Until then, however, its portrayal of the disconnect between tech - savvy students and outdated teaching methodologies should cause educators to stop and reflect on what's
really happening in the classroom.
He explained that through taking a hard look at data, inquiry helps us get honest about what is
really happening in our classrooms and schools and take deliberate action steps toward positive change.
Not exact matches
Becoming a Golden Hawk means more than just cheering on our (
really good) varsity teams — it means being a student who cares about your community, who works hard
in the
classroom, and who takes advantage of all the learning opportunities that can
happen outside the
classroom, too.
But I think the schools like the Expeditionary Learning schools I visited are
really rigorous, not just about what
happens in the
classroom but about the professional development.
«You can't
really write a script for everything that
happens in the
classroom,» Newcombe says.
Because what
happened yesterday
in the
classroom depends and drives what
happens today, you
really need on - your - feet kinds of training.
Instead, educators need to find a way of making mentoring part of the national educational conversation, as well as ensuring that it is
happening at the grass roots level, because if educational reform is not taking place
in the
classroom, then it's not
really happening.
We need to be able to capture
really unique stuff that is
happening in individual
classrooms and more those lessons into strategic planning processes
Parents are
really well informed about the kinds of things that are
happening in classrooms and are supportive of any experiments that are going on or the ways that students are interacting with each other online or how student data is being used.
Robert J. Marzano: The most effective way to
really pick up whether students are learning or not is to look at what
happens in the
classroom.
«If you start getting too far away from what's going on
in classrooms, which appears to be what is
happening now, you don't
really have a trend — you're picking up an artifact of the test not matching the curriculum.»
If the group is too large I worry that it becomes too easy for a participant to «hide» and
really never reveal very much about their thinking and practice, and therefore never
really examine that thinking and practice with colleagues and, as a consequence, never
really work to strengthen what is
happening in the
classroom.
In the past, «I never felt that my ability to really see what was happening in the classroom and talk with my teachers about it was good enough to meet my own expectations,» she sai
In the past, «I never felt that my ability to
really see what was
happening in the classroom and talk with my teachers about it was good enough to meet my own expectations,» she sai
in the
classroom and talk with my teachers about it was good enough to meet my own expectations,» she said.
Similarly, decoration can
happen in classrooms when a teacher
really wants to cover a topic regardless of students» needs or desire.
«The outcome
really is what matters most,» Lisa said, adding that school and district leaders must assess whether or not their professional development offerings are «affecting what's
happening with kids
in the
classroom.»
And that
really is sort of why we need to look much more deeper at what
happens in the
classroom.
«The outcome
really is what matters most,» said Lisa, adding that school and district leaders must view success through the lens of whether or not professional development activities are «affecting what's
happening with kids
in the
classroom.»
«If you don't bridge that connection between what's
happening in the
classroom and what's
happening at home, you're missing something
really vital»
This is
really not about having kids talk
in any depth about things that are
happening outside of the
classroom and at home, not that that's inappropriate
in all situations.