Sentences with phrase «observation systems provide»

The descriptions of classroom quality available in standardized classroom observation systems provide a standard way of measuring and noting teachers» strengths and weaknesses and evaluating whether policy initiatives or professional development activities are actually helping improve classroom interactions.

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Their stories will provide surprising insights, startling observations and wisdom from facing off against the system, every day of their working lives, and still succeeding.

The Brazelton Institute is a training institute for clinicians and researchers, which provides training on the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) and the Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) system.

The new evaluation system will provide clear standards and significant guidance to local school districts for implementation of teacher evaluations based on multiple measures of performance including student achievement and rigorous classroom observations.

Together with observations from more northern latitudes, Cook's 1769 data provided the first accurate distance to our star — and by extension, to the rest of the planets in the solar system.

Anecdotal observations of patients dating back to the 1700s had already provided a curious clue that pointed to the immune system as a possible player in the body's fight to ward off cancer.

Though far past the planets, the mission continues to send back unprecedented observations of the space environment in the solar system, providing crucial information on the environment our spacecraft travel through as we explore farther and farther from home.

But the combination of X-ray laser and ARPES observations should provide new and more sophisticated insights on the physics of material systems where several factors are at play at the same time, and hopefully move the field forward faster.

(viii) a list of the existing observation and monitoring systems or programs operated by each Federal agency that provide data, observations, and other information that may be used to develop or improve climate products and services;

With more than 300 instrument systems providing ground - based climate observations, ARM relies heavily on instrument scientists and engineers known as instrument mentors for calibrating and assessing the status of the instruments.

The latter would enable the most detailed possible analysis, providing a crucial link with remote spectroscopic observations and the compositions of meteorites in order to develop a much wider understanding of these small bodies, their properties, and what they can tell us about the evolution of the solar system.

Observations of the planets, satellites, and small bodies in the Solar system provide indispensable information about planet formation and evolution processes that remain unattainable for other planetary systems.

Even though the group did not detect any additional exoplanets in the 30 previous unobserved systems, the observations they made provided supplementary data that helped to characterize the abundance of planets in systems with debris disks.

GLOBE is now the major source of human observations of clouds, which provide more information than automated systems.

For example, the agency is partnering with the Indian Space Research Organization to develop the NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission that will routinely provide systematic observations of Earth's land and ice - covered surfaces at least twice every 12 days, enabling greater scientific understanding of the dynamic processes that drive the Earth system and natural hazards, as well as providing actionable support for disaster response and recovery.

Whatever the case regarding the presence of ancient, frozen water oceans on Charon may be, New Horizons» observations will provide significant new insights about the prevalence of water in the Solar System and beyond.

Observations of such eccentric structures provide potential evidence of the presence of such a companion in a planetary system.

The satellite's observations will concentrate on some of the most distant and intriguing objects in the universe, where the extremely sharp radio «vision» of the new system can provide much - needed information about a number of astronomical mysteries.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

Explanations are provided that enable to understand how observations of planetary movements provide evidence for the different models of the solar system.

Implement a system of multiple observations by trained supervisors to provide principals with meaningful feedback.

Not only will this not work, but in spinning the research as they have, the Gates Foundation is clearly distorting the straightforward interpretation of their findings: a mechanistic system of classroom observation provides virtually nothing for its enormous cost and hassle.

The observation - based evaluations in Cincinnati, for example, have led to improvements in teacher effectiveness, [17] as has the IMPACT evaluation system in Washington, D.C. [18] Both of these programs provide feedback to teachers on their instructional practices.

Teachers want an evaluation system that would provide feedback based on a variety of new measures, including multiple observations, student growth data, student surveys and teacher professionalism.

The system collects data from classroom observations, peer assessments, self - assessments, and student performance, and allows supervisors to provide timely feedback to teachers and principals.

«Commissioner King has composed a very promising evaluation system that not only includes a variety of measures, including multiple observations and student surveys, but also provides teachers with a real voice in how their performance is evaluated,» he said.

And considering the low - quality of subjective classroom observations that are the norm for traditional teacher evaluation systems, the state laws and collective bargaining agreements governing teacher performance management discourage school leaders from providing more - ample feedback, and that the use of objective student test score growth data is just coming into play, few teachers have gotten the kind of feedback needed to build such expertise in the first place.

While Bair incorrectly assumed parents that stayed in Hartford had no interest in their children's education and schooling, his observation of the success of the Barbour school began to touch upon what the two high schools girls and Mrs. Blake were advocating for: a school system in which the community and school are not separate entities that reside in two differing spaces, but bodies of influence that need to work hand - in - hand in order to provide Hartford a relevant, effective education.

For example, high scores on classroom observations rubrics and content knowledge assessments should be correlated with high value - added scores, so the overall evaluation system provides a valid and reliable tool for measuring effective teaching.

