Sentences with phrase «grade classrooms across»

The goal of Pets in the Classroom is to establish healthy child - pet relationships at an early age by supporting responsible pet care in kindergarten through sixth - grade classrooms across the U.S. and Canada.

A total of 120 kindergarten and first - grade classrooms across 22 urban, low - income elementary schools were included in the study.

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.

Not exact matches

This file was updated on September 4, 2106 to include a Level 1 and Level 2 vocabulary for differentiation across grade levels or classrooms as well as 4 new interactive notebook templates and a plant observation log.

All three curricula have been piloted by teachers across America in a wide variety of K12 teaching environments, including rural, urban, and suburban; all grade levels; regular ed, special ed, and ESL classrooms.

Service Learning in Action Across the Grades An Education World article explains ways that service projects enhance classroom programs.

The American Institute of CPAs has developed a curriculum package for grades 4 - 6, and volunteers from state CPA societies are available to teach it in classrooms across the country.

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.

Principals report that they assign students to classes with an eye toward balancing race, gender, and ability across classrooms within the same grade.

All resources in this bundle were updated September 2016 to include additional interactive notebook templates and a level 1 and level 2 vocabulary for differentiation across grade levels or within the classroom.

Larson, who presents a session called Classroom Walk - Through Training, says teachers benefit by learning to use reflection to increase their knowledge, skills, and performance; strategically aligning classroom instruction to district curriculum; and increasing student learning across grade levels.

We measure peer domestic violence at the cohort level (that is, across all students in a grade at a school) as opposed to the classroom level due to the possible sorting of students into classrooms according to their achievement and behavior.

There are plenty of curriculum models (Tylers seminal 1949 work ~ Bruners definition of curriculum ~ Wiggins and McTighes Understanding by Design model ~ and Jacobs curriculum mapping instrument come to mind) ~ but none of these strategies help guide curriculum leaders to sit down teams of teachers to develop user - friendly curricula that can be institutionally implemented in classrooms across a grade - level or content - area and that are aligned with state or national standards.

Across the country in Washington, D.C., Andrea Smith, a 6th - grade math teacher at E. L. Haynes, a high - performing public charter school, shares Bergmann's enthusiasm, but focuses on a different aspect of the flipped classroom.

For example, it can be extended to more classrooms across participating grade levels.

Included: Ten classroom activities for use across the grades!

Another way to make the message of quality concrete is to arrive at a shared understanding of and commitment to high standards across classrooms, departments and grade levels.

Once, in 3rd grade, he flung his pencil across the classroom.

In that role, I lead a team of seven teacher researchers who teach across grade levels and content areas, researching the work that gets done in their classroom, on the field, and in the studio.

Teachers agree, and they offer their thoughts on using read - alouds in classrooms across the grades.

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.

It creates coherence across classrooms and grade... Read more»

All our workshops can be delivered across grade levels and customized for classroom, special education, and English language teachers; literacy coaches and trainers; curriculum specialists; and school and district administrators.

Implemented in eight secondary schools and a local college, this program was designed to build students» college preparedness by training instructors in shared teaching strategies and best practices, strengthening academic rigor in the classroom, and promoting collaboration and consistency in teaching and study strategies across grades and schools.

Those include introducing and reviewing software, Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.

is BIG on ideas for teachers across the grades who want to get high mileage from classroom discussions.

Each year, thousands of middle grades preservice teachers assume their places in classrooms across the country, through practica, internships, and student teaching experiences.

Since the grades assigned vary much less across classrooms than does students» performance on standardized tests, high - achieving students should be more likely to earn high grades in classrooms where the other students, on average, do not perform well on external assessments.

This resource was updated in September 2016 to include 4 additional interactive notebook templates, an observation log, and level 1 and 2 vocabulary for differentiation across grade levels or within the classroom.

These frameworks and rubrics are intended to capture the complexity and sophistication of teaching across grade levels and content areas and give everyone a common language when talking about classroom teaching.

