...Project Proposal Rafael Astolpho CMGT/410 March 2nd, 2015 Professor Deborah Ray-Sims | |Palmdale School District | Memo |To: |School Principals, Classified Employees & Certificated Teachers | |From: |Rafael Astolpho | |cc: |Teacher Assistants | |Date: |March 2nd, 2015 | |Re: |New School wide compliance system | | | | Comments: Our school district has been expanding in the past five years with two new elementary schools being opened this past September. This rapid expansion has caused the need to revise our compliance system that contains new policies that will need to be introduced. Every school principal will need to take their time to learn these new policies and properly train their staff to follow these policies as well. The Management Team at the District Office...
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...Question; Argue whether teachers should be evaluated based on student performance Introduction Fairtest 2013 studies clearly present several reasons why teacher evaluations should not solely rest on student test scores. Haertel (2012 p.4) informs that the role of the teacher in school is only critical in the boundaries of the institution and that learning that also takes place out of the school matters even more. Teacher evaluations based on student performance has key measurement errors when results of one year show big scores by a teacher and subsequent years present a different story. Another error forwarded by the author is fade out which suggest that even if students benefit from highly evaluated teachers the effects fades out once they join other classes or graduates to different institutions of higher learning. Most important is the implementation challenge which paints the bigger picture, that the evaluation method may not be practically adapted in a system as it would mean the teachers with the highest scores remain working while the rest are left out of the program (pp.6-7). Thesis Education program logistics and Individual student love of education evaluations are better variables compared to teacher evaluation based on overall student performance. Following the November 20, 2013 article in the New York Times campaigning to recruit top students to become teachers more questions than answers in regard to educationist evaluation based on student performance...
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...learners and teachers of English and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) textbooks are three major inter-related elements in the process of present day education. Hutchinson, 1994 cited in (Evaluating an EFL textbook - A new English Course) states that, “The textbook is an almost universal element of ELT teaching”. Therefore, a textbook can be mentioned as a useful instrument which serves as a guide or an instructional manual for studying a particular subject. Against the common belief that students are the key in this direction, many scholars hold the view that textbooks are the heart of education with regard to the fact that both teachers and students are to a large extent dependent on the books (Sarem, S. N., Hamidi, H., Mahmoudie, R., 2013).Therefore, it is clear that a textbook facilitates the teaching and learning process and thus, is helpful both for the teacher and the students. Textbooks are compiled and developed because they are the most convenient means of providing the structure that the teaching-learning system requires. Textbooks are a good solution to overcome the weaknesses in teaching materials. Ansary and Babaii (2002) cited in (An Evaluation of English Language Textbook 'Say it in English' for first year intermediate Grade in South Arabia, 2012) state that, “Although the textbook is not the only tool for the teaching and learning process, it is still of a significant impact for achieving the language learning objectives. Since teachers find it difficult...
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...and Responsibilities of a Teacher In this assignment I will explain the teaching roles and responsibilities in education and training. “An effective teacher understands that teaching involves wearing multiple hats to ensure that the school day runs smoothly and all students receive a quality education.” (Woodward N, 2008) As a Teacher you have a wide range of roles and responsibilities the first I will discuss is Inclusive practice. To ensure you are respected and doing your job correctly you need to ensure you are including everyone equally and fairly in every lesson and practice you do, there are many reasons in teaching why you have to include inclusive practice your lessons, these include: “Inclusion is not bringing people into what already exists, it is making a new space, a better space for everybody” ( Olivero R, 2003) * Legal Requirement ( Equalities Act 2010) This act was brought into force in 2010 and ensures everyone is given the same rights when in education and training, a Teacher needs to ensure they are adhering to this at all times. * Every Child Matters 2003, This is another act that a teacher has to ensure they use as a teacher, This was introduced to help promote the well-being of children and young people. * Promotes a positive Learning Environment- This is crucial as you have a right to ensure every student you are teaching has the right to a positive learning experience free from exclusion. As a teacher I believe this is one of the...
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...Customer Inserts His/Her Name Customer Inserts Grade Course Customer Inserts Tutor’s Name Writer Inserts Date Here (Day, Month, Year) Student Test Scores used for indicating a School’s Competency Student’s test scores are regarded as a pivotal means of evaluating an institution’s progress relative to all other institutions. Traditionally, students securing high scores are considered as the apple of everyone’s eye and all the schools view them as their prized resources that are a means of enhancing the reputation of the institute (Astin, 5). This essay caters with a meticulous account of the extent to which test scores are beneficial in assessing a school’s competency. It highlights the factors affecting the evaluation based upon assessments of school competency level linked to student test scores. It also presents some alternative methods in deploying the use of test scores in a more accurate way in order to measure school competency thoroughly. Test Scores Indicate Proficiency of Learning at School Test scores are a useful tool in evaluating the performance of schools provided they are interpreted very carefully, keeping in mind the reasons and objectives of tests. A single test can only reflect a sample of skills; therefore, every score involves error to some extent. Majority of factors influence scores, particularly validity and reliability. If reliable tests are taken at regular intervals, they yield consistent results. Valid tests like the ones testing reading decoding...
