and growth of individual teachers towards enhancing teaching and learning. In this regard, teachers at Paterson Public School will be required to complete a summative evaluation that will be utilized to generate needs improvement rating. Once the rating is developed, specific tasks or activities to address the areas requiring improvement will be identified. Teachers will then be required to engage in these activities or tasks to help improve their teaching practice and learning in the classroom. During this process, teachers will be provided with necessary resources and support to complete the required activities or tasks.
Evaluation of… Continue Reading...
differentiated instruction. Though there is no universally accepted definition, participative learning generally denotes a teaching and learning… Continue Reading...
PD plan.
Morrison, McDuffie and French (2015) studied the essentials of STEAM in schools. They found out that both teaching and learning were problem based and centered on inquiry. This environment motivated students and improved their social interactions and collaboration. Laforce et al. (2016) outlined the 8 essentials of STEM in high schools:
1. Personalization of learning
2. Problem-based learning
3. Rigorous learning
4. Career, technology and life skills
5. School community and belonging
6. External community
7. Staff foundations
8. External factors
All these represent the goals and strategies applied by pro-STEM high schools across the country. Thus, a clear picture is formed of what is meant by… Continue Reading...
Formative assessment offers much potential to make both teaching and learning more nuanced and effective for students, particularly students who are attempting to master a new language. Integrating formative assessments into instruction for English Language Learners offers specific opportunities, empowering teachers to better attend to the students’ needs in learning and content, and more effectively helping these students develop the skills they need to master grammatical concepts and communicate with confidence. As their core, the most effective types of formative assessments are the ones that inherently promote student learning, making certain they put students at the center of… Continue Reading...
expertise shapes our behavior. As an educational practitioner, I tend to apply teaching and learning knowledge in interpreting and solving day to day problems in diverse contexts -- from work to home. It is quite unusual for novices to solve problems in a similar manner. As a result, I am constantly inspired to enhance my teaching and learning knowledge.
Part 4
The importance of expertise has important implications for education researchers. According to the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Code of Ethics, education researchers must demonstrate the highest level of professional competence in the tasks they undertake (AERA, 2011). This essentially means… Continue Reading...
history related cycles, connections, and general patterns.[footnoteRef:4] [4:. Ross E. Dunn, Knowing, Teaching and Learning History: National and International Perspectives, ed. Peter N. Stearns, Peter Seixas and Sam Wineburg (New York: New York University Press, 2000), 127.]
Although the abovementioned pool of information was by no means perfect by the middle, or even the end, of the last century, it increased in magnitude and reliability sufficiently enough to contribute to global historical examination endeavors. Secondly, professional world history's development suggested a novel sense of global duty and concern. The last century was witness to a couple of global-scale, colossally devastative wars, in… Continue Reading...
by a discussion concerning the technology tools for teaching and learning and corresponding professional development needs. It is the goal of this revised curriculum to provide Haddonfield’s students with the educational background they will need to succeed in their higher educational pursuits and adult lives.
Rationale in Support of Change
In 1996, the State of New Jersey’s CCSS were adopted by the New Jersey State Board of Education (New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, 2016). These standards do not stipulate what curricular offerings should be provided, but they do provide a specific outline concerning what students are expected… Continue Reading...
things. Particularly in the context of teaching and learning, it is important to differentiate between goals and objectives. Goals refer to broad end results, whereas objectives tend to be more specific (Norman, 2017). Thus, a learner may have a goal of improving patient care, with the learning objectives being to reduce medical errors by fifty percent. Another key difference between goals and objectives is that the latter can and should be framed in measurable or quantitative ways. Goals do not need to be measurable and can in fact be personal or even emotional in nature, whereas… Continue Reading...
can identify these measures in 5 areas, or specifications:
1. Teaching and Learning: The measures a principal uses to generate significant student achievement gains via the improvement and assistance of efficient teaching.
2. Mutual Vision, School Tradition and Family Involvement: The measures a principal normally takes to form an idea of significant achievement based on a culture of higher expectations and family involvement.
3. Strategic Planning and Solutions: The measures a principal uses to handle and observe school systems and processes.
4. Talent Handling: The measures a principal uses to create and preserve a high-quality, efficient teaching personnel.
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each is part of the United States Department of Education: the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and the Transforming Teaching and Learning site. I appreciate the insight into how educators make tremendous personal sacrifices beliving in the value of their work in promoting higher quality of life in the society. For example, the author states, “The thoughts of spending $70,000-$100,000 for an education to receive a job in which you make $40,000 a year seems like a losing proposition for many would be education majors.” In spite of the horrendous statistics related to actual job or career outcomes, the field of education proves tremendously rewarding. For example, the Transforming… Continue Reading...
