Throughout my career, I've seen how great
teaching drives student achievement.
Not exact matches
Good administrators and professional people can be
driven out not solely because their salaries are lower than they can command elsewhere but also because they may be deprived of the challenge of
teaching students and / or doing some research.
When I
teach sewing classes, I require the
students to test
drive the sewing machine before we thread the machine or sew on fabric.
In today's society, he would be viewed as data -
driven, and he
taught his
students to simply describe observable symptoms rather than try to interpret them.
The anti-immigrant and «juvenile» rhetoric of the 2016 presidential campaign is
driving an increase in bullying and fear among
students in the nation's schools, according to a new report by
Teaching Tolerance, a project of the left - leaning Southern Poverty Law Center.
In a letter to her staff announcing her retirement, Fariña said she had accepted the job as chancellor «with a firm belief in excellence for every
student, in the dignity and joyfulness of the
teaching profession, and in the importance of trusting relationships where collaboration is the
driving force.»
In 2015 they formed the Logan Project and started tailoring their
teaching method — called process -
driven math (PDM)-- for
students with other impairments, including dyslexia and dysgraphia, a learning disorder associated with impaired handwriting.
We want photos of you sweeping the glitter off the village hall floor; heading out to
teach 5 people on a dark evening half an hour's
drive away after a long day at work; your piles of philosophy books stacked next to your mat; your tabs of marking for trainees; the scrubby you use on the handstand footprints on the wall; the loose change rattling in the donation box after the PWYC; your studio rent bill; the baby sick on your yoga top after mums and baby yoga; the holes in your favourite decade - old yoga leggings; the charity shop where you buy more; coffee stains on cork blocks and the hospital room where you
teach cancer patients; the costume box for your yoga and theatre kids class; your ID badge for prison work; the hug from the
student who finally learned to stand on one leg...
I
drove cross-country from New York in my 1980 Honda Civic station wagon to follow the tour and spend those five months in daily practice with the man who had
taught my Ashtanga teacher, Norman Allen, the first Westerner to be accepted as a
student by Pattabhi Jois in the early»70s.
«If you pay attention to what
students learn and what they don't, you learn how to
teach more effectively,» says Paul Bambrick - Santoyo, whose book
Driven by Data is a primer on data - driven instru
Driven by Data is a primer on data -
driven instru
driven instruction.
IMPACT's features are broadly consistent with emerging best - practice design principles informed by the Measures of Effective
Teaching project, and are intended to
drive improvements in teacher quality and
student achievement (see «Capturing the Dimensions of Effective
Teaching,» features, Fall 2012).
All teachers were evaluated by five structured classroom observations aligned to the district's
Teaching and Learning Framework, which defined domains of effective instruction, such as leading well - organized, objective -
driven lessons; checking for
student understanding; explaining content clearly; and maximizing instructional time.
While there may be other mechanisms through which increased school spending improves
student outcomes, these results suggest that the positive effects are
driven, at least in part, by some combination of reductions in class size, having more adults per
student in schools, increases in instructional time, and increases in teacher salaries that may help to attract and retain a more highly qualified
teaching workforce.
Chenoweth: I think Congress should continue to demand that schools
teach all their
students to state standards and report the results of state testing, but at the same time, Congress needs to tighten up some of the loopholes that states have been able to
drive trucks through.
BOB isn't the only garden bus
driving around: The Green Urban Lunch Box in Salt Lake City hosts summer camps on a bus to
teach K — 3
students about plant biology and healthy eating, in partnership with the University of Utah and the local YMCA.
Sadler's research, «Psychometric Models of
Student Conceptions in Science: Reconciling Qualitative Studies and Distractor -
Driven Assessment Instruments,» recently published in the Journal of Research in Science
Teaching, focuses on integrating the newest discoveries on how
students» understand and learn scientific concepts into the...
In
Teach Like a Champion, Doug Lemov, founder of the Uncommon Schools charter network, offers 49 «concrete, specific, and actionable» techniques that teachers can implement immediately to
drive student achievement.
It's a socio - economically mixed school which is striking for the way that it is teacher and
student driven; you can't
teach there if you can't come up with projects and...
«The hope is that by blending traditional and new
teaching methods they will build on each other, providing
students with an innovative and effective learning experience nurturing skills
students need to succeed both in life and in a tech -
driven workforce,» writes Craig Kemp (@mrkempnz) in Singapore.
This story really
drives home the point I want to make with this blogwe must focus on
student strengths, and in addition,
teach students to recognize their own strengths so they can develop them to the fullest.
This article is adapted from Larry's new book, Self -
Driven Learning:
Teaching Strategies for
Student Motivation.
Without adopting inquiry - based,
student - centered, skill -
driven approaches to
teaching and learning — all nested in a system that values innovation — STEM education will become just another term for additional math and engineering courses.
«Integrating 21st - century skills into
teaching and assessment... is not only an economic imperative,
driven by changes in the workforce, but a vital aspect of improving
student learning,» says «Measuring Skills for the 21st Century,» a white paper scheduled for release Nov. 10 by the Washington - based think tank Education...
