Sentences with phrase «quality of teaching and learning»

For leadership and management inspectors must assess the school's use of performance management and effectiveness of strategies for improving teaching, the effectiveness of procedures for monitoring quality of teaching and learning and the extent to which underperformance is tackled.

Becky Harrison, Executive Headteacher at Hill Top Specialist Arts College, said:» We are absolutely delighted with the new school build and feel the building will now truly reflect the high quality of teaching and learning, as well as further enhance it for pupils and staff.

Do you want to improve the quality of teaching and learning

Do you want to improve the quality of teaching and learning of science in your school?

Schools have improved in the last 13 years in many ways - in raw standards, in the number and percentage of pupils who now gain the magic five A * - C (or equivalent) GCSEs, in the quality of teaching and learning in our schools, in the quality of our school buildings, in the creativity and flexibility of the curriculum, and in the range and quality of specialist equipment in schools.

President Mahama also said the amount of money his government is investing in tertiary education «is really massive and that is supposed to improve the quality of teaching and learning in our universities.»

Saying, «In contracts to the principal learning component of the Diplomas, work in functional skills lacked coordination in just under half the consortia visited and, as a result, the quality of teaching and learning varied considerably.»

Head teachers of Senior Secondary Schools in the Upper East Region say the quality of teaching and learning is under threat due to inadequate accommodation for staff and students, encroachment on school lands and inconsistencies in the payment of feeding grants.

In this context, the responsibility of schools is to ensure high quality assessment of classroom practice as part of accreditation and registration as well as developing a growing understanding of the use of classroom observation and feedback as key tools for improving the quality of teaching and learning practice for individual teachers, teams and schools.

Therefore, the respective governments promote the use of ICT in all educational institutions to improve the quality of teaching and learning.

Its mission «is to advance the quality of teaching and learning by:

Course evaluation is used to improve the quality of teaching and learning through feedback to both individual faculty members and promotion committees.

Student engagement Teachers involved in the study reported a range of improvements in the quality of teaching and learning through the better use of online resources.

They argued that there is a growing professional and academic understanding of the use of classroom observation and feedback as key tools for improving the quality of teaching and learning practice for individual teachers, teams and schools.

«High level subject specific continuing professional development is key to addressing recruitment and retention issues within the education profession and to the quality of teaching and learning in formal and informal education.»

Studies show that the quality of teaching and learning is better when educators have opportunities to collaborate with each other, share their ideas with administrators, and take on increasing responsibility and leadership roles.

Indeed, his Trust and Transformational Leadership Rubric was voted by delegates at the Washington summit as the best «takeaway» strategy, tool or idea to improve the quality of teaching and learning.

We hope that such leaders also grasp the business case for the Common Core: that we need to dramatically improve the quality of teaching and learning in our schools and that strong standards and tests are critical foundations for the education system we need to be competitive in the modern world.

Once again this year, there is a marked contrast between the quality of teaching and learning, particularly in our best education providers and in the weakest.

McCarthy (2010) reported on the use of a constructionist epistemology approach in determining the quality of teaching and learning online.

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.

You used data, monitoring of teaching and learning and assessment to raise the quality of teaching and learning in maths.

«They might tell you more about idiosyncrasies in that combination of kids than the level of achievement or the quality of teaching and learning that's going on,» Dunbar explains.

We need to concentrate on assisting schools to improve the quality of teaching and learning by providing expert guidance, quality professional development, and the time necessary to use data to improve instructional practice.

Howard: Our research over two decades reveals that good education encompasses three factors: l) the quality of teaching and learning is excellent; 2) students and faculty are engaged in learning; 3) institutional policies and practices are carried out in an ethical way.

This has focused managers on the key strategic improvements required, but curriculum managers are not yet routinely able to identify areas for improvement and do not focus enough on improving the quality of teaching and learning.

She thinks we should be asking ourselves these questions: «What is the quality of the teaching and learning happening inside our classrooms?

The leading staff at Totley were aware of the need to dramatically improve the school's quality of teaching and learning, and we recognised that an outside perspective was essential to help us identify the steps to take to improve.

Established in 2009 with funding from Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al - Maktoum of Dubai, the prize is awarded every two years to projects that have made outstanding contributions to improving the quality of teaching and learning, especially in developing countries or within marginalized or disadvantaged communities.

The claim, made by Ofsted's chief statistician Robert Pike, will be viewed as a further contradiction to inspectorates declaration it offers objective judgements on the quality of teaching and learning in schools.

While impressing inspectors in terms of the quality of teaching and learning environment is a large part of obtaining a good Ofsted report, ensuring that school security measures are of a high quality are also key components, writes James Kelly, chief executive of the British Security Industry Association (BSIA)

This is done through the quality of teaching and learning; through the nature of relationships amongst students, teachers and adults other than teachers; through arrangements for monitoring students» overall progress (academic, personal and social); through specific pastoral and support systems; and through extra-curricular activities and the school's ethos (Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, 1989).

So one of the key questions in that written reflection is «Are there particular suggestions you'd like to make to the leadership team for the college to improve its quality of teaching and learning based on the domains of the NSIT?»

«It's distressing that the investment needed to improve the quality of teaching and learning hasn't been prioritised in the development and implementation of national education sector plans.»

Discussing the results improves student engagement and the quality of teaching and learning.

«A nation's moral economy invests in education for everyone's good wherever it can, and makes prudent economies that do not harm the quality of teaching and learning whenever it must.»

Since 1987, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has sought to advance the quality of teaching and learning by maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to...

Principals have a key responsibility for developing a culture of effective teaching, for leading, designing and managing the quality of teaching and learning and for students» achievement in all aspects of their development.

Since 1987, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has sought to advance the quality of teaching and learning by maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do.

Similarly, the leadership considerations of teachers are grounded in their desire to improve the quality of teaching and learning for all students.

Research is revealing the powerful impact that school leadership teams can have in improving the quality of teaching and learning.

We insist, as part of the norms of the group, that we look at the quality of teaching and learning, the level of student work, and overall evidence of student performance in the schools we visit.