Sentences with phrase «help teachers across the grades»

Four hours later, Bonne blows out of town leaving behind a beautiful U.S. map — and a booklet chock - full of activities that will help teachers across the grades make use of the new addition to their school.

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To help teachers integrate media analysis across the curriculum and across grade levels, Project Look Sharp has curated hundreds of resources for decoding, along with protocols and other tools to support teachers» confidence for teaching this way.

This week, Education World offers three teaching masters for teachers across the grades to use to help students brush up on their study skills — using a search engine, using an index, looking for key words, skimming text for information, and more — while they learn interesting facts about the world around them!

Those two words could just as easily describe the author's thoughtful affect on Paul Allison's Teachers Teaching Teachers or the degree to which his new book, Crafting Digital Writing: Composing Texts Across Media and Genres, methodically articulates how 4th - 12th grade instructors can introduce technology tools, mentor texts, composing practices, and heuristics for helping students write.

There are plenty of curriculum models (Tylers seminal 1949 work ~ Bruners definition of curriculum ~ Wiggins and McTighes Understanding by Design model ~ and Jacobs curriculum mapping instrument come to mind) ~ but none of these strategies help guide curriculum leaders to sit down teams of teachers to develop user - friendly curricula that can be institutionally implemented in classrooms across a grade - level or content - area and that are aligned with state or national standards.

• teachers know how their students compare with others across the state, and help the next grade's teachers know what kind of support incoming students need;

When our district began refining its instructional vision in 2012, we turned to Powerful Learning Practices and Sheryl Nussbaum - Beach as a necessary first step to help lead and facilitate the planning and goal - setting, and to work with us as we designed and implemented Professional Learning Collaboratives (PD training) that were needed to connect our teachers and administrators across the curriculum and grade levels.

This collaboration has helped jump - start this work across the state and shed light on the many significant challenges associated with overhauling the hoary systems in place, such as measuring student achievement in «untested» grades and subjects, ensuring inter-rater agreement and accuracy of teacher practice observations, and ending the long - standing culture of «The Widget Effect.»

Those high - performing schools did things like «set measurable goals on standards based tests and benchmark tests across all proficiency levels, grades, and subjects»; create school missions that were «future oriented,» with curricula and instruction designed to prepare students to succeed in a rigorous high - school curriculum; include improvement of student outcomes «as part of the evaluation of the superintendent, the principal, and the teachers»; and communicate to parents and students «their responsibility as well for student learning, including parent contracts, turning in homework, attending class, and asking for help when needed.»

Dr. Rees, the Braintree schools» science director, said the standards helped make sure that teachers across the state covered the same subjects, laying the groundwork for subsequent grades.

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 together?

Instead of facing this challenge alone in his classroom, as often happens, he described how the districts» shared instructional framework, known as Beyond Textbooks, made it easy for him to enlist help from teachers across subject and grade levels.

The Vocab Rehab model in this book offers teachers easy - to - implement, 10 - minute instructional strategies that can help time - strapped teachers ensure that their students have a sound grasp of both general and content - specific words across grade levels and subject areas.

Aimed at teachers at all grade levels, across the curriculum, Guided Instruction will help you provide timely and meaningful scaffolds that boost students to higher levels of understanding and accomplishment.

Most helpful are the detailed classroom scenarios, which will help teachers visualize how close reading looks across different grade levels and classroom settings.»

Dr. Archer's materials help teachers and instructional support staff design and deliver effective lessons that increase the learning and engagement of all students across subject areas and grade levels.

Teacher Preparation, Licensure, and Recruitment The National Forum believes that specialized professional preparation and licensure are critical if we are going to improve middle - grades education across this country and help all students meet the high standards expected of them.

Her work in the Middle School Quality Initiative (MSQI) involved helping school leaders and teacher teams to implement school wide systems of assessment in literacy, integrate vocabulary instruction across content areas, and plan, develop and teach strategic reading lessons for students reading below grade level.

The process standards are consistent across grade levels, highly correlated to overall performance on assessments, and ways to help teachers differentiate for learners.

Collaboration - not only do we help schools and teachers plan and learn together across all grade - levels but we aim to help schools collaborate with the larger community (families, businesses, government, non-profits) to create sustainable communities.

Instead of facing this challenge alone in his classroom, as often happens, he described how the districts» shared online instructional framework, known as Beyond Textbooks, made it easy for him to enlist help from teachers across subject and grade levels.

We often directly help teachers across diverse grade levels do just that — and use that data to improve student learning.

Collaboration across the grade levels would result in next year's teacher helping previous year's students with this goal.