Beginning readers require more direct
instructional support from teachers in the early stages of teaching.
Not exact matches
We provide you with
instructional manuals, as well as
support and guidance
from others who have been through the same training and are facing the same challenges.
«Our faculty members have been very successful in obtaining
support from the National Science Foundation, including major research equipment grants and grants for cooperative training and
instructional projects such as projects for training graduate students in biological and cultural evolution together with the WSU Department of Anthropology, and for training undergraduates in mathematical biology together with the Department of Mathematics.»
Teachers provide the
instructional support students need and make themselves available for additional help, but students are expected to know their own status and be proactive about seeking what they need, whether
from teachers, tutors, or fellow students.
The Student Editions include: • Links to
instructional videos, audio, or texts • Links to practice quizzes or activities • 12 assessments that include a total of 39 multiple choice, 2 true / false, and 2 sorting questions • Definitions of key terms related to each of the standards • Examples of how students can apply the standards to their reading and deepen their understanding of what they are reading • Excerpts
from several high - quality texts, including: - «Harriet: The Moses of Her People» by Sarah H. Bradford - «The Narrative of Sojourner Truth» by Olive Gilbert and Sojourner Truth - «On Women's Right to Vote» by Susan B. Anthony - «Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death» by Patrick Henry • Accompanying Teaching Notes files The Teaching Notes files include: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional resources • Ideas to differentiate the activities for students who need extra
support or to be challenged further • Answer guides with correct answers, answer choice rationales, word counts, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels
What I found is that schools that exceed expectations — as well as those that are making significant improvement
from a base of overall poor performance — engage in the extensive practice of six research - informed
instructional strategies and develop a culture that communicates high expectations and
support for all students.
The best training we saw was on - the - ground
support, particularly
from instructional coaches.
Hampton High School initially received funds
from the state - funded «Classrooms for the Future,» Pennsylvania's three - year grant program that gave schools technology equipment and required them to turn a classroom teacher into an
instructional coach to help
support technology use.
Despite frenzied efforts to
support new assessments,
instructional materials, and implementation during 2011 - 2014, interviews
from that era with state legislators, district officials, educators, and parents showed remarkably little awareness of the costs and practical difficulties that lay ahead.
The participants, all representing schools sharing in the $ 1 billion in annual grants
from the federal initiative, applauded the program for pumping what recipients say are sorely needed resources into
instructional materials, teacher training, and
support services for struggling elementary schools.
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from instructional design to lifetime customer
support.
Although the Batesville School District is a member of the Arkansas 21C Network (an offshoot of Yale University's School of the 21st Century initiative), Huff maintains that her school still lacks the
support and resources needed to move the
instructional revolution
from talk to action.
It is the only state to fund not just reading coaches but also principal coaches, who train principals to be better
instructional leaders and who drive accountability to the district level by ensuring that schools get
support from superintendents and central - office staff.
Also, teachers gradually transition
from offering high levels of
instructional support to lower levels, as students begin to understand key concepts independently of the teacher.
This short blog
from the Buck Institute for Education (BIE) explains some of the key shifts in the Common Core and also how PBL can
support these
instructional shifts.
The challenge, in short, is to find ways to «squeeze more juice
from the orange» by using
support staff,
instructional specialization, and technology to ensure that effective educators are devoting more of their time to educating students.
The school's voluntary Teacher Labs — facilitated by an
instructional coach and organized around a clear, written protocol — enable teachers to reflect on their craft with
support from their peers.
(Title I - A funding
supports the
instructional needs of students
from low - income families.)
Read an extensive practice guide
from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) about Using Student Achievement Data to
Support Instructional Decision Making.
In other schools, teachers shared planning time, learned about data to guide
instructional decision making, and got regular
support from a coach or lead teacher.
Academic Gains, Double the # of Schools: Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018 Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018 Days in the Life: The Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader — November 30, 2017 Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017 Opportunity Culture Tools for Back to School —
Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve
Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and
Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning
from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?
A third report, Small High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City,
from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary
support, personal and academic
support, effective
instructional practices, and college preparation.
(ii) Analyzing individual ongoing, child - level assessment data for all children birth to age five participating in the program and using that data in combination with input
from parents and families to determine each child's status and progress with regard to, at a minimum, language and literacy development, cognition and general knowledge, approaches toward learning, physical well - being and motor development, and social and emotional development and to individualize the experiences,
instructional strategies, and services to best
support each child.
In particular, rich data on SIG schools in one of the studies shows that schools improved both by differentially retaining their most experienced teachers and by providing teachers with increased
supports for
instructional improvement such as opportunities to visit each other's classrooms and to receive meaningful feedback on their teaching practice
from school leaders.
Responses
from the teacher survey indicate that, in particular schools, teachers saw the principal as frequently providing direct
instructional support.
In other instances, they create the buy - in we get
from teachers who see our curricular and
instructional changes for what they're meant to be — ways to
support them in their efforts to serve their students.
