Sentences with phrase «tenth grade student»

That does not mean that the student can do the same work as the tenth grade student.

The CC standards are organized in an intoxicatingly simple, linear fashion that acknowledges that the work of a first grade teacher contributes to the growth of a tenth grade student.

Ninth and tenth grade students chronicled their learning in a social studies class throughout the year.

According to the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) assessment administered in spring of 2006, 63 % of Uinta's tested groups in grades third through tenth grade students were achieving at or above the national mean in mathematics.

The second year of the program, those credits would be extended to second and tenth grade students.

Tenth grade students Jimmy Lam and Cyrill Banks tied for first place, while ninth grade Olympians Quan Le and Andy Nguyen placed third and fourth respectively.

Sixth, seventh and eighth grade students achieved gains of 5.1 points, 5.0 points and 4.4 points respectively, while ninth and tenth grade students showed gains of 2.2 points and 2.9 points respectively.

Sixth, seventh and eighth grade students achieved significant gains of 5.5 points, 5.9 points and 5.5 points respectively, while ninth and tenth grade students achieved gains of 0.8 points and 1.7 points respectively.

One indicator is the 20 % increase in reading WASL scores from 2003 - 2006 for tenth grade students.

Teaching tenth grade students Modern World History from the Enlightenment to current world events.

Not exact matches

Students could postpone taking the Algebra I and English Language Arts exams, normally taken in ninth and tenth grade.

A student might be inclined to persevere in school in tenth grade but not eleventh grade.

For the past four years, Notaro has taught at Westmoreland Central School, instructing students in Advanced Placement World History and ninth and tenth grade Global Studies.

By the tenth grade that percentage had jumped to 39 percent, a figure not significantly different from the national average of students who never received abstinence education.

For example, in the Athens Area School District, student gains topped 87 percent, and of the eighty - nine Quakertown students who failed tenth - grade math, 72 percent are now getting A's, B's, or C's in their junior year.

Tenth - grade earth science students who engaged in PBL earned higher scores on an achievement test as compared to students who received traditional instruction (Chang, 2001).

In fall 2009, ninth - and tenth - grade students will start a two - year Waldorf core class that integrates subjects such as art history, poetry, art, drama, and gardening.

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.

Terry, a student at Toronto's York Mills Collegiate Institute, wrote that rap for his tenth - grade English class as part of a music video depicting William Shakespeare's famous play Macbeth.

An eighth - grade student will set the timer for eight minutes each session, a tenth - grade student for ten minutes, and so on.

By tenth grade, something has changed for these students.

However, by the time our students take their high - stakes exams in tenth grade, 50 % of them score advanced in ELA and math.

Because Paedae taught advanced math to eleventh and twelfth graders, while the Florida FCAT only tested students through grade eight, 50 percent of her evaluation was based «on the school - wide performance of students taking the tenth - grade FCAT reading test — a test in a different subject administered... to different students in an earlier grade» (p. 3).

I can probably talk to him in the future,»» says Quintin, a tenth - grade Urban Prep, Englewood Campus student.

This comprehensive approach offers the best chance to improve outcomes for every student, from our «talented tenth» to students languishing grade levels behind.

Half of those states require students achieve at least tenth - grade standards or higher to earn a diploma.

Low - scoring students in higher - performing schools only experienced a decline of 0.4 percent in the probability of passing the tenth - grade math exam, but they exhibited a decline in annual earnings of $ 748 at age twenty - five.

The National Center for Education Statistics created the measure, which compares the number of graduates in a year to an average of student enrollment in eighth, ninth, and tenth grades four years earlier.

Tenth - grade earth science students who received PBL earned higher scores on an achievement test than students who received traditional instruction.

Starting in tenth grade, participating students meet regularly after school, on the weekends, and throughout the summer to ensure they are prepared and empowered to apply to, attend, and graduate from the nation's top colleges.

Reality Check: In Eeva Reeder's tenth - grade geometry class at Mountlake Terrace High School, near Seattle, student teams design «schools of the future» while mentoring with local architects.

For example, providing students with the same teacher and classmates in both ninth grade and tenth grade «cuts out weeks of the getting - to - know - you, so the teacher can build on that existing community,» Pieri says.

The program targets middle schools, because, according to Citizen Schools interim California director Sylvia Kidder - Barry, «A lot of students drop out in ninth and tenth grade, and we can reach them best in middle school.»

Edison is a career academy, which means students in tenth grade select from one of four career areas: business and finance, communication and digital technology, law and public service, and medical and health.

He notes that 25 percent of WHEA students and 35 percent of students at a neighboring high school enter tenth grade believing they'll go to college.

For the past six years, tenth grade architecture students have been going on a field trip to the Pocono Environmental Education Center, located within a national park in Pennsylvania, just across the Delaware River from New Jersey.

«In most countries, the standard for 16 - year - olds is higher than what we expect from an 18 - year - old graduating high school in America,» Payzant says, explaining that a board exam taken during the tenth grade would determine whether students were prepared and had learned enough to enter the next stage of their education.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

My high school students built their personal portfolio website in ninth grade and updated it again in tenth grade.

Using test scores, grades, and teacher recommendations, students are assessed and placed into either a math or English academic academy; so you can have tenth - and eleventh - grade students in the same class.

School districts would deliver daily, individualized, in - school tutorials to all students in the third through tenth grades who are at least two grades behind grade level in math.

To date, researchers have acquired and analyzed ninth - and tenth - grade student outcome data and site visit data (eleventh - grade outcome data are currently being analyzed).

At this point, study results show a positive trend from ninth to tenth grade in favor of the treatment group, particularly on measures of student attendance and achievement on state academic assessments.

For example, your seventh grade student scored the same as a tenth grader taking that seventh grade test.

The Reality of Learning Gaps in My Classroom The first year I taught tenth grade Geometry, I gave my students a bonus * problem on the final that required them to use what they had learned the year before in Algebra...

Vocabulary lists created for ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade curriculums allow students to familiarize themselves with language in the books from the Common Core State Standards.

Tenth - grade scores on the Ohio Graduation Tests rose by double - digits in reading, math, writing and social students, and went up 9 percent in science.

Summer Residential Governor's School Any Virginia gifted tenth - or eleventh - grade student may apply for the Summer Residential Governor's Schools.

«Inequitable school funding means that my students, and many across Connecticut, are shortchanged when it comes to classroom resources and access to experienced teachers, which widens the achievement gap and perpetuates the cycle of poverty in our state,» said Margaret O'Connor, a tenth - grade civics teacher at Central High School in Bridgeport.

• In a third recognized district (Boston), the percentage of students «lost» during their October - to - May tenth - grade year increased from 23.5 % in 1998 to 30.0 % in 1999.