The NAHT Aspire Partner Schools Programme
focused on classroom practices and developing leadership and other factors that research has shown enable these to be grown and sustained.
Thoughtful and effective policies for developing a professional workforce will have to include a mix of incentives for pre-K teachers that may be different from those designed for teachers in K — 12; provide training that is
focused on classroom practices and the specific challenges of teaching young children; and improve the alignment of early childhood education with K — 12.
Vivian Yees New York Times article Grouping Students by Ability Regains Favor in Classroom
focuses on a classroom practice that had declined in popularity ~ but has started to make its way into schools again.
Those advocating instructional leadership emphasize the need to maintain a singular
focus on classroom practice as the key to improving student achievement, and they point to the important role of the principal as a model.
By increasing
the focus on classroom practice as the core of teacher preparation, the Department expects to better prepare new classroom teachers to be day one ready.»
(It bears some resemblance to more general, task - oriented leadership theories.16) The instructional leadership concept implies
a focus on classroom practice.
Not exact matches
Since I don't have a
classroom of students to analyze, I just
focus TOO much energy
on analyzing my kids... I need to
practice the «just wait» mantra daily.
For academically at - risk students who have been enrolled in U.S. schools since kindergarten and who have experienced educational opportunities that are basically similar in design and
practice, research suggests that a
classroom - wide, universal approach
focused on building up academic vocabulary and conceptual knowledge would be appropriate.
«The Review panellists are ideal advisers
on the best evidence - based
practices for our students that will help guide how our schools and educators
focus resources in
classrooms.
High quality online CPD gives teachers access to training any time, any place,
focusing on classroom best
practice for a wide range of products.
As part of the School's
focus on using research findings to improve
classroom practice nationwide, Murphy established a dedicated office to work with Massachusetts public school systems.
Domain 5 — the idea of teachers in the school sharing and showcasing best
practice to support professional learning of others, and this idea of a self - reflective culture,
focus on improving
classroom teaching, that was... this really informed our vision.
The summit
focused on generating policies that raise students» international knowledge and competencies, creating promising
practices that support global learning in
classrooms, and facilitating the preparation of students for the global environment.
Effective professional learning
focuses on teaching and learning and is directly linked to
classroom practice that supports improving student outcomes.
Developed from trauma - informed
classroom practices which
focus on building relational capacities and self - regulatory strength, trauma - informed teachers often felt they needed more in their toolkit to create a strong culture of wellbeing within their
classrooms.
If several students had problems with that, the teacher could
focus his or her lessons
on that topic or set up centers in the
classroom for students to
practice that skill.
From legislative frameworks to
classroom practices, gender - sensitive curricula, sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, and data collection, the new Joint Programme will provide a coordinated and collaborative response to the persistent gender gap in education — with a specific
focus on adolescent girls and young women between the ages of 10 and 24.
Clark noted she also enjoys walking the walls» — taking a look at
classroom walls, a
practice which she said helped get teachers
focused on what their
classrooms look like.
It presses for a twin
focus on fluency in decoding words and reading comprehension, urges reading improvement programs to stress impact rather than the number of children served, and calls for strengthening professional development and linking improved training in language development and reading to
classroom practice.
The scheme
focuses on extra support to develop leadership in maths and help schools work together in support of higher standards; and supporting teachers, teaching assistant, further education lecturers and others to develop improved
classroom practice.
All five parts of the Growth Mindsets Primary Collection in one place, with a discount
on the individual prices: - 25 Ways to Encourage Trial and Error in the
Classroom - 25 Ways to Give Effective Feedback - 25 Ways to Promote Metacognition - 25 Ways to Target Student Effort - 25 Ways to use Language to Promote Growth Mindsets That's 125 strategies, activities and techniques covering the key areas of
classroom practice you can
focus on to develop growth mindsets across the board.
Her work
focuses on teacher professional development and training, pedagogical
practices in and out of the
classroom, english language learners, equity & social justice and media literacy as a means for professional development.
• The third, Questions / Discussion vs. Standards / Content, measures the difference between a teacher's rating
on a single standard that evaluates the use of questions and
classroom discussion as an instructional strategy, and that same teacher's average rating
on three standards that assess teaching
practices that
focus on classroom management routines,
on conveying standards - based instructional objectives to students, and
on demonstrating content - specific knowledge in teaching these objectives.
She then returned to the
classroom to conduct action research and teach, with a
focus on taking current research from psychology and brain science to
classroom practice.
