Sentences with phrase «resulting teacher strategies»

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In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.

As a result, JLS revised its homework policy, provided its teachers more professional development and encouraged them to try new strategies, including not giving homework at all, which at least one teacher did, or giving ungraded homework assignments.

It may be that these new strategies were responsible for the improvement in girls» results, or, as I and most teachers involved in the system at the time believed, the new style of examination provided a way for girls to become confident enough to succeed.

A newly credentialed primary teacher was asked by her professional superiors about her strategies for boosting NAPLAN results among her charges.

The Museum School is also one of the district's 15 «theme» and partnership schools — which include a school in a zoo and one in a nature center — created as part of a turnaround strategy after a 20 - year decline that resulted in the closure of 35 schools, $ 100 million in budget cuts, and loss of 1,000 jobs, 600 of them teachers.

The strategy has faced heavy criticism, with education experts warning that teachers have not been given adequate training, which has resulted in many pupils being unnecessarily referred.

When students are successful, teachers need to push them to reflect on the strategies they used to get those results.

Once the survey was done, Huntington and the other 50 middle and high schools that took part in the initiative were given reports in clear, accessible language that summarized the results, plus a set of resources and customized strategies that teachers and principals could use to make changes based on their results.

As a result of her research, Bub hopes to provide strategies for teachers in responding to children who struggle to develop positive social and behavioral skills.

Instead, let's say his teacher uses the test results (the student in our example was not the only one who did poorly) as the foundation of a lesson on metacognitive and cognitive strategies to improve study habits.

We expect to use the results of this research to shape both the Instructional Partnership Initiative, which makes innovative use of feedback from our teacher evaluation system, as well as other state strategies for classroom improvement in years to come.»

Data are required by teachers to judge whether particular teaching strategies have resulted in better learning.

Such results encourage the teachers at Craigslea to continue implementing the strategy of deliberate practice in their classrooms, but the best result was that the students gained personal satisfaction from their creativity and performance, as well as commitment to ongoing learning as musicians.

This product helps teachers... Plan to spiral the ELA standards Identify standards to reteach based on results Align instruction and strategies with desired learning outcomes Practice backward planning from assessments.

Perhaps we would see better results if we took the proliferation of motivational assemblies and other incentives used to rally kids come test time, and traded them for increased support for stressed - out teachers throughout the year, helping them sustain the energy to make better use of known strategies that make kids want to come to school and do well.

There should also be a national strategy for teacher recruitment and retention that recognises teachers as high - status professionals and guarantees enough teachers for every school; fair methods to hold schools to account, recognising that test and exam results are only part of the picture when judging a pupil's success or a school's effectiveness; and a broad range of subjects in the school day so opportunities are not limited.

More focused instructional and teacher quality strategies — like implementing the Common Core standards or improving teaching through better evaluation systems — are more likely to result in big gains, it seems to me.

For instance, in the case of the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model, the group's website boasts that the tool was the result of 5,000 studies over five decades and other research, including correlation analysis between teaching strategies and student achievement.

However, just as athletes use video analysis to study the strategies of a star athlete on the opposing team or the effectiveness of a winning play on the field, I regularly refined my practice by watching teachers, in real time, execute instructional strategies that resulted in their students» eyebrows raising and their mouths dropping open because a light bulb had just been turned on in their minds.

When the strategies don't result in quick success, teachers often «move to maybe a completely different - looking individualized intervention,» according to Professor Joe Wehby, chairman of Vanderbilt University's special education department and an expert on student behavior approaches.

There are several factors that could possibly be contributing to this pattern in results, such as teachers adopting new strategies in response to the removal of the January series; a slight shift towards Facilitating Subjects affecting outcomes at grade A; and as the A * continues to bed in it becomes more important for highly selective universities and as such provides a greater incentive for students.

As a result of this exploration, three teaching strategies are put forward: active learning, cognitive activation and teacher - directed instruction.

Along with the online survey reports, teachers and principals will have access to the Panorama Education Playbook (Playbook), an online professional learning tool that allows educators to share practices and create a personalized playbook of instructional strategies based on their survey results.

