Preliminary findings from a two - year study of new charter schools that were given extra funds to combine computer - based learning with
teacher instruction show that schools quickly ran into budget shortfalls and pulled back on their technology plans.
Not exact matches
Blythe Lipman is a nationally recognized baby and toddler expert with 40 years experience, a parenting consultant, and author of three award - winning books, a
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While previous studies have
shown that this student - centered method can be more effective than
teacher - led
instruction, Wieman says this study attempted to provide «a particularly clean comparison... to measure exactly what can be learned inside the classroom.»
She provided classroom
instruction in the power of high expectations and the methods of high - expectations
teachers, while also videotaping instructors while they interacted with students to
show them their demeanor while they taught.
During whole - group
instruction,
teachers demonstrate an «I do» by
showing how to properly navigate the application.
Zoch
shows persuasively and in great detail that progressives derided
instruction but never held students accountable for their own learning; it is always the
teacher who is to blame if the children aren't motivated.
He
shows how reform after reform has gone forward with the same assumptions: that students are passive recipients of
instruction, that
teachers are all - powerful molders of inert student clay, and that students have no responsibility for their own academic success.
TIMSS
shows that between 60 and 70 per cent of Australian Year 4 and 8 students were taught by a mathematics
teacher that had attended PD in mathematics content, pedagogy and
instruction, and curriculum.
One strand of his research, which has sought to replicate effective charter - school practices in public school contexts, has
shown that when a school increases instructional time, has excellent
teachers and administrators, and instills data - driven
instruction, small - group tutoring, and a culture of high expectations, it can eliminate gaps in math performance.
But too often,
teachers are worried about how they are being evaluated, spending too much time on projects that don't have clear objectives to support
instruction, or putting on a
show for observation day.
In the case of Standard 3, the key disposition is respect for the individual learner, as
shown in
teachers» efforts to connect with their students and to tailor
instruction to their students» individual needs.
Borrowing a page from the medical school world, educators at the Ed School are
showing teachers and school leaders how to find common ground when it comes to learning and
instruction.
Yet the research
shows that guidance or
teacher instruction can be important, particularly with some subjects in the early years.
(14 minutes)
shows a montage of insights from
teachers and administrators, plus examples of successful arts
instruction in classrooms across America.
In 2007, Mass Insight
showed that
instruction - driven, curriculum - driven policies could not transform the schools with the greatest challenges, and that the mass dismissal of
teachers was a bad idea.
Design a school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report
shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to
teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — N
teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends
teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — N
teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student
teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — N
teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent
teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — N
teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital
instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with
Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study
shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent
Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — N
Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your
Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — N
Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect
Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — N
Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great
Teachers Are — N
Teachers Are — Now What?
She points to data from a program called FirstSchool that
shows a wide gap between preschool and kindergarten, with kindergarteners getting much more
teacher - led
instruction than preschoolers, and the time during which children choose their activities shrinking from 136 minutes to 16.
Monica Burns can help
teachers adopt a useful approach to continuous, prompt assessment by
showing how technology can free
teachers to individualize
instruction, with up - to - date information to make instructional adjustments.
What has happened in Gadsden
shows how the push to rank schools based on measures like graduation rates — codified by the No Child Left Behind Act and still very much a fact of life in American public education — has transformed the country's approach to secondary education, as scores of districts have outsourced core
instruction to computers and downgraded the role of the traditional
teacher.
Studies have
shown that honest, timely feedback is one of the top ways to improve quality
instruction in
teachers, yet many
teachers would claim that this kind of feedback is inconsistent or not given.
«It's one thing to have a tool that
shows teachers where kids are struggling, but DreamBox goes the extra mile with MyFlexPD ™ by suggesting complementary learning activities, additional classroom tools, and new ways to deliver
instruction.»
Embedding grammar
instruction across the content areas benefits students because it allows
teachers to
show students how to make meaning in individual disciplines.
The lessons set themselves apart from those offered on other online sites in that they offer a narrative explaining the «how» and «why» of a lesson; use a video to
show the
instruction from start to finish; provide reflections from the Master
Teacher; and include student examples.
My Build Your Own Sundae worksheets include
teacher instructions, writing examples (as
shown above), and student worksheets that include ice cream sundae clip art.
Susan Moore Johnson and colleagues cite research that
shows that effective teamwork can improve
teacher retention, student achievement, and
teacher instruction if the work is purposeful and leaders are supportive.
My focus now is in presenting CFA 2.0 keynotes at conference venues and in supporting my amazing team of consultants who are helping to extend the reach of this powerful process that
shows teachers how they can intentionally align standards,
instruction, assessment, curriculum, and data analysis within each unit of study.
Learning List's alignment reports are tools that districts may use to
show teachers how standards set learning goals and how these goals shape
instruction.
