Sentences with phrase «about teacher capacity»

Also on Monday, Jessie will join Dr. Julie A. Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow, and Ann Linson, Superintendent of East Noble School Corporation in Indiana for an important conversation about teacher capacity entitled, «The Chalkboard Dilemma: New Research on Teachers» Readiness and Willingness to Adopt Digital Tools for Learning.»

Primarily though, everything we will do will be about building teacher capacity and it's always about teacher capacity and teacher quality in any professional learning and any investment of funds.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, Mr. Martilotta, a Greenport Middle School science teacher, explained to the town Democratic committee that the village sewage treatment plant is currently operating at about half its maximum capacity and could take on additional sewage flow.

Rather, in his eagerness to belittle my findings, he shows a defensiveness that raises concerns about the capacity of teacher education to reform itself.

Read more about how schools and districts can move beyond these «pockets of excellence» to create a broad - based approach — and how to support teachers as they expand their classroom practices, as well as their confidence and capacities.

It would seem that the ongoing discussions about «teacher effectiveness» and the creation of evaluation systems focused on measuring a teacher's capacity (increasingly based on test scores) often do very little to actually develop that capacity.

The kind of trust I am talking about is that which forms the most basic attitudes of the teacher and his students — it means that I, as teacher, trust the student's capacity to learn.

More broadly, they were about teachers building both their capacity and tendency to reflect.

«We have a lot of excellent assistant teachers at our schools already, and [the program] is about building their capacity, while also building on Indigenous leadership within our communities.»

In his capacity as a social sciences teacher, David found the opportunities to learn more about Indigenous culture and the traditional owners of the region a core aspect to the trip, providing him with the ideas and inspiration required to help him begin planning potential learning experiences for his students.

The unpacking process led to building teacher capacity and understanding, and the development of plain language statements that classroom teachers could use to make accurate, fair and consistent judgements about student progress and achievement within and across teams in the school.

It doesn't matter if you end up knowing about Colonial tinsmiths or sedimentary rocks or even that you agree with how the teacher has chosen to structure the lessons on such topics; what matters is that your kid continually increases his or her desire and capacity to learn.

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.

One of the teachers on the advisory group said to us: «I love focusing on student outcomes like critical thinking and collaboration — but we don't have the capacity to train our teachers about them.»

A VTS paper describes what happens when teachers stop telling stories about art that children are not developmentally ready for, and students start «reading» art that they have the capacity to understand: «Over time, students grow from casual, random, idiosyncratic viewers to thorough, probing reflective interpreters.

First of all we had to have an approach to leadership, we had to think about how we created teaching capacities in the school, how we use data, and then basically some sort of way that we professionally develop teachers.

Once we had affirmed we had a leader and he was able to sell the vision for where we were going and get teacher buy - in, the next thing was about capacity.

The self - efficacy was the second theme and students spoke so positively about the high value they place on prac and the capacity for them to build relationships with students and also to see a glimpse of their own future and what it's going to be like to be a drama teacher in schools, seeing the difference that their teaching had on individual students.

Study Tracks Growing Understanding of UDL Education Week, May 15, 2012» «A significant amount of this money was used to improve the capacity of general education to serve students with disabilities, not develop separate special programs,» said [Professor] Thomas Hehir... «All of that [effort] is about giving teachers the skills to teach students with more diverse needs.»»

The studies succeeded in building teacher capacity and confidence, but also brought to light five concerns about STEM that current education policies and programs do not adequately address.

The working group is soliciting perspectives from deans of education regarding thoughts about how their institutions might best adapt to build capacity for preparing teachers and school leaders for this future.

In addition, I work with teachers, leaders, and districts around the country to build the capacity needed to have rich conversations about learning space design.

The New Jersey Education Association's annual convention came back yesterday in full force with capacity - crowd workshops, a busy exhibition hall, and plenty of questions about coming changes in how teachers do their jobs.

has had on my campus is the relational capacity it has brought about between teachers, students, and families; everyone!

«What I am most proud of in regards to the impact Capturing Kids» Hearts has had on my campus is the relational capacity it has brought about between teachers, students, and families; everyone!

Many in the education policy space are drawn to the idea that students» motivational beliefs about their capacities could boost their engagement in the classroom.21 Specifically, if teachers can reframe students» beliefs about their ability, then students are less likely to fear or refrain from taking on a challenging task and will instead approach their work with optimism, in spite of its apparent difficulty.

