Sentences with phrase «grades worked together»

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Some years ago I was supposed to teach an eighth - grade Bible school class what a dysfunctional group is and why it is spelled with a «y.» I'm not sure if it was before that explanation or after that we were supposed to make pizza together, but what we had while we were working through the etymology of «dys» was not exactly group enthusiasm.

Education is essentially competitive, not cooperative, as illustrated by the common practice of grading on a curve, or the fact that students getting together to cooperate on their work are said to be «cheating» — so highly are the communal virtues regarded in our schools.

Lower grades offer social and rhythmic games, circle games, hand - clapping games, beanbag activities, and jump ropes — all to encourage working together as a group.

Work together to develop a plan to address failing grades.

Included are: Examples of Mentoring Practice in the Elementary Grades; Working Together Towards Excellence in Waldorf Education; Effective Mentoring; Examples of Mentoring Styles among other articles.

The recent ham and cheese sandwich assembly line recently unfolding in a first grade classroom at this District 36 elementary school reflects the school's four Peace Power principles — recognize, stop put - downs, work together and make peace, said Principal Julie Pfeffer.

He said local governments «rarely» work together to consolidate or share services on anything from combining human services departments or sharing equipment like road grading machines.

New York State Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk, a Democrat from the 46th district, remarked that teachers, parents, students and administrators need to work together to bring up New York's Common Core passing grade.

Miller said it is unclear if the flags were «commercial grade, commercially manufactured flag [s] that then w [ere] bleached or altered to be all white, or whether this was Betsy Ross» long - lost nephew doing extensive work to put something together this detailed.

«In short, this pleading is a sloppy, hastily put together piece of work by an attorney shooting well above his pay grade,» said Carla Cottrell, a matrimonial and children's welfare lawyer who called herself a friend of Hoyt's.

The semester I was back from working at Disney World in college was the semester I had the worst grades — because I really appreciated the fact that all of my friends were all together in one place, and therefore said «yes» to anything social and «no» to a lot of study time.

Turning Points 2000: A Blueprint For Middle Grades Education Reform A new report by the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans advises that groups need to work together to help Hispanic students close the achievement gap with students of other ethnic groups.

During our months together, I have worked with my thirty - three seventh - grade students on the idea of story, what makes stories so powerful, and how they can connect us to one another.

«When we have our preps,» says Wiedegreen, «they're aligned to each other so that those grade - level teams can meet and work together on anything that we're doing in our units.

We have the ability to interact and collaborate with every teacher and every grade level, giving us insight into how individuals and the entire school work together.

Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances 3/2/2000 [Social Studies, Civics, Current Events, Government Grades 9 - 12 Submitted by Glenn Day] In this introductory lesson, students will recognize the importance of understanding how the separate powers of the three branches of government work together, in a checks and balances system, to form a single unit of government.

11th grade students work together in a living environment lab class at New Visions Charter High School for the Humanities

The project has grown substantially to become an «inter-club collaboration» that brings together «moderators and students from grade school clubs, such as the Young Scientists, Social Scientists, Tech Explorers, and SWAT (Students Working with Advanced Tech).»

While most schools have structures for teachers to work together — such as grade - level teams or subject - area departments — these groups don't always have the impact on student learning that they could.

In the early grades, this lesson can be performed as a teacher - directed group activity in which the teacher reads the information to the students and they work together to complete one monument.

(Women's History) 3/6/2000 [Social Studies, Language Arts Grades 6 - 8, 9 - 12 Submitted by Terrie Lynn Bittner] In this introductory lesson, students will recognize the importance of understanding how the separate powers of the three branches of government work together, in a checks and balances system, to form a single unit of government.

Following on from my Basic Calculations upload, these ten graded programming exercises together with working solution programs are suitable for lea...

A team of eighth - grade teachers compares notes on the trials and rewards of working together on project - based «expeditionary» learning.

