ACER's publications and professional resources focus on understanding and addressing the needs of individuals, promoting
quality teaching and leadership, and supporting organisational improvement.
Ensure
quality teaching and leadership by establishing well - designed accountability systems;
Research shows that high
quality teaching and leadership teams learn from each other's practices, experiences and support, and that's why we will always keep you, the reader, at the heart of Teacher magazine, providing educators and educational leaders with a strong voice and a platform to share and collaborate.
Research shows that high
quality teaching and leadership teams learn from each other - and that's why your input is so important.
In those early days, the MAT scene was still relatively uncharted territory and NPAT was a really trailblazing partnership — built fundamentally on the simplicity of high
quality teaching and leadership with a very child - centred ethos and a serious commitment to sport and the arts.
The report recommends various measures to help close the achievement gap, including: more investment in early years education; ensuring all schools have access to good examples of top
quality teaching and leadership; good careers guidance for all pupils; extra support for teachers, such as a mortgage deposit scheme to help high - performing school staff get on the housing ladder; and promoting and measuring character development, wellbeing and mental health in schools.
Research shows that high
quality teaching and leadership teams learn from each other's practices.
Support for high -
quality teaching and leadership, especially in core subjects, is vital to help raise achievement for all.
Not exact matches
The levels of motivation, teamwork
and leadership required of service personnel are significant,
and these are
qualities that can only benefit Britain's students both at school
and beyond: who better to
teach them, than those who have had to learn them to the highest level themselves?
With its profile transformations
and very own Sexclusivity ℠
and GHQ ® (also known as «Good Husband
Quality») systems — not to mention Bela's
leadership — Smart Dating Academy
teaches singles ways to overcome their particular dating hurdles
and zero in on the most compatible people for them.
The Center for Urban Agricultural
and Environmental Sciences will provide intellectual
leadership through research,
teaching and extension to sustain urban ecosystems, enhance economic development,
and improve the
quality of life in urban settings.
Many agencies within the profession, including teachers
and principals, are concerned about finding a balance between the compliance discourse that accompanies standards
and regulation
and the discourse of innovation that is central to the development of rigorous
and high
quality teaching and educational
leadership.
Create a positive school culture
and climate that includes high -
quality teaching and learning, safety, caring relationships, supportive,
and challenging learning environments, sense of community
and inclusion for all students
and subgroups,
and distributed staff
leadership
A new report by Ofsted questions the
quality of
teaching and leadership during Key Stage 3 education, raising concerns over whether students are sufficiently supported
and challenged to make the best start to secondary school.
These school indicators should also incorporate other measures of key ingredients to long - term success, such as student performance in writing
and oral presentations,
teaching and curriculum
quality, student attitudes
and culture, attendance,
and school
leadership and management.
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.
Along with the school's senior
leadership team, the SENCO had also identified the need to develop the whole school workforce to ensure that all staff had the skills, knowledge
and understanding they needed to provide high -
quality teaching and learning opportunities for all pupils.
Lessons learned from these systems include: (1) make
teaching an attractive profession, (2) invest in continual learning,
and (3) recruit
and develop high -
quality leadership.
Put simply, a principal
and leadership team that knows how to use the resources
and expertise available to them in ways that maximise the outcomes students can achieve is a key determinant of the success of the school
and, in particular, the extent to which teachers can deliver high
quality teaching to each
and every class.
To help fill the gaps for participants, sessions included exploring what
leadership really means, understanding the process of policy analysis, figuring out how to get others to see all sides of an issue, figuring out how to effectively use research - based evidence, strategizing how to get
quality teaching even without resources,
and learning how to use the media to communicate a vision.
We've seen a significant difference in the
quality of
teaching between the South
and the Midlands
and the North, a significant difference in terms of the
quality of
leadership,
and we need to worry about this as a nation.
All of our CPD aims to do three broad things: improve subject
and pedagogical knowledge; improve the overall
quality of
teaching;
and support
leadership development.
According to the Australian Council for Education Research
and Queensland Department of Education, Training
and Employment's National School Improvement Tool (2012), «Research is revealing the powerful impact that school
leadership teams can have in improving the
quality of
teaching and learning...
and establishing strong professional learning communities.»
It is a powerful tool for
teaching and learning that can be used as compelling evidence within each of the four cornerstones of the new Ofsted inspection framework: the achievement of pupils at school; the
quality of
teaching; the
quality of
leadership and management;
and the behaviour
and safety of pupils at school.
««Historically, the incentives in America have been for teacher preparation to be «fast
and cheap» rather than longer
and higher
quality,» said Shael Polakow - Suransky, President of Bank Street College
and a member of the Transforming
Teaching leadership team.
Unless the image of educators is raised
and the pay made commensurate with the increasing difficulties
and challenges of the job, the nation will find bodies to fill those
teaching and leadership positions — but not with
quality educators, Tirozzi said.
