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...
Businesses are now pushing more so than ever before for schools and educators to adopt a community or learning community based approach to student education, in the hopes students will graduate with more applicable skill sets they can apply to the i Continue Reading...
Professional Learning Community"? Professional learning communities: Article review DuFour, R. What is a 'professional learning community?' Educational Leadership, 2004. A popular idea in the field of education today is the need to develop a 'pro Continue Reading...
Professional Learning Community within an Educational Context Peter Senge's learning community is one where all of the team members work together within in a fluid, supportive atmosphere that is future based and oriented around critical, open think Continue Reading...
Professional Learning and Development -- the Teacher's Perspective The recent debate over standards-based education has tended to focus upon student performance in regards to standardized testing and the rise of common core standards. However, an e Continue Reading...
Assessment of Existing Culture Just two years into its existence, the high school is doing remarkably well. The school welcomes 1100 students each day. Currently, the school only has the capacity for grades 9 to 11, but grade 12 programming is being Continue Reading...
Abstract Uplift Triumph Preparatory is a public charter school in Dallas, Texas. Since 2013, Uplift Education has offered students at all grade levels the opportunity for personal, moral, and academic achievement. Although Uplift celebrates its succe Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Impact of Teacher Collaboration on Student Achievement: Explore how cooperative efforts among educators improve teaching practices and consequently lead to better student performance. This essay co Continue Reading...
Educational Leadership Comprehensive Exam - Educational Leadership Theoretical and conceptual knowledge There is increasing interest in educational leadership in this current century. This can be attributed to the belief that making differences in Continue Reading...
Fullan, et al.'s approach is to employ "greater specificity without suffering the downside of prescription," (9) meaning that curriculum design must teach people how to do something within the proper context and that all details must be included wi Continue Reading...
Plan for Shared Learning The goal of this shared learning plan is to create a culture of continual learning and sustainable, supportive professional development. A professional learning community “provides a context of collegiality, which suppo Continue Reading...
Essential Learning and the Inquiry StanceIntroduction to Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) represent a transformative framework for enhancing collaboration and effectiveness within educational settings. Continue Reading...
Teacher leadership is a concept that refers to the simultaneous administrative roles and classroom educator roles that teachers play in the modern school environment. The emergence of this concept in the modern educational environment is attributable Continue Reading...
Leading Action Research in an Elementary School Setting One of the risks that is routinely encountered classroom teachers is the potential to become mired in a set of educational practices that may or may not be suitable for their students at any gi Continue Reading...
Philosophy of Education The objective of this study is to articulate a personal philosophy of education noting specifics in belief in the areas of worldview foundations. The philosophic foundations will include metaphysical beliefs and epistemologic Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Role of Technology in Enhancing Collaborative Learning: This topic explores how digital tools and platforms facilitate collaboration among students and educators, examining both the benefits and challenges. 2. Colla Continue Reading...
Professional development is the strategy used by schools to ensure that educators continue to strengthen their practice throughout their career. The most effective professional development engages teams of teachers to focus on the needs of their stud Continue Reading...
Synthesis Matrix Article 1: Gray, Kruse, Tarter, et al. (2016) Article 2: Mintzes, Marcum, Messerschmidt, et al. (2013) Article 3: Peppers (2015) Type and purpose Purpose is testing the role of institutional supports on PLCs in a low-income school d Continue Reading...
Educational Leadership "When Leadership Spells Danger" (Heifetz, et al.) The article by Heifetz and Linsky takes the position that part of the job of leadership in education is not just teaching, but also "…mobilizing schools, families, and c Continue Reading...
While there have been some complains about these new methods (Moran, 2001) they come mostly from teachers that have practiced one way for years and are not comfortable of changing the way they work (Moran, 2001). Fortunately, as educational entities Continue Reading...
Students level of skills How students are relating to vocabulary usage Time segments in minutes Notes need help (more than 20% are unable to process) Students are spending more time working independently. Fewer students need assistance from teac Continue Reading...
Entities such as the U.S. Department of Education for example offers several suggestions for mitigating problems related to teacher development issues. The Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative (U.S. Dept. Of Education) for example provides teachers with a Continue Reading...
The general challenge in online education is the failure to embrace the paradigm that online programs are fundamentally different than traditional pedagogy, and must include alternative ways to link learning styles and learning outcomes. Failure to Continue Reading...
These authors purport: Intentional living-learning (LL) communities that expand upon the Oxford and Cambridge models of residential living are higher education's attempt to respond to the student and societal need for a quality and seamless educati Continue Reading...
The trainer will then focus on the steps to be taken to develop new skills. For example, if the trainer wants to talk about motivating, leading, negotiating, selling or speaking, it is best to start with what the learners do well before showing some Continue Reading...
Urban Middle School Focus Identify Unique opportunities for growth and improvement. What new emerging initiatives are likely to increase growth and deepen improvement levels within an urban middle school? Among the more prominent opportunities for Continue Reading...
In addition, the use of a collaborative online environment for producing educational videos was shown to be an effective approach to promoting experiential learning. In the final analysis, it is reasonable to conclude that as educators gain more exp Continue Reading...
IMPROVING STUDENTS AND FAMILYS ENGAGEMENT Recommendations for Improving Parental Collaboration at Marion P Thomas Charter School District Performing Art & Culinary AcademyABSTRACTThis study offers recommendations to the leadership at the Performing A Continue Reading...
popularized social and cultural trends are merging, intentionally or not, toward laying the foundation for generating a new narrative about what it means to learn across a lifespan in an environment conducive to healthy living. It seeks to examine t Continue Reading...
The four pillars that must be included in a technology plan are: Infrastructure, software, hardware and the professional development (Cradler, 2013). There are two basic categories that the software instruction and curriculum can be divided into: Continue Reading...
diversity of learning styles and needs represented in a typical 21st century classroom. As the United States continues to see an increase in multi-ethnic, multinational populations, the children of immigrants that bring diverse cultures and ethnicit Continue Reading...
Abdelsayed, L. M., Bustrum, J. M., Tisdale, T. C., Reimer, K. S., & Camp, C. A. (2013). The impact of personality on God image, religious coping, and religious motivation among Coptic Orthodox priests. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 16(2) Continue Reading...
This way of thinking and taking action has been evolving over many decades, but it reached its widest audience with the 1990 publication of 'The Fifth Discipline' by Peter Senge." (2003) The Charter school has a unique opportunity to implement the Continue Reading...
Reflective JournalI have accomplished various educational goals and professional development from various program components in this program. Different program elements are designed to accomplish different kinds of professional growth, as will be ref Continue Reading...
We will include studies concerning memory recall in elementary students. Androes et al. (2000) asserts that memory recall is essential to reading comprehension in elementary students. The authors insists that reading comprehension is defined as the Continue Reading...
How will these strategies increase the effectiveness of job-embedded learning at your school or workplace? Discuss your rationale for choosing these two strategies. The way that job embedded learning is utilized, is to give teachers actionable step Continue Reading...
When they see the library staff in this light, teachers are more willing to work with others in improving the effectiveness of their lesson planning (by incorporating more tools and techniques). (Gregory, 2003, pp. 100-109) Task 4: Change can be di Continue Reading...
