In both of these stories, educators shaped data mandates to their own uses, and the results were renewed professional enthusiasm and
more effective instructional practices.
What efforts might have better supported transformational utilization of
more effective instructional practices?
Not exact matches
Effective classroom management consists of far
more than establishing and imposing rules, rewards and incentives to control behaviour, it involves
practices and
instructional techniques to create a learning environment that facilitates and supports active engagement in learning, encourages co-operation and promotes behaviour that benefits other people.
No Child Left Behind is important in the efforts to continue this progress, and urban districts must continue
effective practices that have brought about promising results: high standards, strong and stable leadership, better teaching,
more instructional time, regular assessments, stronger accountability, extra resources, and efficient operations.
Instructional Design, or
Instructional Systems Design is the term we use to describe the
practice of creating educational systems that make the acquiring of knowledge easier,
more effective and
more appealing to the learner.
First, in contrast to earlier studies, our work is
more centrally grounded in reading curriculum and
instructional practices than the bulk of the
effective schools and
effective teaching work.
While all studies in this set reported positive effects due to various teacher leaders
practices in support of the implementation of
instructional materials, Gigante and Firestone (2007) suggests that support provided within teachers» classroom was
more effective than other forms of support.
Today, there is growing consensus that principals must do much
more, most notably ensuring the spread of
effective instructional practices to every classroom.
What's
more, the site features collaboration tools to enable teachers to discuss and share
effective instructional practices.
Thus, teacher educators need to work with existing pedagogical beliefs, content and technology knowledge and skills, and prior knowledge and experiences and seek ways in which
more innovative
instructional practices become commonplace and the appropriate and
effective utilization of technology to support innovative
instructional practices is ensured.
As I've seen firsthand over the years and freshly again in Nashville, when
instructional leaders can connect professionally for conversations critical to solving problems and sharing best
practices, they are
more effective and confident in leading their schools and
more adept at managing and communicating change.
Strong
instructional leaders are constantly reflecting on their
practice, grounding their
practice in research, and working to improve and streamline their
practice to be
more effective in their impact on student learning.
Highly
effective professional development is
more critical than ever in the months ahead as we move toward the changes in
instructional practice that need to occur within classrooms as schools implement CCSS.
Resources to help principals and school leaders become
more effective instructional leaders and create schools that provide strong support for teachers to continuously improve their teaching
practice — from the Ounce of Prevention Fund
McREL's NanoTeach project created high - quality PD that blended
instructional strategies from Designing
Effective Science Instruction (Tweed, 2009) with hands - on learning of nanoscience and technology (NS&T) content, using research - proven strategies and inquiry - based
practices that help teachers became
more confident in their ability to teach NS&T.
Strong
instructional practitioners are constantly reflecting on their
practice, grounding their
practice in research, and working to improve and streamline their
practice to be
more effective in their impact on student learning.
In response to educator demand for a
more effective way to integrate the essential components of high - quality classroom
practice, MyTeachingStrategies ™ is an online platform that provides a single entry point for educators to streamline workflow by linking high quality curriculum, formative assessment, professional development and family engagement in a seamless, interconnected way to better support daily
instructional practice.