Sentences with phrase «used with any middle school»

And although labeled for K - 5, the second and third courses could be used with middle school students who have not been exposed to coding.

To his credit, when I talked to him about three of his projects — WoWinSchool (WoW used with middle school children), Minecraft (used with elementary students), and SAGA (Story and Game Academy)-- Gillispie repeatedly deflected credit from himself to his professional peers and administration.

Harmon and Wood (2001) implemented a teaching strategy for use with middle school students who were reading below grade level.

Can be used with any middle school mathematics curriculum.

Not exact matches

Unions in the utility industry, health care and manufacturing industries are using knowledge and skills as the key source of worker power by expanding apprenticeship training, creating partnership with community colleges, vocational schools, and employers to fill the «middle skills» gaps that exist today or will grow as skilled baby boomers retire.

In fact, according to the cleverly rewritten history books that I use to home school my children with, there is a copy of The Globe tabloid newspaper from 1776 showing an image of George Washington wearing a yarmulke, under the headline «WASHINGTON SECRETLY JEWISH — MIDDLE NAME IS MORDECAI».

When I attend weddings, I'm not provided with the opportunity to talk about the really exciting ways that God's moving and using me — through my Master's degree classes, or the research project I'm wading through writing, or the middle school and high school girls Sunday school class I'm privileged to teach, or the fun trips I'm taking and the new people I'm meeting.

Try on Rugby uses comprehensive, educational materials for introducing rugby from U8 to Middle School for young girls and involves inter-squad flag rugby with the possibility to play other girls flag rugby teams in the East Bay in tournament play.

Recommended Age Range: Preschool, Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle School, High School Time Required: ~ 1 hour Difficulty: Easy Cost: About $ 1 in used supplies (though could be even cheaper if lamination was done with contact paper.)

Kids are up and down because they have nightmares, they wake up to use the bathroom and can't fall back asleep, they think there's a monster in their closet, they remembered they had something super important to tell me at 2 am while I was in the middle of REM sleep (like what snack their friend shared with them at school).

She'll get good use out of it too with all of those reports and other schoolwork she'll be completing in middle school.

On topic question topics included the mayor's proposed $ 20 million allocation for arts programs and whether this is all new spending, whether it's typical for elementary schools to have arts teachers, the mayor's proposed $ 4.4 billion capital spending to address classroom overcrowding, how many new classroom seats that spending would produce and where they would be located, whether all trailers used by schools would be eliminated, the definition of «problematic behavior» used in dealing with the Absent Teacher Reserve, what the state funding to be used for middle school after school programs would have otherwise been used for and DoE support for schools that will participate in the program providing increased school autonomy.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

With support from the National Science Foundation, Project 2061 has developed an online bank of high - quality test items and related assessment resources for use in middle and early high school science (http / / assessment.aaas.org), and a grant from the U.S. Department of Education is funding the development of assessment instruments for evaluating students» understanding of energy concepts from elementary through high school.

Computers used in the workplace are not suited for the classroom, because in most cases they're fragile and too big for elementary and middle school students» desks, says Tony Salvadore, a senior principal engineer with Intel who is also a psychologist and anthropologist.

[Twyla Miranda et al., «Reluctant Readers in Middle School: Successful Engagement with Text Using the E-Reader»]

The Pulsar Search Collaboratory is a unique program in partnership with West Virginia University that enables middle and high school students to participate in active pulsar research using data from the Green Bank Telescope.

One of the top six recommendations for increasing your fibre intake on the Harvard Public School of Health's website is «experimenting with international dishes (such as Indian or Middle Eastern) that use whole grains and legumes as part of the main meal (such as Indian dahls)» (6).

The constant repetitive motions along with specializing at a younger age means the overuse injuries that we used to see in college and professional sports are starting to happen at the middle school and high school level.

As being someone who has dealt with acne since middle school, that to me is reason enough to use BlossomSib.

Hair Texture: Medium to Fine Curls Hair Color: Natural chocolate brown (never color - treated) Biggest Hair Concern: Curl definition and frizz Skin Tone: Fair / Cool Skin Type: Oily Greatest Skin Concern: Acne and redness The Product I Always Run Out Of: Mascara Biggest Beauty Regret: Chemically straightened hair in middle school Beauty Product You Can't Live Without: Highlighter Beauty Product You'll Never Use: Self - tanner Biggest Beauty Indulgence: LED Facial If I Could Trade Makeup Bags With Anyone It Would Be: Rihanna and EXO's Baekhyun Fragrance I'm Currently Wearing: Usually Demeter Jasmine or Hawaiian Vanilla

I also keep it simple with pencil boxes, pens, tons of loose leaf paper, and a USB (which is now a must for middle schoolers), folders to keep the kids organized, glue sticks for projects, white - out for the older kids who are now using pens, new washable crayons and markers, tons of Ziploc bags that I use for everything from snacks to storing jewelry.

