Sentences with phrase «quality of teaching across»

The following HMI report made reference to the programme: «Training for middle leaders is helping them swiftly improve their subject...»»... the development of coaching conversations and a greater confidence to take action where performance needs to be improved is beginning to secure better quality of teaching across subjects.»

This is also the case when leading teaching and learning is widely distributed so there is a shared responsibility for improving the quality of teaching across a school.

Participants will be provided a comprehensive, research - based instructional framework for analyzing the quality of teaching across five categories and 13 sub-dimensions that they can use for classroom observation.

Not exact matches

Now, it's up to citizens across the state to hold the commission accountable and encourage its members to recommend real reforms to elevate the teaching profession and improve the quality of our public schools.

Reacting to the publication of the review, BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson said: «Whilst of course we welcome the recommendation that teaching about religions in schools remains a statutory requirement, we continue to support the addition of RE, the contemporary subject in which such teaching occurs, to the national curriculum, which would end the pattern of varying quality across schools that currently exists.

Looking across our analyses, we see that under IMPACT, DCPS has dramatically improved the quality of teaching in its schools — likely contributing to its status as the fastest - improving large urban school system in the United States as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Welsh schools are showing signs of improvement but still face wide variation in teaching quality across the country, according to the new chief schools inspector in Wales.

The two key priorities for improvement in Maths across school were: raising the quality of teaching and learning by all staff involved in teaching Maths and ensuring consistency and accuracy of assessments within Maths across the school in light of the 2014 National Curriculum.

In the past two years, raising the quality of the nation's teaching force has become a priority that cuts across partisan lines.

Washington — Two hundred high schools across the country will receive grants of about $ 3,000 each to improve their academic quality, the president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching announced last week.

REC Audited Education is a new audit scheme run by the REC to provide quality assurance of recruitment agencies that supply teaching and non-teaching staff to schools, academies and education providers across England and Wales.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

A range of high quality resources to enhance the teaching and learning at KS2 & KS3 level (age 7 - 14) National test revision and numeracy / literacy activities taught across the curriculum are my specialty:)

Nine high quality stimulating and creative English / ICT activities to assist the teaching of World War two across the curriculum.

[103] We intend for the implementation of our proposed revision of the education and child development provisions to improve teaching practices and education service delivery across our programs and help ensure every child in Early Head Start and Head Start receives high quality early learning experiences.

The chapters that follow present evidence of the qualities of effective teachers that were observed and documented in practice across multiple teaching contexts and across two quite different educational cultures.

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

Using CEL's 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning ™ instructional framework, principals and assistant principals across the entire 89 - school district are working to improve their collective ability to analyze the quality of classroom teaching, bringing to life CEL's long held belief that in order to support high quality teaching, district and school leaders must be able to recognize quality classroom teaching and possess the ability to help teachers improve in their pTeaching and Learning ™ instructional framework, principals and assistant principals across the entire 89 - school district are working to improve their collective ability to analyze the quality of classroom teaching, bringing to life CEL's long held belief that in order to support high quality teaching, district and school leaders must be able to recognize quality classroom teaching and possess the ability to help teachers improve in their pteaching, bringing to life CEL's long held belief that in order to support high quality teaching, district and school leaders must be able to recognize quality classroom teaching and possess the ability to help teachers improve in their pteaching, district and school leaders must be able to recognize quality classroom teaching and possess the ability to help teachers improve in their pteaching and possess the ability to help teachers improve in their practice.

Monitor, evaluate and review the quality of teaching and learning across the subject area as detailed in the Academy Monitoring Calendar, putting in mechanisms for support where necessary.

Once these are agreed we can look to build a set of descriptors and in turn rigorous, meaningful assessment processes that recognise (and indeed serve to support and develop) the high - quality teaching already happening in many classrooms across the country, rather than adding to teacher workload.

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.

ASCD's proven track record of delivering top - quality professional programs that are relevant and applicable to a variety of teaching situations makes attending the 2011 Summer Conference a must for educators across various grade levels and disciplines.

ACER has undertaken an evaluation of ICT in education in Papua province to inform national, provincial and local policies and curricular strategies aimed at improving the learning outcomes achieved by basic and secondary education students and adult learners in Papua; and to improve the quality of the teaching and learning using ICT across the curriculum.

Her research addresses teacher policy, looking specifically at how teachers» preferences affect the distribution of teaching quality across schools, how pre-service coursework requirements affect the quality of teacher candidates, and how reforms affect teachers» career decisions.

Janis is a highly successful primary head teacher with over 30 years» experience in education across a range of disciplines including school improvement, quality of teaching and learning, whole school strategic planning, financial controls, project management and human resource management.

Now, it's up to citizens across the state to hold the commission accountable and encourage its members to recommend real reforms to elevate the teaching profession and improve the quality of our public schools.

According to the public accounts committee, the DfE has not been able to explain why the quality of teaching varies «so much» across the country.

And of course, as new technologies are added to classrooms across our nation, minimal - quality professional development is made available to the teaching force.

I attended the EdSource symposium with teachers from across California at the invitation of the Center for Teaching Quality, a national nonprofit whose mission is to mobilize teacher leaders to transform schools.

As new teacher evaluation systems take hold across the U.S., we have an opportunity to adopt what has been learned about improvement from the field of healthcare and use this knowledge to transform the quality of teaching and learning in our schools.

By directing our attention to the mighty middle, we act upon an understanding that even small shifts in teaching quality across the majority of teachers will have greater impacts on the majority of students than elimination of the lowest performing teachers possibly can.

