Sentences with phrase «studies teachers in grades»

For the 2015 - 16 school year, Schoology will be used primarily by social studies teachers in grades 7 - 12.

In summer 2017, LFHS math, science, English and social studies teachers in grades 6 — 12 attended four days of training to empower them to raise academic expectations in the school and support students to achieve at higher levels.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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

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.

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.

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, 2009In 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, 2009in 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, 2009in students outperforming their peers in six matched schools on standardized achievement tests (Gallimore, Ermeling, Saunders, and Goldenberg, 2009in 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.

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.

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.

«My favorite gadget would have to be Wordle,» said Cossondra George, a 7th grade math and social studies teacher in Newberry, Michigan.

As a social studies teacher, he had seventh and eighth grade students in a «looped» class in which he taught the same students for both years.

Working with HGSE students, she has developed case studies focusing on particular dilemmas of justice in schools and school districts like ethics of grade inflation, eighth - grade promotion and retention policies, lottery - based school assignment, disciplining socially fragile children, and teacher firings.

He has also led experimental studies of several widely used teacher professional development interventions for improving reading and writing outcomes in the elementary and secondary grades, including the Pathway Project, Teacher Study Groups, and the Strategic Adolescent Reading Intervteacher professional development interventions for improving reading and writing outcomes in the elementary and secondary grades, including the Pathway Project, Teacher Study Groups, and the Strategic Adolescent Reading IntervTeacher Study Groups, and the Strategic Adolescent Reading Intervention.

The study from the Council of Chief State School Officers, in Washington, looks at data from a federal survey of 60,000 public school teachers conducted in the 1999 - 2000 school year to gauge how many teachers in grades 7 - 12 are highly qualified in the subjects they teach.

To pick one obvious example: A nationally representative survey published in 2012 found that K — 3 teachers spent just 16 — 19 minutes per day on social studies and science; grades 4 — 6 teachers spent just 21 — 24 minutes a day.

«Here's the story on historical fiction in my classroom: It illuminates time periods, helps me integrate the curriculum, and enriches social studies,» says Tarry Lindquist, a fifth - grade teacher on Mercer Island, Washington, who was recognized by the National Council for the Social Studies as National Elementary Teacher of thstudies,» says Tarry Lindquist, a fifth - grade teacher on Mercer Island, Washington, who was recognized by the National Council for the Social Studies as National Elementary Teacher of thteacher on Mercer Island, Washington, who was recognized by the National Council for the Social Studies as National Elementary Teacher of thStudies as National Elementary Teacher of thTeacher of the Year.

That keeps the class on pace when, say, one 4th - grade social - studies teacher can fill in for another, especially since they're likely to have drafted the lesson plan together.

Last year, Julia Jacobson, a fourth - grade teacher in the network (and a fellow HGSE alum), studied student teams and wrote a paper on methods of improving group work.

In the seventh grade, we are collaborating with my colleague Mary Ann Devine, a science teacher, who has dreamed up a unit involving the study of endothermic and exothermic reactions.

The interests ranged from kindergarten through grade 12, so some students were learning to become high school math teachers, some were working on middle school social studies, and some of us, like me, were learning about beginning reading in elementary school.

Students there study the New England region, which prompted the students parents to contact their old district in search of a third grade teacher willing to participate in a shared technology experience.

Pam Chandler, a sixth - grade English, reading, and social studies teacher at Sequoia Middle School in Redding, California, defines the roles her students take on in literature circles in this way:

Those first - through twelfth - grade teachers and administrators, who will be selected by a panel of educators in March 1998, will participate in three - week study visits as guests of the Japanese government.

In the third - grade social studies curriculum at Friends School of Baltimore, where I teach, what used to be a mundane, teacher - led unit on Native Americans is now a semester - long PBL unit.

Cambridge, MA — A new study finds that 8th grade students in the U.S. score higher on standardized tests in math and science when their teachers allocate greater amounts of class time to lecture - style presentations than to group problem - solving activities.

At JSIS, all teachers participate in weekly Wednesday meetings — which rotate through grade - level meetings, subject - specific meetings, classroom visits (called peer observations), and book - study discussions — and monthly PLC meetings.

Open to: Teachers in grades K - 12 in social studies More information: The Korea Society

Currently, Dillon is a post-doctoral fellow at Haskins Laboratories, a research institute in New Haven, Conn., that focuses on speech, language, and reading and biological basis, where she investigates the effects of a three - year study in which first - grade teachers were provided professional development seminars and in - class coaching in literacy instruction.

First - of - its - kind study measures college instructor quality Effective teachers boost grades and test scores, in both their own and subsequent courses