It's exactly like when we used to trade pins with colorful beads on them with friends in middle school and wear them on our laces.

In middle school my friends and I used to burn CDs for each other and then add crazy doodles to the top with sharpies, anyone else?

«Too often, the assessments new teachers use have very little to do with the standards they are expecting students to meet,» said McCann, principal at Western View Middle School, in Corvallis, Oregon.

They are extremely useful in helping elementary and middle school students develop the language to deal with bully's who use their words to hurt or embarrass others.

This would be a nice resource for a middle or high school literature teacher to use as a tool for familiarizing students with great American authors.

Several blocks away at Bret Harte Middle School, Techbridge girls worked with Mills College graduate student Jeri Countryman to design and create their own video games using Stagecast Creator, a point - and - click programming tool.

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

When a new Japanese family arrived in the middle of the school year, the origami instructors worked with the principal to encourage these children to sign up for their after - school class, where they could show off Japanese culture as experts while experiencing the comfort of using their own language in a classroom setting.

In the typical mathematics classroom, especially in the middle years of schooling, we tend to use one model to connect maths with the real world; we start by teaching the maths content and skills, we then get students to practice and do some maths, and then we next might apply some of those skills into a real world context by using learning activities such as word problems.

A teenage broadcaster is in trouble with his school after using a phrase borrowed from a popular video game while calling a middle - school football...

Scriptwriting with a Wiki This middle - and high - school lesson plan uses a wiki — a Web site that allows users to add and edit content collectively — to write a one - act play.

Today I want to share a really cool site that ~ Sarah Pennington ~ a language arts middle school teacher at the school where I work ~ uses with her...

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Torney - Purta recommends putting a focus back into civics with an opportunity for discussion in the middle school curriculum, enhancing professional development for teachers, recognizing the differences within immigrants, and using ethnic identity as a source of motivation.

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.

Use this set of challenging algebraic puzzles this Christmas season with your middle school students.

Berea Middle School, in Greenville, South Carolina, for example, not only has developed a laptop initiative using Title I funds that provide low - income students with much - needed access to Web - enabled computers, it also reaches out to the school's parent population at the sameSchool, in Greenville, South Carolina, for example, not only has developed a laptop initiative using Title I funds that provide low - income students with much - needed access to Web - enabled computers, it also reaches out to the school's parent population at the sameschool's parent population at the same time.

Jeanne Seilor - Phillips, who teaches sixth grade at Muirland Middle School in La Jolla, California, has used the Writers Workshop concept with her students for years.

Along with elementary and middle school students, these readings have been used to great success with high school English language learners and students with learning difficulties.

Providing students with opportunities to teach each other — as this middle school student does in his science class — is one of many assessment techniques used at New York City's School of the Fschool student does in his science class — is one of many assessment techniques used at New York City's School of the FSchool of the Future.

Students at King Middle School in Portland agree with reports that laptops used well promote learning and engagement.

Collaborating with colleagues from MIT and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the two are completing analysis of a learning exercise they designed to use augmented reality (AR)-- real world activities with a superimposed virtual simulation — as an instructional tool both to build middle - schoolers» math and language arts skills and to spark excitement about learning.

Visualize a classroom with long bench - like seats that are set up around work tables and where there is no teacher desk — a place where the teacher uses a process called Q U E S T and BYOD to support middle school students in understanding what topics in the curriculum are important to them.

They were using directive instruction modes designed to impart information and learning within a specific topic area, often in isolation from other topic areas, and they were having inconsistent student achievement results with inner - city middle school populations.

The EcoMOD (Model / Modify, Observe, Design) project will build on and extend our prior EcoMUVE curriculum for middle school, using a design - based research approach to combine an immersive virtual environment with hands - on interactive modeling through a scaffolded computational interface.

Using 2015 test - score data and comparing schools with similar percentages of low - income kids, charters outperform DPS - operated schools at the middle and high school level but not at the elementary level, where there are only 10 charters.

Chelsea Dale is the founder and president of On Giants» Shoulders, a not - for - profit organization which advocates a strategy for repetitively motivating under - performing elementary and middle school students to respect their teachers, peers, schools, and the learning process using 15 - minute, once - per - week online chats with academically accomplished high school students who appreciate the value of education.

The program, called On Giants» Shoulders, advocates a strategy for repetitively motivating underperforming elementary and middle school students to respect their teachers, peers, schools, and the learning process using 15 - minute, once - per - week online chats with academically accomplished high school students who appreciate the value of education.