Sentences with phrase «taught elementary school with»

A member of the 2006 Teach For America corps in Memphis, Michael taught elementary school with Memphis City Schools before being selected for the Building Excellent Schools Fellowship, nationally recognized for its rigorous, year - long training program in school leadership.

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The Supreme Court interposed unsupported conclusions about the teachers in elementary and secondary parochial schools and concluded that the difficulties involved in avoiding the teaching of religion along with secular subjects would pose intolerable risks.

For four years I taught Spanish in an elementary school, and I taught a cooking class with the children — we made empanadas!

This annual fundraiser benefits Veggie U < http://www.veggieu.org >, a non-profit children's education program that teaches the importance of nutrition and sustainable agriculture by providing interactive lesson plans with a classroom garden kit to elementary schools and special needs students.

Debra specializes in teaching reading and writing to elementary school children who are learning disabled, on the autism spectrum, have attention deficit disorders, dyslexia, and who are «twice exceptional» (gifted with learning differences).

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With 40 years of experience in public and private early childhood and elementary education, Betsy has directed and founded school programs, taught in both public and private schools, has been a school director and was the founding director of Wilshire Boulevard Temple's Early Childhood Center.

Some elementary schools are teaching young kids, particularly those with behavior problems, how to meditate.

This semester I am an intern at Glen Iris Elementary school through UABTeach and Teaching Farm where I assist with a farming and culinary after school care club with elementary aged students.

She taught elementary school for seven years and earned a master's of education degree with a specialization in literacy.

With more than a decade of experience as elementary school teacher and parent educator, Amanda Morin has discovered that teaching is more than just lesson plans, it's an interactive process that involves parents, teachers and students working together to create a base of knowledge.

In partnership with the Museum Institute for Teaching Science (MITS) and other museums and nature centers, Mass Audubon wildlife sanctuaries in four regions are offering graduate level courses for upper elementary, middle school, and high school educators.

In partnership with the Museum Institute for Teaching Science (MITS) and other institutions, Mass Audubon may offer teacher workshops at different times of year for elementary, middle, and high school educators.

This 4 1/2 minute slide show teaches elementary school age children without food allergies why kids with food allergies need to do things a bit differently.

With over 40 years of experience in public and private early childhood and elementary education, Betsy has directed and founded school programs, taught in both public and private schools, has been a school director, and was the founding director of Wilshire Boulevard Temple's Early Childhood Center.

«Nutrition should be taught in the elementary grades and we should be following up with lunches that reflect sound nutrition,» says Claudie Phillips, assistant director of food service for Chicago Public Schools.

Focuses on the energy change and logistics of having a child in elementary school, and includes creating and teaching your child to manage their own routines, dealing with the wider exposure to other kids and families, talking about difficult topics, and just managing all the paper, meetings, and stuff elementary school brings.

For more than 14 years she has worked as a recreation and skill development leader, an early childhood educator and a teaching assistant, working in elementary schools and with special needs children between 4 and 11 years of age.

Students in elementary schools with low student proficiency rates were more than three times as likely to be taught by a U-rated teacher as students in schools with high proficiency rates.

I had been teaching and promoting science education efforts for more than 10 years, through interactions with underrepresented minority students from elementary school to postdoctoral levels, with the assistance and mentorship of caring people who extended countless opportunities to me throughout my career.

Well I'm a student in school trying to accomplish my BA in elementary education... and I work as a teacher at a daycare.I also teach at my church nursery... I have my own place and car... I like to chill... hang with my girls... shop... go out to bar....

The virus centralizes in the town's elementary school, and quickly the infected students have the teaching staff under siege, acting out deadly revenge fantasies with an eerie sense of childlike glee.

Join noted researcher and former elementary school teacher P. David Pearson as he takes us on a personal and professional tour of his career's work: exploring changes in how we think about, teach, and assess reading comprehension, with a special emphasis on its role in the Common Core State Standards.

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.

This leaves teachers with the difficult task of teaching this complex skill to elementary school children.

His comment was based on a pioneering study by Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff, published in this issue (see «Great Teaching,» Research), which for the first time combines tax data that reveal earnings at age 28 with information on student learning when that person was in elementary school.

Principal Sandy Pommerening added to that list — provide future teachers with the skills to teach students how to study and provide future high school teachers with more elementary - level teaching skills.

