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(See a sample comic and teacher reflections at this blog post by technology coach Brenda Sherry.)

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When I look into the eyes of my children I can see a reflection staring back at me that trusts that I will be available... that I will take care of them... that I will do the work that is needed to surrender into me, into the moment, into who they are so that I am present for each of them to blossom into the great teachers that they are and will continue to become.

The Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors project is aimed to measurably enhance student STEM engagement and achievement in selected school districts via professional development for teachers consisting of: (1) STEM Professional Development in astrophysics and planetary science delivered via webinars & in - person workshops; (2) a week - long STEM immersion experience at NASA's science research aircraft facility in Palmdale, California, including participation in research flights on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); (3) follow - through involving continuing webinars fostering reflection and connections with astrophysics & planetary science subject matter experts.

Teachers at Loudoun County School Division had a thoughtful conversation about the power of sustained inquiry, which is based on questioning skills, and how student reflection was critical to learning.

When would teachers hold their «reflection meeting,» the last step in the assessment cycle, to look at the new results?

Stations with self - guiding questions for reflection can be a great way to allow students to move through the writing process at their own pace, and the teacher can rotate through the stations, addressing small groups of students instead of the whole class.

In July, we had a chance to find out when about 60 practitioners of this beleaguered calling from all parts of the nation gathered at Teachers College, Columbia University, for some R&R and reflection on the parlous state of the schools they lead.

After the meeting, students fill out their reflection of the meeting at the bottom of the Parent / Teacher Agenda document.

Reflections from a Newbie Sub With my stint as a substitute teacher at an end, I got to look back at the path I traveled in unfamiliar shoes and think about what I learned.

'13 students from cohort 1 completed residencies in Los Angeles and wrote related research papers: Maren Oberman («Accountability, Coherence, and Improvement: Leadership Reflection and Growth in the Los Angeles Unified School District») and Michele Shannon («Building Leadership Capacity: Los Angeles Unified School District») with LAU SD, and Katiusca Moreno («Cultivating and Sustaining Personal Leadership Development: Redefining Teacher Leadership at Teach For America in the Los Angeles Region») with Teach For America's Los Angeles office.

Rather than assessing outcomes primarily at the end of the unit, teachers provide feedback, learning criteria, and opportunities for reflection throughout instruction.

A researcher at Project Zero since 1988, she studies and supports practices for engaging both students and educators in deep learning and thinking, particularly through reflection, collaborative inquiry, documentation of student learning, and the collaborative assessment of student and teacher work.

Teachers should also keep in mind that not all students have equal opportunities to finish their homework at home, so incomplete homework may not be a true reflection of their learning — it may be more a result of issues they face outside of school.

Terry Heick looks at what reflection is, how it works as both a private and shared activity, and why teachers need it in their toolkit.

Massachusetts describes how its annual teacher induction report will share best practices, identify challenge areas, provide resources, and promote reflection and continual improvement at the district level.

It was a full day of dialogue with professors at the University of Helsinki — Dr. Jari Lavonen, head of the Teacher Education Department, who shared his reflections on the context of teacher education in Finland, and Dr. Heidi Krzywacki, University Lecturer in Mathematics Education, who engaged us in dialogue about primary eduTeacher Education Department, who shared his reflections on the context of teacher education in Finland, and Dr. Heidi Krzywacki, University Lecturer in Mathematics Education, who engaged us in dialogue about primary eduteacher education in Finland, and Dr. Heidi Krzywacki, University Lecturer in Mathematics Education, who engaged us in dialogue about primary education.

The content of the lecture portion was EXCELLENT and exactly aligned to some of the pickier things I want teachers to know about performance assessment (not just a one day event, must be based on a worthy standard, require instruction that mirrors the work of the task, etc.) The assignments with each module require some really thoughtful reflection and actually really challenged me at times.

However, without constantly utilizing current literature and self - reflection, teachers and administrators perpetuate existing practices that can stalemate change at the expense of our students (Barab, Barnett and Squire, 2002).

When teachers see themselves as learners, are open to new ways of teaching and are willing to modify their current teaching practice through repeated cycles of systematic practice and reflection, they can gradually arrive at this accomplished level of formative assessment practice.

Topics covered at teacher work sessions have included Google sites training, documentation, and revision and reflection.

Reflections on What Works: A Group of Teenage Classroom Observers Raises the Bar for Teachers (2006) At Lexington High School, a large suburban high school outside Boston, a dedicated crew of teenaged students is visiting classrooms with an innovative vision of student - teacher dialogue.

The study suggests that long - term music education service learning partnerships benefit children, pre-service teachers, classroom teachers, and school administrators and promotes creativity, growth, and reflection at all levels of contact.

This channel takes an in - depth look at the way three teachers work in partnership with their administrator and instructional coach to make use of Hall and Simeral's Reflective Cycle and the Continuum of Self - Reflection tools.

He believes reflection is at the heart of a principal's practice and encourages school leaders, teachers, and students to focus on personal leadership in order to create optimal conditions for learning to take place.

She offers seven strategies that teachers can use to involve students in the assessment process and ensure that students are the primary users of formative assessment information: (1) Provide a clear and understandable vision of the learning target; (2) Use examples of strong and weak work; (3) Offer regular descriptive feedback; (4) Teach students to self - assess and set goals; (5) Design lessons to focus on one aspect of quality at a time; (6) Teach students focused revision; and (7) Engage students in self - reflection and let them document and share their learning.