The TAP System for Teacher and Student Advancement is implemented in school districts across the country, affecting approximately 15,000 teachers and 200,000 students.46 With support from the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, school districts create multiple career paths for teachers, including career, mentor, and master teacher.47 Teacher leaders participate in school leadership teams with administrators, provide colleagues with regular professional learning opportunities and individualized coaching, observe and provide feedback for instructional improvement, and are compensated for these additional responsibilities.48 Trained teacher leaders in schools using the TAP System have demonstrated an ability to evaluate classroom instruction with accuracy and consistency, and their observations are closely aligned to student learning gains in classrooms.49 According to Lori Johnson, a participating TAP master teacher in Phoenix, «It was the best decision I ever made professionally.

If interested, see the Review of Article # 1 — the introduction to the special issue here; see the Review of Article # 2 — on VAMs» measurement errors, issues with retroactive revisions, and (more) problems with using standardized tests in VAMs here; see the Review of Article # 3 — on VAMs» potentials here; see the Review of Article # 4 — on observational systems» potentials here; see the Review of Article # 5 — on teachers» perceptions of observations and student growth here; see the Review of Article (Essay) # 6 — on VAMs as tools for «egg - crate» schools here; see the Review of Article (Commentary) # 7 — on VAMs situated in their appropriate ecologies here; and see the Review of Article # 8, Part I — on a more research - based assessment of VAMs» potentials here and Part II on «a modest solution» provided to us by Linda Darling - Hammond here.

CTAC is providing large - scale support to the New York State Education Department to implement an integrated system of Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) and teacher observations for purposes of teacher and principal evaluation across all 714 school districts.

With the right systems in place, districts get good data on the accuracy of observations so they can provide differentiated support for observers.

The Kentucky Department of Education is providing new peer observation training for the Professional Growth and Effectiveness System both in person and online this...

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.

This system provides teachers with «curriculum specialists to improve practice,» «school leaders who spend the majority of their time on instruction, observation and coaching,» and professional networks with other Green Dot teachers in a series called «All Green Dot Days» (FAQ, Green Dot Website)

This system provides teachers with «curriculum specialists to improve practice,» «school leaders who spend the majority of their time on instruction, observation and coaching,» and professional networks with other Green Dot teachers in a series called «All Green Dot Days» (FAQ, Green Dot Website) Additionally, unlike most other charter school organizations in the United States, the Green Dot California school teachers and staff are organized under a union called Asociación de Maestros Unidos (AMU).

In this Audible Studios production, Noah provides something deeper than traditional memoirists: powerfully funny observations about how farcical political and social systems play out in our lives.

It also provides an overview of the global observing systems co-sponsored by several United Nations organizations and the International Council for Science that coordinate Earth observations on behalf of United Nations Member States.

Requires the Climate Service Program to: (1) analyze the effects of weather and climate on communities; (2) carry out observations, data collection, and monitoring of atmospheric and oceanic conditions; (3) provide information and technical support to governmental efforts to assess and respond to climate variability and change; (4) develop systems for the management and dissemination of data; (5) conduct research to improve forecasting and understanding of weather and climate variability and change and its effects on communities; and (6) develop tools to facilitate the use of climate information by local and regional stakeholders.

So let me state my opinion that Roger is absolutely correct when he writes «Observations of the real world behavior of the climate system provide the best tool for understanding how the climate system works.»

Observations of the real world behavior of the climate system provide the best tool for understanding how the climate system works.

I've now come to the conclusion that earth's climate system is so incredibly complicated, only observation will provide the answers to «How much warming,» and «How fast».

The perspective provided by space observations is crucial for monitoring global change and for providing data needed to develop an understanding of the Earth system.

It is GCOS» task to make sure, that the totality of all climate observation networks is more than the sum of the individual networks, forming together the one Global Climate Observing System, providing the full picture of our climate.

Designed as a distributed system, providing improved access to existing datasets through a unified web interface, the CDS will include, but is not limited to, observations, global and regional climate reanalyses, global and regional climate projections and seasonal forecasts.

This Section provides an updated summary of the observations that delineate how the climate system has changed in the past.

Since the late 1970s, other data from Earth - observation satellites have been used to provide a wide range of global observations of various components of the climate system.

Second, orbital instrumental observations provide only a recent record of land surface area temperature assessment, and the methods involved had to be calibrated against the prevailing standards of proximal thermometric determination, the widely - ranged system of meteorological thermometers in these United States providing (as others here have observed) a sort of «gold standard» in terms of technology, maintenance, and reliability as compared with similar broadly spaced systems of monitoring stations.

This report describes traditional measurement systems and promising new technologies that together may provide the continuity and quality of observations needed to improve our understanding of water vapor in the climate system.