Our knowledgeable and enthusiastic coaches will
focus on the instruction of position specific fundamentals leading into team - related drills (scrimmages).
KIPP and No - Excuses schools like Sci Academy (detailed in the book) pride themselves on clearing out all of the managerial detritus so that teachers can
focus on instruction.
I should have been
focusing on my instruction and creating engagement lessons and projects for students to do.
When students sit in one place trying to remain
focused on instruction for too long, it makes learning difficult.
I keep asking myself whether this video should
focus on my instruction or on the child in socializing with her peers.
Alvarado believed principals should be
focused on instruction and should be regularly observing classes.
Keep
the focus on your instruction, suggests Pagan.
Making time for
a focus on instruction is very difficult, Joy Hood, a coach with the PEBC program, told Education World.
Although it's not
focused on instruction, there are instructional moments that would be good discussion items for teachers.
Making time for
a focus on instruction is very difficult, said Joy Hood, a coach with a principal leadership program in Denver.
Several principals who use PBIS told Education World that they were elated to see that when student behavior improved under the system and teachers had more time to
focus on instruction, academic performance shot up as well.
On «Multidimensional Perception,» teachers receive the top score if they «identif [y] events occurring simultaneously while maintaining
a focus on instruction.»
But schools that are continually adapting to new policies made monthly by school boards or superintendents lose
their focus on instruction and become dominated by the imperative to comply.
This is a great way to take your class to the next level while maintaining
your focus on instruction!
This [walk - throughs] got all the administrators
focused on instruction.
His work examines the promise of distributed leadership, the potential for improved incentive systems to promote effective practices and bring them to scale, and the necessity to maintain a tight
focus on instruction within an internalized accountability system.
«But they were only able to succeed — and were more likely to choose to stay — when those schools provided high - functioning organizational supports that were essential for their success in the classroom, so they could
focus on instruction.»
How you talk in your lessons, when
both focusing on instruction and relating with your students, will increase their language ability.
1 — Instruction: Seminar: Teaming:
Focus on Instruction, sponsored by the New England League of Middle Schools, for middle school educators, at the NELMS center in Topsfield, Mass..
A Lesson for Principals: Put Instruction First «Making time for
a focus on instruction is very difficult,» said Joy Hood, a coach with a principal leadership program in Denver.
But when leaders can provide a frame that's
focused on instruction and say «listen, all forms of evidence are useful here, what we want you to do is anchor your instructional decisions in evidence, and talk about instruction and use that evidence to think about student thinking... what do we really know about student learning in this context?»
Mentor practices that
focus on instruction and learning have greater impact on student achievement
In addition, Dr. Jones has developed research - based methods of group management that are extremely cost - effective — that free the teacher to
focus on instruction rather than discipline.
Education Northwest's paper - scoring service allows your teachers to
focus on instruction without getting buried in paperwork.
This finding is quite remarkable: It suggests that district policies and practices
focused on instruction are sufficiently powerful that they can be felt by teachers as an animating force behind strong, focused leadership by principals.
While the characteristics of the school and its student population, taken together, have a strong association with principals «instructional leadership, the measure of District
focus on instruction has a significant regression coefficient.
District
focus on instruction and principals» instructional leadership.
We also investigated the relationship between district
focus on instruction and principals «selfassessments of their expertise in providing instructional support to teachers.
We conducted a regression of the Principal Instructional Leadership measure on the principals «responses to items in the District
Focus on Instruction scale, including building characteristics (size and level), student characteristics (% minority and % FRP) as control variables in the model.
The multiple linkages model asserts a prominent role for «situational variables» — the size of the work group, organizational policies and procedures, the prior training and experience of members — which mediate what the leader is able to do.131 For example, the size of the school will have a significant effect on how well teachers know other teachers; it also will affect the way in which teachers form workgroups or departments to talk about their work.132 The fragmented nature of professional communities, rather than size per se, becomes a constraint on how principals try to organize professional communities to
focus on instruction and student learning.
This finding underscores other research indicating that although it's good to have a buddy with a sympathetic ear, mentor conversations that
focus on instruction can have a more profound impact on teachers» practice.
All district leaders believe that
they focus on instruction, but we found substantial variation from district to district in the levels of skill and understanding with which they address this focus.
Neufeld and Woodworth's study (2000) of teams that included teacher leaders found that high - functioning groups (those that fully involved teacher members and facilitated cross-school discussions on instruction) were collaborative, collegial and
focused on instruction.
(«
Focus on Instruction Turns Around Chicago Schools,» Jan. 6, 2010.)
In a study by Coggins et al. (2003) coaches (i.e., teacher leaders) reported that they were most effective supporting their schools» reform efforts when facilitating teams of teachers in meetings that were
focused on instruction (such as analysis of student achievement data and discussions of research).
If we're
focused on instruction, if we're focused on our students — on that teaching and learning — students will succeed.
The CEI team works with new principals in all aspects of the school community with
a focus on instruction, improved opportunities, and outcomes for students and their families, and building capacity for school leadership.
Through
its focus on instruction that is responsive to kids» interests and learning needs, the first edition of Strategies That Work helped transform comprehension instruction for teachers across the country.
More research is surely called for, but our suspicion is that the finding is a lesson about expertise: Districts need to make sure not only that principals have time to
focus on instruction but also the skills to use that extra time well, that is, the expertise to help teachers improve.
John McCoy, D - Tulalip, who commissioned the $ 25,000 report, said it confirmed his impression that teachers are not being given enough time to
focus on instruction.
Prior to joining CSGF, Soenda provided direct support
focused on instruction, leadership, and strategy for schools in emerging regions at the KIPP Foundation.
They usually meet on a weekly basis to plan, always
focusing on instruction.
Literacy centers are a great way to reinforce students» reading / writing habits, which allows teachers to
focus on instruction rather than classroom management.
Snitily helps provide time for principals to
focus on instruction and share their learning with peers.
Dr. Lapp
focuses on instruction that supports learning for a diverse range of students.
New principals need to have a strong
focus on instruction and a drive to improve their skillset.
Our central office team has worked hard to help principals
focus on instruction even as their job gets ever more complex.
I've long held that if teachers at high poverty schools could primarily
focus on instruction you would see a change in the achievement - wealth connection.
District officials say they will provide extra security for schools like Jenner as well as administrative support at both closing and receiving schools so principals can remain
focused on instruction.
One key step was to redesign their monthly principals» meetings to
focus on instruction.