Sentences with phrase «first grade classroom teacher»

As a first grade classroom teacher, Dr. Heggerty worked on an action research project on the importance of phonemic awareness in acquiring and mastering sound reading skills.

Below is an example of a FASTreading view for a first grade classroom teacher.

Mr. Gilbert transitioned into the role of a first grade classroom teacher serving students living in Northeast Philadelphia.

Not exact matches

Students in first grade teacher Veronica Petrillo's classroom carefully embellished brown bags with crayon illustrations, before assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches, bags of carrots, chips, Rice Krispie treats and juice boxes.

A classroom program that helps teachers adapt their interactions with students based on individuals» temperaments may lead to more student engagement in kindergarten, more teacher emotional support to kindergarten and first grade students, and better classroom organization and less off - task behavior in first - grade classes, according to research by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Similarly, first - grade INSIGHTS classrooms had higher teacher practices of classroom organization and lower classroom off - task behaviors over the school year compared to control classrooms.

My roommate and one of my best friends Melanie (who you guys virtually met a week or so ago) is a first grade teacher and has the unique challenge of finding something stylish but also classroom friendly everyday.

She spent seven years as a classroom teacher ranging from first to eighth grade.

Planning lessons involves integrating more social learning into the classroom, said Flanders» first grade teacher Smith.

«I am in my 13th year of teaching, but this is my first year to incorporate flexible seating into my classroom,» said first - grade teacher Ashley Rice Broomfield, before expressing a common sentiment: «I will never go back to traditional seating.»

For example, I was visiting in a first - grade classroom where the teacher had cut flash cards in half.

On a first - ever report card of its kind, 13 out of 20 states earned a grade of C or lower for the quality of the standards they have set to assess whether teachers now in the classroom have adequate knowledge of subjects they teach.

More specifically, the researchers 1) examine possible differences by classroom, school, and literacy models; 2) explore the relationship between observable features of the classroom literacy environment and children's literacy growth during the first grade year; 3) characterize the variability in the levels of teacher understanding of the chosen literacy model and of early literacy development; and 4) assess whether there are qualitative differences in children's oral discourse skills and writing skills with the school's chosen model of literacy instruction.

Join two middle school teachers in their first post of a year - long series about implementing a PBL pilot program in their fifth grade classroom.

«The research for our paper focused on first - grade classrooms in the Boston Public Schools, and we were very pleased to be part of a successful collaboration with the students, teachers, and administrators in Boston,» Tivnan says.

Kindergarten and first - grade students learn in regular elementary classrooms, with one teacher for all subjects.

Most recently, before taking this year out of the classroom, I worked as a kindergarten / first grade looping teacher at Two Rivers PCS.

He also pointed out that University of Virginia researchers studying first - grade classrooms found low - income and nonwhite students were more likely to be in «lower overall quality classrooms» (which isn't quite the same thing as having lousier teachers).

He was thinking, I'm sure, that until a principal is absolutely confident of a teacher's ability, that teacher should not be placed in a first - grade classroom.

If a teacher can not be trusted to know and to utilize the best instructional programs and strategies for teaching each child to read, that teacher does not belong in a first - grade classroom.

First and most obvious, we've organized the entire, massive K — 12 system around an age - based, grade - level, 180 - days - per - year calendar; around mostly self - contained and generally low - tech classrooms; and around a pedagogical model centered on a single teacher teaching a uniform curriculum to twenty to thirty children for a prescribed amount of time each day, children who don't have much in common except that they're more or less the same age and (usually) live in pretty much the same community.

10, a former first - grade teacher, has founded BrightLoop, an iPad - based software tool for teachers to use in their classrooms to track qualitative feedback on their students.

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

Forms and Testing First - grade teacher Jill Perkins provides a number of useful — and sometimes hard - to - find — templates, including a weekly lesson plan, ABC flash cards, a handwriting practice page, a 100s chart, and a classroom grading aid.

Rogers, on leave from her position as a first and second grade looping teacher at Leeds Elementary School, in Jefferson County, Alabama, said she earned masters and doctoral degrees — and national certification — not to move into administration, but to be a better classroom teacher.

