Sentences with phrase «still teach the grade»

«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.

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She will teach there for 23 years while her own children move on through older Sunday school, on through grade school and high school and college, marriages and divorces and bankruptcies, through all kinds of things — she will be here still, teaching the youngest children «Jesus Loves Me» while their parents attend early service.

Perhaps most interestingly, over 64 % of former RET participants still teach the curriculum unit they developed at the CSNE, which given that teachers may change grade levels, class subjects and school districts, demonstrates an ongoing interest in neural engineering and the long - term value of this curricula.

The John Morse school, which was named in an ongoing lawsuit against the district alleging that religion was taught in the classroom, still boasts wait lists for every grade level.

I was still teaching ninth grade English and had just accepted a job teaching technology to K - 5.

«You can have a great education and still find yourself in a foreclosed - upon home or with a mountain of credit card debt,» says Jennifer Saporito, who sees the need as particularly great in the central Los Angeles neighborhood where she teaches sixth grade.

Kelley recently retired from her fourth grade classroom in Westminster, Colorado, after 28 years of teaching, although she still substitute teaches about two days each week.

I still hold California credentials for elementary grade teaching and secondary mathematics and history.

«I used to teach third grade, so I know the stresses of having tests and materials to cover but still wanting to get kids outdoors for these experiences.»

I was watching Weekend Today and the topic was ~ «Is cursive writing something we should still be teaching in school?When I first starting teaching 6th grade ~ back in the days of being self - contained ~ I remember planning for 15 minutes of cursive penmanship instruction.

We know, for example, that our youngest could perform better in mathematics, but the way we teach it in the first grades is still unsatisfactory.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

Herein lies the conundrum for educators in low - performing schools across the nation: If a student arrives in fifth grade reading like a first grader and makes three years» worth of growth, he still will not pass a grade - level state test despite major progress and clearly effective teaching.

They went down because Common Core is dumbed down math, and NAEP still includes test items based on what we expected kids to be taught by / in grade 4 only 10 years ago.

In the older grades, many teachers taught a hybrid of Common Core and the state's old standards, since Mississippi's students were still tested on them through last spring.

But here's why I'm worried about leaving out the link between those subjects and reading comprehension: Even if we got rid of high - stakes reading tests tomorrow (which is unlikely to happen), people would still place a huge emphasis on teaching kids to read, especially in the early grades.

If you teach inner city kids who are two levels below grade level when they walk in the door, and after you teach them they are now only one level below grade level, but they still take the grade level test, which indicator do you use?

Although I teach upper grades, I still point out, talk about, play with and apply everything here.

It's an adventure set in ninth - century Mayan Guatemala, and because many schools teach the Maya in fourth grade, it's still in print and I get a nice royalty check twice a year.

Even if you are qualified to teach every grade in school, it's still ideal to target a grade level or range of grade levels.

She taught me to sew when I was in 6th grade and I was teaching sewing when I was still in middle school and high school!