This includes assisting teachers with strategies to implement highly
effective instructional practices in their classrooms and to use formative data regularly to identify and address student learning difficulties.
Our faculty and staff are preparing teachers and school leaders to succeed in low - income urban schools, learning and
harvesting effective instructional practices, and developing strategies for the transformation of schools.
This takes many forms — from working in classrooms to help teachers
adopt effective instructional practices to helping school leaders establish effective human capital management systems to customizing after school programs.
Elmore and the Network focus
on effective instructional practice as a means of achieving successful student learning; by observing actual classroom settings in schools with particular focuses in mind, they hope to find effective strategies to meet their goals.
She coaches school leaders and leadership teams to
develop effective instructional practices focused on student achievement, to create systems for organizational effectiveness in management and to create coherence within school districts and schools.
As part of this new relationship, Discovery Education will provide a five - year, customised programme of professional development that will support the teaching staff in developing consistent and
effective instructional practices using digital content and technology to maximise engaging and relevant learning experiences for students.
The focus of the session titled «Professional Learning Through Collaboration» is to explore ideas and theories about how students learn and
consider effective instructional practices that result in authentic student engagement.
He asserted that in addition to knowing
generally effective instructional practices, teachers also needed to know how to transform content knowledge while adapting their teaching strategies in relation to variations in students» abilities and backgrounds.
To illustrate, the Milken Educator Award, given in the United States, identifies and selects outstanding elementary and secondary school teachers «as evidenced
by effective instructional practices and student learning results in the classroom and school» or as evidenced by «accomplishments beyond the classroom that provide models of excellence for the profession» (Milken Family Foundation, n.d.).
If you'd like to hear more about how Ellen Dorr and her team were able to implement and
scale effective instructional practices in the Renton School District, check out «Using Personalized Learning and Data to Build Instructional Capacity».
That, coupled with scientifically based research, resulted in the design, piloting, and delivery of multiple professional development trainings focused on improving the mathematics content knowledge of teachers while simultaneously
modeling effective instructional practices.
-- To close the data gap — which now handcuffs districts from tracking growth in student learning and improving classroom instruction — states will need to monitor advances in student achievement and
identify effective instructional practices.
The TTAC at Radford University provides professional development and technical assistance on
effective instructional practices for students with disabilities to public schools within Superintendent's regions 6 & 7, focusing on successful access and progress for students with disabilities in the general education curriculum, and building the capacity of educational professionals to assist these students in reaching their full potential.
As a result of the compact, BPS and the local charter sector have established several school - to - school partnerships (some including local parochial schools) in order to share and
develop effective instructional practices.
The Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education, recently initiated Response to Intervention (RTI), a program designed to develop capacity for identifying, adapting and
sustaining effective instructional practices in schools.
As part of this new partnership, Discovery Education will provide a one - year, customised programme of professional development that will support the teaching and non-teaching staff in developing consistent and
effective instructional practices using digital content and technology.
In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lau vs. Nichols requires states to
adopt effective instructional practices for English language learners and to provide funding to support those efforts.
Research has shown that these types of inquiry activities — where students are asked to analyze a piece of concrete data such as a picture or an object in order to generate ideas for writing — are
an effective instructional practice for improving the writing of adolescent learners.
Training: The report emphasizes «the use of data in decision making can not have a positive impact on instruction without a linkage to
effective instructional practices.»
A third report, Small High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support,
effective instructional practices, and college preparation.