Sentences with phrase «graders with»

According to Dee & Jacob (2011), the No Child Left Behind Act generated increases in the average math performance of fourth and eighth graders with an effect size of.23.

In an article for Education Week, Charles Taylor Kerchner tells the story of two Imperial Valley teachers who started the Imperial Valley Discovery Zone, which excites 2nd graders with the scientific method and opens doors in STEM colleges for high school students.

Summer 1994 — Summer 2003 Music Instructor, Jewish Community Center, Stamford, CT Planned, taught, and assessed all music classes for Pre — K through Sixth graders with an emphasis on rhythm.

You want to say «Helped third graders with projects.»

That's right — there are second graders with their own accounts on social media.

In addition to animals and adoptions, the Tarrytown center is very community - driven with support from Casis Elementary's «Leadership Casis» — a group of 5th graders with an interest in community service who sponsored one of the cat habitats.

Our work in high - poverty schools in Washington Heights, New York City was featured in a New York Times article that stated that, thanks to our program, the percentage of sixth graders with learning disabilities who met the math standards in the 2011 - 12 school year increased by 36 % — nine times the city - wide increase of 4 %.

The sample items strike me as comprehensible for third to fifth graders with broad knowledge, but I am highly skeptical that we can safely assume that children are acquiring such broad knowledge in their elementary schools.

Twelfth graders with a 3.2 GPA and minimum 22 ACT can pursue early admission.

The findings aren't broken out into each subject, but fifth - graders with specialized teachers generally learned less than their peers across multiple subjects (though the negative effect was somewhat smaller).

«Don't compare this year's fifth graders with last year's,» Glazerman said.

And while 8th graders with disabilities have done better in math than the national average they're on a pretty steep decline path, and this year their scores weren't statistically different from their peers nationally.

And while 8th graders with disabilities have done better in math than the national average they're on a

Three fifth graders with learning disabilities received instruction designed to help them incorporate three common planning strategies into their current approach to writing.

New $ 3 million grant targets word problem intervention for third - graders with math difficulties May 22, 2015

MCPER to create science program with focus on second - graders with, at risk for learning disabilities August 7, 2017

MCPER has received a $ 3 million federal grant to test a word problem intervention for third - graders with or at risk for mathematics difficulties.

In Nashville, NACS opened this fall and currently serves fifth - graders with a plan to add a grade each year until the eighth grade.

My story of being an eighth - grade math teacher for 100 general education students, as well as the special education teacher for a group of sixth, seventh, and eighth graders with significant special needs.

For example, in terms of literacy, the percent of River View 4th graders with identified disabilities scoring at or above grade level went from only 20 percent to 42 percent in just two years.

For elementary teachers like Barbara Dell Carter who works in rural eastern North Carolina, that means she must manage a classroom of 22 second graders with very diverse needs and without any instructional assistance, except for maybe an hour each day.

A Second Year of One - on - One Tutoring: An Intervention for Second Graders With Reading Difficulties

We have had a teacher out on medical leave for almost the whole year and we have had a classroom of first graders with many different subs.

CIERA Report # 3 - 019 «A Second Year of One - on - One Tutoring: An Intervention for Second Graders With Reading Difficulties» by Mary Claiborne Fowler, Laura M. Lindemann, Susan Thacker - Gwaltney, and Marcia Invernizzi

At East Middle School, the elixir is Kristen Walsh, who teaches math to sixth, seventh and eighth graders with so - called special needs, a potpourri of learning disabilities that include dyslexia and autism.

However, her planning had to account for an engaging classroom environment and differentiated instruction for a class of twenty - five second graders with a variety of academic challenges.

The same trend was reported among 8th graders with the lowest test scores.

The answer to why parents can't help their 2nd graders with homework.

Maryland excluded 66 percent of fourth - graders with disabilities for the reading test, far higher than the national rate of 16 percent.

This year I incorporated materials produced at Mississippi State to help my seventh graders with a catch phrase «Bing, Bang, Bongo.»

«Less than 10 percent of our nation's eighth graders with IEPs are scoring proficient in reading, according to the best available data.

The Viredays are at James John from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., four days a week, helping third and fourth graders with their reading and math skills.

Portland, Maine Besides incorporating such subjects as art, science, and language arts, the projects include well - considered use of computer technology, which has been enhanced by the decision of the state to provide all Maine seventh and eighth graders with iBook laptop computers.

We see that only 57 percent of third graders with a prior CPS investigation achieve basic proficiency levels on the statewide reading exam compared with 65 percent of third graders with no prior CPS investigation.

Last school year, I worked with the schools psychologist to present my gifted fifth - graders with a workshop on perfectionism.

Besides incorporating such subjects as art, science, and language arts, the projects include well - considered use of computer technology, which has been enhanced by the decision of the state to provide all Maine seventh and eighth graders with iBook laptop computers.

- who thinks it's a good idea to frighten 8th graders with the longest writing assignment they've ever seen?).

We already know from national assessment data that about half of eighth graders with college - educated parents fail to clear the «proficient» bar on NAEP.

It follows a free - spirited 60 - year - old («Her hair, by then bleach - blonde, had wisps of pink and blue») who despises traditional schooling and greets her 6th graders with «Good morning heroes!»

At Clinton (Michigan) Elementary School, principal Marcia Wright sends off her fifth graders with a special ceremony that celebrates their completion of the school's DARE program.

Some ENLACE programs provide ninth graders with mentors — upperclassmen or college students — to help with the transition and act as role models.

To enhance student - level differentiation, we supplied all sixth and ninth graders with a math tutor in a two - on - one setting and provided an extra dose of reading or math instruction to students in other grades who had previously performed below grade level.

I design and teach STEAM curricula to appeal to girls, and the fourth and fifth graders with whom I am lucky to work can keenly demonstrate Newton's Third Law of Motion.

Right now I work with Kinder and First graders with Autism and I also work at a high school teaching theater!

A new study in the journal Early Childhood Research Quarterly finds that kindergartners and first graders with high maintenance temperaments showed less disruptive behavior and more active engagement and on - task behavior in the classroom, thanks to a program that helps teachers, parents, and students recognize and adapt to individual differences.

«What a difference a grade makes: First graders with attention problem lag for years afterward, Second graders, less so.»

Now, the administration is planning to spend $ 75 million to match second graders with reading specialists to ensure all they are reading at the proper level by 2026.

She teaches second graders with special needs, who are often behind the level of other children in their grade.

Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

Roughly 10 percent of 1st graders with permissive or neglectful mothers were overweight, compared with 17 percent of those with strict disciplinarian mothers and less than 4 percent of those with flexible moms.