+ Provides coaching experiences for teachers, including review of lesson delivery, providing feedback, and modeling demo lessons + Develops / curates quality instructional resources to share with teachers, including lesson plans, unit plants, and assessments + Facilitates professional development workshops for group sizes ranging up to 100 participants + Designs rich and meaningful professional development sessions aligned to math instruction + Continues own learning through research and self - driven PD to stay current of latest trends in math education + Maintains open communication with supported teachers to nurture a professional learning community of educators + Communicate actively with key stakeholders on progress of teacher development + Provides reporting documentation of services delivered, as required EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE: + BA / BS Degree in Education or related field + 4 + years of work experience teaching math in a K - 12 setting + Expert in math content at least across a 5 year grade level band (g. grades 4 — 8) + Record of result in effectively coaching teachers + Experience designing and delivering professional development for adults + Experience working in blended learning classrooms is a plus + Master's degree preferred + Excellent communication skills are essential OTHER JOB REQUIREMENTS: Some local traveling required.

«His appointment will strengthen the NCTL's important work — ensuring we can continue to attract more high quality people into the teaching profession, further expand school led teacher training, and inspire ever greater standards of teaching and school leadership across the country.

Districts across the nation have invested heavily in coaching as a way to grow a high - quality teaching staff — a key goal of state and federal reforms.

«And that is why it is so important that all teachers are qualified teachers so that they are trained how to instil these qualities in all of their pupils, across all aspects of the school curriculum, and to tailor their teaching to the needs of each pupil.

It purposefully keeps important information about our students» knowledge, skills and academic progress out of the conversation about school quality and disproportionately hurts children of color, like the scholars I've had the privilege of teaching in urban schools across the country.

Previously, she served as the coordinator of the Montgomery Institute and Teaching Fellow for Montgomery County Education Association's Center for Teacher Leadership, where she worked with teacher leaders across the country on collaborative problem solving to improve the quality of teaching and lTeaching Fellow for Montgomery County Education Association's Center for Teacher Leadership, where she worked with teacher leaders across the country on collaborative problem solving to improve the quality of teaching and lteaching and learning.

Without alignment, consistency, and transparency across all of these stakeholders on what should be observed, what quality teaching looks like, and how feedback reaches not only the teacher but the network - support leaders, we are missing out on an opportunity to increase the impact on our students.

Her work in the Middle School Quality Initiative (MSQI) involved helping school leaders and teacher teams to implement school wide systems of assessment in literacy, integrate vocabulary instruction across content areas, and plan, develop and teach strategic reading lessons for students reading below grade level.

Improved program quality, deepened understanding of teaching and learning best practices to support young learners, and alignment across early childhood and elementary practice.

They markedly advance the quality of learning standards, going beyond an emphasis on discrete skills by calling for the teaching of significant and fundamental concepts, together with essential skills, that cohere across the grades and connect to life after school.

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Empowered Educators: An Unparalleled View of Teaching Quality Around the World from Linda Darling - Hammond Funded and supported by the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), NISL's parent organization, leading education researcher Linda Darling - Hammond's new book Empowered Educators gives groundbreaking insights into how seven high - performing jurisdictions across four continents constructed coherent systems to recruit, develop and support high - quality teQuality Around the World from Linda Darling - Hammond Funded and supported by the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), NISL's parent organization, leading education researcher Linda Darling - Hammond's new book Empowered Educators gives groundbreaking insights into how seven high - performing jurisdictions across four continents constructed coherent systems to recruit, develop and support high - quality tequality teachers.

New York University; New York, NY $ 355,000 over three years on behalf of the Institute of Human Development and Social Change to analyze how teachers with different levels of teaching qualifications are distributed across NYC UPK classrooms with different compositions and levels of quality, and to examine how administrators and teachers use data about classroom quality to improve professional development and classroom practice.

«The bill as introduced represents a strong and critical step forward in supporting effective teachers across California and ensuring that every public school student has access to the great teaching and quality education that he or she deserves,» said Ben Austin, policy director of Students Matter, in an emailed statement.

Life After Pre-K: Looking at Kindergarten Assessment presented material for attendees to understand the components of a statewide comprehensive assessment system for all children birth to kindergarten, identify the current status of kindergarten assessments as well as commonalities / variations across states and challenges in developing kindergarten entrance assessments, identify challenges and opportunities for including children with disabilities in statewide assessments, and understand the experiences of the State of North Carolina in implementing a kindergarten assessment.Jim Squires presented with Cindy Bagwell (NC Department of Public Instruction), Mary McLean (Head Start National Center on Quality Teaching and Learning / University of Florida) and Catherine Scott - Little (UNC - Greensboro) at the 2015 National Early Childhood Inclusion Institute.

The Power of Culture: Teaching Across Language Difference examines the pedagogical and political supports necessary to give language minority students a high - quality education in mainstream classrooms.

In addition, we'll recruit a network of advocates to develop strong relationships with schools across the North East, especially those in the most deprived areas, to support them to use the latest evidence to ensure high quality literacy teaching and learning for their pupils.

E4E teachers» recommendations chart the path forward, identifying strategies to improve the quality of teaching preparation programs, diversify our national teaching force, and support new teachers across our districts.

It will stay pretty much as it always did, although that said, due to the massive increase in creative writing teaching through MAs and other courses, the general level of quality has risen across the board — so perhaps most people are writing better than ever before.