In this blog post, CEL Project Director Joanna Michelson takes a real - world example and shows step by step how a group of teachers collaboratively analyzed Elie Wiesel's Nobel lecture «Hope, Despair, and Memory» and found ways to
help ninth grade students to comprehend and interact with the complex text.
Not exact matches
Starting in
ninth grade,
students also get
help figuring out which colleges are the best fit, and then learn how to apply, meet deadlines, and write the all - important essay.
«Getting to do the scenes a couple different times really
helps because then we get to take the feedback and we get to apply it, and that is the whole learning process,» says Kara, a
ninth -
grade theater
student.
Similarly, across the country at the Caesar Rodney School District in Delaware, Alleyne worked closely with administrators to understand whether the development of a freshmen academy
helped students transition to
ninth grade and keep them on track to graduate.
The programs seek to
help ninth -
grade students learn and employ the strategies used by proficient readers, improve their comprehension skills, and increase their motivation to read more and to enjoy what they read.
The idea is that introducing low - income, minority
students to college coursework as early as
ninth grade can
help jumpstart their higher education while saving them money, and it is spreading across the nation.
Having a positive focus is particularly beneficial for
ninth and 10th
grade students who need
help adjusting to Carmen's rigorous expectations, according to Hein.
VocabularySpellingCity works with you to
help students achieve goals set by the Common Core State Standards for
ninth grade literature.
She works Saturday mornings to
help students prepare for the state's standardized tests, and next month, one - third of the school's eighth graders will take the science Regents exam, a requirement only in the
ninth grade.
In the spring, six weeks of the course are dedicated to the
ninth grade Capstone Project, which is designed to
help students grow in their ability to collaborate, solve problems, think creatively, manage time effectively, and present persuasively through working with a small team of
students on a topic of their own choosing.
The Oakland Tech
ninth -
grade team
helped each other notice things about
student work that they had not seen on their own, and to dig into questions such as:
Since it is known that receiving low
grades in elementary school is a predictive factor for dropping out during middle school and that receiving more than one failing
grade in a core academic course during
ninth grade is a predictive factor for dropping out during high school, tutoring can make a difference.29 Providing access to tutoring to improve
students»
grades before they are at risk for dropping out could
help them to complete further schooling, which, in turn, increases their likelihood of finding employment and earning a family - sustaining salary in adulthood.
And those have been followed - up by further research finding that that
ninth -
grade teachers who are particularly good in
helping student acquire non-cognitive skills are more successful «much larger in magnitude» in having
students graduate and attend college than those whose work results in higher test scores alone (see You'll Want To Read This Interview With Education Researcher Kirabo Jackson).