In a new Public Impact policy brief, A Better Blend: A Vision for Boosting Student Outcomes with Digital Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of
excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at large scale.
TNTP's mission is to end the injustice of educational inequality by providing
excellent teachers to the students who need them...
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What university professor has not had the experience of hearing a
student gush with praise about another professor whom he or she personally finds
to be a less than
excellent teacher?
Finally, a vertical group composed of two trustees, administrators,
teachers, parents,
excellent students, and failing or dropout
students is held on the theme: «Our schools: What I like and don't like about them, and what I want them
to be.
This an
excellent book for
students of Scripture, preachers, and
teachers, especially when you are looking for ways
to preach and teach about the «giant» passages in the Bible.
Tim's piano
teacher from the past several years has moved back
to the UK, so he has started working with another
teacher; he says she is
excellent, and she seems
to like teaching an advanced and motivated
student.
The government, the main political parties and the
teachers» union stood behind the
excellent Albanian
student but the boy responded
to the growing commotion by choosing
to step aside, allowing a Greek pupil
to carry the flag.
A year later, the election of another Albanian girl — the best pupil in her school in Crete — was also met with public outrage,
to which the local
teachers» union president reportedly responded: «This
excellent student may be of Albanian origin but she has a Greek citizenship».
«Ms. Hysick's dedication
to her
students, her school and her community makes her an
excellent ambassador as
Teacher of the Year.»
On Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., «thousands of
teachers will rally in Foley Square
to call on Mayor Bill de Blasio
to support growing the charter sector
to 200,000
students by 2020,» per Families for
Excellent Schools.
In circumstances where the
teachers are all
excellent, the variability in
student reading achievement may appear
to be largely due
to genetics.
Tuition is high, so her
students «expect their
teachers to be
excellent as
teachers,
to know their names,
to be available
to them a lot more, and
to get
to know them as individuals,» Conry says.
The supporting cast provides the broader strokes: Henry Winkler is, unsurprisingly,
excellent as the egocentric
teacher of the acting class Barry enrolls in
to follow his next target; Stephen Root plays Barry's money - hungry boss; Sarah Goldberg is terrific as a talented but self - centered acting
student; and Paula Newsome plays a detective whose scenes with an amorous Winkler provide some of the show's best moments.
Profit and loss (income statement) and ratio analysis lesson Includes
teacher presentation key terms worksheet
to support learners complete activities differentiated worksheets - scaffolded and more difficult Very thorough lesson which is engaging, differentiated and ensures all
students make
excellent progress.
«By providing the environment for
teachers to be financially secure and motivated, TSAT's new pay model will directly benefit
students through the
excellent standard of teaching they will continue
to receive.
Khan Academy and BrainPop do an
excellent job at this principle, creating multimedia content that allows
students (and
teachers)
to move through the lesson at their own pace.
The goal is not only
to mold
students into
excellent teachers, but
to encourage more young people of color
to join the profession.
Several
teachers I've met use the portfolio system
to do what it does best: help
students rework essays until they make them
excellent,
to figure out on their own how
to make their writing better.
All the schools had
to design models that adhered
to the five Reach Extension Principles, which call for reaching more
students with
excellent teaching, higher pay, sustainable funding, job - embedded development opportunity, and enhanced authority and clear accountability for great
teachers.
A Plus Learning prides itself on providing
teachers and counsellors with quality educational materials and resources that are designed
to enhance the engagement and performance of
students allowing them
to achieve
excellent results.
Being an
excellent teacher affects hundreds of
students, but being an empathetic coach and mentor
to other
teachers allows your influence
to benefit an even larger audience.
Martin's nomination for the award describes him an «
excellent and experienced»
teacher who has inspired many of his
students to study physics after A-Level.
Nearly all the school teams chose
to combine several models
to reach more
students with great
teachers, add team collaboration time, and let
excellent teachers lead and develop their peers.
Opportunity Culture models redesign jobs
to extend the reach of
excellent teachers to more
students, for more pay, within budget — typically in collaborative teams on which all
teachers can pursue instructional excellence together and are formally accountable for all of the
students they serve.
With these changes in selectivity, opportunity, and pay, our nation could go from giving no one what's needed
to giving everyone what they want: for
teachers, sustainable, well - paid career advancement, rigorous development on the job, and whole careers» worth of engaging work; for
students,
excellent teaching for all, consistently, increasing their lifelong prospects; and for the broader community, an improved economy, national security, and social stability.
«At a time when the importance of
excellent teachers has been further reinforced by recent research, the Harvard
Teacher Fellows program is designed
to attract and support talented
students to a vitally important profession,» said Harvard University President Drew Faust.
