SLOs are objectives that are teacher - developed and administrator - approved to
help hold teachers accountable for their students» growth, although growth in this case is individually and loosely defined, which makes SLOs about as subjective as it gets.
Not exact matches
But, I have to believe that school administrators, having once been
teachers themselves, will
help find the proper balance between
holding teachers accountable and
holding teachers to an impossible standard.
For example, at the start of the pilot, Linda Rogers, a
teacher at Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., was already practicing the move of
helping students
hold themselves
accountable, but found that the things she was doing weren't translating into increased learning gains for all of her students.
The
Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) provides
teachers with professional support,
helps them to use data in instruction,
holds them
accountable for results, and provides bonuses.
Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and
teachers the authority to decide how best to
help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to
hold accountable low - performing schools.
• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools;
hold charter schools
accountable; provide more support / training for struggling
teachers; expand / improve new -
teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic
help and health services for families; provide extra pay for
teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.
This handy guide by Jackie Acree Walsh
helps teachers develop questions that connect students to learning goals,
hold all students
accountable for responding, and scaffold and support student thinking.
To have those kinds of
teachers we need to prepare them, universities and districts need to take
teacher preparation seriously, State Departments of Higher Education and of Elementary and Secondary Education need to see
teacher preparation and support as one of the most important strategic options to improve education,
holding teacher preparation institutions and districts
accountable so they provide the best preparation and support to
teachers, we have to figure out ways to
help teachers learn what so many of them say they need to learn, like how to personalize instruction, how to manage discipline in their classrooms, how to integrate technology into their teaching, how to implement culturally responsive instruction.
Interactions with texts requiring minimal
teacher support
help hold children
accountable as independent readers.
The release of student data
helps to
hold the state
accountable to those most directly impacted by the exams: students, parents and
teachers.»
This transparency, in turn, can
help reformers and their allies in state houses set high proficiency targets, and in turn, leverage an important tool for
holding districts and schools
accountable for providing all children with comprehensive college - preparatory content, for evaluating how well
teachers and school leaders are doing in
helping all students in their care succeed, and for providing all children with the high expectations they need to thrive in an increasingly knowledge - based economy.
They know that most
teachers want to be effective and that data - based performance assessments should be combined with classroom observation and other subjective measures not only to
hold teachers accountable but also to
help them improve their performance.
To achieve this goal, PARCC will develop «assessments to
help educators improve
teacher, school, and system effectiveness by providing a wider variety of data that is useful for the purposes of analyzing effectiveness, calibrating interventions,
holding school professionals
accountable for student outcomes, supporting strategic management of human resources, and identifying mid-year professional development and support needs for educators.
That federal guidance
helps teachers and schools reduce exclusionary discipline like suspensions and encourages proactive approaches to address the causes of misbehavior and
hold students
accountable in the inevitable cases when students make the wrong choices, known as restorative practices.