Sentences with phrase «about quality instruction»

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MOOCs [Massive Open Online Courses] have a high dropout rate and have serious questions about quality of instruction.

At all levels, regardless of the amount of playing time, players receive the same quality instruction from coaches who care about development and foster a positive, sportsmanlike environment.

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Ultimately, state leaders need to insist on a high - quality assessment that gives teachers and parents the information they need to know about whether students are on track for success, and how instruction needs to improve.

They are admirably aligned with rigorous research (on early reading instruction, for example); explicit about the quality and complexity of reading and writing that should be expected of students every year; very solid on arithmetic as a clear priority in the elementary grades; ambitious in aiming for college and career readiness by the end of twelfth grade; and relatively jargon - free.

But the proportion of unsatisfactory ratings that Kraft and Gilmour found is about three times the rate before the introduction of the new grading systems, when evaluations were infrequent and typically amounted to nothing more than quick classroom visits by principals wielding simplistic checklists that stressed comportment over quality instruction and student learning.

There are legitimate concerns about test quality; the noisiness and variability of calculations; the fact that metrics don't account for the impact of specialists, support staff, or shared instruction; and the degree to which value - added calculations rest upon a narrow, truncated conception of good teaching.

I understand now that education quality is fundamentally about purpose, about relevancy, about the content and pedagogy of instruction.»

For much of the past few years, reflecting general concerns about the quality of public schooling, discussions of magnet schools have centered on their potential for providing intensive instruction in such subjects as science and mathematics, serving as models of effectiveness, and increasing family choice within the public system.

Teachers may exert lower levels of effort for students whose parents are less vocal about quality of instruction.

It says the two with the strongest evidence in improving student outcomes are: content knowledge (including how students think about content); and quality of instruction (including effective questioning and use of assessment).

Depending on the financial or political costs of extending school years, those with a stake in education might think differently about gains attributable to the quality of instruction provided and gains attributable to the quantity.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

Deshler revealed that when he asked staff about struggling adolescent readers and their ability to ever read close to grade level with high - quality instruction, 66 percent responded that they were «not confident.»

By instructional leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the school are properly aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of instructional materials.

Most of the remainder involve claims of racial discrimination, complaints about the quality of instruction provided English language learners, claims that schools have not provided female students with equal athletic opportunity, and charges that schools have not dealt adequately with sexual violence and other forms of sexual harassment.

Teachers felt more effective and positive about teaching, offered higher - quality instruction, and collaborated more frequently with other teachers

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Given the need to improve the quality of instruction and the lack of clarity and shared knowledge about what systems and activities improve teaching, this is the right time to take stock of what is known; what kinds of activities are currently underway; and what will be needed going forward as reforms roll through the education system.

Districts that are serious about high - quality Common Core implementation select, evaluate, and hold principals accountable based on their skills in instruction.

To be sure — and to be fair — there is much room for concern about the uneven quality of curriculum and instruction, a problem that Common Core has done less to create than to reveal.

When they rate specific actions, however, they are even more discriminating: the district «s ability to Clarify the steps needed to improve the quality of instruction has a mean of 4.5, while the question of how frequently they Communicate about best practice in high - priority areas of instruction has a mean of 3.6, which falls between categories of occasionally and often on a five - point scale.

Attend our engaging workshops designed to help leaders get even smarter about high quality instruction and visit our exhibit booth to learn more about CEL's resources.

About Silver Strong & Associates For over 35 years, Silver Strong & Associates has been a leader in helping schools meet the challenges of providing high quality instruction to diverse learners.

The first thing low income parents and their children need is access to high quality instruction and to information about their rights.

They are also clueless about what kind of teaching best motivates this generation to learn... We need more profiles of quality instruction... to inform the education debate.»

Teachers can develop and use formative assessments to guide future instruction, develop individual learning goals for students, and obtain valuable information about the quality of the lessons being presented to students.

«But one of the things we found in our study was that as some of those people were reached out to and got the message that being a principal could be about... building the quality of instruction, they said, «Oh, well I might actually want to do that.»

The classroom observations provide more nuanced information about the specific ways in which instruction can be improved (classroom management, quality of feedback to students, etc.), something not possible with value - added.

Read more about Exploring Methods for Improving Teachers» Mathematical Quality of Instruction

Most important, the new research projects have produced assessments that reflect what cognitive research tells us about how people learn, providing an opportunity to greatly strengthen the quality of instruction.

It collects educational achievement data at the 4th and 8th grades to provide information about trends in performance over time together with extensive background information to address concerns about the quantity, quality, and content of instruction.

Available evidence suggests not that technology creates educational improvement but rather that educational improvement comes about through coherent instruction and assessment that supports high - quality student learning.

What do students say about the quality of instruction in your building?

Schools Performing Beyond Expectations: Improvement From Within July 28, 2015 Danette Parsley writes about two exceptional schools in rural and remote southern Oregon, Merrill and Malin Elementary Schools, that are beating the odds through data use, high - quality instruction, community building, and strong leadership.

«With value - added, we're trying to give better information to teachers about their student performance so they can improve their instruction,» said Kathy Hebda, the state's deputy chancellor for educator quality.

Visit the ASCD Web site (www.ascd.org) and search for «networks» for information about professional educators who have formed groups around topics like «Assessment for Learning,» «Interdisciplinary Curriculum and Instruction,» and «Quality Education.»

Make their primary role be about helping all school districts in their state improve the quality of instruction provided to all students?

I constantly worry about his academic needs — the school's curriculum, the lack of accountability within the classrooms, the poor quality of his teachers and the ongoing need for additional instruction time for his struggling classmates.

With the input of colleagues who teach writing pedagogies and linguistics courses at my university, I designed an interview protocol meant to elicit a variety of information about curriculum, instruction, beliefs about teaching writing, and the particular qualities of their students from participating teachers.

Danette Parsley writes about two exceptional schools in rural Oregon that are beating the odds through data use, high - quality instruction, community building, and...

Everyone of you who predicted that Massachusetts would out perform Arizona did so without knowing anything about the unions» roles in the two states, the curriculum used by the schools, the quality of the instruction, the quality of the leadership of the schools, and so forth.

A high - quality system of assessments can facilitate this by providing aligned and coherent information from a variety of assessments about students» college and career readiness — maximizing efficiency while reducing duplication, in a timely and rich enough manner to inform instruction, student self - direction in learning, and accountability.

The National Council on Teacher Quality examined what aspiring teachers learn about reading instruction in college.

In these times, we must interrogate our own role as educators committed to high - quality instruction and equitable access to resources, and commit to unlearning the hidden messages that have been taught to us by society about race and power.

My students have entered this Getting Better Together journey, alongside me, to help us all think deeply about high - quality instruction.

It's still always about great teaching practices and quality instruction.

First published in 1995 as How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed - Ability Classrooms, this new edition reflects evolving best practices in education, the experiences of practitioners throughout the United States and around the world, and Tomlinson's continuing thinking about how to help each and every student access challenging, high - quality curriculum; engage in meaning - rich learning experiences; and feel at home in a school environment that «fits.»

Reliance on standardized achievement test scores as the source of data about teacher quality will inevitably promote confusion between «successful» instruction and «good» instruction.

Ms. Staples is passionate about providing high quality education and opportunities and culturally conscious instruction to students in high need communities.