Sentences with phrase «where teacher grade»

Lord Bew is recommending the current creative writing - or composition - test be replaced by teacher assessment, where a teacher grades a child's work over a year.

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I had a real «Habit wearing» Nun for a 6th grade teacher, told us she was at the site of an exorcism where there was blood on the walls.

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.

Bennett Day School is an independent, progressive pre-K-12th grade school where children and teachers construct learning together.

Mr. Bucher spent 12 years as a class teacher at the City of Lakes Waldorf School in Minneapolis where he took a class through grades 1 - 8.

Karen Crandall is a class teacher at the Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs, where she currently teaches sixth grade and mentors the third grade class teacher.

Research found that the children from two - parent homes where fathers participated in activities (such as school meetings; parent - teacher conferences; school or child care activities or events; or volunteerism) were more likely to receive higher grades, participate in extracurricular activities, and be happier in a child care or school setting.

Tommi is a middle school block teacher at Whidbey Island Waldorf School, where she taught as a grades teacher between 1997 and 2007.

Liz is the sixth grade teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School where she has been a class teacher since 2006 and is a member of the school's Collegium and the Teacher Development Comteacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School where she has been a class teacher since 2006 and is a member of the school's Collegium and the Teacher Development Comteacher since 2006 and is a member of the school's Collegium and the Teacher Development ComTeacher Development Committee.

Liz is a member of Sunbridge's Elementary Teacher Education faculty; she is also sixth grade teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School where she has been a class teacher since 2006 and is a member of the school's Collegium and the Teacher Development ComTeacher Education faculty; she is also sixth grade teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School where she has been a class teacher since 2006 and is a member of the school's Collegium and the Teacher Development Comteacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School where she has been a class teacher since 2006 and is a member of the school's Collegium and the Teacher Development Comteacher since 2006 and is a member of the school's Collegium and the Teacher Development ComTeacher Development Committee.

The school has over 1040 students Pre-K to 8th grade and 220 teachers and in the adjoining school PS 168 with grades K to 5 located also at 3050 Webster Avenue in their Annex where they have an additional 200 special needs students with 108 additional teachers.

Links between student testing and teachers» job evaluations are an explosive issue on Long Island, where tens of thousands of students in grades 3 - 8 boycotted English and math tests in recent weeks.

The governor also proposed a financial incentive for implementing the program, announcing that he would limit his $ 500 million «School Performance Incentive Program» to schools where teachers and principals were being graded.

In first grade, the teacher desk was placed on a platform just a few inches above the elevation of the floor where the students» desks were.

It makes me feel like I'm back in fourth grade where my mean teacher would burn a vanilla Yankee candle on her desk.»

And while I recognize in many cases this says a lot more about them as a student than me as a teacher, where their grade reflects effort that they put into my class and not my ability to educate, there's very little that can dampen that initial blow.

He returns to the generic tract house where he grew up in suburban Sacramento to help his ailing mother, Joanne (Shannon), a second - grade teacher who's about to start chemotherapy.

Michael Crawford is grade school teacher Colin, the meek landlord of a flat where lives Tolen (Ray Brooks), who has «a certain success with the ladies» (which Lester exaggerates in a simultaneously poetically delicate and outrageously dreamy image of identically clad young women lining up the staircase and out the door into the streets for their turn with Tolen).

In particular, Maine lags behind in the area of standards, where the American Federation of Teachers has rated only its science standards as clear, specific, and grounded in content at all three grade spans.

She was taken with the idea and, at her suggestion, the program was adopted at Roy W. Loudon Elementary School in Bakersfield, California, where she is a third grade teacher.

As a teacher at a small Oakland, California public high school called Life Academy, where each teacher also holds a mixed - grade level advisory class of about 20 students, I began conducting home visits for my advisees as a way to clarify my relationship to them as more than a teacher.

We can not be expected — and can not expect ourselves — to know where to find the best stuff, especially when «best» depends on the student, the lesson, the teacher, the grade level, the location, and technology access.

For example, I was visiting in a first - grade classroom where the teacher had cut flash cards in half.

And they attend classes with an array of teachers who have differing notions of where they should sit, how often they should study, and what grade they deserve.

