Sentences with phrase «teachers of all grade levels who»

A majority of the more than 1,385 high school students, 3,600 parents and 520 teachers of all grade levels who returned a questionnaire after this change was piloted in Palo Alto said, «If I controlled the school calendar, I would want first - semester finals to occur before winter break»; this included more than 85 percent of the high school students, according to Challenge Success.

This is particularly useful for science teachers of all grade levels who are looking for high quality lessons to meet the new science standards.

Not exact matches

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!

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

«Leaders at every level, from grade school teachers and principals, to heads of national and international organizations and governments, must convey respect, support and enthusiasm for all who venture into STEM.»

In the same way, taking the time to recognize a handful of new teachers at each level (primary, middle grades and high school teachers) who also demostrate a level of expertise beyond there years of experience sends a powerful message of support for excellence in the profession.

As with many other successful data - driven schools, at Elm City the work begins before school starts, when teachers and principals — both Dale Chu, who heads up the elementary grades, and Marc Michaelson, who oversees the middle school — use a variety of diagnostic tests to understand the ability and achievement levels of their incoming students.

Last school year ~ I worked with one brilliant young lady ~ who could perform math and reading at three levels above her grade ~ recite hundreds of historical facts from memory ~ and trouble - shoot the teachers technology problems ~ but when you gave her a county - required essay prompt to hand - write ~ she would stand in the corner and cry.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

The LDOE created a network of teacher leaders who were handpicked for demonstrated teaching and leadership ability, drawn from every region of the state and different grade levels.

Our informal discussions with school leaders suggest that staff are most often assigned to workspaces out of convenience, with coaches assigned to empty offices and teachers clustered roughly with those who teach similar grade levels.

«Many of the teachers — who worked at all grade levels in both public and charter schools, in urban and suburban settings — did their best to cobble together lessons on their own, while also managing the intense demands of the first years of teaching,» says Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson, director of the Project on the Next Generation of Tteachers — who worked at all grade levels in both public and charter schools, in urban and suburban settings — did their best to cobble together lessons on their own, while also managing the intense demands of the first years of teaching,» says Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson, director of the Project on the Next Generation of TeachersTeachers.

Teachers currently have students who read several grades above and below grade level in the same classroom and most feel that they are not able to effectively differentiate instruction for students of all levels of achievement.

First and most obvious, we've organized the entire, massive K — 12 system around an age - based, grade - level, 180 - days - per - year calendar; around mostly self - contained and generally low - tech classrooms; and around a pedagogical model centered on a single teacher teaching a uniform curriculum to twenty to thirty children for a prescribed amount of time each day, children who don't have much in common except that they're more or less the same age and (usually) live in pretty much the same community.

I work with a whole bunch of teachers who are trying to implement PBL at different grade levels and different subject areas and they work so hard to create these totally amazing, well crafted problems for their students to solve.

Small groups of teachers who typically work together as part of a grade - level, department, or project team appeared to work best for data - analysis meetings.

In that role, I lead a team of seven teacher researchers who teach across grade levels and content areas, researching the work that gets done in their classroom, on the field, and in the studio.

Each parent who has a child sitting in a classroom should know the credentials that got that teacher there — college degrees, honors and awards received, types of experiences (not necessarily years of experience but types — has the teacher worked with different grade levels before or taught other subjects?).

Teachers select students who read below grade level and would benefit from the attention of a caring adult.

«Three of the special education teachers are assigned to self - contained classrooms for students — mostly those classified as mildly, moderately, or severely retarded — who are functioning two or more years below grade level.

«My favorite staff meeting was one led by one of our teachers — a second - grade teacher who shared what she had learned in a graduate level course she had taken.

We've seen a variety of candidate profiles succeed in this role — former teachers and grade - level chairs, operations leaders from Charter Management Organizations, people who completed Teach For America and then explored a different career path for a couple years, and individuals with only private sector experience.

Phone call # 4: The mother of a highly gifted girl who does algebra in her head «for fun» and consistently scores four years above grade level on tests of mathematics achievement called to ask me how she could convince the classroom teacher and the gifted coordinator that her young daughter did not need to keep adding and subtracting one - and two - digit numbers with the rest of the third grade class.

«I saw a lot of math teachers who were initially resistant to Common Core at the high school level start to change their mind when they realize there are some changes being made at the lower grades, changes they'd wanted to happen for a long time,» says Ryan Davis, a math teacher at Central.

