In other words, he says, the schools benefited not from
improved teacher commitment but as a consequence of everyone searching for ways to help students.
What type of professional learning experiences lead to this kind of
intense teacher commitment, as seen in this teacher's statement, to value all students even when it challenges established teaching patterns?
Finally, if this is the goal of the class and together the teacher and students created a true partnership to promote learning, then
what teacher commitments or agreements would be essential?
Our professional development seminars and follow - up coaching foster teacher re-invigoration and
increase teacher commitment by equipping educators
Studying Topography, Orographic Rainfall, and Ecosystems with Geospatial Information Technology (STORE), a 4.5 - year National Science Foundation funded project, explored the strategies that
stimulate teacher commitment to the project's driving innovation: having students use geospatial information technology (GIT) to learn about weather, climate, and ecosystems.
According to the Common Good authors, Catholic high schools — and many believe that this applies to elementary schools as well — «manage simultaneously to achieve relatively high levels of student learning, distribute this learning more equitably with regard to race and class than in the public sector, and sustain high levels
of teacher commitment and student engagement.»
Research evidence identifies conditions which enhance teachers» work by affecting such variables
as teacher commitment, effort and job satisfaction.
In my more personal data collection and reflection, I gained insight into the
varied teacher commitment to the co-inquiry process and my own work as a leader, listener, and teacher supporter across contexts.
Developing custom professional development options for teachers with different skills, levels of experience and areas of interest can help
increase teacher commitment to learning communities and help them take an interest in giving back to those communities.
Catholic schools tend to operate as communities rather than bureaucracies, which links to higher levels
of teacher commitment, student engagement, and student achievement (Marks, 2009).
The difficult challenge — and first step — is
teacher commitment to reflect on practices that support students taking the lead.
There are many potential barriers to implementing successful project - based learning — it requires serious student and
teacher commitment, adequate planning time, and buy - in from the top down.
Ross, J. A., and Gray, P. (2006) Transformational leadership and
teacher commitment to organizational values: The mediating effects of collective teacher efficacy.
He is co-editor, with Betty Lou Whitford, of Accountability, Assessment, and
Teacher Commitment: Lessons from Kentucky's Reform Efforts (SUNY Press, 2000).
In an op - ed for WNYC, New Leader principal David O'Hara describes how cultivation of teacher leadership has been central to
teacher commitment and academic growth at his school.
And David Kirk and Robert Sampson show that
teacher commitment, parental involvement, and student achievement in schools in high - crime neighborhoods all tend to be low.
The fact that teachers in intervention Type II, who were given the option to implement the programme as a resource, implemented the programme with high fidelity is indicative of the level of
teacher commitment and support for the programme.