The Brown Center's talented research analyst Katharine Lindquist helped me calculate value - added measures of teacher effectiveness for 2,272 4th - and 5th - grade new teachers in North Carolina who entered the classroom between 1999 - 2000 and 2002 - 03, and tracked them for the first five years of their careers.

The researchers focused on four first grade classrooms with experienced and commended teachers and similar demographics (70 % subsidized lunch, 60 % African American, 36 % Caucasian).

The Title I teachers returned to the first - and second - grade classrooms for 30 minutes in the afternoon to provide one - on - one or one - on - two help to struggling readers.

Method We began by identifying four first - grade teachers who had considerable classroom experience, were considered good teachers by their principals, and taught at schools with similar demographics.

For example, Emily, a first - grade teacher, made a computer station in her classroom with old laptops that she salvaged from being discarded at her school.

Rebecca helped a first grade teacher organize her classroom to provide one - on - one support for her emerging readers.

Literacy instruction in nine first - grade classrooms: Teacher characteristics and student achievement.

Spencer is a first grade teacher in her second year at Dr. King Elementary School in Syracuse, NY and she embodies the characteristics of a No - Nonsense Nurturer in her classroom.

The parent sought the help of a sympathetic first - grade teacher, and together with the kindergarten teacher, arranged for the student to spend half of his time in the first - grade classroom.

For example, in implementing the literacy rotation, first - grade teachers proposed that one paraprofessional be allocated to each first - grade classroom, which required that the upper - grade teachers have fewer than one per classroom.

Impact of the Teacher Study Group Professional Development Program on student vocabulary and observed teaching practice: A replication in first - grade classrooms

This is her first time in a first grade classroom and she is so excited to learn from Brooke's amazing teachers!

(Tenn.) A report out this month marking the results of the first three years of a new program that trains principals to better evaluate teachers using classroom observation found 100,000 additional students were on grade level in math in 2014 as compared to 2010; and 57,000 more were on grade level in science.

Following that, she taught as a classroom teacher in first grade and later in second grade.

Cary returned to the classroom as a third - grade teacher, working at Match Community Day School in Boston, Achievement First Endeavor Elementary School in Brooklyn, and Democracy Prep Harlem Prep Elementary School, a high - performing BES school in New York City.

Today, math specialists work with teachers in first through fifth grade, collaborating to create different ST Math classrooms based on student needs and weaknesses.

A veteran first - grade teacher was faced with an incident in which a small group of boys began building a wall that spanned the width of the classroom.

Jen Williams, who after over a decade as a first grade teacher is now coaching fellow teachers at Juan Cabrillo Elementary School, says some teachers were nervous to have her oversee their classrooms.

He served as a classroom teacher for 28 years, including 24 years as a first grade teacher.

The study — funded by the Department of Education and the National Institutes of Health — found first - grade teachers with a higher percentage of students with math difficulties in their classrooms were more likely to use student - centered instructional methods (such as the use of calculators, or movement and music to learn math) that have not been associated with achievement gains.

Renard specifically asserts that schools should not pair new classroom teachers in inclusion teams, require them to coach or advise extracurricular activities, assign them a school duty period, place them on committees, give them the most challenging grade levels or students, or require them to switch grade levels or courses for the first few years.

«I grew up hoping to become an elementary teacher, and through AmeriCorps, I was in a first - grade classroom for two years,» says Jennifer Esswein who served with AmeriCorps for Literacy and Math through the Ohio State University in the late 1990s and now works in school improvement and accountability.

The grant - funded DREAM initiative trains California third - and fourth - grade teachers in arts / literacy practices, and after its first two years of implementation, language arts test scores of students in these teachers» classrooms increased by 87 points.

The researchers found that the higher the number of struggling students, who scored in the bottom 15 percent in kindergarten, in a first - grade teacher's classroom, the more likely the teachers were to use manipulatives (hands - on materials), calculators, music and movement (See Table 3 on page 12 in the study).

She served as a classroom science, math and social studies teacher, in grades 4 through 8, first at John F. Long Elementary School in Phoenix, Arizona from 2005 to 2007, followed by White Pine Middle School in Saginaw, Michigan from 2007 to 2011.