In spring 2015, NJACTE submitted a successful proposal to AACTE for funds to expand the capacity, leadership, and relationship with the PK — 12 community and the state Department of Education by collaborating on strategies to debunk myths about teacher preparation and teacher quality.

If they are truly serious about retaining quality teachers in the district, building the capacity and institutional knowledge needed to reach Superintendent Wilson's stated goal, OUSD and OEA must work together to support teachers as they search for opportunities to continue their professional development.

In our experience, learning - style assessments have proven to be wonderful tools for promoting conversations about learning, building teachers» and students» metacognitive capacities, increasing student engagement, and helping teachers find ways in with struggling students.

If teachers are all from a single struggling school, they can bring a strong set of beliefs about what their students have the capacity to achieve, and these beliefs can be difficult to shift if they are so strongly shared across the group.

Specifically, officials at the state and district levels have had difficulty building staff capacity for implementing the reforms, meeting the requirements to develop teacher evaluations and increase student learning time, and gathering data on performance in SIG schools to make decisions about future grant renewals.

Teachers make less assumptions about student ability, and students feel they have a much greater capacity to learn.

Teachers play a sizable role in developing students» beliefs about their intellectual capacity, their sense of belonging in school and the world, their eagerness to learn in the face of adversity, and their strategies for academic and lifelong success by enhancing SEL practices.

«This feels like a really significant... step in the right direction of respecting teachers» priorities, knowledge, and capacity to make serious evaluative judgments about their own work,» he said.

For example, rather than talking about what a teacher decided to do in a lesson, the coach asks the teacher to describe his or her belief about teaching, student learning, and student capacity to learn.

I've written before about why I think the self - improving school is a fantasy — in the current high - stakes, low - capacity context teachers don't have time to learn, the majority are simply trying to stay afloat.

The superintendents said there are many shortages, from the capacity of administrative staff to conduct the evaluations to the continued tensions and uncertainties among teachers about what the new measures will bring.

Bridging the gap between what teachers believe about the students and their own professional capacity to help low achieving students improve and doing what the students really need is a first step in all schools.

The challenge is to provide tools people can use to make their own capacity visible, so they can make good decisions about how to support teachers and principals.

To learn about additional opportunities to build your capacity as a teacher leader, attend the 2016 ASCD Conference on Teaching Excellence, July 8 — 10 in New Orleans, or become an ASCD member at www.ascd.org/apply.

Essential to sheltered instruction are teacher willingness and capacity to learn about and incorporate the prior knowledge of ELLs into instruction, to understand second language acquisition and address the linguistic needs of ELLs, to deliver comprehensible yet rigorous input, and to use spiraling and scaffolding techniques whereby every piece of information learned and every skill acquired provides the next - level substructure for building higher - order knowledge.

«Our goal is to build capacity with all of our teachers to know about Dyslexia and then build capacity within each team to be able to offer a variety of interventions and supports for all of our students.»

-- The 2014 proposed rule, focused on increasing teacher prep program accountability, received thousands of comments — many of them negative — about how much it would ultimately cost states, whether it would stretch their data collection capacities and whether it relies too much on student test scores.

About Catapult Learning: For nearly 40 years, Catapult Learning has been dedicated to improving academic achievement for students from Pre-K to grade 12, with a special focus on intervention for struggling learners, building teacher and instructional leader capacity, and supporting students who previously dropped out of school.

About 17 percent goes to organizations that support human capital in schools — either by supporting teacher quality or school leadership capacity.

In responding to demands that they focus sharply on improving their teachers «instructional capacities, school and district leaders should not overlook the influence they can have on classroom practice by continuing efforts to motivate their teachers, and to align their teachers «work settings with what is known about effective instructional practice.

Expert practitioners recommend «cultivating» teacher leaders, so that selection is about «tapping» teachers who have demonstrated their capacity rather than «appointing» individuals into a role that needs to be filled at a particular point in time.

The survey, which required about 20 minutes to complete, measured the collective leadership and teacher - performance antecedents described in our framework: 9 items measured collective leadership, 9 items measured teacher capacity, 17 items measured teacher motivation, and 14 items measured teacher work settings or conditions.

Successful districts invest considerable resources in developing their capacity to assess the performance of students, teachers and schools, and to utilize these assessments to inform decision - making about needs and strategies for improvement and progress towards goals at the classroom, school and district levels.

The belief is that teacher leadership is not about power, but about mobilizing the largely untapped attributes of teachers to strengthen student performance by working collaboratively in a shared capacity.