Supporting our students to reading and developing their literacy skills is part of being
an effective content area teacher.
Not exact matches
When Principals were asked about the preparedness of recent
teacher graduates, the
areas they were most positive about included «Making
effective use of ICT» and «Subject
content knowledge», while
areas for concern included «Supporting students with disabilities» and «Teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students».
Each of the applications will be subject to peer review in the context of five priority
areas: supporting
effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics education; supporting the implementation of high academic
content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.
Oehrtman et al. (2009) found that
teacher leaders in mathematics and science with strong
content area expertise were more
effective in facilitating professional development to improve
teachers» understanding of pedagogy than
teacher leaders without such expertise.
The exemplar lessons provide
teachers with the tools to model the
effective use of comprehension strategies to increase understanding of
content -
area texts.
Filled with specific examples of
effective purpose statements, assignments, and tests across grade levels and
content areas, The Purposeful Classroom is essential reading for all
teachers who want their students to truly understand what they are learning and why.
Effective teachers of ELLs understand these challenges and have a repertoire of teaching practices designed to scaffold learning in literacy, language, and the
content areas.
Meeting the challenge will require
teacher educators, both faculty and administrators, to systematize integration of technology applications for
effective content area learning across
teacher preparation and leadership programs.
To reduce the vocabulary overload on English language learners,
content -
area teachers can implement two
effective strategies: using cognates to help students understand challenging English academic vocabulary and activating prior knowledge.
Support program graduates and mentor
teachers to be
effective and retained in high - needs SFUSD schools and
content areas
Both competitions will fund projects across five priority
areas: supporting
effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education; helping implement rigorous academic
content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.
The Institutes used primary sources to provide participants with examples of how
effective history and social science instruction may be enhanced for students in each course range and how
teachers can improve student achievement in
content areas of greatest challenge.
A school - based
teacher preparation program in which a prospective
teacher, for not less than one academic year, teaches alongside an
effective teacher, as determined by the state or local educational agency, who is the
teacher of record for the classroom, receives concurrent instruction during the year, through courses that may be taught by local educational agency personnel or by faculty of the
teacher preparation program; and in the teaching of the
content area in which the
teacher will become certified or licensed; and acquires
effective teaching skills, as demonstrated through completion of a residency program, or other measure determined by the state, which may include a
teacher performance assessment.»
As
teachers across
content areas begin to be evaluated based on their students» writing, examples of
effective interdisciplinary collaborations will make SWAP a valuable resource.
A change in
teachers» instruction may be evidenced by student learning gains within that
content area; the grant faculty PD institutes were designed to meet the criteria for
effective PD, which were mapped to relevant core
content standards and should, thus, lead to student learning gains (as asserted in Loucks - Horsley et al., 2010).
With increased professional development, the author predicts that
content -
area teachers will make more
effective use of strategies to support students»
content -
area literacy.
Teacher educator associations representing the core
content areas, as well as educational technology, have established an alliance to explore the most
effective means of accomplishing this goal.
That is, while the Science Ideas model resulted in
effective instruction, strengthening
teacher proficiency in key
areas of instruction had the potential to make it even more
effective while providing
teachers with skills applicable to instruction in other
content areas.
The Write for Texas collection of resources is available to all secondary English language arts and reading and
content area teachers to support
effective writing instruction.
Subject -
area textbooks have long been a part of
teacher education, and preservice
teachers need to learn and have experiences with
effective textbook integration along with other topics, such as reading in the
content areas.
No instructional strategy can compensate for a
teacher who lacks proficiency in his
content area, is unclear about learning goals, plans an unfocused activity, or does not possess the leadership and management skills to orchestrate
effective classroom functioning.
Department chairs or lead
teachers in the four core
content areas can use the qualities to begin a discussion or professional development effort on
effective teaching with other
teachers.