Boys Town staff must complete initial training (24 hours), continuing education courses (6 hours for the first credentialing), and also must meet model fidelity criteria based
on class observations and objective ratings on the model fidelity instrument.
The other 50 percent would be based
on class observations by the principal and peers.
Not exact matches
By focusing
on the various skills — everything from
observation and data gathering to analysis and reflection — Newnham and his colleagues developed a framework for teachers to use in their science
classes, beginning as early as kindergarten.
The truth from the ground, based
on the extensive footwork due diligence I conduct plus emails from readers around the country reporting similar
observations, is that the inventory of home listings of soaring (the published inventory reports by design have 2 - 3 month lag), prices are dropping quickly, the time it takes to sell a home is increasing significantly and, most important, the potential pool of middle
class home buyers no longer have an income level that will support the size of mortgage it takes to «buy» a home.
Ethnographic descriptions and anthropological
observations of the 19th century highlighted the fact that Malayarayans were different from other hill tribes of Travancore
on many counts.3 The Travancore Census Report (1901) describes Malayarayans as «a
class of hill tribes, who are little more civilised than the Mannans, and have fixed abodes in the slopes of high mountain ranges.
«88 The parables, then, serve as a faithful guide to the middle
class and peasant life in Palestine.89 The realism of the parables with their accurate
observations on nature and life led Jeremiah to observe that many of them rose out of some accurate occurrence.90
This year he works
on observation and data recording as the
class collects weather information for the daily calendar and keeps track of how many days a certain type of weather occurs.
From 1983 to 1992, I collected data
on the pregnancy and childbirth experiences of 100 middle and upper - middle
class mainstream pregnant women and mothers, and
on the health professionals (physicians, nurses, midwives, childbirth educators) who care for them, through
observation and interviews in hospitals, offices, and homes.
He made this
observation during
Class FM's political talk show «8 pm»
on Monday.
Freud's
observation about the narcissism of small differences could have been made about Britain's political
class and its media, whose collective fixation
on detail is notable and baffling: does anyone beyond London's upper - middle
class really care about the difference between David Cameron's # 2 million house in north Kensington and Ed Miliband's # 2 million house in Dartmouth Park?
A review of the states implementing evaluations shows two central components to conduct and compare teacher evaluations: in -
class observation and growth in student performance
on assessments, including standardized tests.
In coming years NASA's Webb and WFIRST telescopes will probably attempt such
observations on a handful of the nearest, brightest promising exoplanets, as will a new generation of ground - based 30 - meter -
class observatories now under construction.
Yet despite its high public visibility and near - ubiquity in blockbuster Hollywood science fiction, throughout most of its 55 - year history SETI has languished
on the fringes of scientific research, garnering relatively scant funding and only small amounts of dedicated
observation time
on world -
class telescopes.
The residues altered were selected based
on the
observation that the three VHH described herein, B9, A14 and B21, bind to the RSC3 probe that was used to isolate the VRC01 -
class of human CD4 binding site broadly neutralizing antibodies (Fig. 2) and that previously the introduction of an aromatic residue into the VRC01 - like antibody NIH45 - 46 resulted in increased breadth and potency [38].
On the basis of these
observations we conclude that
class I excursions, epitomized by the Laschamp Excursion, are more closely related to normal secular variation and are not necessarily a prelude to magnetic field reversal.»
In the first measurements of the day and night temperatures of an extra-Solar planet, infrared
observations revealed that the Jupiter -
class gas giant circling very close to Upsilon Andromedae A stays as hot as fire
on one side while potentially remaining as cold as ice
on the other.
