Kindergarten, first and
second grade teachers received intensive training in content and techniques and a skilled coach at each school helped the teachers to put their training into practice.
Not exact matches
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.
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).
Before
second -
grade teacher Kimberly Patterson
received tenure and the ironclad job protections it provides, she said, «my principal never set foot in my classroom while I was teaching.»
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.