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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

Researc h: The Influence Of Socioeconomic Status In Elementary School Kieffer (2010) organized a study on upper elementary students focusing on reading levels of English language learners (ELLs) and native English speakers. ELLs and low-SES students are at an elevated risk for these difficulties (Kieffer, 2010).

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The First Days of the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content

User Generated Education

To put into practice what I discussed above, I am going to have my gifted 3rd-6th grade students do the following Hyperdoc starting with our first meeting together. 2010; Cowan, 2012; Lohr & Haley, 2018; Sadera et al., Knowing our students is fundamental to real differentiation ( 6 Strategies For Getting To Know Your Students ).

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland. In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school.

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How Teacher Prep Programs Are Stepping Up Efforts to Recruit Students

Edsurge

That’s because since 2010 the number of students enrolled in teacher prep programs at colleges has fallen by more than a third, from about 900,000 students in 2010-11 to only 600,000 in the 2018-19 academic year, according to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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How one Mississippi elementary school improved to an A rating

The Hechinger Report

In this file photo, a student reads in a Mississippi elementary school. In 2010, a year after Andrea Pastchal-Smith became principal of West Elementary School, formerly named West Oktibbeha County Elementary, the struggling school earned an “Academic Watch” rating from the state. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Principal for a Day at Jackson Elementary

MIND Research Institute

This is an experience where local business leaders and other community members are invited to visit a school, tour classrooms, meet students and teachers, and learn about the great things being done in education. I arrived at Jackson Elementary with a smile on the morning of March 22. The highlight of my day was meeting Ms.

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Building Connections Between Home and School through Family-Teacher Partnerships

Waterford

Begin to Communicate and Collaborate Early in the School Year Advise teachers to schedule a meeting with each family as early as possible in the school year, whether in-person or virtually. Parent Involvement and Children’s Academic and Social Development in Elementary School.” Child Development , 2010, 81(3), pp.

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