Sentences with phrase «grade teachers use»

What strategies do 3rd grade teachers use to teach students with native languages different from their own?

Fifth grade teachers use their PBL pilot program to teach the leadership and collaboration skills that future employers are likely to expect of their students.

«Fourth grade teachers use word walls for displaying words that can be substituted for more frequently used words,» said Davis.

Under this grant, Dr. Alisa Kesler Lund and I studied how fifth grade teachers use lesson study in history and social studies.

As my fifth - grade teacher used to say, «It's all fun and games until you have to watch Omar Infante start the All - Star Game.»

Our fifth grade teacher used a simulation game to teach a critical thinking concept.

A 5th grade teacher uses the results of a pre-assessment to target a needed skill: giving specific peer feedback.

«We recently hired a fourth - grade teacher using the EPI and having been getting really positive feedback on her performance,» said Michelle Holland, principal at Leadership Prep.

A 2nd grade teacher uses the popular app Class Dojo to record positive student behaviors.

High school students and teachers in a professional development (PD) workshop for middle grades teachers used a version of this lesson plan to engage participants with inquiry - based learning using technology.

A 7th grade teacher uses a subordinating conjunction activity to assess students» comprehension of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

There is no direct mention of grading teachers using student test scores, nor is there any direct mention of using letter grades to label schools.

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, an educational gaming platform used by 50 million monthly users in grades K - 12, includes in its new report responses from 580 US teachers, primarily from public schools, who answered questions about technology in their classrooms.

For example, Google Classroom is intended for teachers to use as a one - stop digital hub to share homework, assignments, and student grades.

Says teacher Nancy Bonne: «The system makes efficient use of space and resources, and it has solved the shortage of teaching staff, since formerly each church had to recruit teachers for every grade level, even with only three or four in a group.

He called you by your last name (a practice I use to this day), he had a way of instilling fear into kids who would goof - off and cause distractions in other classes (a practice I was very much unable to duplicate during my one - year stint as an 8th - grade English teacher), and you had to run the gauntlet of sentence - diagramming grammar, which advanced to a pretty complex level, before the more «cool - teacher» aspects of Mr. Pacilio were unveiled — and even then, the tests on those rock songs were no joke!

I mean, I remember being in second grade and having a teacher chastise me for using «to» as «too».

As my teacher in grade 10 used to say, assuming makes an «arse» of you and me

In a culture where Cordova teachers used to fear losing half the football team by Homecoming due to failing grades, it's projected they won't lose one player this entire season.

A longer school day would simply cut into the after school time many teachers use to grade papers, create lesson plans or confer with parents or students, Lewis said.

It was handy to know who had the name I was thinking about using and what first grade teachers would think.

Waldorf teacher - trainer and master teacher, Douglas Gabriel introduces teachers and parents to Rudolf Steiner's Waldorf School curriculum in an all - encompassing curriculum book that can be used for the first grade and beyond.

He and his wife chose to opt out their fifth grade son from taking the Common Core - aligned exams this year because they believe the tests were used for other purposes than what they were meant for, such as teacher evaluations and school funding.

Cuomo has sought a two - year moratorium on using test scores in students» grades, but wanted to use the testing as part of the job evaluations of teachers and principals.

Once politicians started using test results to grade teachers you lost their support and added their enmity.

Currently, young people must apply for university places using grades predicted by their teachers, but in 55 per cent of cases these are wrong, leaving many students without anywhere to go, or feeling that they should have applied for a better university.

Dr. Vanden Wyngaard and district staff will provide an overview of state exams and how the Common Core Learning Standards are changing instruction for students at all grade levels, as well as information about how the tests are used in the new statewide evaluation systems for teachers and principals.

Opt - out activists have said the number will continue to grow, citing reasons such as the perceived «over-testing» of students using exams that are not age and grade appropriate, as well as the use of test scores on teacher evaluations.

The education department advised all districts to use — and if they hadn't already, create — a backup plan based on what already is used for teachers who teach subjects or grades for which there are no state exams.

There was something for everyone on the menu: using Apple technology, developing research - based practices to teach students in the early grades, engaging students through digital instruction, understanding the new teacher evaluation system as set by state law, preventing high - risk student behaviors and how Community Learning Schools meet the needs of students and their families.

Senate Education Chairman John Flanagan has proposed several bills, including a ban on testing children in the second grade and younger, and a reduction of testing used to evaluate teachers.

With this huge step forward, we believe it is vital that the state makes permanent the current moratorium on using the state English Language Arts and math Common Core tests for students in Grades 3 to 8 to evaluate teachers.

School teachers from elementary through high - school grades have used GIMPS to get their students excited about mathematics.

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

Developing and evaluating an eighth grade curriculum unit that links foundational chemistry to biological growth: Paper # 5: Using teacher measures to evaluate the promise of the intervention.

Purdue University Science Sampler: Node graph visualizations for eighth - grade mathematics students using a virus transmission simulation, by a Purdue teacher - fellow team in the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Science Scope, July 2008.

According to the company's Web site, Airborne was created by second - grade teacher, Victoria Knight - McDowell, who «studied the benefits herbal therapies used in Eastern Medicine.»

I use the time as a way to destroys as I prepare for the coming school year — I'm a 1st grade teacher?

MyGradeBook has been providing an easy to use, full featured, and secure grade book service for schools and individual teachers since 1999.

Below are a few ways that I can imagine any teacher, regardless of grade level or content area, using interactive rubrics:

By acquiring the assets of the for - profit Assessment Training Institute, the nonprofit testing giant will be able to offer a full suite of assessment services — ranging from large - scale state tests to the ongoing assessments that teachers use for instruction and grading on a weekly, daily, and minute - by - minute basis.

This study, conducted with fifth grade students, shows that when teachers use personal praise (for their intelligence), it tends to put students in a fixed mindset, whereas using process praise (for their effort or procedure) tends to foster a growth mindset.

Using a backward - design approach, teachers at each grade level figure out the big ideas that students need to learn that quarter.

And teachers on TeacherTube say they've used the video to introduce a lesson, engage inner - city students who prefer music to math, and show students how to calculate their grades on an assignment.

Because students in elementary grades are assigned to one teacher for most of the school day, advisory systems would be duplicative and are therefore not used by elementary schools.

In the Loop: Students and Teachers Progressing Together Looping — when a teacher moves with his or her students to the next grade level rather than sending them to another teacher at the end of the school year — was initially advocated by early 20th - century Austrian educator Rudolf Steiner and since has been used successfully for years in Europe.

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.

To enhance classwork, teachers at every grade level were trained to use a range of tech tools like Google Apps and VoiceThread, an application that lets users add audio comments to documents and multimedia.

As a coach, I've noticed that many teachers give homework as a routine, because it's expected, because it's used as part of a grade, or because they hope that students will master the skills through homework assignments.

Hope doesn't factor the ANet interim test scores into youngsters» overall grades, and in their contract with ANet, network schools agree not to use the scores to rate their teachers, a move designed to dampen teacher resistance.