Sentences with phrase «grade teacher colleagues»

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The study found that specialist primary teachers are six per cent less effective than their non-specialist colleagues, with data showing pupils who were taught by subject specialists saw a drop in their grades.

When they told their colleagues about it, the sixth - grade teachers put in a few extra days over winter break, implemented some plans on the fly, and reopened in January with team teaching in place.

This purchase is for one teacher only: This resource is not to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.

I envision, for example, a teacher having two double - period classes and taking the last two periods to grade the student work with their colleagues shortly thereafter, analyzing the pieces and making their curriculum and pedagogy more connected.

«Working collaboratively with colleagues, we have grown our school one grade at a time into a place that teachers, students, and families want to be.

High school teachers are far more reluctant than their colleagues in the lower grades to embrace new teaching techniques, the National Science Foundation survey found.

Teachers, on average, give 13 % of their colleagues one of these two low grades, though they find 69 % worthy of an A or B.

What did Tennessee teachers in the larger classes make of the situation whereby some colleagues in the same school taught smaller classes at the same grade level?

Under the wing of principal Solomon, eighth grade English and social studies teacher Tracy Goodman and her colleagues found a way to help their students understand and appreciate the immigrant experience by becoming «immigrants» themselves.

Brantley's colleague, kindergarten teacher Mary Ford, has also used the Wii sports games in a joint activity with an older class: Ford and third - grade teacher Laura Smith paired up their students for a game of bowling with a little real - world math practice thrown in.

In the seventh grade, we are collaborating with my colleague Mary Ann Devine, a science teacher, who has dreamed up a unit involving the study of endothermic and exothermic reactions.

When the school needed an additional first - grade teacher, Lewis - Carter met with the candidates, but it was the current first - grade teachers who conducted formal interviews and made the final choice, since they were the ones who would be charged with teaching their new colleague the Behrman way.

Some teachers are not good at doing this, but are smart enough to turn to their grade level or content area colleagues for assistance in designing and debugging formative assessments.

Two fifth grade teachers advocate trust, respect, and inclusion when sharing the practices and results of their PBL pilot program with on - site colleagues.

Using a structured protocol, teachers pore over student work samples from a colleague's specific lesson, such as a third - grade math lesson on bar graphs.

At first, Robinson was her fifth - grade math teacher, but then their paths continued to cross as he became her junior high school assistant principal, then high school principal, then principal for whom she worked, then colleague and, finally, hired hand!

Wilson's colleague Birgitta Meade, a seventh and eighth grade Earth science and life science teacher, is known as the «Goddess of Field Trips» among her peers.

It's easy to imagine teachers going easy on their own students, possibly unconsciously, motivated by nothing more than a desire to help them — a study co-authored by my colleague, Jonah Rockoff, found exactly this result in an analysis of New York Regents Exam grading.

He hadn't assigned much nonfiction when he was a teacher, and says his colleagues in the elementary grades didn't assign much nonfiction either.

Each teacher is expected to design lesson plans, lecture, run class discussions, grade essays and exams, mentor colleagues, supervise homeroom, and patrol the cafeteria.

Full - time release teacher leaders could do classroom coaching; part - time release teacher leaders could do demonstration lessons and observations of colleagues; teacher leaders with no release time could lead grade level or department groups in lesson planning.

They talked to colleagues and met with them in grade level meetings, recruited parents to come to public meetings, and brought new teachers «up to speed» with the curriculum.

KIPP School Leadership Programs: Teacher Leader http://www.kipp.org/approach/highly-effective-teachers-and-leaders/kipp-leadership/ Designed exclusively for KIPP teachers in roles such as grade - level chair, department / content chair, or Saturday school coordinator, the KIPP Teacher Leader Program is designed to help teacher - leaders hone their instructional skills while learning new strategies to bring out the best in their collTeacher Leader http://www.kipp.org/approach/highly-effective-teachers-and-leaders/kipp-leadership/ Designed exclusively for KIPP teachers in roles such as grade - level chair, department / content chair, or Saturday school coordinator, the KIPP Teacher Leader Program is designed to help teacher - leaders hone their instructional skills while learning new strategies to bring out the best in their collTeacher Leader Program is designed to help teacher - leaders hone their instructional skills while learning new strategies to bring out the best in their collteacher - leaders hone their instructional skills while learning new strategies to bring out the best in their colleagues.

Most of these teachers reported that they were applying their gained knowledge and skills by regularly using technology «to improve their efficiency and productivity, especially for tasks such as maintaining attendance, grades, data on students; creating instructional materials; and communicating with staff members and other colleagues» (Maryland State Department of Education, 2002, p. 2).

How can this teacher fairly be compared to her colleague in Simsbury, who teaches 18 students, all of whom read on grade level and go home to stable households inhabited by two college - educated, married parents?

