Sentences with phrase «of young elementary students»

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The concept is simple: a team of four college students composed of two young men and two young women spends a week at a parish, catechising the elementary school students (ages 5 - 13) during the day and the high - school students (ages 14 - 18) in the evenings.

When your child leaves the cozy confines of elementary school for larger middle and high schools, it's a big transition — both for your young student and for you.

While Pollack said there are many districts throughout Illinois with outstanding elementary science teachers and programs, she said she had not heard of any other elementary districts that have gone to the expense of equipping and staffing a full - time lab for young students.

According to the acting CEO, UBA Foundation, Bola Atta while touring the C. William Brumskine elementary school in Monrovia to introduce The Fishermen to a delightful group of young students said: «We at UBA Foundation are eager to better the lives of people across the continent.

«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.

This makes sense because elementary students tend to be more obedient to their teachers, so they may show higher levels of this type of engagement at that younger age.»

Like a lot of best friend stories, their meeting as elementary school students isn't spectacular, but being young and impressionable does help build a firm basis friendship.

While BPS staff has expended significant time and political capital in order to make this limited space available to charters, the district's primary concern is a growing number of young students entering Pre-K programs and elementary schools.

Reality: While it's true that younger students, whether they be elementary school students or freshmen at your high school, need a more fundamental set of skills for both academics and behavior, students of all ages can work to know themselves better, relate better to others, and make responsible choices.

Most charter schools serve mainly elementary students, and young children make up the largest share of the few voucher programs that have been attempted.

As a former elementary teacher I know first hand how creative and technologically savvy young students are, so it was quickly decided to include students of all ages in the festival.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants offers a financial literacy section on their website with advice for young children and teens about money, a video on budgeting for older kids, and activities for elementary school students.

These students teach the Honor Code to fifth graders, who, in turn, explain it to younger elementary school students to help establish a student - driven culture of integrity.

There are a panoply of «jobs» we might «hire» a pre-K program to perform for families: the job of providing dependable custodial services for working parents; the job of preparing students for elementary school by focusing on high impact areas like early vocabulary exposure; the job of keeping young children healthy during their early years of development.

Her experience teaching elementary school students in New Orleans as a first - grade teacher and then working as a reading immersion specialist had shown Grayson the importance of literacy for young children.

Particularly in elementary classrooms, there may be concerns about student privacy associated with taking pictures of young students.

This all - year anatomy activity is for students of any age, but is mainly geared toward younger elementary students to learn the placement of the major organs and bones in their bodies.

Dr. Pope also works directly with some middle and elementary schools to help them reduce student stress, and said symptoms of stress are showing up in increasingly younger 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.»

Because elementary students enjoy learning by doing, the Brown v. Board of Education Children's Activity Booklets are a fun way for younger children to understand the concepts included in why and how the Brown decision took place.

The combination of needy younger students with older students thrilled to feel needed has benefited both groups of youngsters — despite concerns expressed at the outset of the program by elementary and high school teachers and parents.

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

Some of the youngest volunteers are specially - selected students from Chaska Senior High School who willingly share their unique cultures with the elementary students.

By targeting both younger and older elementary aged children, Lesson One is reaching a population of students that are often overlooked, yet can absolutely benefit from social emotional instructional support.

As an elementary teacher who is very aware of the power of video I became keenly interested in the concept of «flipping» and of using it as a way to differentiate my daily lessons and so I applied the idea using appropriate practice for younger students and came up with what I call the «Slanted Classroom.»

The young woman sitting across from me had just finished eight weeks of student teaching, and she was anxious to have her own elementary school classroom in one of America's major cities.

High school students from Parkland FL are speaking out eloquently and powerfully in favor of gun regulation, in a way elementary school students from Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT, were not able to do because they were too young

Rushed APPR plans reviewed by law school students and supervised by a young, former Teach For America grad now Fellow, led to disastrous results such as those of Syracuse, where 40 % of the teachers were rated below effective and no elementary or middle school teacher was found to be highly effective.

The suspension rate for elementary students at Success Academy charter schools is seven times the rate of New York City's public elementary schools and, like Achievement First, Inc. the charter school was targeting and abusing children as young as kindergarten.

Unlike most charters — which prefer to start with younger kids and build a network of feeder elementary schools before venturing into high school — Collegiate only works with high school students.

In the article, Bryant and Powell explore the importance of teaching mathematics vocabulary; having students show their work; and starting early on the path to college and career readiness — in elementary school — by ensuring that young students develop fluency and automaticity with computation, and with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.

Mark Anderson, assistant professor in the Montana State University Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics and Mary Beth Walker, professor and dean with the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, examined elementary school test score data on the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) from 2001 - 2010 across the state's rural districts, fifteen of which operated on a four - day week.

However, the overarching goal of middle school is universal: to bridge the gap between elementary and high school, and ease the transition of young students into adolescence.

A Washington Heights elementary school has canceled the new standardized multiple - choice tests for the youngest public school students — after more than 80 % of parents opted to have their kids sit out the exam.

Creating Learning Environments in the Early Grades that Support Teacher and Student Success profiles three expanded - time elementary schools to demonstrate how a longer school day provides educators enhanced capacity to meet the needs of young learners and foster a well - rounded education.

«Today, our young elementary students are using DreamBox technology to take charge of their learning and build the foundational learning needed for future success.»

CS Fundamentals is elementary school curriculum that allows even the youngest students to explore the limitless world of computing.

As we add an elementary school for the 2018 - 19 school year, our Lower School (K - 5) curriculum, full of rigor and wonder, will prepare these younger students to be able to plumb the depths of the Upper School (6 - 12) curriculum eagerly and confidently.

His teaching shaped my lasting belief in the power of great teachers, especially in the upper elementary years when students are old enough to be ready but still young enough to be molded.

This includes the use of smart boards and smart TVs in all classrooms, which has already occurred, and a greater emergence of tablets for students as young as elementary school.

«We didn't want elementary school children walking in with iPhones just as we wouldn't have them co-mingle in a young adult section of the library,» says Jaeger, who feels that young students shouldn't have unlimited access to all material in the ebook library.

Pride, accomplishment and making a difference was all part of an incredible learning experience for a group of young Houghton elementary students here in the Copper Country.

TY - JOUR AU - Hong Seok Kim AU - Roh Young Cheon TI - The Rmediating Effect of Resilience on the Relationship between Parents Attachment and Peer Relationship in Upper Grade Elementary School Students T2 - Korea Journal of Counseling PY - 2012 VL - 13 IS - 4 PB - Korean Counseling Association (KCA) SP - 1751 - 1765 SN - 1598 - 2068 AB - The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating effect of resilience on the relationship between parents attachment and peer relationship in upper grade elementary school sStudents T2 - Korea Journal of Counseling PY - 2012 VL - 13 IS - 4 PB - Korean Counseling Association (KCA) SP - 1751 - 1765 SN - 1598 - 2068 AB - The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating effect of resilience on the relationship between parents attachment and peer relationship in upper grade elementary school studentsstudents.

The Association of Regina Realtors (ARR) honoured one Grade 8 student from each of the city's public and Catholic elementary schools with the Realtors Citizenship Award, which recognizes young people who demonstrate an exemplary commitment to their school and community.