Not exact matches
While research shows that children who participate in a full - day
kindergarten program transition better into the first grade and have better social skills, the downside
of noisy, crowded
classrooms and stressed -
out children make me question if the program was rolled
out too hastily.
The first year everyone had to eat in the
classroom but this year we gave the
kindergarten classes the option — one stayed in the
classroom, three opted to go to the lunch room and eat
out of their coolers in there.
The
kindergarten classroom was spacious, with tables spread
out in the center
of the room, a desk that looked like it didn't get much use, plenty
of shelves and closets, play areas, a sink, and a bathroom.
Whether you are a
kindergarten teacher setting
out learning centers, an art teacher preparing for a painting lesson, or a high school teacher collecting assignments, a significant amount
of teacher time is spent managing the materials within the
classroom.
Most recently, before taking this year
out of the
classroom, I worked as a
kindergarten / first grade looping teacher at Two Rivers PCS.
In the STAR data, however, each
kindergarten teacher is only observed teaching a single
kindergarten class, making it difficult to separate
out the part
of the
classroom effect due to the teacher.
The tidbits
of advice grace the walls
of kindergarten classrooms everywhere, including gems like «When you go
out into the world, watch
out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together,» and «Remember the Dick - and - Jane books and the first words you learned — the biggest word
of all — LOOK.»
Lead plaintiff Rebecca Friedrichs has taught
kindergarten through fourth grade for twenty - six years and believes the CTA has become increasingly
out of touch with what is happening in the
classroom and society.
Officials also agreed to provide
kindergarten teachers with a
classroom aide and add as many as nine days
of planning time for teachers from preschool through third grade to help them learn how to use new technology such as digital tablets and roll
out new curriculum standards known as Common Core.
After six weeks he plopped me back in
kindergarten, and just as it started looking like I might have a normal life after all, suddenly, in the second week
of first grade, he walked right into the
classroom and yanked me
out once again, because he'd been overcome with the fear that he was leaving my impressionable brain «in the folds
of Satan's underpants.»