Memphis College Prep seeks teachers who are committed to continuously improving curriculum and instruction through collaboration as part of a grade level and school - wide team.

While the Common Core State Standards are well - written and seemingly simple, CEL has found that analyzing grade - level strands becomes a complex task for teachers who do not have the benefit of assistance.

The actual lesson is modeled by our coach and by one of the grade - level teachers, who brings their classroom into our live lesson room.

Each grade level has a team of teachers who work closely together and meet frequently to monitor and support student growth.

Filled with specific examples of effective purpose statements, assignments, and tests across grade levels and content areas, The Purposeful Classroom is essential reading for all teachers who want their students to truly understand what they are learning and why.

Former University of Tennessee researcher William Sanders found students who scored at about the same level on state math tests in third grade had score differences of as much as 50 percentage points on sixth grade tests after having less qualified teachers.

This year's eight fellows were selected from a pool of over 1200 applications from teachers and instructional specialists serving in traditional public and charter schools, as well as alternative and private schools; from nearly every state, grade level and instructional area, and who teach in a wide variety of urban, rural and suburban settings.

How can this teacher fairly be compared to her colleague in Simsbury, who teaches 18 students, all of whom read on grade level and go home to stable households inhabited by two college - educated, married parents?

They studied grade - level teams of teachers who created student assessment portfolios.

Instead of only 100 of my own students growing to proficiency and beyond, I would now move to coaching a cohort of teachers, who then, in turn, would impact an entire grade level of learners.

To decide who should receive offers, university admissions officers use the GCSE and AS Level results to assess students» potential alongside personal statements, school references and teachers» assessments of likely grades.

The PAR system includes two key features: (1) the expertise of consulting teachers, skilled teachers who have released time to serve as mentors to support fellow teachers in the same subject areas and grade levels, and (2) a system of due process and review that involves a panel of both teachers and administrators who recommend personnel decisions based on evidence from the evaluations.

I know a third - grade teacher who taught a lot of writing and as a result, all of her students scored at the highest level the following year on the fourth - grade writing test.

Full Day - This service is best suited for grade level and subject area teams of teachers who want to integrate the arts within their curriculum.

Boston University's Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) for Modern Foreign Language is designed for students who wish to pursue graduate studies in Spanish, French, or Arabic, and at the same time prepare for initial teacher licensure at the 5 - 12 grade - level.

NNSTOY is an organization of State and National Teachers of the Year and Finalists from every state and territory, who teach all subjects and grade levels.

Giangreco helps teachers answer one of the hardest questions in including students with disabilities in mainstream classes: How can teachers include students who function substantially below grade level?

But educators warn that the biggest problem will likely be the measures used to rate the majority of teachers who do not teach in grades or levels tested by standardized exams.

No surprise, I guess, that none of the other «issues» about which the EVAAS has been continuously questioned and critiqued were addressed in this article (e.g., about fairness and the teachers who are not TVAAS eligible, validity or the lack of relationships between the TVAAS and other indicators of quality in Tennessee, subject and grade level bias, as written about here and here, etc.).

K — 2nd grade general education teachers All levels of an RTI model: Special education, Title 1, Reading Specialists, ESL teachers, Interventionists at all grade levels 3rd — 12th grade general education teachers who support students with decoding difficulties Para-professionals that provide and support student instruction.

We also feel viscerally how exhausting it is for Promise Academy's teachers to raise the skills of kids who enter 6th grade four grade levels behind, and often as behavioral time bombs.

I was a ninth grade English teacher with very little seniority in a school where senior teachers who taught eleventh and twelfth grade really didn't understand the extent of the problems some of our students were having because so many of those students would drop out before they made it to higher grade levels.

This guide is part of a series intended to further the discussion and understanding of Common Core standards on a subject - specific and grade - level basis and to provide immediate guidance to teachers who must either adapt existing lessons and activities to incorporate the Common Core or develop new lessons to teach concepts not addressed in their previous state standards.

Strategic placement of grade level representatives to be teachers who walked the pathway of accomplished teaching last year have cultivated grade level teams to perform at a higher intensity.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

APP graduates faced greater headwinds than other new principals, leading schools with greater levels of students eligible for free or reduced priced lunch, students who are over-age for their grade level, teachers who are inexperienced, and discipline issues.