Sentences with phrase «ongoing support for teachers»

Another critical component of the iQUEST professional development model is the ongoing support for teachers as they implement technology - enhanced lessons in their classrooms.

Other research points to the promise of a collaborative, problem - solving approach to the professional development of teachers (Richardson & Placier, in press) and of a dual model, one that links ongoing support for teachers» professional development to the improvement of literacy achievement (Au & Carroll, 1997).

Key actions to build teacher confidence include providing professional development and ensuring ongoing support for teachers to collaborate in developing appropriate performance tasks.

Now that the technological foundation for the use of robust systems of longitudinal education data has been laid in most states and school districts, experts say the focus needs to turn to making such data more useful for teachers, administrators, parents, and students, That will require a mix of strong leadership at the state and districts levels, greater collaboration across state agencies, and much better professional development and ongoing support for teachers and administrators.

However, schools like Geelong Grammar are working hard to model a paradigm shift in education that requires ongoing support for teachers, students and parents in their ability to translate and apply scientific findings.

Positive outcomes from technology investments require three things: visionary leadership, ongoing support for teacher training, and valid tools for assessing the impact of technology on student learning.

Not exact matches

It's an ongoing coaching tool for self - assessment, peer coaching, and teacher support of the quality of work and the areas for growth.

«Students who had been accompanied by a teacher - chaperone to camp transitioned back to their school context better than their peers who were unaccompanied by teachers,» says Nalani, noting that the teacher - chaperones served as advocates for the students and support for their ongoing learning once they returned to school.

Using Pastoral Auditor, teachers can audit the consensus of pupil groups over time, building a secure, centralised «hub» of evidence for Ofsted and demonstrations of ongoing strategies to support vulnerable young people.

Adds Kardos, «Once they arrive for their first day in the classroom, new teachers need their schools to support them in an ongoing way.

The Polli: Nation project - funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)- will eventually provide a total of 260 chosen schools with curriculum linked resources, training opportunities for teachers, funds for physical developments as well as ongoing support and guidance from one of LTL's trained experts.

Collectively, the 12 Design Challenges seek to attract the most talented students to teaching, providing them and their practicing peers with support and actionable information about what good teaching looks like; ensuring introductory and ongoing training that provides them with the requisite skills and knowledge for classroom and student success; identifying certification methods that are rigorous and performance - based; and forging new career pathways where master teachers both anchor teacher training and ongoing knowledge development.

The program provides elementary school teachers with targeted math resources, filling a critical gap for effective teaching strategies that help students improve their proficiency in math, as well as ongoing support.

In the rest of this essay, we'll explore three of the many facets of this question — how interactive technology can offer richer materials for learning, affect the way time is used in schools, and support ongoing professional development for teachers.

Further, the Staff in Australian Schools Study 2013 [vii] pointed to ongoing professional learning opportunities as the most common form of support for newly employed graduate teachers, but the study also noted a lack of school support and induction.

It is well accepted that graduate teachers require ongoing mentoring and support for induction into the profession, as well as into the educational and community contexts.

JC: In some cases it can be around 12 - 18 months, sometimes a little longer... as well as teachers working with an identified mentor, each teaching team at the school has an Impact Coach which works alongside them and this is where the ongoing support for the development of practice is very targeted.

What happens when teachers and other educators in a district are supported by a superintendent willing to make tough calls and a local company willing to invest money for ongoing PD?

Our ultimate goal is to highlight the importance of ongoing adolescent language development for educators, researchers, and policy makers by revealing how teachers» and students» ways of using language support advances in students» text comprehension, academic writing, and school achievement.

Whilst teaching pupils provides rewards, teachers also require ongoing support from within the school in order to motivate and involve them in further learning, which in turn sustains learning within the classroom to make it engaging and exciting for the pupils.

For the existing teacher workforce, we are providing funding to a number of initiatives to support your ongoing professional learning.

Redesigning and Expanding School Time to Support Common Core Implementation looks at how high - performing expanded - time schools give teachers more time for ongoing professional development and collaboration needed to implement the Common Core standards.

The development of peer - to - peer networks for improving teach - ing provides teachers with better skills, but also with a social network that can continue to support them and the ongoing exchange of ideas and techniques necessary to increase instructional quality.

High - functioning schools and school systems understand the link between building a cadre of effective, committed educators and providing teachers with ongoing support, development, and opportunities for growth and leadership.

Projects have included: teacher career pathway programs that diversified roles in the teaching force; teacher career pathways that recognize, develop, and reward excellent teachers as they advance through various career stages; incentives for effective teachers who take on instructional leadership roles within their schools; incentives that attract, support, reward, and retain the most effective teachers and administrators at high - need schools; rigorous, ongoing leadership development training for teacher leaders and principals, leadership roles for teachers aimed at school turnaround; and the creation of new salary structures based on effectiveness.