Planets «b, c, and d» -
On December 14, 2009, a team of astronomers (Steven S. Vogt; Robert A. Wittenmyer, R. Paul Butler, Simon O'Toole, Gregory W. Henry, Eugenio J. Rivera, Stefano Meschiari, Gregory Laughlin, C. G. Tinney, Hugh R. A. Jones, Jeremy Bailey, Brad D. Carter, and Konstantin Batygin) announced the discovery of one innermost orbiting super-Earth and two outer - orbiting, Neptune - class planets (with at least 5.1, 18.2, and 24.0 Earth - masses, respectively) in moderately circular, inner orbits around 61 Virginis with periods of 4.2, 38.0, and 124.0 days, based on radial - velocity observations over 4.6 years with the Keck Observatory's High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) and the Anglo - Australian Telescope (U.C. Santa Cruz news release; AAO press release; Keck press release; the Lick - Carnegie Exoplanet Survey Team's «Systemic Console;» and Vogt et al, 2009
On December 14, 2009, a team of astronomers (Steven S. Vogt; Robert A. Wittenmyer, R. Paul Butler, Simon O'Toole, Gregory W. Henry, Eugenio J. Rivera, Stefano Meschiari, Gregory Laughlin, C. G. Tinney, Hugh R. A. Jones, Jeremy Bailey, Brad D. Carter, and Konstantin Batygin) announced the discovery of one innermost orbiting super-Earth and two outer - orbiting, Neptune -
class planets (with at least 5.1, 18.2, and 24.0 Earth - masses, respectively) in moderately circular, inner orbits around 61 Virginis with periods of 4.2, 38.0, and 124.0 days, based
on radial - velocity observations over 4.6 years with the Keck Observatory's High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) and the Anglo - Australian Telescope (U.C. Santa Cruz news release; AAO press release; Keck press release; the Lick - Carnegie Exoplanet Survey Team's «Systemic Console;» and Vogt et al, 2009
on radial - velocity
observations over 4.6 years with the Keck Observatory's High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) and the Anglo - Australian Telescope (U.C. Santa Cruz news release; AAO press release; Keck press release; the Lick - Carnegie Exoplanet Survey Team's «Systemic Console;» and Vogt et al, 2009).
Abstract: Extremely red objects, identified in the early Spitzer Space Telescope
observations of the bright - rimmed globule IC 1396A and photometrically classified as
Class I protostars
Class II T Tauri stars based
on their mid-infrared colors, were observed spectroscopically at 5.5 to 38 microns (IRS), at the 22 GHz water maser frequency (GBT), and in the optical (Palomar).
The sources photometrically ide... ▽ More Extremely red objects, identified in the early Spitzer Space Telescope
observations of the bright - rimmed globule IC 1396A and photometrically classified as
Class I protostars
Class II T Tauri stars based
on their mid-infrared colors, were observed spectroscopically at 5.5 to 38 microns (IRS), at the 22 GHz water maser frequency (GBT), and in the optical (Palomar).
[106] Theoretical studies
on the detectability via radial velocity analysis have shown that a dedicated campaign of high - cadence
observations with a 1 - meter
class telescope can reliably detect a hypothetical planet of 1.8 M ⊕ in the habitable zone of B within three years.
On June 24, 2009, astronomers submitted a paper summarizing
observations which reveals that Star A reverses its magnetic poles every two years (some 11 times faster than our Sun, Sol), possibly because of the close orbit of its Jupiter -
class planetary companion (Fares et al, 2009; and Unknown, New Scientist, July 13, 2009).
A fascinating tale of Hollywood yore about an unsolved murder that happened
on a weekend yacht trip organized by William Randolph Hearst (Edward Herrmann), The Cat's Meow contains the same kind of intelligent
class observation that was featured in Gosford Park.
But star Amy Adams» role calls
on her to spend a lot of time staring thoughtfully in the distance after reading a passage from her ex's tome, all while Ford piles
on mean - spirited
observations about the heroine's crumbling upper - middle -
class lifestyle.
A good teacher can then build
on those
observations and guide them to meet the
class's learning objectives.»
Artifacts include Fulton's
observations from
class visits, feedback based
on rubric criteria, teacher comments and teacher - provided evidence such as lesson plans.
Both invite students to reflect
on the material presented during
class and share their
observations with the teacher.
Growth assessments help students identify their strengths and areas of weakness that need further practice and reinforcement, and may include
class discussions, interviews with individual students, consultations
on drafts of work, and
observations of how students are applying what they've learned.
When compared with such crude indicators, the combination of student achievement gains
on state tests, student surveys, and classroom
observations identified teachers with better outcomes
on every measure we tested: state tests and supplemental tests as well as more subjective measures, such as student - reported effort and enjoyment in
class.
(To generate the weights, we regressed a teacher's average student - achievement gain in one
class against the three different measures from another
class, resulting in weights of.758,.200, and.042
on value - added, student survey, and classroom
observation, respectively).
