Teacher quality and related issues (i.e., teacher preparation, recruitment, and professional development) ranked among the highest priority areas among a sample of education policymakers surveyed by the Institute of Education Sciences. And it is not surprising that quality teaching also emerged as a central theme in one recent series of Policy Forums.
Jeff C. Palmer is a teacher, success coach, trainer, Certified Master of Web Copywriting and founder of https://Ebookschoice.com. Jeff is a prolific writer, Senior Research Associate and Infopreneur having written many eBooks, articles and special reports.
Source: https://ezinearticles.com/?Overcoming-Challenging-School-Environments&id=10174636
Moving Toward Sustainability: Kansas City Teacher ResidencyJeremy Knight
Kansas City Teacher Residency (KCTR) is a teacher residency program that recruits, certifies, and develops teachers in the Kansas city region. Launched in 2016, by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, KCTR has established a high-quality and diverse teacher preparatory program for Kansas City. In late 2018, Bellwether partnered with KCTR and Kauffman Foundation to redesign KCTR's program model to bring it in line with peer benchmarks and ensure long-term impact and sustainability. Over six months, Bellwether, in collaboration with KCTR's senior leadership team, Board, and key advisers, developed and began to implement a plan to put KCTR on a path to organizational and financial sustainability (initial changes significantly reduced the ongoing fundraising need). Key priorities identified in the plan included strengthening partnerships (with schools and university), optimizing KCTR expenditures, exploring new earned-revenue opportunities, and gradually growing the number of residents to full-scale. With the new plan, KCTR is prepared to continue the growth of impact while doing so in a sustainable manner, to ultimately fuel Kansas City with passionate, effective, and diverse educators.
A Guide for School Districts: Exploring Alternative Measures of Student Learn...Tanya Paperny
Districts across the country play a crucial role in ensuring schools effectively serve students and families. Beyond federal requirements in the Every Student Succeeds Act and state-level accountability systems, locally developed school performance frameworks are a key lever for holding schools accountable, particularly for student learning and wellness.
Today — with unfamiliar school configurations and unknown impacts on student outcomes — it is more important than ever that districts are diligent about assessing schools’ impact on students. But the ways that districts have done so in the past may no longer be appropriate. And districts that previously did not engage in school-level performance assessments now have a new incentive to do so.
This toolkit is a resource to help districts adapt existing school performance frameworks to the current moment or create new ones. These slides identify and walk through the fundamental questions districts need to consider in designing school performance frameworks that acknowledge the challenges that schools and students are facing, as well as a continued need to monitor performance and continuously improve.
Unfinished: Insights From Ongoing Work to Accelerate Outcomes for Students Wi...Jeremy Knight
Despite some gains over the past 20 years, significant numbers of students are not meeting grade-level expectations as defined by performance on academic assessments. Meanwhile, few schools are able to support the sort of accelerated academic learning needed to catch students up to grade-level expectations.
Evidence indicates this is not for lack of educator commitment or dedication. Instead, many educators lack clarity about how to help students catch up. Common messages about holding a high bar for academic rigor and personalizing learning to meet students where they are can be perceived as being at odds with one another.
“Unfinished: Insights From Ongoing Work to Accelerate Outcomes for Students With Learning Gaps” synthesizes a broad body of research on the science of learning in order to inform efforts to help students close gaps and meet grade-level expectations. This deck argues that helping students catch up is not about rigor or personalization — classrooms need both.
Closing learning gaps requires students to be motivated and engaged to grapple with challenging, grade-level skills and knowledge — while also having their individual learning needs met.
The report identifies what must happen among educators, systems-level leaders, teacher developers, instructional materials providers, and technology experts to move beyond the dichotomy of “rigor versus personalization” and toward a future that effectively blends the two.
Autonomous District Schools: Lessons From the Field on a Promising StrategyJeremy Knight
Autonomous district schools (sometimes called “in-district charters”) use some of the same freedoms that public charter schools enjoy while remaining part of the district. Enabled by innovative policies that support school-level autonomy, Springfield, Massachusetts; Indianapolis, Indiana; Denver, Colorado; and San Antonio, Texas, are experimenting with these types of schools. While these efforts are too new to have clear student impact data, autonomous district schools could be a promising strategy to improve districts’ ability to meet families’ and students’ needs and to improve outcomes.
