We refer to the medical clinical approach to preparation as a metaphor to convey the complexity of the knowledge and skills
high quality teaching requires.
High quality teaching requires a high degree of pedagogic knowledge as well as up - to - date subject content knowledge.
Not exact matches
Micro Focus
requires courses to be
taught by Authorized Instructors to ensure
high quality knowledge transfer to students.
The levels of motivation, teamwork and leadership
required of service personnel are significant, and these are
qualities that can only benefit Britain's students both at school and beyond: who better to
teach them, than those who have had to learn them to the
highest level themselves?
«To ensure the best and brightest are
teaching our children, the State Education Department will increase the standards for teacher certification to
require passage of a «bar exam,» in addition to longer, more intensive and
high -
quality student -
teaching experience in a school setting,» Mr. Cuomo said.
IT infrastructure, in particular, is one area that is increasingly central to the provision of modern,
high quality teaching and, consequently,
requires consistent renewal - something which is beyond the average school or college IT budget.
Where the tests are well aligned to
high -
quality standards and where they contain enough tasks
requiring deep analysis and writing by students, matching
teaching to the tests may work reasonably well, at least as a first step in reform.
Moving the scale of
quality of the United States»
teaching force toward this
higher level would, he recognizes,
require significant changes in school districts» employment practices, basing recruitment, compensation, and retention policies on the identification and compensation of teachers according to their effectiveness.
It instead
requires a pervasive culture of scholarship with a shared commitment for teachers to support one another to develop so that students benefit from the
highest quality teaching.
Efforts to Improve Teacher
Quality: Instead of
requiring its teachers to complete minimum degrees or coursework in the subjects they plan to
teach, Oregon
requires its
high school teachers to demonstrate subject - matter knowledge by passing tests in their areas of endorsement prior to certification.
Efforts to Improve Teacher
Quality: Mississippi
requires its
high school teachers to pass subject - matter exams in the areas they plan to
teach to earn their licenses.
To identify areas of
high quality teaching (leading to the sharing of good practice) or the identification of areas of
teaching that
requires further development.
It matters not a jot how much
high quality teaching and learning can be observed in the tiny sample of lessons inspected, because having been forced to make the judgement on the hopelessly invalid school performance data, all the inspectors do in the lessons they look at is to think up comments to make to justify the inadequate /
requires improvement judgement already made before they set foot in the building.
... improving
teaching and learning
required coherence among the tests and several other policy instruments, including curricula and opportunities for
high -
quality professional development...
That's why Liberal Democrats will
require every teacher to hold Qualified Teacher Status, will support the Royal College of
Teaching and will invest in
high quality professional development.
Attracting a diverse and
high -
quality teacher workforce
requires expanding innovative and research - based recruitment efforts, including strategies to make
teaching careers attractive and financially sustainable.
These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of
high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to
teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is
required.
These responsibilities
require a systemic approach in which the entire education community works together to promote the
highest -
quality classroom
teaching and learning.
High -
quality implementation of standards - based reform
requires the following: specificity in stating the content goals of
teaching and learning; consistency / alignment among the policies and practices put in place to pursue those goals (e.g. content standards, student achievement tests, performance standards, curriculum materials, professional development, accountability); authority / legitimacy to those charged with implementation; power through rewards and sanctions; and stability — when policies, practices, and leadership are in a state of flux, it is difficult to take each new thing that comes along seriously.
At Green Dot schools, principals and assistant principals are not managers or bureaucrats but instructional leaders tasked with identifying
high -
quality teaching and providing personalized coaching and professional support; subjects lacking in leadership preparation programs nor
required of traditional school leaders.
Require teaching quality so that every student benefits from teachers who are certified,
teach in their content area (s), and meet or exceed
high standards of excellence.
Topping the plan's list of seven «guiding strategies» is the need to «facilitate
high quality professional learning opportunities for educators to ensure that every student has access to teachers who are prepared to
teach to the levels of rigor and depth»
required by the common core standards.
The intent of the
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Collaborative is to emphasize the critical connectivity between standards implementation and the teacher and leader talent pipeline
required to provide
high quality instruction to each student, and to support states as they identify and take act
Effective professional development -LSB-...]
requires a pervasive culture of scholarship with a shared commitment for teachers to support one another to develop so that pupils benefit from the
highest quality teaching