Sentences with phrase «guide classroom decisions»

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In Experience and Education, he states that an adult's life experience guides their decision - making around which experiences are «educative» and worth students» time in the classroom.

At a time when millions of babyboomer teachers are nearing retirement, their decisions on when to leave the classroom are guided more by the early - retirement incentives built into state pension plans than by educational considerations, according to new research by a pair of economists.

The framework for our overall project also points to the mostly indirect influence of principals «actions on students and on student learning.223 Such actions are mediated, for example, by school conditions such as academic press, 224 with significant consequences for teaching and learning and for powerful features of classroom practice such as teachers «uses of instructional time.225 Evidence - informed decision making by principals, guided by this understanding of principals «work, includes having and using a broad array of evidence about many things: key features of their school «s external context; the status of school and classroom conditions mediating leaders «own leadership practices; and the status of their students «learning.

The three different kinds of inquiry - based instruction — structured, guided, and open — reflect varying degrees of student decision making, and thus make it relatively easy to gradually implement inquiry - based teaching in the classroom.

Sally, the classroom teacher, made the decision that it was better for her to wait and guide students through the derivation process at a later date when their mathematical skills were better developed.

Value - added data guide about 85 percent of classroom forming decisions starting with late elementary grades.

Some have passed along that data to principals and instructional leaders to guide school improvement work, but few have sent it all the way to teachers, who make the day - to - day decisions in classrooms.

In this book, W. James Popham calls on his half - century in the classroom to provide a practical, four - stage framework for guiding teachers through their most important instructional decisions: curriculum determination, instructional design, instructional monitoring, and instructional evaluation.

Make friends and find somebody who you trust and who is, who's a great teacher to help support you and to help guide you in some of the decisions that you're going to need to make in your classroom.

This data guides her decision about which classrooms to visit during today's walk - throughs.

But often when we reviewed curriculum in our classrooms, set - up pilots, and ultimately decided on an instructional purchase, we sought out «research - based» options to guide our choices and decisions — and assumed strong research - based curriculum meant strong evidence of effectiveness.

Some of these decisions may not be regarded as «assessment» in a traditional sense, but they illustrate how teachers use their informal knowledge about children to guide their classroom instruction.