“Autonomous District Schools: Lessons From the Field on a Promising Strategy” summarizes Bellwether’s work with San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) over the past 18 months. The district has authorized three networks of autonomous district schools using a law that supports and incentivizes the creation of these schools. Bellwether provided program design support, strategic advice, and capacity building to SAISD’s Network Principal Initiative, and this deck offers an overview of the initiative and the lessons we learned about the launch of autonomous district schools.
This slide deck is accompanied by a tool kit, “Autonomous District Schools: Tools for Planning and Launching,” which offers concrete resources for leaders interested in planning an autonomous school or network.
Launched in 2005, Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) is a national initiative that champions the importance of a twenty-first-century liberal education—for individual students and for a nation dependent on economic creativity and democratic vitality.
Charter schools currently serve 3 million students in more than 7,000 schools across 44 states and Washington, D.C. And their reach continues to grow: Since 2005, the number of charter schools in the U.S. has nearly doubled, and the number of charter students has nearly tripled.
Despite being an enduring presence in the nation’s education space, charter schools remain a topic of ongoing debate. The State of the Charter Sector provides the latest available information on charter schools across the country, including updated data on growth, performance, and geographic trends. It also includes analyses of the challenges that charter schools face and how the sector is trying to address them.
This comprehensive slide deck updates our 2015 State of the Charter School Movement, and together, these resources serve as a fact base to cut through the rhetoric that often accompanies conversations about charter schools.
The goal of this analysis is not to persuade, but to inform. As the charter sector continues to grow and improve, it needs a rigorous, evidence-based debate around its weaknesses and strengths. Accurate information is crucial for thoughtful policymaking and, ultimately, to ensuring all students have access to a high-quality education.
Predictors of Success: Linking Student Achievement to School and Educator Successes through Professional Learning
This study show how some schools have seen a dramatic increase in student achievement after developing a strong, online professional learning program.
Moving Toward Sustainability: Kansas City Teacher ResidencyJeremy Knight
Kansas City Teacher Residency (KCTR) is a teacher residency program that recruits, certifies, and develops teachers in the Kansas city region. Launched in 2016, by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, KCTR has established a high-quality and diverse teacher preparatory program for Kansas City. In late 2018, Bellwether partnered with KCTR and Kauffman Foundation to redesign KCTR's program model to bring it in line with peer benchmarks and ensure long-term impact and sustainability. Over six months, Bellwether, in collaboration with KCTR's senior leadership team, Board, and key advisers, developed and began to implement a plan to put KCTR on a path to organizational and financial sustainability (initial changes significantly reduced the ongoing fundraising need). Key priorities identified in the plan included strengthening partnerships (with schools and university), optimizing KCTR expenditures, exploring new earned-revenue opportunities, and gradually growing the number of residents to full-scale. With the new plan, KCTR is prepared to continue the growth of impact while doing so in a sustainable manner, to ultimately fuel Kansas City with passionate, effective, and diverse educators.
A Guide for School Districts: Exploring Alternative Measures of Student Learn...Tanya Paperny
Districts across the country play a crucial role in ensuring schools effectively serve students and families. Beyond federal requirements in the Every Student Succeeds Act and state-level accountability systems, locally developed school performance frameworks are a key lever for holding schools accountable, particularly for student learning and wellness.
Today — with unfamiliar school configurations and unknown impacts on student outcomes — it is more important than ever that districts are diligent about assessing schools’ impact on students. But the ways that districts have done so in the past may no longer be appropriate. And districts that previously did not engage in school-level performance assessments now have a new incentive to do so.
This toolkit is a resource to help districts adapt existing school performance frameworks to the current moment or create new ones. These slides identify and walk through the fundamental questions districts need to consider in designing school performance frameworks that acknowledge the challenges that schools and students are facing, as well as a continued need to monitor performance and continuously improve.
Unfinished: Insights From Ongoing Work to Accelerate Outcomes for Students Wi...Jeremy Knight
Despite some gains over the past 20 years, significant numbers of students are not meeting grade-level expectations as defined by performance on academic assessments. Meanwhile, few schools are able to support the sort of accelerated academic learning needed to catch students up to grade-level expectations.
