Starting at the classroom level is a good start.
Not exact matches
It's time to
start putting leaders in place in the
classroom and
at the school
level first.
The issue with that is that if we have students in a
classroom who are ranging from below Low, barely able to read and make sense of their text, to students who are reading
at this Advanced
level, it is very difficult for a teacher to be able to teach to a class with that wide a variety of literacy
levels, and the problem is that these children who are not reaching the Low benchmark or are
at the Low benchmark are, if you like,
starting the race quite a long way behind all of these other kids.
In 10 or 20 years, when that new generation
starts school, it may have changed again, but currently, cloud - based technologies
at the
classroom level are quickly becoming some of the best and most versatile tools on the market.
Something that
started in Phase 1
at classroom level moved quickly through senior leadership, through the middle leadership, and began to become a much more school - wide reform movement.
Still, if states» higher standards and tougher tests are leading to real changes in the
classroom — especially as schools adopt high quality curriculum like Eureka Math — we ought to
start seeing a bump soon,
at least
at the fourth grade
level.
Many of us bring years (even decades) of meaningful work experience into our
classrooms, yet we are required to
start at the same «fresh out of college»
level on the salary guide as recent graduates entering their first full time jobs
«We wanted to extend our reach and give teachers more feedback
at a
classroom level without always having to send in a large team of people,» said Karla Oakley, senior strategist with The New Teacher Project (TNTP), a nonprofit that
started offering virtual coaching in 2013, augmenting the in - school support services they have provided for nearly two decades.
Before getting
started with Achieve3000, Alexander — who was a
classroom teacher
at the time — was using Newsela, a site that publishes news articles for students
at different reading
levels.
«Before
starting this, we made sure to have a supply of school laptops in the
classroom so that no one was left out,» continued Kelley, explaining why the program only began with one grade
level in order to ensure there were enough computers for students to
at least work in pairs or small teams.