The camera was framed on
my focal student group: Eliki, Stephanie, Andrew, and Rondie (pseudonyms).
I have to tell you that
my focal student had a real breakthrough during Independent Reading today.
At our veteran school sites, Rosa Parks, New Highland and Roosevelt, teacher scholars are engaged in collecting
focal student data for each other.
At a recent inquiry session, Gary shares a video of himself working on a math problem with
a focal student.
After exploring methods of observation and identifying how learning moments can be documented through photos, videos, and reflective practice,
my focal student Grace focused her curriculum investigation project on «exploring worms» and used this assignment as an opportunity to create a documentation book for the children and families in our classroom.
My focal student teacher, Grace, who was pursuing a degree in Infant Mental Health, showed particular interest in challenging herself to identify key learning moments and transform her observations into a form of documentation that could be shared with children, families, and the MCCS community.
As time went on, their site colleagues not only began to see evidence of
focal student progress, but also experienced a different level of collaboration.
Group members next viewed each lesson through an «accessibility lens» to identify potential barriers to learning for
their focal students.
Over the course of the year, they worked together to understand the particular learning needs of
their focal students.
The teacher leaders developed sustainable methods of communicating with their teams three times over the course of a month: 1) midway through the month, the teacher leaders hand back to their site colleagues copies of the reflections they wrote at the last meeting and the plans they chose to implement during the month; 2) Co-principal Maria Carriedo sends an email to all the teachers a week before each meeting to remind them to bring their observations of
their focal students; 3) teachers make notes to themselves, in a simple chart form, about the interventions and behaviors they plan to track and keep these on their classroom walls as an easy way to document
their focal students» progress.
In 2016 - 17, 91 % of participating teachers deepened their understanding of what indicates success for student learning in their inquiry area, and 93 % of
focal students made moderate to exceptional growth toward their target learning goals.
His enthusiasm for reading wasn't quite at the level of my other two
focal students, and writing a Readers» Response was met with a side - eye.
Two of
my focal students — we'll call them Amiri Baraka and Langston Hughes for their love for writing — were engaged learners, loved reading, and were critical thinkers, but were reading one year below grade level at the beginning of the year.
Tracey continues in her e-mail, sharing what she did with one of
her focal students, after the Mills Teacher Scholars meeting at her school site.
As part of her Mills Teacher Scholars inquiry project she decided to video tape
these focal students during reading time in a systematic way so that she could understand what was and was not happening.
Tracey pulled both of
her focal students aside and they watched a short clip of the day's recordings.
Not exact matches
Our goal is to continue growing and become a
focal point for finance
students at the Haskayne School of Business.
It is often a
focal point for parents, teachers and
students to cooperate whether it is small or large.
The tensions between parental expectations and
students» goals and between teaching test - taking and fostering learning provide
focal points of an embedded journalist's chronicle of a year in an academically rigorous public high school.
Officials at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) hope their 40 - page document, titled Curriculum
Focal Points: A Quest for Coherence, will help change the «mile - wide, inch - deep» approach that they say has left most U.S.
students without a solid preparation for higher - level mathematics.
The
students have accordingly little motivation to view the university as the
focal point in their lives and to unfold initiatives.
An old
student desk can be converted with bright paint to become a
focal point for your favorite herbs or flowers.
Thus, her flashy older sister Sister (Carmen Ejogo) becomes the face of the three - sister R&B group that less
focal, aspiring med
student sibling Dee (Tika Sumpter) completes.
Teaching of the contributions of Hispanic Americans, and learning about the cultures from which they come, will be the
focal point of many classroom activities and discussions in the weeks ahead as
students across the United States recognize Hispanic Heritage Month — September 15 to October 15.
This allows
students to direct their attention to one central
focal point.
The
students should choose a
focal length and draw a parabolic curve on the long sides of the box.
The
focal measures in this table are shown in the last two columns, where the authors present the percentage of charter school
students (from the entire metropolitan area) in schools with greater than 90 percent minority
students alongside the similar figure for traditional public schools.
What if we could design a school where the
student was at the center of every decision we made, rather than the adults» schedule being the
focal point... what would that look like?»
The growth in NAEP scores of the highest - performing
students in Texas and the nation essentially mirrors the gains made by
student groups that were
focal to the policy goals of NCLB.
I begin with a discussion of the exposure index, as contact between black
students and white
students was a major
focal point of the Coleman Report.
What happens to
students within schools, not only differences between schools, became the
focal point.
Another
focal point of research is the timeliness and method of providing feedback to
students.
These
students struggling in math or language arts can sometimes become the
focal point of school improvement teams and school - based content specialists.
The projects — models of high - quality
student work in subjects across the disciplines, from classrooms across the country — were the
focal point of a workshop for arts - inspired educators, part of a three - day professional development summit earlier this month called Arts and Passion - Driven Learning.
Hall said he has been able to have an impact by demanding that children are the
focal point of all decisions, and ensuring that all instruction matches
students individual needs.
The
focal point that can align federal, state, and local policy priorities is expanding
student access to excellent teaching.
Although schools can be the
focal point in a community's attempt to meet
students» needs, districts can not do it alone.
The impact of incarceration on Kentucky
students By Rosalyn Huff Throughout the course of human history, «crime and punishment» has been a topic of debate, and in recent times, it has become the
focal point of a global conversation.
When many traditional instructional models emphasize the teacher as the
focal point of the classroom, moving towards a reality of
student ownership can be challenging.
And, the classroom, specifically the teacher /
student relationship, is the
focal point for the growth of the child's positive internal climate.
The selection of principal candidates that have most of all of the 21 leadership responsibilities should be targeted for selection if
student achievement is the
focal point for selection.
Teachers can review work samples to accomplish many instructional goals, such as giving
students opportunities to examine their own and one another's work; engaging
students in collaborative sense - making; grounding questions and discussion prompts within
focal strategies; and providing feedback that supports learning.
Increasingly, the contribution of teachers has become a
focal point as a number of studies have found large differences in teachers» effec - tiveness at increasing
student achievement.
Community is a
focal point of the social studies program as
students explore their place within the Kindergarten setting through role - play and simulations.
Teacher evaluation had already become a national
focal point due to the release of several studies asserting that the classroom teacher is the most important school - based factor in improving
student achievement.
Others have stemmed from a desire to be seen to be embracing the concept — but in reality implementing a set of practices that are mechanical or superficial without the teacher's, and, most importantly, the
students», active engagement with learning as the
focal point.
Montalvin's principal, Katherine Acosta - Verprauskus, engages in improvement work alongside her teaching staff, focusing her inquiry on a
focal group of third - grade
students to further support their growth in academic language.
, focusing her inquiry on a
focal group of third - grade
students to further support their growth in academic language.
Making time is critical, as it sets lessons up and provides a
focal point for
students.
In developing the IEP, the team should keep as its
focal point the RI Common Core State Standards and other standards of the general education curriculum that all
students, including
students with disabilities, are required to meet.