Sentences with phrase «grade of the student involved»

The superintendent declined to give the age or grade of the student involved.

Not exact matches

Compared to students whose parents are uninvolved, kids with involved parents get better grades and are thought more highly of by teachers.

Two other studies — one involving 79 pairs of teachers in Los Angeles (which I wrote with Douglas Staiger) and the Measures of Effective Teaching study involving 1,591 teachers in six different school districts (which I wrote with Dan McCaffrey, Trey Miller and Douglas Staiger)-- randomly assigned teachers to different groups of students within a grade and subject in a school.

Curriculum implementation: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow and Uccelli will be heavily involved in conceptualizing professional development, fidelity and quality of implementation instruments, and monitoring of implementation for the 4th - 8th grade curricular enhancements.Evaluation of curricular enhancements: HGSE investigators Jones and Kim, together with a data manager and a small team of doctoral students, will conduct the design and analysis associated with the school - level random - assignment evaluation of the 4th - 8th grade curriculum innovations.

Tamez Guerra informed the class of a pilot program involving technology - based textbooks called Programa Enciclomedias, which are provided to several thousand fourth and fifth grade students throughout the country.

You'll notice that the recurring theme in my list involves placing our students at the center of our grading mentalities.

With the addition of the new students and new grade levels, the school needed an event that would bring in parents and get them involved in school activities.

Striking Out Stress: A «Gallery Walk» Activity This lesson actively involves students in grades 6 - 12 in a discussion about the causes and effects of stress, and helps them find ways to cope with it.

While all students whose parents were actively involved in their education in the seventh grade had higher goals and aspirations as eleventh - graders, parents who were college graduates had a stronger impact on school behavior and grades, which are the prerequisites of reaching students» goals.

«I began student - led conferences to involve the students in their learning and to give them ownership of it,» said Sherri Clifford, a second grade teacher at Hagemann Elementary School in St. Louis, Missouri.

One of those projects involved the entire sixth grade (over 100 students and four faculty members), and one involved the eighth - grade Language Arts and Science classes (100 students and two faculty members).

YES Prep North Central in Houston, Texas, involves families in a variety of ways, including family nights, frequent check - ins, and learning contracts signed by the student and the parents before the kids enter sixth grade.

A 2009 study found that eighth - grade students who were involved in hands - on science projects demonstrated a deeper understanding of concepts than students who were taught with traditional methods such as textbook readings, lectures, and tests (Riskowski et al., 2009).

But the other students saw how low - stakes giving a speech was — there are no grades or critical feedback involved, only applause — and over time more and more of them have taken the plunge.

Another strategy to file in the «cheap and effective» category: A study published this year found that weekly automated text messages sent to parents about their child's grades, absences, and missing assignments encouraged them to be more involved in their child's learning, improving attendance by 17 percent and reducing the number of students failing a class by 39 percent.

Grossman and colleagues conducted a randomized controlled trial involving 790 [NOTE: 1100 were eligible] students in six pairs of matched schools from King County, Washington, including 49 second - and third - grade classrooms.

As the teacher of gifted at my school ~ I had a first grade and a second grade student working together on a community - service based project ~ which involved collecting supplies for the local animal shelter.

The School District of Philadelphia partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic to carry out the study, involving more than 51 000 students in Grades 1 to 12 attending 217 schools — roughly 40 per cent of the total student population in the school district.

The Justice Center study also found that «Students who experienced suspension or expulsion, especially those who did so repeatedly, were more likely to be held back a grade or drop out of school than students who were not involved in the disciplinary systemStudents who experienced suspension or expulsion, especially those who did so repeatedly, were more likely to be held back a grade or drop out of school than students who were not involved in the disciplinary systemstudents who were not involved in the disciplinary system.»

The most striking difference across school types involves cohort sizes (the average number of students in each grade).

After piloting the collection of measures of those skills in a small number of schools during the 2013 - 14 school year, including conducting multiple experiments to compare the performance of alternative survey items, CORE conducted a broader field test involving more than 450,000 students in grades 3 - 12 the following spring.

Even the special education students in my sixth - grade inclusion class were able to participate because of the cooperative learning strategies involved.

Mrs. Jefferson informed me that her son had been a successful student in the elementary grades, but had become involved in activities outside of school that were taking him down a less - positive path.

In two of the school districts he visited, white parents tended to be the ones most involved in the parent — teacher associations.They know, for example, about mathematics placement tests in fifth grade that dictated which classes students will take.

Our most recent project involved collaborating with fourth grade teacher Mrs. Nolte and allowed us to integrate the Sphero robot to help students learn about patterns, shapes, speed, distance, angels, and the fundamentals of computer programming.