Given this potential, teacher educators and researchers should continue exploration of Twitter and other forms of social media as tools for professional networking and engagement to support the ongoing development of a future generation of teachers.

In several of the higher - performing districts in our sample (including large urban / suburban as well as rural districts), for example, district leaders and school personnel described recent and ongoing district - wide efforts to support teacher implementation of differentiated instruction.

Students with executive functioning or motor planning issues may need ongoing teacher support or scaffolding for using to - do lists if they struggle with memory, initiation, task persistence or sequencing.

The recommendations include building a continuum that supports teacher growth; strengthening entry into the profession; improving ongoing professional learning, including pathways to Board certification; and creating opportunities for teacher leadership.

Develop student leadership pathways, student voice in community meetings, and opportunities for... ongoing coaching and support to teachers in developing relationship based communities in their...

The online nature of the program responds to many calls for PD that «fit (s) teachers» busy schedules, that draws upon powerful resources often not available locally, and that can provide real - time, ongoing, work - embedded support (that) has prompted the creation of online teacher professional development programs» (Whitehouse, Breit, McCloskey, Ketelhut, & Dede, 2006, p. 13).

We call these practices «High Priority Resident Practices,» because they represent a core set of practices and skills that set future teachers up for early success and support ongoing development.

2) Update the technological infrastructure at schools to support the delivery of curriculum and instruction and to provide ongoing training on the Common Core State Standards for teachers and parents.

Amy has since completed countless classroom observations through work as a peer validator evaluating practices in Newark and New Haven schools, and in providing embedded, ongoing support for instructional leaders and teachers in the areas of high quality observation, feedback, and teaching and learning across Connecticut.

In this LPI Blog, Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst Beth Meloy outlines key elements of a high - quality system to achieve this goal, including improvements to teacher preparation and supports for ongoing professional development.

Math for America LA provides teacher preparation, stipends and ongoing professional development and support for its teaching fellows over a five - year period.

We sell, support, and provide ongoing services for our digital curriculum solutions to districts, schools, teachers, classrooms, and parents in the United States and abroad.

Before teachers can be expected to use varied media and media production effectively as student learning tools in their classrooms, teacher educators need to provide teachers with opportunities to learn and think deeply about media and media production for their own purposes and find ways to support teachers» ongoing instructional needs (Miller, 2007).

Aside from having the chance to support students from her hometown, Plascencia said the Alumni Teach Project appealed to her because it provides ongoing support for new teachers.

«Our instructional framework supports teachers in enhancing their instructional expertise and we realized it was equally important that the evaluation system also emphasize continuous improvement so that every teacher knows not only how they rate in the 4 - tier system, but also has feedback that details specific areas for their ongoing learning,» say CEL evaluation instrument developers.

Scholars and practitioners alike are calling for teachers to be educated differently (AACTE, 2010; CCSSO, 2015; NCATE, 2010), which means that the way we prepare teachers and the way we support teachers» ongoing professional development must change.

Reauthorize the Higher Education Act and ensure that teacher preparation programs include a strong residency program and ongoing mentoring and support for new educators.

Panelists also discussed the varied roles teacher leaders take on, and the necessity for comprehensive and ongoing professional development — not only for teacher leaders, but also for the principals who support them.

It is crucial that we focus on BOTH pre-service training AND ongoing, job - embedded professional development opportunities for teachers to support them with better serving our students and communities.

TAP principally plugs four Elements of Success: Multiple Career Paths (for educators as career, mentor and master teachers); Ongoing Applied Professional Growth (through weekly cluster meetings, follow - up support in the classroom, and coaching); Instructionally Focused Accountability (through multiple classroom observations and evaluations utilizing a research based instrument and rubric that identified effective teaching practices); and, Performance - Based Compensation (based on multiple; measures of performance, including student achievement gains and teachers» instructional practices).

The Florida Education Association gathered 17 top teachers and together they came up with an evaluation system that would provide more meaningful, productive evaluations that teachers could use to improve, would provide ongoing support and opportunities for teacher promotion, and would even allow for a fair, equitable system of merit pay.

VCEE supports a statewide network of university - based Centers for Economic Education that provide materials and professional development to teachers and ongoing collaborative support with local school divisions.

Middle school science teachers are supported by iQUEST for 2 years, including a 3 - day summer academy and two technology infused collaborative lesson study rotations each school year, and ongoing support through the iQUEST project design elements shown in Figure 1.

Our theory of change is predicated on the idea that capacity building in schools, support for teachers and leaders, rigorous curriculum, target setting, ongoing improvement of curriculum and instruction, and promoting effective practice will accelerate student and school achievement.

IDRA's teacher preparation strategy is cultivating hundreds of new teachers to serve a more diverse student body, engaging seasoned teachers as mentors, and building networks for ongoing growth and support.