Sentences with phrase «grade school students do»

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Furthermore, the schools (in general) do not provide teachers with the adequate resources to perform their jobs effectively, such as teacher - requested books for their students; presentation items such as chalk, whiteboard markers, or projectors; basic classroom organizational needs such as storage bins, filing cabinets with adequate files, and functional modern computers with adequate software to make results tabulating more efficient; or motivational equipment designed to reward students for good behavior, scores, or attitudes (grades simply are not enough of a motivational tool).

The students were doing third grade work in what they considered the school's «fast class» but Everett is ready for sixth to eighth grade level work.

We don't believe everyone deserves a trophy, but we have seen the problems associated with a ranking system, and have urged schools to consider other ways to honor their top students — ways that rely less on a grade point average and that are more similar to the MVP status on a sports team - where multiple skills and traits are valued.

It doesn't matter if your high school student is a nervous freshman on their first day or a senior hoping to breeze through 12th grade.

-- Christof Wiechert Social Emotional Intelligence: The Basis for a New Vision of Education in the United States — Linda Lantieri Rudolf Steiner's Research Methods for Teachers — Martyn Rawson Combined Grades in Waldorf Schools: Creating Classrooms Teachers Can Feel Good About — Lori L. Freer Educating Gifted Students in Waldorf Schools — Ellen Fjeld KØttker and Balazs Tarnai How Do Teachers Learn with Teachers?

Last week I volunteered, as I do every month, with a group of fourth grade students at an economically disadvantaged elementary school participating in Houston's Recipe for Success program.

In addition, the early middle school grades typically provide less independence to students than do the upper levels of elementary schools.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

I'm sick of a lot of my COLLEGE professors sort of awkwardly shrugging their shoulders when «difficult» topics are brought up because they really, really do not want to get into complicated talks with their students and I just remember how much more so my grade - school teachers did that.

I teach a nutrition education class to grade school students in low income areas and for one of their «tastes» we do fruit parfaits using yogurt, pureed fruit, and graham crackers as the sprinkles.

Montessori schools do not grade students, and some private schools may not give standardized tests, which may be a positive or negative, depending on your view.

He said he continues to follow a high school student he met who didn't do well on tests, but had a consistently high grade point average.

Although you had to wonder why the 8th - grade art curriculum was so heavy on nutrition and ethics, it did seem like overkill for a middle school principal to chide a teacher for sharing ideas or literature meant «to influence the students against our school lunch program.»

«We do several models of breakfast - in - the - classroom, and in some schools we do «hybrids» where [younger students] do breakfast - in - the - classroom, and older grades come through the line and do traditional breakfast,» explained Pettit.

Currently, I work for the Orange County Department of Education, and train preschool transitional kindergarten and kindergarten at first grade teachers, and strategies that help students acquire the curriculum, and I do a lot of work with parents, looking at what do you need to know to help your child best and make sure your child is making the progress they need to make in school.

NYS has a standardized testing problem, a NYSUT official writes: Many students do poorly on tests for grades 3 - 8, but pass high school Regents exams.

Even though the elementary school is doing well academically, low test scores by students at the upper school have hurt the school's grade, Mulgrew noted.

Tennessee Education Commissioner Candice McQueen says school districts can decide whether student assessment scores will be included in student grades as long as the scores don't lower final grades.

If they passed it by school grading originally and the state audit finds an error does the school receive a warning or are students required to retake the test / class when necessary?

Students who do poorly on the exams have to try to improve their performance in summer school or face having to repeat a grade.

City Health Department officials said they didn't like the idea of grading school cafeterias because it could actually lead students to skip meals.

«That can meet frequently to decide what we needed to do for students in classrooms, on grade levels and for the whole school.

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

The research by three criminologists in UT Dallas» School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS) discovered that students who were bullied in third grade did not have a greater risk of using drugs or alcohol by ninth grade.

And what effect does an extremely mobile teacher corps — only one in four taught the same grade at the same school for both years — have on student outcomes?

My early elementary school memories up through ninth grade are of teachers struggling to maintain class discipline with occasional coverage of academics, but the students did learn how to survive under difficult circumstances.

We don't know what is going on above us, if there is a full or crescent Moon and how that affects us, we just worry about ourselves and we don't care about the world around us,» says Valentina Vio, 11th grade student at Hernando de Magallanes high school.

