Sentences with phrase «for students across the grades»

Her work helped contribute to the shift to raise academic expectations for students across all grade levels.

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Are effective for racially and ethnically diverse students from urban, rural and suburban settings across the K - 12 grade range.

Schools across New York were shaken this spring when nearly one - fifth of students opted out of the required English tests for the third through the eighth grades.

This week, the Kingston City School District, like public school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades 3 - 8.

The study examined test results for more than 33,000 students in grades 4 through 12 and found that student performance varied across testing formats by grade band, students» primary language, and the specific features of the computer - based system used.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

I find that connecting the strategies across multiple grade levels is illuminating for students, as well as for me.

Without combining data in some way, such as across grade levels or school years, Hispanic students won't be included as a separate group in the state's accountability system for that school.

Explore and share tips, strategies, and resources for helping students develop across any grade.

Pooling data across years and grades will include most students in accountability systems, but for lower enrollment populations, pooling across racial / ethnic groups may provide an opportunity to include students in accountability systems in cases where subgroup size is otherwise too small.

The shared understanding and enjoyment they feel, along with the friendships across grade levels found in co-curricular music groups, is very inspiring for many students.

Sharing resources across grade levels, hallways or an entire school can be a frustrating hassle, but with the right planning and preparation, teachers can still maximize these resources to give students access to digital tools for learning.

This week, Education World offers three teaching masters for teachers across the grades to use to help students brush up on their study skills — using a search engine, using an index, looking for key words, skimming text for information, and more — while they learn interesting facts about the world around them!

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

For example, when reviewing reading scores across the 4th grade, they found that many of the students were struggling with the concept of summarization.

The figure documents clear positive movement across the test - score distribution for the first cohort of students that needed to reach a minimal score on the FCAT exam in order to be promoted from the 3rd to the 4th grade (2003).

Included: Ideas for adapting the WebQuest across the grades plus a simple rubric for grading students» efforts and a database of online resources.

The first shows that barely eligible students who participated in LUSD's G&T curriculum for all of 6th grade and half of 7th grade exhibit no significant improvement in test scores across a range of subjects, despite their being surrounded by higher - achieving peers and taking more advanced courses.

In addition to modeling lessons for teachers and working with small groups of students, the skills specialists also regularly analyze student scores on diagnostic, formative, and standardized tests across classrooms, subjects, and grades.

But the guidelines for what students should learn in each grade have a low level of rigor compared with those of some other states, content is repeated across and within grades, and the tests are not as challenging as they should be, the analysis concludes.

Great bundle for special education teacher monitoring across grade levels!This bundle gives you a 20 % discount on the Math Concepts and Applications practice sheets for students who are progress monitored at the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade level using the MCAP assessment.

Class Size: Reducing class sizes in the early grades has emerged as a popular policy initiative across the country as states look for ways to improve student performance.

Given the underrepresentation of students who enter during early grades, this difference suggests that the average effects of attending a charter school across all grades, 4 through 8, may be less negative than indicated by our final analysis, at least for math.

Those two words could just as easily describe the author's thoughtful affect on Paul Allison's Teachers Teaching Teachers or the degree to which his new book, Crafting Digital Writing: Composing Texts Across Media and Genres, methodically articulates how 4th - 12th grade instructors can introduce technology tools, mentor texts, composing practices, and heuristics for helping students write.

Many thus far have called for more arts programs ~ which have been proven to boost student test scores and grades across the board.

With recent figures from The Prince's Trust showing that 31 % of teachers consider the development of soft skills more important than achieving good grades, teaching specialists TeachingAbroadDirect.co.uk analysed findings from global education technology company Promethean World, who surveyed over 1,600 educators from across the UK to see if teachers believe technology has hindered the ability for students to learn and acquire soft skills.

For those teachers and their students, Education World offers the following additions to its extensive library of lessons emphasizing reading skills and enjoyment across the grades.

The objective of the Common Core State Standards Initiative is to establish similar academic standards and comparable tests across all states for students in grades K - 12.