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...weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of business. It can be used on companies, as well as on persons, to identify their internal and external elements, evaluate the overall conditions, and make strategies and future plans according to the results. As Simoneaux, and Stroud (2011) state in their article “SWOT Analysis: The Annual Check-Up for a Business” that one of the main benefits of the SWOT analysis is that it makes people thinking and preparing in advance to challenges, not the late solution to the problems(2011, p75). However, some people point out that because of the simplicity of either conducting the analysis or the analysis itself, the results of the SWOT analysis may not be as accurate as people think. Although SWOT analysis may not generate specific solutions to the existing or approaching problems, it still has the advantages of low cost, clarity of business‘s overall conditions, and the unlimitedness of applying to any kind of business. The one main advantage of SWOT analysis is the low cost. In recent marketplaces, nearly everyone can run a business as long as they have merchandises. However, because of the lack of professional knowledge, many of these company owners only have vague images of their businesses which would definitely slow down or even impede the future development of companies. Therefore, in order to access a better development and gain more market shares, they have to employ professionals to evaluate the value...
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...elementary school teachers prepare younger students for future schooling by teaching them basic subjects such as math and reading” (OOH). When teaching elementary school, teachers have to plan lessons for all subjects, since they will be the main teacher for their student’s all day. Monitoring progress, evaluating their abilities, and weaknesses is another task elementary teachers have to perform. Teachers must be willing to work with their...
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...boundaries would be as a teacher/trainer/tutor in terms of the teaching/training cycle. My role, responsibilities and boundaries: | - Use clear language at an appropriate level in terms my students will understand. - To be able to motivate students, continually research for new ideas relative to the subject. - To be enthusiastic and passionate as regards to the subject. - Approachable, available and open to discussion. - Manage the learning process from the start through to completion. - Assess students progress and give relevant feedback. - Keep a record of progress and assessments. - Not to become too familiar with students. - Make time available for student support. - Maintain student confidentiality. - Make sure that students welfare issues are addressed. - Students conduct i.a.w. acceptable classroom protocols and behaviour. | Guidance! How do/would you address the following aspects (A to H) when teaching adult learners? A. Assessing learning needs B. Planning and preparing teaching and learning programmes for groups and individuals. C. Developing and using a range of teaching and learning techniques. D. Managing the learning process. E. Providing the learner with support. F. Assessing the outcomes. G. Reflecting upon and evaluating one’s own performance and planning future practice. H. Meeting professional requirements A. Assessing learning needs | - The product required. The outcome of training to achieve. - Teacher Needs – requirements...
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...this learning organization to be a more professional learning community there will be numerous suggestions submitted that will make this change happen. Even though these changes will cause a great deal of pain and discomfort in some, overall the goals of this plan are to move the organization to the next level and make us a more acceptable educational institution. Hopefully, this will strengthen our capacity and we will be able to grow substantially because of these changes. As you may or may not know, the basis of many of these changes will be taken from suggestions made from the work of DuFour, DuFour, and Eaker’s research which has taken many years of research and development. These suggestions will serve as the framework into our new future and will serve us for years to come. The Professional Learning Communities (PLC) concept As a development design the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) concept will be employed as the foundation to the schools reorganization. How does and what exactly is PLC as it relates to reorganization will be described as follows: In order to better understand PLC a clearer view of learning organizations will assist in this process. Learning organizations are united by a shared vision of student and staff learning together. They have common values of respect, along with a caring and shared value system. These types of school communities are known as learner-centered oriented and are committed to constant improvement in the educational...
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...In it’s purest and simplest definition, academic performance monitoring encompasses any strategy a teacher uses to assess their students’ current level of understanding. Monitoring strategies can be used before, during, and after a lesson not only to provide feedback to the teacher but also to bring students to a higher level of concept mastery. Assessments are one strategy that are most commonly used at the end of a chapter or unit. However they can also be used at the before a unit to see if students have any prior knowledge about a topic. It is crucial that a teacher knows that objective ability that they are testing for, it could even be helpful to write a test based on the curriculum before planning the unit that way the learning objective for each lesson will correspond with concepts they will need to know for the test. This is not to say that you should teach directly to the questions test but to an ability or concept that both the lessons and the test address. For example, if a Biology teacher were to teach a unit on how predator-prey interactions create healthier populations of both predator and prey the example given in class could be of elk and wolves, whereas the question on the test may go like this, “From your understanding of predator-prey interactions explain why hunting is beneficial for both deer and human populations.” Assessments written in this manner will give you better evidence of concept attainment. Another monitoring strategy is often the most practical...
