Sentences with phrase «ongoing teacher reflections»

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In the summer of 2015, Wildwood teachers are refining their IB planners, course maps, and quarterly curriculum maps to include opportunities for student voice and choice, personalized strategies and skills acquisition, daily and weekly goal setting, and ongoing reflection.

Based on a cross-case analysis of online and on - campus courses, the results of the study indicate that while there was no significant difference between online and on - campus courses in terms of teacher acquisition of knowledge related to CLD instruction and assessment, questions remain about whether distance learning can promote critical self - reflection, culturally responsive teaching practices, and collaboration within schools, when teacher learning is not supported and situated in schools and communities in an ongoing and structured way.

In turn, PD offers a potentially meaningful space to immerse teachers in experiences that encourage their ongoing reflection.

Principal Compass ™ will become part of Pearson's Compass Suite ™, which includes the award - winning Teacher Compass Observe ™, an online program for effectively managing classroom observations and guiding teachers to personalized professional development; Teacher Compass PD ™, engaging teachers in personalized, ongoing training, reflection, and collaboration; and Principal Compass ™.

To help teachers like Kate and Martha help their students, we designed the Addressing Accessibility in Mathematics program.1 The model interweaves workshops that connect research and practice with study groups that foster collaborative problem - solving, reflection, and ongoing support.

Paula describes the online community platform IDRA uses to provide ongoing content and sessions, and where teachers from different locations and academic disciplines can share their classroom experiences and reflections with each other.

A similar approach in the context of teacher professional development requires teacher educators to adopt a willingness to change the nature, structure, and even the assumptions of their professional development programs in response to cyclic evaluation data, ongoing participants» experiences, and participants» reflections.

Instructional leaders and coaches need to create opportunities for teachers to engage in reflection that identifies their ongoing learning about students and critical thinking that applies their learning to extend student success (continuous improvement).

At the heart of the continuum is National Board Certification, a process designed for teachers to demonstrate, through standards - based evidence, the positive impact they have on student learning as a result of their deep and abiding understanding of students, content knowledge, pedagogical practice, ongoing reflection and participation in learning communities.

Specifically, the authors suggest that Twitter is useful for ongoing reflection and provides potential for preservice teachers to engage with larger communities of practice outside of their own institution; however, preservice teachers may need scaffolding and guidance for developing critical reflection skills and maintaining involvement in communities of practice.

An ongoing dialectic between action and reflection helped preservice teachers understand that decision - making is often situational and that there exists no preformed knowledge base to guarantee that the right means will always provide an appropriate end in a particular situation.

That is why the sixth and final section of Pencils Down, «Beyond High - Stakes, Standardized Testing,» focuses on authentic forms of assessment, including portfolios and ongoing teacher and student self - reflection based on classroom evidence.

Reflection is an ongoing process and someday, the evidence may provide more specific guidelines for teachers.

While most ongoing sensemaking occurs through individual reflection, when teachers feel that their legitimacy is threatened (as when faced with a policy that they believe stifles their creativity, takes their autonomy away, or threatens their professional judgment), they are more likely to engage in collective sense - making.

The gold standard for high - quality induction programs is the Santa Cruz New Teacher Project, which eventually grew into the New Teacher Center, a national organization working with districts to provide high - quality induction, among other services.65 The comprehensive program carefully selects and trains teacher mentors and also provides beginning teachers with intensive instructional support and professional development; opportunities to observe master teachers; and opportunities for ongoing assessment, reflection, and feedTeacher Project, which eventually grew into the New Teacher Center, a national organization working with districts to provide high - quality induction, among other services.65 The comprehensive program carefully selects and trains teacher mentors and also provides beginning teachers with intensive instructional support and professional development; opportunities to observe master teachers; and opportunities for ongoing assessment, reflection, and feedTeacher Center, a national organization working with districts to provide high - quality induction, among other services.65 The comprehensive program carefully selects and trains teacher mentors and also provides beginning teachers with intensive instructional support and professional development; opportunities to observe master teachers; and opportunities for ongoing assessment, reflection, and feedteacher mentors and also provides beginning teachers with intensive instructional support and professional development; opportunities to observe master teachers; and opportunities for ongoing assessment, reflection, and feedback.66