teacher proposals.
By the 6th
grade, his special education
team had concluded that Matthew would need help learning for his
entire academic career.
When a department or
grade - level
team — or better yet, an
entire school or district — uses common rubrics, evaluation results are more consistent because the performance criteria don't vary from teacher to teacher or from school to school.