In the new era where teachers have little time for face - to - face interaction with colleagues and district budget cuts limit professional development opportunities, educators are increasingly turning to online communities (or professional learning networks, PLNs) that allow them to share lesson plans, teaching strategies, and student work, as well as collaborate across grade levels and departments.

Over time, though, Austin and his colleagues have learned to escape those walls in order to do their best work... A few years before Austin arrived as a twelfth grade teacher, a couple of tenth grade colleagues started to brainstorm and coordinate their curriculum, modeling their efforts on the «small learning communities concept.»

Gather colleagues from the data team, interventionists, grade level teachers, or other personnel who provide literacy instruction in your school.

In its agreement with La Cañada Teachers Assn. (LCTA), the district also created a slate of one - year extra-duty, extra-pay positions that would allow well - qualified and interested teachers to share their time, planning and knowledge with colleagues at their school site or grade level for greaTeachers Assn. (LCTA), the district also created a slate of one - year extra-duty, extra-pay positions that would allow well - qualified and interested teachers to share their time, planning and knowledge with colleagues at their school site or grade level for greateachers to share their time, planning and knowledge with colleagues at their school site or grade level for greater pay.

This year in Chicago Public Schools has been rough on budgets, but E4E - Chicago teacher leaders like Lacey Clayborn, an eighth grade math teacher at Howe School of Excellence, are planning and executing events around the city to appreciate their colleagues who thrive in the face of adversity.

She is the school's lead fourth grade teacher, which enables her to meet regularly with school leadership and her colleagues to discuss strategies that have been successful, as well as ways they can work collaboratively to improve every student's educational experience.

Third - grade teacher Rowan Shafer said she and her colleagues have talked with Benjamin Franklin staff.

But the views of our good - and - great teachers should matter more than those of colleagues who don't make the grade.

Inevitably, teachers with students whose reading and writing levels are below grade level and teachers in high poverty schools whose students have deficits will need to re-teach concepts or move at a different pace from their colleagues.

A teacher should start introducing writing assignments a few at a time, be firm with the students, make the writing assignments count for a grade, and forewarn colleagues of impending due dates.

My colleague, Brett (a 4th grade Teacher and tech guru) and I spent several weeks this summer incorporating all we like best about our current system along with things we wanted to add, delete, or change.

The Opportunity Culture model provided a roadmap to shift staffing from five classrooms at each grade level to three, freeing top teachers to become mentors to colleagues.

During a recent school day in Denver, first - grade teacher Julie Variot monitored her students» reading and pronunciation while two of her colleagues walked around the room, observing, jotting notes on the school's custom evaluation form.

For example, my colleague, Kathy Cassidy, first - grade teacher from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, seeks ideas from colleagues in Argentina, Italy, and many other countries.

She supports three groups of teacher scholars: the teachers at Anna Yates Elementary in Emery Unified who are focusing on academic discussion across all grades and disciplines, TK - 8; a cross-district team of Berkeley Unified music teachers investigating how to support students of color in pursuing musical education beyond the elementary years; and a group of Early Childhood Education Teacher Leaders in Berkeley Unified who are leading their colleagues in Professional Learning Communities with a focus on Social and Emotional Develteacher scholars: the teachers at Anna Yates Elementary in Emery Unified who are focusing on academic discussion across all grades and disciplines, TK - 8; a cross-district team of Berkeley Unified music teachers investigating how to support students of color in pursuing musical education beyond the elementary years; and a group of Early Childhood Education Teacher Leaders in Berkeley Unified who are leading their colleagues in Professional Learning Communities with a focus on Social and Emotional DevelTeacher Leaders in Berkeley Unified who are leading their colleagues in Professional Learning Communities with a focus on Social and Emotional Development.

4th - grade Melrose Leadership Academy teacher Luz Salazar - Jed walked the audience through her experience of collaborating with colleagues to better understand and teach students who are newcomers to the U.S.

Disappointed and discouraged, I went to Melody, a friend and colleague who is a veteran first - grade teacher.

Bush is well - respected by Indiana's own state superintendent, Tony Bennett, who told our colleagues over at StateImpact Florida that the former governor has been a resource as Indiana launched similar initiatives, like A-F grading for schools, teacher evaluations, performance based pay, expansive voucher programs and expanded charter school options.

In her latest newspaper article regarding Success Academy, Taylor (2016) captures the sensational story of an assistant teacher who secretly filmed her colleague, Charlotte Dial, rip a first grade student's paper in half and angrily order the student to retreat to the ««calm - down chair» and sit.»

Dear Colleagues, As you are aware, in the 2015 - 16 school year, the Board of Regents and I placed a hold on the use of student performance measures based on the grades 3 - 8 ELA and math State assessments as part of teacher and principal evaluations which continues through the 2018 - 19 school... Read More

So I have been very lucky to collaborate with my colleague, Lisa Ross, 3rd - grade classroom teacher.