Before coming to Butler University, Lori was an Assistant Professor at Marian University in Indianapolis and earlier on taught children and adolescents with emotional challenges in the upper elementary grades, worked as a school counselor in Indianapolis, was a private practice counselor and co-owner of the Indianapolis Counseling Center, and was a behavioral consultant for Methodist Hospital, in Indianapolis on the adolescent psychiatric unit.

In the fall, for example, New York City's public schools — «the country's largest school district, with 1.1 million students — encouraged teaching cursive to elementary school students.»

Develop rhythms and routines that support the sharing of stories: Prior to working with high school students, I taught elementary and middle school students in schools where each day began with morning meeting.

In a draft of a program announcement, the nsf says it will provide some $ 5 million this year to fund three to six major projects that develop programs or materials for teaching math to elementary - school students, with an emphasis on using calculators and computers.

During my time with AmeriCorps, I made contacts that eventually enabled me to find a teaching position in an elementary school in Washington Heights, Manhattan.

Not only had she taught this woman, but also she had just endorsed graduation certification for 1,000 other elementary school teachers and knew that none of the graduates were equipped with the skills needed to help kids, like her son, who struggled with learning disabilities.

In 2003 - 04, for example, 27 percent of schools with a math teaching vacancy reported that filling that vacancy was «very difficult» or ultimately unsuccessful, as compared with just four percent of schools with vacancies in elementary classrooms (see Figure 1).

Miami - Dade superintendent Alberto Carvalho wants to stop teaching 30 minutes of Spanish a day in elementary school — nobody learns much — and offer a rigorous, intensive dual - immersion program for students with grade - level skills.

They soon began leading workshops in other schools and cities, eventually developing what became YPP, with high school and college students teaching middle and elementary students in afterschool and summer programs.

We learn of a pleasant childhood in Toledo, Ohio, college days at Cornell, training with Teach For America, three grueling but successful years in a Baltimore elementary school, leadership of The New Teacher Project, and testimony at an arbitration hearing where the New York Department of Education squared off against Randi Weingarten and the United Federation of Teachers («She was dazzling,» former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein tells Whitmire).

One assignment popular with a number of elementary school instructors helps teach children about their neighborhood by assigning them to interview people who live near them.

With homework and study strategies differentiated to meet individual learning styles, elementary and middle school students are empowered to teach themselves.

She is the author of more than 30 books, each packed with simple hands - on experiments for «teaching» science concepts to elementary and middle school students.

With 20 years of experience, Clare Forseth, a 5th - and 6th - grade mathematics teacher at Marion Cross School in Norwich, Vt., could be expected to be fairly certain about how she teaches math to upper - elementary students.

The program provides elementary school teachers with targeted math resources, filling a critical gap for effective teaching strategies that help students improve their proficiency in math, as well as ongoing support.

In a study I undertook in 1989, I found that 12 percent of the elementary and middle school magnet programs in my sample specialized in basic skills and / or individualized teaching; 11 percent offered foreign language immersion; 11 percent were science -, math -, or computer - oriented; 10 percent catered to the gifted and talented and 10 percent to the creative and performing arts; 8 percent were traditional, back - to - basics programs (demanding, for instance, dress codes and contracts with parents for supervision of homework); 7 percent were college preparatory; 7 percent were early childhood and Montessori.

For the 17 students at St. Johnsbury, as well as other elementary school and middle school students across the nation whose teachers have been deployed to the Middle East, someone has left who not only taught them but also bonded with them.

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.

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.»

I am retired after teaching over 30 years of special education, mainly with elementary and high school cognitive disabilities and autism, and transition.

With Playworks TeamUp, Playworks partners with elementary schools by providing a part - time on - site coordinator to teach, model, and empower a sustainable recess progWith Playworks TeamUp, Playworks partners with elementary schools by providing a part - time on - site coordinator to teach, model, and empower a sustainable recess progwith elementary schools by providing a part - time on - site coordinator to teach, model, and empower a sustainable recess program.

The Council's eighteen members from academia, industry, and policy assessed current practices in early education and elementary school teaching and have designed a professional development «blueprint» to advance the use of effective digital media in teaching and learning, with a special emphasis on instruction for underserved students.

In urban schools learning is offered in disconnected jolts.The work of the day is unconnected with the work of preceding days or subsequent ones.Life in urban schools is comprised of specific periods and discrete days each of which is forced to stand entirely on its own.If homework is not done, or books not taken home (behaviors which are universal for males and almost so for females by the completion of the upper elementary grades), everything students are taught must be compressed into isolated periods of «stand alone» days.Teachers and principals, as well as students, survive one day at a time.