Sentences with phrase «sixth grade math teacher»

At Democracy Prep Harlem Middle School, a sixth grade math teacher started her class by giving her students exactly four minutes to solve a problem involving ratios.

Xuereb, a sixth grade math teacher at Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School, is among the city math teachers preparing to swap the state's learning standards for the Common Core this fall.

Scenario: The sixth grade math teacher reviewed student grades for the semester.

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I spent almost five years reporting in Harlem, attending parenting classes and sixth - grade math lessons and basketball games and parent - teacher meetings, and the time I spent there turned out to be a period of great change, not only for Geoff and the scope of his project but also for plenty of individuals whose stories I've tried to tell in the book.

Adam Smith, a Hood River sixth - grade math, science, and language arts teacher, was watching a video when a link for «Hello Kitty Goes to Space» popped up.

What's more common — with experienced teachers and new ones alike — is avoidance (as I did with those sixth - grade math lessons).

Students who scored in the top quarter of the sixth - grade math exam averaged anywhere from 19 to 26 on the high school ACT math test; the variations correlated with the effectiveness scores of their high school math teachers.

Currently, he is a sixth grade math and science teacher at the Baldwin School.

For the past three years, I have worked as a sixth - and seventh - grade math teacher in Brooklyn, N.Y. I have had two value - added scores published on the New York Times SchoolBook website which received the scores from the New York City Department of Education through a Freedom of Information Act request.

«Rather than being an expert at seven different things,» notes sixth - grade science and math teacher Jon Bromfield, «I can work really hard to become an expert at two subjects.

«We wanted to do something that would tie into one of our three big spheres of science,» explains Jon Bromfield, sixth - grade math and science teacher.

’08, a sixth - grade math teacher, says her school also makes it clear early on that each family is valued.

Adam Smith, a Hood River sixth - grade math, science, and language arts teacher, came across a video online called «Hello Kitty Goes to Space,» showing a seventh - grade student launching a high - altitude weather balloon into the atmosphere and capturing data while in flight.

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Prior to joining the RePublic family, Kelsey began her teaching career in Memphis as a sixth - grade math teacher at Raleigh Egypt Middle School and then as a seventh - grade math teacher at KIPP Academy Middle School.

And it told us that except for the rare bright spot — like a principal dedicated to academic growth for all learners, but who went on sabbatical a year after we changed to her school, and a teacher who volunteered to teach sixth - grade math in a fifth - grade classroom — we would not be getting the services needed for our children.

Former University of Tennessee researcher William Sanders found students who scored at about the same level on state math tests in third grade had score differences of as much as 50 percentage points on sixth grade tests after having less qualified teachers.

Lakeland Elementary / Middle School teacher Delilah Moss was shocked when a sixth - grade boy at the top of his class didn't pass the math portion of the annual standardized test two years ago.

Xuereb and the other math teachers at WHEELS will attend a training conference held by the National Council for Teaching Math this summer, and she also devoted some time this school year to preparing her students for concepts that have been moved from seventh grade to sixth.

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.

My story of being an eighth - grade math teacher for 100 general education students, as well as the special education teacher for a group of sixth, seventh, and eighth graders with significant special needs.

Chuck Yeh, a sixth - grade math teacher at Fairmont, leads students through group work.

There are so many stories that I could tell — the story of my guidance counselor's sixth - grade, learning disabled child who feels like a failure due to constant testing, a principal of an elementary school who is furious with having to use to use a book he deems inappropriate for third graders because his district bought the State Education Department approved common core curriculum, and the frustration of math teachers due to the ever - changing rules regarding the use of calculators on the tests.

Ms. Arenas, a veteran sixth - grade math teacher, transformed her practice with support from PowerMyLearning.

After moving to Nashville, Mrs. Iams taught fifth and sixth grade math and social studies at St. Bernard Academy before becoming a founding math teacher at Valor Voyager Academy.

Will Compton, RCE sixth - grade math teacher and Magnet Program coordinator, said «it's been a great learning experience for our Magnet students....

While serving as the sixth - grade math and science teacher for a school comprised of 40 students and one other teacher, he reached out to various organizations looking for resources and support for the school.

Overall, TLI has encouraged and supported my growth as a teacher leader in three areas: I am now the Professional Learning Community (PLC) Leader for sixth - grade math; I have led math PLC meetings for grades 6, 7, and 8; and I am a mentor for Year Two TLI participants in my state.

Last school year was the first year schools taught the new language arts standards, and sixth - and ninth - grade teachers taught the new math standards.

She has a B.S. in elementary education from the University of Maine at Farmington and has worked with students of all ages for almost thirty years: as a volunteer at Pine Hill Preschool in Jefferson, a teacher of third and fourth grades at Chelsea and Waldoboro elementary schools, a science teacher of fifth and sixth grade students at Kieve Science Camp for Girls, a seventh and eighth grade math and science teacher at CTL, and, for three years, a helping and kindergarten teacher at CTL.

Brenda Douyon is a teacher lead at Kelly Miller Middle School, where she currently teaches sixth, seventh, and eighth grade math.

During a grade - level team meeting, sixth grade math, science, and language arts teachers collaborate to design a Service Learning project.

«Teachers would just send them to my room because I built a connection with them,» said Weaver, who taught sixth - and eighth - grade math and is now a school principal.

One sixth - grade class in which none of the students passed math had a teacher who previously worked at the high school level, Shafer told the school board.

Cynthia Hunter, a sixth - grade math and science teacher at Curtiss Middle School in Carson who took a two - day course aimed at teachers, said she found the sessions useful.

Glover arrived as principal in 2010, having worked his way through the ranks of Newark Public Schools as a sixth - grade teacher, math staff developer, technology coordinator and assistant principal.

Westendorf was sitting in on a sixth - grade math class, where a teacher was explaining the idea to her students.