Sentences with phrase «spent teaching grades»
LOVING LITERACY with Ann - Maree Thompson: Ann - Maree has taught in elementary schools for over 17 years, many of which have been spent teaching grades 1 and 2 in both urban and rural locations.
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«Most teachers do not teach tested subjects and the state must now spend many millions of dollars to test teachers of the arts, early elementary grades, physical education, and high school subjects,» she said.
I spend «down» time reading papers, chatting science with my lab mates or advisor, or getting other work done (at the beginning of my graduate career, this was class assignments or grading for my teaching assignments... lately, it's writing!).
I spent a year teaching fifth grade, two years in second grade and am now in my 9th year in Kindergarten.
A day spent split between assignments in an elementary school gave me the chance to teach two fourth grade classes, observe some quality teaching, and work with students individually.
Some years were spent teaching 5th grade, others it was 4th, and for a time I was even in a 1st -, 2nd -, and 3rd - grade multiage classroom.
It described a 4th - grade class in Ossining, New York, that used a constructivist approach to teaching math and spent one entire class period circling the even numbers on a sheet containing the numbers 1 to 100.
Full - time teachers in grades P - 12 who spend 50 percent or more of their time in a classroom or in classroom - like settings, work in select areas, and have three years of teaching experience.
Brendan Dotson learned about Urban Scholars Program while teach eighth - grade language arts and reading in SeaTac, Wash. «I was interested in the opportunity to spend time with educators who had been doing amazing work in urban schools all over the country,» he says.
Ask Dr. ShoreAbout Teaching Organization I teach fifth grade and often find myself spending more time helping my students get organized than teaching academicTeaching Organization I teach fifth grade and often find myself spending more time helping my students get organized than teaching academicteaching academic skills.
In a routine day, a terrific 4th - grade reading teacher might give lessons in reading for just one hour, while spending another five hours teaching other subjects in which she is less effective, filling out paperwork, and so on.
It's Not Easy Being Tween taps into the knowledge and experience of Cheryl Mizerny, a 20 + year veteran who has spent most of her career in middle level classrooms and now teaches sixth grade English Language Arts.
In my recent paper, «Teaching in the Machine Age,» I argue that technology, if used properly, can take on some aspects of planning, grading, and instruction, thereby freeing up teachers to spend more of the their time on high - impact activities.
Prior to moving to the virtual classroom, she spent 8 years in the traditional classroom teaching Spanish at all grade levels.
in Secondary Education at Arizona State University and then went on to spend four years teaching fifth & sixth grade life skills at Arizona School for the Arts.
She spent last year teaching 3rd grade reading classes and Special Education at Achievement First Charter School in New Haven, CT..
During her time as an undergraduate, she spent one summer teaching 8th grade writing as a teaching fellow through Breakthrough Greater Boston.
She has spent the last two years working in a 4th and 5th grade special education inclusion setting at Letourneau Elementary in Fall River, Massachusetts through Teach For America.
Following that, she spent six years teaching Special Education for K1 - 3rd grade in Washington, DC, and one year in Boston.
She taught seventh and eighth grade for two years at the Hillbrook School in Los Gatos, CA and then spent a year teaching sixth and seventh grade Social Studies at the Brandeis Hillel Day School in San Francisco.
Spend less time grading and more time teaching with autograding.
When I taught the 2nd grade, we always spent a lot of time learning about synonyms.
He's also spent time as a Teach for America teacher (3rd grade in Washington, D.C.); a nonprofit fundraiser, marketer, and lobbyist with College Summit; a summer consultant in FSG's youth and education practice; and in social marketing with PR firm Porter Novelli.
Following her graduation with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, she spent six years teaching the subject to various grades in both charter and private schools.
In the words of a 5th grade teacher who had spent four years teaching in nearby Fairfax County, Virginia, and who had received high marks on her evaluations there, «Holy Moley!
«Many times precious time is spent on teaching the fundamentals of learning, from holding a pencil correctly to learning basic personal hygiene, yet we find a way to still teach the grade - appropriate standards and benchmarks,» she wrote.
