Sentences with phrase «on second grade teachers»

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In the second - grade room, the teacher was sitting in slacks on the front table, a scarf wrapped around her head, reading a story to the class — everyone paying eager attention except the two who were cleaning the hamster cage.

If you'd like to voice your objection to the bill, please consider signing this petition from Food Policy Action and this one launched on Change.org by a second grade teacher worried about the hungry kids in her classroom.

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.

The sports programs could remain - the music and arts programs could go on, no classes would need to be eliminated, kids could still learn how to read by second grade and the teachers could maintain a living wage and benefit package.

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.

In our study, we randomly assigned second - grade teachers in high - poverty schools that had low performance on state tests to two groups.

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.

After noticing second grade students struggling with active listening and peer relationships, we collaborated with classroom teachers to create a second - grade unit focused on our social curriculum and their geology unit.

Sometimes that meant that we would work on a project with another teacher, like when we made green screen videos about the weather with second grade.

She would repeat this on Tuesday with the second and third grade teachers, and on Wednesday with the fourth and fifth grade.

First, second, third grade, and special education teachers attended a presentation on using phonics to teach reading.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you haven't come across a money system created by fifth - grade teacher ~ Rafe Esquith ~ you need to read his second book «Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire.»

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.

«There was the time, for example, when a second grader got on the wrong bus to go home because she wanted to be with her friends, or the time I discovered from a teacher's lesson plans that I was the only grade - level teacher going on a field trip to the museum!

Indeed, what incentive would second - grade teachers have to emphasize content that might not show up on a test until sixth grade, if even then?

«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.»

Rogers, on leave from her position as a first and second grade looping teacher at Leeds Elementary School, in Jefferson County, Alabama, said she earned masters and doctoral degrees — and national certification — not to move into administration, but to be a better classroom teacher.

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.

With a focus on early literacy skills, this resource supports second grade teachers in their use of centers in the classroom.

The Title I teachers returned to the first - and second - grade classrooms for 30 minutes in the afternoon to provide one - on - one or one - on - two help to struggling readers.

«The whole idea that there are things going on in kindergarten and pre-K that would be very good for teachers in second and third grade to understand is pretty powerful,» Tozer said.

At the end of Hudson's second year on the job, six of the seven teachers in second to fifth grades quit.

When Spillane and Jennings (1997) looked more closely at nine second - and fifth - grade teachers in the suburban district, they found that the extent to which teachers» practices reflected the district's literacy initiative depended on how well the reforms were elaborated by the district.

«The negative consequences of the current overwhelming focus on preparation for standardized tests include narrowed curricula, developmentally inappropriate instructional practices, decreases in student engagement, stagnant achievement gaps and rising minority dropout rates,» said subcommittee member and Winchester second grade teacher David Krane.

Books that new SFUSD teacher Ashli Duncan acquired for her second grade classroom sit in a box next to other books given to her from an outgoing teacher at Bessie Carmichael Elementary School on Wednesday, August 12, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif..

Using the foundation learned in the first stage, teachers» planning and instruction adds a focus on rigorous instruction, questions, learning activities, grade - level assignments, and assessments in the second stage, Increasing the Rigor of Learning - Focused Lessons: Higher Order Thinking, Reading and Writing.

Today, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released the second installment of its now - segmented Teacher Prep Review, this time grading undergraduate programs preparing secondary teachers based on a document review of their admission standards, content requirements, and field experiences.

They pose the problem to a Twitter chat group and an online professional learning community and receive differing responses, many of which recommend negative consequences for students who perform poorly on the initial assessment (for example, limiting the grade students can attain on the second assessment, permitting a second assessment only occasionally and at the teacher's discretion, or making the second assessment more demanding).

On a recent day at St. Paul School, for example, one group in Minh Gavino's fourth - grade math class worked directly with the teacher, a second group worked independently on laptops and a third group worked together from a textbooOn a recent day at St. Paul School, for example, one group in Minh Gavino's fourth - grade math class worked directly with the teacher, a second group worked independently on laptops and a third group worked together from a textbooon laptops and a third group worked together from a textbook.

When the second grade teachers at New Orleans» Sylvanie Williams Elementary School settled on Cinderella as the main text for a fairy tale unit, Micaella Glenn, the only black teacher on the team, pushed them to incorporate non-European versions of the tale.

«We need to lower the class sizes so that each student can get that one - on - one attention that they need,» says a second - grade teacher.

She was on jury duty for five weeks, so Millspaugh arranged for a qualified long - term substitute to fill in, and the other second - grade teachers also helped out.

Here, the researchers examined a well - known experiment called Project STAR that randomly placed students with teachers in first, second, and third grade in order to assess the impact of smaller class sizes on student achievement.

This program makes an impact on the lives of children, teachers and families, and makes a difference in communities by focusing on these specific second grade literacy skills.

Clark's group found that kids in second grade and younger who had Teach for America teachers performed markedly better on tests of reading.

As a second and third grade teacher in DeForest, Moffit pushed her administration to take a more holistic, individualized approach to reading instruction, versus rigid teaching focused on test scores, she said.

In a sixth - grade classroom in Greensboro, N.C., a dozen middle - school social - studies teachers were getting their second of three days of training on tablets that had been presented to them as a transformative educational tool.

Muir says one teacher was particularly surprised to see that a number of second - grade students had performed below her expectations on their first Star 360 assessment.

Schools that administer SOL tests in Spring 2014 and that are not fully accredited for the second consecutive year, based on school accreditation ratings in effect for FY 2014 and FY 2015 will qualify to participate in the Virginia e-Learning Backpack Initiative in FY 2015 and receive: (1) a supplemental grant of $ 400 per student reported in ninth grade fall membership in a qualifying school for the purchase of a tablet computer device for that student and (2) a supplemental grant of $ 2,400 per qualifying school to purchase two content creation packages for teachers.

Background Thirty - seven Reading Recovery teachers from different schools in 14 states submitted the names of two at - risk first - grade students to a Web - based program for random assignment to first - or second - round Reading Recovery service, and submitted data on those students across the school year that allowed comparison of at - risk students with and without intervention services.

I know, and a lot of teachers know, they're totally inappropriate for children in kindergarten, first grade, second grade and third grade, because when they were written there was no one on various writing committees who was an expert in early childhood education... They're also totally inappropriate for children who have disabilities — they can't keep up.

This morning we watched two great clips of first grade teacher Jennifer Crucetti Cold Calling her first graders on the second day of school at Abram Lansing Elementary in Cohoes, NY.

This recorded webinar for second grade classrooms using the 2015 edition is for teachers who would like a refresher on program materials and instructional methodology at any time during the school year.

Focused on the younger crowd (preschool through second grade, with a few tips for older students), teacher Bonnie Kathyrn curates a fun and comprehensive set of boards with thousands of pins each.