Rajagopal has also
shown that his model can be replicated in any classroom by a
teacher who is willing to assume responsibility for each student's success, hold students accountable, embrace culturally responsive
instruction, and vigorously work on behalf of all students.
The study
shows that leadership makes its mark largely by strengthening a school's professional community, an environment where
teachers work together to improve classroom
instruction.
A regression analysis
showed a significant relation between (a) amount of arts
instruction and
teachers» efforts at arts integration and (b)
teachers» perceptions of students» risk - taking.
The district has decided to allow
teachers of English Language Learners and special education students earn more autonomy in curriculum and
instruction when they
show results through student progress.
These methods have been
shown to be very effective in boosting student learning outcomes above and beyond those obtained from
teacher - based
instruction.
This clip from the ASCD DVD Educating English Language Learners: Building Academic Literacies
shows how
teachers use technology to differentiate
instruction for English language learners.
For this reason it is a good idea to remind parents that assessments help
teachers improve
instruction by
showing what skills a student has mastered and which ones still need to be learned.
Teachers can begin this process by using the Student Interest Rubric
shown in Figure 1 on page 26 to assess a unit that they currently teach and to revise their
instruction using the results of this assessment.
Drawing on their observations of math
teachers, the authors
show how
teachers can use students» work to promote mathematical thinking, explore students» understandings, and inform future
instruction.
The second piece of research foundational to MLD
shows that while
teacher efficacy is the most important factor in student learning, a school principal's leadership is the one mechanism that accounts for a school's overall quality of
teacher instruction and student achievement.
Findings from these studies have
shown the promising outcomes in designing and refining
teacher communities of practice (MacDonald, 2008), as well as in refining PD design and improving
teacher instruction and student outcomes with technology (Wang, Hsu, Reeves, & Coster, 2014).
Last year's
Teacher Turnover Report published by the Department of Public
Instruction showed a slight uptick from the previous year: in 2011 - 2012, the system - level turnover was 12.13 percent — slightly higher than the 11.17 percent reported for 2010 - 2011.
He said, however, that research and his experiences had
shown that proper design and
teacher instruction within the classroom were necessary.
It also opens the doors for other virtual
teachers and
shows the real
instruction that's going on at virtual schools.
Figure 2
shows these practices beginning with student skill development, moving into
teacher directed
instruction, and like the instructional practices of university faculty members, advancing to student - centered work.
When a student
shows signs of struggle, the software notifies the
teacher, reviews
instruction, and offers more practice opportunities.
Research
shows school leadership is second only to
teacher instruction among school - related factors that impact student learning.
Research
shows that these drive - by models of professional learning for
teachers have no effect on improving
instruction.
Despite billions of dollars spent on digital content and an influx of technology into their classrooms, evidence
shows that
teachers have been slow to integrate technology to transform
instruction.
Our
teachers value collaboration, celebrate diversity in perspective and background, take risks, and
show flexibility to continuously improve
instruction and student learning.
Research
shows that
teachers who continuously assess student understanding, offer timely feedback, and use the data to make instructional choices have students who receive more than one year's worth of learning in one year of
instruction (Hattie, 2009).
What the record
shows is that
teachers with a better command of the subject they teach, better training in the craft of teaching, more support, better leadership, more opportunity to work together to improve the curriculum and
instruction and more opportunities and stronger incentives to get better and better at the work can do a much better job than
teachers for whom these things are not true.
Additionally, New
Teacher Center advocates for multi-year induction programs that incorporate co-teaching models.44
Teachers supported by New Teacher Center demonstrate higher proficiency in both engaging students and using assessment in instruction, while 90 percent of new teachers agree that working with their New Teacher Center mentor influences their practice and meets their needs as a growing professional.45 Moreover, a preliminary independent Evaluation of Investing in Education, or i3 evaluation, showed that «after just one year, students of teachers supported by New Teacher Center gained 2 to 3.5 months of additional learning in reading compared to control teachers
Teachers supported by New
Teacher Center demonstrate higher proficiency in both engaging students and using assessment in
instruction, while 90 percent of new
teachers agree that working with their New Teacher Center mentor influences their practice and meets their needs as a growing professional.45 Moreover, a preliminary independent Evaluation of Investing in Education, or i3 evaluation, showed that «after just one year, students of teachers supported by New Teacher Center gained 2 to 3.5 months of additional learning in reading compared to control teachers
teachers agree that working with their New
Teacher Center mentor influences their practice and meets their needs as a growing professional.45 Moreover, a preliminary independent Evaluation of Investing in Education, or i3 evaluation,
showed that «after just one year, students of
teachers supported by New Teacher Center gained 2 to 3.5 months of additional learning in reading compared to control teachers
teachers supported by New
Teacher Center gained 2 to 3.5 months of additional learning in reading compared to control
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