Sentences with phrase «instructional practices of teachers»

Indicator 3.10 — Agency and school leaders monitor and support the improvement of instructional practices of teachers to ensure student success.

Establishing a truly shared model of Professional Practice — created and implemented by teachers within one organization — is critical for developing a school - wide culture of rigor and professional growth, especially one that benefits all students and helps build the instructional practice of teachers.

In turnaround schools, teacher - leaders such as multi-classroom leaders are an essential component of an Instructional Team of Leaders (ILT) to improve the instructional practice of all teachers and deploy school - wide initiatives.

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Vigorous morning yoga intensives guide you deeper into your own practice and life purpose, while afternoon instructional sessions cover an extensive yoga teacher curriculum, including cueing, sequencing, hands - on assists, working with injuries, demonstration techniques, vocal presence, yoga philosophy and history, the business of yoga, ethics, and anatomy.

03, Ed.D.» 12, offers an analysis of the value of instructional rounds in education through the testimonies of those whom the fairly new practice affects most directly: teachers, principals, and district personnel.

Over the course of a lifetime, master teachers are continuously improving their craft, listening to their students, re-tailoring lessons and finding the gaps in instructional practices.

In order to reach this end goal, principals need to have knowledge of this instructional practice, and they need to be able to observe teachers and offer meaningful feedback in this area of practice.

In his acclaimed Readicide (2009), high school English teacher Kelly Gallagher argued that the «inane, mind - numbing» instructional practices found in today's schools are partly to blame for students» lack of interest in reading.

Teachers, instructional designers, educational institutions, companies, and even organizations have started to heavily rely on the use of social media in formal learning, to share practices, promote information and educational material, share opinions, views and comments, embodying them in training programs and individual courses.

The related instructional delivery in the Instructor's Manual also does not appear to support clear sequencing, clear descriptions and demonstrations of skills to be acquired, nor are the student activities followed by practice and timely feedback — the essence of good pedagogical practice which should focus initially on high levels of teacher involvement.

One strand of his research, which has sought to replicate effective charter - school practices in public school contexts, has shown that when a school increases instructional time, has excellent teachers and administrators, and instills data - driven instruction, small - group tutoring, and a culture of high expectations, it can eliminate gaps in math performance.

• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!

«When teachers engage in high - level instructional talk and have the opportunity to improve practice collaboratively and in concrete forms, they develop team loyalty, trust, and feelings of responsibility and accountability for each other and for all the team's students.

Meanwhile, it provides $ 2.5 billion to support professional development that can be used to «improve the knowledge of teachers and principals and, in appropriate cases, paraprofessionals, concerning effective instructional strategies, methods, and skills, and use of challenging State academic content standards and student academic achievement standards, and State assessments, to improve teaching practices and student academic achievement.»

«Teachers learn to draw connections between their instructional practice and student learning through the deliberate analysis of data,» says Richard Elmore, «and this sense of efficacy in teaching is central to internal accountability at the school level.»

Darling - Hammond and co, in Professional Learning in the Learning Profession, define effective professional learning in terms of improved teacher knowledge and instructional practice, but say «the impact on student achievement is a critical indicator.»

• Classrooms open to teacher colleagues for observation and analysis In order to articulate a problem of practice teachers must make use of instructional data which they collect through observations of their colleagues» classrooms and contrast current practice with their shared expectation of effective instruction for the identified learning problem.

One of LPS's lead math teachers, Mike Fauteux, wanted to improve student engagement and address his students» individual learning gaps, so he began experimenting with new instructional practices that used Google Sheets and OER to provide students with self - guided learning experiences.

He makes similar arguments about how efforts to improve teacher quality, instructional approaches like Success for All, and high - expectation techniques practiced by educators like Jaime Escalante and Rafe Esquith are not promising models for reform because their success is due to the selection of students or other factors that can not be replicated on a broader scale.

In the largest study of instructional practice ever undertaken, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project is searching for tools to save the world from perfunctory teacher evaluations.

«If teachers do not deeply understand their standards — or the instructional practices that are aligned with them — their instruction may fall short of helping students meet those standards,» observes the RAND Corporation's Kaufman, who, along with Lindsey Thompson and V. Darleen Opfer, found that Louisiana teachers demonstrated a stronger grasp of the Common Core standards and adopted more classroom practices that reflect them than did teachers elsewhere.

The good news is that at the end of the first year, statistically significant positive effects were found for teacher knowledge and for one of three instructional practices.

• The third, Questions / Discussion vs. Standards / Content, measures the difference between a teacher's rating on a single standard that evaluates the use of questions and classroom discussion as an instructional strategy, and that same teacher's average rating on three standards that assess teaching practices that focus on classroom management routines, on conveying standards - based instructional objectives to students, and on demonstrating content - specific knowledge in teaching these objectives.

