Teacher instructional practice with the IWB was compared with the teachers» instructional practice without the IWB through chi - square analysis, in which the expected value was derived from the pattern of instruction established without the IWB.
Not exact matches
Vigorous morning yoga intensives guide you deeper into your own
practice and life purpose, while afternoon
instructional sessions cover an extensive yoga
teacher curriculum, including cueing, sequencing, hands - on assists, working
with injuries, demonstration techniques, vocal presence, yoga philosophy and history, the business of yoga, ethics, and anatomy.
• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire
teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them
with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best
practices» • Identify
teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give
instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in
practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!
• Classrooms open to
teacher colleagues for observation and analysis In order to articulate a problem of
practice teachers must make use of
instructional data which they collect through observations of their colleagues» classrooms and contrast current
practice with their shared expectation of effective instruction for the identified learning problem.
One of LPS's lead math
teachers, Mike Fauteux, wanted to improve student engagement and address his students» individual learning gaps, so he began experimenting
with new
instructional practices that used Google Sheets and OER to provide students
with self - guided learning experiences.
«If
teachers do not deeply understand their standards — or the
instructional practices that are aligned
with them — their instruction may fall short of helping students meet those standards,» observes the RAND Corporation's Kaufman, who, along
with Lindsey Thompson and V. Darleen Opfer, found that Louisiana
teachers demonstrated a stronger grasp of the Common Core standards and adopted more classroom
practices that reflect them than did
teachers elsewhere.
They then are expected, in conjunction
with teachers, to design and test teaching materials and
instructional practices that can be applied in classrooms.
To provide the best
instructional practices for ELLs, a
teacher must be willing to accommodate their learning needs and provide them
with equitable learning opportunities.
The district nonetheless moved forward
with the pilot to implement formative, ongoing assessments for
teachers that would provide them
with structured feedback on their
instructional practices.
The new
instructional practices demanded by the standards would have been reflected and reinforced through
teacher observations,
with feedback given by trained coaches and principals.
To date, our work using the distributed perspective has demonstrated the ways that leaders co-construct leadership activity, how leadership
practice connects and fails to connect
with instructional change, why
teachers heed or ignore the guidance of school leaders, and how leadership is
practiced differently in different school subjects (e.g. mathematics versus language arts).
A break from hyperactive policymaking gives schools the time and space to finish what we started — to actually implement the higher standards that most states adopted seven years ago; to get better at giving
teachers helpful feedback about their
instructional practices; to find curricula worth teaching; and to experiment
with new approaches to personalization.
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teachers and
instructional leaders
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teacher practice.
For too long our professional development systems have focused on the quality of the professional development «inputs» provided to
teachers to improve their professional
practice,
with unfortunately little evidence of improvement or linkage to any «outputs» of a change in
instructional practice.
FOSS provides the district
with a science program that matches state standards, promotes
instructional practices consistent
with district goals, and allows
teachers to integrate technology and science instruction.
Along
with the online survey reports,
teachers and principals will have access to the Panorama Education Playbook (Playbook), an online professional learning tool that allows educators to share
practices and create a personalized playbook of
instructional strategies based on their survey results.
This comprehensive software, developed in partnership
with Harris School Solutions, makes it easy for
teachers, coaches, and school leaders to work together to improve the use of
instructional strategies and other professional
practices.
Utilizing an in - depth consultation protocol, attendees will conduct a thorough analysis of the
practices and accountability of
teachers at their school, leaving
with a plan that improves leadership among
teachers,
instructional practice, student and adult connections, and motivation and engagement strategies.
In particular, rich data on SIG schools in one of the studies shows that schools improved both by differentially retaining their most experienced
teachers and by providing
teachers with increased supports for
instructional improvement such as opportunities to visit each other's classrooms and to receive meaningful feedback on their teaching
practice from school leaders.
With that additional money in hand, it seems obvious that schools below the cutoff would be doing more improvements than schools above the cutoff, such as using different
instructional approaches, different hiring
practices, developing
teachers and principals and so on.
Noble network schools follow key
practices and principles typically associated
with the no - excuses approach: frequent
teacher feedback, data - driven instruction, high - dosage tutoring, increased
instructional time, and high expectations.
These differences in
instructional practices reported by Michigan and California
teachers are consistent
with the emphasis given to dissimilar aspects of the language arts reform policies in the two states.
As
with the sub-study reported in Section 1.4, this sub-study focuses on evidence about
practices for successful
instructional leadership as judged by educators close to the students — principals and
teachers.
Analysis across these studies revealed that
teacher leaders used a variety of
practices in their work
with teachers to implement
instructional materials.
Regardless of the
practices used or the focus of
teacher leaders» work
with teachers, these efforts are intended to impact the extent and quality of
teachers» use of
instructional materials in implementing the intended math or science curricula.
With the knowledge that
instructional leadership is the primary engine behind
teacher effectiveness, the authors demonstrate how to support classroom
practices that raise student achievement.
