Sentences with phrase «read your teacher focused»

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Nick Gibb, the school standards minister was quoted by The Times as saying: «Thanks to the hard work of teachers and this government's continued focus on raising standards and increased emphasis on phonics, six years are reading better than ever before.»

A Sunbridge article in the Fall 2016 issue of Lilipoh magazine is a place to read about Waldorf teaching and teacher education (focusing on grades teaching).

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With student and parent permission, the teacher may upload these fables to the LVI website where children around the world can read other fables, focused on kindness, written by children their age.

Other benefits highlighted by these stakeholders included: Literacy and numeracy assessments can be used to celebrate learning, identify strengths, needs, barriers to learning and allow teachers to make informed and objective judgements about learning; Focusing teachers» and schools» attention on the need for phonics to be taught explicitly and systematically to achieve the necessary level of word reading skills that are required to develop skilled reading; Early identification of children with learning difficulties or [those who] need additional instruction.

So the author focuses on how teachers can improve upon their language arts instruction while using their basal reading program as a starting point.

Benefits: Greater accountability; Drawing teachers focus on what skills need to be taught; Identification of students who have not reached expected benchmarks in reading and numeracy, supported by evidence and data; Improved preservice teacher training and teacher professional learning.

This study focuses on the Seeds of Science / Roots of Reading program via a cluster randomized study of 100 teachers instructing students in a light / energy unit, with 50 teachers in the control group and 50 in the treatment group.

The South Australian Education Department has told school principals that teachers are to place a greater focus on teaching numeracy to lift mathematics skills, in line with their reading and writing ability.

Pierce, a former teacher, has largely focused her work on children with reading difficulties.

Denise — A close read puts most or all of the attention on figuring out the text with information in the text (less focus on background information or information that the teacher tells you about this story or article).

We found that time pressures and a focus on reading and maths means parents and teachers aren't spending as much time as they would like to working on handwriting with young learners.

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Since everyone knew the kind of professional development on which they needed to focus, during his walks around the building, King made certain teachers were following the necessary professional development and allocating time to the required two - hour morning reading block.

«Teachers would approach me with questions about students with reading problems, and conversations with teachers became more curriculum - based and focused on what's best for kidsTeachers would approach me with questions about students with reading problems, and conversations with teachers became more curriculum - based and focused on what's best for kidsteachers became more curriculum - based and focused on what's best for kids.»

He said, I had a teacher, and then a social worker who gave me support, and they taught me the importance of reading and staying focused even in that group home.

It's true that NCLB's laser - like focus on reading and math skills in grades 3 through 8 encourages schools to concentrate their resources and teachers their energies on those subjects.

Every perceptive teacher sees a diversity of strengths and weaknesses in each of her students: There is the child who loves math but has trouble playing well with classmates, the one who makes friends easily but struggles to stay focused on written tasks, and another who creates beautiful paintings but can't seem to retain much of what she's read.

We're developing resources [now] for kids operating around the reading age of five or six years of age, in order to be able to more adequately cater for our student population... I guess the next step as well is working with teachers in more of a coaching and mentoring focus as well, so that we'll work with them around their pedagogy to make sure that they're supporting each other through that teams approach and through that mentoring approach, but also through a more managed process so that we can give them that support that they need to develop their teaching expertise as teachers, but also as teachers within a detention centre context.

For many parents and teachers, it had already begun when the wildly popular book series by J.K. Rowling charmed even reluctant readers away from TV sets and computer games and into cozy chairs for hours of focused reading.

New GCSE and «literature», we are doing education with Y7 so I have created this reading skills focussed ppt using extracts from les excuses de petit Nicolas Use of white boards and an element of competition stops it from being too teacher led and the great thing about Nicolas is if they like him he can come up again - we are doing les vacances with Y8 so we might add in a petit Nicolas on holiday extract

Instead of blocking time for reading or math instruction, McNeely prefers an approach where all teachers focus on a specific unit or theme and connect their curriculum to that theme.

As former middle school teachers, the trio found that despite the many challenges students face as they transition from «learning to read» to «reading to learn,» few programs focus on this age group, offer help to the seven different reading levels found in middle school classrooms, or assist skilled readers.

