Sentences with phrase «in the first grade classroom of»

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While research shows that children who participate in a full - day kindergarten program transition better into the first grade and have better social skills, the downside of noisy, crowded classrooms and stressed - out children make me question if the program was rolled out too hastily.

In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classroomIn 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classroomin Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classroomin 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classrooms.

(Tuesday, September 22, Altadena CA)-- On Friday August 29th at approximately 5:30 pm, an accidental electrical fire destroyed the building housing Pasadena Waldorf School's first and second grade classrooms at their historic campus on Mariposa Street in the foothills of Altadena.

Students in first grade teacher Veronica Petrillo's classroom carefully embellished brown bags with crayon illustrations, before assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches, bags of carrots, chips, Rice Krispie treats and juice boxes.

A total of 120 kindergarten and first - grade classrooms across 22 urban, low - income elementary schools were included in the study.

A classroom program that helps teachers adapt their interactions with students based on individuals» temperaments may lead to more student engagement in kindergarten, more teacher emotional support to kindergarten and first grade students, and better classroom organization and less off - task behavior in first - grade classes, according to research by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Earl gets his first bad grade ever, he withdraws from family, friends and classroom to his secret hideaway in the school boiler room, taking on the persona for the «Phantom of the Auditorium.»

The following quote is one of the first things my eighth - grade students see when they walk into their classroom in September:

My first year of Genius Hour in my fifth - grade classroom was a huge success.

«I am in my 13th year of teaching, but this is my first year to incorporate flexible seating into my classroom,» said first - grade teacher Ashley Rice Broomfield, before expressing a common sentiment: «I will never go back to traditional seating.»

On a first - ever report card of its kind, 13 out of 20 states earned a grade of C or lower for the quality of the standards they have set to assess whether teachers now in the classroom have adequate knowledge of subjects they teach.

More specifically, the researchers 1) examine possible differences by classroom, school, and literacy models; 2) explore the relationship between observable features of the classroom literacy environment and children's literacy growth during the first grade year; 3) characterize the variability in the levels of teacher understanding of the chosen literacy model and of early literacy development; and 4) assess whether there are qualitative differences in children's oral discourse skills and writing skills with the school's chosen model of literacy instruction.

So there was this jump with the children themselves, both in terms of rating themselves and rating the other kids in their classroom, everything was going along fine in First and Second Grade, and then the jump from Second to Third grade produced some staggering results that changed direction fairly precipitously.

Join two middle school teachers in their first post of a year - long series about implementing a PBL pilot program in their fifth grade classroom.

«The research for our paper focused on first - grade classrooms in the Boston Public Schools, and we were very pleased to be part of a successful collaboration with the students, teachers, and administrators in Boston,» Tivnan says.

Many things have changed, especially the demographics of the first grade classroom, since the late Jeanne Chall produced her landmark study, Learning to Read: The Great Debate in 1967.

A case in point is Carol Gruber's first - grade classroom at Seminole Trails Elementary School, one of the original three Efficacy pilot schools in Palm Beach.

He also pointed out that University of Virginia researchers studying first - grade classrooms found low - income and nonwhite students were more likely to be in «lower overall quality classrooms» (which isn't quite the same thing as having lousier teachers).

He was thinking, I'm sure, that until a principal is absolutely confident of a teacher's ability, that teacher should not be placed in a first - grade classroom.

First and most obvious, we've organized the entire, massive K — 12 system around an age - based, grade - level, 180 - days - per - year calendar; around mostly self - contained and generally low - tech classrooms; and around a pedagogical model centered on a single teacher teaching a uniform curriculum to twenty to thirty children for a prescribed amount of time each day, children who don't have much in common except that they're more or less the same age and (usually) live in pretty much the same community.

First segment of a six - episode series about a workshop where eighth - grade students in New York City are asked to dream up the basic elements of the classroom of the future using design thinking.

In my first year of teaching in my own classroom, I learned that teaching first grade requires a lot of creativitIn my first year of teaching in my own classroom, I learned that teaching first grade requires a lot of creativitin my own classroom, I learned that teaching first grade requires a lot of creativity.

First and second grade students of the Blue Pod at Oak View Elementary School in Fairfax, Virginia, took responsibility for some very special guests in their classroom.

It was my first year of teaching in my own classroom, and I was learning that teaching first grade requires a lot of creativity.

The Brown Center's talented research analyst Katharine Lindquist helped me calculate value - added measures of teacher effectiveness for 2,272 4th - and 5th - grade new teachers in North Carolina who entered the classroom between 1999 - 2000 and 2002 - 03, and tracked them for the first five years of their careers.

