Elementary algebra

Elementary Grouping; a Disadvantage for the Majority Labels and ability grouping help determine a student’s future. A label can give a student an unfair advantage or disadvantage. Let me tell you about two second grade students. Both student A and student B have straight A’s, but yet there are some slight differences. Student B has a slight reading disability and a speech disorder. Does this mean student A is smarter than student B? Well, in the eyes of this particular school, student A is…

The last one I found that I need to improve everything when it comes to writing in general. I have two problems; First is every time I am going to write something I always think about the subject in Spanish and that is a big problem because in Spanish is different from English. Everything is backward and the verbs and transitions are very different. That makes it more difficult for me because I have to go back and try to make sense on what I am writing. The second problem that I have is, that…

I have always been known by my family and in school as an avid reader. Early on, my mom, a former elementary school teacher herself, fostered in me a burning desire for reading and a love to get lost in a book. In grade school, I was known to finish my math and other more “boring” work as quickly as possible so that I could get back to whichever story I was reading at the time. As I got older, reading for pleasure took a backseat to homework, a social life, and other hobbies. I believe I…

Lippitt Elementary School is a public school in the Warwick school district specifically located on 30 Almy Street, Warwick RI. This elementary school houses students between the grades of kindergarten all the way to sixth grade. These students have implanted into their brains an abbreviation “RRR”, these three R’s stand for Respect, Responsibility and Readiness, helping the teachers as well as the students to excel in every aspect of their learning, having positivity surround them and helping…

1. Identify the purpose, research questions and/or hypotheses for this study. The purpose of this research was to develop an obesity intervention program for elementary school personnel in order to promote healthy dietary and exercise behaviors. The researchers hypothesized that (1) randomly assigned individuals employed at school worksites and assigned to be intervention schools would be significantly more likely to lose weight than individuals employed at comparable control worksites, and…

Overview of the Improvement Plan for the Patriot Elementary School: After teaching 14 years in elementary education, and serving on the District Educational Advisory Committee, School Improvement Panel, Local Professional Development Committee, and chair of the School Wide Committee, I am thrilled with my recent appointment as the principal of the Patriot Elementary School. Having taught grades 1-5 during my career, and working collaboratively with administration on data analysis over the years,…

Students learn fractions much earlier than the average person expects. In today’s American education system, children are officially introduced to fractions in first grade. Children use fractions frequently in everyday life and in academics too. A website called, “Math Warehouse Lesson Plans,” provides a lesson plan about teaching fractions to first graders. This lesson plan can easily relate to an article written by the National Counsel of Teachers called, “Common Core brief: The fraction…

students will attend to get bored and lose interest of them after a while. There are cons of math manipulative because some elementary teachers don’t like the new ways of teaching because there so use of the old ways of teaching they learn about to teach their students because it seems way easier instead of the math manipulative there using today. One disadvantages for elementary teachers is that snap cubes are extremely high price than any other math manipulative in their math classroom since…

The sexualization of children and what schools can do about it. There are several components to sexualization, and these set it apart from healthy sexuality. Healthy sexuality is an important component of both physical and mental health, fosters intimacy, bonding, and shared pleasure, and involves mutual respect between consenting partners (Satcher, 2001; Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States [SIECUS], 2004). There are many examples of the sexualization of…

Personal Change Essay After I read the first five chapters of Bridge’s book, I recall a change that I experienced, my parents ask me to leave the current primary school that I was studying at and transfer me into another school when I was at grade three. The reason for the transfer is that my parents think the school that I was transferred in had a better environment and quality than the previous one. This change brought me a great transition, this was the first time that I felt lonely in my…