The second is that the Common Core movement muddles through, meaning that we end up, eventually, with a nearly national set of standards for what students need to know and do at each grade, high quality assessments aligned to those standards, cut scores for proficiency on those assessments that are challenging and equal across the nation, and a set of meaningful carrots and sticks for holding educators accountable for preparing all their students for success.

This approach makes sense for most subjects, where the standards describe the actual content that students need to master within and across grades.

And those begin to define the expectations we have for where students are supposed to be at the end of a particular grade level, or grade band, and then across the continuum from K - 12.

I've also seen the making of these adults in schools across our country: students who are consistently being «prepared» for the next test, assessment, or grade level... only to find out after graduation that they don't really know what they are passionate about.

Perhaps in a move to reduce the potential for inconsistent application of A to E grades, the Victorian State Government negotiated to apply the A to E scale not to the relative quality of a student's performance against one year - level standard, but to a student's demonstrated achievement against curriculum standards across year levels.

Renaissance uses a «looping» model, in which most teachers remain with students for two years across all grades, including high school, so pre-K teachers generally follow their students into kindergarten.

With teachers who release their passion for learning, students across all grades are free to learn new ways of learning with motivation and joy.

For the past six years, tenth grade architecture students have been going on a field trip to the Pocono Environmental Education Center, located within a national park in Pennsylvania, just across the Delaware River from New Jersey.

Our final data set contained roughly 20,000 students per grade per year, distributed across approximately 1,000 classrooms, for a total of more than 40,000 «classroom years» of data (with four subject tests per classroom year) and more than 700,000 «student year» observations.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

Selection jurors praised Orange County not only for raising students» achievement across grade levels, but for doing so at a rapid pace.

Across all grades and subjects, the majority of KIPP students are outperforming the national average for annual growth.

Logit (natural log - odds) of the percentage proficient for all students, reading and math, across grades.

The principal shall determine each such student's need for academic intervention services by administering a State - developed or State - approved assessment or by reviewing such student's transcript, where available, or by use of a district - wide screening procedure applied uniformly across each grade.

Chronic absenteeism is particularly high for students in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten compared with students in other elementary grades and middle school — across the country and in the mid-Atlantic region.

The 50 - state analysis found that test scores for both «advanced» and «basic» students rose in nearly three - quarters of assessments studied across states and grade levels, a level of progress only slightly lower than that of students reaching proficiency.

Those high - performing schools did things like «set measurable goals on standards based tests and benchmark tests across all proficiency levels, grades, and subjects»; create school missions that were «future oriented,» with curricula and instruction designed to prepare students to succeed in a rigorous high - school curriculum; include improvement of student outcomes «as part of the evaluation of the superintendent, the principal, and the teachers»; and communicate to parents and students «their responsibility as well for student learning, including parent contracts, turning in homework, attending class, and asking for help when needed.»

The district has administered the ITBS, one of several standardized, multiple - choice exams used by districts across the country, to students in grades 3 to 8 for many years.

While not universal across all teachers, there is a definite trend, in the most effective schools, for grade 1 and 2 teachers to combine (a) explicit phonics instruction in isolation with (b) coaching students to use a range of strategies to figure out unknown words when they encounter them in everyday reading.

The purpose of the present study was to examine the instructional and organizational factors that might explain how and why some schools across the country are beating the odds by attaining greater than expected primary - grade reading achievement with populations of students at risk for failure by virtue of poverty.

Uncovering Student Thinking in Mathematics (Grades K - 5)- 25 Formative Assessment Probes for the Elementary Classroom, by Cheryl Rose Tobey and Leslie Minton (2010) This third volume in the series contains 25 formative assessment probes that can be used across multiple grades in elementary sGrades K - 5)- 25 Formative Assessment Probes for the Elementary Classroom, by Cheryl Rose Tobey and Leslie Minton (2010) This third volume in the series contains 25 formative assessment probes that can be used across multiple grades in elementary sgrades in elementary school.

Teachers across the nation report being pressured to fudge grades, pass students who don't deserve it, and accept students into classes they can't keep up in, all because of school evaluation models that use these metrics to keep up appearances for taxpayers.