In a study of classroom strategies (see Brophy, 1996; Brophy & McCaslin, 1992), researchers examined
how effective classroom teachers interacted with specific types of students.
Not exact matches
Read loses sight of Buber's concept of dialogue, however, when he suggests that Buber's teaching shows
how to replace the inter-individual tensions of the
classroom by «an organic mode of adaptation to the social organism as a whole» and when he reinterprets the
teacher's concentration of an
effective world as a selective screen in which what is kept in and what is left out is determined by the organic social pattern through the medium of the
teacher's «sense of a total organism's feeling - behaviour.»
Effective teachers who actually have
classrooms full of children with a growth mindset are always supporting children's learning strategies and showing
how strategies created that success.
«I do not care
how good the
teacher is, if class sizes continue to grow, our
classrooms will be less
effective environments for learning, and that is unacceptable to the future of our State in my view.»
The issue raised by the release of value - added information is simply
how quickly and
how assuredly we get to a more rational system of evaluations — for both
teachers and administrators — and to a more rational personnel system that guarantees an
effective teacher in every
classroom.
A new, in - depth report takes a look at
how states spend education money and finds that the most cost -
effective ways of increasing student achievement are by reducing pupil -
teacher ratios, providing more prekindergarten programs, and providing
teachers with discretionary
classroom resources — not by raising
teacher pay.
They should, in my mind, focus on
how the incentives, rules, and actions can be arranged to ensure that there is indeed an
effective teacher in every
classroom.
The certification pathway that New York City
teachers took to their
classrooms seemed to have little relationship to
how effective they were in raising students» scores, concludes a study that matched some 10,000
teachers with six years of test results.
In the most
effective classes I visited,
teachers use data tracking as part of their weekly or biweekly
classroom routine, and reserve time for students to write reflections on
how they've performed.
Teachers themselves want to better understand
how changes they make to learning design and adaptive delivery can improve their own work and the majority of our students are much more sophisticated judges of
effective classroom practice than ever before.
«Speaking of
Classroom Management» — An Interview with Harry K. Wong Meet Harry K. Wong, the author of The First Days of School:
How to Be an
Effective Teacher, and learn the secret to your success in the
classroom.
I teach a required technology course designed for extending
teacher candidates» technology skills, modeling
classroom technology use, and providing a sense of
how technology can be utilized to support
effective student learning.
The new evaluation systems have forced principals to prioritize
classrooms over cafeterias and custodians (and have exposed
how poorly prepared many principals are to be instructional leaders) and they have sparked conversations about
effective teaching that often simply didn't happen in the past in many schools — developments that
teachers say makes their work more appealing.
In our new report, Opportunity at the Top:
How America's Best
Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great, Emily Ayscue Hassel and I asked a simple question: «Will our nation's bold efforts to recruit more top teachers and remove the least effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroom
Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great, Emily Ayscue Hassel and I asked a simple question: «Will our nation's bold efforts to recruit more top
teachers and remove the least effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroom
teachers and remove the least
effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroom
teachers put a great
teacher in every
classroom?»
But many educators believe those standards say little about
how well
teachers actually perform in the
classroom — in short,
how effective they are.
In essence, TAP provides a detailed plan for
how teachers can be
effective in the
classroom, furnishes a formula to evaluate all
teachers, and links positive evaluations along with achievement - growth measures to bonus pay.
In general, the standards require
teachers to know the content to be taught, to understand
how students learn that content, and to have developed
effective curriculum and instructional strategies for teaching the content and successful
classroom management strategies.
Teachers will have the opportunity to discuss
how specific learning strategies, such as retrieval practice, can be adapted and differentiated for
effective use in the
classroom.
Similarly, the methods of star
teachers —
how they construct a culture of high expectations in their
classroom and deliver vibrant and
effective instruction — are at last being codified as specific techniques that can be mastered by novice
teachers.
They feel that it would be more cost
effective to outsource their
How to Videos, or
classroom teachers give up on their idea to create videos all together.
Teachers, for example, are observed in their
classrooms five times throughout the year and rated on nine explicit criteria that the district uses to define
effective instruction, including
how well they explain concepts and if they check for student understanding.
Effective and informative for both new
teachers and
classroom veterans, Teach Like a Champion 2.0 describes
how to:
Learn
how to ask
effective questions, avoid
teacher bias, and build
classroom community with these proven strategies for educators.
Web - based Tool The CTAT is a web - based observation tool that helps individual
teachers understand
how they are using time in their
classrooms, and helps schools identify and capture
effective time management strategies across
classrooms.
Also, archaic seniority rules punish good new
teachers — no matter
how effective they are in the
classroom, they will be the first to go when money gets tight.