Since 2010, ministers have been emphasising that it is the
quality of
teaching and leadership at a school, not the bricks
and mortar, that make a difference to the results it chalks up.
The OECD also stated that the focus of continuing reforms should be on «developing high -
quality teaching profession, making
leadership a key driver of education reform, ensuring equity in learning opportunities
and student well - being,
and moving towards a new assessment, evaluation
and accountability that aligns with the new 21st - century curriculum».
It may also be that these are simply bad schools, with weak
leadership, low -
quality teaching,
and a broken climate,
and their high suspension rates are an indicator of campuses that are barely keeping it together.
By instructional
leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data
and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the
quality of the
teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization
and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the school are properly aligned;
and 7) determine the
quality and fitness of instructional materials.
And we know that you are going to present to your board suggestions for spending more money on, according to the Times, five «broad priorities: early childhood education, teaching quality / principal leadership, school options, community engagement and out - of - school youth.&raq
And we know that you are going to present to your board suggestions for spending more money on, according to the Times, five «broad priorities: early childhood education,
teaching quality / principal
leadership, school options, community engagement
and out - of - school youth.&raq
and out - of - school youth.»
When national resources are used to minimise student residualisation, to ensure that every school has access to high
quality teaching and school
leadership,
and to promote the use of effective, evidence - based practices in every school, it is more likely that every student will receive a high
quality education regardless of the school they attend.
However, despite the enthusiasm for both school restructuring
and transformational
leadership, the findings from international meta - analytic work comparing the impact of various approaches to educational
leadership, along with wider developments
and concerns over
quality teaching and student performance noted in earlier chapters, caused a re-examination of the worth of instructional
leadership.
The chief inspector warned that teacher retention was critical to maintaining a
quality teaching workforce
and maintained that «unless we get
leadership right then we will still continue to have problems.»
It is the
quality of
teaching that occurs within such structures,
and the
leadership that guides
and supports it, that is most important in improving student achievement.
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?»
Similarly, the
leadership considerations of teachers are grounded in their desire to improve the
quality of
teaching and learning for all students.
Their knowledge
and instructional
leadership critically affect
teaching quality and student outcomes.
From district leaders in our higher - performing settings, we have learned that once standard expectations for curriculum, instruction,
and leadership are implemented
and sustained with a reasonable degree of fidelity
and quality, further improvement in the
quality of
teaching and learning is unlikely to be gained by doing more of the same.
Fostering
quality leadership,
teaching, learning
and engagement for all stakeholders to build student school success
and a college - going culture.
[I] saw so many difficult issues within the district: lack of
quality teaching, lack of
leadership in buildings, lack of empathy
and understanding of the children, [
and] the lack of access to services that would have made high - performing teachers really be able to deliver the promise for kids.
Teacher
leadership is a focal area for some other microcredentials, such as stacks developed by the Center for Collaborative Education on Performance Assessment Literacy or by the Center for
Teaching Quality on Teacher - Powered Schools
and Leading Virtual Communities of Practice.
Published in January 2001 by the Wake Task Force on Teacher Excellence, exploring issues of
quality teaching in the public schools, this report influenced future work in teacher
leadership by WakeEd
and the Wake County Public School System.
• A deep - seated belief in the inherent right of all children to a
quality education; • A professional life dedicated to improving education for teachers
and their students; • A passionate commitment to improving
teaching and learning in America; • Unwavering dedication to the professional integrity
and competence of teachers; • Visionary
and boundless energy, eternal optimism,
and expert
leadership; • An innate capacity to inspire collaboration
and mobilize support that enabled unparalleled achievements in the history of American education reform;
and • A clear vision coupled with steadfast commitment
and fierce determination which has led to historic milestones in American education
and meaningful impact on
teaching and learning.
We will continue to provide in - depth
leadership coaching to school
and district leaders, helping them to capitalize on their emerging vision of high -
quality teaching with new
leadership strategies
and actions.
I happened to be one of those proponents based first on my close understanding of the challenges she faced when she entered the job, the tough decisions she has made over the last two years,
and the
leadership direction of the district which is now rooted in the theory that in order to improve student learning we need most to improve the
quality of
teaching and leadership.
Under the
leadership of its Board of Directors, the Regents» Universities
and other stakeholders, the Center is shaping a more pro-active role in developing teacher
leadership and providing
quality professional development opportunities to educators to improve
teaching practice
and student achievement.
Catholic Education SA values the significance of middle
leadership roles
and the contribution these leaders make to the
quality of
teaching and learning, wellbeing
and the continuous improvement of our schools.
Focus on particular strategies
and / or instructional approaches (e.g., bilingual education) without losing track of the contexts that matter (e.g.,
teaching quality, school / district
leadership, funding);
«It is crucial for a school rating system to take into account certain factors including appropriate
leadership, staffing that meets the needs of students, resources to support teachers in designing
and carrying out high
quality plans,
and facilities that provide a safe
and comfortable environment to
teach and learn.»