Sentences with phrase «teachers in each grade used»

To make this new system work, teachers in each grade used guidelines from the New York State curriculum and the Common Core standards to develop a detailed rubric of every skill a student needs to acquire before moving on to the next grade.

At least one teacher in every grade uses Star Custom to create five - to ten - question Common Formative Assessments that they share with other classes.»

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, an educational gaming platform used by 50 million monthly users in grades K - 12, includes in its new report responses from 580 US teachers, primarily from public schools, who answered questions about technology in their classrooms.

Says teacher Nancy Bonne: «The system makes efficient use of space and resources, and it has solved the shortage of teaching staff, since formerly each church had to recruit teachers for every grade level, even with only three or four in a group.

He called you by your last name (a practice I use to this day), he had a way of instilling fear into kids who would goof - off and cause distractions in other classes (a practice I was very much unable to duplicate during my one - year stint as an 8th - grade English teacher), and you had to run the gauntlet of sentence - diagramming grammar, which advanced to a pretty complex level, before the more «cool - teacher» aspects of Mr. Pacilio were unveiled — and even then, the tests on those rock songs were no joke!

I mean, I remember being in second grade and having a teacher chastise me for using «to» as «too».

As my teacher in grade 10 used to say, assuming makes an «arse» of you and me

In a culture where Cordova teachers used to fear losing half the football team by Homecoming due to failing grades, it's projected they won't lose one player this entire season.

Waldorf teacher - trainer and master teacher, Douglas Gabriel introduces teachers and parents to Rudolf Steiner's Waldorf School curriculum in an all - encompassing curriculum book that can be used for the first grade and beyond.

Cuomo has sought a two - year moratorium on using test scores in students» grades, but wanted to use the testing as part of the job evaluations of teachers and principals.

Currently, young people must apply for university places using grades predicted by their teachers, but in 55 per cent of cases these are wrong, leaving many students without anywhere to go, or feeling that they should have applied for a better university.

Dr. Vanden Wyngaard and district staff will provide an overview of state exams and how the Common Core Learning Standards are changing instruction for students at all grade levels, as well as information about how the tests are used in the new statewide evaluation systems for teachers and principals.

There was something for everyone on the menu: using Apple technology, developing research - based practices to teach students in the early grades, engaging students through digital instruction, understanding the new teacher evaluation system as set by state law, preventing high - risk student behaviors and how Community Learning Schools meet the needs of students and their families.

Senate Education Chairman John Flanagan has proposed several bills, including a ban on testing children in the second grade and younger, and a reduction of testing used to evaluate teachers.

With this huge step forward, we believe it is vital that the state makes permanent the current moratorium on using the state English Language Arts and math Common Core tests for students in Grades 3 to 8 to evaluate teachers.

Purdue University Science Sampler: Node graph visualizations for eighth - grade mathematics students using a virus transmission simulation, by a Purdue teacher - fellow team in the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Science Scope, July 2008.

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.»

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.

Because students in elementary grades are assigned to one teacher for most of the school day, advisory systems would be duplicative and are therefore not used by elementary schools.

In the Loop: Students and Teachers Progressing Together Looping — when a teacher moves with his or her students to the next grade level rather than sending them to another teacher at the end of the school year — was initially advocated by early 20th - century Austrian educator Rudolf Steiner and since has been used successfully for years in EuropIn the Loop: Students and Teachers Progressing Together Looping — when a teacher moves with his or her students to the next grade level rather than sending them to another teacher at the end of the school year — was initially advocated by early 20th - century Austrian educator Rudolf Steiner and since has been used successfully for years in Europin Europe.

Hope doesn't factor the ANet interim test scores into youngsters» overall grades, and in their contract with ANet, network schools agree not to use the scores to rate their teachers, a move designed to dampen teacher resistance.

Rebekka Stone, a tenth - grade biology teacher in Homestead, Florida, says she uses Highlights for High School to increase her students» science comprehension and to introduce them to the idea of higher learning.

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.

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).

Teachers also plan to use a tool designed to assess the reading fluency of primary students with below - level readers in grades 4 - 6 to see how their needs can be addressed, said Poplar.