«We also think that Multiple Intelligences will provide the
teachers with a very
effective lens by which they can work with the children and
how they organize their
classrooms,» added Ms. Julie Viens, Managing Partner of MI Institute.
This DVD, based on the best - selling book Total Participation Techniques: Making Every Student an Active Learner, by Pérsida and William Himmele, shows
teachers how various easy - to - use and incredibly
effective alternatives to «stand - and - deliver» teaching strategies can work in their
classrooms.
This article describes
how effective teachers promote each of these elements in differentiated
classrooms.
Knowledge of
how children and young people develop and learn, the principles of
effective pedagogy both within their own subject area and more generally, the implications of cognitive science for
classroom practice, and the features of good assessment also form part of a Chartered
Teacher's core knowledge base.
Every principal reading this knows
how hard it is to staff a school over and over again with
teachers who are highly
effective in the
classroom.
TAP uses a set of standards for evaluating
teachers that is based on the work of consultant Charlotte Danielson.1 In Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching (1996), Danielson breaks teaching down into four major categories (planning and preparation,
classroom environment, instruction, and professional responsibilities); 22 themes (ranging from demonstrating knowledge of the subjects taught to designing ways to motivate students to learn); and 77 skills (such as when and
how to use different groupings of students and the most
effective ways to give students feedback).
Possessing insights into others (including others different values and points of view)-- As
classrooms have become increasingly multicultural,
effective teachers have developed a consciousness to stop and consider
how their words and actions and those of their students can be viewed through different lenses.
Teach your students
how to talk it out rather than fight it out with this highly
effective conflict resolution process written by a
classroom teacher.
Drawing on her vast knowledge and experience as a
classroom teacher, she covers the basics of
effective mathematical communication and offers specific strategies for teaching students
how to speak and write about math.
After a quick look at the negative responses, an obvious fix emerges: We should pay
teachers by
how effective they are in the
classroom.
The need for better school leaders is the reason we believe in supporting districts to improve
how they recruit, support, and retain those highly
effective principals who foster student success and keep our great, highly
effective teachers in the
classroom.
The first key to
effective communication lies in
how teachers view the students» role in the
classroom.
And that's meant publicly defending laws that strike even many liberals as wrong - headed, such as requiring districts to lay off their most junior
teachers first, regardless of
how effective they are in the
classroom.
This blog shares ideas, research and opinion about
how to grow great
teachers and build systems that prioritize
effective teaching in every
classroom.
The Long Beach Unified School District in California, for example, requires that all new
teachers receive regular «instruction» on the job in the basics of
classroom practice — from
how to manage student behavior to choosing
effective strategies for small group instruction.
Civics Online attempts to promote «
teachers» thinking about
how to design
effective learning environments» by providing (a) a search engine to locate multimedia resources, (b) detailed lesson plans, and (c) access to textual case studies where
classroom teachers describe their students» experiences with the resources.
Cushman describes «deliberate practice,» lists the habits of excellence that interviewees identified, and explores
how classroom teachers can set up learning conditions that motivate the kind of
effective practice and the sense of «flow» that students experience in their out - of - school pursuits.
An
effective curriculum model for preservice
teachers is one that not only shows
how to use technology effectively in the
classroom, but also requires students to explore, create, and plan with technology, both prior to and during their field experiences (Polly, 2012).
Because
teachers say it is difficult to stay current on research about
effective instruction, this paper helps
teachers become consumers of educational programs and materials, provides guidance on
how to recognize scientifically based instructional strategies,
how to use the concepts of research in the
classroom.
If the
classroom teacher remains the most important factor in student learning, the challenge facing schools is, «
How can we persuade our
teachers to embrace more
effective instructional strategies?»
Effective teachers explicitly teach students
how to behave responsibly and respectfully in every
classroom situation —
teacher - directed instruction, independent seatwork, cooperative groups, tests, and all major transitions.
Well Spoken contains a framework for understanding the skills involved in all
effective oral communication, offers practical steps and lesson ideas that any
teacher needs to successfully teach speaking in a variety of situations — from
classroom discussions to formal presentations — and includes a set of tools for students — from
how to grab the audience's attention to
how to use emphatic hand gestures and adjust speed for effect.
It guides
teachers from creating a supportive
classroom environment to establishing
effective routines; shows
teachers how to set up a writer's workshop; and provides an entire year of developmentally appropriate mini-lessons that build confidence, and, ultimately, independence.
The district has partnered with Graceland University on professional development for
teachers on
effective practices in STEM, and support on
how to implement the coursework in the
classroom, Coffelt says.
Over the coming years, as we provide
teachers and schools with data on
how teaching practices are tied to students» performance, we plan to investigate the degree to which
classroom - and school - level teaching practices shift over time toward practices which have been identified as more
effective for enhancing student achievement.