RUNNING HEAD:
EXPLAINING TEACHER EFFECTS ON ACHIEVEMENT 1
Explaining Teacher Effects on Achievement Using Measures from Multiple Research Traditions
Not exact matches
And I have admit that I always give the «lawyer's argument» for the great book I'm teaching, while often merely alluding to criticisms both tentative and pointed.The Catholic approach is not appropriate for a
teacher at a non-Catholic college, and my approach usually has the
effect I can't completely
explain of making my smart Christian students more Christian.
«With the public sector workers... yes, I think what we saw with head
teachers writing letters home to parents in
effect saying «don't vote for the Conservatives», that was the subtext,» she
explains.
Semiparametric lower bound estimates of the variance in
teacher quality based entirely on within - school heterogeneity indicate that
teachers have powerful
effects on reading and mathematics achievement, though little of the variation in
teacher quality is
explained by observable characteristics such as education or experience.
«Rehearsing» his developing knowledge by
explaining key concepts to himself or to a peer (in
effect, thinking from the perspective of a
teacher as well as a student)
Senior publisher Ashley Lodge
explains how «research had shown us that many primary
teachers didn't feel confident in their scientific knowledge and skills, which has a detrimental
effect on children's love of the subject.»
If
teacher quality is a key input in education, this interpretation can
explain why class - size
effects exist in some countries but not in others and at the same time why the countries in our sample where we did find sizable class - size
effects also exhibit poor overall performance.
Teachers who
explain these findings report that the knowledge has a positive
effect on students» perceptions of their abilities as well as on their expectations for success.
When feedback is focused on the goal and is informative and actionable, then as Hattie
explains, the greatest
effect on student learning occurs when the
teacher becomes aware of their own
effect on learning.
In fact, one observational system of which I am aware (i.e., the TAP System for
Teacher and Student Advancement) is marketing its proprietary system, using as a primary selling point figures illustrating (with text
explaining) how clients who use their system will improve their prior «Widget
Effect» results (i.e., yielding such normal curves; see Figure below, as per Jerald & Van Hook, 2011, p. 1).
Later that day during a scheduled
teacher - coach meeting, Ms. Kelly
explains to Coach Long that she wants students to act out scenes to reinforce the concept of cause and
effect.
It is possible that this approach (which did enable
teachers to implement the two - day lesson with fidelity) also helps
explain the absence of
teacher - level
effects on student motivation.
This is a completely separate concern from the fact that, at best, measured «
teacher effects» may only
explain from 1 % to 15 or 20 % of the variance in student test scores, a figure dwarfed by the variance
explained by factors beyond the control of
teachers.
In
effect, he
explains, the Baltimore school encouraged
teachers who were against the school's new direction to consider transferring to more conventional schools.
The answer may be
explained through a comment from John Hattie (2015), «The greatest influence on student progression in learning is having highly expert, inspired and passionate
teachers and school leaders working together to maximize the
effect of their teaching on all students in their care.»
Designed to facilitate more authentic and deeper learning,
teachers will brainstorm ways to integrate the Essential Skills in Economics to also develop students» mastery of other K - 12 English / language arts and social studies skills such as analyzing and synthesizing primary and secondary sources; using evidence to draw conclusions and make generalizations; articulating and defending positions using content vocabulary; comparing and contrasting historical, cultural, and political perspectives;
explaining cause - and -
effect relationships; and practicing good citizenship skills while collaborating and compromising.
It has been well documented that
teacher effects can only
explain, on average, between 10 - 20 % of the variation in student achievement scores (this will be further explored in forthcoming posts).
He
explains that simplistic reform efforts, such as Race to the Top and VAM - based
teacher evaluation systems, overvalue
teacher effects in terms of the actual levels of impact
teachers have on student achievement.
Larry, a high school social studies
teacher,
explained the
effect of learning targets on his instructional decision making:
The model
explains the potential
effects of external stressors on wellbeing through the experiences of everyday discrete emotions and is, therefore, highly useful to understand the
effects of interpersonal
teacher — student stressors on
teacher wellbeing.