This study, by Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman of Harvard University and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia University, was influential because it involved a huge database of one million students followed from fourth grade to adulthood.

As of April 2018, 42 states have adopted the Common Core curriculum for all students attending public schools, which involves teaching standards for each grade level in English, mathematics, reading, social studies, history, and science.

The high school reform initiative also involved using data - warehousing technology to follow the progress of three cohorts of students from grade 9 to grade 11 on one particular subskill of the state assessment.

Favorite Teacher & Why: Mr. Hashem, my seventh - grade history teacher, made learning about history fun and involved all of his students in class discussions.

A local literacy «plan must include a process to assess students» level of reading proficiency, notify and involve parents, intervene with students who are not reading at or above grade level, and identify and meet staff development needs.

After meeting with national policymakers, we interviewed parents, teachers, and principals, and students in grades 10 — 12.2 The task involved asking each group a series of questions about the goals of educational change and the roles parents and community members should play in the process.

On one level, Trent found that students who had a record of being particularly difficult to engage in class activities and who he had worked with using the TI - 83s and StudyCards (a) became more involved in class activities, even those not involving the TIs and (b) improved their test scores and overall class grades.

The 56 % meeting or exceeding standard for CA's grade 11 E / LA result was an outlier with blinking red lights that defies meaningful interpretation other than a grossly discrepant cut score (to the low side) or some other test development flaw (such as an inadequate item bank for a computer - adaptive test) or an error in the test administration or scoring process, or some weird effect due to the increased number of grade 11 students with scores since EAP moved from voluntary to mandatory in 2015 [which usually would involve a decrease in scores, a reasonable interpretation for the decrease in Math EAP scores this year, rather than an increase in scores].

State test results indicate that the percentage of students scoring at the Basic and Below Basic levels has decreased dramatically at every grade level throughout the years teachers have been involved in the initiative.

To succeed as a middle school PTO or PTA leader, get out of the grade school mind - set, revisit your group's goals, and involve students in event planning.

But beyond the technical difficulties involved in giving an eight hour test to all of the district 3rd the 8th grade students, as well as, all 11th graders, Zimmer warns that the results of the Smarter Balanced test should be viewed as «one part of a multi-faceted picture of school performance.»

But in the study's New York portion, which involved the largest and most diverse group of students, the gains were limited to sixth graders; the black students in Grades 3, 4 and 5 made no gains.

Typically this involves expanding the portfolio of state assessments to provide growth data in all grades and subjects or expanding the portfolio of nationally or locally approved assessment tools that can be validly used such as classroom - based assessments, unit tests, end - of - course assessments, student - learning objectives, and portfolios.

It is accepted that primary grade teachers will be very involved in video production and editing, however it is expected that students participate in all parts of the process.

A new study co-authored by UF College of Education scholar Nicholas Gage has found that the students with disabilities in grades 3 through 12 are consistently more involved in bullying than other students.

My experience with those who teach a few years and leave to «guide» the adults is that they didn't want to get involved with the minutia of teaching (planning lessons, grading papers, breaking down long term assignments / tasks, adjusting to learning styles, developing caring relationships, dealing with parents, getting to know their students — you know the real work).

Yet research shows — and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan reiterates — «When parents are involved in the educational process of their children, students are more likely to attend school regularly, to take more rigorous courses, earn higher grades, and graduate and go on to both college and careers.»

For 6th - 8th grade teachers, Carbon & Climate helps introduce students to some of the complex issues involved in climate change.

The partnership will involve an expansion of Linked Learning academies — college and career preparatory programs which integrate academics, technical education, and work - based learning — to serve 80 percent of OUSD's 10th — 12th grade students by 2016 (an increase from 42 percent currently enrolled in Linked Learning academies).

The study involves about 3,500 fifth - grade students from 47 schools in the state of West Virginia.

Her work in the Middle School Quality Initiative (MSQI) involved helping school leaders and teacher teams to implement school wide systems of assessment in literacy, integrate vocabulary instruction across content areas, and plan, develop and teach strategic reading lessons for students reading below grade level.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

The Sargent Shriver community will achieve our vision by involving families in all aspects of student development, collaborating to plan instruction with grade - level teams, delivering inspiring and engaging lessons that promote student - driven discovery and providing opportunities for student and adult learners to receive and give feedback.

This traditionally analog second grade activity, with ties to social and emotional learning, involves selecting a student of the week who is given special recognition by his or her classmates.

Specifically, the 1966 report entitled Equality in Educational Opportunity and commonly referred to as the Coleman report in deference to its senior author (Coleman et al., 1966) involved more than 640,000 students in grades 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 and concludes the following: «Taking all these results together, one implication stands above all: that schools bring little to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context» (p. 235).