If, however, teachers must choose a smaller number of
practices on which to
focus their improvement efforts (for example, because of limited time or professional development opportunities), our results suggest that math achievement would likely benefit most from improvements in
classroom management skills before turning to instructional issues.
We
focus our analysis
on the two (out of four total) domains of TES evaluations that directly address
classroom practices: «Creating an Environment for Student Learning» and «Teaching for Student Learning.»
The book, published by Harvard Education Press,
focuses on the ways education policies collide with everyday
classroom practices and how thoughtful, solutions - oriented, and results - driven teachers are reframing debates in education today.
An iterative process of observation and conferencing
focused on improving lesson planning and preparation, the
classroom environment, and instructional techniques should drive positive changes in teacher
practice.
We will
focus on applications to the
practice of education, from
classroom teaching to school leadership, so that we are equipped to reflect upon and improve our work as educational practitioners, scholars, and activists.
The challenge The challenge offered by the results of this survey
focuses on the continuation of innovation in ICT, both in product development and in
classroom practice.
This reflects the call by government for a more clinical
focus on teacher preparation whereby would - be graduates are required to observe and be engaged in
classroom practices in a systematic and sustained manner with quality teachers; teachers who are identified and upgraded as lead or mentor teachers.
In blended learning, we often see a flipped
classroom in which eLearning prework includes knowledge - based content and the
classroom portions
focus on skills and
practice.
This
Focus On examines what it means for a teacher to «go virtual» and highlights the distinguishing characteristics and
practices of effective virtual
classroom teachers.
intends, above all, to show education leaders how to achieve «an intense
focus on improving
practice» — not
on the details of budgets, legislation, or placating city councils and parent - teacher organizations, but rather
on ways to enhance teachers» learning and their
classroom effectiveness.
Its proven, workshop - based approach connects research to
practice using accessible language, interactive exercises, and tireless
focus on translating knowledge to
classroom practice for grades K — 12.
Providing teachers with word - for - word transcripts and personalised analysis, specifically
focusing on their «teacher talk» and
classroom practice
Her current research
focuses on market - based education reforms in urban communities, and its cultural and pedagogical impact
on teacher dispositions, teacher professional autonomy and identity, and the development of inclusive
classroom practices.
His work explores the policy implementation process at the state, district, school, and
classroom levels,
focusing on intergovernmental and policy -
practice relations.
Each session uses instructional
practices that are used in the
classroom and
focuses on a section of the Core Benchmarks.
Exclusively
focusing on teacher autonomy could risk creating silos in
classrooms, and, in turn, risk missing out
on economies of scale — both in terms of
practice and products.
Elmore and the Network
focus on effective instructional
practice as a means of achieving successful student learning; by observing actual
classroom settings in schools with particular
focuses in mind, they hope to find effective strategies to meet their goals.
Through this project, the feds are promoting open resources both in
classroom practice and by awarding grants for research projects
focused on the development of open resources.
Second, because we were able to combine both school - level and
classroom - level analyses of programs and
practices, we learned more about how these two levels of analysis and implementation support or interfere with one another than has been possible in studies that
focus on one or the other.
This required
focusing on specific areas of leadership
practice separately (e.g., methods of clinical supervision, school - improvement planning,
classroom walk - throughs, uses of student performance data), or within comprehensive guidelines or frameworks for leadership
practice.240 In one of the higher - performing urban districts in our sample, district officials organized a three - year principaldevelopment program based
on Marzano «s balanced leadership program.
A number of research studies indicate that the work of teacher leaders, particularly when
focused on classroom instruction, helps change teachers»
practice in ways that may impact student outcomes.
We found that the teachers who made the most gains in their
classroom practice (as measured by the CLASS ™ observation tool)
focused their conversations with mentors
on classroom practice — following a cycle in which mentors observed teachers and collected data, interpreted the data with mentees in post-observation meetings, planned next steps together and kept in touch between monthly visits.
Section 1.2
focuses more narrowly
on relationships among actors within schools, examining leadership shared by principals and teachers as it may affect
classroom practice and student learning.
This research - based program
focuses on the premise of PLAN, TEACH, REFLECT, APPLY, with teachers examining their own
classroom practice for the goal of student academic success.
Teachers identify their instructional strengths and weaknesses, and
focus on and master a handful of
classroom strategies, or thin slices of instruction, each academic year through a continuous loop of
practice, coaching, and feedback.
In short, it appears from this small sample that teachers in schools where our observation measures indicated less ambitious instructional
practices were more likely to externalize their needs for instructional support (e.g., resources, backup for
classroom management decisions) than to value support
focused more directly
on developing their instructional expertise.