357 Search Results for Instructional Leadership and Educational Standards
In fact, it cannot be overemphasized how important the provision of advanced education and training is for building a strong and effective instructional practice for teachers and in achieving the school vision and goals.
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The shift toward standardized testing has failed to result in a meaningful reduction of high school dropout rates, and students with disabilities continue to be marginalized by the culture of testing in public education (Dynarski et al., 2008). Wit Continue Reading...
Additionally, administrators need to be trained to recognize appropriate and inappropriate test preparation strategies. Teachers also need to be trained on developing authentic assessments with the same rigor as the state assessments. Popham (2001) Continue Reading...
Even though courses may include lectures, readings, outside research efforts, class discussions, as well as individual or small group presentations, these activities are not generally conducted in the classroom, utilizing Internet and presentation s Continue Reading...
According to Copland (2001), although the following job description is a parody, it is not too far from the truth concerning the current set of responsibilities that confront the nation's elementary school principals:
Position Opening: Elementary S Continue Reading...
Components of a Quality Curriculum
An Annotated Bibliography
Quality Curriculum
The research indicates that a quality school curriculum is reflected by the curricula of its mathematics and science components, driven by its textbooks and teachers, Continue Reading...
K-12 Curriculum and Instruction: Changing Paradigms in the 21st Century
This is not your grandfathers' economy or his educational paradigm however; today's curriculum still appears as such and therein lays a very significant and challenging problem Continue Reading...
If we take the average cost of just one text, say a science text ($40), add 3-4 public domain novels (e.g. Huckleberry Finn at $5 ea.), and then a set of encyclopedias per classroom ($750), we find that even one small classroom of 25 students can sa Continue Reading...
Feedback should also inform the planning of subsequent lessons and activities and come from a variety of perspectives including the student, classmates, and the teacher (Kirkwood, 2000).
Problems with this method of instruction occur when expectati Continue Reading...
ascd.org/about-ascd.aspx). The organization hosts a variety of professional development seminars and workshops, including online offerings. It would be useful to take advantage of these opportunities.
5. Evaluating Progress
I want to keep a teachin Continue Reading...
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Null Hypothesis
The null hypothesis of the research endeavor is that online professors will report no perceptible connection between post-tenure review and job performance.
Alternate Hypothesis
The alternate hypothesis of th Continue Reading...
Good researchers tend to pull methods out of a tool kit as they are needed" (2006, p. 54). Notwithstanding these criticisms and constraints, though, most social researchers seem to agree that classification by some type of research paradigm is a use Continue Reading...
One article in a past issue of the Kappa Omicron NU publication Forum explored the real-world teaching of service learning as a tool for involving students in their community. The study had the established goal of making clear the practical applica Continue Reading...
Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators: To What Extent does being on the Senior Leadership Team Influence their Role?
The emergence of the Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) role in the United Kingdom represented an important developmen Continue Reading...
Solution to Problems Associated With Teaching to Test Learning Approach
Teaching to the test which is an educational practice in which the curriculum is focused heavily on preparing the students for standardized testing has several weaknesses. In t Continue Reading...
The long-term effects of such learning suggest that language skills and vocabulary are also retained longer when learned in a context other than pure ESL instruction (Song 2006).
Both quantitative and qualitative data will be collected and analyzed Continue Reading...
Differentiated instruction offers the possibility for all students to meet their own personal and optimal potential in the learning environment of the classroom.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bellai, Mariann (2008) Professional Development Plan. Schenectady City S Continue Reading...
The last step is to get the Associate Director's approval. If other obstacles arise, I will seek simple solutions such as I was able to do with this barrier
XI. To whom will your final project be submitted? Did he or she provide input or criticism Continue Reading...
Phonic Instruction vs. Whole Language
There is a great debate in America about which is the better method to teach children reading, writing, and spelling skills: The phonic instruction method or the whole language method. This paper will analyze ea Continue Reading...
The other sector of life where information literacy is vital and omnipresent is the career field. It is not simply a matter of preference or choice. Many businesses actively embrace the harnessing and day-to-day use of computer and informatics tech Continue Reading...