For the master's candidates who will soon be serving as reading specialists in schools around the nation, Mason said the video exercise demonstrates the importance for teachers of focusing on the learners in the classroom first.

While the computer science teacher often read the directions for students and would translate them into «plain speak,» he did not necessarily focus on the direction words or what role they played in following a program or in writing a basic program.

Such programs seem to encourage teachers to focus their work efforts on the areas of student performance that are being measured — primarily the core academic areas of mathematics, science, social studies, and reading.

The secondary version covers: • Leading literacy across the school • Reading for enjoyment and wider reading • Developing teachers» reading approaches and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to read through interventions such as phonics • Writing engagement and enjoyment • Developing teachers» writing knowledge and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to write — spelling, punctuation and grammar • Developing spoken language skills This sample section focuses on leading literacy across the Reading for enjoyment and wider reading • Developing teachers» reading approaches and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to read through interventions such as phonics • Writing engagement and enjoyment • Developing teachers» writing knowledge and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to write — spelling, punctuation and grammar • Developing spoken language skills This sample section focuses on leading literacy across the reading • Developing teachers» reading approaches and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to read through interventions such as phonics • Writing engagement and enjoyment • Developing teachers» writing knowledge and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to write — spelling, punctuation and grammar • Developing spoken language skills This sample section focuses on leading literacy across the reading approaches and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to read through interventions such as phonics • Writing engagement and enjoyment • Developing teachers» writing knowledge and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to write — spelling, punctuation and grammar • Developing spoken language skills This sample section focuses on leading literacy across the school.

Currently, Dillon is a post-doctoral fellow at Haskins Laboratories, a research institute in New Haven, Conn., that focuses on speech, language, and reading and biological basis, where she investigates the effects of a three - year study in which first - grade teachers were provided professional development seminars and in - class coaching in literacy instruction.

And our practice of holding schools (and now teachers) accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledge).

Review: Sumdog is a boon to teachers seeking games that focus on math and reading.

Now Focus Education are partnering with the software developers in order to create a brand new reading assessment app that will allow teachers to record children reading out loud and to highlight any mistakes within the app; with the app then designed to calculate the child's reading age.

The absence of reading - focused curricula, a lack of appropriate reading materials and teacher training, and limited awareness among parents and teachers of the importance of reading have created significant challenges.

The NGERP focuses on curriculum revision, production and supply of reading materials, teacher training, and improved classroom instruction.

To help the students personally connect to writing, Mount Desert uses the Reading and Writing Project (RWP) from Lucy Calkins of Teachers College at Columbia University, which focuses on writing narrative from a personal and emotional perspective and places a strong emphasis on reading topics matched to the students» reading and comprehension aReading and Writing Project (RWP) from Lucy Calkins of Teachers College at Columbia University, which focuses on writing narrative from a personal and emotional perspective and places a strong emphasis on reading topics matched to the students» reading and comprehension areading topics matched to the students» reading and comprehension areading and comprehension ability.

As part of its School Improvement Plan, St Anne's was already placing an increased focus on reading in September 2017 when Deputy Head Teacher Catherine Cookson heard about Literacy Alive, a new KS2 literacy course from PET - Xi

We know that there's a renewed emphasis and focus on reading nonfiction, but we also know that English and literacy teachers love their fiction as we do.

For example, a social studies teacher could use the transit dilemma to focus on map - reading and map - making skills and the profound impact of transportation systems on a community.

Excel teachers focus on individualized instruction in basic skills, spending at least two hours a day on reading, writing, and literature and at least 90 minutes a day on mathematics.

Standards - based reform was fed by three factors: increased expectations for learning beyond high school, which led to a focus on college readiness for all; the availability of reliable and cheap measures of student proficiency in reading and math; and the push for teacher and school accountability.

Yet in a 2010 survey, 70 % of high - school social - studies teachers reported that civics has been marginalized by the focus on reading and math assessments.

In this study, 72 secondary English teachers from the Santa Ana Unified School District were randomly assigned to participate in the Pathway Project, a cognitive strategies approach to teaching interpretive reading and analytical writing, or to a control condition involving typical district training focusing on teaching content from the textbook.

