Twelfth grade

Grade retention, also known as “being held back” or “repeating”, has been a controversy within the educational system. Grade retention is requiring a student to return to a grade for further education, because he or she did not demonstrate a knowledge of the skills. Rather than follow social promotion traditions, schools should retain students who score low on state assessments, daily homework, and test scores; have little parental support; or show a lack of maturity. The country will face many…

now have, smart boards, smart projectors, IPads, IPods, smart phones, and the list goes on. With this easy accessibility to electronics in the classroom, how has that driven change in the school district’s personal device policy? Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center in the Downingtown School District has a 1 to 1 initiative…

physical education supportive curriculum and technological devices, including a heart rate monitor and pedometer ,on students level and amount of physical activity. The research study followed a single subject ABABA design with 106 fourth and firth grade student measuring their participation during physical education. The curriculum and instruction of the class was designed to support the use of the technology and devices in order to enhance…

Junior year was an exciting year. I was no longer a baby under classman, and I had finally graduated into being an upper classman. Softball had a different feeling this year. I still loved playing and my teammates, but some of my teammates did not. Most of the ones that were ready for the season to be over were seniors. This meant the juniors really had to step it up. We never truly came together as one unit. We still had a winning season, and even hosted the region tournament. Region tournament…

students I’ve been thought that to be a good student you have to abide by everything the teacher tells you. From making note cards to vocabulary tests. Unfortunately for me my greatest strength is also my kryptonite. By the time I entered second grade I knew there was something different about me and my learning methods. The teachers often sent me out of the class, mind you not for the reasons you think. I wasn’t a problem child whatsoever, but I did have the answers to next week’s lesson 99…

the tests. An example of this is a letter written by a 1st grade teacher in New York, her students have to deal with the consequences of a test that they do not even have to take. Standardized testing puts stresses on students and needs to change, shown by a first grade teacher proving that even her students are worried about standardized testing. Standardized testing holds power over the students and teachers…

weathering, and life, in general. In the end, I received full credit, whereas she had a few points of the “Erosion and Weathering Walk” Project. Throughout seventh and eighth grade, we frequently hosted the “Erosion and Weathering Walk Season Two.” Sometimes we would pass by a “monument” and briefly remember our sixth grade project. A majority of the “show” was commercial breaks, in which she would go around the school rating the intelligence of random people. Sometimes, I would stand back and…

About six years ago, I moved to the United States together with my family. After having been here for one week, I started my ninth grade. I learned English in Vietnam for a couple years before moving. However, my skills weren’t good enough for me to understand and talk to my teachers and peers. I struggled for a long time to fit in. Everything to me was unfamiliar. Beside having a difficult time to understand the new language, I was also having a hard time to getting used to other aspects of the…

ome of my greatest memories were of my learning in school. At the end of my second grade year, I was in a school bus accident. When I got to the hospital they said a had a head concoction, and needed to stay for testing to see how bad it was. I went to school with the ability to learn like all the other student, but came home with a long path to relearning all my school functions. My struggle through learning has been a lifelong process, through multiple programs, lots of encouragement, and a…

Lessons Learn In life I have faced many disappointments and downfalls in which I have learned many important lessons over the years. Yes, indeed it hurts and makes you very upset and want to not trust in someone never again because of something a person done to you before and you feel as if the next person is going to do the same thing towards you as they did. I have many disappointments in life that I have face but they only made me a stronger and wiser young lady even though when it had…