Evidence indicates this is not for lack of educator commitment or dedication. Instead, many educators lack clarity about how to help students catch up. Common messages about holding a high bar for academic rigor and personalizing learning to meet students where they are can be perceived as being at odds with one another.
“Unfinished: Insights From Ongoing Work to Accelerate Outcomes for Students With Learning Gaps” synthesizes a broad body of research on the science of learning in order to inform efforts to help students close gaps and meet grade-level expectations. This deck argues that helping students catch up is not about rigor or personalization — classrooms need both.
Closing learning gaps requires students to be motivated and engaged to grapple with challenging, grade-level skills and knowledge — while also having their individual learning needs met.
The report identifies what must happen among educators, systems-level leaders, teacher developers, instructional materials providers, and technology experts to move beyond the dichotomy of “rigor versus personalization” and toward a future that effectively blends the two.
Autonomous District Schools: Lessons From the Field on a Promising StrategyJeremy Knight
Autonomous district schools (sometimes called “in-district charters”) use some of the same freedoms that public charter schools enjoy while remaining part of the district. Enabled by innovative policies that support school-level autonomy, Springfield, Massachusetts; Indianapolis, Indiana; Denver, Colorado; and San Antonio, Texas, are experimenting with these types of schools. While these efforts are too new to have clear student impact data, autonomous district schools could be a promising strategy to improve districts’ ability to meet families’ and students’ needs and to improve outcomes.
“Autonomous District Schools: Lessons From the Field on a Promising Strategy” summarizes Bellwether’s work with San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) over the past 18 months. The district has authorized three networks of autonomous district schools using a law that supports and incentivizes the creation of these schools. Bellwether provided program design support, strategic advice, and capacity building to SAISD’s Network Principal Initiative, and this deck offers an overview of the initiative and the lessons we learned about the launch of autonomous district schools.
This slide deck is accompanied by a tool kit, “Autonomous District Schools: Tools for Planning and Launching,” which offers concrete resources for leaders interested in planning an autonomous school or network.
Launched in 2005, Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) is a national initiative that champions the importance of a twenty-first-century liberal education—for individual students and for a nation dependent on economic creativity and democratic vitality.
Charter schools currently serve 3 million students in more than 7,000 schools across 44 states and Washington, D.C. And their reach continues to grow: Since 2005, the number of charter schools in the U.S. has nearly doubled, and the number of charter students has nearly tripled.
Despite being an enduring presence in the nation’s education space, charter schools remain a topic of ongoing debate. The State of the Charter Sector provides the latest available information on charter schools across the country, including updated data on growth, performance, and geographic trends. It also includes analyses of the challenges that charter schools face and how the sector is trying to address them.
This comprehensive slide deck updates our 2015 State of the Charter School Movement, and together, these resources serve as a fact base to cut through the rhetoric that often accompanies conversations about charter schools.
The goal of this analysis is not to persuade, but to inform. As the charter sector continues to grow and improve, it needs a rigorous, evidence-based debate around its weaknesses and strengths. Accurate information is crucial for thoughtful policymaking and, ultimately, to ensuring all students have access to a high-quality education.
Predictors of Success: Linking Student Achievement to School and Educator Successes through Professional Learning
This study show how some schools have seen a dramatic increase in student achievement after developing a strong, online professional learning program.
A School Leader’s Guide to Effective Stakeholder EngagementTanya Paperny
Families, teachers, and communities all have varying perspectives on what
the school year can and should hold for students. School leaders need to
balance these voices in decision-making through effective and authentic
stakeholder engagement.
Stakeholder engagement is essential for school leaders confronting change
and uncertainty. And yet there are better and worse ways for school leaders
to engage stakeholders in their decision-making processes: It’s far too easy to
neglect important groups, spend too much time with some groups and not
enough with others, or fail to take into account how past decisions and
community context may affect the perception of leadership decisions.
“A School Leader’s Guide to Effective Stakeholder Engagement” [LINK TK]
can help school leaders avoid these pitfalls. This slide deck provides an
overview of stakeholder engagement and easy-to-understand steps, and a
linked workbook (on slide 5) provides a resource to support school leaders as
they implement their approach.