The pressure to inflate grades, bogus credit - recovery courses, and plain - old D.C. - style fraud don't happen just because school districts are under pressure to graduate students, contends Greene.

The United Federation of Teachers Elementary Charter School has declined to participate in the study so far, but it does not yet have any students in test - taking grades.

At L'Etoile du Nord French Immersion School, in St. Paul, Minnesota, a group of sixth - grade students volunteered to help Books for Africa with this type of work after holding a book drive for the organization.

McComb agreed as well, stating that, if we do the math based on the number of students he has compared to the time he gets in school to grade, he has about 20 seconds per student to grade their papers and give feedback.

In both cities (especially in Denver), the special education gap grows as students proceed from kindergarten through the 5th grade, and charters classify fewer students as SLD than do district schools.

The last major challenge has been that many of our school structures don't fit within the existing framework for things like online gradebooks, student scheduling, traditional grade levels (i.e. freshman, sophomore, junior, senior), calculating credits, etc..

In fact, because the letter grade is based on the percentage of students scoring above certain thresholds and not on the average score in each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schools.

With the latest GCSE results showing the sharpest decline in the percentage of students achieving C grades or above since 1988, and school leaders saying that pupils are bringing more worries into school than they did five years ago, these statistics highlight the concerns for students» mental wellbeing and suggest that today's students are struggling to cope with the increasing demands placed on them by exams.

In 2001, the California Board of Education set standards at each grade level for what students should know and be able to do in music, visual arts, theater, and dance, but a statewide study in 2006, by SRI International, found that 89 percent of K - 12 schools failed to offer a standards - based course of study in all four disciplines.

New research from Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Martin West tells a nuanced and evidence - based story about grade retention, finding that — contrary to critics» fears — repeating third grade does not reduce students» chances of completing high sSchool of Education professor Martin West tells a nuanced and evidence - based story about grade retention, finding that — contrary to critics» fears — repeating third grade does not reduce students» chances of completing high schoolschool.

The lottery process for oversubscribed grades gave preference first to students who previously attended the school and their siblings, then to low - income students applying to schools that previously did not have a majority of low - income students, and finally to students applying to a school within their «choice zone» (which would guarantee them access to district - provided transportation).

A school will have its A-F grade decrease by one letter if 95 percent of students don't take the state English / language arts or math test

These schools classified low - performing students as eligible for special education services to keep them from lowering the school's rating (special education students could take the 10th - grade state test, but their scores did not count toward the rating).

That's in large part owing to a provocative body of research showing that students who don't read with proficiency by the end of 3rd grade are far more likely to experience poor academic outcomes, including leaving school without a diploma.

Being held back did delay students» graduation from high school by 0.63 years, but being older for their grade did not reduce their probability of graduating or receiving a regular diploma.

During two years of doing research, Chenoweth identified 15 schools representing a mixture of grade levels and urban, rural, and suburban settings where students were excelling despite poverty and other obstacles — and where kids were not spending endless hours on reading and math drills.

Snow and her colleagues carried out a quasi-experimental study comparing nearly 700 sixth - to eighth - grade students in five Word Generation schools to more than 300 students in three other Boston Public schools that did not choose to implement the program.

«Roughly two - thirds of grade school students will end up doing work that hasn't been invented yet,» Resnick contends, hinting at the emerging worlds of artificial intelligence, self - driving cars, and «smart» houses.

I can also be precise about what I mean by acting white: a set of social interactions in which minority adolescents who get good grades in school enjoy less social popularity than white students who do well academically.

And, because the students I teach are in 8th grade, I included questions about the challenges ahead, such as Do you feel ready for High School?

Two completed teacher surveys are available for 21,324 of the 8th - grade students — a bit smaller than the full sample of NELS students because some teachers did not complete their questionnaires and some students did not have a class in one or both of the academic subjects randomly assigned to their school for which teacher surveys were administered.

Nevertheless, studies have found that, after controlling for the size and structure of the school and the social background of its students, schools in provinces with external exams taught their students a statistically significant one - half of a U.S. grade - level equivalent more math and science by 8th grade than comparable schools in provinces that did not give curriculum - based external tests.

While most schools have structures for teachers to work together — such as grade - level teams or subject - area departments — these groups don't always have the impact on student learning that they could.