Sentences with phrase «upper school students»

At 6:30, he will speak to upper school students in the Fitzgibbons Convocation Center.

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The number of states that require high school students to complete a course in economics has dropped over the last two years, and mandates for personal finance education in the upper grades remain stagnant, a new survey shows.

Meta - analyses also indicate that young people of low socioeconomic status benefit more from attending these schools than do students from the middle and upper classes.

And while the Science authors found instruction to be basic and repetitive even in American schools with a mostly middle - class or upper - middle - class student population, they found that the situation was considerably worse in schools that enrolled a lot of low - income children.

In addition, the early middle school grades typically provide less independence to students than do the upper levels of elementary schools.

Hershey Montessori School's Huntsburg campus includes the upper school classroom building, a middle school classroom building and housing for boarding stuSchool's Huntsburg campus includes the upper school classroom building, a middle school classroom building and housing for boarding stuschool classroom building, a middle school classroom building and housing for boarding stuschool classroom building and housing for boarding students.

Like the middle school, the upper school will educate boarding students from all over the world and the United States as well as day students from throughout Northeast Ohio.

The addition of the upper school, which opened programming to students in grades 10 - 12 for the 2015 - 16 school year, makes Hershey Montessori School the first in the world to fully implement Dr. Maria Montessori's vision for educating children from birth through 18 years, with an adolescent residential program on a workingschool, which opened programming to students in grades 10 - 12 for the 2015 - 16 school year, makes Hershey Montessori School the first in the world to fully implement Dr. Maria Montessori's vision for educating children from birth through 18 years, with an adolescent residential program on a workingschool year, makes Hershey Montessori School the first in the world to fully implement Dr. Maria Montessori's vision for educating children from birth through 18 years, with an adolescent residential program on a workingSchool the first in the world to fully implement Dr. Maria Montessori's vision for educating children from birth through 18 years, with an adolescent residential program on a working farm.

Even though the elementary school is doing well academically, low test scores by students at the upper school have hurt the school's grade, Mulgrew noted.

At the Origins Field School, students can earn 15 upper - division Stony Brook credits studying in the very place the Leakey family and their colleagues have made, and continue to make, unprecedented discoveries in the field of human prehistory.

Volume 1 gives us the entire first U.K. season (the third season just started running in England), with one interconnecting, ongoing story strung across nine 45 - minute episodes, each of which takes the perspective of one of a gang of friends, students at a Bristol sixth - form college (roughly equivalent of the upper grades of an American high school and the beginnings of a postsecondary education).

Need a fun way to introduce Microsoft Excel to upper elementary or middle school students?

Doing research on classroom environments some years ago, I was surprised by how accurately upper elementary school students evaluated their teachers» strengths and limitations.

These study skills may be implemented for any subject and should begin in the upper elementary years before students encounter the more challenging middle and high school curriculums.

-- The sheets are aimed at upper primary and secondary school students.

These lessons were created for middle school students (grades 6 - 8) but could also be used with upper elementary and high school students.

The overwhelming majority of our students have cell phones in our upper school (and some even have them in the elementary school).

Organized by partnerships between school districts, nonprofit organizations, universities, and others, they provide a more diverse group of students with the enriching science, art, and community - based activities that middle - and upper - income parents can provide by paying for fee - based summer sessions.

Science Teachers Learning through Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) is a professional - development program for upper - elementary school science teachers in which teachers develop two lenses for analyzing teaching, the «Student Thinking Lens» and the «Science Content Storyline Lens,» to analyze videos of teaching practice.

If you wish to increase upper elementary and middle school students» comprehension and problem - solving skills, here are three imagination strategies to try out.

The school also is providing intervention school - wide to students in the upper grades who continue to struggle with reading.»

The act also fails to recognize the growth of the nation's top students: a school gets zero credit toward AYP for upper - end success.

I started thinking about the time I worked at a local summer camp and how much I enjoyed being with upper middle school students.

We also know that these students are less likely to take upper level math courses in high school.

I've done this project with college kids, as well as with high school, middle - school, and upper - elementary students.

If the school chooses the AP option for upper division, the students must take an entire core program of courses made up of AP courses.

Once students reach upper elementary school, they can begin to coordinate meetings independently.

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

From where I sit, this interregnum would serve no higher purpose for the children of my state, and would be damaging to the current cohort of public school students, especially those entering the upper grades.

By the upper grades of high school, students no longer need roles defined for them and are able to jump into group work without guidance.

For me, I knew the moment I read this word problem to my fifth - grade summer school students: «On average, the sun's energy density reaching Earth's upper atmosphere is 1,350 watts per square meter.

Obama's main education issue had become student loans and the rising cost of a university education, a topic far distant from school reform but one of great interest to present and future members of the upper middle class.

With age appropriate visuals (featuring upper elementary, middle school kids, and teens), this resource was designed to make communication clearer for students with learning disabilities, ESL / ELL and language barriers, autism spectrum / nonverbal populations, and beyond.

This unique set of supplies cards features upper elementary / middle school and teen students and focuses on the types of supplies associated with these age groups!

The students who have taken part in PACT enter intermediate school next year, so it is not yet clear if the strides they have made will continue into the upper levels.

This site is appropriate for upper middle school and high school students.

Paul Aldridge, upper school teacher at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, created a freshman elective — based on an old speech class — in which students create substantive, cross-curricular proschool teacher at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, created a freshman elective — based on an old speech class — in which students create substantive, cross-curricular proSchool in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, created a freshman elective — based on an old speech class — in which students create substantive, cross-curricular projects.

If you teach the upper elementary grades or middle school, chances are your students will enjoy the movie Hoot.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

With 20 years of experience, Clare Forseth, a 5th - and 6th - grade mathematics teacher at Marion Cross School in Norwich, Vt., could be expected to be fairly certain about how she teaches math to upper - elementary students.

In schools where laptops are present, but not required, for all students, Fred Bartels worries that «changes in upper - school pedagogical practices might be delayed a long time — some teachers use that as an excuse for not making better use of computers.»

The kindergarten curriculum expectations in the Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools in Charlotte, North Carolina, says that kindergarten students are expected to learn to «recognize and name upper and lower case letters of the alphabet.»

Here are five tangible tips from the Making Caring Common Project for educators working with upper elementary to high - school students:

When students do not learn to read by third grade or develop reading difficulties after third grade, as is disproportionately the case for students living in poverty (Kieffer, 2010), it is critically important that an emphasis on learning to read remain an instructional priority in upper - elementary classrooms as well as in middle and high schools.

Unfortunately, finding suitable content wasn't easy — there wasn't one site where stories appropriate for upper elementary to high school students were collected.

While the study explores middle, high school, and college students, two of the exercises lend themselves nicely for assessing critical thinking skills in upper elementary instruction: an analysis of a home page where students identify advertisements on a news website and an evaluation of a photograph published on a photo sharing website.

The venerable We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution program, started in 1987, engages upper elementary, middle, and high school students in simulations of congressional hearings — with a chance to compete against other students in the national championship.

«The essential goal of the project is to create a connection between upper secondary school students, businesses and universities, while utilising the creativity of the students as a national resource,» the report notes.

Findings from an evaluation of upper primary and middle school students» science inquiry skills suggest there is room for improvement in implementing an inquiry - based teaching approach, at least in terms of students» abilities to undertake scientific inquiry.

Three strategies for helping upper elementary and middle school students develop their mind's eye.