Teacher certification policy and teacher education institutions in IndonesiaIwan Syahril
This presentation serves as an initial discussion about the impact of teacher certification policy towards teacher education institutions in Indonesia.
The Challenges and Opportunities in School Transportation TodayJeremy Knight
Every day, America’s fleet of roughly 480,000 school buses transports more than a third of students to and from school. This fleet is more than twice the size of all other forms of mass transit combined, including bus, rail, and airline transportation.
School-Based Assessment or SBA has been a feature of CXC examinations from their inceptions in 1979. This issue highlights the CXC model of school-based assessment and its philosophical underpinnings, as well as a sampling of
stakeholder views on SBA. It also features the launch of the CXC mobile app CXC Connect and reports on performances in CXC suite of examinations.
Teacher evaluations-and-local-flexibilityDavid Black
School Improvement Network conducted study of 50 state department of education officials who are responsible for implementing teacher evaluation policy to better understand state teacher evaluation policy and how much flexibility districts have at the local level to implement state requirements. The goal was to inform ourselves, school districts and local schools how much freedom and flexibility, or lack thereof, they have to innovate on behalf of their own teachers and students particularly when it comes to using technology to achieve their professional development needs.
Eunetra Ellison Simpson, PhD Proposal Defense, Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, D...William Kritsonis
Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, PhD Dissertation Chair for Eunetra Ellison Simpson, PhD Program in Educational Leadership, PVAMU, Member of the Texas A&M University System.
Jennifer T. Butcher, PhD Proposal Defense, Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, Disse...William Kritsonis
Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, PhD Dissertation Chair for Jennifer T. Butcher, PhD Program in Educational Leadership, PVAMU, Member of the Texas A&M University System.
Why Finding and Keeping Quality Teachers Matters So Muchnoblex1
This issue is timely for two reasons. First of all, the specter of impending teacher shortages, particularly in the areas of mathematics, science, foreign language, English as a Second Language (ESOL), and special education, means that schools will need to work harder to find and hire teachers in these areas, and will have to pay more attention to keeping the teachers they have. Secondly, the evidence that points to a direct connection between quality teachers and high student achievement is so compelling that schools should be putting more and more effort into making sure they find and keep the highest quality teachers.
The Process
The process of maintaining a quality staff has three distinct parts, and different strategies are necessary for each. The first part of the process is finding and hiring new high-quality teachers, the second part is keeping those new teachers, and the third part is keeping high-quality veteran teachers.
Finding New Teachers
Part of the recruitment process requires laying the appropriate foundation. Each school district should have a system that works toward making teacher selection efficient and reliable. This system should:
- identify the attitudes, behaviors, and skills that characterize the kind of teachers the district wants in the classroom;
- screen for those characteristics at every stage of recruitment;
- ensure that the hiring process complies with federal, state, and local laws;
- eliminate unproductive paperwork so that the best candidates have faith in the competence of the system recruiting them;
- reserve labor-intensive personal evaluation for only the most promising candidates; and
- validate the selection process to ensure that it predicts excellence in classroom and professional performance.
In addition to traditional recruiting at local job fairs, administrators should take full advantage of other recruitment tools, including collaborating with careers centers and schools or departments of teacher education at local universities, travelling to job fairs in other districts, and recruiting teachers from other states and countries.
Another, more long-term, solution is to recruit internally by encouraging substitute teachers and paraprofessionals to complete the training necessary to be a certified teacher. For some, this may mean attending a local community college, then completing the program at a college or university. Tuition funding, even if only partial, may enable some school staff members to become certified teachers.
Keeping New Teachers
It's hard to overestimate the importance of support for new teachers. Although the first few years may always be the hardest, school leaders can put in place programs to help new teachers feel less stress and alienation.
These programs include the following:
- Providing early and effective back-to-school orientation.
Source: https://ebookschoice.com/why-finding-and-keeping-quality-teachers-matters-so-much/
A School Leader’s Guide to Effective Stakeholder EngagementTanya Paperny
Families, teachers, and communities all have varying perspectives on what
the school year can and should hold for students. School leaders need to
balance these voices in decision-making through effective and authentic
stakeholder engagement.
