Sentences with phrase «grade teacher whose»

«It's small moments, it really is,» said Ms. McSorley, the first - grade teacher whose chair had been pulled out from under her.

Similarly, the fifth - grade teacher whose students demonstrated the most significant growth (as measured by our curriculum - embedded and interim math assessments) is a twenty - five - year veteran.

Joan Wilson, a sixth grade teacher whose class was filmed for the movie, said that as a former fifth grade teacher she realized some students» anxieties about the middle - school transition ran deep.

At John Adams Middle School in suburban Illinois, lazy, foul - mouthed Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) is a frustrated seventh - grade teacher whose rich fiance dumps her when he realizes she's just after his money.

Not exact matches

All of us fret and kick against the steel bands of institutionalism; the teacher against the grading system, the social worker against the artificiality created by the very fact of his being a professional representative of the state commissioned to deal with human needs, the worker something of whose very life is «bought» against the employer, and the sensitive employer who buys that portion of that life against the system, the public official against the role which political necessity assigns to him.

I spent almost five years reporting in Harlem, attending parenting classes and sixth - grade math lessons and basketball games and parent - teacher meetings, and the time I spent there turned out to be a period of great change, not only for Geoff and the scope of his project but also for plenty of individuals whose stories I've tried to tell in the book.

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

Rich Napolitano, a high school social studies teacher in Suffolk County whose children are in kindergarten and first grade, said unions» fight on behalf of teachers indirectly benefits children.

Those teachers whose students can't make the grade should be labeled «developing» or «ineffective.»

Students whose teachers have not switched grades show greater improvement in test scores than students in similar classrooms with equally experienced teachers who switched grades frequently.

Take Beth Reisman, 55, whose stepdaughter's fourth - grade teacher recommended that the child be tested for ADHD.

One first grade teacher asked her class cheerfully, as a student named Martha discovered and corrected a mistake: «Wow — whose math muscles just got stronger?»

For many grade levels, teachers must undo a mindset that's become well established from years of being a student whose first draft is the final draft.

Gail Beyrer, an AmeriCorps veteran whose husband also is a teacher, teaches fourth grade on Long Island, New York.

He tells the story of a would - be Yalie with good grades and test scores but whose personal essay described a conversation with a teacher she admired — a conversation too important and stimulating to interrupt.

«For students whose parents had college degrees, their parents» involvement in the seventh grade set forth a chain of reactions that improved their school behavior from teachers» perspectives in the eighth grade, which in turn increased their grades and test scores in the ninth grade,» Hill says.

To my twelfth - grade composition teacher, Mr. McCatty, in whose class I first experienced the power of sharing one's own writing in an author's chair.

, peer grading teaches them that some assignments don't matter; that they don't have to work too hard on those assignments because the teacher will never see them anyway; and that they can ease their embarrassment about their own errors by teasing those whose scores are a little lower — or significantly higher — than their own.

And building test - score - based student achievement into teacher evaluations, while (in my view) legitimate for some teachers, has led to crazy arrangements for many teachers whose performance can not be properly linked to reading and math scores in grades 3 — 8.

The first and most rigorous of the studies, by Dan Goldhaber and Emily Anthony of the Urban Institute, found that on average North Carolina students in grades 3 - 5 whose teachers were board certified scored 7 to 15 percent higher on tests than students whose teachers attempted but failed to gain certification.

The percent of 4th grade students whose teachers say they've received training on how to integrate computers into their classroom instruction has remained flat since 2009, according to a new Education Week Research Center analysis of survey data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

Think of the 7th grade math teachers with modest student test scores whose extra work ensures that their students excel in algebra two years later.

For instance, just 57 percent of students with teachers whose grading standards are below the median within their own school continue to have below - median teachers the next year.

The example that reporter Natasha Singer focused on --» one of the tech - savviest teachers in the United States» — is an ace third grade teacher named Kayla Delzer, whose classroom is in the hamlet of Mapleton, North Dakota.

