Sentences with phrase «said language arts teacher»
«I realized no one had ever collected the stories of local World War II veterans,» said language arts teacher Claudia Bartow, a member of the Ohio Air National Guard.
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«Keeping track of pens is just not important to them,» says language arts teacher Brandon Kienle.
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«The voucher system scares me to death,» said Lynn Harrison, an 8th - grade English language arts teacher at the East Fordham Academy for the Arts in the Brarts teacher at the East Fordham Academy for the Arts in the BrArts in the Bronx.
More than six years after states began adopting the Common Core State Standards in English / language arts and math, most teachers say they are now familiar with the standards, and a growing number feel prepared to teach them to their students.
«Mark,» language arts teacher Jenna Brohinsky says to one drowsy student in a Yankees» shirt, «you need to go to bed earlier.»
«I am a language arts teacher,» he says with great pride and emotion.
«They have casual conversations — discussing art as it fits into life, using everyday language and insight,» says Mary Jo Rosania, Hunterdon's visual arts teacher.
«We send home a calendar at the beginning of the six - week grading period with all major tests and projects listed for all academic subjects,» said Sharon Lynch, a seventh - grade language arts teacher at the school.
Farkas and Duffett note that 70 % of social studies teachers say their subject is a lower priority because of pressure to show progress on math and language arts.
Some teachers say that they are already teaching with grade - level - appropriate texts, and that they already include at least some informational texts in their English language arts curriculum.
Crystal Hoel, a former middle school language arts teacher at a school in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, said, I think public schools can implement the same strategies, but only if the principal and / or curriculum director truly believe that all kids can achieve and teachers are held accountable.
Look at learning or mastery in fields as diverse as sports, the arts, languages, the sciences or recreational activities and the research evidence is clear: great teachers give great feedback, says Stephen Dinham.
Says Jodee Rose, a former art and math teacher who developed a middle school lesson plan for teaching the method, «It's low tech, but it's high tech ideas, because it's working through computer language, which kids are going to need to learn eventually.»
«Not all students are going to connect with me, and I'm not going to connect with all students, but there are always community members with different personalities that my students can connect with,» says Sarah Segal, a Hood River seventh - grade English language arts, literacy, and social studies teacher.
«This club provides a place for students who don't participate on sports teams, or orchestra, or other larger groups,» said Ginny Paisie, a language arts teacher at Davis Drive Middle School in Cary, North Carolina.
Resistance might also be greater for high school teachers who typically view themselves as subject specialists, said veteran educator Ray Salazar, who blogs about his work teaching English language arts at a Chicago public high school.
The Common Core is designed to increase the number of students prepared for college and career, but some parents and teachers say the new English language arts and math standards aren't as strong as what Indiana had before.
But English teacher Jonathan Baize says he's not sure some of the language arts standards aren't above and beyond what the typical high school students need to know.
Barb Barclay, a 6th grade language arts and social studies teacher and teacher evaluation team member at Totem says, «I feel good about being part of a staff that has a lot of strong teacher leaders on it who are trying to make a difference in kids lives.
«I've been working with ELL students my whole career,» said Scott Jensen, an eighth grade language arts teacher at Centennial Middle School in Portland, Ore. «I still feel like it's been only recently that I've been making tangible strides with these students.»
«There are common standards, but how we get there might be different from teacher to teacher and student to student,» says Koop, a seventh grade language arts teacher at Woodland.
... Courtney Summer, a language arts teacher in the South Bronx who has an 8 - year - old daughter, said the decision was a «huge breath of air» because fair promotion decisions required more than one variable.
«It was very different from what I was used to teaching in the past,» says Melissa Henderson, a seventh and eighth grade language arts teacher at Woodland.
Cardenas said the increase in the percentage of high school juniors identified as ready or on pace to be ready for college - level courses in English language arts could be due to a CSU initiative that has trained high school English teachers to prepare more students for college - level work.
Social studies and history teachers say they are encouraged that the creators of the Common Core, a set of English language arts and math standards that California and 42 other states have adopted, weave liberal doses of history and science into the standards» approach to literacy and numeracy.
Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: «Primary schools are struggling to prioritise science, languages and arts in the face of an accountability regime which prioritises English and Maths at the expense of all else.
Most undergraduate programs for teachers tend to emphasize language arts and give short shrift to mathematics, which means that teachers «often feel inadequate» even after years of teaching the subject, he said.
Lesley Hagelgans, an 8th grade language arts teacher at Marshall Middle School in Michigan, said her focus in the discussion was on using multiple measures to evaluate teachers.
«With more than 400 entries, we, again, recognize the commitment to teaching and learning demonstrated by CREC students and teachers,» said Sarah Fitzsimons, director of English language arts for CREC Magnet Schools.
«Physics teachers should know physics,» he said, but they should also have a «foundational knowledge in language arts and math.
Ted Christensen, 47, a seventh - grade English language arts teacher who has taught at Valor Middle Academy for six years and has been a teacher for 18 years, said the evaluations he gets during classroom observations make him feel valued.
«We had to learn how to integrate Achieve3000 with the standards we teach,» said Forrest Road fourth - grade English language arts teacher Connie Thebaud.
Myra Bridgers, an eighth grade language arts teacher who has been teaching for more than 20 years in Franklin County schools, said the past few years have been the worst she's seen in terms of budget cuts.
Lara White, a new language arts teacher for Milner's middle school grades, said she makes a point of telling students who are used to staff turnover, «We're not going anywhere.»
An added plus: Research shows that «a large percentage of kids prefer reading about real stuff,» Shanahan said, even though most language - arts teachers assigned very little nonfiction in the past.
Responding to a recent survey by Education Week, teachers said they had typically spent fewer than four days in Common Core training, and that included training for the language - arts standards as well as the math.
David Coleman, the principal architect of the English language arts standards, recently said CCSS «restores elementary teachers to their rightful place as guides to the world.»
«It can be a little something that can make a big difference,» says Student Council adviser Sheila Labriola, a sixth - grade language arts and social studies teacher.