Sentences with phrase «grade teacher we interviewed»

An eighth - grade teacher we interviewed concurred.

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«I was in 3rd grade and one of my teachers told us to decide what we wanted to do when we grew up and then interview someone who had that job.

In speeches, interviews and a letter over the past few weeks, the governor has said that he thinks the state's teacher grading system, only in its third year, is too easy to pass, making it too difficult to fire underperforming educators.

All teacher education in Canada takes place in universities, and entry into the teaching programs is based on a combination of your grade point average (GPA), essays, and interviews.

To conduct the study — the second in a series — the researchers observed and interviewed 30 fifth - through eighth - grade teachers in public and private schools in New York.

Researchers used surveys of mothers and children, home visits and interviews with fifth grade teachers to complete the study.

In teacher Amy Lyon's Perseverance Walk lesson, fifth grade students have an opportunity to interview someone who has worked hard toward a long - term goal, then create and share a presentation to illustrate a life lived with grit.

Guest blogger Ross Cooper, a fourth grade teacher with a creative approach to literature study, gets his students into the authors» heads by having them imagine an interview and then construct it via app smashing.

In teacher Amy Lyon's Perseverance Walk lesson, fifth grade students have an opportunity to interview someone who has worked hard towards a long - term goal, then create and share a presentation to illustrate a life lived with grit.

Cooper, a fourth grade teacher with a creative approach to literature study, gets his students into the authors» heads by having them imagine an interview and then construct it collaboratively via app smashing.

We at the Learning First Alliance recently interviewed two representatives of ABC to find out: Richard Saldana a high school teacher and department chair who also serves on the executive board of the ABC Federation of Teachers, and Tanya Golden, a sixth grade teacher who also serves as a teacher leader.

An interview with Megan Toyama, a blended - learning teacher of AP US history and 10th - grade modern world history at Summit Tahoma

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.

In this post, I share excerpts from a recent interview with Megan Toyama, a blended - learning teacher who teaches AP US history and 10th - grade modern world history at Summit Tahoma, a high school that is part of the Summit Public Schools charter network in the San Francisco Bay Area.

«Because the students know,» reported one 8th - grade teacher during an interview with one of the CCSR's field staff, «I'm not the one failing you, I'm not the one holding you back.

In addition to the survey data collected, in - depth interviews were conducted with 43 teachers who taught in the promotion-gate grades (3rd, 6th, and 8th, where students faced their test - score Rubicons) at five K - 8 schools in the system.

We analyzed data from two rounds of semi-structured interviews with 27 upper - elementary grades teachers, principals, and other key personnel (e.g., instructional coaches, where present) and 127 hours of observational data.

In an interview with StateImpact Florida «s John O'Connor, Bennett says almost all of Indiana's initiatives — A-F grading for schools, teacher evaluations, performance based pay, expansive voucher programs and expanded charter school options — mirror what Florida has been doing for several years now.

Chapter 23: Eastern Kentucky University's Middle Grades Methods Dorie Combs, Melinda Wilder, Keith Kull, Sara Moore, Faye Newsome, Rodney White, & John Brown Chapter 24: Middle Grades Master Teacher Interview Guide Holly Thornton

To investigate their questions, the students surveyed 292 students in grades 9 — 12 and interviewed 17 teachers and 8 students.

In a radio interview, Julia Gonzalez, a second grade teacher and E4E - New York member, calls for more funding for implementing the Common Core Standards and...

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.

Tenth - grade teacher Dave Weber, in his interview response to «Patterns in Student Work» described a creative solution to the potentially formulaic focus on a narrative's opening:

As documented under Section 1115 of Title I, Part A of the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA), a local education agency receiving Title I funds «may use funds received under this part only for programs that provide services to eligible children under subsection (b) identified as having the greatest need for special assistance... Eligible children are children identified by the school as failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet the State's challenging student academic achievement standards on the basis of multiple, educationally related, objective criteria established by the local educational agency and supplemented by the school, except that children from preschool through grade 2 shall be selected solely on the basis of such criteria as teacher judgment, interviews with parents, and developmentally appropriate measures».

In summary, the nature of its content and the design of the SWAP interface address the need for teacher candidates to explore, in a variety of ways, actual student writing and professional teacher interviews from different grade levels and linguistic backgrounds.

This AUSLinnovates story is drawn from an interview with Principal Aquabah Gonney and Edina Malagic, eighth grade teacher, of Lewis School of Excellence in Chicago's North Austin neighborhood.

We also interviewed Amy Hiebel, a 7th and 8th grade teacher at Maplewood K - 8 in the Edmonds School District in Edmonds, Washington.

This Is A Very Worrying Interview About Students Grading Teachers

The semistructured interviews were conducted with an intentional sample of teachers that spanned grade levels and subject areas, each of whom had previously completed the 2009 or 2015 questionnaire.

Among the 108 teachers who volunteered to participate in the follow - up interviews in 2009, 28 teachers were purposefully selected and interviewed, representing a range of subject areas and grade levels.

Fourth - and fifth - grade students interviewed by the Michigan Department of Education innocently described how teachers helped them answer questions.

Among the 175 teachers, 71 indicated being willing to participate in a follow - up interview, and 16 were purposely selected (representing a range of subject areas and grade levels) to be interviewed in fall 2015.

Despite these limitations, efforts were made to sample a wide range of teachers across subject areas and grade levels in both the questionnaire and the interviews to minimize errors or bias.

In a recent interview with Teacher Magazine, Richard Allington, who has called RTI «our last, best hope,» identified his own wish for implementing RTI: investing in reading specialists and improving the quality of reading instruction in kindergarten and 1st grade (Rebora, 2010).

«We've always had rules about not bringing cell phones or iPods to school,» remarked seventh grade teacher Angie Kelley from White Plains Middle School in an interview with GoodEReader.

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This week we interviewed Catlin Gabel English teacher Carter Latendresse, who has participated in NWEI's EcoChallenge with his 6th grade students annually since 2011.

Buttressed by a history of acknowledgements of her superb writing skills throughout all her school years ranging from grade school teachers to college professors, Claudia decided to use her natural God - given talent to help friends and family to achieve interviews.

And those have been followed - up by further research finding that that ninth - grade teachers who are particularly good in helping student acquire non-cognitive skills are more successful «much larger in magnitude» in having students graduate and attend college than those whose work results in higher test scores alone (see You'll Want To Read This Interview With Education Researcher Kirabo Jackson).