Sentences with phrase «teacher data literacy»

On February 7, 2014, Mid-Atlantic Comprehensive Center (MACC) and Appalachia Regional Comprehensive Center (ARCC) hosted a webinar titled «Enhancing Teacher Data Literacy: What State Educational Agencies And Their Partners Can Do».

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MANY teachers do not know how to use data provided by annual assessments of their pupils» literacy and numeracy ability, despite often criticising the tests themselves, a new report has found.

He wants the feds to provide funds for adolescent literacy programs and state data systems; to ensure that every school is staffed by «skilled» teachers and principals; for district efforts to «personalize the educational experience»; and much more; and he calls on Congress to establish «meaningful high school accountability» (though the details are vague).

I then provided teachers with an overview of the program and explained how each teacher was to be allocated the responsibility to manage their own group's literacy data.

ICILS - the world's first computer - based international study into computer and information literacy - gathered data from almost 60 000 students and 35 000 teachers, ICT coordinators and principals.

Aimed at: Reception / KS1 Content: - Teacher Notes (x3)- Assembly Presentation Literacy - St. Valentine Day's Lesson Presentation - Worksheet - Writing activity on St. Valentine's Day - Worksheets on jumbled sentences and words - 2 Word Searches in upper and lower case letters Maths - Work on tally charts, pictograms and block graphs and interpreting data - Counting and matching up - Addition and Subtraction problem - solving - Number and Picture Pattern Sequences Activities include worksheets and cut and stick activities.

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The resource includes: • Teachers» Notes • Student Activities including two British Science Association CREST SuperStar Challenges • Interactive PowerPoints • Film clips • Cracking Code Breakers CREST SuperStar stickers Curriculum Links: Computing (Digital Literacy, data protection), Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths, History (Local History, Continuity and Change), Literacy, Geography, Citizenship Mission Colossus game Put your engineering skills to the test in this interactive game.

Paige... teacher prep is such an important and high leverage strategy to get data literacy into the classroom!

In a number of the case study schools, data coaches brought valuable insight to teachers, especially in the area of early literacy.

AD: Absolutely, and I think data literacy is not necessarily a skill that we teach in teacher education, at least in the US, I don't know as much about other countries in terms of the professional learning that takes place at the preservice level.

This collection of reviewed resources from TeachersFirst is selected to help teachers and students learn about data literacy.

Data were collected from 19 K - 12 teachers enrolled in a new literacies teacher education course as part of a requirement for a reading education master's degree at a university in the southeast United States.

For example, many states have adopted the research - backed Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment, which prompts teachers to collect observational data ranging from children's physical and social - emotional development to their literacy and math skills.Do - Hong Kim, Richard G. Lambert, and Diane C. Burts, «Evidence of the Validity of Teaching Strategies GOLD ® Assessment Tool for English Language Learners and Children with Disabilities,» Early Education and Development 24 (2013): 574 — 595, doi: 10.1080 / 10409289.2012.701500; Teaching Strategies, Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System: A Technical Summary, 2013.

In lower data - use schools educators tended to depend on external expertise, or to rely on the principal or a key teacher (e.g., counselor, literacy coach) as the resident data expert.

New international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow for the first time to quantify teacher skills in numeracy and literacy, providing country - level measures of teacher subject knowledge.

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These include The Reading Strategies Book, The Literacy Teacher's Playbook: Four Steps for Turning Assessment Data into Goal - Directed Instruction, and Independent Reading Assessment.

While there are certainly other data measurement concepts, these three can help teachers make assessment results matter — a big component in our efforts to improve assessment literacy.

Data Literacy: Making Sense of Data for Math and Social Studies Teachers February 7 and March 7 (2 - night series) UA Gould Simpson Building, Room 849 5:30 — 7:30 p.m. (Dinner will be served at 5PM)

Further, he built a relationship with Children's Literacy Initiative of Philadelphia, which developed a plan for teachers to collaborate and plan together, to use data to implement authentic lessons, and build collegiality, which helped establish an improved climate and culture.

The data - collection process, which occurred over the course of a few months, brought together student performance data, teacher survey data, and data on school capacity to support literacy.

As part of a high school reform initiative, 10th grade English language arts teachers and literacy coaches worked with a data coach to define essential questions about students» reading performance.

According to the 2014 NBCT Survey, more than half of NBCTs are teacher leaders at the school, district, state, and national levels, leading Common Core State Standards (CCSS) implementation, STEM initiatives and programs, peer review and observations, data literacy, personalized learning, technology integration, and professional development.

These include a renewed focus on student learning, greater assessment literacy, improved professional development, better use of data, and more teacher leadership.

Gather colleagues from the data team, interventionists, grade level teachers, or other personnel who provide literacy instruction in your school.

