Sentences with phrase «of upper elementary»

«This is a hot topic among parents of the upper elementary set - and it's gotten even hotter since the movie version of Hunger Games came out.

The goal of upper elementary literacy is to continue developing learners» reading and writing skills while supporting them as they shape their identities as readers and writers.

This feature is important because most teachers of the upper elementary grades do not have a strong background in history or teaching history (Conklin, 2008).

In order to be used successfully with a larger audience of upper elementary, middle school, and high school classrooms, a model VFT module should be designed for use at various times over the course of the year, and at multiple times during the day.

In urban schools learning is offered in disconnected jolts.The work of the day is unconnected with the work of preceding days or subsequent ones.Life in urban schools is comprised of specific periods and discrete days each of which is forced to stand entirely on its own.If homework is not done, or books not taken home (behaviors which are universal for males and almost so for females by the completion of the upper elementary grades), everything students are taught must be compressed into isolated periods of «stand alone» days.Teachers and principals, as well as students, survive one day at a time.

This is particularly important for teachers of upper elementary students through university as research has shown that as children get older, they tend to value ability over effort.

Each and every one of my upper elementary students was convinced that the image was authentic, citing the image of the mutated daisies as evidence.

Multiplication and division are such a fundamental part of upper elementary maths.

Since its implementation by Global SchoolNet in 1991, the project has been extremely well received and very popular, particularly among its target audience of upper elementary and middle level teachers and students.

Not exact matches

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

That little amount of food wouldn't do for a kid in upper elementary grades.

In addition, the early middle school grades typically provide less independence to students than do the upper levels of elementary schools.

Books by Rick Riordan, Jerry Spinelli & Andrew Clements... of the 3, Riordan and Spinelli lean more toward upper elementary.

Substantive research already exists showing nut free schools (not early childhood, but mid elementary onwards) actually do more harm than good, to the extent that the official anaphylaxis prevention guidelines have been updated by the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy to explicitly state that food bans in upper primary and high schools do not work, and can actually cause problems.

In addition to introducing Holi to readers not already familiar with this intriguing Indian festival, Mina's Spring of Color would work well with upper elementary and middle schoolers to examine how the twin desires to both fit in and remain true to one's ethnic heritage can affect a youngster's sense of self and familial relationships.

The overwhelming majority of our students have cell phones in our upper school (and some even have them in the elementary school).

Before coming to Butler University, Lori was an Assistant Professor at Marian University in Indianapolis and earlier on taught children and adolescents with emotional challenges in the upper elementary grades, worked as a school counselor in Indianapolis, was a private practice counselor and co-owner of the Indianapolis Counseling Center, and was a behavioral consultant for Methodist Hospital, in Indianapolis on the adolescent psychiatric unit.

Science Teachers Learning through Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) is a professional - development program for upper - elementary school science teachers in which teachers develop two lenses for analyzing teaching, the «Student Thinking Lens» and the «Science Content Storyline Lens,» to analyze videos of teaching practice.

The Science Teachers Learning from Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) project is a professional - development program that uses video - based analysis of practice to improve teacher and student learning at the upper elementary level.

To further investigate how the effect of later start times varies with age, I estimate the effect of start times on upper elementary students (grades 3 — 5).

A total of 63 beginning reading (starting in kindergarten or first grade) and 79 upper - elementary (grades 2 - 5) reading studies met these criteria.

(And that's at the elementary level; all of this grows vastly harder in the upper grades.)

Teacher / Student Communication Cards (communicate with students over a variety of issues from break requests to fire drill alerts to behavior redirection) Emotions Cards (teach or communicate emotions using visuals of diverse upper elementary students)!

Let's take the case of Carlos, an upper elementary student with high - functioning Autism who has fallen years behind in reading despite a solid IQ.

This unique set of supplies cards features upper elementary / middle school and teen students and focuses on the types of supplies associated with these age groups!

With 20 years of experience, Clare Forseth, a 5th - and 6th - grade mathematics teacher at Marion Cross School in Norwich, Vt., could be expected to be fairly certain about how she teaches math to upper - elementary students.

When the Soldiers Were Gone can be a good resource for introducing upper elementary and middle school children to the difficult subject of the Holocaust.

Bottom Line: Despite the giggle that some of its silly characters might provoke, this site will help any upper - elementary level or middle - school level teacher incorporate eLearning into instruction.

Having never had a very good cursive penmanship ~ I think it's great to introduce primary students to the «art of cursive writing» ~ but by upper elementary ~ keyboarding skills are much more valuable.

Another district, Cambridge (Mass.) Public Schools, is trying an entirely new model: This fall it moved away from its long - held K — 8 configuration with the creation of a lower school and an upper school, with sixth - through eighth - graders in the upper school still housed within four of the city's elementary buildings.

While the study explores middle, high school, and college students, two of the exercises lend themselves nicely for assessing critical thinking skills in upper elementary instruction: an analysis of a home page where students identify advertisements on a news website and an evaluation of a photograph published on a photo sharing website.

Here are four key steps to developing a pedagogy of fake news for upper elementary students.

The venerable We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution program, started in 1987, engages upper elementary, middle, and high school students in simulations of congressional hearings — with a chance to compete against other students in the national championship.

In the sections that follow, I focus on sites of specific value to teachers of elementary grades, then upper grades.

2017 Rosenthal Prize for Innovation and Inspiration in Math Teaching Deadline: Opens in January The Rosenthal Prize, from the National Museum of Mathematics, recognizes «hands - on math teaching in upper elementary and middle school classrooms.»

A teacher at an international school led his upper elementary English - language learners through a triumphant, self - created reimagining of Shakespeare's «Romeo and Juliet.»

Linnenbrink - Garcia, L., Wormington, S. V., Snyder, K. E., Riggsbee, J., Perez, T. Ben - Eliyahu, A., Hill, N. E. (in press) Multiple pathways to success: An examination of integrative motivational profiles among college and upper elementary students.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

With science educator, Betsy Davis and the ELECTS team, she has recently conducted a series of studies investigating the value of educative supports for science teaching in the upper elementary grades.

Based on years of experience training upper elementary school teachers in the Bay Area, we've designed a how - to resource for teachers everywhere to illustrate how you can easily and successfully integrate science notebooks into your own classroom.

The critical relevance of this project lies in the determination of whether the inclusion of anxiety management skills significantly enhances existing intervention outcomes for struggling readers in the upper elementary grades.

Writing persuasive essays, narratives, resumes and more, upper elementary kids respond to fractured fairy tales in another Scholastic series of lessons.

Most of the activities were designed for upper elementary students, but many can be adapted for younger or older students.

Goldhaber (2015) summarized this research and noted that in upper elementary grades (under NCLB, required tests begin in third grade), having a lower - performing teacher (one at the 30th percentile of teachers) is roughly equivalent to a student learning half as much in the school year compared to having a higher performing teacher (one at the 70th percentile of teachers).

In upper elementary and middle school, much of what students study is invisible.

Despite widespread use of the program with upper elementary through high school students, there is limited empirical evidence to support its effectiveness.

The activity can be used in a variety of social studies lessons — from an exploration of the local community to a class on international studies — and in both the upper elementary grades and middle school.

We have general teaching resources which cater to all ages and abilities for upper primary / elementary and our new packs which are specifically designed to meet each strand of the curriculum.

We analyzed data from two rounds of semi-structured interviews with 27 upper - elementary grades teachers, principals, and other key personnel (e.g., instructional coaches, where present) and 127 hours of observational data.

Introduce word prediction to students in upper elementary school, after they have had plenty of intervention to improve spelling skills and they have plateaued.