If, however, teachers must choose a smaller number of practices on which to focus their improvement efforts (for example, because of limited time or professional development opportunities), our results suggest that math achievement would likely benefit most from improvements in classroom management skills before turning to instructional issues.

The Power of Teacher Rounds: A Guide for Facilitators, Principals, & Department Chairs Katherine Boles and Vivian Troen The practice of instructional teacher rounds — a process inspired by hospital rounds — is a design for professional learning that promotes teacher collaboration by making teacher practice Teacher Rounds: A Guide for Facilitators, Principals, & Department Chairs Katherine Boles and Vivian Troen The practice of instructional teacher rounds — a process inspired by hospital rounds — is a design for professional learning that promotes teacher collaboration by making teacher practice teacher rounds — a process inspired by hospital rounds — is a design for professional learning that promotes teacher collaboration by making teacher practice teacher collaboration by making teacher practice teacher practice public.

This book offers some of the most applicable, research - backed memory strategies that teachers can use in their instructional practice and students can apply to their study strategies.

The study found it is important for prekindergarten teachers to adopt a child - centered instructional approach rather than an academically directed approach or a combination of academic and child - centered practices.

And while Khan Academy's prominence engenders fear of standardization and deprofessionalization among some critics, Bergmann, Sams, and Smith see instructional videos as powerful tools for teachers to create content, share resources, and improve practice.

The principals» role evolved from pure evaluation to a dual role in which, by incorporating instructional coaching, the principal served as both evaluator and formative assessor of a teacher's instructional practice.

In Kelly School, which is discussed in the book, these characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each student's academic progress, an explicit link between students» outcomes and teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and teachers» responsibility for student learning.

An iterative process of observation and conferencing focused on improving lesson planning and preparation, the classroom environment, and instructional techniques should drive positive changes in teacher practice.

Teachers need practice and appropriate protocols, which can be obtained from outside the school or developed internally, to develop their capacity to look at student work as a means of instructional improvement.

To date, our work using the distributed perspective has demonstrated the ways that leaders co-construct leadership activity, how leadership practice connects and fails to connect with instructional change, why teachers heed or ignore the guidance of school leaders, and how leadership is practiced differently in different school subjects (e.g. mathematics versus language arts).

A weekly newsletter to faculty is a good way to share some of the effective lessons and instructional practices principals and coaches see, and to recognize teachers.

However, just as athletes use video analysis to study the strategies of a star athlete on the opposing team or the effectiveness of a winning play on the field, I regularly refined my practice by watching teachers, in real time, execute instructional strategies that resulted in their students» eyebrows raising and their mouths dropping open because a light bulb had just been turned on in their minds.

By instructional leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the school are properly aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of instructional materials.

As teachers and students become more comfortable sharing opinions and ideas, involving students in the instructional change process should become a routine part of our practice.

Practicing critical thinking in the classroom may mean discussing the quality of a textbook, considering whether traditional beliefs about a subject are accurate, or even discussing the teacher's instructional style.

She is particularly interested in the development of a common language for studying and teaching instructional practice and on identifying resources that support practice - focused teacher training.

Across all instructional formats, it's important for teachers to provide explicit instruction of unfamiliar words, to recycle words continually so students have the opportunity to practice, and to expose students to words using multiple formats.

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For too long our professional development systems have focused on the quality of the professional development «inputs» provided to teachers to improve their professional practice, with unfortunately little evidence of improvement or linkage to any «outputs» of a change in instructional practice.

Dr. Forzani's research focuses on identifying instructional practices that are essential to competent beginning instruction and on the implementation of reform in teacher education.

Khan Academy is a learning platform which is comprised of practice exercises, instructional videos, dashboard analytics and teacher tools which empower learners in and outside of the classroom to study at their own pace.

Just as all learners are different, so too are instructional practices and a classroom full of individuals may require the savvy teacher to employ multiple practices simultaneously.

Of the teachers TNTP studied, as many as half in their tenth year or beyond were rated below «effective» in core instructional practices.

Along with the online survey reports, teachers and principals will have access to the Panorama Education Playbook (Playbook), an online professional learning tool that allows educators to share practices and create a personalized playbook of instructional strategies based on their survey results.

New York requires teacher candidates to pass a total of four tests to become certified, including the notoriously time - consuming edTPA exam, which requires teacher candidates to submit lesson plans, video clips and student work samples from their student - teaching experiences and written commentaries on their instructional practices.

This comprehensive software, developed in partnership with Harris School Solutions, makes it easy for teachers, coaches, and school leaders to work together to improve the use of instructional strategies and other professional practices.

The lawsuit alleges SED's failure to appropriately compensate for student poverty when calculating student growth scores resulted in about 35 percent of Syracuse teachers receiving overall ratings of «developing» or «ineffective» in 2012 - 13, even though 98 percent were rated «highly effective» or «effective» by their principals on the 60 points tied to their instructional classroom practices.