School financing policies should be
driven by an analysis of what it costs to raise the bar and close the gap in
student achievement, bringing
teaching and learning opportunities in all schools up to a high standard.
Stories like this have
driven Waldo since his post-college job
teaching English and improvisational acting to inner - city
students in Providence, R.I. «It's incredibly powerful to see the kinds of sacrifices that parents and children are willing to make to get a quality education,» he says.
The Formula 1 in Schools competition is supported by Bernie Ecclestone and offers a way to
teach young people science, technology, engineers and maths related subjects in an exciting way to
drive the number of
students pursing these careers.
The national group
Students Against
Driving Drunk last week unveiled a program aimed at
teaching student athletes about the problems associated with the use of the muscle - enhancing drugs known as steroids.
Remind
students that they «
drive» their own brains, and
teach them useful learning strategies.
An enticingly - written
driving question will hook
students into learning the exact content that we know needs to be covered according to our
teaching standards.
These
students teach the Honor Code to fifth graders, who, in turn, explain it to younger elementary school
students to help establish a
student -
driven culture of integrity.
Some
driving questions may not be appropriate depending on the
students you have in your classroom or in the location you
teach.
A # 16 million investment to increase the quality of
teaching in post-16 maths is part of government
drive to get more
students studying maths the subject after GCSE.
The school where I did my
student teaching was a considerable distance from my college, and it was not always possible for my advisor to make the
drive to observe me.
Sadly, fearful educators understandably feel
driven to
teach to the test instead of working to ensure that
students meet genuine academic standards (and letting the test results follow naturally).
By
teaching students to «
drive their own brain» through metacognition, we provide a concrete way to guide them think about how they can best learn.
The true beauty of need to know lists is that, with a well - written
driving question,
students will naturally respond that they need to know the content knowledge outlined by the
teaching standards the project is intended to cover.
Like my research, the key belief that
drives my
teaching is that institutional structures profoundly impact faculty members and
students, and successfully optimizing structures requires effective leadership.
For green conscious schools who invest a lot of time and effort into
teaching students to use less electricity, walk to school instead of
driving, and take shorter showers (all great initiatives), this information may come as a surprise.
In a new Public Impact policy brief, A Better Blend: A Vision for Boosting
Student Outcomes with Digital Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at large
Student Outcomes with Digital Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended learning to
drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform
teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all
students and
teaching peers, and improve
student learning at large
student learning at large scale.
Yet traditional methods of
teaching have done little to
drive mental engagement among
students, with many subjects like mathematics and science terminally regarded as two of the blandest necessary evils of the curriculum.
Embracing these reflective habits of mind will allow me to look at the complex challenges associated with my practice and
drive me to continually formulate and reformulate strategies to better
teach all
students, lead for short - term and long - term change, and more effectively promote democracy and equity in education.
Education World provides five lesson plans to help you
drive home the importance of voting,
teach about the process of creating laws, track election results and voter turnout, and
teach students what it's like to make the tough decisions that elected officials make every day.
Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers are the authors of more than 40 books and professional articles for educators, including, most recently,
Teaching Students to
Drive Their Brains: Metacognitive Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas (ASCD, 2016), Smarter Teacher Leadership: Neuroscience and the Power of Purposeful Collaboration (Teachers College Press, 2016), Positively Smarter: Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well - Being (Wiley Blackwell, 2015), Five Big Ideas for Effective
Teaching: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice (Teachers College Press, 2013) and Flourishing in the First Five Years: Connecting Implications from Mind, Brain, and Education Research to the Development of Young Children (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013).
We expected to find that many of the lessons on managing for results would be spent
teaching principals to leverage accountability systems to help improve instruction and
drive student achievement.
According to researchers, data -
driven decision making (DDDM) is «a system of
teaching and management practices that gets better information about
students into the hands of classroom teachers» (McLeod, 2005).
Authors of
Teaching Students to
Drive Their Brains, Positively Smarter, Smarter Teacher Leadership, Professional Developers, & Co-Developers of Graduate Programs Applying Mind, Brain, and Education Science
Sadler's research, «Psychometric Models of
Student Conceptions in Science: Reconciling Qualitative Studies and Distractor -
Driven Assessment Instruments,» recently published in the Journal of Research in Science
Teaching, focuses on integrating the newest discoveries on how
students» understand and learn scientific concepts into the design of standardized tests.
Dan Meyer knows that textbook -
driven teaching hasn't served his
students well.
I've written eight books: Navigating The Common Core With English Language Learners (with co-author Katie Hull Sypnieski); Building A Community Of Self - Motivated Learners: Strategies To Help
Students Thrive In School and Beyond; Classroom Management Q&A s: Expert Strategies for
Teaching; Self -
Driven Learning:
Teaching Strategies For
Student Motivation; The ESL / ELL Teacher's Survival Guide (with co-author Katie Hull Sypnieski); Helping
Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers To Classroom Challenges; English Language Learners:
Teaching Strategies That Work; and Building Parent Engagement In Schools (with co-author Lorie Hammond).
As I began
teaching them a course on classroom management at the university, I began to wonder (there it is — let your curiosity
drive you) about their definition of the term «critical thinking» and how they might
teach the concept to their
students.