Reading teacher effectiveness: implications for teaching the gifted.
Not exact matches
The study found that OMA improved diverse students» test scores in
reading, language arts, and math, as well as improving
teachers»
effectiveness.
The impact on student math and
reading achievement differed by about 20 percent of a standard deviation, a difference which the authors note is «striking, roughly equivalent to having a
teacher who is at the 16th percentile of
effectiveness rather than at the 50th percentile.»
On the basis of these survey results, we created three measures: (1) the principal's overall assessment of the
teacher's
effectiveness, which is a single item from the survey; (2) the
teacher's ability to improve student academic performance, which is a simple average of the organization, classroom management,
reading achievement, and math achievement survey items; and (3) the
teacher's ability to increase student satisfaction, which is a simple average of the role model and student satisfaction survey items.
By way of comparison, the authors note that the impact of being assigned to a
teacher in the top - quartile rather than one in the bottom quartile in terms of their total effect on student achievement as measured by student - test - based measures of
teacher effectiveness is seven percentile points in
reading and six points in math.
In a related matter, the article argues that Tennessee's value - added data show that most
teachers are within an average range of
effectiveness — particularly in subjects like
reading.
The paper used seven years of
reading and math scores to calculate performance for individual
teachers who've taught grades three through five, and plans to publish the
effectiveness ratings with the
teacher's names.
For instance, the median finding across 10 studies of
teacher effectiveness estimates that a
teacher who is one standard deviation above the average in terms of quality produces additional learning gains for students of 0.12 standard deviations in
reading and 0.14 standard deviations in math.
Principals were asked not only to provide a rating of overall
teacher effectiveness, but also to assess, on a scale from one (inadequate) to ten (exceptional), specific
teacher characteristics (ten altogether), including dedication and work ethic, classroom management, parent satisfaction, positive relationship with administrators, and ability to improve math and
reading achievement.
With this rich array of data, we compared the
effectiveness of recently hired alternatively certified (AC) and uncertified
teachers to that of their traditionally certified counterparts in improving student learning in math and
reading during grades 4 through 8.
Given the same initial
effectiveness as a traditionally certified
teacher, our results indicate that, after two years on the job, a teaching fellow's students would score 3 percent of a standard deviation higher on average in math and
reading.
In pursuing this agenda, would - be reformers emphasized the need to overhaul
teacher evaluation and tenure, retool
teacher preparation, and place a substantial weight on
reading and math scores in judging
teacher effectiveness.
Whether your sights are set on more rigorous academic standards, foolproof
reading instruction, greater
teacher effectiveness, expanded school choice, overhauled governance, or almost anything else that would benefit from big - time change, the challenge is huge.
These and other findings with respect to the correlates of
teacher effectiveness are obtained from estimations using value - added models that control for student characteristics as well as school and (where appropriate
teacher) fixed effects in order to measure
teacher effectiveness in
reading and math for Florida students in fourth through eighth grades for eight school years, 2001 - 2002 through 2008 - 2009.
The authors conducted a cluster - randomized trial to examine the
effectiveness of structured
teacher adaptations to the implementation of an evidence - based summer literacy program that provided students with (a) books matched to their
reading level and interests and (b)
teacher scaffolding for summer
reading in the form of end - of - year comprehension lessons and materials sent to students» homes in the summer months.
Read about the school schedules time for prep, collaboration, and professional development to improve
teacher effectiveness as well as morale.
A recent study by the Institute of Education Sciences and Mathematica Policy Research reported that having a
teacher at the 10th percentile of
effectiveness compared to having a
teacher at the 90th percentile of
effectiveness is roughly equivalent to a student achieving 15 percentile points higher on a
reading test and 19 percentile points higher on a math test.
Specifically, Levenson offers four pieces of advice to schools and districts: focus on
reading and integration with general education, rethink deployment of support staff, design more sophisticated metrics to gauge
teacher effectiveness, and employ more strategic management structures.
To ensure that we were focusing on potentially powerful variables, only those classroom factors which were statistically significantly related to one or more of the measures of student or
teacher accomplishment (school
effectiveness rating; fluency, retelling, or
reading words measure; or
teacher accomplishment rating) were included in the MANOVA.
Read more: about Marzano's Focused
Teacher Evaluation Model and its 23 essential teacher competencies for improved clarity, efficiency, and effecti
Teacher Evaluation Model and its 23 essential
teacher competencies for improved clarity, efficiency, and effecti
teacher competencies for improved clarity, efficiency, and
effectiveness.
In this section, we look across all four of the previous analyses (school - level analyses of
reading program characteristics, the practices of
teachers within levels of school
effectiveness, the practices of accomplished
teachers independent of schools, and relationships among variables across schools and classrooms).
More than anything, as we continued to
read the article, we came to the same conclusion we've held since we started: increasing diversity and increasing the
effectiveness of
teachers are not diametrically opposed goals; in fact, they are inextricably linked.
Students averaged from 23 to 27 minutes a day in independent
reading across all conditions of
teacher effectiveness.
In contrast to statistically nonsignificant differences for the
teachers within levels of school
effectiveness, these statistically significant differences among
teachers across schools suggest that a
teacher's preferred style of interacting with students is a teaching dimension which is less well influenced by the practice of others at the school level than other dimensions of teaching being investigated in our study (e.g., time spent by students in independent
reading, or degree of home communication).
A majority of grade 1 and 2
teachers across levels of school
effectiveness were frequently observed teaching phonics in isolation, including working with words on a whiteboard, chart, or worksheet; working with word cards dealing with word study or word families; making words; writing words; and
reading words with a particular phonic element.
