Stephen Dinham: We know from international research that instructional leadership has
a larger effect on student learning than other sorts of leadership, particularly some of the more managerial / administration types.
«Programs of enrichment and acceleration, which usually involve the greatest amounts of curricular adjustment, have
the largest effects on student learning.
Not exact matches
Second, the new wave of personalized
learning draws
on a set of instructional strategies that have shown particularly
large effects on student achievement: feedback, peer tutoring, mastery
learning, goal setting, and even direct instruction.
Providing
students with feedback had the
largest effect size
on learning of any intervention studied.
The
effects of service
learning on social responsibility and academic success were investigated among a
large, racially and socioeconomically diverse sample of
students in grades 6 - 8 in three middle schools.
In other words, to make the very
large effects disappear, you have to make either the very strong assumption that
student learning has little
effect on the U.S. economy or the equally strong assumption that teachers have little impact
on students.
When educators had the chance to practice their new content knowledge and teaching skills with hands -
on work, they reported a greater sense of efficacy, which, as we know from the Visible
Learning research by John Hattie, has the
largest effect on student achievement.
A
large part of program work should be experiential with structured observation and debriefing
on its
effects in the faculty course class so that
effects on student engagement and
student learning can be anticipated and debriefed following practicum (see # 1).
Currently, school districts in the United States spend $ 18 billion annually
on professional development for teachers, 52 and the 50
largest school districts spend $ 18,000 per teacher per year.53 New research questions whether these funds are being spent effectively, as many forms of professional development have been shown to have little to no
effect on teacher practice or
student learning.54 Redistributing some of the funding currently used for one - off workshops and other less effective professional development activities to more school - based collaborative
learning time could make it possible to provide teachers with increased time to collaborate and plan.
His Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which went into
effect five years ago, provides more money to school districts with
large numbers of poor and / or «English learner»
students on the assumption that it will close the much - lamented «achievement gap» in
learning.
The
effects of service
learning on social responsibility and academic success were investigated among a
large, racially and socioeconomically diverse sample of
students in grades 6 - 8 in three middle schools.