Sentences with phrase «group of middle school teachers»

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A middle - aged widow told how an informal support group (of former church school teachers) rallied round when they received word that her teen - age daughter had run away.

In one of the many experiments cited in Paul Tough's new book, Helping Children Succeed, a group of middle school students received this message on a Post-it note, attached to a paper their teachers were handing back.

In the middle of the last school year they hosted conversations with individuals and groups from the various sectors of the school: parents, teachers, founders, staff, board members, donors, and older students.

Previously, he's worked with science and art teachers to help a group of middle school girls reconstruct a life - sized jaw from the prehistoric shark megaladon, based on CT scans of its teeth.

The swaggering alpha male of the group is Phil (Bradley Cooper of He's Just Not That into You), a married, too - cool - for - school English teacher who is bored with his middle - class family life and, naturally, is the movie's leading candidate for redemption.

A group of students and teachers at White Brook Middle School in Easthampton, Massachusetts, use seminars and discussions to courage tolerance for others and reduce bullying.

I have seen teachers in higher elementary grades and middle school special ed classrooms adapt the material to their age group and course of study.

Middle School Teachers, Students, Combat Teasing A group of students and teachers at White Brook Middle School in Easthampton, Massachusetts, use seminars and discussions to courage tolerance for others and reduce bTeachers, Students, Combat Teasing A group of students and teachers at White Brook Middle School in Easthampton, Massachusetts, use seminars and discussions to courage tolerance for others and reduce bteachers at White Brook Middle School in Easthampton, Massachusetts, use seminars and discussions to courage tolerance for others and reduce bullying.

So it's disappointing that Weingarten did not use this opportunity to call for retirement security for all public school teachers, our largest group of college - educated, middle - class workers.

Noe offered this explanation for the different approaches of two teachers: «For example, although her students were definitely able to carry on literature circle discussions on their own, middle school teacher Janine King found that she gained such valuable assessment information from observing the groups that she couldn't give that up.

Teachers at this middle school have engaged in professional development on a range of instructional approaches including explicit academic vocabulary instruction, the use of sentence stems, and various structures for small group discussion.

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology studied 240 middle school students who learned science in groups of four via Learning by Design (LBD) or traditional methods with matched teachers.

(One format involves a teacher meeting with one group of kindergartners at the beginning of the morning; a second group would arrive at school later to join the first group for the middle part of the day; and then the first group goes home while the teacher meets with the second group.)

I am working with a group of graduate students on a non-profit called CommonLit.org that creates free resources for middle school literacy teachers.

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Two groups of students were studied: elementary - school students in grades 3 through 5 (where most students have a single teacher throughout the year) and middle schoolers in grades 6 through 8 (where students tend to have a different teacher in each subject).

Insight in action A program designed to prepare and support middle and high school science and mathematics teacher leaders featured five major strands: content knowledge, leadership skills, theory and practice of professional development, facilitating collaborative groups, and mentoring / coaching.

In 2009 UTLA president A.J. Duffy told a group of young teachers at Liechty Middle School, «Saving your jobs would mean that more experienced teachers would lose theirs.

Specifically, across subsamples of Latino / a students — separated into groups of low achievers, middle achievers, and high achievers — teachers almost consistently perceived ELL Latino / a students as individuals who demonstrate less effort in school.

It is bad for teachers to use group grades in elementary schools and in middle schools for more than 30 % of the time.

It's interesting to see the range of groups in the alliance: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, American Association of School Administrators, American Association of School Personnel Administrators, American Federation of Teachers, American School Counselor Association, Association of School Business Officials International, Council of Chief State School Officers, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Association of State Boards of Education, National Education Association, National Middle School Association, National School Public Relations Association, National Staff Development Council, National PTA, National School Boards Association and Phi Delta Kappa International.

Among those are preservice teachers» understanding of and ability to address student differences, the nature of the change process in schools implementing differentiation, achievement impacts of differentiation in middle school, elementary, and high school settings, and profiles of teachers whose classroom practice enhances success of students from low - economic and / or cultural minority groups.

She meets with the teachers, she comes into the math class and pulls out the kids who need more into separate groups for more challenging math, she writes the GIEPs, attends PAGE conferences, and also is in the process of working with the middle school AT teachers to give them a heads up on the needs and successful learning strategies of the up and coming 5th graders.

Attitudes belong to all layers of a person's identity, whether it is their role in schools as a student, teacher, paraprofessional, janitor, school board member, or bus driver; as a member of a racial or ethnic group; whether a person is an English Language Learner, is fluent in multiple languages, or is a non-English speaker; and whether a person identifies as poor, working class, low - income, middle income or high income.

In a grades 5 — 8 middle school with only two English teachers, a principal can make the decision to have her more effective teacher loop with groups of high - need students throughout middle school.

Summary: This is a video which shows how a group of teachers from Eisenhower Middle School in Roxbury, NJ used «The Post It Game» to do an inventory of the activities and programming that relate to different categories drawn from Maurice Elias's «jumbled schoolhouse.»

There, you and a group of your K - 12 talent management leaders will come together to help advance student achievement and learn from influential educators, such as Todd Whitaker, whose experience as a teacher, coach, principal and middle school staffing, curriculum and technology coordinator has made him one of the leading authorities on staff motivation, teacher leadership and principal effectiveness.