Teacher Colette Kaplan searched for ways to get her fifth - grade students (whose favorite line seemed to be «I'm bored!»)

In addition, our results do not tell us anything about how to raise the grading standards of teachers whose standards are currently low.

Research shows that teachers who have repeated experience teaching the same grade level or subject area improve more rapidly than those whose experience is in varied grade levels or subjects.

Students whose teachers receive professional development in higher - order thinking skills are 40 % of a grade level ahead of students whose teachers lack such training in mathematics.

But in Los Angeles, whose local newspaper calculated and released teachers» grades based on student test scores in 2010, Villaraigosa and his schools superintendent John Deasy are enthusiastic about such reforms.

Students whose teachers receive professional development in laboratory skills are 44 % of a grade level ahead of those whose teachers lack such training in science (p. 26).

The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News and others are seeking the value - added rankings of about 12,000 teachers in grades 4 through 8 whose students took state English and math tests.

«We're not just a stand alone entity in the middle of a neighborhood,» said Timothy Wangler, a 12th grade literature arts teacher whose service - learning project has students turning a book into a theater production to be performed for the community.

They are fourth grade teachers at Meachem Elementary School whose outside the box thinking has resulted in academic success for their students.

Eighth grade students whose teachers had received professional development in how to teach different groups of students substantially outperformed other students.

Jenny Robinson, whose second grade daugher in Monroe County Community Schools will take the IREAD - 3 next year, says she believes students and teachers are becoming overwhelmed with testing.

Jenniffer is a Nationally Board Certified teacher whose career spans teaching students ages 4 - 75 in grades preK - higher education.

A teacher whose students are performing poorly on assessments, or who can not maintain discipline, might be moved midyear to another grade, an assistant teacher's position or tutoring outside the classroom.

According to the report, students in grades 4 and 8 whose teacher held a master's degree scored higher on NAEP reading than students who were taught by teachers with no more than a bachelor's degree.

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.

One clear opponent has been the United Teachers Los Angeles — whose members approved a referendum expressing no confidence in Deasy, who succeeded Ramon Cortines in 2011 — and gave him failing grades last summer.

Inglewood second grade teacher Suzan Rider is another of those public school educators whose dedication seems unquestionable.

To be sure, some students with the most severe cognitive disabilities won't be able to reach grade - level goals set by the state — but the vast majority of Kentucky's disabled students have conditions mild enough that they should be able to perform on grade - level with sufficient interventions from teachers, said University of Kentucky professor Lee Ann Jung, whose research has focused on special education and academic standards.

For many states and districts the question of how to measure student learning as one aspect of measuring teacher effectiveness — in ways that are accurate, amenable to teachers, and do - able for teachers whose grades or subject areas are not systematically tested — has consumed much of their time and resources the last few years.

Fifth grade math teacher Ada Lee, whose students last year worked with the program MathSpace, tapped into What Works Clearinghouse and Lea (R) n, two resources that helped her identify student needs, problem areas, solutions and student improvement.

That affects the roughly one in five teachers whose students now sit for those exams, essentially language arts and math in grades 4 through 8, but will become more of a concern as additional state tests are introduced.

Eighth grade students whose teachers frequently ask them to use computers to draft and revise their writing scored higher than their peers.

For example, suppose that every year a fifth grade teacher is assigned highly gifted students whose learning is not captured by the yearly achievement test, and that her value - added measure does not account for the gifted status of these students.

For any teacher whose lessons have contributed evidence grades that are below the level expected, then it should be possible to counter that with alternative evidence.

«One of our strongest educators [using blended learning] is an AP Calculus teacher, while some of the social studies teachers and some teachers for our youngest grades, whose curriculum I thought would have lent itself very well to tech - integration, required much more support,» Mrs. Vannatter says.

Given a year with an effective teacher — one whose pupils previously showed test - score gains — students can advance their learning by a grade level or more, according to research done by William L. Sanders while he was at the University of Tennessee.