«My goal as a teacher, in regards to self - assessment,» says Karina Hean, the chair of NMSA's visual arts department, «is to get students to a place by 11th grade where they can visualize what needs to adjust and be their own editor.

Second, if states wanted to try to make vesting more of a retention incentive, they could offer teachers a «graded» vesting system, where workers are eligible for a growing share of their employer's retirement contributions over time.

Once or twice a week, each grade 1 - 5 class comes to the computer lab, where the technology specialist is available to assist the teacher with instruction.

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.

«It's great to see where kids are performing, where my gaps are, and what I need to do,» says Debra Bingham, a 16 - year veteran teacher who now specializes in 3rd - grade reading.

However, a prescribed curriculum requires time reading teacher manuals, making copies, and grading benign assignments, where as a student - driven and teacher - curated curriculum, personalized to the needs of individual students and classes, redistributes your time.

Jeff Schwartz, an eighth - grade U.S. history teacher at Lincoln (where Monastero used to teach), says Private Watkins's presentation gives students «something they don't get from a textbook.

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.

«If I were a first - grade teacher or principal of an elementary school, finding out that my students are at risk for not graduating from high school — it's important, but it's not very tangible or actionable or relevant to where I'm at today,» Curtin says.

This fall, Phillips made the transition to Excel Academy's new high school, where he is a founding ninth - grade English teacher and instructional leader.

In many school districts, fewer than one - quarter of teachers work in grades and subjects where student achievement gains are tracked with state assessments.

Roughly one - quarter of K — 12 teachers typically teach in grades and subjects where obtaining such measures is currently possible.

I was tested for gifted in the first grade and placed in a pull - out program, where the teacher came (maybe once per week, don't remember) to work with me and another student.

In the third - grade social studies curriculum at Friends School of Baltimore, where I teach, what used to be a mundane, teacher - led unit on Native Americans is now a semester - long PBL unit.

Nineteen of the 50 new teachers — or 38 percent — had the added pressure of teaching subjects and grade levels where the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), the state's high - stakes test, was administered.

Currently, Dillon is a post-doctoral fellow at Haskins Laboratories, a research institute in New Haven, Conn., that focuses on speech, language, and reading and biological basis, where she investigates the effects of a three - year study in which first - grade teachers were provided professional development seminars and in - class coaching in literacy instruction.

All students in grades 6 through 12 have the option to take one or more online courses, and district teachers teach all the courses with the exception of those, like Mandarin, where there is no certified teacher available within the district.

There are some subjects, grades, and states where teachers seem to do better at emphasizing the content in the standards, especially in elementary mathematics, but this is not the norm.

Prospective teachers are well advised to pursue studies at a college or university within the state where they expect to teach, because it is often only within that state that students can get the courses required for state certification in the subject area and for the grade levels that they will be teaching.

An online community can bring together people from anywhere in the world — and any educator can find a «home» at Tapped In, where teachers from every discipline and grade level have the opportunity to interact.

But in general, instruction is both lively and practical, such as in one classroom where a biology teacher, donning a lab coat, leads a lab on extracting DNA from strawberries, or a ninth - grade math class in which a teacher integrates a Texas Instruments navigator system into every part of her lesson; she has her class turn assignments in via a graphing calculator and checks for comprehension with every student in real time.

Both parts of this have a common source - great teaching in great schools, so it's vital we support head teachers in a system where the right behaviours and experiences are just as important as the right grades.»

«The things that make it especially difficult moving from grade five to grade six is the students go from a self - contained, supportive atmosphere where they have one teacher they know... to sixth grade and they are confronted with seven different [teachers»] personalities.

Students increasingly compose within social media environments and teachers should capitalize on this affinity, as did Dr. Reynol Junco at Lock Haven University, in a study where his students used Twitter and other social media tools to increase their overall grade point averages (see video).

With a former Stanford classmate, Westendorf built a Web portal where teachers could share materials, resources, and instructional videos for math and English language arts instruction in grades 2 — 12.

The report succeeds by focusing on average test gains in grades within schools where mean value - added within a grade has been affected by the movement of teachers in and out of the grade.