Sentences with phrase «teacher assigned reading»

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Perhaps it was a high - school English teacher, a woman who assigned her class Shakespeare plays to read and discuss for an entire year.

When I was in first grade, teachers assigned students to reading groups based on how well they could read.

The teacher, when his turn came, would turn in the scroll to the text He had been assigned, would stand up and read the text, then sit down and explain the text.

To some degree, teachers base this on observation, but few children will be assigned a reading level or to a reading program without a more formal assessment of their skills.

With our Google Classroom Integration, teachers can assign students to read the Scientific Method resource (or teach this independently in class) and then assign a supplemental quiz to help assess student learning.

«Homework» is assigned to help you apply what you have read to your life, and is commented on by the teachers who supervise and support all student process work.

The teacher, Barbara Perry, asked if everyone had finished reading the assigned novel, Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones.

Teachers assign or students choose articles by topic, reading standard, or lexile level.

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.

As a teacher, I very rarely assigned writing assignments that no one else but myself read.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

By way of comparison, the authors note that the impact of being assigned to a teacher in the top - quartile rather than one in the bottom quartile in terms of their total effect on student achievement as measured by student - test - based measures of teacher effectiveness is seven percentile points in reading and six points in math.

Five elementary schools (63 teachers and 1,192 students in grades 2 - 5) were randomly assigned to differentiated or whole - group classroom instruction in reading.

The early reading study randomly assigned teachers to two different PD programs and a control group.

Teachers who knew their students would attend the play were almost twice as likely to assign students to read or watch movies to prepare for the theater field trip.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

• The Common Core asks teachers to assign texts that provide language complexity appropriate to the grade level, but significant proportions of teachers — particularly in the elementary grades — are still assigning texts based on students» present reading prowess.

Shortly after I began teaching as a provisionally certified elementary - school teacher, I remember counting myself lucky that I was assigned to teach 5th grade, since I hadn't been taught the first thing about teaching children to read.

Accelerated Reader is a unique reading achievement program which students do not use but which teachers use to assess student progress and assign curriculum that is appropriate to the students» level.

In this study, 72 secondary English teachers from the Santa Ana Unified School District were randomly assigned to participate in the Pathway Project, a cognitive strategies approach to teaching interpretive reading and analytical writing, or to a control condition involving typical district training focusing on teaching content from the textbook.

In this study, 27 high - poverty elementary schools (75 — 100 % eligibility for free or reduced - price lunch) were matched by prior reading achievement and poverty level and randomly assigned to one of two implementation conditions: a core treatment condition that directly replicated implementation procedures used in previous experiments, or a core treatment with structured teacher adaptations condition.

Once classes are in place, teachers assign students to one of a number of groups of 10 - 14 for each of the four core subject areas: reading, writing, math and science.

For instance, the standards are clear that elementary - school teachers should assign texts that match a student's grade level, rather than their current reading level.

According to Kohn, teachers should only assign homework when they can justify that the assignments are «beneficial» (2006a, p. 166)-- ideally involving students in activities appropriate for the home, such as performing an experiment in the kitchen, cooking, doing crossword puzzles with the family, watching good TV shows, or reading.

The real battles will come when stories surface of teachers assigning controversial texts as required readings.

Senior leaders assign teachers to grade levels, give them textbooks and curricula, buy and set up their technology, lay out their schedules, create disciplinary policies they need to follow, and choose programs for how they will work with students learning English, and students with disabilities, and students with reading difficulties, and students who are homeless.

The result is often that teachers provide limited feedback, read student work sporadically, or (most commonly) assign less writing than might be ideal.

The cumulative effect of being assigned to an own - race teacher for four consecutive years is roughly 9 percentile points in math and 8 points in reading (see Figure 3).

Teachers in social studies, science and math should require more reading, which would allow English teachers to continue to assign literature, Teachers in social studies, science and math should require more reading, which would allow English teachers to continue to assign literature, teachers to continue to assign literature, he said.

Blogging was one of the composition practices teachers were asked to try during the graduate course to respond to assigned readings, much like Tara had her students do with their assigned reading.

Instead of assigning the same dry textbook readings, teachers can link to trending web articles that are more digestible.

I've met plenty of teachers who get offended when a student reads ahead and comes in with material that supplements the curriculum but wasn't assigned.

For years, teachers have been encouraged to assign students «just - right» books at their reading level, so that they're challenged but not frustrated.

Students are frequently assigned responsibility for their own learning activities; for example, teachers assign students to read a chapter in their textbook and answer the questions at the end.

If the student learning growth in a course is not measured by a statewide assessment but is measured by a school district assessment, a school district may request, through the evaluation system approval process, that the performance evaluation for the classroom teacher assigned to that course include the learning growth of his or her students on FCAT Reading or FCAT Mathematics.

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The university educators assigned teachers to read articles about greenhouse gases before participating in the activities.

Building upon the work of Juan Carlos Castro (2012), as well as Sarah Mathews and Erin Adams (2016), photomissions prompt teacher candidates to read an assigned text and then take a photograph of a concept they identified from the reading.

I looked for the ways that teacher candidates connected elements of their assigned readings to objects, entities, or scenes they encountered and photographed.

Both parents and students complained of classes where teachers lecture, assign worksheets, or require students to read outdated textbooks.

I agree with you that good teachers recognize the value of phonemic awareness and phonological awareness, but if the curriculum they are assigned doesn't include it adequately and they didn't receive proper training on the essentials of reading instruction, it's left to them to make up curriculum out of whole cloth.

Teachers should assign collaborative and cooperative reading and writing assignments to honor the social needs of early adolescence.

Kirchner and other English teachers say they are assigning multiple readings on similar themes so students will be prepared to make connections between different passages on the PARCC exams.

Because each classroom represents a wide range of reading abilities, teachers can assign students to unique learning tracks that are tailored to provide the level of support each student needs.

I am a special education English teacher and although we are not licensed to diagnose a certain behavior or disability, I know that when a child acts up in my class, it is because he / she can not read the passage I had just assigned (also by reviewing and following their IEPs).

All information in a student's Journal, including text and citations from books they have read along with their own notes, is available when they access the Graphic Organizers and Essay Writer within teacher - assigned projects.

Some of the school's best students were given Cs by teachers at a loss for how to grade students who haven't been assigned reading or papers or tests.

The Cloze procedure can help them determine what passages to assign students, how long to give them to read specific passages, and how much they can expect students to comprehend on their own without additional input from the teacher.

Teachers assign writing topics based on personal tastes, timely events, or in response to texts student have read.

Eighth grade teachers can import word study lists to assign interactive games and activities to students that will provide practice with words students need to know to increase reading comprehension and to help close the vocabulary gaps.