While «smallness» is not an end in itself, it does help create conditions for student success by fostering a shared vision, shared leadership, a professional collaborative culture, and structured time for teachers to
talk about instructional practice, as well as time to visit each others» classrooms (Louis & Kruse, 1995).
«One of the beliefs of CEL is that to become better at our practice, we have to collaborate, and we are truly collaborating now,
talking about our instructional practice in objective terms,» says Bo Miller, principal at Jackson Hole Middle School.
«One of the beliefs of CEL is that to become better at our practice, we have to collaborate, and we are truly collaborating now,
talking about our instructional practice in objective terms,» says Bo Miller, principal at Jackson Hole Middle School in Teton, WY.
Not exact matches
Elmore expanded this concept — similar to the medical rounds used in teaching hospitals — into a more formal
practice of «
instructional rounds» when asked to consult for a group of Connecticut superintendents who were meeting informally to
talk about school performance.
Today, we will
talk about a
practice very close to any
Instructional Designer's heart — Storyboarding.
As long as reformers are
talking about curtailing teachers» benefits, or making their jobs less secure, or evaluating their
instructional practices, there is going to be some anger and resentment.
Here, I'm
talking about knowing what each student knows then adjusting
instructional practices accordingly.
Pick an
instructional practice you think benefits children, and go out and observe it; then, come back as a group and
talk about what you saw — the good and the bad.
0 — Little or no reflection on
instructional practice by the individual classroom teachers, some
talk between individual teachers
about what is working.
In recent free webinar on the 10 Lessons Learned My First Year in E-Learning, I
talked about my realization that the field of e-learning is so much more than just the
practice of
instructional design.