Sentences with phrase «of elementary school classroom»

Children's experiences in early elementary school can have similarly significant and lasting effects on development, but — like for pre-K — the quality of elementary school classroom environments is highly variable.

In addition, the goals of middle school classrooms have been found to be different than the goals of elementary school classrooms.

A separate study of elementary school classrooms found that kids were «off - task» more than a quarter of the time.

To list my fundamentals of teaching, I started by recalling core aspects of my elementary school classrooms.

They found evidence of serious cheating in 3 to 5 percent of elementary school classrooms.

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I couldn't stop thinking about the layout of my sister's elementary school, worrying that her classroom was too close to the school's entrance.

She also is a 28 - year veteran of elementary - school classrooms in Orange County.

This spring, the foundation's staff attorney sent a lawyer representing the district a letter about complaints of alleged discriminatory hiring and religious promotion in another county high school and praise music being played in an elementary school classroom.

Experiments involving the measurement of blood sugar levels of elementary students in a public school revealed that the levels were characteristically high or low in certain classrooms.

This annual fundraiser benefits Veggie U < http://www.veggieu.org >, a non-profit children's education program that teaches the importance of nutrition and sustainable agriculture by providing interactive lesson plans with a classroom garden kit to elementary schools and special needs students.

As you send your elementary aged child to school with items from their list of school supplies, consider showing a little love to their new teacher with these helpful tools they are sure to enjoy now and be sure to help replenish classroom supplies throughout the school year.

Another notable feature in both the proposed and final rules — one likely to be of special interest to elementary school parents — is a requirement that wellness policies set nutritional standards for foods and beverages that aren't sold but instead made available to children at school, such as offerings at classroom parties or treats given out by teachers as a reward.

After a year of attempting to give classroom parties at my son's elementary school a healthy makeover, I've concluded that it can be difficult to make real change without one.

In my community, we created a policy that requires classrooms to offer non-food parties and celebrations (in part b / c of food allergies), recess can NOT be taken away as a punishment, and our elementary schools can't sell a la carte «snack» items at lunch unless they meet certain criteria.

While I feel I've made a lot of strides nationally on The Lunch Tray by bringing these issues to the fore and assisting readers around the country at their children's schools, at my own son's elementary school my principal has declined to make any modifications to practices like birthday cupcakes in the classroom.

Unlike elementary school classes, where children stay in one room all day long, older students are in and out of different classrooms all day.

Let's be realistic: if your kids are in elementary school, they're probably going to eat a lot of sugar this Friday, when many classrooms will hold their annual Valentine's Day parties.

A growing number of Canadian elementary schools have added stationary bikes in classrooms to help students focus on learning.

Giving the best teacher gift isn't impossible if you know your child's teacher but if you're feeling stuck, here's a list of favorite gifts from the teachers at my kids» elementary school, my former colleagues, and from my experience in the classroom.

Another key component of the legislation would require elementary schools to serve free breakfast in the classroom in schools with moderate or high concentrations of poor children.

Last year, research involving thousands of elementary school students, and published in the February 2009 issue of Pediatrics, demonstrated an association between daily recess and better classroom behavior as reported by teachers.

I know many of us parents say, «If I could be a fly on the wall of their classroom...» While it would be kind of silly to see one of us sitting in an elementary school desk or hiding under our college student's dorm room bed, there are plenty of ways that our kids can «take us with them» to school, or at least the most important advice we can give them.

As a former classroom teacher turned private educational consultant, I've seen my share of homework woes: inane assignments, tedious worksheets, and busywork for elementary school children.

In Erie, PA, students at twelve elementary schools and one middle school will be receiving breakfast - in - the - classroom (BIC) for the 2014 - 15 school year; breakfast is already being served in five of those elementary schools, as well as the middle school.

On top of that the kids (yes in elementary school) also had chores like sweeping up the schoolyard at recess and also washing the classroom floors and cleaning the toilets!

In elementary school (K thru 6), they wheeled around a cart of milk (whole plain milk only) to our classrooms when they were finished.

The Indian Creek breakfast - in - the - classroom program has become so popular among one group of elementary school teachers, they plan to travel to Chicago to champion the program among their peers.

