Sentences with phrase «grade reading teachers»

Bonus available to third grade reading teachers whose students show the greatest growth in reading proficiency.

Questioning tech - niques of fifth and sixth grade reading teachers.

Four third - grade reading teachers are sitting around a table in Principal Mairead Nolan's office at the Trotter School in Boston.

Two teachers, Kristie Burke, a 7th - grade reading teacher at STRIVE, and Kerrie McCormick, a language arts teacher at a struggling DPS middle school, sat side by side while the STRIVE teachers went through a professional development day.

Dressing for the role - playing is a burden for some students, says Irene Wheeler, now a third - and fourth - grade reading teacher.

With his support, our 6th - grade reading teacher has developed her signature hamburger lesson.

In a routine day, a terrific 4th - grade reading teacher might give lessons in reading for just one hour, while spending another five hours teaching other subjects in which she is less effective, filling out paperwork, and so on.

Luis became an official KIPPster after moving to New York to be the founding 6th grade reading teacher for KIPP Washington Heights Middle School.

Thoughtful Education professional development didn't make sense at first to Leigh Ann Stewart, 5th - grade reading teacher at Belmont Elementary (Christian County).

Ms. Sparkes worked at Roxbury Prep Charter School in Boston for four years, her first year as an apprentice, then as the founding fifth grade reading teacher for three years.

TROY, N.Y. — David Javsicas, a popular seventh - grade reading teacher known for urging students to act out dialogue in the books they read in class, sometimes feels wistful for the days when he taught math.

«I don't think there is very much research out there to say that when you can take a student who is impoverished and dramatically behind, that you can fix it in three years,» said Mr. Javsicas, the seventh - grade reading teacher, who also coordinates special education at Troy Prep.

While one measure of progress may be student achievement data, for 6th grade reading teacher Ashley Croft, another telling measure is that «for the first time ever, every time slot for parent - teacher conferences was filled this year.

They include: Mimma - Marie Cammarata, an Italian teacher at Sterling High School, Sterling; Kristy DeFazio, a fourth grade elementary school teacher at James J. Flynn Elementary School, Perth Amboy; Nicole Petrosillo, an English Language Arts teacher at West Milford Township High School, West Milford Township; Diane Phares, an art teacher at Mount Olive High School, Mount Olive Township; Kristina Phelan, a kindergarten through second grade reading teacher at Mahala F. Atchison Elementary School, Tinton Falls; and Domenick Renzi, a basic skills mathematics teacher at Wedgwood Elementary School, Washington Township.

She has served as a Program Manager with the Research and Evaluation Department at MPS and as a 4th grade reading teacher at Hiawatha Academies.

Antoinette Smith is a fourth grade reading teacher at Excel Academy, D.C.'s first all - girls public charter school.

Not exact matches

In third grade, her Catholic school teacher Sister Stella Marie (or «the nun from hell») told her she wouldn't amount to anything if she couldn't read.

In that context, the charitable reading of the tweet is that Father Spadaro was reminding us of the obvious — that pastoral care is an art, and that the priest dealing with complicated and messy human situations is not like a first - grade teacher drilling six - year olds in addition.

That reminds me of something my third grade teacher once said after reading my book report: «Did you even read the book?!?!»

When I was in first grade, teachers assigned students to reading groups based on how well they could read.

When the members of the school board of Dover, Pennsylvania, a small community near Harrisburg, required students to read a short statement concerning intelligent design before studying ninth - grade biology, they met stiff resistance from some parents and teachers.

For those of you who are interested in reading the arch of a sad, sad bitter life, crusie through the remarks by «the son a Piper man» aka Tom Tom, Stands for nothing, hates everything, curses when left with nothing to say, then hysterically claims victory for hurting someone's feelings, and stands for nothing, but will gladly point out your poor syntax, grammar and spelling errors like a weary retired 3rd grade teacher.

In the second - grade room, the teacher was sitting in slacks on the front table, a scarf wrapped around her head, reading a story to the class — everyone paying eager attention except the two who were cleaning the hamster cage.

Working as an Early Childhood Assistant for a reading specialist and later in grades 1 - 3, Pam became more aware of the pressure on teachers to push children to learn subjects faster and earlier than perhaps their development warranted.

He was so disinterested, in fact, that I went into his 1st grade teacher conference convinced he needed outside help with reading.

But for my youngest, it was a first grade teacher read - aloud and that hooked her!

During my tenure, I worked as a Early Intervention Program teacher, a Curriculum Support teacher, a Special Instructional Assistance teacher, a Reading Recovery teacher, and a Kindergarten through Fifth grade classroom teacher.

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«Let it go,» says reading specialist and first - grade teacher Cindy Pfost.

«Let them see themselves as readers,» says reading specialist and first - grade teacher Cindy Pfost.

A Sunbridge article in the Fall 2016 issue of Lilipoh magazine is a place to read about Waldorf teaching and teacher education (focusing on grades teaching).

Don't worry, says this seasoned teacher / blogger, it's only a phase, and fourth grade is right about when reading tastes start to change, evolve, and expand.

The sports programs could remain - the music and arts programs could go on, no classes would need to be eliminated, kids could still learn how to read by second grade and the teachers could maintain a living wage and benefit package.

Unfortunately, most districts and unions across the state set the bar so low that nearly 60 % of teachers got the highest rating when only a third of students read and do math at grade level.

He says he finds it «incredible» that more than 95 % of teachers were rated as performing properly, while two thirds of New York's school children in grades 3 through 8 have been deemed inadequate in math and reading standards.

Seizing on a sharp drop in reading and math scores after students took their first Common Core tests, the teachers fed fears that kids would somehow suffer because their grades had fallen, when the opposite was true.

He says he finds it incredible that more than 95 percent of teachers were rated as performing properly, while two thirds of New York's school children in grades 3 through 8 have been deemed inadequate in math and reading standards.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

Nevertheless, as you'll read below, Lauren and I agree that there's a universal approach that everyone can take regardless of whether you're a grade school teacher in Albuquerque, an an accountant in Chicago or an attorney in NYC.

I have taught for 16 years in 4th grade, self - contained 5th grade, 6th - 8th Reading Intervention at the middle school level, and 12 years as a 6th grade ELA teacher.

After reading this book, there are easily a handful of changes that I would make to my assessing and grading procedures if I were to return to the classroom as a teacher.

«She wanted to read, to write, to be in the routine the school day offered that I didn't feel day care did,» explained North Macie, a seventh - grade teacher and District of Columbia resident.

An English teacher that I read about, after weeks of essays and test prep, surprised his 12th grade class with a game of kickball out on the blacktop.

Teachers College Reading and Writing Project has a list of suggested read - aloud books for grades K — 8 and tips for planning great read - alouds.

«You gain a sense of student confusions about key ideas,» reports Buehl, a reading teacher for grades 9 - 12.

Teachers also plan to use a tool designed to assess the reading fluency of primary students with below - level readers in grades 4 - 6 to see how their needs can be addressed, said Poplar.

For those teachers — who led reading or math classrooms in grades 4 8 and accounted for less than one in five DCPS teachers — observations were worth 35 percent and value - added was worth 50 percent.

They are especially important for young men when one considers that the percentage of 6th - grade teachers who were female ranged from 58 to 91 percent across four core subjects (math, science, reading, and history).

In grade - level teaching, teachers share all of the students, which allows for small - group instruction in reading, writing, and math in Tier One.

Schools need to have a well - stocked library or reading resource room with many levels of texts so that teachers of all grades have access to books that are appropriate for the age and reading level of their students.