This willingness to modify the program structure may be another expression of the school's
focus on student learning as opposed to an ideological commitment to a particular instructional method.
If schools or districts would like to stay legal, they should start
by focusing on student learning; parents rarely file for a fair hearing because their child is learning too much.
Instead, feedback must feed forward and should be based on a growth model
focused on student learning in classrooms and professional learning for a teacher.
These schools are participating in a multi-year research and evaluation
study focused on student learning gains, implementation issues, and financial sustainability.
Thus, as more and more teachers teach mathematics with technology as a tool, the shift must be toward the evolving issues more directly
focused on student learning of mathematics — evaluating the results of the decision and its impact on the mathematics curriculum and instructional strategies needed so that all students are able to learn mathematics.
You will find more about our SMART Measurement System in More Than a SMART Goal:
Staying Focused on Student Learning, including a description of the way the S.M.S. was used in a Texas district.
Under «Preventive and Reactive Classroom Environment,» teachers receive the top score if they «provide effective management procedures with a
comprehensive focus on student learning,» but receive the lowest score if they «react to disciplinary incidents after the fact rather than trying to prevent them.»
And until we ensure high - quality
assessments focused on student learning, real efforts to improve public schools and ensure students are college and career ready will struggle to gain the hold they need to succeed.
Stigler and Hiebert note that, rather than reform, the aim of lesson study is to produce «small, incremental improvements over long periods of time» and however long the process there remains «an
unrelenting focus on student learning».
It will allow us to meet our goal of producing a new generation of education leaders, who will have a laser -
like focus on student learning, and will know how to translate that into large - scale system change.
The state's «P - 20» council sounds alarming enough... and why, if this Council is
supposedly focused on student learning and broader questions of academics, do «business leaders» come before «education leaders»?
These MCLs» actions differed somewhat, but several overarching themes emerged, including building strong teacher relationships and
focusing on student learning data:
CEA President Sheila Cohen said the vote shows that legislators want a
greater focus on student learning, not testing, and a better tool to evaluate Connecticut's teachers.
Cameron Rains, director of elementary education for Monroe County Community Schools, tells StateImpact the district's focus on data doesn't mean the district has
lost focus on student learning:
Combined with a research - based instructional framework and rubric, a
clear focus on student learning needs and effective, positive feedback, inquiry - based teacher evaluation improves teacher practice and student learning.
PBL focuses on student learning goals, including standards - based content and skills such as critical thinking / problem solving, collaboration, and self - management.
This report by Marguerite Roza, Kacey Guin, and Tricia Davis demonstrates in greater detail than ever before how America's methods of school finance work against a single -
minded focus on student learning.
Schools in high - SES communities, Bidwell found, tend to build collegial professional practice among teachers and to have a particularly
high focus on student learning.