The framework for our overall project also points to the mostly indirect influence of principals «actions on students and on student learning.223 Such actions are mediated, for example, by school conditions such as academic press, 224
with significant consequences for teaching and learning and for powerful features of classroom
practice such as
teachers «uses of
instructional time.225 Evidence - informed decision making by principals, guided by this understanding of principals «work, includes having and using a broad array of evidence about many things: key features of their school «s external context; the status of school and classroom conditions mediating leaders «own leadership
practices; and the status of their students «learning.
Do three specific attributes of principals «leadership behavior — the sharing of leadership
with teachers, the development of trust relationships among professionals, and the provision of support for
instructional improvement — affect
teachers «work
with each other and their classroom
practices?
Still, a troublesome pattern apparently persists: secondary school principals do not, according to our data, interact
with teachers frequently and directly about
instructional practice.
Do three specific attributes of principals «leadership behavior — the sharing of leadership
with teachers, the development of trust relationships among professionals, and the provision of support for
instructional improvement — affect
teachers «work
with one another, and their classroom
practices?
Deeper understanding combined
with the PSD tool can help improve
instructional pedagogical
practices by enabling cooperating
teachers, college mentors and principals to identify areas in need of growth and monitor individual pre - service / novice
teacher progress.
The idea here is to let
teachers get into each other's classrooms to see innovation happening, and the goal There is lots written about looking and student work and
instructional rounds, and we can share resources
with you, but the main ideas here is that we need to help teams that are engaged in new
practices figure out how to make sense of them.
Access toolkits for
teachers with research - based
instructional practices and strategies in reading, writing, math, and cognitive science / advanced reasoning.
She learned that she could maintain her informal, friendly style
with teachers while also helping them grow their
instructional practices to meet their specific goals.
NAEYC developmentally appropriate
practices (DAP), including
instructional practices to promote learning and development,
teacher - child interactions, assessment
practices, the use of materials and the physical environment, constitute the foundation of quality for all children, including children
with disabilities.
Much current research about
instructional leadership is focused on distributed leadership125 or on the leader «s content knowledge.126 Meanwhile, questions about how and when the principal might best engage
with a
teacher to address specific
practices used by effective
teachers have been under - researched.
Guide the
instructional practices of high school
teachers through the school director and dean of... Work closely
with the chief curriculum and
instructional officer, chief schools officer, and school...
Put differently, out of a total of 127 schools returning surveys,
with 67 of those being secondary and 60 elementary, nearly 66 % of all schools
with principals scoring in the lowest 20 % for taking direct action to support
teachers «
instructional practices were middle and high schools.
From the beginning, many were leery of trying to accomplish both purposes
with one instrument, but the advantages in terms of
teacher development,
instructional practice, and student engagement motivated educators to try (Aschbacher, 1994; Haney 1991; Mehrens, 1998; Valencia, 1991).
In early October, central office administrators, principals and
teachers from 23 Portland schools gathered in Warm Springs, Oregon,
with the shared mission of increasing student achievement by improving district
instructional and leadership
practices.
Their receptivity to standard forms of
instructional practice, however, was conditional upon the quality of district support for implementation (staff development, materials, supervision), perceived fit
with state / district curriculum requirements, evidence of student impact, and opportunities for
teacher discretion within the boundaries established by the district.
The school district chose The Art and Science of Teaching by educational researcher Dr. Robert Marzano as its evaluation model, feeling that, as part of a fair and consistent evaluation process
with specific feedback to improve skills, this provides the most feedback for
teachers on effective
instructional practices and outlining specific, high probability teaching strategies shown to lead to higher student achievement when implemented correctly.
Similarly, only one set of identified
practices — Monitoring
teachers» work — matched up
with Managing the
instructional program.
As we work
with districts on establishing professional goal - setting processes, we often hear from
teachers and principals that they are unsure about what kinds of formative assessments of students» learning they should use to set and assess their professional goals related to
instructional practice.
These teams are comprised of experienced educators
with the knowledge to help leaders and
teachers implement effective
instructional practices and improve experiences and outcomes for all students.
We did not find any evidence in our interviews
with secondary
teachers that their department chairs or content - area colleagues were providing
instructional leadership in the form of on - going classroom visits and dialogues about
instructional practices.
The effort provides districts
with resources and support to ensure that local technology and digital learning plans align
with instructional best
practices, are implemented by highly trained
teachers, and lead to personalized learning experiences for all students, particularly those from traditionally under - served communities.
It's a set of questions that nags just about every parent
with school - age kids: Does their child's
teacher employ good
instructional practices?
In addition, students will be paired
with teachers who display highly effective
instructional strategies and content - specific, culturally responsive
practices.
In all cases,
teacher - leaders responsible for developing the
instructional practice of other
teachers must work collaboratively
with others and, in most cases, should continue to teach as well as lead.