«Sometimes I'll group students together because I know that this particular kid is good at drawing one thing out of another, or that one of them might have strong spatial skills, and another might have strong symbolic skills, and if we could have them working together, they can try to bridge that,» explains Shannon Hammond, a University Park ninth, eleventh, and twelfth - grade teacher.

«Many of the teachers — who worked at all grade levels in both public and charter schools, in urban and suburban settings — did their best to cobble together lessons on their own, while also managing the intense demands of the first years of teaching,» says Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson, director of the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers.

A group of Georgia schools work together to emphasize project - based learning and STEM courses from the elementary years through 12th grade.

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.

Without top - down support, teachers eventually stopped formally meeting together to align their work, they no longer relied on regular grade - wide assessments, and they eventually returned to working in isolation.

K - 4.1 Living and Working together in Families and Communities, Now and Long Ago GRADES 5 - 12 NSS - USH.5 - 12.7 Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890 - 1930) NSS - USH.5 - 12.8 Era 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929 - 1945) NSS - USH.5 - 12.9 Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)

K - 4.1 Living and Working together in Families and Communities, Now and Long Ago GRADES 5 - 12 NSS - USH.5 - 12.1 Era 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929 - 1945) NSS - USH.5 - 12.9 Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.10 Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the Present)

Collaborative Teaching Form - See how counselor Pam Parvin and teacher Rebecca Heniser work together to teach social and emotional well - being to the third grade.

The idea is to provide outstanding educators a chance to work with grade - level and content - area peers from across the nation, putting their best work together.

Through music and speeches, the life of Dr. King is told... The art teacher, music teacher, and all of the fifth - grade classes work together.»

As the teacher of gifted at my school ~ I had a first grade and a second grade student working together on a community - service based project ~ which involved collecting supplies for the local animal shelter.

To measure how well the groups work together, the teacher also gives out a group - collaboration grade for each unit, which is worth 10 percent of a student's grade.

Small groups of teachers who typically work together as part of a grade - level, department, or project team appeared to work best for data - analysis meetings.

Miller said the hope is this will encourage teachers to work together across grade levels.

Grades K - 5 — In this activity, students help define what unity is, then collaborate on creating posters that can be hung throughout the school to show that uniting and working together can help stop bullying.

-- Teachers Discuss the Daily Challenges of Project Learning — A team of eighth - grade teachers compare notes on the trials and rewards of working together on project - based «expeditionary» learning.

Two students and two eighth grade teachers from Durham Middle School in Acworth, Georgia worked together to bring positive character to their state.

They worked together, worked with parents, and worked with a positive attitude to reach the goal of all children reading well before they left the primary grades.

If the feds just paid for a quality full day K program for all poverty schools it would do more good than the rest of the ideas put together, and then they could start working on quality programs from 1st grade on up.

In Grading and Group Work, assessment expert Susan M. Brookhart offers practical advice and examples across grade levels and subject areas to help teachers answer, How do I assess individual learning when students work togetWork, assessment expert Susan M. Brookhart offers practical advice and examples across grade levels and subject areas to help teachers answer, How do I assess individual learning when students work togetwork together?

The goal of these educators in our work together is to identify critical - learning standards across all the grades, develop clear indicators of success, and build an assessment practice that looks at multiple ways of assessing progress.

With its trail markers directed at three different grade levels, each book (United States, World, and Bible) can be used for more than one academic school year and works well with a number of different student abilities learning together.

Humanitas connects three classes at each grade level (usually English, history, and science) that work together to build academic skills and make connections between the content areas.

When teachers work together to examine student work and analyze classroom lessons, they figure out collectively what works and what doesn't, and they build a culture of learning across grade levels in elementary school s and within departments in secondary school.

Usually, however, educators form groups by placing together one bright child, one slower child, and several average children and give out grades based on the group's work.

The governors and the school chiefs decided to work together to create a single set of standards and a common grading criteria.

Each grade level has a team of teachers who work closely together and meet frequently to monitor and support student growth.