Sentences with phrase «grades of their classmates»

Second, they look at the grades of their classmates.

Not exact matches

'» Eventually, with support from classmates and a lot of late nights, Gerstein was able to get her grades and confidence up.

Avery and his first - grade classmates in at TriCity Elementary in Buffalo, Illinois watched the box of supplies being delivered via the Facetime app.

He has one of the three highest academic averages in the history of Mansfield High — he received a B for one marking period in seventh - grade English but nothing lower than an A since — and will certainly become the fourth member of his family named most likely to succeed by his classmates at graduation.

My friend and classmate, Pat Knight, the coach's son, regaled the seventh grade kaffeeklatsch with stories of Jordan's feats during practices.

As a young girl, I was overweight, and I still remember the horror of being called an elephant by a second - grade classmate.

The principal of P.S. 18 in Inwood fired teacher Madeline Luciano after she let a student write on a chalkboard the reasons why eighth - grade students didn't like a particular classmate.

The results were clear: Students who strategically reflected on how to use their resources to learn effectively ended up with higher grades at the end of the semester, outperforming their classmates by an average of one third of a letter grade.

I clearly remember the day in the ninth grade that a classmate accosted me in the hallway of my junior high to recruit me for the high school debate team.

For their study, Dr. Devine and colleagues enrolled 12 children who had survived childhood brain tumors in grades 1 through 8, and 217 of their classmates, who comprised eight intervention classrooms.

Fourth graders who showed signs of depression were more likely than their classmates to be victimized as fifth graders, and kids who were picked on in fifth grade tended to be less accepted by their peers in sixth grade.

Knowing more about my own body would have been much more helpful than talking about the penis of my fourth grade classmates.

Taunted by their classmates since grade school and never quite able to escape the culturally suffocating confines of their homogenized Midwestern hometown, a pair of small - town misfits make a break for the big city in this comedy from director Lorene Machado.

The first game David (Matthew Broderick) engages in involves getting his hot, coltish classmate Jennifer (Ally Sheedy) to compromise her morals (going to his room, allowing him to change her science grade)-- the quintessence of courtship and the first nascent experiments in seduction.

My 4th grade classmates laughed hysterically about the «evil» gorillas illogically jumping off their perches into a river of lava, and I laughed with them.

My wife remembers classmates having to put a nickel in the «mission box» if they mispronounced a word — «libary» instead of library or «pitcher» instead of picture — at her Jersey City parochial grade school.

In theory, retained students were supposed to participate in an enriched, accelerated academic program that would, through additional help and tailor - made interventions, result in a better outcome at the end of the repeated grade or even help the student catch up to his or her classmates.

In the end, unless a school, from the earliest grades to the latest, organizes around strengthening language and literacy for Hispanic students and all their classmates, we simply are never going to catch all of the students who may be struggling.

So we wanted to see if playfulness in Kindergarten had any predictive ability to talk about how the children would be in First, Second and Third Grades, both in terms of teacher's perspectives and in terms of their classmates» perspectives.

Strongly consider calling the homes of students who have improved their efforts or class grade, been helpful to their classmates or to you, or contributed routinely to class discussions, for example.

On a recent Tuesday, «Creatures of Light,» a new exhibit on bioluminescence, brought evolution and genetics to life for Banks and her seventh - grade classmates.

Along the way, the player can be assisted by a «classmate,» one of five cast members (who are fifth grade students), in answering the questions.

Communication Comparisons 06/20/2001 [World History, Language Arts Grades 3 - 5, 6 - 8 Submitted by VaReane Heese] VaReane Heese, a teacher at Springfield (Nebraska) Elementary School submitted this week's lesson in which students use online and print resources to research different methods of communication, use graphic organizers to compare the methods, and share their findings with classmates.

Assignments that are graded either by students themselves or by their classmates — and whose scores are, therefore, potentially unreliable — should never constitute any part of a student's final grade or of his or her educational record.

At the seventh -, eighth -, and ninth - grade level, students who have access to technology at home and at school did better than their classmates on the writing portion of state tests.

Their classmates filled out the forms during a presentation of the HyperStudio projects and then the students collected the forms, tallied them, and turned them over to their teacher for a final grade.

• A different Chetty study reports that «students who were randomly assigned to higher - quality classrooms in grades K — 3 — as measured by classmates» end - of - class test scores — have higher earnings, college attendance rates, and other outcomes.»

