Sentences with phrase «new language arts teacher»

Lara White, a new language arts teacher for Milner's middle school grades, said she makes a point of telling students who are used to staff turnover, «We're not going anywhere.»

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At New Legacy, language arts and social studies are combined into integrated theme - based humanities courses; math is taught in a blended environment that enables teachers to effectively support and challenge a diverse group of learners; and science is taught in six - week modules that focus on scientific inquiry and the scientific process.

In a classroom setting, teachers help children strengthen their language skills by introducing new vocabulary during art, snack time, and other activities.

Backlash over the rollout of the Common Core learning standards, along with aligned state tests and new teacher evaluations, came to a head last April when more than 20 percent of the state's eligible students refused to take the state standardized math and English language arts exams.

The scores of New York City students increased slightly in both math and English language arts on the latest state tests, released on Aug. 14, as students became more familiar with the Common Core Learning Standards and their teachers worked hard with what materials and training they eventually got.

Baltimore school officials are standing by their decision to use popular magazines and other nontraditional texts as part of a strategy to engage middle school students, despite criticism from some teachers and community members that the new language arts curriculum lacks rigor and downplays formal grammar lessons.

After using that tool, teachers in New York State selected mathematics materials from Common Core, a private organization whose name predated the standards, and chose Expeditionary Learning materials for English language arts.

But if you look at the data in Amazon books, you will see that the bestselling books about the Common Core are «skills - centric» ones that claim to prepare teachers for the new language arts standards by advocating techniques for «close reading» and for mastering «text complexity» as though such skills were the main ones for understanding a text no matter how unfamiliar a student might be with the topic of the text.

Lecturer Sarah Leibel, a master teacher in charge of the English / language arts strand and overall recruiting for the Ed School's new Harvard Teacher Fellows (HTF) Program, mentions how, in literature, students need «mirrors and windows,» meaning they can see them themselves in stories and also experience unfamiliar teacher in charge of the English / language arts strand and overall recruiting for the Ed School's new Harvard Teacher Fellows (HTF) Program, mentions how, in literature, students need «mirrors and windows,» meaning they can see them themselves in stories and also experience unfamiliar Teacher Fellows (HTF) Program, mentions how, in literature, students need «mirrors and windows,» meaning they can see them themselves in stories and also experience unfamiliar worlds.

So it is with «balanced literacy,» which has reared its head once again in New York City, as schools chancellor Carmen Farina places Teachers College professor Lucy M. Calkins back on the English language arts curricular and pedagogical throne that she briefly occupied a decade ago until Joel Klein learned what a catastrophe that was.

Sunday's program offered some more leisurely activities, including a public art walk with an alumna who works in Boston's cultural affairs office; a calligraphy workshop with a Chinese language and culture teacher from Boston Latin School; and a storytelling and drawing workshop with a museum educator from New York.

Liza Medina, a language arts teacher at Suffern Middle School, in Suffern, New York, had such good results holding literature - circle discussions in Teen Second Life that she has planned more.

For teachers like Nancy Krakowka, a sixth - grade language arts and social studies teacher at Cutchogue East Elementary School, on New York's Long Island, a PLC makes all the difference.

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A new study from the RAND Corporation finds that nearly every teacher in America — 99 percent of elementary teachers, 96 percent of secondary school teachers — draws upon «materials I developed and / or selected myself» in teaching English language arts.

As many educators are discovering, Common Core State Standards pose particular challenges for English - language learners in both language arts and mathematics, and yet the standards documents themselves provide little guidance for how teachers can help their ELLs meet the new objectives.

Top Teacher Ties History to Current Events By tying the lessons of history to the issues of the day, Deirdra Grode, a seventh - and eighth - grade social studies and language arts teacher at Hoboken Charter School in Hoboken, New Jersey, is teaching her students to be analytical and sociallyTeacher Ties History to Current Events By tying the lessons of history to the issues of the day, Deirdra Grode, a seventh - and eighth - grade social studies and language arts teacher at Hoboken Charter School in Hoboken, New Jersey, is teaching her students to be analytical and sociallyteacher at Hoboken Charter School in Hoboken, New Jersey, is teaching her students to be analytical and socially aware.

Across the country, teachers are adapting their instructional practices to the new Common Core standards in math and English language arts.

In 1992, when the new CLAS assessments were being implemented, the contract to develop national English language arts standards was awarded by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to the Center for the Study of Reading at the University of Illinois, in collaboration with the International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

Teachers» engagement with new literacies: Support for implementing technology in the english / language arts classroom.

Teachers can use the slim paperbacks (under 150 pages) in the social studies classroom because of the content and / or in the language arts classroom as a new form in the genre of memoir.

