George Washington Carver principal Allegra Alessandri, who worked for private Waldorf schools for 20 years, says they're adapting looping so that each student will have the same
homeroom teacher for four years to create a lasting bond with that individual.
Not exact matches
Master rosters are printed
for each
homeroom (listing name / grade / barcode), and over the bar code it has a space
for day of the week; the
teacher checks the box if the student takes the meal, puts an «A» in blank
for an absence, and leaves it blank to indicate refusal.
Auggie's
homeroom teacher is so idealistic he gave up Wall Street
for education.
She assigned clear owners to necessary tasks (
for example,
homeroom teachers were responsible
for sharing field trip rules and expectations), and reviewed the list each week with her grade - level team.
Several weeks later, my well - meaning
homeroom teacher had a brainstorm that a good way to promote harmony between the races was
for several of us black students to serve as hall monitors during the breaks between classes when kids moved from room to room.
Teachers are publicly criticized
for not keeping their lines straight,
for not being in «
homeroom circle» properly, and
for other minor infractions of classroom neatness.
Reading achievement data
for those
homerooms that year were high, and the
teachers gave much of the credit to the program.
Data
for the 9th grade assessment were organized by the 9th grade
homerooms in which the students took the test rather than by the 10th grade English
teachers» classrooms in which the students were now enrolled.
Each of the three
teachers teaches language arts, with a focus on fiction reading and writing
for their
homeroom.
Topics examined include: (1) grade span; (2) size; (3) grouping; (4) number of
teachers per students; (5) changing classmates; (6)
homeroom and advisory periods; (7) guidance counselors; (8) teams of
teachers; (9) curriculum; (10) instruction; (11) goals
for students; (12) transitions and articulation practices; (13) remediation; (14) report card entries; (15)
teacher certification; and (16)
teacher talents.
Tubman's combined - grade K -1-2 program is unique in the city: each
homeroom community stays with their
teacher and peers
for three years and K -1-2 students are instructed in mostly small groups, with a focus on independence, deep practice of skills, and academic focus.
The plan dictates that my
homeroom students will be assigned to groups based on benchmark testing data and will then be sent out of my
homeroom to other
teachers for math instruction
for the next three months.
Fifth graders have
homeroom teachers they can go to
for extra help, and sixth graders have advisors.
Fourth and fifth graders have
homerooms, while sixth graders have different
teachers for each subject.