For example, providing students with the same teacher and classmates in both ninth grade and tenth grade «cuts out weeks of the getting - to - know - you, so the teacher can build on that existing community,» Pieri says.

Because of the way tracking was done (splitting the grade into two classes at the median baseline test score), the two students closest to the median within each school were assigned to classes where the average prior achievement of their classmates was very different.

At the end of the grading period, they share their successes with their classmates.

In the fourth grade, I got all of my classmates to go in on a surprise party for our teacher.

Almost every one of my classmates admits to never reading the books because they are so painfully boring to read... Also, unless the essays are written exactly how that teacher likes, you are almost always guaranteed a poor grade.

In terms of turnaround in behavior, grades, and participation in school activities, particularly in the past year, Pearl explained for herself how the program helped: «At the end of last year, I saw some of my classmates losing their privileges, consistently getting in trouble, and I got tired of that.

Recruit established groups of friends in each grade level to roam the campus looking for classmates who are alone, especially during lunch and recess.

Third - and fourth - grade teacher Jessie Heckman says she empowers her students to become more resourceful by solving common problems with the support of their classmates.

For Spanish - language speakers, this early emphasis on their home language enables them to «expand their vocabulary and build literacy in their first language; study a highly academic curriculum in their first language; successfully transfer Spanish reading and writing skills to English in later grades; acquire high levels of self - esteem by becoming bilingual and playing a supportive role for their English - speaking classmates.»

As a former middle grades teacher of gifted students, I worry that above - grade - level standards will not be part of the formative and summative assessment process, leaving these students to languish unchallenged while their classmates struggle with materials and activities advanced students could have completed successfully years earlier.

Topics examined include: (1) grade span; (2) size; (3) grouping; (4) number of teachers per students; (5) changing classmates; (6) homeroom and advisory periods; (7) guidance counselors; (8) teams of teachers; (9) curriculum; (10) instruction; (11) goals for students; (12) transitions and articulation practices; (13) remediation; (14) report card entries; (15) teacher certification; and (16) teacher talents.

While they redo their work, their classmates are getting a reward — like playing dodge ball against the teachers, throwing pies in the face of the principal or running through the hallways while the students in the lower grades cheer.

I fiddled with my cellphone until a classmate, a white guy who was on the track team with most of the other black guys in my grade, came down the main stairs and offered me a lift.

Mark Gilboard, an Albuquerque parent who had his fifth - grade daughter sit out of PARCC, said he was flabbergasted when she came home from school recently saying that she and her classmates had spent an hour sitting in front of computers to make sure that the technology was ready for the new online exams.

Children who have not responded well to classroom instruction in Kindergarten and grade one, and who have not developed effective patterns of literacy learning, can make accelerated progress and achieve the average level of the classmates within approximately 15 weeks of individual instruction.

Meanwhile, 29 percent of young female fourth - grade classmates read Below Basic in 2011, a four point decline from nine years ago; 36 percent of young female fourth - graders read at Proficient and Advanced levels, a two percent uptick over that time period.

While the overall waste of taxpayer money and student instructional time associated with the Common Core SBAC Testing disaster undermines the educational opportunities of every public school student, the testing scheme is particularly discriminatory against children who face English Language barriers, children who have special education needs and children who aren't «excelling» at one to two grade levels ahead of their classmates.

In layman's language, that means the students in that grade showed greater improvement than 99.9 % of their classmates statewide.

The second intervention was part of Quality English and Science Teaching (QuEST), a CREATE project designed to develop the science knowledge and academic language of English language learners and their English - proficient classmates in the middle grades.

This traditionally analog second grade activity, with ties to social and emotional learning, involves selecting a student of the week who is given special recognition by his or her classmates.

And when at least 1.2 million fourth - grade students, or one - third of the nation's students in that grade are likely to drop out — and nearly 1 million more of their classmates who are barely reading at Basic proficiency unlikely to succeed in college and career — we have a moral, intellectual, and systems - change obligation to focus on stemming achievement gaps.

Over the course of Stead's 200 - page middle - grade novel, Miranda deals with changing friendships, bullying, racial prejudice directed toward a classmate, a first crush, different income levels within her school — all while solving a mystery that could save her friend's life.

Every story I wrote as a teenager — include a lengthy novel co-written with a friend about our eighth - grade classmates — was an imitation of It in some respect.