By making small tweaks to the menu to feature student favorites, and moving assembly to the front of the house, participation at the high school has increased by 100 - 125 breakfasts per day; breakfast - in - the - classroom is increasing participation at the elementary and middle school level as well — it's up 55 percent at Lake Elementary!

Last spring when Cristy Nolton, executive chef of the Graveyard Tavern in Atlanta, prepared radish and cucumber salad in the classroom for first - and second - graders at nearby Burgess - Peterson Academy, the children cleaned their plates, said Betty Jackson, a physical education teacher and wellness coordinator at the public elementary school.

With a total enrollment of around 5400 students from pre-school to eighth grade, Gadsden will be serving breakfast - in - the - classroom in all nine of its schools: six elementary schools, two junior highs, and a pre-school.

Students in a Brooklyn elementary - school classroom drank from a fountain whose water was more contaminated than Flint, Mich.'s — laden with 1,000 times the amount of lead permitted by federal safety regulations, a December test revealed.

To Equip Classrooms with SMART Boards, Laptops, Other Instructional Tools QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz announced an allocation of over $ 5 million of her Fiscal Year 2016 discretionary capital funds to provide SMART Boards, laptop computers and other tech devices to public elementary and middle schools in the borough.

On topic question topics included the mayor's proposed $ 20 million allocation for arts programs and whether this is all new spending, whether it's typical for elementary schools to have arts teachers, the mayor's proposed $ 4.4 billion capital spending to address classroom overcrowding, how many new classroom seats that spending would produce and where they would be located, whether all trailers used by schools would be eliminated, the definition of «problematic behavior» used in dealing with the Absent Teacher Reserve, what the state funding to be used for middle school after school programs would have otherwise been used for and DoE support for schools that will participate in the program providing increased school autonomy.

6,687 students 623 classroom teachers 10 schools (one high school, two junior highs, seven elementary) $ 188.8 million 2010 - 11 budget 1 % of students need free or reduced price lunches 97 % students are white or Asian (3 % black or Latino) 83 % of third - graders scored proficient or higher on this year's state's English test; 90 % on math exam.

A total of 120 kindergarten and first - grade classrooms across 22 urban, low - income elementary schools were included in the study.

«Younger students need experiences with engineering and technology if they're going to succeed in our 21st - century world — a world that increasingly depends on these disciplines,» says Cunningham, who is also the founding director of Engineering is Elementary, a program that brings engineering concepts into elementary school classrooms around the country.

A new National Academies» report on science in U.S. elementary and secondary schools elevates the importance of teaching engineering concepts in the classroom.

Prior research demonstrates that, regardless of a child's temperament, a warm and supportive teacher - child relationship in early elementary school is associated with fewer problem behaviors and greater classroom engagement.

When not studying yeast in the lab, he made a home in the classroom, teaching biology to a wide range of students, in elementary school, college and medical school.

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Gina Silveira is an innovative administrator with 16 years of classroom experience in middle and elementary school and four years in administration.

Led by a former elementary school teacher, the school employs over a 1,000 state certified teachers, almost all of whom have also taught in traditional classrooms.

I have seen teachers in higher elementary grades and middle school special ed classrooms adapt the material to their age group and course of study.

Incorporating the use of content - rich video into elementary school classrooms is hardly a novel or radical idea.

Many of them were active volunteers in their children's elementary school and would welcome the opportunity to assist again in the classroom.

A study delves into the relationship between an educator's math knowledge and the quality of their teaching in actual elementary school classrooms

A first hand account of the best practices taught in e-Learning applied to a blended elementary school EFL classroom in Korea.

In addition, a survey of English language arts classrooms published by the Fordham Institute found that most elementary - school teachers, at least in the early stages of common core implementation, assigned books based on students» abilities, rather than grade - level complexity, as the standards state.

When Gracie Davis, the school's elementary native studies teacher, who is also a resident of the reservation, arrived to take the fourth graders to her classroom, they broke out of their end - of - the - day restlessness.

Walk into an elementary school classroom and even the literal design of the room is for the «average» kid: one size desk, one size chair, one size table.