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Books were set alight destroying two
first grade classrooms and threatening messages were left behind: «There is no coexistence with cancer» and «Kahane was right,» referring to the controversial Rabbi Meir Kahane, who called Arabs «dogs» and advocated
for their removal.
Mark Barden, whose seven - year - old son Daniel was shot to death in his
first -
grade classroom, said he and other Sandy Hook parents had been advocating
for the bill
for more than three years.
Accidental Electrical Fire Destroys Buildings at Pasadena Waldorf Altadena Country Club offers space
for childcare, thanks in part to Five Acres CEO Chanel Boutakidis (Tuesday, September 22, Altadena CA)-- On Friday August 29th at approximately 5:30 pm, an accidental electrical fire destroyed the building housing Pasadena Waldorf School's
first and second
grade classrooms at their historic campus -LSB-...]
Hine developed Keep Busy and Carry On
for two
classrooms, one
first and one second
grade, in a local elementary school.
Earl gets his
first bad
grade ever, he withdraws from family, friends and
classroom to his secret hideaway in the school boiler room, taking on the persona
for the «Phantom of the Auditorium.»
I create fun PowerPoint games
for prek, kindergarten, and
first grade classrooms.
The game is appropriate
for kindergarten or
first grade classrooms.
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.
Samantha Beattie has taught
first grade for eight years and is currently teaching a multi-age
classroom of
first and second - graders.
«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.
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.
I began moving my
first - and second -
grade classroom to flexible seating with an old folding bench
for kneeling and a sofa table
for standing.
For example, in a
first -
grade classroom, conflict resolution might just mean sharing and taking turns.
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.
First and second
grade students of the Blue Pod at Oak View Elementary School in Fairfax, Virginia, took responsibility
for some very special guests in their
classroom.
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
Jennifer Neff shows you the steps she uses to choose a complex text
for her
first -
grade classroom.
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 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.
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.
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.
They observed the language arts activities and overall dynamic in each
classroom to identify the specific instructional practices that appeared most successful
for children entering the
first grade with minimal reading skill.
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.
Put expertise into action with Fountas & Pinnell
Classroom ™: a
first - of - its - kind, cohesive system
for high - quality
classroom - based literacy instruction
for all children in
grades PreK — 6.
I am using a word wall
for the
first time this year in my 1st and 2nd
grade classroom.
His
first student observation in a third -
grade classroom sealed the deal
for Mercadel.
Two PA games that can be played in kindergarten and
first grade classrooms for very short periods of time are Turtle Talk and the Itty Bitty Bit game.
He served as a
classroom teacher
for 28 years, including 24 years as a
first grade teacher.
West Belden experimented with a
first - through - third
grade multiage
classroom (which it no longer has), and its middle school is split this year into one departmental team
for fifth and sixth graders and another
for seventh and eighth graders.
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.
Student writing from her
first grade classroom was chosen to be part of a national resource, In Common, a K - 12 collection of exemplary student writing pieces, and Jane was chosen as the lead teacher
for the K - 5 Great Schools Milestones Videos on proficient writing currently featured on the GreatSchools web site
for parents and teachers.
For their
first blended learning pilot project, the network focused on a single flipped
classroom at one school, to help more students successfully complete Algebra I in 8th
grade and continue along an advanced math sequence through high school.
Atkinson says there are two reasons why tests are so important: The
first is to judge how schools are doing (
for the
first time, schools this year were assigned A-F
grades based largely on student test scores); the second is to figure what the students know to drive
classroom instruction.
In the
first «residency» year, you'll learn the basics of how to build relationships with students, families and colleagues; you'll apply proven strategies
for establishing a positive and productive
classroom culture; you'll learn teaching strategies specific to the
grade levels and subject areas that you teach (e.g., high school biology); and you'll develop skills in lesson planning and assessment design.
«As a
classroom teacher myself —
first teaching high school students in the juvenile justice system, then middle school, then third
grade — I had seen the amazing changes that happened when students were asked to think
for themselves instead of sitting passively while their teacher «delivered» instruction.
For example, one school saw a dramatic improvement in five high - priority metrics included in the culture plan, including a 59 % reduction in the amount of out - of - school suspensions between the 2012 - 13 and 2013 - 14 school years, a 56 % reduction in classroom off - task / disruptive behaviors across nine grade levels, and an increase from 57.2 % to 59 % in Academic Performance Index in just one school year, with a Value Added grade of C for the first time in more than five yea
For example, one school saw a dramatic improvement in five high - priority metrics included in the culture plan, including a 59 % reduction in the amount of out - of - school suspensions between the 2012 - 13 and 2013 - 14 school years, a 56 % reduction in
classroom off - task / disruptive behaviors across nine
grade levels, and an increase from 57.2 % to 59 % in Academic Performance Index in just one school year, with a Value Added
grade of C
for the first time in more than five yea
for the
first time in more than five years.
When she was asked by Davis School District to help implement the Utah State common core standards
for first - graders district - wide, she figured other
first -
grade classrooms could also benefit from using the simple math tool.
After several weeks of not being able to sleep, Brown went to look
for the girl at the local elementary school and soon found herself in a
first -
grade classroom.
«Wii Music has brought a renewed excitement to music class
for students from
first grade to fifth, myself and even some of the
classroom teachers,» said Helen A. Krofchick, a music teacher at Doby's Mill Elementary School in Lugoff, S.C. «I love how many music standards can be covered in such a short time.»
Together
For Jackson County Kids — One teacher's approach to preventing gender bullying in a
classroom — Melissa Bollow Tempel — Dealing with the tricky and socially fundamental issue of gender in a
first grade classroom.
Texas About Blog I'm Jessica, a kindergarten /
first grade Texas teacher with over 10 years of
classroom experience and a passion
for teaching.
Given the important foundation that the earliest years of life establish
for children's long - term success, this report seeks to understand whether they are getting the support and quality experiences they need in early childhood programs and early elementary
classrooms — namely, in kindergarten,
first grade, and second
grade.