Sentences with phrase «beyond standard instruction»

Over the past few years, instructional teams, education experts, and classroom teachers at Santa Ana Unified School District have spent thousands of hours developing a comprehensive K - 12 Common Core - aligned curriculum that goes beyond standard instruction to include Spanish and Special Education units to support their diverse student population.

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But I was not involved in the Fordham review, which lauded the span of K — 12 EngageNY curricula, noting that «in general, alignment to the Common Core State Standards is strong — and the materials go beyond the standards in specifying important content and skills for each year of instruction.»

Topics of discussion will include: • Setting goals and identifying criteria to evaluate programs for efficacy, standards - alignment, and student growth • How to build teacher capacity using data - informed instruction and intentional organizational support structures • Scaling beyond intervention; increasing district - wide adoption and usage of personalized learning programs All K - 12 administrators and educators are encouraged to attend.

I believe that these rigorous standards have the potential to dramatically improve the quality of instruction in the typical American classroom — to move teachers far beyond the test - prep and bubble - kids obsessions of the No Child Left Behind era.

Observations focused particularly on the score teachers received on Standard 1: Higher - Order Thinking («HOT» thinking), described as instruction that engages students in learning that goes beyond the recall of basic facts.

We trained ourselves as observers to reliably document instruction in the lessons we observed based on our modification of Newmann «s assessment of authentic instruction.313 We recorded what we saw and heard on an observation form that included two main sections: 1) basic information about the context, details of the lesson, how class time was used, how students were organized for instruction and learning, the kinds of technology used during the lesson, and a description of any positive or negative features in the classroom; and 2) assessments of instruction using four of Newmann's five standards of authentic instruction: higher order thinking, deep knowledge, substantive conversation, and connection to the world beyond the classroom.

Gifted student — A student who is exceptional under section 1371 of the School Code (24 P. S. § 13 - 1371) because the student meets the definition of «mentally gifted» in this section, and needs specially designed instruction beyond that required in Chapter 4 (relating to academic standards and assessment).

Their hope is that by defining and upholding high professional standards not just for instruction, but for teacher leadership beyond the classroom, they can do the most important thing that they can do for our students: ensure an excellent teacher for every student, but most importantly for students from low - income families.