Stakeholder engagement is essential for school leaders confronting change
and uncertainty. And yet there are better and worse ways for school leaders
to engage stakeholders in their decision-making processes: It’s far too easy to
neglect important groups, spend too much time with some groups and not
enough with others, or fail to take into account how past decisions and
community context may affect the perception of leadership decisions.
“A School Leader’s Guide to Effective Stakeholder Engagement” [LINK TK]
can help school leaders avoid these pitfalls. This slide deck provides an
overview of stakeholder engagement and easy-to-understand steps, and a
linked workbook (on slide 5) provides a resource to support school leaders as
they implement their approach.
Teacher certification policy and teacher education institutions in IndonesiaIwan Syahril
This presentation serves as an initial discussion about the impact of teacher certification policy towards teacher education institutions in Indonesia.
The Challenges and Opportunities in School Transportation TodayJeremy Knight
Every day, America’s fleet of roughly 480,000 school buses transports more than a third of students to and from school. This fleet is more than twice the size of all other forms of mass transit combined, including bus, rail, and airline transportation.
School-Based Assessment or SBA has been a feature of CXC examinations from their inceptions in 1979. This issue highlights the CXC model of school-based assessment and its philosophical underpinnings, as well as a sampling of
stakeholder views on SBA. It also features the launch of the CXC mobile app CXC Connect and reports on performances in CXC suite of examinations.
Teacher evaluations-and-local-flexibilityDavid Black
School Improvement Network conducted study of 50 state department of education officials who are responsible for implementing teacher evaluation policy to better understand state teacher evaluation policy and how much flexibility districts have at the local level to implement state requirements. The goal was to inform ourselves, school districts and local schools how much freedom and flexibility, or lack thereof, they have to innovate on behalf of their own teachers and students particularly when it comes to using technology to achieve their professional development needs.
Eunetra Ellison Simpson, PhD Proposal Defense, Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, D...William Kritsonis
Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, PhD Dissertation Chair for Eunetra Ellison Simpson, PhD Program in Educational Leadership, PVAMU, Member of the Texas A&M University System.
Jennifer T. Butcher, PhD Proposal Defense, Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, Disse...William Kritsonis
Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, PhD Dissertation Chair for Jennifer T. Butcher, PhD Program in Educational Leadership, PVAMU, Member of the Texas A&M University System.
Why Finding and Keeping Quality Teachers Matters So Muchnoblex1
This issue is timely for two reasons. First of all, the specter of impending teacher shortages, particularly in the areas of mathematics, science, foreign language, English as a Second Language (ESOL), and special education, means that schools will need to work harder to find and hire teachers in these areas, and will have to pay more attention to keeping the teachers they have. Secondly, the evidence that points to a direct connection between quality teachers and high student achievement is so compelling that schools should be putting more and more effort into making sure they find and keep the highest quality teachers.
The Process
The process of maintaining a quality staff has three distinct parts, and different strategies are necessary for each. The first part of the process is finding and hiring new high-quality teachers, the second part is keeping those new teachers, and the third part is keeping high-quality veteran teachers.
Finding New Teachers
Part of the recruitment process requires laying the appropriate foundation. Each school district should have a system that works toward making teacher selection efficient and reliable. This system should:
- identify the attitudes, behaviors, and skills that characterize the kind of teachers the district wants in the classroom;
- screen for those characteristics at every stage of recruitment;
- ensure that the hiring process complies with federal, state, and local laws;
- eliminate unproductive paperwork so that the best candidates have faith in the competence of the system recruiting them;
- reserve labor-intensive personal evaluation for only the most promising candidates; and
- validate the selection process to ensure that it predicts excellence in classroom and professional performance.
In addition to traditional recruiting at local job fairs, administrators should take full advantage of other recruitment tools, including collaborating with careers centers and schools or departments of teacher education at local universities, travelling to job fairs in other districts, and recruiting teachers from other states and countries.
Another, more long-term, solution is to recruit internally by encouraging substitute teachers and paraprofessionals to complete the training necessary to be a certified teacher. For some, this may mean attending a local community college, then completing the program at a college or university. Tuition funding, even if only partial, may enable some school staff members to become certified teachers.