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...Oxford spires Academy will need to consider the following the work force plan this is to make sure that they have a good support of staff with the correct skills in order to cater for OSA needs and students. Therefore they may need new staff for a particular subject to make the subject grow and to provide students with the right learning of that particular subject. This can be essential in OSA as without the right amount of staff it can mean they will lack the ability to provide all the students with the right teaching and it can take time to work with everyone. If they were to have a big group due to less teachers for the business lessons it can meet not every students needs will be met and this have an effect on their overall performance. For example Cheney School were lacking enough teachers to teach ICT this then meant they struggle to provide students with the right teachers to teach them the subject and they couldn’t find anyone to teach the subject. Therefore the result of this meant the school had to get rid of the subject completely which affected the school as parents were not happy that students were...
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...FIELD STUDY 2 EPISODE 6 OBSERVATION: From my observation teachers in Masaya Elementary School have their different ways in asking question. Some teachers began her lesson by asking question to develop the learners’ critical thinking and for them to have an idea that they will be discussing. My resource teacher used motivation in starting her lesson for the learners to have an idea and for them to motivate to learn. Her motivation is actually followed by motive question that may help the learners to cope up the interest of the learners. While she ended the lesson by asking question for generalization to test if the learner does understand the lesson. The teacher asses the learning of the learners through the process of evaluating pupils understanding. Or by giving activity that may use in knowing the leaners understand. My resource teacher checked the learning of the learners by asking question to generalize the topic. ANALYSIS: The discussion must begin the lesson by giving motive question which is about the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior and to develop the critical thinking of the learners. The lesson end with summarizing and by asking question. There is a part of lesson developmentthat is FIELD STUDY I Observation Analysis Reflection FIELD STUDY 2 Observation Analysis Reflection TEACHING PHILOSOPHY Education is essential to change for education...
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...Learning Team A Mastering Teacher Leadership Case Study RES351 Chosen Cheng Aug 15 2013 Summary The Mastering Teacher Leadership case study is about a proposed change in licensure requirements for Ohio private and public school teachers. According the newly passed Ohio Department of Education Teacher Certification Standards, Educators are now required to have a Master’s Degree in order to renew their license. In order to gauge interest or reception to the changes, the Local Professional Development Committees sent surveys to new and existing educators who will be required to renew their license sometime in the future. Discussion Question 1 Building a research question hierarchy for this proposed change would require asking several in-depth questions such as: * Will the change result in increased technological literacy for both student and teachers? * Will the change build a framework and encourage educators to collaborate with other educators and community professionals? * Does having a Master’s Degree address classroom management issues of student social skills, moral education and discipline? * Would the change meet the diverse cognitive and social needs of students? Discussion Question 2 Upon evaluating the exploratory research design stage, the survey and the subsequent returns are deemed appropriate because the data was collected from the demographic that are relevant to the study. The LPDC sent a survey regarding the changes to certified educators...
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...Running Head: TOOLS OF CRITICAL THINKING Tools of Critical Thinking TS8004 - Information Technology Research and Practice 8/15/11 Abstract This paper reflects the differences between a peer-reviewed article and a popular media article. Both publications are desired references for future research. Peer-Reviewed Article A Conceptual Framework for Using and Evaluating Web-Based Learning Resources in School Education This article is regarding Web-based learning resources. This is important to my research as I’m leaning toward distant learning for minorities and the education gap it can help to bridle. Web-based learning resources gives teachers a wide range of new teaching experiences that are not possible in traditional classroom. This paper provides research in an area where little study has been done. The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework to explore the design and evaluation of Web-based learning resources in school education. The paper also examines the way in which the framework is used to evaluate students’ and teachers’ perceptions of Web-based learning resources by means of survey questionnaires. (Hadjerrouit, 2010) This paper is a source of refernce for my research as it provides an idea of Web-based learning resources that may be available fo minorities for Distant Education. Peer-Review Being a peer-reviewed article, I know that other scholars in this author's field has critically assessed the draft of this paper before it was publshed....
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... From that, they are awarded grades with A’s being the best signifying superior knowledge and F’s being the worst. Recently however, many have started to wonder how written evaluations instead may be more beneficial and thorough in assessing a student’s performance. Although I agree with written evaluations being a more suitable means of evaluating any student, let us first explore how written evaluations and the grading system vary in terms of providing quality assessment of students, time cost and finally how it may help in the working environment. Both the grading system and written evaluations vary in providing quality assessments of the students. The grading system mainly merely tests on the students understanding and grasp of concepts. However, as information is easily accessed from books and the internet, students may only be memorizing facts and vomiting them out on paper instead of properly understanding what they mean. Moreover, the grading system does not provide valuable input on which areas the students may be weak at and what he or she could improve on. Written evaluations on the other hand however would be provided by teachers that are familiar with the students. They would be able to give insight to the students on their performance based on their homework and in-class activity participation. This evaluation would also be handed to the students’ parents which would allow them to be active in their child’s development. The grading system is unarguably much easier...
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