Sentences with phrase «questions middle grades»

An examination of four questions middle grades educators might ask about effective writing instruction and assessment.

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Finally, we encouraged our 4th and 5th grade boys to ask the high school players questions about their experiences in elementary, middle, and high school.

On Jan. 24, readers questioned three members of the Teacher Leaders Network — Corrina Knight, a 6th grade language arts / social studies teacher at Salem Middle School in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional development.

While some earlier studies questioned the role of grade configuration in school success and student achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,» West says.

The primary purpose of the MLER SIG Research Agenda was to develop a set of questions that provide direction to the field of middle grades education research.

Middle school students were struggling with chemistry questions on the eighth - grade MCAS.

Researchers have questioned the merits of isolating middle school students in their own grade configuration for years.

A middle grades science class used the template to address the question, Should adolescents be required to wear helmets during recreational activities, such as bike riding and skateboarding?

A study published in June 2012 evaluated five middle schools in western Washington to answer the question, «How can we help middle school students whose reading skills are two or more years below grade level?»

«As a result, middle grade practitioners are grappling with questions about what skills students need to succeed in high school, which markers they should use to gauge whether students are ready to succeed in high school and beyond, and whether it is possible to identify in middle grades students who are likely to struggle in high school and college.»

Crook County Middle School sixth grade math and social studies teacher Heidi Lea, aka Cricket, calls on a student while asking questions after students surveyed the aquatic wildlife in Suttle Lake in the Deschutes National Forest in May.

Findings from our 2006 — 2011 Remediation project, as well as findings of low impact from other studies with middle school students (e.g., Kemple et al., 2008), have raised important questions about when and how to remediate reading disabilities with middle grade students.

So I have a simple question — do the elementary schools do a better job with 6th grade than middle schools?

This webinar, presented by Dr. Mindee O'Cummings, Matt Hauenstein, Michelle Perry, and Laura Yerhot from the National High School Center, provided an in - depth demonstration of the EWS Middle Grades and High School Tools, introduced the EWS Community of Practice, and responded to questions.

Talking in depth with 40 students in middle grades around the country, WKCD's Kathleen Cushman asked them questions like these:

First, I was in the middle of unpacking the skills needed to solve questions covered by the sixth - grade Common Core standards around ratios.

Activate Learning's IQWST (Investigating & Questioning our World Through Science & Technology), is a rigorous investigation - centered science curriculum designed to challenge and engage middle school students in grades 6 through 8.

Throughout the recent controversy over inappropriate and explicit content being listed in ebook retail websites alongside children's and middle grade titles, the same questions kept coming to the surface: how did this happen, and how do we prevent it?

Middle - grade fiction has seen an uptick in transgender characters or those questioning their gender identities in recent years.

The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer Holm August 2014 Random House Middle grade Holm, author of three Newbery Honor Books, asks questions about the bounds of science and immortality in will surely be a thought - provoking read.

Talking in depth with 40 students in middle grades around the country, WKCD's Kathleen Cushman asked them questions like: What helps you want to try hard in school — or keeps you from doing so?

I remember my fifth grade teacher stopping the middle of a lesson to answer a question that one of my extroverted peers had asked.

I'm a 7th grade middle school teacher and my favorite part of teaching are the questions my students ask.