In addition those on the board of directors may have worked at the same accounting or law firms and had business dealings with one another in the past. Even some college professors and ex-high ranking government officials who have conducted studies Continue Reading...
Professional Development Plan
The purpose of this project is to devise a plan, based on research, to provide a standards-based professional development for staff at a selected school. To this end, an analysis of the respective roles of administrator Continue Reading...
These two areas of the curriculum are equally important and thus should be treated that way. Both should have excellent programs for students so that they have an outstanding chance to succeed in both. The other area that the school needs to enhance Continue Reading...
Expertise
Professional development requires us to reflect on our successes and failures and the ways in which we can learn from them. Nothing stays still. One certainty is that the hazards we face next year will be different ones. It is important t Continue Reading...
Spotlighting Samplings 4 Qualitative Research
Research Choices 6 the Phenomenology Method
The Ethnography Method
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Four Qualitative Approach Comparison
Strengths and Critiques of Case Studies
"A research design indicates the full research p Continue Reading...
It is not helpful, for example, to have one week or day to celebrate diversity and then go back to the standard traditional format. The teacher should show respect and encourage his or her students to likewise show respect for each culture. As Ville Continue Reading...
Women in Film Noir
Teaching is in many ways a solitary profession: A teacher in his or her own classroom spends hours in contact with students but often relatively little time talking to other teachers and educators. Administrators are also in many Continue Reading...
Gender Role Analysis
How Gender is Shaped by Education
How Gender is Shaped by Public Policy
How Gender is Shaped in the Workplace
This report discusses the role played by social institutions such as schools, workplaces and policy making institut Continue Reading...
decision-makers and managers in health care with efficient course of action that give them opportunity to advance the quality in health cares by involving in designing and implementation. The analysis centers on certain people who have a strategic d Continue Reading...
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The educational system up to this point, very likely to continue in the future, has swung back and forth between these two philosophies (individualist and essentialist) in a pendulum effect, as educators seek to engender interest for kno Continue Reading...
Working with the individual child in my case study was definitely enlightening in terms of understanding the struggling reader more generally. I think probably the most salient fact I learned about Jake -- the one which really occasioned the most ge Continue Reading...
This particular program is designed for grades K-8 and is both a reading and a language arts program. This reading program has as a foundation "literacy instruction that stimulates, teaches, and extends the communication and thinking skills that wil Continue Reading...
This enables the supervisor to target specific domains which the supervisee is lacking. It also encourages the young teacher to set meaningful goals (which is yet another criticism of professional development plans, because some teachers may genuine Continue Reading...
Significance of the Study
This study is significant because it sheds light on a very important contributor to local and international trade. Trade fairs have a long history in providing a meeting place for buyers and sellers. They are an important Continue Reading...
This research examines the success or failure of an initiative to help improve positive parental participation in their child's academic and behavioral outcomes.
Discussion
A number of initiatives were discovered during the literature review. Howe Continue Reading...
1999). The purpose of the school was to allow these students to earn their high school diploma (Kennedy et al. 1999). The board of directors for the school included administrators who were teachers at the time or retired teachers (Kennedy et al. 199 Continue Reading...
educate our children. As increasing numbers of affluent parents enroll their children in pre-school programs that offer more than just the traditional "play and supervision," but also provide early instruction in basics like reading and math, the qu Continue Reading...
Nelson and Stage (2007) was to assess the effects of contextually-based multiple meaning (i.e., words with multiple meanings) vocabulary instruction on student vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension. To this end, groups of 3rd and 5th grade Continue Reading...
The natural environment provides students with a calm and quiet place to unwind from the noises of the classroom. It nurtures and supports animal-life all year round. This is critical for areas where commercial and residential development is reducin Continue Reading...
Further, rather than "inviting" students to seek help, the systematic plan "requires" them to receive additional assistance until mastering the concepts.
For example, at an Illinois school, the collaborative team determined that every three weeks, Continue Reading...