Teacher Effectiveness | search
Click here to view Teacher Effectiveness news from 60+ newspapers.
Bookmark or Share- How to Create an Effective Professional Learning CommunityThe PLC is designed for teacher learning, and thus the team must balance risk taking and teacher autonomy with shared expectations for student learning. It’s important that teachers in a team have that clear understanding of purpose so that everyone feels safe to take risks. A learning team constantly engages in a cycle of learning: analyzing ...
- 5 Highly Effective Teaching Practices - Edutopia5. Metacognitive Strategies. Students are given opportunities to plan and organize, monitor their own work, direct their own learning, and to self-reflect along the way. When we provide students with time and space to be aware of their own knowledge and their own thinking, student ownership increases. And research shows that metacognition can ...
- Improving Teaching With Expert Feedback—From StudentsStep 6. Take action on your survey feedback: Pagan had included questions about homework on his student survey because a lot of his students weren't turning theirs in on time, or at all. From the survey feedback, he learned that students became frustrated when they got stuck on a problem, and wouldn't turn in their homework because it wasn't ...
- Value-Added Measures (VAMs) and Instructor Effectiveness ... - EdutopiaResearchers generally define VAMs as statistical models designed to measure a teacher's influence -- the "value" added or subtracted -- on student achievement over time. Typically, student achievement is defined using standardized test scores. To determine a teacher’s value, researchers make two primary calculations:
- 5 Ways to Improve Teacher Evaluation Systems - EdutopiaTo quote former U.S. Secretary of Education John King, “If teacher evaluation feels like a ‘gotcha’ system, it won’t work.”. Here are five specific approaches to redesigning meaningful evaluation systems toward improving teachers’ practice. 1. Streamline and implement tools flexibly.
More