From a classroom perspective, Abdullah is working to improve the school's capacity to pinpoint the grade level status of students across subjects.

This book provides over fifty classroom - ready tools that make it easy to implement the strategies across grade levels and content areas.

The initiative accomplishes this by drawing upon evidence - based research to develop practical tools and engaging support opportunities for middle grade campuses, allowing research - based practices to be brought to life in classrooms across the nation.

In classrooms across the state, you'll find kindergarten and first grade students using blocks and interlocking cubes to learn how to add and subtract.

Instead of facing this challenge alone in his classroom, as often happens, he described how the districts» shared instructional framework, known as Beyond Textbooks, made it easy for him to enlist help from teachers across subject and grade levels.

Educators know that there is no consistency in the meaning of letter grades on report cards across classrooms at the same grade level within the same building, let alone across schools or districts.

Findings from this set of studies indicate that teacher leaders provide support to classroom teachers through designing and / or facilitating professional development and that this practice occurs across grade levels K - 12 and subject areas.

When teachers work together to examine student work and analyze classroom lessons, they figure out collectively what works and what doesn't, and they build a culture of learning across grade levels in elementary school s and within departments in secondary school.

We extend the literature on in - service teacher education by describing and evaluating a coaching model focused on classroom management skills and instructional practices across grade levels and

These studies were distributed across grades K - 12 in mathematics and science, suggesting that lesson planning was considered an appropriate teacher leader strategy in various classroom settings.

Expansion of the Science IDEAS model to over 50 classrooms and 1200 students across grades 4, and 5 having diverse (e.g., at risk) student populations was reported in 2001 (Romance & Vitale, 2001).

«Inequitable school funding means that my students, and many across Connecticut, are shortchanged when it comes to classroom resources and access to experienced teachers, which widens the achievement gap and perpetuates the cycle of poverty in our state,» said Margaret O'Connor, a tenth - grade civics teacher at Central High School in Bridgeport.

Impact reporting: A new set of tools were added to the FastBridge reporting engine to help educators evaluate the impact of instruction and curricula used within and across classrooms, grades, schools, and the district.

Finally, provide staff with pacing guides to ensure continuity, especially if there are multiple classes at the same grade levels (parents love to compare what is and is not happening in different classrooms across a grade level).

The focus of the sessions is classroom management strategies, and the content can be applied across grade levels and content areas.

She hopes district officials change their minds, but, in the meantime, she's decided to call school districts across the state to see if any of them will allow her daughter into a regular first - grade classroom this fall.

Most helpful are the detailed classroom scenarios, which will help teachers visualize how close reading looks across different grade levels and classroom settings.»

Teachers had little training in classroom assessments, processes to moderate those assessments across teachers were not strong, and grade inflation began to occur year upon year as teachers felt they should be improving all the time.

+ Provides coaching experiences for teachers, including review of lesson delivery, providing feedback, and modeling demo lessons + Develops / curates quality instructional resources to share with teachers, including lesson plans, unit plants, and assessments + Facilitates professional development workshops for group sizes ranging up to 100 participants + Designs rich and meaningful professional development sessions aligned to math instruction + Continues own learning through research and self - driven PD to stay current of latest trends in math education + Maintains open communication with supported teachers to nurture a professional learning community of educators + Communicate actively with key stakeholders on progress of teacher development + Provides reporting documentation of services delivered, as required EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE: + BA / BS Degree in Education or related field + 4 + years of work experience teaching math in a K - 12 setting + Expert in math content at least across a 5 year grade level band (g. grades 4 — 8) + Record of result in effectively coaching teachers + Experience designing and delivering professional development for adults + Experience working in blended learning classrooms is a plus + Master's degree preferred + Excellent communication skills are essential OTHER JOB REQUIREMENTS: Some local traveling required.

We do this by drawing upon solid research to develop practical tools and engaging support opportunities for middle grade campuses, allowing research - based practices to be brought to life in classrooms across the nation.