Sentences with phrase «kindergarten and first grade teacher»

Dana began her teaching career as a kindergarten and first grade teacher in Denver Public Schools, and has worked in School Improvement for the past 6 years.

A former kindergarten and first grade teacher, Amy enjoys the challenge of integrating art and technology with ELA, math and sciences.

She was a founding kindergarten and first grade teacher at a charter school, and served as the Memphis liaison to the Tennessee Charter Schools Association.

«On Monday, I would take the kindergarten and first grade teachers to a resort,» said Mink.

Before lawmakers paused rollout here, only kindergarten and first grade teachers had made the switch.

Some kindergarten and first grade teachers really like the Common Core.

(Kindergarten and first grade teachers have already started teaching to Common Core standards, which 45 states plus the District of Columbia have adopted.

Even before state lawmakers here voted to pause Common Core rollout pending a thorough review, only kindergarten and first grade teachers in Indiana had fully implemented the new standards.

So in addition to making sure that all kindergarten and first grade teachers are trained to teach reading how can science help us fix the few remaining whole language myths that continue to plague the teaching of reading?

Assure that all kindergarten and first grade teachers have been properly trained to teach beginning reading with emphasis on the student's ability to read quickly and accurately.

«I don't think (kindergarten and first grade teachers) are going to have a hard time with Common Core math,» said Elsie Briseno Simonovski, administrator of academic content design in Orange.

Kindergarten and first grade teachers should be using the standards in their classrooms, and second grade will, too, next year.

What are kindergarten and first grade teachers» perspectives on children's learning strengths and needs?

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An educator since 1985, Tommi has worked as a class teacher, subject teacher, and block teacher for grades K - 8 and, prior to pursuing Waldorf Education, taught kindergarten and first grade in the public school system.

Señora Pasion, our Spanish teacher, begins working with our rising first grade students towards the end of their kindergarten year (at age 5 or 6), and Spanish studies continue until they graduate from our middle school.

Currently, I work for the Orange County Department of Education, and train preschool transitional kindergarten and kindergarten at first grade teachers, and strategies that help students acquire the curriculum, and I do a lot of work with parents, looking at what do you need to know to help your child best and make sure your child is making the progress they need to make in school.

Rich Napolitano, a high school social studies teacher in Suffolk County whose children are in kindergarten and first grade, said unions» fight on behalf of teachers indirectly benefits children.

Students in kindergarten through third grade at nine low - income New York City schools will receive more than 24,000 books they can take home, as part of a pilot literacy project launched Tuesday by the United Federation of Teachers, the New York City Department of Education, First Book, The American Federation of Teachers and The New York Community Trust.

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.

As a public school teacher of 18 years, I have been dismayed by the reduction of recess time and by the pushing down of inappropriate curriculum into kindergarten and first grade.

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At the start of each year, kindergarten and first - grade teacher Julie Colando surveys parents about their careers.

For Amy Wallace, a kindergarten and first - grade teacher from PS 142, on New York's Lower East Side, puppets have provided a welcome relief from the rigorous strictures of the public school curriculum.

So we wanted to see if playfulness in Kindergarten had any predictive ability to talk about how the children would be in First, Second and Third Grades, both in terms of teacher's perspectives and in terms of their classmates» perspectives.

Supportive interventions can help some students, but these interventions are often implemented too late (after years of reading failure, despite evidence that taking action is most effective in kindergarten and first grade) and haphazardly (schools and teachers often do not know what can work for various types of students).

We excluded kindergarten and first - grade teachers because earlier achievement exams were not available for their students; this prevented us from developing a «value - added» measure of student learning.

Kindergarten and first - grade teachers regularly yelled at their students.

Kindergarten and first - grade teachers are using them, too!

Kindergarten and first - grade students learn in regular elementary classrooms, with one teacher for all subjects.

-- Patty Vreeland, kindergarten and first - grade teacher, Newsome Park Elementary School, Newport News, Virginia

First - and second - grade students in 1993 who had been kept out of kindergarten until they were older were less likely than other students to draw negative feedback from teachers about their academic performance or conduct in class.

Telia Kapteyn Learning and Teaching Hometown: Atlanta Experience: Taught kindergarten as a Teach For America corps member in Brooklyn, New York; high school English teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classrooms

Some first grade teachers were assigned 37 students per class, and some kindergarten teachers had 25 - 30 — compared to other teachers in the same schools, who had twenty students per class.

The Finnish «description of good performance at the end of second grade» (there are no kindergarten or first - grade standards) can best be described as topical, open - ended and descriptive, thus allowing teachers to differentiate while working with tasks such as geometry or measurement.

Thus, a total of 22 kindergarten, 23 first - grade, 25 second - grade, 22 third - grade, and 12 resource teachers participated in the study.

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.

It allowed the kindergarten teacher to have a daily planning period, and it gave the reading specialist and librarian direct experience with next year's first - grade readers.

She then taught Kindergarten for two years before becoming a founding teacher at the Brooke Mattapan campus in 2011 teaching first grade and kKindergarten for two years before becoming a founding teacher at the Brooke Mattapan campus in 2011 teaching first grade and kindergartenkindergarten.

This study (the first with the 2011 edition of the Second Step program) conducted a randomized controlled trial over a 1 - year period with 7300 students and 321 teachers in 61 schools across six school districts, from kindergarten to second grade.

Like the high school teacher who blames the middle - school teacher and the middle - school teacher who blames the elementary school (as a first grade teacher I often wondered what had happened in Kindergarten), our yellow schools should be among our first line of intervention to ensure schools don't eventually become persistently low - performing.

Ms. Love joined the Brooke East Boston team in 2012 as a founding kindergarten teacher, and then looped with her class to teach first grade the following year.

Kindergarten and first - grade teachers striving to enhance their ability to meet individual student's needs in mathematics have a valuable new tool at their disposal.

• Pupil teacher ratio of 18:1 in Kindergarten, 21:1 in first and second grades, 25:1 in third, fourth and fifth grades.

Mrs. Tucker and former kindergarten and first grade lead teacher have kept in touch with the first third grade graduating class of Eagle Academy since graduation in 2011.

Kindergarten, first and second grade teachers received intensive training in content and techniques and a skilled coach at each school helped the teachers to put their training into practice.

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).

At the time of the pause, teachers in kindergarten and first grade were already teaching the new standards.

Republican Sen. Jerry Tillman says the state would keep teacher assistants for kindergarten and first grades — but get rid of about 7400 assistants in second and third grades.