Sentences with phrase «teacher effects focus»

However, such teacher attitudes have never been analyzed on a broad scale, and many analyses of teacher effects focus solely on teachers» human capital, overlooking their social - psychological traits.

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Thus, reordering school priorities to focus on achievement - as Risk tried to do - was much more difficult with teachers and administrators who assumed their professional identities in an era when other priorities for schooling were in effect.

The majority of arguments for single - sex schools and classrooms focus on the effects on interactions among students, but they also present the possibility of greatly increasing the number of students with teachers of the same gender.

In a 2011 interview by Lynnette Guastaferro of Teaching Matters, Darling - Hammond says that whether the national standards are put into effect in a way that is «much more focused on higher - order learning skills» (that is, progressive education classrooms for all) depends on «building curriculum materials,» «transforming» testing, and changing in - service teacher training.

We still focus on all RIF notices because they indicate the teachers who were targeted for layoffs, and thus tell us about the likely effects of the system that governs layoffs.

In their research on effective professional learning, Susan Neuman and Linda Cunningham focused on a coaching model to find out more about the effects of collaboration and feedback for teachers involved in coursework addressing early language and literacy.

A former high school history teacher, Papay focused his doctoral research on studying the effects of education policy on students and teachers, working on several projects with Professor Susan Moore Johnson and...

«Clearly, there is a great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should focus both on the impact of school discipline reforms and on their potential unintended consequences,» the authors note, emphasizing that reducing suspensions is a starting point in effective school discipline reform but that changing school culture can have «spillover» effects on teachers and peers which raise important questions for further study.

Martin and Dawson (2009) suggest that, «a focus on relationships throughout the school has a positive ripple effect impacting on not only wellbeing, but also the motivation and performance of both students and their teachers.»

Currently, Dillon is a post-doctoral fellow at Haskins Laboratories, a research institute in New Haven, Conn., that focuses on speech, language, and reading and biological basis, where she investigates the effects of a three - year study in which first - grade teachers were provided professional development seminars and in - class coaching in literacy instruction.

Most research on the impact of early - childhood programs has focused on structural measures of quality, such as the teacher's educational level or staff ratios, or on the effects of classroom quality, broadly construed.

Another hypothesis consistent with both the tracking results and the effects from random peer assignment is that tracking by initial achievement improves student learning because it allows teachers to focus instruction.

A former high school history teacher, Papay focused his doctoral research on studying the effects of education policy on students and teachers, working on several projects with Professor Susan Moore Johnson and the Project on the Next Generation of Tteachers, working on several projects with Professor Susan Moore Johnson and the Project on the Next Generation of TeachersTeachers.

Laing states that a layout which focuses student attention and interest can have a huge impact on productivity: «Innova has worked on many refurbishments, and factors such as re-thinking desk configurations, teacher positioning and the provision of storage can all have a positive effect on pupil behaviour.

Then, what we did to evaluate the transferability and the feasibility of introducing this to other schools, focus group discussions were conducted to access teacher perceptions of how this would work and some of the effects.

When feedback is focused on the goal and is informative and actionable, then as Hattie explains, the greatest effect on student learning occurs when the teacher becomes aware of their own effect on learning.

Hart's recent work has focused on school choice programs, school accountability policies, early childhood education policies, and effects on students of exposure to demographically similar teachers.

At present, she is focusing her research on the effects of teacher and parent storybook reading on children's reading and language development.

With effective monitoring the teacher focuses on an instructional strategy's effect on student learning.

The multiple linkages model asserts a prominent role for «situational variables» — the size of the work group, organizational policies and procedures, the prior training and experience of members — which mediate what the leader is able to do.131 For example, the size of the school will have a significant effect on how well teachers know other teachers; it also will affect the way in which teachers form workgroups or departments to talk about their work.132 The fragmented nature of professional communities, rather than size per se, becomes a constraint on how principals try to organize professional communities to focus on instruction and student learning.