Though, unlike U.S. education reformers, Finnish authorities haven't outsourced school management to for - profit or non-profit organizations, implemented merit pay, or ranked teachers and schools according to test results, they've made excellent use of business strategies.

The data enable teachers to differentiate instruction and connect instructional strategies with student results.

Instead of letting each teacher in each school come up with his or her own curriculum and approach, resulting in an incoherent and in some cases ineffective system of instruction, Payzant gradually narrowed the range of options for schools and teachers to materials and teaching strategies that he and his teams of coaches thought worked best for Boston students.

Strategy: Through a 15 - point accountability package, parents, teachers, schools, and communities can all be encouraged to measure results, compare results, and insist...

More focused instructional and teacher quality strategies — like implementing the Common Core standards or improving teaching through better evaluation systems — are more likely to result in big gains.

Educators of the gifted find that overuse of some cooperative learning strategies, particularly those focused on learning of basic information and skills, results in a lack of challenge for advanced learners, inordinate use of these learners as «junior teachers,» and inappropriate pressure for these learners to solve instructional problems (Robinson, 1990).

Grant proposal includes a clearly defined strategy to improve teacher satisfaction and retention at the school site that results in more great teaching and student learning.

Whether student achievement is higher or lower, teachers and school administrators van look at results throughout the entire system to identify which specific teaching and leadership strategies were associated with improved student results.

At the same time, she noted that there are numerous strategies to close the teacher - student diversity gap that have yielded positive results in several states that would boost the diversity of the teaching force if introduced on a wider scale.

«It is a three - phase process where a teacher learns how to think through a teaching strategy, put it into action in the classroom, and then reflects on the results.

What one strategy would you suggest teachers in personalized learning environments apply every day that would result in powerful outcomes?

These results show that a trained substitute teacher in classroom management and teaching strategies can have a great impact on student achievement.

Implementing these strategies does not come easily, but they can produce positive results with sustained effort and support of teachers over time.

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Packed with strategies, tips, and activities, this book shows how to build committed teams of teachers who are focused on student results.

However, today many teachers are using this strategy and finding that the results are amazing.

Though the researcher did not directly collect student outcome data, teachers reported that their implementation of IDEA strategies resulted in positive outcomes for students in areas of academic achievement, engagement / motivation, and collaboration skills.

These strategies free teachers from everyday discipline challenges leaving more time for instruction, resulting in greater academic success.

John Muir Elementary School, a QEIA school where «teachers often surrender their lunch and prep periods to work together to craft lessons, improve assessments, and share strategies for reaching struggling students,» is just one example of how collaboration achieves positive results.

This intervention resulted in an increase in teacher knowledge of language acquisition and an increased use of oral language development strategies.

The shift to non-whites in teachers is a result of the group's change in recruiting strategy.

Also, development of a strategy to communicate, disseminate, and revisit evaluation of the effectiveness of in - service teacher training and mentoring models would significantly benefit the field and result in an increasingly comprehensive approach to preparing social studies teachers to use technology effectively in the classroom, while also providing a model for influencing policy and continually improving practice.

When teacher teams believe that they can positively impact student learning, it results in a number of productive patterns of behavior: deeper implementation of high - yield strategies, increased teacher leadership, high expectations, and a strong focus on academic pursuits.

E4E teachers came to D.C. on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination to share with Secretary DeVos that the Federal Department of Education has a critical role to play in protecting the civil rights of all students and as a result must continue to highlight the disparities that exist in school discipline, investigate districts where those disparities may be caused by bias, and support the implementation of strategies to reduce punitive discipline.

The results could amount to a cautionary flag about paying teachers for the performance of their students, a reform strategy the Obama administration and many states and school districts have favored despite lukewarm support or outright opposition from teachers» unions.

When teachers believe that, together, they can positively impact student learning, it results in a number of productive patterns of behavior: deeper implementation of high - yield strategies, increased teacher leadership, high expectations, and a strong focus on academic pursuits.

We train observers for inter-rater reliability, conduct workshops on understanding the model and utilizing classroom strategies for best results, and share proven tools for building teacher capacity over time to raise student achievement.