Sentences with phrase «kindergarten classrooms»

Here at Pre-K Pages, you can find hands - on lessons, themes, activities, and printables for preschool, pre-K, and kindergarten classrooms.

The Creative Curriculum ® for Kindergarten is being developed in response to educator demand for resources to help cultivate hands - on, investigation - based learning experiences in kindergarten classrooms.

«New Whole Child Focused Curriculum Extends Project - Based Learning Into Kindergarten Classrooms»

This fall, Teaching Strategies» The Creative Curriculum ® for Kindergarten was piloted by over 50 Kindergarten classrooms across the US, including classrooms in New York City, Washington state, Alaska, and Alabama.

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They were compared to children who had not participated in PCHP as a toddler but were in the same Kindergarten classrooms.

Effects of the nurturing curriculum on social, emotional, and academic behaviors in kindergarten classrooms.

The Creative Curriculum for Kindergarten was piloted in fall 2016 in more than 50 public and private kindergarten classrooms in Alabama, Alaska, New York City, and Washington...

The project brings many partners to the table, including the school district preschool and transitional kindergarten classrooms, the Santa Clara County Office of Education, State Preschool classrooms, New Teacher Center, and the Early Learning Lab (Lab).

Based on limited data for the year following the intervention, very few of the intervention's effects on children were sustained as they entered kindergarten classrooms.

Children that enter kindergarten classrooms where most of the children have not benefited from high - quality early education are at a disadvantage, as the teacher is forced to teach to the lowest common denominator.

A Wisconsin school board member wants to ban a book written by Jim Henson in kindergarten classrooms because it's too graphic about poverty.

This kind of flexibility is commonly found in kindergarten classrooms — a strong indication that it's within reach of all grade levels.

Transition activities that promote continuity may include planned visits to kindergarten classrooms while enrolled in pre-K, kindergarten teachers visiting pre-K classrooms, orientations, parent / teacher meetings, sharing written records on children between pre-K and elementary school, and coordination between early childhood and kindergarten around curricula and teaching strategies.

Most kindergarten classrooms have traditional cardboard bricks and unit blocks.

This fall, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classrooms will start the program, with one class functioning in the traditional model and one classroom following the immersion program.

With that thought in mind, I created this little book for Veterans Day in kindergarten classrooms!!

The assessment tools I believe would work best within the kindergarten classrooms I have been in go as follows:

In anticipation of the projected enrollment for next year's Kindergarten classes, three additional Kindergarten classrooms will be added to Champaign Unit 4 Schools for the 2011 - 12 school year.

Merrow's work has taken him from community colleges to kindergarten classrooms, from the front lines of teacher protests to policy debates on Capitol Hill.

Currently, teachers who have taught higher elementary grades, such as 4th grade, can be put in charge of kindergarten classrooms, despite being unfamiliar with the needs and capacities of children in kindergarten.

This recorded webinar for kindergarten classrooms using the 2015 edition is for teachers who would like a refresher on program materials and instructional methodology at any time during the school year.

Kindergarten classrooms have blocks and play areas; one 5th - grade classroom has comfy sofas.

Chattahoochee will open with 24 classroom, special education and reading teachers with an 18 - to - 1 student - to - teacher ratio, less for kindergarten classrooms.

Staffers visit kindergarten classrooms to identify children who, even at their young age, are seen by their teachers as likely future candidates for prison or early pregnancy (because the students carry a great deal of family and social baggage and because, even as five - year - olds, they are extremely hard to manage in the classroom).

Jo Barbie: We're fearful that they will not have time to do what they need to be doing in the classroom because they're trying to meet the needs of this assessment — to the point where we actually hired a full - time person to work in all of our kindergarten classrooms this year to pilot this [TS Gold] assessment.

Children that enter kindergarten classrooms where most of the children have not benefited from high - quality early education are at a disadvantage, as the teacher is forced to teach to the lowest common denominator.

In our study of 55 kindergarten classrooms, for example, we found that although teachers provided more than eight of these word explanations per day, they were rarely, if ever, repeated more than once.22 Further, words selected for teachable moments were different across classroom settings.

Blair and Raver worked with 79 kindergarten classrooms in a diverse sample of schools (some had 5 percent of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch; some had 92 percent), assessing students in the fall and spring of one school year.

In full day Kindergarten classrooms lessons may be presented once in the morning and once again in the afternoon.

Kirstin warned, «Kindergarten classrooms are losing their block sets and finger paints, to make room for more and more direct instruction of developmentally inappropriate subject matter, more seat - work, and more testing and test prep.

The tidbits of advice grace the walls of kindergarten classrooms everywhere, including gems like «When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together,» and «Remember the Dick - and - Jane books and the first words you learned — the biggest word of all — LOOK.»

More Than a Score is concerned that the youngest learners in Chicago Public Schools are facing multiple standardized tests — as many as 14 in some kindergarten classrooms — inappropriate amounts of seatwork and homework, and a lack of opportunities for play, exploration, and creativity.

The statement acknowledges the difficulty that teachers face, for example, in kindergarten classrooms where a five - year range in children's literacy - related skills is not uncommon (Riley, 1996).

The two kindergarten classrooms are in the lower wing closest to the playing field.

There are two kindergarten classrooms at Emerald, one half - day with 30 students and the other full - day with 25 children.

Cascio and Schanzenbach estimate the effects of having older peers using data from an experiment where children of the same age were randomly assigned to different kindergarten classrooms.

Due to the complexity of the study, the fact that many of the classroom variables focus on grades 1 - 3 (e.g., student level of engagement, time spent in small - or whole - group instruction, preferred interaction style), and the use of different outcome measures, the kindergarten classrooms were dropped from the analysis.

Steve Oates, a veteran teacher of 1st - graders, led an initiative to bring play back to kindergarten classrooms in North Carolina's Winston - Salem / Forsyth County school district.

Financial education is taking center stage at many colleges, high schools, middle schools — even some kindergarten classrooms.

The world today looks very different than it did when those entering our 21st Century workforce were in Kindergarten Classrooms.

National data does not exist on exactly what is happening in classrooms around the country, but anecdotal evidence and a few time - diary studies of kindergarten classrooms indicate that the KIPP DREAM classroom may be the exception, not the rule.

It's thought to be the first study examining writing instruction in Australian Kindergarten classrooms.

Though it is difficult to isolate the effects of redshirting from those of other characteristics, such as family background, two recent studies that take advantage of either variation in state birthday cut - off dates or the random assignment of students to kindergarten classrooms have enabled researchers to measure the impact of being among the oldest students in a class.

And we compared all of these to the recommended limits for kindergarten classrooms.

If teachers are turning their kindergarten classrooms into joyless grinding mills and claiming they are forced to do so under Common Core (as the report's authors allege), something has clearly gone wrong.

Krueger's results indicate that students in kindergarten classrooms that had 7 to 8 fewer students than regular - sized classes performed about 3 percent of a standard deviation better for every one student fewer in their class.

They enroll their young children in early education and care settings and kindergarten classrooms and think favorably about the U.S. public education system (see «Reform Agenda Gains Strength,» features, Winter 2013).

The Bond Act, as it reads on the November ballot, would provide access to classroom technology and high - speed internet connections, as well as offer funds to build more pre kindergarten classrooms, and replace the trailers that some overcrowded schools in New York City have been using to teach students.

Educational and institutional children's furniture manufacturer Whitney Brothers announced that its new Convertible Desk for preschool and kindergarten classrooms has received a 2017 Best of Year Honoree award from Interior Design magazine.