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Each of them should then be sentenced to a three - year hitch as a seventh or eighth - grade teacher.

Although Malcolm was an outstanding student and extremely popular among his peers, he dropped out of school when his white eighth grade English teacher discouraged him from becoming a lawyer and suggested carpentry as a more «realistic goal for a nigger.»

In the 1990s, a researcher named James Stigler coordinated a vast international project that involved videotaping the classrooms of hundreds of randomly selected eighth - grade math teachers in the United States, Germany, and Japan.

This need of authority leads to one of the most distinctive features of Waldorf education, the class teacher who ideally advances with the students from first through eighth grade.

«We are also considering whether the book should be included, after appropriate teacher training, in the curriculum of eighth through tenth grades.

Saugerties High School senior Austin Beaudette and Saugerties Junior High School eighth grade student Kira Daniels were selected as Mid - Hudson / Westchester region honorees by the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers (NYSAFLT) earlier this spring.

Scores for fourth - through eighth - grade math and English teachers and their principals are expected to be finalized by mid-August and could be released through a Freedom of Information request under the current law.

About 38,000 teachers, or 20 percent, had one - fifth of their evaluations based on their students» scores in the fourth - through eighth - grade English and math tests.

The principal of P.S. 18 in Inwood fired teacher Madeline Luciano after she let a student write on a chalkboard the reasons why eighth - grade students didn't like a particular classmate.

It turns out that even in the world of scientific writing, your eighth - grade teacher was right: how you write can matter as much as what you write.

Developing and evaluating an eighth grade curriculum unit that links foundational chemistry to biological growth: Paper # 5: Using teacher measures to evaluate the promise of the intervention.

Once I talked my English teacher into passing me out of the eighth grade.

RACINE COUNTY — A former Waterford teacher is accused of having inappropriate contact with an eighth grade student.

This K - 8 school, one of the first public schools inspired by Waldorf methods, infuses music, art, and movement into lessons and offers student - directed learning and what public schools refer to as looping, a process in which a teacher follows her class, ideally, from first grade through eighth grade.

If Albert Einstein had to illustrate his theories at a local science fair, he would surely have appreciated the efforts of eighth - grade science teacher Maya Garcia.

A recent study compared the videotaped teaching styles of 81 eighth - grade math teachers in the U.S. with those of teachers in Germany and Japan.

Originally conceived as an approach for kindergarten through eighth grade students, limited resources and the logistical problems of implementing Responsive Classroom practices with multiple teachers, prompted the NEFC to narrow its focus primarily to elementary schools.

Jennifer Morrison, this year's Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's (ASCD) Outstanding Young Educator of the Year, is an eighth grade language arts teacher and department chair at Piedmont Open IB Middle School in Charlotte, North Carolina.

We should not leave it up to the students to accidentally stumble upon connections across disciplines, as my eighth - grade history student did when she realized that two of her teachers were independently teaching her about the Mayan civilization.

In response to administrators» and teachers» worries about the vocabulary skills of Boston Public School students, a group of researchers and educators — assembled by the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, and directed by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Catherine Snow — designed a curriculum supplement called Word Generation, for sixth - to eighth - grade classrooms.

Here's how this approach might look from the perspective of a team of three eighth - grade science teachers who begin planning together their next unit of instruction on the scientific method.

Working with HGSE students, she has developed case studies focusing on particular dilemmas of justice in schools and school districts like ethics of grade inflation, eighth - grade promotion and retention policies, lottery - based school assignment, disciplining socially fragile children, and teacher firings.

Under the wing of principal Solomon, eighth grade English and social studies teacher Tracy Goodman and her colleagues found a way to help their students understand and appreciate the immigrant experience by becoming «immigrants» themselves.

«For students whose parents had college degrees, their parents» involvement in the seventh grade set forth a chain of reactions that improved their school behavior from teachers» perspectives in the eighth grade, which in turn increased their grades and test scores in the ninth grade,» Hill says.

Writes Richard Bankert, an eighth grade science teacher, «The best teachers are artists who know the science of teaching.»

The school uses two student - led conferences in place of report cards, said Teresa Glenn, an eighth grade humanities / reading - writing workshop teacher.

A team of eighth - grade teachers compares notes on the trials and rewards of working together on project - based «expeditionary» learning.

Monastero, half of the Los Angeles - based sketch - comedy duo Ten West, taught for seven years at Santa Monica's Lincoln Middle School, five of those as an eighth - grade U.S. history teacher.

Meghan Rosa, a UPCS seventh - and eighth - grade English language arts teacher, has her students share their low - stakes writing homework at the beginning of each class.

After computer teacher Victoria Kozlek had her eighth - grade students at Southern Columbia Middle School, in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, write fundraising letters to local businesses, Digital Wish let her choose from dozens of software programs donated by its partner vendors.

Indifference to the assignment and to the possibility of receiving a failing grade, lack of help at home, apathy toward completing assignments, and laziness — those are just some of the problems eighth - grade teacher Cindy Shields deals with at Jefferson Middle School, in Columbia, Missouri.

