In the absence of feedback coupled with support (e.g. planning, modeling, practicing, guided reflection), teachers may struggle to adopt
new instructional practices in isolation.
For example, schools may host professional development days for teachers five or six times per year, but those opportunities will not be enough to
build new instructional practices.
One of LPS's lead math teachers, Mike Fauteux, wanted to improve student engagement and address his students» individual learning gaps, so he began experimenting
with new instructional practices that used Google Sheets and OER to provide students with self - guided learning experiences.
In his study, Guskey found that teachers who are «confident about their teaching abilities» (p. 67) are also the «most receptive to the implementation
of new instructional practices» (p. 67).
That should be the job of professional leaders — distinguished practitioners, professional developers, and researchers who can design pre-service and in - service learning opportunities and pilot
successful new instructional practices.
This combination helps you link classroom experience to relevant theory and research, learn and
rehearse new instructional practices, and ground your own learning in your students» learning and school context.
Most obviously, if teacher educators hold transformative aims and seek to
promote new instructional practices and social ideas that are not widely available for observation in schools, then cases might constitute one bridge between hortatory pronouncements and new practices and attitudes.
According to the study's author, Matthew Springer, «The group incentive - pay system may encourage teachers to collaborate more, and so teachers end up
learning new instructional practices or new ways to approach the curriculum.
In 2013 the district leadership, with full support of district teachers and students, took an aggressive step to improve student academic achievement by marrying online assess - ments
with new instructional practices.
Develop, conduct, arrange, evaluate educator mentoring sessions, including sessions on delivery of instruction, enriched learning in classroom settings, and
new instructional practices in English.
The new instructional practices demanded by the standards would have been reflected and reinforced through teacher observations, with feedback given by trained coaches and principals.
Robyn's statement reflects Boardman and Woodruff's (2004) findings that statewide assessments have a significant impact on teaching, and teachers often use the tests as a reference point to decide whether or not to adopt
a new instructional practice.
It is the single source for «all things professional development» including
the new instructional practice Video Exemplars, rubric - aligned Effective Practices, virtual professional learning communities, curriculum and assessment planning resources, and tools to help differentiate instruction.
Guskey (1988) determined that teacher self - efficacy is a good indicator of teacher attitudes toward implementing
a new instructional practice or reform.
1980s: Albert Shanker, former president of the American Federation for Teachers, begins talking about teacher - led laboratories of reform that experiment with
new instructional practice, are subjected to rigorous evaluation and, if successful, serve as models for other public schools.
Fannett Metal School District is working to improve student achievement by marrying online assessments with
new instructional practices.