Not exact matches
Each of our three strategies takes advantage of the fact that
multiple teachers report
expectations for each student.
Students go from a single
teacher to learning the
expectations of
multiple teachers for the first time.
There is nothing in the standards about what
teachers should teach in these subjects, but there is an
expectation that students will learn
multiple disciplines and use the reading and writing skills laid out in the standards in all of their classes.
Collaboratively designed and developed by higher education faculty, high school
teachers, and curriculum specialists from
multiple colleges and school districts, Bridge to College courses teach to the state learning standards and are grounded in career and college readiness
expectations.
The test question links make it easy for
teachers to see how the student
expectations have been tested over
multiple years, which deepens their understanding of how students are expected to demonstrate their learning.
The planning and preparation for a project that is designed to meet
multiple competencies can provide
teachers with the tool kit they need to retune their curriculum, assessment, and instruction paradigm to the new
expectations of the Common Core State Standards.
Many will have very tough decisions to make in meeting the requirements and
expectations of the new school financing law, implementing
multiple new academic standards, preparing for a new state assessment in math and English language arts and balancing the requests of their many stakeholders (parent groups,
teacher bargaining units, community and business leaders).
First, changing classes and having
multiple teachers with diverse
expectations place a great deal of stress on already weak organizational systems.
In schools that perform well,
teachers and principals tend to establish high
expectations for students and pay attention to
multiple measures of student success.
Schools with higher levels of student achievement are more likely than others to have principals who establish high
expectations for students and
teachers and are attentive to
multiple measures of student success.
The
expectation that individual
teachers, their classroom practices, and their districts» approaches to curriculum, assessment, and professional development would change in response to our work together was made explicit through
multiple invitations to write for publication, to speak as representatives of MELAF at State Board of Education meetings, to experiment with classroom practice, and to design new curriculum plans.