Here we want
to second his point and add another: schools — and nations — that excel in the digital age will be those that use digital tools both
to make teaching more manageable for the average
teacher, and
to give massively more
students access
to excellent teachers.
Schools across the country have latched on
to the need
to reach more
students with their
excellent teachers.
Remote instruction: For schools with severely limited numbers of
excellent teachers, like many rural and urban areas, bringing in great, live (though not in - person)
teachers through videoconferencing, holographic technology, or other means could give
students access
to great interactive instruction they'd otherwise miss.
* In math classes,
excellent blended - learning
teachers will use the rotation version of Time - Technology Swaps
to extend their reach
to more
students, and also work in a team of developing and novice
teachers on their way
to becoming blended - learning
teachers.
When we launched Opportunity Culture, our goal was
to boost
student learning by extending the reach of
excellent teachers to more
students, for more pay, within schools» regular budgets.
A year ago, Public Impact began working with school design teams of pilot schools in the Charlotte and Nashville public school districts
to choose and tailor school models for extending the reach of
excellent teachers to more
students.
Beginning in 2009, we presented a vision for addressing the challenge of reaching every
student with
excellent teachers, using job redesign and age - appropriate technology
to extend
excellent teachers» reach, directly and by leading other
teachers, in fully accountable roles, for more pay — but within budget.
We shared five Reach Extension Principles for the new school models they would craft or tailor
to their needs; they call for reaching more
students with
excellent teachers in charge of their learning, for more pay, within budget, while boosting development opportunities for all
teachers and clarifying authority / credit for great
teachers.
Star performing content masters can go viral on digital video, and someday holograms,
to millions of
students anywhere, who with
excellent teachers can convert that access into stellar learning.
Public Impact has just posted brief descriptions of more than 20 school models for extending the reach of
excellent teachers to more
students, for more pay, within budget.
Such a study would ask not only whether the achievement scores of
students of National Board
teachers improved more than the scores of
students of unsuccessful candidates, but also whether National Board certification was a cost - efficient way
to identify
excellent teachers.
The power of blended learning —
to let
students learn individually paced basics online, so
teachers can focus on personalized, enriched face -
to - face instruction — can bring
excellent teaching
to more
students, and enable all
teachers to earn more.
This article was adapted from «Matching
Students to Excellent Teachers: How a Massachusetts Charter School Innovates with
Teacher Preparation» and «Matching
Students to Excellent Tutors: How a Massachusetts Charter School Bridges Achievement Gaps,» Pioneer Institute, 2014.
It also reduces the number of
students who have
excellent teachers — the ones who produce more than a year's worth of
student growth each year, necessary
to close proficiency gaps and help
students leap ahead.
The only way
to implement any of these reforms successfully, within budget and at scale, is
to help
excellent teachers increase their productivity: swap portions of
excellent teachers» time with digital instruction so they can teach more classes with similar or even smaller group sizes; let them delegate nonessential tasks
to other adults; use digital tools
to save time on instructional monitoring and planning; put them in charge of other
teachers; and let the willing have more
students to nurture under their strong wings.
Even in our most struggling public schools, there are
excellent teachers who are transforming the lives and futures of the
students they are entrusted
to educate.
This report offers a new vision of
teacher career pathways that holds promise for recruiting and retaining
excellent teachers who further
student learning, providing consistent access
to excellent teachers.
For example, by replacing 25 — 50 percent of teaching in some subjects, digital instruction can free
excellent teachers» time, enabling them
to take responsibility for more
students — keeping similar class sizes and gaining planning time.
«I'm excited
to be joining the team of
teachers engaged in literacy instruction
to ensure all
students who attend our school get an
excellent education and are empowered readers, writers, and thinkers,» she says.
«At a time when the importance of
excellent teachers has been further reinforced by recent research, the Harvard
Teacher Fellows program is designed
to attract and support talented
students to a vitally...
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to reformers: If these results stand — and possibly improve as more
teachers hold these roles and help one another succeed — can we possibly all work together
to change policies and systems
to support giving every
student access
to excellent teaching, and giving every
teacher outstanding career opportunities without being forced up and out of the classroom?
The redesigned
teacher roles extend the reach of
excellent teachers and their teams
to more
students and also allow for increased
teacher pay.
From that line of thinking was born Opportunity Culture, an initiative
to try this idea: Let school teams with
teachers on them redesign jobs and use age - appropriate technology
to extend the reach of
excellent teachers and their teams
to many more
students, for more pay, within regular budgets, adding more planning time, and having them take full accountability for the learning of all the
students they serve.
Released last week, the survey shows that 92 percent of
teachers rate
student engagement as an «
excellent» or «good» measure of teaching performance, while 72 percent gave the same ratings
to measuring how their own
students compare with other
students.