Teachers reported they felt they were meeting the needs of students and findings suggest a need
for more professional development and additional planning time as these networks take root.
Because many students with disabilities are now educated primarily in general education classrooms, their teachers report
needing more professional development on instructional strategies to support this population.
The result was that a majority of teachers surveyed were familiar with the idea of the growth mindset but an even greater majority wanted
more professional development on the topic.
Principals whose teachers rated them higher on an instructional leadership scale had participated in
more professional development focused on instructional leadership than had lower - rated principals.
Additionally the data can be aggregated to detect trends in the school — for example, what instructional strategies are teachers having difficulty executing and, therefore,
require more professional development.
This requires
more professional development days — at Envision, teachers come back to school one week early (two for new teachers) and have seven student free days throughout the school year.
In a nationwide poll of K - 12 teachers conducted by the Education Week Research Center, 77 percent said they were familiar or very familiar with growth mindset, but 85 percent said they
wanted more professional development in the area.
Their resistance has resulted in many policymakers simply asserting that it is too politically costly to make active decisions about teacher effectiveness and instead looking to alternatives such
as more professional development, better mentoring, or heightened requirements of certification.
US Grant Funds $ 20,000 Teacher Bonuses at «High - Need» LA Schools Los Angeles Unified Schools Superintendent John Deasy said that a $ 49 million federal grant awarded to the district this week to improve teacher effectiveness will help pay for a new multiple - measure teacher evaluation system and
more professional development programs, including a bonus for certain teachers...
That learning will aid me in
designing more professional development for our teachers and staff; professional development that will reach the bottom line, which is this: teaching students to become lifelong learners.
Her suggestions include: increasing attendance by one percent; creating a unified enrollment process to make it easier for families to enroll in local district magnet schools; adding magnet, dual language and International Baccalaureate programs; making more use of marketing campaigns to highlight district successes;
scheduling more professional development for teachers, and increasing parent involvement.
In accordance with the New Jersey Professional Learning for School Leaders requirements, all school leaders must identify one or
more professional development goals and develop a three - year Professional Growth Plan (PGP), which is based on a self - assessment that is aligned with the New Jersey Professional Standards for School Leaders.
LEE member Acasia Wilson Feinberg is the executive director of [Educators 4 Excellence] in Chicago, where teachers are carrying out an advocacy campaign for
more professional development policies.
At the time, the Sequoia Union High School teachers were asking for
more professional development support and wages more in line with other Bay Area professionals so that they might be able to afford a house.
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Perhaps it is desirable to have teachers
receive more professional development, work in hard - to - staff schools or subjects, and assume leadership roles, but these are inputs, not student outcomes.
In the 2014 DOE - UFT contract she helped negotiate, Fariña worked with the UFT to carve out
more professional development time during the work day, so teachers could better apply the Common Core learning standards that had been rushed into effect by the state.
For example, school leaders involved in a PreK — 3 literacy initiative in the Twin Cities have used her evaluation findings to refine their work and try to better support their schools, teachers, and students (e.g., engage in
more professional development focused on supporting dual language learners; fill gaps in their curricular needs; and place more focus on improving the quality of instruction, especially during independent work time).
Both teacher educators and reformers tend to propose solutions that begin after the candidate has graduated and becomes the teacher of record (e.g., increasing supports,
adding more professional development, and finding less challenging placements).
But wholesale adoption of an untested program can lead to an even greater loss of instructional time - for instance, if it doesn't work equally well for all students,
requires more professional development than anticipated, or doesn't segue smoothly from prior years» instruction.
Summary: This article speaks to the importance of
providing more professional development for principals and administrators in order to properly prepare them for the new teacher observation and evaluation systems.
There is no reason to expect that non-controversial, incremental policies such
as more professional development, incrementally smaller class sizes, and better facilities will produce substantial change.
US Grant Funds $ 20,000 Teacher Bonuses at «High - Need» LA Schools Los Angeles Unified Schools Superintendent John Deasy said that a $ 49 million federal grant awarded to the district this week to improve teacher effectiveness will help pay for a new multiple - measure teacher evaluation system and
more professional development programs, including a bonus for certain teachers at high - need schools.
Given a high degree of interest among educators to implement social and emotional learning, panelists agreed that there is a need for
more professional development on how to integrate social and emotional learning into daily classroom lessons.