We focus on variables that may contribute to a school «s culture and climate, including (1) variables on which principals can have some direct effect, such as principal - teacher relations, trust, and shared leadership; (2) variables on which principals may have less influence, such as teacher - to - teacher relations in professional communities, and collective responsibility; and (3) variables on which the principal has indirect control, such as teachers «sense of personal efficacy, and the quality of instruction.

Focusing on secondary level education, frequent feedback from teachers on shorter homework tasks has a larger impact upon progress, open - ended projects require time and have a lower effect on overall progress.

With a focus on developing teachers in the classroom, the new Marzano Causal Teacher Evaluation Model establishes the direct cause and effect relationship between teaching strategies and student achievement that helps teachers and leaders make the most informed decisions that yield the greatest benefits to students.

To counteract the effects of staff churn, and to help boost retention rates and improve teacher agency, VCS is now hyper - focused on providing ongoing Professional Development (PD) opportunities for new and existing staff — and they're using DreamBox PD resources, such as MyFlexPD, ™ to help get everyone up to speed fast.

Episode Info: Instead of just looking at the effect teachers have on the test scores of their students, researchers have expanded their focus to include the impact of teachers on student attendance and the long run outcomes of their students.

We therefore use a variety of fixed effects approaches to estimate the link between student achievement and these three forms of being to new one's job assignment — new to teaching, new to school, or new to position within the same school — with a particular focus on the latter given that so many teachers experience within - school reassignments and we know so little about how students are affected by it.

These features undoubtedly contributed to the narrowing effects of the NCLB law, leading teachers to spend substantial time in test preparation and focus heavily on English and math at the expense of other subjects.

My work has focused on helping teachers and principals use a more holistic approach in their schools: district - wide training on the effects of trauma and the brain, improve class decorum through relationships and skill - building, and project based personalized learning.

Her thesis will focus on the effect of teacher perceptions on STEM achievement.

Current research includes a cross-institutional study of teacher preparation in three states, as well as a multi-year study of the implementation and effects of Washington DC's content - focused professional learning curriculum, Learning Together to Advance our Practice (LEAP).

Measures that addressed the steps in the certification pipeline that teachers progress through provided a focused way for participants to understand the effect of their improvement efforts, to discuss specific problems that could be targeted for action, and to share improvements that had worked to solve those identified problems.

The current research on the effect of teacher turnover on students makes it even more imperative that we focus on ways to keep teachers in the classroom longer, especially in high poverty schools.

Collaborative leadership: 6 Influences That Matter Most focuses on how leaders can use 6 of John Hattie's high effect influences on learning to foster growth in teachers and put the focus on learning for students.

While other studies focus on the effects of teacher - artist partnership programs on teachers and students, this study focused on the effects of such programs on the artist.

We hypothesize that the only modest effects of standards - based reform thus far are largely due to the fact that those reforms stalled at the classroom door, so a focus of the Center will be how implementation is achieved and supported among teachers.

State accountability systems that emphasize minimum proficiency and teacher evaluation systems that focus monomaniacally on improving reading and math scores have the effect of marginalizing those students whose families have taken care to read to them and do math problems with them — and who look to schools for more.

Most studies of scripted curricula focus on students; less is known about effects on teachers.

Principals in our sample spoke about the effects of strong unions, focused primarily on teachers «working conditions, as obstacles to creating collaborative cultures and engaging teachers in school - and district - wide decision making.

Karl holds a Bachelor's degree in Communications from Columbia College in Chicago; a Master's degree in Elementary Education with a Middle School Endorsement; and an Educational Doctorate in Teacher Leadership and Innovation from Arizona State University with a focus on movie making in the classroom and its effect on students» 21st century learning skills and science content in middle school classrooms.

Education Week summarizes two recent reports that said federal policymakers, in their regulation of teacher evaluation, have focused on ««consequences» before putting their emphasis on professional development, which had the effect of alienating teachers and making it harder for them to buy into the reforms,» while suggesting «that the new evaluation systems either hold a lot of promise.»