Keeping New Teachers
It's hard to overestimate the importance of support for new teachers. Although the first few years may always be the hardest, school leaders can put in place programs to help new teachers feel less stress and alienation.
These programs include the following:
- Providing early and effective back-to-school orientation.
Source: https://ebookschoice.com/why-finding-and-keeping-quality-teachers-matters-so-much/
21st Century Pedagogy: Transformational Approachijtsrd
Pedagogies are constantly evolving and great emphasis has been laid on the teachers to use effective teaching strategies and method to improve students' achievement. That is why pedagogy is one of the important factors that need to revisit in order to maximize the attainment of educational objectives. Based on the data gathered, technology in the classroom, differentiated instruction and student centered approach should be adapted and modeled across the country to elevate and nourish the capability of the students to go beyond limitation. Further, the way students learn and comprehend have change dramatically educators must also evolve from traditional way to 21st century way of teaching. Novelita T. Bornea | Ma. Georgina B. Espa±ol | Ma. May A. Buala | Pedrito S. Ocba Jr "21st Century Pedagogy: Transformational Approach" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-1 , December 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd29806.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/29806/21st-century-pedagogy-transformational-approach/novelita-t-bornea
Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, Editor-in-Chief, NATIONAL FORUM JOURNALS (Founded 1982). Dr. Kritsonis has served as an elementary school teacher, elementary and middle school principal, superintendent of schools, director of student teaching and field experiences, professor, author, consultant, and journal editor. Dr. Kritsonis has considerable experience in chairing PhD dissertations and master thesis and has supervised practicums for teacher candidates, curriculum supervisors, central office personnel, principals, and superintendents. He also has experience in teaching in doctoral and masters programs in elementary and secondary education as well as educational leadership and supervision. He has earned the rank as professor at three universities in two states, including successful post-tenure reviews. See: www.nationalforum.com
The Primary Exit Profile: What does this mean for STEM in Jamaican Primary Sc...Lorain Senior
This document represents my original contribution as a part of the criteria for completion off the Capstone Experience Project in fulfillment of the M/Ed. in S.T.E.M Leadership at the American College of Education.
Quickly And Substantially Improve Student Achievementnoblex1
The primary goal of educators in every public school and district across the country has always been to provide a solid educational foundation for all students. Such a foundation is key to students' eventual success in higher education, the workforce, and, in a broader sense, their adult lives as citizens and heads of their own families. In recent years, however, school success has increasingly come to be measured by results on standardized assessments, and the public expectation is that all children should meet state-established standards.
Thousands of schools and districts are grappling with the need to significantly, and rapidly, raise student achievement as measured by high stakes assessments. They are looking for answers— a roadmap — to guide their improvement efforts. Their efforts to improve might also go more smoothly if they are better prepared for "speed bumps" experienced by other districts. School districts can have a profound and positive impact on school improvement efforts. But many of them will have to make substantial changes in the way they do business.
A substantial number of studies have been conducted over nearly three decades to identify factors describing individual schools that have defied the odds by accomplishing high levels of achievement while serving significant numbers of children from low-income or minority families. But until recently little research has focused on school districts as the locus for improvement efforts.
For information about efforts to improve larger systems, educators often turned to research done in the corporate world. Perhaps the most famous of these studies was conducted by Peters and Waterman, who studied companies that ranked high on six measures of long-term financial health. The study contributed to a revolution in many American businesses that responded to the findings describing several characteristics of successful companies. Among Peters' and Waterman's key findings were that the high-performing corporations:
- were "close to their customers" and listened to what customers or clients said about their products and services;
- had a "bias for action"—they tried new ways of doing things, then tried other alternatives if necessary; and
- shifted responsibility for improving quality to the "workers" themselves — those dealing directly with clients and customers.
The Fifth Discipline, by Peter Senge, is another work that was originally written for the corporate world that has had substantial impact on education. In particular, his concept of the learning organization translated well to the understanding that schools had of themselves. However, the primary theme in his book — the importance of taking a systems view — was overlooked by many.