Further, research into effects of multimedia relating to comprehension of and motivation toward
reading have suffered due to a lack of rigor, affected by the classroom
teacher's ambivalence toward the relative
effectiveness of technology and by the fact that the
teacher is often too heavily invested in text - based forms of communications (Reinking, 2005).
While a coaching preference did not emerge as a general difference among
teachers across school
effectiveness ratings, we did find that the practice of coaching during
reading to provide word recognition instruction was found to be a characteristic of
teachers in the most effective schools and the most accomplished
teachers in general.
Read more about
teacher effectiveness.
An article examining the
effectiveness of the TRI's classroom -
teacher - delivered
reading intervention for struggling readers in The Elementary School Journal (2011).
The difference the [Final Report] estimates comparing the
teacher at the 15th percentile of
effectiveness to the average
teacher (50th percentile) is -22 scaled score points on the 5th grade PSSA
Reading test... [referring] to the 2010 PSSA Technical Manual raw score table... for the 8th grade
Reading test, that would be a difference of approximately 2 raw score points, or the equivalent of 2 multiple choice (MC) questions (1 point apiece) or half credit on one OE [open - ended] question.
The evaluation brief synthesizes two recent NCEE impact studies, which evaluated key strategies that can be funded through the federal
Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grants and its successor program,
Read more about Key Strategies to Promote Educator
Effectiveness -LSB-...]
Meta - analyses, like The
Effectiveness of Educational Technology Applications for Enhancing
Reading Achievement in K — 12 Classrooms: A Meta - Analysis, and Evaluation of Evidence - Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta - Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies found that blending technology with face - to - face
teacher time generally produces better outcomes than face - to - face or online learning alone.
Read the NJEA Article on the Marzano Causal
Teacher Evaluation Model with Dr. Peggy Schooling for an overview of the model, how it is different and it's use and
effectiveness around the country.
You can also
read our award - winning series from 2010 in partnership with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that took an in - depth look at
teacher quality and
effectiveness.
Teacher effectiveness is worthy of increased research, but the proposals for value - added evaluation measures
Read more about The «Tyranny» of the Self - Contained Classroom -LSB-...]
«Teaching to the Core:
Read more about 10 Steps for Integrating
Teacher Effectiveness Systems and the Common Core -LSB-...]
This new video program, Implementing a
Reading Program in Secondary Schools, shows how teachers and administrators in the schools featured in the series developed their reading programs in a three - phase process of planning, implementing, and reviewing the effectiveness of the p
Reading Program in Secondary Schools, shows how
teachers and administrators in the schools featured in the series developed their
reading programs in a three - phase process of planning, implementing, and reviewing the effectiveness of the p
reading programs in a three - phase process of planning, implementing, and reviewing the
effectiveness of the program.
In this study, researchers Jason A. Grissom and Susanna Loeb offer new evidence on principals» subjective evaluations of their
teachers»
effectiveness using two sources of data from
Read more about Two New Studies show Principals Reluctant to give Low Ratings on
Teacher Evaluations -LSB-...]
It especially decries the lack of effective test instruments to assess
reading comprehension because
teachers can not evaluate the
effectiveness of their instruction without reliable and valid assessments that are aligned with the curriculum.
Personalized Learning Approach Proven Effective in Advancing Foundational
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teacher - led instructional methods, KIPP Delta Elementary Literacy Academy in Arkansas and E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., are joining thousands of schools nationwide who have turned to Lexia
Reading Core5 ™ to help students accelerate the development of critical foundational literacy skills and help empower higher levels of
teacher effectiveness.
His overarching vision, «North Carolina will be the education leader not just in the Southeast or in the nation, but in the world,» is achievable by traveling all five of the following paths: creating prosperity and jobs for graduates, a rewarding career for
teachers and principals, instilling a joy of
reading and math for every child, excellent innovative learning options for families, and cost
effectiveness for taxpayers.
Rockman et al has conducted several studies investigating the implementation and impact of ReadWorks «curriculum and
teacher training materials, which are designed to improve
teacher effectiveness and student achievement in
reading comprehension.
After
reading this chapter, have your ideas about
teacher effectiveness changed?
In addition, and as directly related to VAMs, in this study researchers also found that each rating from each of the four domains, as well as the average of all ratings, «correlated positively with student learning [gains, as derived via the Nevada Growth Model, as based on the Student Growth Percentiles (SGP) model; for more information about the SGP model see here and here; see also p. 6 of this report here], in
reading and in math, as would be expected if the ratings measured
teacher effectiveness in promoting student learning» (p. i).
Because of its
effectiveness,
teachers should find ways to incorporate choral
reading into their daily classroom instruction.
Read Policy Priorities for more insights about why proper training of incoming
teachers provides a logical first step in helping students reap the benefits of the new standards; how the standards could affect
teacher evaluations; the federal government's plans to improve the
effectiveness of
teacher preparation programs; and how some states, such as New Jersey, have effectively engaged all stakeholders in moving
teacher preparation programs and the standards forward.
New
Teacher Mentoring: Hopes and Promise for Improving
Teacher Effectiveness is a must
read for educators who are serious about transforming America's classrooms.
Specifically, continuous edTPA scores are a significant predictor of student mathematics achievement in some specifications, but when we consider that the edTPA is a binary screen of teaching
effectiveness (i.e., pass / fail), we find that passing the edTPA is significantly predictive of
teacher effectiveness in
reading but not in mathematics.
Briggs and Domingue found strong evidence of these illogical results when using the L.A. Times model, especially for
reading outcomes: «Because our sensitivity test did show this sort of backwards prediction, we can conclude that estimates of
teacher effectiveness in LAUSD are a biased proxy for
teacher quality.»
Though some
teachers had realized the critical connection between their own
reading and writing and their
effectiveness as
teachers of children's literacy, many fully embraced this notion for the first time during professional development.