Sentences with phrase «of language arts classes»

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Jeanne Aufmuth's empty nest list, recounted in the anthology «Writin» on Empty: Parents Reveal the Upside, Downside, and Everything In Between When Children Leave the Nest,» includes learning hip hop, polishing her Spanish, taking an American sign language course, trying an art class, visiting New York City's Museum of Modern Art and learning to pole danart class, visiting New York City's Museum of Modern Art and learning to pole danArt and learning to pole dance.

Teachers in the district's three schools are paid about $ 12,000 more than the state average, and the schools offer an array of top - notch educational opportunities, including low class size, foreign language instruction, fine arts and orchestra programs, low - cost preschool and a full - day kindergarten, before - and after - school care, and several extracurricular sports teams.

Ultimately, the needs of the student are met by the Waldorf curriculum itself; in addition to the class teacher, the students experience continuity and expertise through involvement with subject teachers who teach handwork, movement and games, a world language, eurythmy, sculptural arts, gardening, music, and fine arts.

They up the ante from previous iterations of science standards by integrating engineering ideas into math and language arts classes and applying engineering skills to real - world scenarios so students are better prepared for such experiences outside of school.

You are getting a lot of girls in advanced math and advanced science classes, but the boys are not moving into areas like foreign language and art.

Though Raybon is an English language arts (ELA) teacher, she's integrating more civics into her class this year as she has watched students struggle — more than ever in her 13 years of teaching — to make sense of current events.

Christopher Beamon received an A on the assignment, titled «Things That Go Bump in the Night,» and extra credit for reading it aloud on Oct. 27 to his English / language arts class at the 230 - student Ponder High School, located 50 miles northwest of Dallas.

Based on preliminary results from the spring 2000 state test, 88 percent of the school's first 8th grade class scored proficient or above in language arts (compared with 47 percent citywide), and 66 percent scored proficient or above in math (versus 21 percent citywide).

She did lots of journaling in language arts classes, used various technologies in her science classes, and did quite a few Webquest - like activities in social studies classes.

Grode: As a language arts and social studies teacher, I can understand both sides of the controversy about social studies courses often having less scheduled time and bigger class sizes.

After greeting each of the students in her first - second period class at the door, (students have double periods of language arts), Ms. Brohinsky starts reviewing the short story, «The Tell - Tale Heart» with the eight students in the class.

Some of the obstacles to including classes in the arts as essential rather than «enrichment» studies, they noted, are the imprecision of the language usually used to discuss the arts; incorrect assumptions by educators, students, and the public about the arts and learning; and a lack of precedents — except in higher education — for...

Edwards Middle School teacher Hassan Mansaray works with one of his students in his English language arts class.

«This cross-curricular and cross-cultural project weaves geography, literature, language arts, math, art, and so much more into a culminating project that shows off the multi-faceted talents of the entire grade 2 class,» school director James Pastore told Education World.

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.

Unfortunately, outside of culinary classes and the occasional foreign language class, food is rarely utilized as an arts activity.

The Socratic seminar is often discussed in the context of English language arts classes.

In their sixth - grade social studies and language arts class, while doing a simulation on the Maya, students take breaks for research, close reading of articles (from secondary sources to primary documents written in the 1500s), and analyzing their own artistic replicas of primary documents.

Hinijos focused on risk as a concept in her sixth - grade social studies and language arts class, and she talked with Bromfield about how he could incorporate risk into his math and science class at the beginning of his geosphere unit.

When I interviewed teachers for See Me After Class, the unintended consequences of high - stakes tests came up most often among language arts teachers.

This activity serves as a good review of students» understanding of the parts of speech while it livens up language arts class during the holiday season.

Unlike so many of his peers in my class, he was solidly on grade level in language arts.

Class of 2017 must produce threshold score on SBAC in English / language arts.

Kaitlyn Watson, a middle school English language arts teacher in North Carolina, has students build their own vocabulary lists from the context of their reading instead of generating whole - class lists for them, and then «they break down context clues and work toward their own applications of the words.»

Great for readers of all literacy levels, these nine nonfiction titles work in English language arts, social studies, and science classes.

This example shows the power of creating videos in a language arts class.

The researcher role lends itself well to social studies, science, and the language arts — just about any class for which a more complete understanding of a topic is needed.

