Sentences with phrase «grade teaching team»

As a collaborative 6th grade teaching team, we decide on the unit of study, such a the U.S. Election, National History Day or an ancient civilization.

Of the cross-disciplinary project she helped develop with her ninth - grade teaching team, math teacher Susan Reed says, «There's something nice about it.

During Levinson's interactive PPE session, she presented participants with a case study focused on an eighth grade teaching team, which had to decide whether to promote or retain a 15 - year - old girl who had failed required classes and was reading way below grade level, but who also had worked hard to succeed in the face of numerous personal traumas.

Not exact matches

These results inspired our team to use the same curriculum approach to teach animal adaptation and biomes in the fourth grade.

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.

I like the interdisciplinary team concept in middle school — we're organized and meet as a grade - level team every day — rather than the department focus of high school teaching.

So, as the school's instructional technologist, I teamed up with the science coordinator to develop an innovative method for teaching human - body science to our fourth - grade students.

For K — 12 education, he proposes programs to «recruit math and science degree graduates» to teaching and «ensure that all children have access to a strong science curriculum at all grade levels,» more funding for «intervention strategies in middle school» for «teaching teams, parent involvement, mentoring, intensive reading and math instruction, and extended learning time» — all to address the «dropout crisis.»

The following year ~ my team «moved up» with our classes and I taught 6th grade...

(Each grade is team taught.)

Inspired by the writing of self - directed learning pioneers like John Holt (How Children Learn, 1967) and Ivan Illich (Deschooling Society, 1970), Resnick and his team envision a school in which in - depth, project - based learning — propelled entirely by students themselves and using the full resources of the community — replaces the more stifling aspects of modern high schools, like subject silos and grade levels, a static curriculum, and teach - and - test tactics.

That means teachers being able to work together in teams, people who are teaching in the same subject area or at the same grade level, sharing their knowledge, getting out and about to conferences, participating in professional learning to really build in each school a genuine professional learning community.

If a school leader balances the teaching talent on each team so that there are no discernable differences between teams at different grade levels, then parents don't worry so much about «poor» teachers, because they know that there will be strong and less - strong teachers on every team that their child could be on.

Participants are grouped by grade level, where, as a team, they must decide what constitutes proficiency for each subject they teach.

«That simple request cut the number of requests from 30 down to fewer than ten,» said Younger, noting that the need for such requests has dropped even more this year because the fifth - sixth grade teams have adopted a team - teaching model.

This was a second grade collaborative team teaching class and my co-teacher and I had printed compliment cards for the stories.

Both believe that the difference is the individualized, grade - boosting assistance of part - time team leaders who teach the first hour of each week day, and who are the key to Citizen Schools» academically focused Mondays and Tuesdays.

In addition to teaching seventh grade English, Brooke serves as Team Leader of the Trailblazers Team and as a new teacher induction trainer specializing in backward design.

In that role, I lead a team of seven teacher researchers who teach across grade levels and content areas, researching the work that gets done in their classroom, on the field, and in the studio.

To apply, teachers fill out the HRMS Building Grant application, including their name or team member names, the subjects and grades that will be taught, the title of their project, and the project description and budget.

With science educator, Betsy Davis and the ELECTS team, she has recently conducted a series of studies investigating the value of educative supports for science teaching in the upper elementary grades.

With only one teacher and given the difficulty of learning and mastering the language, P.S. 191's School Leadership Team determined that teaching just one class per week in each grade wouldn't be as effective, she said.

Before joining the KIPP Team and Family, Ashley was a teacher in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) for 6 years where she taught 2nd and 4th grade.

Teams of teachers can review the topics being taught in each grade to be sure that students are building knowledge in a coherent, logical, cumulative manner.

Those include introducing and reviewing software, Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.

The Thoughtful Classroom Portfolio Series is ideal for administrators looking for cost - effective professional development tools; school, grade, and department teams and self - directed learning clubs interested in raising student achievement; and individual teachers seeking to expand their teaching repertoires, the Thoughtful Classroom Portfolio Series will help you get results quickly — without breaking your budget.

Okema Owens Simpson, the sixth - grade multi-classroom leader for English language arts at Ranson IB Middle School in Charlotte, N.C, guides viewers through several typical days in which she provides what her teaching team needs most: daily coaching; lesson planning; practice in delivering lessons; data analysis; co-teaching or modeling lessons; and pulling out small student groups for intensive help.

She team teaches with another fourth grade teacher, intervention specialist, and special education aide.

All of our teachers team - teach, so your child will have experiences with all teachers in the grade level.

This will be her 9th year team teaching 3rd grade at North Star and feels truly blessed to be a part of an amazing school family / community!

Before becoming the founding Head of School for Elementary School 3, Mr. Falk was a part of the Elementary School 1's leadership team and previously taught 4th grade.

Ms. Freund joined the Brooke East Boston team in 2014, teaching sixth grade English and Social Studies.

She taught seventh grade science for two years and then transitioned to TFA's National Recruitment Team.

Ms. Bernstein joined the Brooke Roslindale team as a Middle School Math and Science Associate Teacher and will return to teach sixth grade this year.

Kate started her career in education teaching special education at Achievement First Apollo Elementary Charter School in Brooklyn, New York, where she also served as the first grade team leader.

You will train and coach teachers and teaching teams in the development and delivery of differentiated instruction for scholars in grades 6 - 8.

Ms. Kirby joined the Brooke East Boston team in 2012 as a founding fifth grade teacher after teaching for three years at Brooke Roslindale.

Ms. Wilson is thrilled to now be a member of the Brooke Mattapan team teaching first grade!

He first became a new teacher developer, then a grade team leader, and finally transitioned into leadership as Director of Teaching and Learning and later the Principal of the Renaissance Charter High School for Innovation.

Ms. Love joined the Brooke East Boston team in 2012 as a founding kindergarten teacher, and then looped with her class to teach first grade the following year.

Teachers, grade level teams, and curriculum specialists can choose among preplanned scope and sequences, or re-sequence topics and lessons to suit the learning needs of their class and teaching preferences.

A team of math content experts have combed the web to select the absolute best resources available to help teach the major foundational math concepts students need to master in the elementary grades.

In 2014 he headed back to the classroom, teaching biology and computer science at Leadership Public Schools in Richmond, California, while leading the ninth grade team, the science department, and the biology course team for the LPS network of schools.

She currently teaches fifth grade in Cary, North Carolina, where she also serves as a mentor and team leader.

In addition to teaching 8th grade English language arts, I lead my grade - level team.

The writing team represents both the depth, breadth and scope of the field as well as diverse geographic locations around our country and diverse teaching experiences in media arts at all grade levels, K - Higher Education.

She stresses that the opening in her school is teaching math on a 7th grade team where you are assuming responsibility for math, English, science, social studies and more for 100 students.

She amended the schedule to foster PLCs so that grade - level teacher teams could meet daily to reflect on their practice; collaborate around teaching and learning; continuously fine tune their shared beliefs and values; and examine data to improve their craft.

A Los Angeles book launch event on Dec. 2 featured four Teach Plus Teaching Policy Fellows and contributing writers: Sujata Bhatt, founder of the Incubator School; Kyle Hunsberger, a mathematics teacher at Johnnie L. Cochrain, Jr., Middle School who developed and successfully implemented a 6th - grade basic - skills intervention program; Jeannette Marrone, a founding teacher at Environmental Science and Technology High School; and Stephanie Widmer, a Teach for America Learning Team Leader and humanities teacher at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy.

Prior to joining the KIPP team in 2013, she taught for 9 years in multiple grade levels in Georgia and California.