Sentences with phrase «middle school coursework»

Ohio's 2011 Milken National Educator Award, Brian Page, shares resources for weaving financial literacy into middle school coursework.

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Some 400 educators and researchers gathered here this month to hear how some struggling middle schools turned student achievement around by providing more - rigorous coursework, establishing stronger policies, and fostering better relationships between students and teachers.

Connecticut is one of 15 states that require both high school and middle school teachers to complete a minimum amount of coursework in the subjects they plan to teach.

Less coursework is required for middle school teachers with licenses for 1st through 8th grades.

Support for online coursework by middle schoolers, though not as great as for high schoolers, also increased from 35 percent to 43 percent between 2009 and 2010.

And we set out to make a curriculum - aligned social studies learning game that would take our middle school students through the coursework for the entire school year.

As long - time classroom teachers now working as teacher educators preparing future middle - and high - school language arts and social studies teachers, we persistently seek ways to improve our coursework and clinical experiences.

A framework for guiding middle schoolers to plan and engage in social action that's relevant in their coursework and their lives.

One way to educate families about the importance of the 9th - grade transition might be to require that students and their parents are given information on colleges» entrance expectations - minimum coursework requirements, GPA, etc. - preferably as early as the middle grades, if not earlier, but absolutely at the beginning of high school.

Middle schools expose students to higher - level coursework and a variety of extracurricular activities that prepare them for the rigors of high school.

«The elimination of state requirements specific to class size will best ensure that each student with disabilities is placed in the least restrictive environment (LRE), as directed by his or her Individualized Education Program (IEP), and has access to the broad array of coursework available to his or her nondisabled peers, particularly in the middle grades and high school.»

The structure includes: focused grade bands to provide new teachers with specialized knowledge about the students and content they will teach; defined clinical experiences and foundational coursework for each grade band; unique preparation for instructing middle level learners; and enhanced content knowledge preparation for middle school teachers to award high school credit.

Preservice teachers enter the 15 - month initial licensure program as a cohort, completing coursework including a three - course, subject - specific methods sequence with extensive supervised practicum and student teaching experiences in both middle and high school settings.

Again, using a whole - child approach, middle schools have for generations ensured that students experience encores or specials that expose them to technology, family and consumer sciences, art, music, health, and other coursework that increases their awareness of academic fields of study and potential career options.

Agile Mind brings you comprehensive, Common Core State Standards aligned middle and high school programs to enhance the teaching and learning experience and achieve transformative results in STEM coursework.

Students who wish to become high school or middle school mathematics teachers, and who have an undergraduate degree or significant coursework in mathematics.

If you have an undergraduate degree in mathematics or have significant coursework in mathematics and wish to become a high school or middle school mathematics teacher, we have the program for you.

The journey begins in middle school, and the coursework is updated on a yearly basis throughout the high school and post-secondary years.

You'll gain a broad background in biological subject matter, along with practical field experience in middle - and high - school classrooms and coursework in classroom management, instructional techniques, curriculum development, and assessment.

This teacher will be a member of a three - person Middle School (grades 5 - 8) math team in an established program designed to prepare all students for Honors - level placement in high school coursework, with top students generally being placed in Honors Algebra II / Trig as freSchool (grades 5 - 8) math team in an established program designed to prepare all students for Honors - level placement in high school coursework, with top students generally being placed in Honors Algebra II / Trig as freschool coursework, with top students generally being placed in Honors Algebra II / Trig as freshmen.

And it shows — one eighth grade student noted how much STEM coursework was available, including courses not typically seen in middle schools.

His professional development interests and expertise include co-teaching, backwards design, performance assessment, effective instructional practices, new teacher mentoring and induction, and supporting middle and high schools establish course placement norms to help students access advanced - level coursework.

When considering a digital curriculum to support personalization and better prepare middle school students for the rigors of high school coursework, look for solutions with:

This rating is primarily used at the high school level, although some middle schools that offer high school level coursework to their 7th and 8th grade students may also have a rating.

Teaching credential coursework for elementary, middle school, high school and special education classrooms.

Incoming ninth graders who are unprepared for high school coursework are more likely to drop out of high school, and this trajectory starts in middle school: Each course failed in eighth grade increases the odds of non-promotion from ninth to tenth grade by 16 %.

On average, states include school quality or student success indicators as approximately 14 percent of elementary and middle school ratings and 26 percent of high school ratings.27 Prior to ESSA, these types of indicators similarly averaged around 20 percent of school classification systems.28 Notably, two plans — Washington, D.C.'s and North Dakota's — include measures of school quality or student success as more than 50 percent of high school ratings.29 The bulk of these measures are college - and career - readiness indicators, such as performance on the SAT, ACT, or ACT WorkKeys; participation or performance in advanced coursework; and earning industry - recognized credentials.

* «Middle and high schools must offer more rigorous coursework that better prepares students for postsecondary education or the workforce.»

Gender matching of students and math / science teachers in middle and high school tends to increase the likelihood that female college freshman will take at least one STEM course, However, conditional on first - year coursework, neither gender matching at the secondary or college levels appears to have any effect on the likelihood of completing a major in a STEM field.

«No one in the state has a magic formula for middle schools,» said Durkin, noting students at that time in their lives go through extraordinary physical and emotional changes and contend with more difficult coursework.

Instead of providing all kids with college - oriented learning (as Eliot supported), these educators pushed what would become the comprehensive high school model, with middle - class white kids (along with those few children of émigrés deemed worthy of such curricula) getting what was then considered high - quality learning, while poor and minority kids were relegated to shop classes and less - challenging coursework.

In the case of university, high school, and middle school students, a coursework is often graded and the scores are combined with exam ones.

After completing G.C.S.E. coursework, the student can teach middle school students.