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National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, 2021
Teacher mentorship programs, where new teachers are paired with veterans, are a research-based practice, but they often lack clarity and can turn into more of a "buddy system" than a true learning opportunity. In this new report, Why New Teacher Mentoring Falls Short, and How to Fix It, NIET shares research and experience that point to…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Mentors, Program Implementation
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Morgan, Philip – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2008
The use of evaluation to examine and improve the quality of teaching and courses is now a component of most universities. However, despite the various methods and opportunities for evaluation, a lack of understanding of the processes, measures and value are some of the major impediments to effective evaluation. Evaluation requires an understanding…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Instructional Effectiveness, Flow Charts, Program Improvement
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Ménager, Simone – Babel, 2015
In this increasingly interconnected world, the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with each other defines success in relationships, in the workforce and in one's personal pursuits. (AFMLTA More Leaps, 2012). There is an impetus in education, therefore, to improve the quality of language teaching and learning programs in schools and to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement
Cavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2011
A pair of Ohio school districts, a short drive down Interstate 70 from each other, share similar goals. Each wants to improve student achievement by strengthening curriculum and instruction and giving teachers and principals the tools to make it happen. But the Huber Heights and Brookville school systems diverge in their approach to meeting those…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs, Instructional Improvement
Hennock, Mary – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
In China the global challenges of fast-evolving technology and multidisciplinary studies are complicated by the newness of the market. Only 40 years ago, professors were condemned to manual labor if suspected of capitalist sympathies, and most universities were shut down during the decade-long Cultural Revolution. The government is preoccupied…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Majors (Students), Foreign Countries, Improvement Programs
Seifert, Deborah; Hartnell-Young, Elizabeth – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2015
This occasional paper of the Centre for Education Policy and Practice outlines how the National School Improvement Tool, developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) in collaboration with the Queensland Department of Education, Training and Employment is being used in Australian schools. The Tool is grounded in international…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs, National Programs, Educational Policy
Williams, Jenny – Adults Learning, 2012
Announced by government in "New Challenges, New Chances" in December 2011, the sector-led Commission on Adult Vocational Teaching and Learning has been tasked with raising the quality, and improving the outcomes and impact, of adult vocational teaching and learning for learners and employers. It is a commission focused on the future--of…
Descriptors: Planning Commissions, Adult Vocational Education, Organizational Objectives, Organizational Theories
Kral, Cathleen Cronin – Literacy Coaching Clearinghouse, 2012
Educators agree that leadership by a principal profoundly affects what is accomplished at a school. This effect of leadership is particularly true when schools and districts are engaged in reform. When the reform effort impinges on school culture, the principal plays the main role in leading and supporting this change.
Descriptors: School Culture, Instructional Leadership, Coaching (Performance), Principals
Sidarous, Natalie – California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2009
The Improving Teacher Quality (ITQ) program released Requests for Proposals in March for the next round of teacher professional development projects. The first RFP, Addressing the Achievement Gap in Middle Schools (AAGMIS), is for stand-alone grants similar to the 2008 projects that target the achievement gap in elementary schools. The second RFP,…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Professional Development, Grants, Instructional Improvement
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City, Elizabeth A. – Educational Leadership, 2011
Instructional rounds are a disciplined way for educators to work together to improve a school's instructional core. The practice combines three common elements of improvement: classroom observation, an improvement strategy, and a network. Instructional rounds differ from supervision and evaluation in that people doing rounds learn something…
Descriptors: Improvement Programs, Change Strategies, Educational Strategies, Classroom Observation Techniques
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Doabler, Christian T.; Cary, Mari Strand; Jungjohann, Kathleen; Clarke, Ben; Fien, Hank; Baker, Scott; Smolkowski, Keith; Chard, David – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2012
This paper presents eight practical guidelines that teachers can use to make core instruction more systematic and explicit for students with or at-risk for mathematics disabilities. In the paper, we use the notion of explicit and systematic instruction as a foundation for intensifying core math instruction. Explicit and systematic core instruction…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten, Mathematics Instruction
Rothman, Robert – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
How can districts create systemic improvement--improvement that affects every classroom? A handful of Connecticut districts tried to find out and were supported by the Connecticut Center for School Change to do so. As part of the Systemic Instructional Improvement Program (SIIP), the districts have pursued strategies designed to yield large-scale…
Descriptors: Improvement Programs, Instructional Improvement, Achievement Gains, Educational Change
Nelson, Kerry D. – 1985
Rural schools in Utah responded to state and local calls for school reform by implementing Outcome Based Education (OBE) programs beginning in March 1984. Significant improvements in learning have occurred as measured by test scores. Workshops introduced rural educators to OBE which provided a philosophical and operational framework for school…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
Saterfiel, Thomas H. – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1983
This case study shows how testing in Mississippi is used as an effective part of a statewide accountability and instructional improvement program. By using criterion-referenced testing as one aspect of a program evaluation requirement, Mississippi is basing instructional improvement on student performance. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Case Studies, Criterion Referenced Tests
Odden, Allan; Picus, Lawrence O. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Schools face the dual challenge of tighter education budgets and demands to raise achievement levels. Can this be done? The author argues that it can and has been achieved. The successful districts in some cases have transformed their strategic approach by focusing on costs; developing a new, more powerful school vision; identifying and allocating…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs, Instructional Improvement
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