Sentences with phrase «grades taught from»

Participants had teaching positions in elementary, middle, and high school, with a range of grades taught from prekindergarten to 12th grade.

Sarah Keel is a former fourth and fifth grade teach from Tempe, Arizona.

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Tracey Gordon, who taught Tsarnaev in fifth and sixth grade at a Cambridge school, described him as an exceptionally intelligent child who easily mastered English after arriving in the United States from Russia and «was eager to learn whatever school had to offer.»

In this scheme, churches would monitor the progress of their young parishioners from kindergarten through 12th grade and find tutors or provide volunteers qualified to teach subjects in which children need help.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

«I started my journey back in 1999 in Cardiff, and was taught by one of the all - time greats, Master Tony Vella 7th Dan, who graded me all the way from my white belt to my first black belt.

Video from an eighth - grade geometry class in Japan collected as part of James Stigler's international study of math teaching

She then went on to get her teaching credential from California State University Long Beach and taught first grade for many years before deciding to stay home with her own children.

There, she developed and taught a language enrichment program for all kindergartners in the district and provided speech and language therapy for the two special education classes, as well as serving those students from kindergarten to sixth grade having articulation, fluency, voice, cleft palate, hearing impairment and language delays.

This year's Conference features keynote speaker Linda Williams, Ed.D., who served as a class teacher at the Detroit Waldorf School from 1987 - 1992, after which she taught grades 1 - 3 at the public Urban Waldorf School in Milwaukee.

She had a blast teaching first through fourth grade students from 2000 - 2012 in the San Francisco Bay Area.

After teaching in every grade from 1st to 12th in private Waldorf schools, he attended Harvard Graduate School of Education, studying multiple intelligence theory with Howard Gardner.

She graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. in Art Education and over three decades taught Art in grades 7 - 12 in public schools, Waldorf schools and Public Waldorf schools.

I needed to develop a curriculum for kids ranging in age from K to 5th grade and teach 4 - 6 classes a day.

I received my Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education from the University of Oklahoma and then taught everything from second to fifth grade before «retiring» to be a stay - at - home mom.

Both French and German are taught from 1st grade on to all students, so by the time you get to high school, you are proficient in both, and can then go on to further study in either Spanish or Mandarin.

From 2001 - 2007 she taught eurythmy in grades 5 - 12 at Garden City Waldorf School, Long Island, NY.

«The Task Force recommends that science and math be taught more as «hands - on» learning from the earliest grades.

Linda has shepherded one Steiner School class from first through eighth grades, taken another from sixth through eighth, and is currently happily engaged in teaching a lively band of third graders.

Foreign languages are customarily taught from first grade on, and these lend themselves well to these later morning periods.

Her first class, which she taught from second through eighth grade, completed their eighth grade year in 2010.

Since good behavior in schools generally translates to more time teaching and more time on task, cutting or reducing recess time could affect everything from test performance, to grades, to academic progress.

That's why she loves homeschooling her kids, leading Sunday school for two and three year olds and teaching at the local homeschool group's coop for students from grades kindergarten through high school.

Students 10 - 14 years old, and entering grades 5 - 8, are invited to attend our exciting week long, full - day camp (9:00 AM to 2:30 PM) filled with choices from Academics, Arts, and Athletics, and a Teaching Kitchen lunch.

As a co-worker in the Fellowship Community beginning in 1975, learning biodynamic methods directly from former co-workers of Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, Mac helped start the third grade farming block at Green Meadow Waldorf School and taught that block for 15 years; he also helped initiate the Pfeiffer Center's public school outreach program, The Outdoor Lesson.

In 2011 she retired after decades of serving on the faculty of Green Meadow Waldorf School where she took several classes from first through eighth grades and taught high school chemistry.

They are also likelier than their conventionally trained colleagues to teach in the higher grades, with 44 % of those from alternate - route programs teaching grades 5 through 8 and 30 % teaching grades 9 through 12.

The game drew inspiration from the Biology in a Box program, which uses hands - on materials to teach integrated science, technology, engineering and math concepts to students in grades K - 12.

When my son was in 4th grade, I had just finished my NTA program as a Certified Nutritionist and another course CHFS, which led me on the path of teaching fermented foods and Traditional foods from a healthier perspective.

shares results of The No Homework Experiment and discusses standards based grading, the goal of testing, and teaching students how to learn from mistakes.

Release: Saturday, May 14, 2016 [Netflix] Directed by: Andy Billman Imagine growing up in a city where you're taught, almost assuredly from at least the eighth grade onward, that losing is a reality you must accept, simply based on some silly geographic lottery that you were thrust into at birth.

Even details of the curriculum, like teaching long division in 4th grade or Romeo and Juliet in 9th grade, are remarkably consistent from place to place without the national government ordering schools to do so.

«This kind of experience teaches students important life skills,» says fifth - grade teacher Francie Kugelman from Dahlia Elementary in Los Angeles.

These children have been taught from a very young age that their «grades» matter more than the actual purpose of the assignment — just like «subjects» trump true learning.

Over those 9 years I taught every student in grades 1 - 5 anywhere from 30 - 45 minutes a week.

We believe that if children are taught sound decision - making, relationship - building, conflict management and other valuable life skills from pre-school through 12th grade, more of them will choose to go to college or enter the workforce instead of joining gangs and participating in negative activity that will only land them in jail before they begin their lives.

The article «The WWWDOT approach to improving students» critical evaluation of websites» (Zhang, Duke, & Jimenez, 2011 — see below) provides further detail about teaching the WWWDOT framework, with a description of and artifacts from instruction in a fourth - grade classroom.

He has taught in many settings, from a comprehensive high school, to a 6th - 12th grade Project Based Learning and STEM school.

All of the students from 4th to 9th grade have iPads as well as all of the teaching personnel of basic education.

And so, for example, one year when I was teaching second grade, an English lesson on telephone etiquette triggered some questions from my students about how telephones work, which led us to learn how we communicate via satellite systems.

Teaching at Innovations can be labor - intensive, she said, especially among 9th - grade students, who come in expecting to be «led from one class to another» and earn credit by sitting quietly.

Here are some tips from Vanderbilt Center for Teaching on making the grading process more manageable.

For example, there were few differences by age (over or under 30), highest degree attained, the length of time a teacher had student - taught, the number of teaching methods courses taken, grade level taught, community type, and whether a teacher had ongoing guidance from a mentor.

Even if the teacher was from the distant past, for instance, during the elementary school grades, they remember the teacher's passion, energy, caring, love, and commitment and that became a driving force for choosing to go into teaching.

The American Institute of CPAs has developed a curriculum package for grades 4 - 6, and volunteers from state CPA societies are available to teach it in classrooms across the country.

Kelley recently retired from her fourth grade classroom in Westminster, Colorado, after 28 years of teaching, although she still substitute teaches about two days each week.

Here's an example of this idea: Several years back, a high school teacher I know transitioned from teaching American history (in 11th grade) for 12 years to teaching world history (in 10th grade).

In 2003 schools chancellor Joel Klein appointed her and the project, through a no - bid three - year $ 5.4 million contract, to the task of revamping the way literacy skills are taught in more than 100 district schools, including most of those in Brooklyn and Queens, the project's mission is to retrain — through onsite workshops, leadership seminars, curricular materials, and an intensive summer institute — primary and upper - grade teachers, administrators from principals up through district superintendents, and central department policymakers.

«When I switched from teaching tenth grade to teaching sixth grade, I soon learned that sixth graders» thinking capabilities were more concrete than abstract,» said Crossley, who teaches at Aledo (Texas) Middle School.