Source: https://ebookschoice.com/quickly-and-substantially-improve-student-achievement/
All Students Can Learn And Should Be Presented The Opportunity To Learnnoblex1
The current reform movement in the United States began in the 1990s and has manifested itself as a standards movement. It is a movement to establish state and national frameworks, to which local school districts are encouraged to link their efforts to implement local standards. The linchpin that holds together the standards framework is that they are rigorous; voluntary, in that states and localities decide whether or not to use them; and flexible, in that states and localities can decide which strategies are best for their own schools.
Today, virtually every state in the nation has gone about the business of articulating standards, revising curricular offerings, and developing assessments to measure whether the standards are being met. At the national level, initiatives by the federal government and national organizations have been joined in an effort to produce a comprehensive and coherent standards movement. Currently, many national professional organizations have developed or are in the process of developing national standards for their particular subject areas. States have connected to these efforts on numerous fronts.
The current movement has focused primarily on three types of standards: 1) content or curriculum standards; 2) performance or accountability standards; and 3) capacity or delivery standards (also referred to as opportunity-to-learn standards). The three types of standards are linked - one will not succeed without the other two.
The purpose of this paper is four-fold: First, we define "students of diverse needs and cultures" and the "standards movement." Second, we address specific initiatives of current reform efforts in progress in mathematics and science education. Third, we discuss critical issues related to the successful implementation of mathematics and science standards (i.e., teachers professional development, technological advancements, opportunity-to-learn standards, school organization, and assessments.) Fourth, we suggest references to be used as curriculum materials, how-to articles of use to teachers in the classroom, and seminal research and philosophical literature related to mathematics and science reform initiatives.
Who Are Students of Diverse Needs and Cultures?
American society has haltingly come to understand itself as being culturally diverse and pluralistic. Schools, public schools in particular, mirror what our society will look like in the 21st Century. The culture of schools and the capacity of teachers to implement standards and other initiatives are indispensable elements in the effort to reform mathematics and science education.
Source: https://ebookschoice.com/all-students-can-learn-and-should-be-presented-the-opportunity-to-learn/
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
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Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Overview on Edible Vaccine: Pros & Cons with Mechanism
Overcoming challenging school environments
1. Teacher quality and related issues (i.e., teacher preparation, recruitment, and
professional development) ranked among the highest priority areas among a
sample of education policymakers surveyed by the Institute of Education
Sciences. And it is not surprising that quality teaching also emerged as a central
theme in one recent series of Policy Forums.
These Policy Forums—designed for policymakers, other local leaders, and national
experts to discuss critical education policy issues that impact students, schools,
and communities—examined current and emerging research on major questions
about improvement in content knowledge and pedagogy as they relate to
improving teacher quality. Policymakers and other stakeholders learned about
promising ideas and practices and discussed applications and implications for
future policy and research.
2. While addressing many issues related to improving teaching quality, the Policy
Forums focused on the following three key aspects of teacher quality:
- raising standards for and assuring quality in professional preparation and
development programs;
- effectively identifying and addressing causes of staff shortages; and
- providing high-quality teaching for students in the most challenging school
environments.
Focusing on Standards and Quality
States are working feverishly to meet the requirement of having a highly qualified
teacher in every classroom. Guidance from the U.S. Department of Education
continues to evolve with input from the field, providing increased flexibility for
states to address challenges posed by the law.
Policymakers across the region agree that achieving their goals will necessitate
going beyond having teachers pass certain tests and/or meet current certification
requirements. They recognize the need for data on teachers and teaching to
inform their decision making. Policy Forum participants learned that many
research efforts have begun to concentrate more deeply than ever before on (a)
what teachers know about the subjects they teach, (b) how well they can transmit
that knowledge, (c) how to assess their competence and performance
appropriately, and (d) how to inform ongoing improvements in these areas.
Research highlighted in the Policy Forums reinforced the importance of these
issues to improving teaching quality and the fact that teaching quality matters a
great deal in student success.
3. Studies show that students who receive higher quality teaching for 3 consecutive
years score much higher than students who have lower-quality experiences.
Studies examining mathematics and science instruction reveal that teachers’ solid
content knowledge is essential to successful student learning. At the same time,
definitions of “high quality” vary widely; and answers to questions about how
much content is enough and when more (or what type of) course work for
preservice and inservice teachers will improve student outcomes, remain unclear.
