Sentences with phrase «educators should design»

«We need standards, but educators should design them, not private contractors with lucrative contracts.

Not exact matches

The program development and evaluation effort should be overseen by an independent, objective group of experts who will not only provide technical support, but will also ensure that the design, implementation, and interpretation of the work is scientifically sound as well as useful to educators and policymakers.

Those working with test design must stop patronizing our students in the name of an erroneous conception of fairness and construct rigorous exams that will send clear signals to educators about what they should teach.

As Todd Rose argues now and educational psychologist Lee Cronbach argued 60 years ago, education systems should be designed for individual students and educators to avoid a «mean mindset.»

Charter School educators should play a role in the design of their own futures, according to the recent Programs in Professional Education institute, Charter School: Charting a Course for the Coming Decade.

In this light, educators and instructional designers may use Knowles» differentiators as valuable guidelines when designing, developing, and delivering training, yet shouldn't apply the same unflinching reverence to this updated binary relationship lest they repeat the past mistake of over-generalizing.

Ergonomists should work with educators and children in the design of buildings, and the selection and layout of furniture and equipment, always considering the needs and aims of the schools, children and teachers.

As the market for game - based learning tools spreads, African video game developers should also tap into this industry by working hand to hand with educators to design more educational games adapted for African students.

High school reform should include making sure that we are measuring the relevant skills; allowing states the flexibility to design systems that produce results; using multiple measures to assess achievement; allowing the use of growth models; including commonsense flexibility for students with special needs; involving educators in planning; and effectively addressing dropout rates.

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

Improvement, Not Sorting Accountability systems should be designed to provide useful and appropriate information for educators, policymakers, and the public.

Design and content of school curriculum should be the responsibility of state and local boards of education and professional educators.

While some say this practice of designing teacher preparation curriculum around the PACT bears resemblance to K - 12 teachers «teaching to the test,» many educators at Northridge say the PACT is focused on critical areas of good teaching, like planning lessons with strong student assessments, and modifying lessons for English language learners and students with disabilities, and that it therefore only reinforces what candidates should learn anyway.

Because what works in one district may not work in every district, professional learning should be aligned and adapted to address school and system goals.25 States and school districts should work with teachers to design ongoing cycles of learning and improvement that ensure all educators can identify areas for growth and learn evidence - based strategies that will address their needs, ultimately improving their performance and increasing student achievement.26

School districts should promote professional learning opportunities that open the door to career pathways for experienced teachers: to help design and implement professional learning within their schools; to serve as consulting teachers and coaches for early career educators; and to serve as team leaders for collaborative school learning teams.

As states choose among them and design final models, there are additional considerations that they should keep in mind to improve data quality and the ability of educators and parents to use these systems.

Based on our research, we think a good learning app should be provocative, exploratory, and open - ended; it should also have been designed with primary input from educators and curriculum developers, or shown in educational research to be an effective learning tool.