"classroom context" refers to the specific environment, setting, and conditions within a classroom. It includes factors such as the physical layout of the room, the teacher, the students, the materials used, and the overall atmosphere. The
classroom context plays a significant role in shaping the learning experience for students.
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However, they have focused primarily on how
classroom context influences the literacy behaviors of older elementary school students (third to fifth graders).
However, when classroom video segments are used to trigger the observations of viewers, then representation of the
full classroom context is less critical.
Differentiate approaches to teacher evaluation with supplementary guidance for observers to use in
different classroom contexts and for differentiating performance tasks.
A structured discussion with an instructional coach follows, leading to takeaways that participants can apply in their
own classroom contexts.
Outside of an
individual classroom context, I would be very hesitant to use them to generate conclusions about anything, no matter what the writers of this report or the people behind the flawed Gates MET Project say (see A Beginning List Of The Best Posts On Gates» Final MET «Effective Teaching» Report).
Our work has examined technology as a support for disciplined inquiry and content creation within the social studies by exploring those technology tools and resources that are strongly connected with key social studies disciplinary practices that also seem to fit within a historical, geographic, economic, and
civic classroom context.
Design issues such as source of video footage,
classroom context provided, length of video clips, and type of learner interaction should be considered in any use of classroom video for teacher education.
These candidates were considering how best to apply these technologies in their
future classroom contexts to tap into the concept of new literacies and to support their students» literacy development.
To challenge these preservice teachers to engage with the DLTs, I designed the assessment components of the unit to focus on the use of these learning technologies to teach mathematics in a
primary classroom context, as in Teo, Lee, and Chai (2007).
These same education researchers, Guthrie et al, have also published an e-book (2012) Motivation, achievement, and Classroom Contexts for Information Book Reading, to document their pursuit of what motivates students to read and
what classroom contexts best promote motivation.
The important thing about formative assessment is that it is not a test, nor an instrument, but rather an approach to teaching and learning that uses feedback as its centrepiece in a
supportive classroom context.
These videos present the Primary Level strategies within Elementary School and Secondary School contexts; Reading, Math, and Behavior contexts; Group Instruction and Individual
Instruction classroom contexts; and students contexts including General Education, Learning and Behavior Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Moderate and Severe Disabilities.
Overall, teachers perceived PD support as being useful, particularly when it was continuous and within
specific classroom contexts to solve teachers» unique technology integration problems.
Cognitive flexibility explains how teacher candidates, having engaged with the SWAP during their teacher preparation coursework, might learn to adapt those practices to diverse learners in
different classroom contexts.
Her current research involves the application of Mind, Brain, and Education principles to understanding the «teaching brain;» the psychological and neurological phenomena associated with teaching that are necessary precursors to understanding how students learn
in classroom contexts.
You therefore need the flexibility to be able to «morph» the classroom formative assessment techniques with which you are presented to fit your
own classroom context.
The research that Farrington drew on didn't show any evidence of specific interventions changing a student's innate level of grit, but there was plenty of evidence that students» tendency to persevere at academic tasks was highly responsive to changes in school and
classroom contexts.
And, when research uses standardized tests to measure homework's impact, she continued, it is difficult to gauge how much of the overall improvement or decline in test scores is due to student learning in
the classroom context as opposed to student learning from homework.
In
the classroom context, apart from academic content, adolescents acquire important personal and emotional competences to preserve their present andfuture well - being, so «it is interesting to analyse the influence of the emotions of the peer group on the well - being of adolescents.
Educational «experts» themselves argue that teaching is so complex that it can be difficult to judge a good teacher outside of a specific
classroom context.
Teaching styles should better reflect student needs and the diversity of
classroom contexts.
Likewise the descriptors for ways in which students meet each criterion, and the marks allocated to these descriptors, can be varied depending upon specific
classroom contexts.
... Things like cooperative and democratic attitude for example, makes sense in the schooling or
classroom context in the way that a teacher would demonstrate being cooperative, providing opportunities for students to be cooperative and democratic in the way that they engage with their learning.
However, the Common Core specifies that students conduct both brief and sustained research, and that this research be woven into many different
classroom contexts.
That is, «understanding» can be defined as the ability to apply a new concept in a non-textbook or
classroom context; use a concept to make sense of complex, real - world situations; or express a concept in a meaningful way to others.
While the conversation would be broad, the agenda should be narrow and focus on three immediate needs: 1) radically improving the quality of candidates coming to the field; 2) identifying the specific content of coursework necessary to improve teacher knowledge; and 3) and detailing the practical experiences that new teachers need in order to ensure they are effective in the types of
classroom contexts in which they plan to teach.
Key leaders and influencers in the education sector were also interviewed to provide complementary perspectives to the direct experience of the school and
classroom contexts.
Whether you choose to teach one lesson or all three, it is important to use these resources within
a classroom context that fosters civil discourse and student reflection.
For example, Ng and her colleagues (1998) videotaped third and fifth grade classrooms and then interviewed the students to determine their motivations as well as their perceptions of
the classroom context.
In order to determine possible qualitative differences in mathematical activity between the two
classroom contexts (calculus class or learning theories in STEM education class), the authors focused on the evidence of student individual and collective thinking from three different groups, as documented in their corresponding generated public spaces and explored and characterized each group by its respective generated mathematical spaces of solutions.
Paraskeva et al. (2006) stated that teachers needed to overcome their resistance to technology by having PD that is specific to the teachers» content needs, while Mueller et al. (2008) found that focusing teacher technology learning within
a classroom context improved teacher confidence and displayed technology as a potential instructional tool.
The principal introduces, • Professional development (both in terms of the theoretical knowledge of Second Language Acquisition and specific strategies for ELLs) • Teacher observations (understanding
the classroom context and needs of ELL students) • Building Staff Knowledge (role of ESL teachers in instructional planning) • District support (aligning programs district wide and developing responsive programs)
Selecting tools and consolidated approaches that work within the school context — finding and removing barriers before the tech gets to the classroom
Also, it seems likely that
classroom context will affect observation measures just as it appears to affect value - added measures.
Linda Darling - Hammond et al. point out that the use of test scores via VAMs assumes «that student learning is measured by a given test, is influenced by the teacher alone, and is independent from the growth of classmates and other aspects of
the classroom context.
A dynamic interplay exists among students, teachers, curriculum,
classroom context, and technology (Quintana et al., 2004).