Sentences with phrase «studies teachers grade»

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When the members of the school board of Dover, Pennsylvania, a small community near Harrisburg, required students to read a short statement concerning intelligent design before studying ninth - grade biology, they met stiff resistance from some parents and teachers.

Between Fleck's four years as a wide receiver at Northern Illinois and his two seasons playing for the 49ers, he spent a few weeks as a sixth - grade social studies teacher in DeKalb, Ill..

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

Our community includes Green Meadow Waldorf School (400 students, grades K - 12), the Pfeiffer Center (environmental education, biodynamic agriculture, and organic beekeeping), Eurythmy Spring Valley (movement art), Sunbridge Institute (Waldorf teacher education and adult anthroposophical studies), the Otto Specht School (Waldorf education for children with learning differences), the Fiber Craft Studio (healing senses and soul through work with plants and natural fibers), the Fellowship Community (home for the aged), and the Hungry Hollow Co-op Natural Foods Market.

The consequence she will get from you is that you will make sure she sets aside time every evening to study, you will be in touch with her teachers more, and you will monitor her homework more thoroughly until she brings her grade up.

Señora Pasion, our Spanish teacher, begins working with our rising first grade students towards the end of their kindergarten year (at age 5 or 6), and Spanish studies continue until they graduate from our middle school.

Rich Napolitano, a high school social studies teacher in Suffolk County whose children are in kindergarten and first grade, said unions» fight on behalf of teachers indirectly benefits children.

Also at 10 a.m., Regent Roger Tilles will visit the classroom of fifth grade teacher Kate Hunter, National Council for the Social Studies Outstanding Elementary Social Studies Teacher of the Year, during his visit to the Three Village Central School Diteacher Kate Hunter, National Council for the Social Studies Outstanding Elementary Social Studies Teacher of the Year, during his visit to the Three Village Central School DiTeacher of the Year, during his visit to the Three Village Central School District.

«The results demonstrate that part of teacher improvement is due to specific knowledge and skills regarding a particular grade,» says study author Ben Ost, UIC assistant professor of economics.

Similar studies had found that teachers generally improve with experience, but none had investigated whether improvement depended on what grade the teacher taught, Ost said.

In a Michigan State study, students who were given a rationale for why learning is important from their peers got much better final grades than students who were given the same rationale from the teacher.

To conduct the study — the second in a series — the researchers observed and interviewed 30 fifth - through eighth - grade teachers in public and private schools in New York.

Researchers used surveys of mothers and children, home visits and interviews with fifth grade teachers to complete the study.

With good grades and an inspirational teacher, whom he credits for his early love for chemistry, Richards was able to study that subject — and also math and economics — at A-level.

Ademar Hernandez, a third - grade teacher at the kickoff, said the timing for the program was ideal as his students had just begun to study ecosystem science.

According to the company's Web site, Airborne was created by second - grade teacher, Victoria Knight - McDowell, who «studied the benefits herbal therapies used in Eastern Medicine.»

When grade seven social studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey) challenges his class to think of a way to change the world and put it into action, Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) takes the assignment to heart more than any prior student.

Two other studies — one involving 79 pairs of teachers in Los Angeles (which I wrote with Douglas Staiger) and the Measures of Effective Teaching study involving 1,591 teachers in six different school districts (which I wrote with Dan McCaffrey, Trey Miller and Douglas Staiger)-- randomly assigned teachers to different groups of students within a grade and subject in a school.

The study found that specialist primary teachers are six per cent less effective than their non-specialist colleagues, with data showing pupils who were taught by subject specialists saw a drop in their grades.

The United Federation of Teachers Elementary Charter School has declined to participate in the study so far, but it does not yet have any students in test - taking grades.

But there is room for improvement on its standards, which have not been rated by the American Federation of Teachers as clear, specific, and grounded in content for English above the elementary level or for social studies at any grade span.

This study, conducted with fifth grade students, shows that when teachers use personal praise (for their intelligence), it tends to put students in a fixed mindset, whereas using process praise (for their effort or procedure) tends to foster a growth mindset.

Published last week in the journal Teachers College Record, the groundbreaking study is based on a nationally representative sample of 553 students in 1st through 5th grades.