The achievement gains based
on that measure were more reliable measures of a teacher's practice (less variable across different
classes taught by the same teacher) and were more closely related to other measures, such as classroom
observations and student surveys.
If you don't teach STEM
classes, have students carry a personal notebook in which they write down
observations and draw things by hand
on topics of their choosing.
However, there is pressure
on teachers who teach in PBL environments, such as art
classes and other «making»
classes, that formal
observations still require the teacher to perform the same old song - and - dance routine of the conventional lecture / demo.
«Previous to using edTech apps, my assessment of skill gaps in student learning was, at best, approximate and anecdotal; that is, I estimated these gaps based
on anecdotal
observations from
class discussion and student evaluations such as unit tests,» said Kevin Neal, a social studies teacher at Valley High School in the West Des Moines school district in Iowa, USA.
«If a teacher is focused
on taking attendance, starting a lesson, catching up a student who was absent yesterday, and scheduling a principal's
observation, taking the perspective of 25 students in a given
class is very difficult.»
While this approach contrasts starkly with status quo «principal walk - through» styles of
class observation, its use is
on the rise in new and proposed evaluation systems in which rigorous classroom
observation is often combined with other measures, such as teacher value - added based
on student test scores.
Once they're comfortable with the way that one thinking routine has worked in their classroom, they can branch out and focus
on different kinds of inquiry, like Here Now / There Then, which could be used in a civics
class to help students understand how past perspectives change over time; or Parts, Purpose, Complexities, which encourages
observation and understanding of art objects or mechanical systems.
We trained ourselves as observers to reliably document instruction in the lessons we observed based
on our modification of Newmann «s assessment of authentic instruction.313 We recorded what we saw and heard
on an
observation form that included two main sections: 1) basic information about the context, details of the lesson, how
class time was used, how students were organized for instruction and learning, the kinds of technology used during the lesson, and a description of any positive or negative features in the classroom; and 2) assessments of instruction using four of Newmann's five standards of authentic instruction: higher order thinking, deep knowledge, substantive conversation, and connection to the world beyond the classroom.
During the last two
observations, observers were asked to interrupt their normal observational protocol every five minutes, scan the room quickly, and record the proportion of children in the
class who were perceived to be
on task.
Teacher
observations are typically done as a checklist: paperwork completed, started
class on time, differentiated instruction, etc..
There are many important insights that you might have based
on your
observations of students in
class as well.
Although the description Dr. Stoddard gives reflects one
class's actions, staff classroom
observations and phone room data
on broadcast day indicate this level of disruption is the exception rather than the rule.
Then everyone
on staff would agree to do three or four
observations of 15 minutes in science
classes and record what they saw students doing.
Based
on classroom
observations during the first few days of
class, students as a whole seemed comfortable with technology, in general, and one was already using handheld technology (a Palm OS device).
A large part of program work should be experiential with structured
observation and debriefing
on its effects in the faculty course
class so that effects
on student engagement and student learning can be anticipated and debriefed following practicum (see # 1).
Additional data from interviews and
observations over the course of the
class might have yielded a more robust understanding of how these enhancements impacted the ways in which teachers worked in the course and made it possible to begin to develop hypotheses about ways in which teachers develop content knowledge
on geology in online
classes and how course design can best support it.
Coaching, another instructional strategy advocated in the literature
on cognitive apprenticeship, in which the instructor watches the learners» early performances and provides feedback and suggestions, is more likely to be used in face - to - face
classes than in online ones, because face - to - face courses readily afford
observation of student performances.
That is, a record must be kept
on a longitudinal, per student basis based
on observations and measures that show how much GAIN a set of students has made - NOT how many students in a
class are (or are not) performing at some standard level.
Using a unique identification strategy that employs grade - level turnover and two
classes of fixed - effects models, this study estimates the effects of teacher turnover
on over 850,000 New York City 4th and 5th grade student
observations over eight years.
While often used as a
class startup activity, it is used primarily to give students an opportunity to speculate
on paper, confident that their ideas,
observations, emotions, and writing will be accepted without criticism.
The primary
observation component should be the quality of instruction, as measured by student time
on task, student grasp or mastery of the lesson objective and efficient use of
class time.