These opportunities are based on proven practice and are universally applicable to all teachers and schools, regardless of the model or
instructional focus of the school.
The programs reflect a more effective and efficiently delivered model, aimed at improving student outcomes by consolidating sites around a
specific instructional focus.
Issues like transforming the culture of a school, implementing a
new instructional focus or supporting other areas of development.
These opportunities are based on best practice and are universally applicable to all teachers and schools, regardless of the model or
instructional focus of the school.
Evaluative assessments assess school improvement efforts like professional development needs, areas of
instructional focus for the whole building, etc..
The campus
instructional focus aligns content with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), language with the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) and the social emotional with the PBIS (Positive Behaviors, Interventions and Supports) Champs.
If your child is at least 6 years old, they can host a parkour - focused birthday party led by a Parkour EDU - certified coach, who will not only teach children different movements but also lead them in games and
mini instructionals focused on certain parkour movements.
In the higherperforming districts, district staff corroborate the survey data that suggest the importance of developing
local instructional foci and learning standards.
The Middle Years Programme (MYP) is a school wide instructional model that provides an
international instructional focus, a variety of skills needed for academic success and opportunities for a well - rounded education.
The principal does work to ensure that
intense instructional focus and continuous learning are the core work of the school, and does this by being a talent scout and social engineer, building a culture for learning, tapping others to co-lead, and, well, basically being a learning leader for all» (Fullan, 2014).
The purposes of these tests are many; assessing student progress, determining areas where there needs
increased instructional focus, and monitoring school progress at meeting yearly adequate progress in educating all students to the standards of learning set forth in the statewide curriculum.
Teachers indicated that working in a collegial atmosphere (34 percent in North Carolina and 32 percent in South Carolina) and being led by a principal with a
strong instructional focus (27 percent in North Carolina and 26 percent in South Carolina) mattered most in their decision about whether or not to stay at a school.
Simply put, teacher clarity means an educator has absolute clarity about what students are to learn, know, and be able to do for an
upcoming instructional focus before they plan any instruction and assessments.
[4] Some research hypothesizes that the low - skill level and mobility of substitute teachers may contribute to the reduction
in instructional focus and quality and that even when substitute teachers are good instructors, they may be unable to effectively implement a teacher of record's long - term instructional strategies.
Each year, our school selects one
instructional focus that we all work on together.
The study also correlated success in prose writing with certain emphases in teaching — finding, for example, that
an instructional focus on reading and on essay planning enhanced achievement.
The instructional focus for teaching recent immigrants in much of the country has been English as a Second Language.
EcoMOD's learning goals in habitats and food webs are taught using a systems perspective, shifting
the instructional focus from comprehension of static representations to consequential student interaction with dynamic computational models.
For the past several years, we have carried a school - wide theme with
an instructional focus that benefits students and teachers.
The primary concern is not ideological bias but the apparent narrow - mindedness of today's
instructional focus.
«Now, after a year - and - a-half, the teachers are more actively involved with the implementation of the school's
instructional focus.
That meant that decisions about
the instructional focus were being made by a small group of people, and the ownership for the work was not as high as it could have been.
While
the instructional focus is on reading, writing, mathematics, and reasoning, most of the practices could be meaningfully applied across content areas.
This school year,
our instructional focus is: Implementing evidence - based reading and problem solving strategies that enable students to successfully engage in cognitively demanding tasks.
As we strive to continuously meet this goal, each year, we develop
an instructional focus.
With the impending implementation of the Common Core State Standards we have a unique opportunity to narrow
our instructional focus and develop a viable curriculum.
We must improve the way we prepare school leaders and ensure that they have
an instructional focus rather than one of management.
The CEI team of experts provide one - on - one leadership development for assistant principals where we create a customized plan based on the principal's leadership vision aligned with
the instructional focus for the school year.
In every decision I made about the schools I led — be it professional development, program development, school culture,
instructional focus and feedback systems, or curriculum design — any idea or insight I had was always sharpened and strengthened by including my colleagues in the conversation.
In the early primary grades (e.g., K and 1)
the instructional focus is usually on learning numerals, the quantities they represent and base 10 place value.
For me, questioning and frequent testing drive
my instructional focus.
Although a focus question emerges from an individual teacher's experiences, it often reflects a school or district's
instructional focus.
For their first round of Learning Club meetings at Reynoldsburg, educators selected The Thoughtful Classroom Vocabulary's CODE model as
their instructional focus.
Educators can use the assessment data to inform individual interventions,
instructional focus, and district - and school - wide programs.
Best practice is to show only high level targets, topics taught this marking period, or areas of
instructional focus.
As you implement your magnet theme, you may seek advice on best practices including staffing, leadership,
instructional focus and assessment.
A plan of
instructional focus that respects the learning progressions in the Standards will strike a balance between the path to gaining math understanding and the endpoint of having acquired it.
In partnership with Mission College
the instructional focus will carry forward the middle school themes, along with early college access.