We are looking for instructional strategies that are straightforward to learn and take minimal time to implement but which have high payoff
in increased student learning.
Clearly, the development of a strong pipeline of school leaders is essential
for increasing student learning and success in every school, and strategic state action that supports such a pipeline is critical.
Increasing student learning by growing the number of families choosing high quality charter schools so that no child is denied the right to a great public education.
Get as clear and specific as you can — it makes it much easier for teachers and principals to understand your offerings and how you might be able to
help increase student learning.
The primary purpose of teacher supervision and evaluation should be to enhance teacher effectiveness through the growth, development, and support of teachers to
increase student learning gains.
In exploring our qualitative data, we examined district policies and practices that may foster or inhibit parental and community engagement aimed
at increasing student learning.
The division also
promotes increased student learning and achievement by assisting schools and school divisions in the implementation of effective instructional strategies and best practices.
It also immediately sparked student interest and engagement,
which increases student learning and is especially essential for students with neurological differences.
A review of research on the effect of professional development
on increased student learning found that programs had to include more than 14 hours of professional development for student learning to be affected.
These trusting relationships also provide a great opportunity for teachers to create academic partnerships with families that will
further increase student learning and success.
He gave teachers and principals the opportunity to make choices, some of which we
hope increased student learning — although we could not always be sure of that.
To get traction as a system
for increased student learning, school and district leaders must know what quality classroom instruction looks like so that they can lead and support this work.
I would like to have the opportunity to work as a science teacher with your esteemed school and
help increase student learning, and assist the administration of the school.
The second special report, Increased Learning Time Under Stimulus - Funded School Improvement Grants: High Hopes, Varied Implementation, highlights key findings about state, district, and school experiences related to the requirement to
increase student learning time in SIG - funded schools.
Simply extending the school day with rote memorization and drill and practice on low - level skills, however, will
not increase student learning and may well decrease motivation to learn, and teachers should be paid for working additional time.
Larson, who presents a session called Classroom Walk - Through Training, says teachers benefit by learning to use reflection to increase their knowledge, skills, and performance; strategically aligning classroom instruction to district curriculum; and
increasing student learning across grade levels.
Students who have clear criteria for success spend more time discussing and evaluating content, and these
conversations increase student learning (Cohen, Lotan, Abram, Scarloss, & Schultz, 2002; cited in Barron & Darling - Hammond, 2008).
The final results from a U.S. Department of Education Investing in Innovation (i3) analysis has found that the New Teacher Center's teacher induction
model increases student learning by up to five months.
The standard school procedure (in which a teacher looks at a piece of student work and writes something on it, and the student later looks at what the teacher has written) does not
necessarily increase student learning.
There so far has not been one piece of evidence to prove that pay for performance
actually increases student learning long term, which makes this one big experiment (fiasco) in the making.
Now, we all know that living a more active lifestyle is good for you (it's healthy to be healthy), but did - you - know that physical activity in an educational environment
dramatically increases student learning and retention?
Instructional leaders who are in roles meant to support teachers (e.g., principals, administrators, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, and mentors) are charged with designing professional learning experiences that maximize teachers» potential and create space for teacher learning to transfer into classroom practice,
thereby increasing student learning.
Students and teachers love the experience, and research demonstrates that
SMALLab increases student learning, improves teacher performance, and drives more student - led learning.
The requirement of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act that every student have a «highly qualified» teacher represents a potentially positive step
toward increasing student learning despite the shortcomings of the current definition of «highly qualified» and the difficulty of fulfilling the requirement in hard - to - staff school districts (Emerick, Hirsch, & Berry, 2004).
They are also trying to professionalize teaching, altering the pay scale's low starting salary and mostly - guaranteed large pension, aspects they say do little to
incentivize increasing student learning.
The intervention had no impact on teacher absences, but it did have an impact on other self - reported measures of teacher effort — e.g., amount of classwork and homework assigned, the teaching of classes outside school hours, and the administration of practice tests — illuminating a possible mechanism through which the
program increased student learning.
Specifically, officials at the state and district levels have had difficulty building staff capacity for implementing the reforms, meeting the requirements to develop teacher evaluations and
increase student learning time, and gathering data on performance in SIG schools to make decisions about future grant renewals.