What Is Instructional Leadership and Why Is It So Important?

ments,the curriculum,instruction,and assessments all must be aligned with the standards.If there is a discon-nect among these elements,student achievement will not be evident.Alignment is an ongoing process as standards,curriculum,and assessments cycle through improvements. 4) Data analysis:In their focus on improving achievement,

  Assessment, Process

The Professional Teaching and Learning Cycle: Introduction

PTLC is a critical component of the Working Systemically approach that directly impacts classroom instruction and student learning. It is a vehicle for teacher collaboration and sharing, and the process improves alignment of curriculum, …

  Approach, Cycle, Teaching

Developing Rubrics for Performance-Based Assessment

___6.Instructional rubrics focus the teacher helping to clarify the criteria and expectations in specific terms. ___7.Instructional rubrics provide students with more informative feedback about their strengths and areas in need of improvement than traditional forms of assessment do and allow their learning to become more focused and self-directed.

  Assessment, Instructional

SEDLinsights - SEDL Archive

improvement in teaching and learning.3 At SEDL, we believe that the use of professional ... where district and school leaders play the roles of teachers. The participants use tools and protocols ... principals, instructional specialists, curriculum specialists, and anyone else who can provide technical assistance.

  School, Roles, Principal, Teaching, In teaching

SEDL – Advancing Research, Improving Education A New …

Acknowledgments The idea for the Evidence publications first began in 1980 at the National Committee for Citizens in Education. Stan Salett had discovered a study that linked schools with PTAs to higher student achievement and wondered if there might be more relevant research.

Synthesis of Research Studies - SEDL

Synthesis of Research Studies How the Studies Define Family Involvement and Student Achievement In this review, we look at 51 recent studies, all but two published from 1995 to 2002. Every one sheds some light on the relationship between parent involvement and, in some cases, community involvement and improved student achievement. Together

  Research, Studies, Synthesis, Synthesis of research studies

A Resource Guide for Planning and Operating Afterschool ...

This third edition of the A Resource Guide for Planning and Operating Afterschool Programs is as comprehensive as time and knowledge permitted. However, in this dynamic field of afterschool programming, new resources are frequently generated. Your assistance in identifying additional resources for future editions of this guide is appreciated.

  Guide, Planning, Afterschool

Supporting Parent, Family, and Community Involvement …

Collaborating with the Community: The identification and integration of resources and services from the community The Measure of School, Family, and Community Partnerships (Epstein, Salinas, Sanders, Davis, & Douglas, 1999) is based on the Six Types of Partnerships Framework and is included in this document as Appendix A.

  Family, Community, Supporting, Parents, Involvement, And community, Supporting parent, And community involvement

The Cognitive Foundations of Learning to Read: A Framework

tered by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) under contract RJ96006801. SEDL’s reading project examined early literacy in grades K-2 and the prevention of early reading failure. The goals of this effort included the following: developing a framework of the cognitive foundations of learning to read that organizes

  Foundations, Reading, Educational, Of educational

Sample Data for Data Tables - SEDL

Use these data to create data tables following the Guidelines for Making a Data Table and Checklist for a Data Table. Example 1: Pet Survey (GR 2–3) Ms. Hubert’s afterschool students took a survey of the 600 students at Morales Elementary School. Students were asked to select their favorite pet from a list of eight animals.

  Data, Table, Table data

On Target: Strategies to Build Student Vocabularies

ocabulary instruction was identified in 2000 by the National Reading Panel (NRP) as an essential skill students need to improve reading achievement. The NRP identified four types of vocabulary – listening vocabulary, speaking vocabulary, reading vocabulary, and writing vocabulary. Vocabulary, or word meaning, is one of the keys to ...

  Instructions, Vocabulary

Strategies and Problems Encountered by Teachers in ...

instruction include absence of books written in mother tongue, lack of vocabulary, and lack of teacher-training. Nevertheless, the study indicated that major attention and effort are still necessary to be given to the approach. Keywords: practices, mother tongue - based instruction, multilingualism, and multiculturalism

  Thermo, Instructions, Vocabulary, Tongue, Mother tongue

Reading for Virginia Educators: Elementary and Special ...

word-attack skills, vocabulary, word recognition in context, reading fluency, and oral and silent reading comprehension B. Understand the use of assessment data to plan reading instruction 1. Recognize how to use assessment data to diagnose the reading needs of, and tailor instruction for, individual students 2.

  Instructions, Vocabulary

Developing Language, Speaking, and Listening Skills

vocabulary through a mix of conversations, direct instruction, and reading. The standards will help students determine word meanings, appreciate nuances of words, and steadily expand their repertoire of words and phrases‖ (CCSSI, 2010, Language section, para. 1). Strategies for Language in English Language Arts

  Instructions, Vocabulary

Tennessee Social Studies Standards - TN.gov

citizenry. Teachers should center instruction on inquiry-based models, which require students to engage in critical thinking, self-assessment, reasoning, problem-solving, collaboration, and investigation in order to make connections in new and innovative ways as they progress through social studies education. Our current students are our

  Social, Critical, Standards, Instructions, Studies, Tennessee, Tennessee social studies standards

Improving reading comprehension

Situational analysis. This guide can be used as part of the situational analysis in the following ways: Looking inward. includes analysis of data, such as evidence of staff knowledge and perceptions around reading, and evidence of students’ current skills in reading. The guide should be used in conjunction with a

  Analysis

Michigan Math Standards

measurement, and geometry strands with less emphasis on data analysis and little exposure to algebra. The Hong Kong standards for grades 1–3 devote approximately half the targeted time to numbers and almost all the time remaining to geometry and measurement. —

  Analysis, Standards, Michigan

Learning Style Inventory

Learning Style Study Strategies VISUAL LEARNER • Organize work and living space to avoid distractions. • Sit in the front of the room to avoid di straction and away from doors or …