Many state agencies and organizations have already undertaken reviews of issues
associated with teacher quality. This review resulted in agreement about critical
content knowledge and teaching skills that new teachers lack, including:
- understanding state standards and using them as the basis for instruction,
- integrating technology into curriculum and instruction, and
- teaching reading effectively in elementary school.
The Policy Forum participants noted important areas in which to concentrate next
steps, resulting in recommendations for action and follow-up. Decision makers,
ranging from state legislators to local boards of education and teachers’ and
parents’ groups, have expanded opportunities to discuss data that can help them
understand, conceptually and practically, teacher and teaching quality. These
decision makers have shown heightened interest in standards as important
components in all quality improvement efforts.
In addition, states, local education agencies, and other institutions have focused
on assessing the effectiveness of recent and ongoing reforms to improve teaching
quality. This work, within and across states, offers increasing guidance to support
the interventions that demonstrate success or promise in addressing the issues of
4. teaching quality and student achievement and to change those practices that do
not.
Identifying and Addressing Staff Shortages
The Policy Forums revealed the need to identify staffing problems correctly in
order to design appropriate remedies. Often, education stakeholders attribute
school staffing problems to an insufficient supply. Policy Forum participants
dissected critical staffing issues with the experts and then examined implications
for policies that support sound preparation of qualified teachers, as well as
effective recruitment and retention practices. These discussions helped
policymakers gain a more expansive understanding of the problems and probable
solutions.
Increasingly, research has shown that the issue is much more complex than
having an insufficient supply of teachers. Indeed, critical shortages exist in certain
fields and levels (e.g., mathematics, science, technology, special education).
However, recent data indicate that the retention of highly qualified teachers
constitutes a major challenge in all areas, with turn-over and attrition
contributing significantly to teacher staffing problems. Ingersoll, for example,
found that “school staffing problems are not primarily due to teacher shortages,
in the technical sense of an insufficient supply of qualified teachers, rather they
are primarily due to excess demand resulting from a ‘revolving door’—where
large numbers of qualified teachers depart their jobs for reasons other than
retirement.” Many teachers move to more attractive teaching positions; others
leave the profession. According to one recent analysis of national data shared
with Policy Forum participants, about one third of new teachers leave teaching
sometime during their first 3 years of teaching and nearly half leave after 5 years.
5. Having an improved understanding of the complexities surrounding teacher
shortages helps policymakers advance policies to tackle staffing issues more
specifically. Jurisdictions are supporting or exploring many initiatives, including (a)
legislatively earmarked recruitment strategies that identify needs and remedies
specific to a district’s staffing situation, (b) salary and other compensation
incentives to attract and retain qualified teachers, and (c) expanded partnerships
beyond the education community tailored to address particular gaps.
Conclusion
Central to the issues covered in the Policy Forums is the challenge of how to
assure that the students who face the biggest hurdles within and outside the
classroom receive stable, high-quality teaching. Student access to well qualified
teachers varies widely, with students in poorer and more racially isolated
schools—too often low-performing schools—having inexperienced, uncertified,
and out-of-field teachers. Low-income and high-minority schools face the greatest
challenges in averting the devastating impact of poorly trained and skilled
teachers over several school years. Teachers in high-poverty and high-minority
schools report poor working conditions (e.g., poor facilities, books and other
materials in short supply, large class sizes, and little administrative support) that
contribute significantly to high attrition of good teachers and their aspiring but
less experienced colleagues from specific schools, as well as from the profession.
These challenges indicate a need to address teacher distribution, teacher support,
and teaching resources to improve the learning opportunities for all children.
Sharing this knowledge about teacher quality with policymakers and other
education stakeholders makes it more likely that policymakers will use data and
6. best practices as they make decisions in support of strategies that will improve
student achievement and ensure school success.
Jeff C. Palmer is a teacher, success coach, trainer, Certified Master of Web
Copywriting and founder of https://Ebookschoice.com. Jeff is a prolific writer,
Senior Research Associate and Infopreneur having written many eBooks, articles
and special reports.
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