Hands - On lessons to help teach 5th grade
students about place value and more.
Four snapshots of interviews with elementary
students about place value, missing addends, interpreting remainders, and adding fractions uncover important information about student misunderstandings that written work, on its own, could never have supplied.
Not exact matches
The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home
values, and they educate
about the same number of
students in public schools, which in both
places have a good reputation.
On Tuesday evening, I heard first hand from a group of marketing
students about the
value they
place on corporate responsibility when deciding where to work.
Two
students independently mark up what they
value and then a facilitator helps them to trade sheets and recognize the
places where they actually agree on the «big stuff,» which helps guide resolution
about the small things.
They have been asking critical questions
about core
values in
place, curriculum, professional development,
student voice and culture, governance, finances and leadership.
Students learn
about even and odd numbers and use this information along with their knowledge of
place value and greater than / less than to sort numbers in a Carroll diagram.
The self - efficacy was the second theme and
students spoke so positively
about the high
value they
place on prac and the capacity for them to build relationships with
students and also to see a glimpse of their own future and what it's going to be like to be a drama teacher in schools, seeing the difference that their teaching had on individual
students.
While Kraft and Gilmour assert that «systems that
place greater weight on normative measures such as
value - added scores rather than... [just]... observations have fewer teachers rated proficient» (p. 19; see also Steinberg & Kraft, forthcoming; a related article
about how this has occurred in New Mexico here; and New Mexico's 2014 - 2016 data below and here, as also illustrative of the desired normal curve distributions discussed above), I highly doubt this purely reflects New Mexico's «commitment to putting
students first.»
1st grade
students will learn
place value, counting, data, 2 - D shapes, 3 - D shapes, and more while engaged in reading
about fascinating people,
places, and careers.
When
students explain their reasoning
about how they use models and drawings
about place value and how they are using the associative and commutative properties to manipulate their models and drawing, it is an example of Standard for Mathematical Practices 1 and 3.
Strikingly,
about 6 percent of teachers who are
placed in the top quintile in reading by the
value - added model with
student covariates are
placed in the bottom quintile by the
value - added model that makes within - school comparisons, and vice versa.
And whoever is looking at the problem is supposed to see that the
student was confused
about place value,» said McCallum.
In its genuine collapsing of the art - life divide and its affirmation of the
value of bringing art into unlikely
places, the piece reminds me of what I've admired
about The Art Guys since, as an art
student in Boston in the mid-1990s, I picked up their Contemporary Arts Museum Houston catalog and thought, «There are artists in Houston?»
«The thing that's so powerful
about students is that, when you haven't had your idealism broken yet,» Murray wrote, «you're able to speak from a
place that has no confusion, where there is a clear set of
values.»
«The thing that's so powerful
about students is that, when you haven't had your idealism broken yet, you're able to speak from a
place that has no confusion, where there is a clear set of
values,» he says, though he believes that idealism survives in everybody's conscience.