In our study, we randomly assigned second - grade teachers in high - poverty schools that had low performance on state tests to two groups.

Guest blogger Ross Cooper, a fourth grade teacher with a creative approach to literature study, gets his students into the authors» heads by having them imagine an interview and then construct it via app smashing.

I have seen teachers in higher elementary grades and middle school special ed classrooms adapt the material to their age group and course of study.

Guest blogger Ross Flatt, a sixth grade teacher at Quest to Learn, demonstrates how studying geography with Galactic Mappers can be a viable strategy for embedding assessment in a classroom game.

Brian Hendrickson, a sixth - grade social studies teacher at Hillcrest Middle School, in Trumbull, Connecticut, polled his students to find out how they feel their male teachers differed from their female teachers.

Under this grant, Dr. Alisa Kesler Lund and I studied how fifth grade teachers use lesson study in history and social studies.

The study used a school - level, randomized, experimental design involving 113 teachers and 1,371 ninth - and 10th - grade students in 60 high schools from eight metropolitan regions in the United States.

And after learning that this year marked Hood River County School District's 150 - year anniversary, Sarah Segal, a HRMS sixth - grade literacy, social studies, science, and language arts teacher, created a museum studies enrichment class to celebrate their local history.

Although 43 states are employing strategies that encourage elementary teachers to teach higher - order thinking skills, few have developed comprehensive policies for reforming the curriculum to include such skills in the early grades, a study by a federally sponsored research center shows.

Cooper, a fourth grade teacher with a creative approach to literature study, gets his students into the authors» heads by having them imagine an interview and then construct it collaboratively via app smashing.

And they attend classes with an array of teachers who have differing notions of where they should sit, how often they should study, and what grade they deserve.

As a staff, we have studied the standards at each grade level to ensure that teachers are familiar not only with their particular grade level, but with vertical expectations as well.

In a quasi-experimental study in nine Title I schools, principals and teacher leaders used explicit protocols for leading grade - level learning teams, resulting in students outperforming their peers in six matched schools on standardized achievement tests (Gallimore, Ermeling, Saunders, and Goldenberg, 2009).

A recent study compared the videotaped teaching styles of 81 eighth - grade math teachers in the U.S. with those of teachers in Germany and Japan.

Throughout the year, teachers in grades 6 - 12 can join Academy scientists at either the Pepperwood Preserve, an hour or so away in Santa Rosa, or Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, about the same distance from the Academy, for a day of field - based study.

According to recent studies, between kindergarten and 12th grade, the average student will spend, cumulatively, at least one full year of classroom time with a substitute teacher.

Encouraged by their teacher, the first - grade students started writing me letters of appreciation or with questions linked to their studies.

This week, Education World offers three teaching masters for teachers across the grades to use to help students brush up on their study skills — using a search engine, using an index, looking for key words, skimming text for information, and more — while they learn interesting facts about the world around them!

Hangouts can be a great way for teachers to facilitate a book study across grade levels, schools and even districts.

The role of leader at the elementary school and middle school levels could be assigned to a teacher at each grade level for reading, writing, social studies, and so on.

New York State's education department is studying a proposal that would bring children to school at age 4 and gradually phase out the 12th grade — a plan that officials say would adjust the schools to modern demands as well as address teacher shortages.

Eve Heaton, a fourth - grade teacher at Mossy Oaks Elementary School, in Beaufort, South Carolina, works lessons on coral reefs into other subjects, such as art and writing, because not all of her science standards fit within ocean studies.

Last year I worked with a sixth grade Eastern Civilization social studies teacher while her students were studying the Philippines.

And there's another benefit, according to Steve Graham, an education professor who has studied writing instruction for three decades: When «teachers rate multiple versions of the same paper differing only in terms of legibility, they assign higher grades to neatly written versions of the paper.»

She's currently conducting a study sponsored by the National Science Foundation that's giving teachers in grades four and five in a suburban Boston school the tools to conduct self - evaluations through online videos that model effective math instruction.

In the study the advocacy group moved from our nation's ongoing discussion of grade inflation at our colleges and universities to a specific look at grade inflation at our teachers» colleges.

The lottery study corroborates these results, as students admitted to the G&T magnet schools show little improvement in test scores by 7th grade, despite having higher - achieving peers and being taught by more effective teachers.