Follow - up pairwise contrasts indicated that children's reading achievement in every classroom was significantly different from that in every other classroom: On average, children in classroom 1 were reading at a primer level; children in classroom 2 were reading at an end - of - first grade level; children in classroom 3 were reading on a mid second - grade level; and children in classroom 4 were reading on a late second - grade level.

When asked about what the biggest difference was between my experience during my first and my second year in the classroom, my response without hesitation has been the addition of the Multi-Classroom Leader (MCL), Bobby Miles, to our 8th grade science team at the beginning of my second year.

Spencer is a first grade teacher in her second year at Dr. King Elementary School in Syracuse, NY and she embodies the characteristics of a No - Nonsense Nurturer in her classroom.

Even in kindergarten and first grade classrooms, minority children from families of lower socioeconomic status (SES) are less likely to attend schools that provide computer access in their classrooms than children in the highest SES groups.

The parent sought the help of a sympathetic first - grade teacher, and together with the kindergarten teacher, arranged for the student to spend half of his time in the first - grade classroom.

Mr. Gilbert transitioned into the role of a first grade classroom teacher serving students living in Northeast Philadelphia.

These videos offer images of high quality early learning in a first - grade classroom at Bronx Community Charter School, a public, independent New York City charter school serving the diverse community of the northwest Bronx.

This progression begins in our Early Childhood Learning Lab (ECLL), a demonstration preschool located in the School of Education, continues with a public school placement in a local kindergarten, and culminates with a final student teaching placement in a local first or second grade public school classroom.

On an afternoon last summer, the Tiferes Bnos faculty gathered in a first - grade classroom wallpapered with charts written in a combination of Hebrew and English.

Impact of the Teacher Study Group Professional Development Program on student vocabulary and observed teaching practice: A replication in first - grade classrooms

By the time the class sizes are reduced to their lowest levels of 18 in kindergarten, 16 in first grade, and 17 each in second and third grades, WCPSS will need an additional 587 classrooms.

(Tenn.) A report out this month marking the results of the first three years of a new program that trains principals to better evaluate teachers using classroom observation found 100,000 additional students were on grade level in math in 2014 as compared to 2010; and 57,000 more were on grade level in science.

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When I begin to focus on the strategy of «chunking» in my first grade classroom, I use colored transparency film to highlight common word families -LRB-» — ike» in like).

A veteran first - grade teacher was faced with an incident in which a small group of boys began building a wall that spanned the width of the classroom.

Garcia charts a year in the life of his ninth - grade English class, first surveying mobile media use on campus and then documenting a year - long experiment in creating a «wireless critical pedagogy» by incorporating mobile media and games in classroom work.

This first - grade classroom resource will enhance students» mastery of phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and writing while purposefully playing with rhymes and completing the standards - based, hands - on activities in this book.

While obtaining her professional degrees, Burton taught second grade in a bilingual classroom in the inner city of Los Angeles, first grade on the west side of Chicago in a restructured school, third grade at Holmes Elementary in Oak Park, IL, and later served as an Assistant Principal at River Grove Elementary School.

Two PA games that can be played in kindergarten and first grade classrooms for very short periods of time are Turtle Talk and the Itty Bitty Bit game.

The study — funded by the Department of Education and the National Institutes of Health — found first - grade teachers with a higher percentage of students with math difficulties in their classrooms were more likely to use student - centered instructional methods (such as the use of calculators, or movement and music to learn math) that have not been associated with achievement gains.

She hopes district officials change their minds, but, in the meantime, she's decided to call school districts across the state to see if any of them will allow her daughter into a regular first - grade classroom this fall.

As a first grade classroom teacher, Dr. Heggerty worked on an action research project on the importance of phonemic awareness in acquiring and mastering sound reading skills.

Impairment to language acquisition because of excessive noise during classroom instruction also can lead to deficits in reading skills according to a study by Evans, G. W. and Maxwell, L. First - and second - grade students exposed to chronic noise scored lower on standardized reading tests taken in quiet conditions.

The grant - funded DREAM initiative trains California third - and fourth - grade teachers in arts / literacy practices, and after its first two years of implementation, language arts test scores of students in these teachers» classrooms increased by 87 points.

The researchers found that the higher the number of struggling students, who scored in the bottom 15 percent in kindergarten, in a first - grade teacher's classroom, the more likely the teachers were to use manipulatives (hands - on materials), calculators, music and movement (See Table 3 on page 12 in the study).