Sentences with phrase «much instructional time»

She stated that A) teachers already monitor for learning and assess at every turn, so B) why are we wasting so much instructional time testing testing testing?

Rather it is that the way it is being done in many places is taking up far too much instructional time.

Rather than focusing our ire on the countless poor - quality, unaligned, often mind - numbing «extra» tests that, along with test preparation, have come to take up so much instructional time, we seem poised to eliminate tests that actually let us see how we are doing across large groups of students.

In a fact sheet on the new Testing Action Plan the U.S. Department of Education states, «In too many schools, there is unnecessary testing and not enough clarity of purpose applied to the task of assessing students, consuming too much instructional time and creating undue stress for educators and students.

Hayward Unified School District in California's Bay Area knew that many of its students were missing too much instructional time.

Hayward: Hayward Unified School District in California's Bay Area knew that many of its students were missing too much instructional time.

In too many schools, there is unnecessary testing and not enough clarity of purpose applied to the task of assessing students, consuming too much instructional time and creating undue stress for educators and students.

Some parents claimed the math and English tests for grades 3 - 11 are unnecessarily confusing and said test prep steals away too much instructional time.

While nations around the world introduced heavy standardized testing regimes in the 1990s, the Finnish National Board of Education concluded that such tests would consume too much instructional time, cost too much to construct, proctor, and grade, and generate undue stress.

While the rationale is perhaps a bit misguided (some evidence suggests that our students already experience as much instructional time as their peers ~ and other research confirms that teachers in the United States spend more time on instruction than teachers in other nations do) ~ there are certainly reasons to focus on the issue ~ not least of which is the summer learning loss that disproportionately impacts our nations most disadvantaged youth.

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We set goals for how much time I would spend on instructional leadership.

One of the biggest questions faced by every instructional designer is: «How much time does it take to prepare 1...

«The role of principals has changed so dramaticallybeing a managerial and an instructional leader requires so much time, it's impossible for one person to do it all.»

Although the evidence is mounting that expanding instructional time will result in real learning gains, evidence on the costs of extending the school year is much scarcer and involves a good deal of conjecture.

Much of the opposition to the Common Core — aligned assessments — particularly among parents — is related to a broader backlash against the amount of testing students now undergo and a perception that it diminishes instructional time and encourages «teaching to the test.»

As the special education staff delved into the IEPs and got to know the students, they realized that some of the teens didn't need to spend so much time in separate classes, called «instructionals.»

As a high school instructional coach who spends much time helping my colleagues implement these standards, I see the positive results of one - on - one support.

If grading essays or examining student performance on weekly quizzes took only half as much time as it currently does, a teacher could work with more students and still have more instructional time for each student in that class.

But much of this money will be wasted if schools chase the same limited pool of resources - speech therapists, instructional leaders etc - without the market having time to adjust.

While much of the time problem - solving teams focus heavily on individual student progress in order to make decisions about instructional supports, the annual spring data review is an important time to consider trends at the class, grade, and school levels.

Principals in high - minority schools were much more likely to report decreases in instructional time devoted to languages (29 percent) than were principals in low - minority schools (9 percent).

At the same time, although the principal can not be the example and end - all of everything, so much research does support a building principal making a strong impact on student learning when he / she is the instructional leader (a «master» teacher who knows pedagogy well and can participate as a «master» teacher in a shared leadership approach leading, learning, and working cooperatively).

Over the weekend, President Barack Obama received high praise from parents and teachers for acknowledging that testing is taking too much time away from teaching, learning and fostering creativity in schools, and recommending that standardized tests take no more than 2 percent of total school instructional time.

Further this data suggested, unlike teachers in either Japan or Germany, that our teachers do not have much time or structured opportunity for interaction with colleagues about instructional issues.

Too many teachers spend too much time dealing with minor irritating behaviors that consume instructional time.

Under the older, truancy - based approach, educators would not take note of absences - much less intervene - until students had missed a significant amount of instructional time.

Yet, school principals are under so much pressure that their time is primarily spent, understandably, on instructional techniques and practices.

Much of their instructional time is consumed with teaching to a standardized test.»

«As educators, we often spend a lot of time focusing on academics and instructional practices, but the reality is that until we have a safe environment, those things aren't going to make much of a difference.

Much of the frustration that educators experience as they attempt to implement multiple instructional approaches could be avoided with improved professional development, in which teachers are introduced to the concepts and research and then supported as they implement these initiatives over time.

Over time, teachers begin to execute these skills with ease and without much thought, eventually freeing up the mind to pay attention to or make decisions about other, more difficult instructional challenges.15

Teachers have often bemoaned the loss of instructional time at the beginning of each school year to trying to bring the students back up to speed after so much time away from the classroom.

Teachers have often bemoaned the loss of instructional time at the beginning of each school year to trying to bring the students back up to speed after so much... [Read more...]

When I saw how much time they spent answering the same questions about home buying and financing from their clients, I wrote an instructional homebuying book they could hand out up front.