Sentences with phrase «helping middle grade»

A collaborative model for helping middle grade science teachers learn project - based instruction (Abstract).

What follows is a description of seven important principles to help middle grades students develop their skills as writers and their use of writing to support their learning.

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It could be something as simple as saying «I'm going to respond to the email at the middle of my inbox to start with,» or if you're a teacher, «I'm choosing to grade these papers because grading these papers would help my university earn money, and that money helps me do cancer research.»

For kids who are going to be first - timers for kindergarten, first grade, middle school or even high school, this can help them feel more comfortable with the new place and get a better idea of where to go once they're there.

Bigger Than Life (Criterion) Ostensibly a drama about prescription drug misuse and abuse and drawn from an article in The New Yorker, this portrait of a grade - school teacher and middle class father (played by James Mason, who also produced and helped develop the project) is as much about adult male masculinity and responsibility as a husband and father, and the pressure on him to live up to the ideal, as Rebel Without a Cause is about the emotional realities of being an American teenager.

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.

Paulette Romano, who teaches sixth grade at Pilgrim Park Middle School, in Elmbrook, Wisconsin, helps her students understand how words can make a world of difference when it comes to describing food.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

activity sheet challenges your middle - grades and high - school students to use their dictionaries to help them figure out which of nine challenging Word Bank words fits in each of the ten sentences on the Vocab - u-lous!

activity sheet challenges your middle - grades and high - school students to use their dictionaries to help them figure out which of nine challenging Word Bank words fits in each of the ten sentences (one word gets used twice) on the Vocab - u-lous!

The DeWitt Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund has awarded a three - year, $ 1.1 - million grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for Early Adolescence to help improve the preparation and training of teachers and staff members in the middle grades.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded more than $ 4 million in grants to help 15 states continue their efforts to reform education in the middle grades.

98, an eighth - grade counselor at Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School in Massachusetts (Jacob's district), says that in the past few years, her district has put a lot of effort into helping educators at all levels — elementary through high school — get the training they need.

Indifference to the assignment and to the possibility of receiving a failing grade, lack of help at home, apathy toward completing assignments, and laziness — those are just some of the problems eighth - grade teacher Cindy Shields deals with at Jefferson Middle School, in Columbia, Missouri.

While presenting her story to students in the early elementary grades, Hawkins was asked by a principal to develop an etiquette program that would help sixth graders prepare for middle school.

Singer, now 37, had enlisted Cowan, a teacher, to help him recruit 5th - grade students for the charter middle school he planned to open in just a few weeks.

06, a special education teacher and reading specialist at the Clarence R. Edwards Middle School in Charlestown, Mass., «Some states, including California, use third - grade reading scores to help predict prison populations for 10 years down the road.»

After our first math trail, we understood better the potential of this activity and realized that it could be integrated in our seventh grade Advisory program, particularly at the beginning of the school year, when it can help facilitate the transition into middle school.

«The Blackboard Jungle helped me decide to become a teacher,» concurred Fran Borden, who teaches eighth grade at Unadilla Valley Middle School in South New Berlin, New York.

An introductory letter outlining the expectations and procedures can help quell some of the nervousness of students and parents, said Max W. Fischer, a seventh grade team leader at Edgewood Middle School in Wooster, Ohio.

Adam Wellington, an eighth - grade social studies teacher at Coal Ridge Middle School, details how the support helped teachers during those early days of integrating technology en masse.

Prior to his doctoral studies, Jacob taught eighth - grade history at the Dwight - Englewood School in New Jersey, where he helped develop the middle school's advisory program.

Learn about how promising digital tools and resources are now available to help you strengthen teaching and learning in middle grades mathematics, and the policy changes that California must make to take advantage of these new opportunities.

Okema Owens Simpson, the sixth - grade multi-classroom leader for English language arts at Ranson IB Middle School in Charlotte, N.C, guides viewers through several typical days in which she provides what her teaching team needs most: daily coaching; lesson planning; practice in delivering lessons; data analysis; co-teaching or modeling lessons; and pulling out small student groups for intensive help.

The Primary Years Programme (PYP)(grades PK3 - 5)-- The goal of the PYP is to help scholars learn to think critically in preparation for the Middle Years Programme.