Summary: This article provides a reflection from Chris Harried, an incoming graduate student at Johns Hopkins University's School of Education and a Commissioner for the Aspen Institute National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development about the importance of SEL Skills in his own development as a prospective teacher.

Over that time, a teacher team at Metro worked with us to develop, iterate on, and refine practices to engage students in thinking about their own speaking and listening skills through metacognitive reflection on skills and language.

The data included (a) 344 work samples collected at the end of half - time Student Teaching I and full - time Student Teaching II from 223 preservice teachers and (b) 151 final reflections from preservice teachers at the end of the licensure program.

The authors have built upon the continuum shared in their first book, Building Teachers» Capacity for Success, and added a tool to identify where the teacher is on the continuum of self - reflection, as well as questions for self - reflection at each of the four levels.

These opportunities facilitate teachers» adoption of student - centered practices in their classrooms (Santagata & Yeh, 2014; Kiemer, Gröschner, Pehmer, & Seidel, 2014; van Es & Sun, 2015) while also developing student - centered dispositions and habits of reflection that place student thinking at the forefront (Mohr & Santagata, 2015; Santagata, 2010; Santagata & Guarino, 2011; Sherin & van Es, 2009).

Further, the percentage of students scoring at the novice level decreasing throughout the semester in the Reflection section indicates the positive influence the live mentoring had on prospective teachers» inclusion of reflective thoughts in the submissions.

Do teachers who experienced a video - enhanced teacher preparation course focused on student - centered analyses of lesson effectiveness incorporate such analyses in their reflections about their teaching effectiveness at the end of their first year of full - time teaching?

A well - timed in - service day at the year's end — one that peaks teachers» intellectual curiosities — can tap into that space, plant the seeds of renewal, and help prepare teachers» minds and hearts for the process of reflection, self - assessment, and change.

Attend sessions and complete reflections for seminars at the beginning of the semester as well as meetings with University Supervisors and / or Cooperating Teachers.

Here, the lines between those at the top and those at the bottom are blurred, positioning teachers as engaging in higher levels of reflection and taking an inquiry stance in examining educational practices and policies.

The task at hand was two-fold: (1) constructing the Character by Design materials so that there was not only a teacher set but also a student - friendly activity center, and (2) a teacher - friendly mechanism to store character education curriculum and activities and invite dialog / reflections / ideas.

Phase 3: Evaluating Success and Reflection: This last phase takes place at the end of the course and includes a conversation between the teacher and appraiser regarding students» overall progress throughout the year and a determination of the score for the SLO.

Despite its many benefits, reflection is a relatively uncommon professional practice (Gelter, 2003), suggesting that more must be done at the university level to encourage preservice teachers to take reflective practice with them into their future classrooms.

As engagement with informal reflection was the primary purpose of the assignment, the preservice teachers are not at fault in choosing an «easy» form of technology.

Although no specific length was required for the weekly reflections, the preservice teachers held certain expectations as to a suitable entry length, summarized by the response «I felt like it needed to be at least a page long.»

Since several preservice teachers are placed at each field placement school, this activity gives them an opportunity to explore how online collaboration tools can facilitate group data collection, analysis, and reflection.

Preparation for this includes a week long placement at a school and exercises which develop the self - reflection required of a classroom teacher.

At the heart of the continuum is National Board Certification, a process designed for teachers to demonstrate, through standards - based evidence, the positive impact they have on student learning as a result of their deep and abiding understanding of students, content knowledge, pedagogical practice, ongoing reflection and participation in learning communities.

Those teachers who feel successful speak of instructional coaches that supported them, planning time to work on lessons and units with other teachers, reflection protocols, and common meeting times to look at student.

But now, just a year later, Pryor is saying that although he knew the shift to the Common Core was taking place and despite the fact that shifting to the common core would lead to lower test scores on the Connecticut Mastery Test, he still spent $ 25 million or more conducting the 2013 Connecticut Mastery Test and never once suggested that teacher evaluation plans would need to take into account the news that at drop in scores was not a reflection of a teacher's performance.

Other areas of investigation will look at determining issues that are significant for beginning teacher discussion and reflection through the forums and weblogs and identifying the approaches that mentors take in providing support and development.

The teacher leaders developed sustainable methods of communicating with their teams three times over the course of a month: 1) midway through the month, the teacher leaders hand back to their site colleagues copies of the reflections they wrote at the last meeting and the plans they chose to implement during the month; 2) Co-principal Maria Carriedo sends an email to all the teachers a week before each meeting to remind them to bring their observations of their focal students; 3) teachers make notes to themselves, in a simple chart form, about the interventions and behaviors they plan to track and keep these on their classroom walls as an easy way to document their focal students» progress.

See this blog to read about the coaching and evaluation approach that was co-developed to support teachers at the school — focused on language production and students» expanding their language quantity and quality using WIDA's Features of Academic Language as an observation and reflection tool.

Use the CREATE self - evaluation form at the end of this chapter and the Teacher Reflection forms in the appendix to organize your thoughts.

During a cycle, teachers receive 1:1 coaching support, planning time during Monday team time, and time for reflection at the end of each quarter.