The WebQuest Page This ultimate resource for teachers interested in using the WebQuest model not only offers an excellent list of WebQuests sorted by subject and grade level, it also provides advice for creating your own WebQuests, training materials and templates, WebQuest news and resources, and more.

«Unfortunately, without the level of training and support they need, many teachers do not use technology to their advantage — for grading, organizing lessons, searching for information, communicating with the education community, or in the classroom with their students.

When Mrs. Stephanie Terista, our seventh - grade ELA teacher, brought her students in to create 3D dioramas for the book Bud, Not Buddy, she had them use our Dell laptops and the free Sketchup Make program.

Those monies were used to set up a very successful technology mentoring program, in which trained lead teachers worked with individuals and teams of teachers,» Richards Elementary School fourth grade teacher Mary Kreul told Education World.

For example, in the 3rd grade, all of the teachers use the same math curriculum at the same pace, so they are able to coordinate their reteaching where necessary.

Districts and charter schools could use the extra dollars to lower class sizes, improve classroom technology, or target teacher training in grades K - 4.

The grade 10 - 12 English teacher at Johnston High School in Johnston, Iowa, uses surveys, songs, film storyboards, public service announcements, Facebook pages, and a yearly grant project involving the entire town to engage her students in learning.

The non-negotiable teaching strategies used at Cochrane are reinforced in a collaborative and supportive environment, with three weekly grade - level meetings for teachers.

In fact, the MEAP is a much better exam than the tests that most teachers develop for themselves and use to grade their students.

It used to be that when a teacher was out and a sub was unavailable to cover the class for the day, the students in the absent teacher's classroom had to be split among the remaining classrooms in the grade level.

Articles about the success of the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method, used by teachers of all subjects and grade levels in New York City public scho...

Communication Comparisons 06/20/2001 [World History, Language Arts Grades 3 - 5, 6 - 8 Submitted by VaReane Heese] VaReane Heese, a teacher at Springfield (Nebraska) Elementary School submitted this week's lesson in which students use online and print resources to research different methods of communication, use graphic organizers to compare the methods, and share their findings with classmates.

As part of its efforts, the school is moving grades 3 to 5 over to Everyday Mathematics this year; it was piloted in those grades last year, and first and second - grade teachers already were using it.

The controversy started in September, when Christa Price, then a 2nd grade teacher at the 163 - student East Lynne Elementary School, discovered that Principal Dan L. Doerhoff had ordered the unidentified girl to use a five - gallon bucket to carry rocks from a former construction site to a wooded area near the school.

We use the Common Core of Data to identify teachers in urban areas, the grade level of each teacher's school, and the per - pupil expenditure on instruction by each teacher's district.

8 - 9 — Curriculum and instruction: «Reshaping the Curriculum: Using an Integrated, Interdisciplinary Approach,» workshop, sponsored by the Greater Cleveland Educational Development Center, for teachers, administrators, and curriculum directors of grades 7 - 12, to be held at Cleveland State University in Cleveland,...

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.

In fact, the requirement that teachers assess and grade all students (using «A to E» or equivalent) against year - level curriculum expectations is currently built into Commonwealth legislation.

The school uses two student - led conferences in place of report cards, said Teresa Glenn, an eighth grade humanities / reading - writing workshop teacher.

Brantley's colleague, kindergarten teacher Mary Ford, has also used the Wii sports games in a joint activity with an older class: Ford and third - grade teacher Laura Smith paired up their students for a game of bowling with a little real - world math practice thrown in.

For each objective teachers are given detailed information about what content should be taught to meet the objective, the level of knowledge that has been developed in earlier grades, assessment ideas that can be used to determine if the student has mastered the objective, and ways the skills covered by the objective can be linked to other objectives.

That was the thought at Cumberland Elementary School, in West Lafayette, Indiana, where first - grade teacher David Brantley used a parent donation to buy three Wii consoles.

Ancient Egypt: a Variety of Artifacts (Grades K - 12): A middle school teacher assembled this collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts that can be used in the context of student research projects.

-- In 1989 the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) published its Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics — an extensive set of mathematics standards for grades K - 12 which de-emphasized memorization of number facts, the learning of proofs, and algebraic skills, but encouraged the use of calculators and «discovery learning.»