Sentences with phrase «spend more time on instruction»

The reports look at: Atlanta «growing its own» school leaders; Louisville helping principals spend more time on instruction; New Mexico supplying better data to districts; Delaware developing standards and assessments; and one Michigan principal's mastering data use.

While the rationale is perhaps a bit misguided (some evidence suggests that our students already experience as much instructional time as their peers ~ and other research confirms that teachers in the United States spend more time on instruction than teachers in other nations do) ~ there are certainly reasons to focus on the issue ~ not least of which is the summer learning loss that disproportionately impacts our nations most disadvantaged youth.

And teachers spend more time on instruction than intervention.

Often principals think they are spending more time on instruction than they actually are, Shellinger told Education World.

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I followed all the storage and thawing instructions so I'm not sure what the problem is, but considering all the time and money spent on my pumping and storing journey I would really like to get to the bottom of this before any more milk has to be wasted!

Practitioners of the Responsive Classroom ® education philosophy say the approach gives them more time for instruction because they spend less time on discipline.

As more classroom management functionality becomes automated, this frees up time for teachers to spend more of their skills and mental energy on more important things for students and their learning; such as tailoring learning to student needs and focusing more on individual and small group instruction than on managing large classes.

The Philadelphia School District now spends close to $ 100 million a year on instruction for more than 27,000 special - education students in full - day and part - time classes, more than the total number of students in any other school district in Pennsylvania except Pittsburgh.

Behavior improves when more classroom time is spent in on - task instruction.

When respondents were asked whether they favored «students spending more of their time at school receiving instruction independently through or on a computer,» opinion was evenly divided.

Over the past 15 years, however, many school music programs have been cut to reduce budgets and to spend more time on math and reading instruction.

The innovatively prepared principals not only feel better prepared and more committed to the principalship, they also spend more time on improving instruction and building collaboration with their teachers and their fellow principals.

According to research, students with LD spend more time on task in the classroom when technology is thoughtfully integrated into instruction.

In my recent paper, «Teaching in the Machine Age,» I argue that technology, if used properly, can take on some aspects of planning, grading, and instruction, thereby freeing up teachers to spend more of the their time on high - impact activities.

The ANOVA on time spent in whole group, F (2, 60) = 8.66, p <.01, indicated that students with teachers rated as least accomplished spent more time in whole - group instruction (M = 47.94 minutes per day) than teachers rated as moderately accomplished (M = 28.98 mpd) or teachers rated as most accomplished (M = 24.69 mpd).

Other school characteristics associated with better student achievement included: more time spent on English instruction; teacher pay plans that were based on teachers» effectiveness at improving student achievement, principals» evaluations, or whether teachers took on additional duties, rather than traditional pay scales; an emphasis on academics in schools» mission statements; and a classroom policy of punishing or rewarding the smallest of student infractions.

More time spent on reading instruction can in turn improve behavior.

The ANOVA on time spent in small - group instruction revealed an effect for level of teacher accomplishment, F (2, 60) = 3.08, p =.05, with students in the classrooms of teachers rated as most accomplished spending more time in small - group instruction (M = 48.25 minutes per day) than students with teachers rated as moderately accomplished (M = 38.67 mpd), who, in turn, spent more time than students with teachers rated as least accomplished (M = 25.35 mpd).

Add in the tens of million spent by local school districts on computers and internet expansion so that students can take the on - line tests, along with the substitute teachers who were brought in so that full - time teachers could be pulled out to «learn about the Common Core,» and well over $ 150 — $ 200 million dollars (or more) in public funds have been diverted from instruction to the Common Core and Common Core testing disaster.

An independent evaluation found that among 93 principals using the SAMs process for two or more years, the mean percentage of time spent on instruction rose from 32 percent to some 52 percent after two years.

The study found that when more time is spent on reading in kindergarten — or on academic instruction in general — these children make greater gains than children who receive less time in such instruction.

Teachers have been calling attention to the problem of overtesting in public schools for years, and this weekend the Obama administration finally responded by releasing a plan to reduce testing, saying no more than two percent of classroom instruction time should be spent on tests.

Year after year, the organization has found that American high school teachers spend about 73 percent more time on classroom instruction than colleagues in countries such as Finland and Israel.

One reason that district - hired coaches spent more time working directly with teachers on issues of instruction was that district leaders emphasized these activities as defining features of their work.

Debbie Daniels Wallace Project Director Kentucky Department of Education 500 Mero Street, 17th Floor CPT Frankfort, KY 40601 [phone] x4735 [email protected] To read a journalistic account of how Louisville and other districts are testing this new way to help principals spend more time each day on instruction, see Improving Leadership for Learning: Stories from the Field.

Among the explanations for small class effects are improved teacher morale, more time spent by teachers on individual instruction and less on classroom management, along with fewer disruptions and fewer discipline problems.

Less drastic, but potentially more widely damaging for more students, is the evidence that raising the stakes on standardized tests to these extremes will result in an even narrower curriculum than under the original No Child Left Behind provisions which have already reduced time spent on non-tested content and increased teacher centered instruction.

A teacher's assistant provides support to the lead classroom teacher, allowing the teacher to spend more time focusing on classroom instruction.

Teachers in the United States spend far more time engaged in active instruction than teachers in other high - performing countries.1 Based on self - reported data, teachers in the United States spend 27 hours teaching out of 45 hours of work per week.2 Compare this with teachers in Singapore, who teach for only 17 hours per week, or teachers in Finland, who teach for a total of 21 hours per week.3 Schools in these countries prioritize time for planning and collaboration, recognizing that developing and executing lessons take time and preparation.4 According to a recent analysis of more than 140 school districts, the average length of a U.S. teacher's workday is 7.5 hours.5 In another analysis of more than 120 school districts, the most common length of time allotted for planning was 45 minutes per day.6 In this short time, teachers must grade student work, plan for future lessons, engage with families, and complete necessary paperwork.

That's more than three times the $ 1.2 million student aid budget in 2001, or a full 35 % of the $ 13.7 million spent that year on «instruction».

Should we spend more time on identifying appropriate sources and instruction on how to apply search results to a legal research problem?

[a] t the beginning of the instruction phase, instead of starting immediately to read the jury instructions, the judge spends a few words on extra-textual references and tries to create a more familiar and relaxed atmosphere... given that it is the first day of the actual trial and for some of them it may be the first time they serve as jurors.

Disruptive children spend less time on classroom tasks, receive less instruction from teachers, grow to like school less, and attend school less often than their more emotionally well - adjusted peers.