Sentences with phrase «element of classroom practice»

While there's a place for small activities that allow teachers to gauge understanding, it's more crucial to make conversations with students a core element of classroom practice.

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You may already be practicing elements of a startup culture in your classroom.

... But elements of the flipped classroom, where you're just identifying things in your teaching and learning practices in the classroom... perhaps maths is a great example even in primary school, where a lot of students just require a particular maths example to be explained over and over and over, using different examples.

Instructional rounds, as defined by City, Elmore, Fiarman, and Teitel (2011), is a disciplined way for educators to work together to improve instruction and is a practice that combines three common elements of improvement: classroom observation, an improvement strategy, and a network of educators.

Key Elements of Observing Practice (DVD) contains a series of short videos that invite you into classrooms and meeting rooms at the Richard J. Murphy School in Boston, a school that uses data wisely, and comes with a Facilitator's Guide for designing your own process for learning from classroom observation.

Cincinnati provided us with records of each classroom observation conducted between the 2000 — 01 and 2008 — 09 school years, including the scores that evaluators assigned for each specific practice element as a result of that observation.

One simple illustration is the absence, in many programs, of any substantive work on assessment and accountability and of helping administrators learn how, in Marc Tucker's words, to «recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice.»

While teachers are implementing elements of Learning Across the Curriculum or Readers» and Writers» Workshop, they use the system of LASW to identify student concerns and refine classroom practices.»

By instructional leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the school are properly aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of instructional materials.

Whether describing a familiar or new practice, Cervone and Cushman demonstrate that the effect of having all eight core elements consistently in place across all classrooms is a much heavier lift than is transforming a single classroom.

TAP principally plugs four Elements of Success: Multiple Career Paths (for educators as career, mentor and master teachers); Ongoing Applied Professional Growth (through weekly cluster meetings, follow - up support in the classroom, and coaching); Instructionally Focused Accountability (through multiple classroom observations and evaluations utilizing a research based instrument and rubric that identified effective teaching practices); and, Performance - Based Compensation (based on multiple; measures of performance, including student achievement gains and teachers» instructional practices).

In our experience with the process of supporting quality teaching through professional development, three major elements have facilitated the shifts we see in teachers» thinking and practice as evidenced in teacher goals, classroom observations and other data sources:

My expertise lies in research and scholarship on effective schools; for example, what culturally responsive practices, elements of productive schools and instructional practices work in classrooms.

To prepare ELLs fully for academic success, sheltered instruction must be part of a broad school - or district - wide initiative that takes into account many elements of good teaching practice, including culturally responsive teaching; multicultural, theme - based curriculum; effective classroom management; appropriate grading; and meaningful, collaborative involvement of parents.

The practice combines three common elements of improvement: classroom observation, an improvement strategy, and a network.

According to Bell, classroom practices designed to create order have historically embraced elements of adultism:

Practice Activities / Services Provided Oliver, Wehby, and Reschly's (2011) review of universal teacher classroom - management practices identified three examples of programs, each focusing on elements of the classroom environment and techniques for proactive, prosocial student involvement.

Identifying Common Practice Elements to Improve Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes of Young Children in Early Childhood Classrooms.