Sentences with phrase «of second grade teachers»

One of the second grade teachers made the statement «If you can say it you can read it.

What's the biggest heartbreak of second grade teachers right now?

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The tablets, developed by a second - grade teacher, contained herbs and a high dose of vitamin C.

The only religious individual to capture his attention is his second - grade teacher Zelda, a remarkable woman who was the object of his first crush and who opened his mind to literature and language.

My second one is now baking in the oven for my daughter's 4th grade teacher, end of the year, picnic party tomorrow!

I won't forget my embarrassment when I had to explain to the second - grade teacher why I crashed her students» game of dodgeball.

Second, teachers were giving both our kids candy, sweet treats, etc. as rewards or as methods of doing work (jelly beans for counting — in 3rd grade!!).

As a parent of three children and as a second grade teacher, I found this book was speaking to me.

Lastly, my father tells the story of how, back in the early 50s when he was in first and second grade, his school teacher would have the whole class, every day, put their heads down on their desks after lunch for a 10 - minute rest.

McDonough, the 46th New York State Teacher of the Year has been teaching first or second grade in the Newburgh Enlarged City School District for her entire career of 22 years.

McDonough, a second grade teacher at Newburgh Enlarged City School District in Newburgh was presented with a certificate of recognition by Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch and Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia.

New York State United Teachers, with local unions and advocacy groups, announced Thursday an upcoming effort to lobby Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the state Legislature, the state Education Department and the Board of Regents to end testing in pre-kindergarten through second grade.

But de Blasio's decision to further reduce suspensions by outlawing them completely for kids in kindergarten through second grade drew criticism from the presidents of both the city teachers union and the principals union.

Senate Education Chairman John Flanagan has proposed several bills, including a ban on testing children in the second grade and younger, and a reduction of testing used to evaluate teachers.

The tests — required as part of this year's new teacher evaluations — inspired a boycott at one school and a union - led drive to ban standardized tests for pre-kindergarten through second grade.

His second - grade teacher in California convinced his parents to set down roots for the sake of the children's educations.

A second grade teacher walks silently between desks during independent work time, leaving a trail of paper awards with students as she passes them.

So we wanted to see if playfulness in Kindergarten had any predictive ability to talk about how the children would be in First, Second and Third Grades, both in terms of teacher's perspectives and in terms of their classmates» perspectives.

Second, if states wanted to try to make vesting more of a retention incentive, they could offer teachers a «graded» vesting system, where workers are eligible for a growing share of their employer's retirement contributions over time.

At the end of the second (or third) year in the pattern, the children move on to a new teacher while the looping teacher receives a new group of students at the lower grade level.

As part of its efforts, the school is moving grades 3 to 5 over to Everyday Mathematics this year; it was piloted in those grades last year, and first and second - grade teachers already were using it.

At the end of the first year, teachers would determine whether students have the necessary English skills to move on to first grade, he says, adding that data shows the majority of students would participate in the second year.

«I began student - led conferences to involve the students in their learning and to give them ownership of it,» said Sherri Clifford, a second grade teacher at Hagemann Elementary School in St. Louis, Missouri.

At the International School of Trieste, second - grade teachers Karen South and Brenda Markin have covered a wall in the school's lobby with their yearlong Flat Stanley Project.

«I think a lot of teachers feel like, because they're the teacher, they have to know everything about everything,» says second - grade teacher Carrie Hordubay.

Wang, a former Fulbright Fellow and now a second - year doctoral student at HGSE, saw firsthand as an 11th - grade English teacher that the needs of rural, low - income communities often aren't represented in state policy, but are overlooked in favor of efforts that target urban areas because there's little awareness of the rural problems and few advocates are calling for change.

On the first day of school this year I dropped off my second - grade son outside his portable, waiting only until his teacher opened her door and welcomed students in.

«If a new teacher started in second grade next year, it might take them a year to get up and running,» she says, «but all of us who have been through the trainings, we'll be able to work with that new teacher.»

A 2012 Brookings study by Russ Whitehurst and Matt Chingos demonstrated that the «effect size» of choosing a better second - grade math curriculum was larger than replacing a fiftieth - percentile teacher with a seventy - fifth - percentile teacher.

Second, it elicited subjective expectations of each student's ultimate educational attainment from students» 10th - grade math and reading teachers.

3 — Violence prevention: «Second Step Teacher Training,» workshop, sponsored by the Committee for Children, for teachers of grades 6 - 8, to be held in Seattle, Wash..

8 - 10 — Violence prevention: «Second Step Teacher Training,» workshop, sponsored by the Committee for Children, for teachers of preschool through grade 8, to be held in Toronto, Ontario.

In recent days, there has been a spate of news stories reporting that the nation's teachers» unions are having second thoughts about the Common Core State Standards — which seek to set nationwide standards for what K — 12 students should learn in each grade in math and in English - language arts.

First - and second - grade students in 1993 who had been kept out of kindergarten until they were older were less likely than other students to draw negative feedback from teachers about their academic performance or conduct in class.

And in the states that have same - sex marriage, teachers can «come out» to their students in developmentally appropriate ways by mentioning their partners, as one of my friends did in a second - grade class that was working on writing their life stories.

With funding from the World Bank, ICS Africa provided each of the 140 selected schools with funds to hire an additional 1st - grade teacher on a contractual basis starting in May 2005, the beginning of the second term of that school year.

When Cynthia Rosado, a first - grade English as a Second Language teacher at P.S. 169 in Brooklyn, gave it a shot two years ago, she asked for $ 1,200 for two sets of guided readers.

I recall my third - grade teacher — a conscientious young woman, twenty - five or so, and probably in her second or third year of teaching at the time.

Second - grade teacher Maribel Betancourt sees a lack of parental involvement as the biggest challenge facing Mother Hale's 648 students.

In the second year of the program, all children not repeating the grade remained assigned to the same group of peers and the same teacher.

To complement the slave narratives, Claremont history teachers lead a mini-unit on racism featuring excerpts of writings by Howard Zinn and Winthrop Jordan to move conversations «beyond a second - grade understanding of racism,» says Smith.

«I haven't posted the grades since the middle of the second quarter for lack of time,» Tom Hutchison, a math teacher at Iola - Scandinavian High School in Iola, Wisconsin, told Education World.

As the teacher of gifted at my school ~ I had a first grade and a second grade student working together on a community - service based project ~ which involved collecting supplies for the local animal shelter.

For second - grade teacher Jacqueline Fiorentino, the minor benefits of homework did not outweigh the potential drawback of turning young children against school at an early age, so she experimented with dropping mandatory homework.

To date, the second grade teacher at Mountain View Elementary School in Purcellville, Virginia, has written songs for each of the four core subjects he teaches.

In the same year, 89 percent, each, of students in kindergarten through second grade, and students in third through fifth grade, had a parent who attended a scheduled meeting with a teacher, compared with 71 percent of students in middle school and 57 percent of students in high school.

The Times analysis used a «value added» statistical analysis of math and English scores from the school district — the nation's second largest — to estimate the effectiveness of third - through fifth - grade teachers.

«The app [which features news stories and video tours] goes beyond the usual focus on learning the names and locations of states and their capitals,» says second - grade teacher Lykowski.

In one study of third - grade reading groups, on average teachers asked a question every 43 seconds.»

In a study of the achievement of students of 165 second - and third - grade teachers conducted over a three - year period, Brophy (1973) reported on the patterns of the most effective teachers, who represented about a third of the sample.