These average differences, however, mask instructional variation
among teachers within schools.
It also fosters conversations and professional community
among teachers within a school, and helps establish the teacher leader's credibility as a leader.
We explore whether districts that offer different types of financial incentives to teachers tend to have greater diversity
among teachers within their schools.
In addition to instruction, the PDs included time for collaboration
among teachers within schools, as well as across schools by subject area and content.
However, the study tests for confounding only
among teachers within a school.
Not exact matches
The next circle centers on the
school as a dynamic organism, a society
within itself, with a dominant system of values, a pervasive ideology, and a characteristic set of relationships, rituals, and authority patterns
among administrators,
teachers, and students.
A consistent focus on student engagement
within and across AL projects at CPAHS has been influenced by Munns, Sawyer and Cole's
Teachers for a Fair Go3, an action research project on student engagement
among low - SES primary
school students in Sydney's South West.
As importantly, it appears that existing survey - based measures of non-cognitive skills, although perhaps useful for making comparisons
among students
within the same educational environment, are inadequate to gauge the effectiveness of
schools,
teachers, or interventions in cultivating the development of those skills.
And we need to collaborate more broadly:
within the entire
school community,
among teachers, paraprofessionals,
school counselors, bus drivers,
school nurses and administrators;
schools with parents;
schools with community partners.
So, it is frustrating to discover
within this survey, posted on the website of the
School Choice Campaign, a flagship project of the Centre for Civil Society to bring about reforms in
schools in India, a high rate of attrition
among teachers in the developing world, which averages about 19 % across the countries studied.
Among them are a focus
within preschool programs on teaching pre-academic skills; the conceptualization of the role of the adults who provide center - based care as that of a
teacher; a bias towards delivering pre-K services through
school districts; a press towards common standards and curriculum across pre-K providers; accountability regimens that are tied to children's performance on measures that correlate with later
school success; disproportionate spending on four - year - olds as opposed to younger children; and marginalization of the family's responsibility.
It can also be
among teachers,
among courses,
among delivery options,
among instructional strategies,
among programs, and
among schools -
within -
schools.
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).
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).
Section 1.2 focuses more narrowly on relationships
among actors
within schools, examining leadership shared by principals and
teachers as it may affect classroom practice and student learning.
Important characteristics of
school culture include a caring atmosphere, significant family volunteering, and a supportive environment for
teachers «work.158 Widespread trust
among participants promotes collaboration
within schools and communities.159 Parental involvement benefits students, particularly; it also seems to benefit families, enhancing their attitudes about themselves, their children «s
schools, and
school staff members.160
Because parental involvement is linked to student achievement by correlation, we assert that
teachers and principals can play a role in increasing student learning by creating a culture of shared leadership and responsibility — not merely
among school staff members, but collectively
within the wider community.
«What promises to increase the worth of districtwide professional development, especially if based
within schools and involving
teachers in the planning, are those efforts concentrating on prevailing beliefs
among teachers about teaching and learning, current norms in the
school community, and classroom practices.
Since the most effective professional development is that which is targeted to specific challenges
teachers confront in particular settings, collaboration
within the
school among administrators,
teachers, and
school staff is critical.
Schools serving students from lower socioeconomic and diverse linguistic backgrounds experience retention problems
among teachers and administrators, and often transiency
within the student population as well.
Combine the struggles in improving literacy with low levels of classroom management skills
among many
teachers (another problem traceable to ed
schools), the arbitrary nature of traditional
school discipline practices, and the problems
within American public education attributable to racialist practices such as ability grouping, and it is little wonder why the overuse of suspensions is such a problem for our kids.
In MPS, the
teachers and leaders are committed to the vision of high expectations for achievement, equal access to high levels of instruction, the achievement of academic proficiency for all students, and the closing of the achievement gap
among subgroups
within the
schools.
Example projects: Ms. Hassel co-authored,
among others, numerous practical tools to redesign
schools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Work
schools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every
School: Transforming
Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Work
Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies,
within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent
Teacher;
Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring
Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring
schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Work
schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing
Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Work
Schools; Importing Leaders for
School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter
School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success;
School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Works When?
More time in
school — A common concern
among teachers is that there simply isn't the time
within the
school day to plan with peers.
How might you celebrate reflective growth — as a whole
school,
within departments, or
among individual
teachers?
We believe that
teachers are
among the strongest levers for transformative change
within schools, and we view them as both leaders and classroom designers.
Among other things, Fraisse said appropriately trained evaluators can identify ineffective
teachers within two years if the
school district's human resource plan is working properly.
Many elite colleges and universities no longer offer undergraduate
teacher preparation programs, and many
teacher preparation programs are housed
within less selective colleges.5 Nonetheless, the academic profiles of teaching candidates in regional comprehensive universities are high relative to other programs offered in those
schools.6 Furthermore, many
teacher preparation programs do not have admission criteria beyond those of their home institution, and only have access to a pool of candidates already admitted to the overarching college or university.7 For these reasons
among others, the average SAT scores of students going into education have historically been lower than those of their peers entering other professions, although there is some evidence that this is shifting.8
More - importantly, because the quality of teaching varies more
within schools (from classroom to classroom) than
among them, the racial myopia of
teachers (and their low expectations for the poor and minority children in their care) are matters that have to be addressed in order to help all children succeed.
The availability of test scores in multiple subjects for each student permits us to estimate a model with student fixed effects, which helps minimize any bias associated with the non-random distribution of
teachers and students
among classrooms
within schools.
Some
teachers are very skilled at some of this, so what we try to do is recruit from
among the faculty eight to ten people that we then train as facilitators and coaches, so that as people are learning new knowledge and skills, their home grown facilitators are working with their colleagues
within the
school when we're not there.
Among elements such as a well - articulated curriculum and a safe and orderly environment, the one factor that surfaced as the single most influential component of an effective
school is the individual
teachers within that
school.
Education specialists identify
school climate as the sense of acceptance, safety, and contentment experienced
among both
teachers and students
within a
school setting (Freiberg, 1998; Peterson & Skiba, 2000; Marshall, 2004; Jones, Yonezawa, Mehan, & McClure, 2008).
As a result, my initial research question was, «How can I hone my leadership skills through the facilitation of collaborative dialogue
among teachers to strengthen collegiality and build community
within a newly formed parent - participation elementary
school?»
In addition to fostering the professional development of previously certified early childhood
teachers, this program will also serve as a bridge
among schools and community agencies and will provide the educational experiences to nurture educational leaders who will work
within and across these areas.