At the recent launch event for the CUNY Institute for Education Policy, David Coleman, now known as the «architect» of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards, was asked by a member of the audience why a teacher, who cited the Common Core standards emphasis on «informational texts,» would claim that she was told to «put away her literature books and photocopy microwave instructions» for her eighth - grade students.

«I think there is some sort of age - old comfort in «story time,» something about the teacher reading a story,» eighth - grade teacher Holly Sessions told Education World.

Mark Engstrom, an eighth - grade geography teacher in São Paulo, Brazil, experimented with a different style of note taking to build content knowledge in his class.

As a seventh - and eighth - grade math teacher in a K — 8 charter school in Massachusetts, he points to several factors that he believes contribute to the success of his school, including ongoing communication and collaboration among staff of all grade levels, as well as the development of a curriculum that «ramps up» each year, preventing gaps or holes in nine consistent years of academic preparation.

Wilson's colleague Birgitta Meade, a seventh and eighth grade Earth science and life science teacher, is known as the «Goddess of Field Trips» among her peers.

Another educator, language arts / humanities teacher Nancy Slentz of Meridian Middle School in Lynden, Washington, was searching for a way to boost the homework completion rate among her eighth graders, so she developed a system that allows students to record their own grades.

Early teacher - child relationships and the trajectory of children's school outcomes through eighth grade.

More than half of American teachers say they use digital games in their classrooms, according to a national survey of 500 kindergarten through eighth - grade teachers conducted by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop.

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.

These and other findings with respect to the correlates of teacher effectiveness are obtained from estimations using value - added models that control for student characteristics as well as school and (where appropriate teacher) fixed effects in order to measure teacher effectiveness in reading and math for Florida students in fourth through eighth grades for eight school years, 2001 - 2002 through 2008 - 2009.

Adam Wellington, an eighth - grade social studies teacher at Coal Ridge Middle School, details how the support helped teachers during those early days of integrating technology en masse.

-- Teachers Discuss the Daily Challenges of Project Learning — A team of eighth - grade teachers compare notes on the trials and rewards of working together on project - based «expeditionary» lTeachers Discuss the Daily Challenges of Project Learning — A team of eighth - grade teachers compare notes on the trials and rewards of working together on project - based «expeditionary» lteachers compare notes on the trials and rewards of working together on project - based «expeditionary» learning.

Under the administration's proposed regulations, fourth - through eighth - grade English and math teachers will have their students» scores on the state's Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (ASK) test count toward 35 percent of their evaluation.

Whitney Neal, a mom and former eighth grade U.S. history teacher in Texas, is the director of federal and state campaigns at FreedomWorks.

Forced to cut staff because of funding cuts, districts had no option but to raise student - teacher ratios even though the Education Code limits the ratio to 30:1 or less from kindergarten through eighth grade.

This week, as our school enters another season of testing, our sixth - and eighth - grade teachers have chosen to read to students a principal's letter that one parent posted online: «We are concerned that these tests do not always assess all of what it is that make each of you special and unique... the scores you get will tell you something, but they will not tell you everything.

Glover's first meeting of the morning is with Rosemary Coyle, the seventh - and eighth - grade social studies teacher.

Two Federal Hocking (OH) Middle School teachers — Robin Hawk, an eighth - grade social studies teacher who led the team, and Tessa Molina, a seventh - grade math teacher — took part in the Inclusion, Equity, and Opportunity Teacher Leadership Summit December 2 - 4, along with Patton College faculty Bill Elasky, instructor of teacher education and a board of education member at Federal Hocking Local Schools; Mathew Felton, assistant professor of teacher education; and Lisa Harrison, associate professor of teacher eduteacher who led the team, and Tessa Molina, a seventh - grade math teacher — took part in the Inclusion, Equity, and Opportunity Teacher Leadership Summit December 2 - 4, along with Patton College faculty Bill Elasky, instructor of teacher education and a board of education member at Federal Hocking Local Schools; Mathew Felton, assistant professor of teacher education; and Lisa Harrison, associate professor of teacher eduteacher — took part in the Inclusion, Equity, and Opportunity Teacher Leadership Summit December 2 - 4, along with Patton College faculty Bill Elasky, instructor of teacher education and a board of education member at Federal Hocking Local Schools; Mathew Felton, assistant professor of teacher education; and Lisa Harrison, associate professor of teacher eduTeacher Leadership Summit December 2 - 4, along with Patton College faculty Bill Elasky, instructor of teacher education and a board of education member at Federal Hocking Local Schools; Mathew Felton, assistant professor of teacher education; and Lisa Harrison, associate professor of teacher eduteacher education and a board of education member at Federal Hocking Local Schools; Mathew Felton, assistant professor of teacher education; and Lisa Harrison, associate professor of teacher eduteacher education; and Lisa Harrison, associate professor of teacher eduteacher education.