Findings
from these three studies suggest that initiatives that feature teacher leaders engaged in
instructional support practices, including demonstration lessons, should attend to factors such as time, peer
support, and teacher leader knowledge that may influence their practice.
«Quite simply, we want to know
from them what they want as far as
instructional programs; we want to know how we can best
support their college and career opportunities.
By targeting both younger and older elementary aged children, Lesson One is reaching a population of students that are often overlooked, yet can absolutely benefit
from social emotional
instructional support.
The district, by necessity, had to rely on principals «
instructional leadership and on expertise
from the regional education center or independent consultants to
support school - and district - wide improvement initiatives.
«These schools require truly comprehensive services,
from instructional to operational
support,» said Jennifer Shea, a senior program manager at the School Turnaround Group, part of the Boston - based Mass Insight Education, which is working with six states on turnarounds.
The
instructional support materials in the Big Cat Emergent Small Group Package are built around 40 fresh, new leveled books (half fiction, half nonfiction) ranging
from Guided Reading Levels A through F with the «just right» ingredients for your classroom: high student appeal, built - in teaching tips for comprehension - focused
support, and an embedded reading response summary page to quickly check comprehension and improve speaking and listening skills.
Hire and supervise a team of
instructional support staff to assist with the migration of courses
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One
instructional support strategy employed by teacher leaders is to provide demonstration lessons in which a teacher leader models a particular technique for teachers to learn
from and / or emulate.
In short, it appears
from this small sample that teachers in schools where our observation measures indicated less ambitious
instructional practices were more likely to externalize their needs for
instructional support (e.g., resources, backup for classroom management decisions) than to value
support focused more directly on developing their
instructional expertise.
The effort provides districts with resources and
support to ensure that local technology and digital learning plans align with
instructional best practices, are implemented by highly trained teachers, and lead to personalized learning experiences for all students, particularly those
from traditionally under - served communities.
The
instructional support materials in the Big Cat Early - Fluent Small Group Package are built around 40 fresh, new leveled books (half fiction, half nonfiction) ranging
from Guided Reading Levels J through P with the «just right» ingredients for your classroom: high student appeal, built - in teaching tips for comprehension - focused
support, and an embedded reading response summary page to quickly check comprehension and improve speaking and listening skills.
Findings
from across these studies suggest that teacher leaders are more likely to provide
instructional support when leading teacher teams within their subject area focus, although the form of
instructional leadership may be influenced by subject area.
The overall
instructional goal for this course was to
support teachers in developing particular mathematical insights, understandings, and skills needed to teach algebra
from a functions - based perspective (Chazan, 2000) through analysis and extension of tasks and concepts
from the school mathematics curriculum.
Speaking
from more than 40 years of experience in the field — and speaking for all learners who hope to succeed, the teachers who want them to succeed, and the local school leaders whose aspirations for success have been thwarted by assessment traditions — Stiggins maps out the adjustments in practice and culture necessary to generate both accurate accountability data and the specific evidence of individual mastery that will
support sound
instructional decision making and better learning in the classroom.
Little (1995) reported that teacher leaders who led teams of teachers organized around subject areas derived their authority
from their subject area affiliations and were better positioned to provide
instructional support than teacher leaders who led interdisciplinary teams.
Instructional coaching involves a teacher receiving
support, ideas, strategies, and assistance
from a coach to help them reflect on their teaching.
Findings
from four studies indicated that teacher leaders with deeper knowledge of subject matter content and pedagogy were more likely than those without such knowledge to provide
support to teachers» implementation of
instructional materials.
Latz et al. (2007) and Yost et al. (2009) included findings that teacher leader
support to classroom teachers in the implementation of
instructional materials benefited
from a deep understanding of the content area and
instructional materials, but the nature of the benefits were not specified.
Our team has interviewed and observed hundreds of teachers
from across the country to learn where technology is falling short in their classrooms and where teachers need additional
support to take their
instructional practice to the next level.
Each district school board shall provide funding for the professional development system as required by s. 1011.62 and the General Appropriations Act, and shall direct expenditures
from other funding sources to continuously strengthen the system in order to increase student achievement and
support instructional staff in enhancing rigor and relevance in the classroom.
As you walk through Disney II classrooms, you will see: students working through challenging material that has been individualized to the students»
instructional needs, integrated projects with technology, art and music, a variety of unique individuals that
support our students ranging
from parents, senior interns, to retired teachers volunteering.
The strongest
support for the «poor implementation» hypothesis is the fact that the researchers found that as time went on, younger students seemed to experience less of a negative effect
from the
instructional reform.
As I discussed in my Getting Smart article, Back - to - School Prep for School Leaders, we know
from supporting schools and districts across the nation for the last 17 years that some of the greatest levers to improving student achievement lie in the school leader and an effective
Instructional Leadership Team (ILT).
As we integrate innovative technology into our classrooms,
instructional coaches
from Educate LLC offer their continued
support to our teachers, 20 of whom earned the distinction of Google Certified Educator and are proficient in using Google for Education tools to enhance their lesson plans.