In this lesson, the teacher conducts a close reading of the text, with a focus on vocabulary and author's craft.

There are many factors to being a good teacher, focus, charisma, understanding kids, diligence, honesty (only missing days when it's unavoidable), intelligence, knowledge: Goldhaber (2015) summarized this research and noted that in upper elementary grades (under NCLB, required tests... Read More

Glynn's concern about New York's test is that teachers will react by focusing more on reading, and less on writing, speaking and listening, all skills that he thinks are critical.

He has worked to focus the state agency on his four priorities including: Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Teachers and Principals; Building a Foundation of Math and Reading; Connecting High School to Career and College; and Improving Low - Performing Schools.

Fluency Tutor frees up busy teachers to focus on other classroom tasks, while giving every young person's reading a boost.

Specifically, Levenson offers four pieces of advice to schools and districts: focus on reading and integration with general education, rethink deployment of support staff, design more sophisticated metrics to gauge teacher effectiveness, and employ more strategic management structures.

This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 18 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 95 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (9 sheets) * Homework project (7 tasks) that includes both reading and writing skills * A copy of the key scene, with original version on the left and space for students to «translate» into modern English on the right * End - of - unit reading / writing exam * End - of - unit exam mark scheme (suitable for KS3 Levels 3 - 6, with GCSE 1 - 9 conversion) Unit's lessons include: * Quiz on the life and times of Shakespeare * Group «collective memory» activity on the Globe Theatre * Activities focused upon «translating» Shakespearean language * Storyboarding the play * Reading and translating Act 3 Scene 1 * Analysing characters in the key scene * Structing an essay response * Designing costumes for Puck and Titania * Designing a set for the key scene * Spelling tests on key vocabulary (differentiated by writing level) * SPaG starter activities * Crosswords * End - of - unit reading exam (GCSE English Language / Literature style) * End - of - unit writing exam (GCSE English Language style) * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportreading and writing skills * A copy of the key scene, with original version on the left and space for students to «translate» into modern English on the right * End - of - unit reading / writing exam * End - of - unit exam mark scheme (suitable for KS3 Levels 3 - 6, with GCSE 1 - 9 conversion) Unit's lessons include: * Quiz on the life and times of Shakespeare * Group «collective memory» activity on the Globe Theatre * Activities focused upon «translating» Shakespearean language * Storyboarding the play * Reading and translating Act 3 Scene 1 * Analysing characters in the key scene * Structing an essay response * Designing costumes for Puck and Titania * Designing a set for the key scene * Spelling tests on key vocabulary (differentiated by writing level) * SPaG starter activities * Crosswords * End - of - unit reading exam (GCSE English Language / Literature style) * End - of - unit writing exam (GCSE English Language style) * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportreading / writing exam * End - of - unit exam mark scheme (suitable for KS3 Levels 3 - 6, with GCSE 1 - 9 conversion) Unit's lessons include: * Quiz on the life and times of Shakespeare * Group «collective memory» activity on the Globe Theatre * Activities focused upon «translating» Shakespearean language * Storyboarding the play * Reading and translating Act 3 Scene 1 * Analysing characters in the key scene * Structing an essay response * Designing costumes for Puck and Titania * Designing a set for the key scene * Spelling tests on key vocabulary (differentiated by writing level) * SPaG starter activities * Crosswords * End - of - unit reading exam (GCSE English Language / Literature style) * End - of - unit writing exam (GCSE English Language style) * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportReading and translating Act 3 Scene 1 * Analysing characters in the key scene * Structing an essay response * Designing costumes for Puck and Titania * Designing a set for the key scene * Spelling tests on key vocabulary (differentiated by writing level) * SPaG starter activities * Crosswords * End - of - unit reading exam (GCSE English Language / Literature style) * End - of - unit writing exam (GCSE English Language style) * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportreading exam (GCSE English Language / Literature style) * End - of - unit writing exam (GCSE English Language style) * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportunities

At the state level, there was a virtual firestorm of legislation focused on early reading that included new curriculum frameworks and standards, assessment mandates, textbook adoption guidelines, and mandates for teacher credentialing and professional development.

At present, she is focusing her research on the effects of teacher and parent storybook reading on children's reading and language development.