What data do I collect to learn about trends
in instructional practice as well as student performance and problems of learning?
Over 500 school and district leaders and 1,500 teachers experienced professional development diving into the framework's utility for
improving instructional practice in their schools.
Our results - oriented coaching model ensures that new knowledge and skills translate directly into
effective instructional practices for teachers and instructional coaches.
Each section is focused on what educators at each level of an education system can do to improve
instructional practices for deeper learning.
Particularly interesting videos can be utilized for showing additional
teachers instructional practices on a school web page or as part of professional development.
Answers to these and other questions will shed light on how teacher evaluation systems might improve
instructional practice as well as their implications for the teacher labor market.
In the absence of feedback coupled with support (e.g. planning, modeling, practicing, guided reflection), teachers may struggle to adopt
new instructional practices in isolation.
It's not all about test - taking, but it is important for teachers to measure student progress frequently in order to inform their
own instructional practice.
An overview of the district - charter collaboration landscape and one strategy that many cities are pursuing:
sharing instructional practices across district and charter schools.
She has spent her career seeking solutions to close the achievement gap, in part by supporting the improvement of
instructional practice at both the school and system levels.
Principals must include careful attention to
classroom instructional practices, but should not neglect many other issues that are critical to the ongoing health and welfare of school organizations.
We work with educators to
align instructional practices to support all students to graduate prepared for college, career, and civic life in today's rapidly changing world.
It is designed to simultaneously
strengthen instructional practices and transform systems and structures through job - embedded coaching and capacity building to teams of teachers and administrators.
While our first year study is suggestive of
what instructional practices facilitate children's word recognition skill, we are currently following up with a larger scale longitudinal study.
This toolkit is for instructional coaches, administrators and district leaders who support teachers and other instructional staff in integrating SEL into their
daily instructional practices.
High levels of student achievement will result only when
core instructional practices are defined and educator and system practices are in place to contribute to literacy success for every student.
She is a strong advocate of using evaluation practices as a formative process and
employing instructional practice data to inform the development and implementation of professional development.
Although
instructional practices such as rotating small groups among individual work stations, as well as carefully - planned large group activities, can support most students.
Resources need to be allocated and significant changes in
instructional practices need to be implemented to make sure that the program becomes a success.