Sentences with phrase «effective teacher beliefs»

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Different labels for difficulties with reading have been found to be associated with varying beliefs in how effective teachers believe they can be.

But those enthusiasts are outliers in education, for Direct Instruction, however effective, goes against the grain of generations of teachers trained and flattered into the certain belief that they alone know what's best for their students.

For the best principals, the rate of teacher turnover is highest in grades in which teachers are least effective, supporting the belief that improvement in teacher effectiveness provides an important channel through which principals can raise the quality of education.

Part of the rationale for this approach was the belief, as a government report showed, that standards in the teaching of reading varied hugely from school to school, with many primary teachers not having had the opportunity to update their skills to take account of evidence about effective methods of teaching reading and how to apply them.

Challenging as well as informative Some of the most powerful learning occurs when professional development causes a teacher to re-evaluate their fundamental beliefs around mechanisms of learning and effective teaching.

BL: Teachers who were seeing themselves as effective, were very aware that at the core of effective teaching practice was placing emphasis on developing positive relationships that demonstrated their beliefs in students.

With the movement toward research - practitioner partnerships, educational agencies can collaboratively develop effective interventions targeted on improving teachers» discipline practices — exploring their beliefs and raising expectations for minority students.

In order to examine individual teachers» practices and beliefs in depth, we drew a small — but diverse — sample of effective teachers.

Whatever the relationships among teachers (and we desperately need to learn more about how these relationships play themselves out and how to help skeptical teachers accept the belief that even the poorest children in their classes can learn), the fact that not every teacher in the most effective buildings is classified as a most accomplished teacher should be heartening to reformers who want to increase learning and achievement in our poorest schools.

With that in mind, we set out to answer a few questions, not least of which were: Which beliefs and practices of effective teachers cross the cultural divide?

A Course on Effective Teacher - Child Interactions: Effects on Teacher Beliefs, Knowledge, and Observed Practice

We examined books like «Closing the Attitude Gap» by Baruti Kafele to understand what highly effective teachers believed and challenged them to compare those beliefs to their own.

Her research interests include connections between teachers» collaboration, instructional approaches, and efficacy beliefs, and effective literacy instruction for learners who struggle.

The authors describe the four stages of implementing the program: modifying teachers» beliefs about what causes success or failure; guiding teachers to provide effective feedback; structuring written dialogues between students and teachers; and fostering classroom discussions of social and academic successes or failures.

Thus, teacher educators need to work with existing pedagogical beliefs, content and technology knowledge and skills, and prior knowledge and experiences and seek ways in which more innovative instructional practices become commonplace and the appropriate and effective utilization of technology to support innovative instructional practices is ensured.

In a study conducted by Kim et al. (2013), a positive correlation was found between teachers» pedagogical beliefs and their technology integration practices: «What teachers say they do was significantly correlated with both their beliefs about effective ways of teaching and their actual practices with regard to technology integration» (p. 81).

The results suggested a connection between teachers» beliefs about the nature of learning and effective teaching practices to their technology implementation practices.

In 2012, 17 preservice teachers completed the survey, which included 24 original items used to assess their beliefs about the role of students» thinking in effective mathematics instruction.

Effective teachers are eager to understand their students» existing beliefs so that they (the teachers) can use prior beliefs and understanding to develop new knowledge.

With this in mind, Grant and her colleagues set out to discover which beliefs and strategies of effective teachers can cross the cultural divide and help students in each nation make breakthrough advances.

In fact, how effective teachers feel is directly correlated with how much their students grow (Collective Efficacy: How Educator's Beliefs Impact Student Learning, Donohoo).

Regardless of his or her view of students, an effective teacher must have the belief that all students can learn.

One of the values and beliefs of the undergraduate teacher education faculty included having the preservice teachers think conceptually and critically so that they make effective decisions in the classroom and display effective professional judgment.

Smith et al. (2011) also pointed out that teachers» effective integration of technology reflects and correlates with their personal beliefs and dispositions about whether the integration of technology would support both student learning and their professional goals.