She spent two years teaching middle school special education, then spent the majority of her years teaching middle school math in a regular education classroom grades 6 - 8.
She spent the first 14 years in public education teaching K - 1st grade and then became the director of Grand Central Kids Preschool where she is currently in the 7th year of her DREAM JOB!
North Carolina public school leaders say a legislative mandate to decrease class sizes in the early grades may have a devastating impact on school systems across the state, forcing districts to spend millions more hiring teachers or cut scores of positions for those teaching «specialty» subjects such as arts, music and physical education.
A single textbook is no substitute for a district plan that encourages the use of a combination of resources and provides teachers guidance on the order in which standards should be taught, how much time should be spent on them and how they fit in the larger context of the grade - to - grade buildup of knowledge.
The report card gives high grades to states for embracing policies that help make their public schools vibrant and strong — a well - trained, professional teaching force, adequate and equitable funding wisely spent, and social conditions that give all students a better opportunity for educational success.
Instead of spending 33 percent of their time on administrative tasks such as grading assignments and reviewing what was already taught, survey respondents wished they had time to use technology to focus on helping struggling students, be creative with lesson development, and tailor lessons to students.
The last time I taught fifth grade was in 2004, and I am so incredibly excited about spending an entire school year with my own group of young learners again.
Decoding experts suggest that for most children, about 30 minutes per day is necessary to teach decoding in grades 1 and 2 (more and with greater intensity for struggling students).23 Where schools spend 90 — 120 minutes per day on reading throughout the elementary grades, that leaves at least an hour per day that could be devoted to imparting the language and world knowledge that is most important for competence in listening, talking, reading, and writing.
She has spent the last three years teaching fifth and sixth grade English Language Arts and has served as the English Language Learners Teacher at a small charter school in south Nashville.
In the end, her heart called her back to Bolivia where she spent three years teaching 6th grade and coordinating ESL at the American International School of Bolivia.
Prior to her time in Vail, she spent 12 years teaching for Sierra Vista Unified School District in 2nd and 4th grade.
It is my opinion after spending about 40 years teaching elementary school (K — 5th grade in rural, urban, and suburban schools) that standardized testing is a waste of time and resources for many reasons, one of which is that they do not test what you want to know about a child.
Becky has spent the last three years of her career teaching grades 4 and 5 at Esmond Station K - 8 in the Vail School District.
She currently teaches 9th grade English at Carl Hayden Community High School in the Phoenix Union High School District, and she spent the previous eight years teaching middle school language arts at Mountain View School in the Washington Elementary School District.
Her student teaching experience took place at Explorer Elementary School where she spent time teaching 2nd and 4th grade.
She began her teaching career 30 years ago, however, her early years in the USA were spent coaching field hockey, dance team, and track while teaching part time in the elementary grades.
She spent two years teaching students from grades Transitional Kindergarten through Fifth Grade in Southeast San Diego, while earning her Multiple Subjects Elementary Teaching Credential through the High Tech Graduate School of Edteaching students from grades Transitional Kindergarten through Fifth Grade in Southeast San Diego, while earning her Multiple Subjects Elementary Teaching Credential through the High Tech Graduate School of EdTeaching Credential through the High Tech Graduate School of Education.
Changes to the application of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), impacting every student in grades three through eight, is as part of a broader effort to help districts spend less time testing students and more time teaching.
Nine of these were spent at St. Andrew's where she has taught pre-k, kindergarten and first grade.
Lori White has spent her entire career in Knox — four years working with emotionally disturbed students, eight teaching the third grade.
During her senior year, she spent time student teaching in both 1st and 4th grade classrooms.
An Early Childhood graduate from Ohio University, Kelly Stedman, on a whim, moved to Florida to pursue a teaching career in Fort Myers and spent the first few years of her career in Title 1 schools as a math and writing teacher in grades 3 through 5.
Brianne had previously spent the last three years teaching 3rd grade in Houston, Texas.
Similarly, classrooms typically contain some students who can demonstrate mastery of grade - level skills and material to be understood before the school year begins — or who could do so in a fraction of the time we would spend «teaching» them.