As the ELA Instructional Coach, you will work with the Middle School Director to ensure each member of the instructional staff for grades 6 - 8 is receiving the coaching, mentoring, observation, training and support they need to help their professional development and improve the learning environment in their classrooms.

The Talent Development Secondary middle grades school uses a standards - and Johns Hopkins research - based curriculum in four core subject areas as well as integrated extra help for students that need it.

These repeated exposures help students generalize the use of these strategies to other areas — in and outside of school and beyond the middle grades.

Middle school Spanish teacher Susan Christopher shares her strategies for using homework and grades to help students achieve learning standards.

A study published in June 2012 evaluated five middle schools in western Washington to answer the question, «How can we help middle school students whose reading skills are two or more years below grade level?»

Through its Schools to Watch ® (STW) program, the Forum has developed criteria for identifying high - performing middle - grades schools, and created tools to help schools use the criteria and expand the program states across the United States and selected and honored hundreds of successful schools across the country during the Annual STW Conference.

Flexible grouping is used in middle and high school, grades 7 - 12, to help differentiate instruction for students.

As a former middle - grades math teacher, Blake helped to develop an instructional model that significantly increased his students» math proficiency.

Getting students interested in STEM fields starts as early as the elementary and middle school grades, Docktor said, and helps prepare students for careers as well as building problem - solving and teamwork skills.

Teachers were selected based on interest in piloting technology that helps teachers learn to listen to student mathematical thinking.Mildred had taught seventh and eighth - grade for less than 5 years at a public science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) focused magnet middle school.

TDS student success courses — Freshman Seminar and Mastering the Middle Grades — help students develop study and life skills, resilience, and social - emotional learning to navigate crucial transition years.

As middle grades educators struggling to find equity in assessment while honoring the strengths of our learners, we (authors) began crafting a translation guide for students in middle school that can help bridge achievement levels with reporting mechanisms.

Traditional out - of - school time programs are voluntary and often do not reach the students who need the most help, particularly at - risk and disengaged students and middle - grades youth.

GradTracker is a tool developed to help schools identify students» progress toward graduation in the elementary, middle school and high school grades.

Winners of the «Schools to Watch» program will host visitors from California and around the world who are looking for «replicable practices that will help them improve their middle grades schools and close the achievement gap,» according to a press release from the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson

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.

We offer Adaptive Tutorials designed specifically for middle school students in grades 6 - 8 that and are proven to help them master grade - level content before advancing to high school.

In the Los Altos school district, for example, middle grades students use instructional videos available through the free, online Khan Academy, to help teachers assess their skill level and better prepare them for class lessons.

Edgenuity Unveils UpSmart — the First Fully Adaptive Solution that Prepares Middle School Students to Succeed on State Assessments — January 10, 2017 SCOTTSDALE, AZ (PRWEB) JANUARY 10, 2017 Edgenuity, a leading provider of online and blended learning, today announced the launch of UpSmart ™, a supplemental solution designed to help all students in grades 6 — 8 demonstrate mastery of state standards in English language arts and math.

10/17/2012 - The school locator launches with search by address, school name, zip code, show all schools, Program Type filter, School Classification filter, url search,.25 - 2.5 mile radius, three grade categories (elementary, middle, high), eight overlays (elementary boundary, middle school boundary, high school boundary, community area, ward, zip code, elementary network, and high school network), help guide, video tutorial, faq and feedback form.

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.

First Aid for Readers: Help before, during, and after reading This is a great strategies book for middle grade and up which is available also in ebook form.

Informative Writing to Help Students with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia by Writing Newspaper Articles - For students in 3rd thru 5th grade but this lesson plan could easily be adapted for middle school and high school students.

A compilation of over 200 pages of experience - and research - based resources to help you ensure a smooth transition from elementary to middle grades.

It's been eye - opening to me, as a parent of a two daughters and a former high school history / geography teacher, how much things change between the elementary grades and the middle and high school grades — there were so many opportunities to come in and help out if my schedule allowed (which it often didn't) and to interact with the teachers when my girls were in grade school, but this was completely cutoff by the time they entered 7th grade.