«The beauty of the weather balloon project is that it's something captivating that provides many points of entry,» says Smith, «whether you're a student in an engineering class working on how to build a structure that's going to survive a fall from several thousand meters, or if you're in a science classroom trying to ask good scientific inquiry questions that could be tested, or if you're in language arts and you want to write a creative piece about what the balloon's journey might be.»

Core classes taught by highly qualified teachers is the percent of core academic classes (defined as English, reading or language arts, mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history, and geography) taught by highly qualified teachers (defined as teachers not only holding a Massachusetts teaching license, but also demonstrating subject matter competency in the areas they teach).

Kat Allen, right, a member of City Year Corps, works with sixth - grader Aylissa Jimenez in a language - arts class at Lake International School in Denver last month.

But it's right there in a footnote on page three of the standards that this is not calling for 70 percent non-fiction in English language arts classes.

For U.S. Virgin Islands's English language arts, science, and social studies classes with a mix of student abilities or diverse student populations, Pro is the differentiated literacy solution that provides true equity of access and accelerates reading gains for all students — all in a single classroom.

For Nebraska's English language arts, science, and social studies classes with a mix of student abilities or diverse student populations, Pro is the differentiated literacy solution that provides true equity of access and accelerates reading gains for all students — all in a single classroom.

Passing the new PARCC state tests in language arts and math will be one of three options high school students can use to meet the state requirement for graduation during the three - year transition period starting with the Class of 2016.

The focus of the class is to teach strategies and skills to close the gap and increase students skills and confidence in language arts.

For Ohio's English language arts, science, and social studies classes with a mix of student abilities or diverse student populations, Pro is the differentiated literacy solution that provides true equity of access and accelerates reading gains for all students — all in a single classroom.

For Kentucky's English language arts, science, and social studies classes with a mix of student abilities or diverse student populations, Pro is the differentiated literacy solution that provides true equity of access and accelerates reading gains for all students — all in a single classroom.

is part of not only health education classes, but also integrated into other classroom instruction through subjects such as math, science, language arts, social sciences and elective subjects;

For South Carolina's English language arts, science, and social studies classes with a mix of student abilities or diverse student populations, Pro is the differentiated literacy solution that provides true equity of access and accelerates reading gains for all students — all in a single classroom.

A few years ago, I conducted an analysis of science literacy - centric publications (Bateman, 2015) and found that science literacy was a prevalent topic in prominent academic journals; however, practitioner journals were more often talking about science AND literacy, where language arts could push into science classes.

For Minnesota's English language arts, science, and social studies classes with a mix of student abilities or diverse student populations, Pro is the differentiated literacy solution that provides true equity of access and accelerates reading gains for all students — all in a single classroom.

For Wyoming's English language arts, science, and social studies classes with a mix of student abilities or diverse student populations, Pro is the differentiated literacy solution that provides true equity of access and accelerates reading gains for all students — all in a single classroom.

Schools offer a robust selection of classes and after - school programs in the arts, languages, and ethnic studies, as well as Advanced Placement (AP) and honors courses.

For Illinois's English language arts, science, and social studies classes with a mix of student abilities or diverse student populations, Pro is the differentiated literacy solution that provides true equity of access and accelerates reading gains for all students — all in a single classroom.

Supplement Merit with material from social studies, science, and language arts classes, so students may practice skills in a variety of subject areas.

The teachers» questions indicated that, on the standardized reading assessment, they wanted 9th grade vocabulary and comprehension subskill results disaggregated for each of the 10th grade English language arts course sections so teachers would have a profile of students» reading ability in their current classes.

Young, Long, and Myers consider the evolving attitudes of English language arts educators toward film, which has traditionally been considered a second - class medium compared to print texts.

For Arizona's English language arts, science, and social studies classes with a mix of student abilities or diverse student populations, Pro is the differentiated literacy solution that provides true equity of access and accelerates reading gains for all students — all in a single classroom.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Larry K. Shumway had figures from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) on Utah student performance in math, science and language arts compared with states with similar scores and then cross-referenced with class size and per - pupil funding.

In our classes, pre-service teachers research, create resource sites for, and present on various apps and programs, being sure to tie them into the curriculum (for instance, this site that discusses several apps to support language arts and this one that explores the use of iPads for inclusive education).