However, at the board's last meeting in November, Patricia Rucker, a board member who is a former teacher and now a legislative lobbyist for the California Teachers Association, expressed concern that California started testing students on the Common Core math and English language arts standards last spring before many teachers had fully implemented a new Common Core - aligned curriculum or received adequate traininTeachers Association, expressed concern that California started testing students on the Common Core math and English language arts standards last spring before many teachers had fully implemented a new Common Core - aligned curriculum or received adequate traininteachers had fully implemented a new Common Core - aligned curriculum or received adequate training in it.

Polikoff of the University of Southern California and Andrew Porter of the University of Pennsylvania looked at the value - added scores of 327 fourth - and eighth - grade mathematics and English language arts teachers across all six school districts included in the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) study (New York City, Dallas, Denver, Charlotte - Mecklenburg, Memphis, and Hillsborough County, Florida).

The Common Core is designed to increase the number of students prepared for college and career, but some parents and teachers say the new English language arts and math standards aren't as strong as what Indiana had before.

These one - week summer seminars, held at prestigious universities and historic sites around the United States are open to full - time K - 12 history, social studies, and English language arts teachers; community college faculty; school librarians; National Park Service interpreters and New Teacher Fellows (students about to graduate from college with a degree in history or education, who intend to pursue a teaching career).

New special education teachers who teach multiple core subjects, and who are highly qualified in either mathematics, language arts, or science at the time they are hired, have two years to use HOUSSE (or to demonstrate content area competency through appropriate rigorous testing or coursework).

Teachers use the new system three to seven times per year in English language arts, math, science, and social studies in Grades 3 - 12.

New Mexico divides all teachers into three categories — group A teachers have scores based on the statewide test (mathematics, English / language arts (ELA)-RRB-, group B teachers (e.g. music or history) do not have a corresponding statewide test, and group C teachers teach grades K - 2.

Perhaps our experience offers a suggestive model of using new media effectively in a preservice language arts teacher education program.

In Meridian, Susan Hester, instructional specialist for secondary English language arts, recalls years in which about half of all secondary teachers were new.

Many will have very tough decisions to make in meeting the requirements and expectations of the new school financing law, implementing multiple new academic standards, preparing for a new state assessment in math and English language arts and balancing the requests of their many stakeholders (parent groups, teacher bargaining units, community and business leaders).

-- Stacy Lemongelli, NBCT, secondary language arts teacher, Perth Amboy Public Schools, Perth Amboy, New Jersey

This year, you may notice some shifts in instructional practices as teachers begin to align their classroom teaching to the new New York State Common Core Learning Standards for English language arts and literanew New York State Common Core Learning Standards for English language arts and literaNew York State Common Core Learning Standards for English language arts and literacy.

Michael Cohen, Ed.D., has worked as a high school English teacher, supervisor of language arts, and as a high school assistant principal in New Jersey.

States are implementing the new Common Core State Standards to improve math and English / language arts learning and are instituting more meaningful approaches to evaluate teachers and support their growth.

Many history / social studies teachers, while feeling validated by the new English language arts standards, also feel frustrated by the volume of history content they must get through each year.

-- The district will hire 600 more teachers for art, music, physical education, world languages and other «special» classes, and another contract provision stipulates that half of all new district hires must consist of laid - off members.

We created a large - scale nationwide study that surveyed English teacher educators about English teacher preparation programs throughout the United States, asking the question, «How do we, as the field of English language arts, recognize new areas of emphasis within the discipline?»

For educators who teach subjects outside the state's longstanding testing system, like foreign language, music, and art, the adjustment to the new teacher evaluation system has been particularly jarring.

There's no new spending for elementary school «program enhancement» teachers in the arts, physical education and world languages.

English language arts (ELA) preservice teachers deserve experiences with new technologies, multimodality, and the arts because these areas offer valuable tools for communication in the 21st century.

In a junior high school setting (Sarroub et al, 1997a, 1997b), they found that the activities, which focused on building a consequential English language arts portfolio based upon new state standards, and the school - university collaboration itself influenced teacher learning and the evolution of roles played by the teachers in the effort.

One aspect of the study focused on how technology is integrated within the context of English teacher education programs, asking the question, «As an area of emphasis in the teaching of English, how do teacher educators prepare beginning English teachers to address the teaching of technology and new literacies in the context of the English language arts?»

Since Utah voluntarily adopted the Common Core standards in 2010, teachers have worked hard to learn new curricula, create new lesson plans and design other materials to bolster student achievement in mathematics and language arts.

And now, most recently, to receive a waiver from the cornerstone requirement of NCLB — that all students be proficient in math and language arts by 2014 — states must create new teacher evaluation guidelines.

On Monday, EdSource's Theresa Harrington reported on a major challenge with the implementation of Common Core standards in California — ensuring teachers statewide are prepared to effectively teach the new math and English language arts curriculum.

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A new national survey confirms what's long been suspected: Most teachers report that schools are narrowing the curriculum and shifting instruction time and resources toward math and language arts and away from subjects such as art, music, foreign language, and social studies.