These questions should not about information readily available on the website (EX: calendar year, number of students or
teachers at a particular grade level).
Not exact matches
The report recommends narrowing the number of core ideas to be covered within a
particular course while emphasizing the cross-disciplinary nature of science, and it urges
teachers to integrate the principles that scientists follow in doing their work into every course,
at every
grade level.
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.
For instance, in addition to knowing how to compute, a
teacher may need to know why and how specific mathematical procedures work, how best to define a term for children
at a
particular grade level, or how to interpret, remediate, or prevent students» errors.
Many school systems have gotten the message that they need to be more data driven, and they are now awash in data - not just yearly student test scores, but figures on how different groups of students are doing in
particular subjects or
grade levels, how successful a school is
at attracting and retaining
teachers or closing the achievement gap among disadvantaged students, or how equitable funding is from school to school.
«A
teacher who had been teaching
at a
particular grade level for more than 5 years was positively and significantly associated with increased student achievement (effect size =.27)...
grade level experience was sizable compared to race (minority status effect size = -.33) and SES (economically disadvantaged effect size = -.08)....
The second objective involves a broad teaching / learning goal that is shared by the CLR community (e.g. all
teachers of mathematics
at the school), and that goes beyond any
particular topic or
grade level and may even be cross-disciplinary.