Our work in this district engaged administrators, teachers, and reading specialists in a data - collection process built on the belief that improving student literacy was everyone's responsibility and that addressing the issue required a commitment to using data for improvement.

Such meetings should include classroom teachers, the school psychologist (or someone who is trained to interpret assessment data), interventionists, literacy and math coaches, and the building principal.

He makes a strong case that library media specialists should be very aware of state standards, know which ones are tested, collaborate with teachers to teach information literacy skills related to those state standards, and then collect data on the impact of the library instruction.

Session topics this year include the Understanding by Design ® framework, differentiated instruction, lesson planning, data - driven learning, teacher leadership, assessment, literacy, and more.

The report also helped better distinguish the difference between data literacy and assessment literacy — that is, while both speak to the use of data to drive student learning, it's important to realize that the data available to teachers goes beyond that garnered from assessment alone, to include attendance data, peer observations, and formative assessment (which as we know gets lumped into the assessment space, but is much more than that).

The DQC report highlighted four shifts that can go a long way in making data literacy an integrated part of school life for teachers and administrators, and they are highlighted here:

As an accomplished data - literacy leader, Eastman pressed teachers to look beyond the numbers to examine learning «targets.»

Embed the definition of data literacy into teacher policies and guidelines.

Once states have set the standards of data literacy for a licensed teacher, it's important to measure whether these standards are being met.

She has served as a national consultant, elementary and middle school principal and teacher, and recently retired from the Oregon Department of Education, where she served as the director of data literacy.

It prepares district and school administrators and / or leadership teams to: • Make data actionable and competency - based • Use data to bring coherence across improvement initiatives & maximize their impact • Build a system - wide culture of data - literacy and student - focused teaching and learning • Create capacity to collect evidence needed to validate successful implementation and gauge impact on achievement Leaders will learn what it takes to initiate, support, and sustain the meaningful and productive use of data throughout an organization — with an emphasis on how to support teachers» use of data.

Chapters address: (1) an overview of the whole language approach; (2) examples of how special education teachers use whole language to teach children with learning disabilities; (3) suggestions on how to create a child - centered classroom; (4) the role of the teacher in a whole language classroom; (5) examples of democratic classrooms; (6) assessment procedures that are compatible with a whole language philosophy and how assessment data can be used to respond to individual needs; (7) examples of different strategies teachers use to teach students with learning disabilities reading and writing; (8) literacy development in students with disabilities and how to foster self - directed learners; (9) how teachers develop learner - centered curriculums and how to move toward an inclusive environment; and (10) one teacher's move to the whole language approach.

A quick trip through the Principal magazine archive illuminates the point, with a 1991 technology - themed issue focused on what were then new technology tools — «electronic mail» and a portable «computer in your lap» — while a 1997 issue addressed topics that are still evolving, such as teacher training, data safety, digital literacy, and infrastructure.

We recently saw a teacher collect literacy assessment data on her iPhone and then upload the scores instantly into the school's computer.

Oberman and Boudett bring this process alive by giving an extended example of how one school followed the eight steps, parsing data to notice a specific problem in student learning, identify a likely cause in teachers» instructional practice, and create and follow an action plan for changing this aspect of their literacy instruction.

• The «blended learning» model of education exemplified by the Rocketship chain of charter schools — often promoted by charter boosters — is predicated on paying minimal attention to anything but math and literacy, and even those subjects are taught by inexperienced teachers carrying out data - driven lesson plans relentlessly focused on test preparation.

WestEd and Using Data Solutions have worked together with funding from the Spencer Foundation to develop four scenario - based exercises to help teachers and leaders measure levels of data literData Solutions have worked together with funding from the Spencer Foundation to develop four scenario - based exercises to help teachers and leaders measure levels of data literdata literacy.

We will assist local districts and teachers in achieving these goals with professional development in the 3 Tiers of Intervention, literacy instruction, data analysis, core program implementation, intervention selection and implementation.

While data literacy is certainly important when it comes to statistical analysis and psychometrics, for teachers, assessment data can often become cumbersome to parse and connect back to instructional strategies.

Lyn is the former Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction Services in the York Region District School Board, a large Canadian school district, where she and her curriculum team analyzed assessment data and developed a comprehensive literacy improvement program, which they launched with the cooperation of senior leadership, principals, and over 9000 teachers.

Based on survey data, online student teachers were comfortable on the computer, obtained enhanced digital literacy skills, and were more likely to use the resources they found online in their classes.

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Through a partnership with Digital Promise, the thought - leader in competency - based educator development, BloomBoard offers a library of over 200 micro-credentials which focus on a variety of skills such as data literacy, teacher leadership, and deeper learning.

The inaugural set of micro-credentials includes topics like Deeper Learning, Data Literacy, and Teacher Leadership, created by content experts including Relay Graduate School of Education, Center for Teaching Quality, and the University of San Diego's Mobile Technology Learning Center.