In middle school, teachers of different academic subjects often work as a team with the same group of students.

In those cases where small schools are not feasible, district and school leaders should break down large middle - grades schools into smaller schools or small learning communities where teams of teachers share small groups of students (sometimes called clusters or houses).

Great article that my principal had us ESL teachers just read - thank you for your no nonsense outspokenness, and no, Mr Shanahan, ESL will not pull during teacher direct instruction in the content areas until small groups break out - only 30 minutes then - but it's a packed schedule to do it - 8 groups a day 5 days a week to pull for listening / reading and speaking / writing per WIDA some of your comments appreciated much as a former elementary homeschooler and advocate of of ED Hirsch and his cultural literacy - which I've preached since I returned my kids to public schooling in middle school 17 years ago....

The PLCs are formed of middle school, cross content teachers who are members of a team serving a common group of approximately 115 students.

After a brief welcome statement from the committee chair — Charlotte Boothe, a middle school curriculum specialist from Rapides Parish — small groups of teachers divided by grade level spent two hours coming up with proposed changes for each grade.

With a focus on content knowledge and differentiation in instruction, this group of diverse elementary, middle, and high school teachers will collectively improve their practice in order to improve student... more»

Kaitlin Montgomery, a middle school studies teacher at Al - Iman School, a private Islamic school in Raleigh, NC, intends to use the Food Insecurity Curriculum with 92 students at the 6th — 8th grade levels and a group of six teacschool studies teacher at Al - Iman School, a private Islamic school in Raleigh, NC, intends to use the Food Insecurity Curriculum with 92 students at the 6th — 8th grade levels and a group of six teacSchool, a private Islamic school in Raleigh, NC, intends to use the Food Insecurity Curriculum with 92 students at the 6th — 8th grade levels and a group of six teacschool in Raleigh, NC, intends to use the Food Insecurity Curriculum with 92 students at the 6th — 8th grade levels and a group of six teachers..

Critical student needs: How technology can support math learning Based on conversations with with a diverse group of educators and edtech decision - makers, we believe that technology is especially well poised to create an impact on middle and high school math by making learning accessible to students of all abilities and cultural backgrounds, providing age - appropriate scaffolding for underdeveloped foundational concepts, enabling rich social interactions with peers and teachers, encouraging growth mindset, metacognition and agency, and creating opportunities to apply knowledge to real - world challenges.

Language Arts reaches a select group of elementary and middle school / junior high teachers and teacher educators.

The Dream of America by Jacqueline Woodson Nancy Paulsen • August 28 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Woodson takes a cue from The Breakfast Club in her upcoming novel centered on a group of six vastly different middle school classmates who are thrown together — seemingly at random — by their teacher.

Rebecca Newburn is a middle school science teacher in Marin County, California, who, with a group of elementary and middle school students, successfully lobbied the Larkspur - Corte Madera School District to adopt a resolution making October «Zero Waste Month.&school science teacher in Marin County, California, who, with a group of elementary and middle school students, successfully lobbied the Larkspur - Corte Madera School District to adopt a resolution making October «Zero Waste Month.&school students, successfully lobbied the Larkspur - Corte Madera School District to adopt a resolution making October «Zero Waste Month.&School District to adopt a resolution making October «Zero Waste Month.»

If you're a middle school student, you can simply give your teacher a list of activities you're involved in — things like scouting, band, church groups, or sports.

Skill Highlights Middle School Education Lesson Planning Classroom Management Differentiated Learning Individual and Group Instruction Educational Technology Professional Experience Student Teacher 8/1/2015 — 5/1/2016 Eastwood Middle School — Indianapolis, IN Assisted teachers in delivery of classroom instruction, development of educational activities, and creation of lesson plan; designed modules integrating technology and audio - visual aides.

The basic idea of hiring middle school science teachers is to make sure that the student body is taught scientific concepts particular to their age groups.

The Role of the Teacher in Regulating the Nervous Systems of Children C. Techniques for Connecting Mindful Awareness to Teaching & Group Facilitation D. Lesson Demos: Mindful Listening (Elementary School) and Creating Relevance (Middle School / High School)

Over the course of two snowy days last week, I visited several classrooms in a middle and high school, and met with a group of teachers who are teaching a fast - expanding course in social and emotional learning they are calling «Techniques for Tough Times» (TTT), coauthored by Leigh VandenAkker and Gayle Threet.

Children who have disorganized attachment with their primary attachment figure have been shown to be vulnerable to stress, have problems with regulation and control of negative emotions, and display oppositional, hostile - aggressive behaviours, and coercive styles of interaction.2, 3 They may exhibit low self - esteem, internalizing and externalizing problems in the early school years, poor peer interactions, unusual or bizarre behaviour in the classroom, high teacher ratings of dissociative behaviour and internalizing symptoms in middle childhood, high levels of teacher - rated social and behavioural difficulties in class, low mathematics attainment, and impaired formal operational skills.3 They may show high levels of overall psychopathology at 17 years.3 Disorganized attachment with a primary attachment figure is over-represented in groups of children with clinical problems and those who are victims of maltreatment.1, 2,3 A majority of children with early disorganized attachment with their primary attachment figure during infancy go on to develop significant social and emotional maladjustment and psychopathology.3, 4 Thus, an attachment - based intervention should focus on preventing and / or reducing disorganized attachment.