Alternate Route To School Effectiveness And Student Achievement

Author : Patrick Chudi Okafor
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1475930461

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Alternate Route to School Effectiveness and Student Achievement by Patrick Chudi Okafor Pdf

While socioeconomic status does affects students success, both in academics and in future status in adult life, it does not have to be the only deciding factor. In his study, Alternate Route to School Effectiveness and Student Achievement, Dr. Patrick Chudi Okafor discusses the need to enhance school climate as an alternate to socioeconomic status in promoting students success. He also investigates the climate in New York City public schools as the means of schools survival, development, and growth, as it affects both school effectiveness and student academic achievement. He further considers schools, teachers, parents, communities, and governments with respect to their roles in students academic development and growth.These considerations, among others, led Dr. Okafor to offer solutions to the issue of failure associated with low socioeconomic status at a time when more children are falling within this bracket and the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen. A quality learning environment presents a strong stimulus for societal change, development, and growth. By basing the overarching framework of his study on openness of the school and family systems, Dr. Okafor builds on the idea behind the saying, It takes a village to raise a child. The academic relationship between the home and the school must be improved to guarantee sustainable student academic performance and the home climate is a major contributor to what children bring to school, just as the school climate is a major determinant to how it is transformed.

Author : Patrick Chudi Okafor
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475930450

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Alternate Route to School Effectiveness and Student Achievement by Patrick Chudi Okafor Pdf

While socioeconomic status does affects students' success, both in academics and in future status in adult life, it does not have to be the only deciding factor. In his study, Alternate Route to School Effectiveness and Student Achievement, Dr. Patrick Chudi Okafor discusses the need to enhance school climate as an alternate to socioeconomic status in promoting students' success. He also investigates the climate in New York City public schools as the means of schools' survival, development, and growth, as it affects both school effectiveness and student academic achievement. He further considers schools, teachers, parents, communities, and governments with respect to their roles in students' academic development and growth.These considerations, among others, led Dr. Okafor to offer solutions to the issue of failure associated with low socioeconomic status at a time when more children are falling within this bracket and the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen. A quality learning environment presents a strong stimulus for societal change, development, and growth. By basing the overarching framework of his study on openness of the school and family systems, Dr. Okafor builds on the idea behind the saying, "It takes a village to raise a child". The academic relationship between the home and the school must be improved to guarantee sustainable student academic performance and "the home climate" is a major contributor to what children bring to school, just as "the school climate" is a major determinant to how it is transformed.

Author : Pam Grossman,Susanna Loeb
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781612500454

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Alternative Routes to Teaching by Pam Grossman,Susanna Loeb Pdf

Over the past 20 years, alternative certification for teachers has emerged as a major avenue of teacher preparation. The proliferation of new pathways has spurred heated debate over how best to recruit, prepare, and support qualified teachers. Alternative Routes to Teaching provides a thorough and dispassionate review of the research evidence on alternative certification. It takes readers beyond the simple dichotomies that have characterized the debate over alternative certification, encourages them to look carefully at the trade-offs implicit in any route into teaching, and suggests ways to “marry” the proven strengths of both traditional and alternative approaches.

Author : Frances A. Levin,Mary Alice McCullough
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Classroom management
ISBN : 0132316374

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Guide for Alternate Route Teachers by Frances A. Levin,Mary Alice McCullough Pdf

"New teachers get a wealth of advice and hands-on strategies for navigating through their first year of teaching-a first step that helps them understand the context of a classroom, develop effective classroom management skills, and successfully face the many and varied challenges of teaching in today's diverse classrooms. This resource addresses all of the important issues new teachers and alternate route teachers face as they enter their first classrooms-assessment, unit and lesson planning and design, and literacy instruction across the grades and content areas, including two chapters about literacy instruction with a focus on teaching students to read write, think, view, and speak well. "--Publisher.

Author : Nancy Frey,John Hattie,Douglas Fisher
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506390611

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Developing Assessment-Capable Visible Learners, Grades K-12 by Nancy Frey,John Hattie,Douglas Fisher Pdf

“When students know how to learn, they are able to become their own teachers.” —Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and John Hattie Imagine students who describe their learning in these terms: “I know where I’m going, I have the tools I need for the journey, and I monitor my own progress.” Now imagine the extraordinary difference this type of ownership makes in their progress over the course of a school year. This illuminating book shows how to make this scenario an everyday reality. With its foundation in principles introduced in the authors’ bestselling Visible Learning for Literacy, this resource delves more deeply into the critical component of self-assessment, revealing the most effective types of assessment and how each can motivate students to higher levels of achievement.

Author : Linda Darling-Hammond,ANN LIEBERMAN
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136729973

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High Quality Teaching and Learning by Linda Darling-Hammond,ANN LIEBERMAN Pdf

This book brings together and compares the teacher education policies and practices of eight high-achieving countries to consider what creates high-quality teachers in today's world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000004837633

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leonidas Kyriakides,Bert Creemers,Evi Charalambous
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319720661

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Equity and Quality Dimensions in Educational Effectiveness by Leonidas Kyriakides,Bert Creemers,Evi Charalambous Pdf

This book aims to make a contribution to the theory, research and practice on quality and equity in education by providing a comprehensive overview of these two dimensions of educational effectiveness and proposing a methodological instrument that may be used to measure the contribution that each school can make to promoting equity. The importance of using this instrument is demonstrated by analysing results of various effectiveness studies conducted over the last decade. The book draws upon research across the world, especially research conducted in the Europe, the United States, and Australasia. It is shown that promoting equity has no negative effect on the promotion of quality. The importance of using this methodological instrument to identify factors that promote both quality and equity at different educational levels (i.e. teacher, school and educational system) is stressed. The book also demonstrates how we can measure stability and changes in the effectiveness status of schools over time in terms of fostering quality and equity. In addition it underlines the importance of identifying factors measuring changes in the effectiveness status of schools in terms of equity and points to the alternative strategies that can be used at school and system level. In our attempt to encourage the further development and use of this methodology for school improvement purposes, we demonstrate how experimental studies can be conducted to discover whether and under which conditions the proposed methodology can help schools promote both quality and equity. Finally, implications for school evaluation, research, educational policy and practice are drawn. In this way, the book contributes significantly to the debate on how quality and equity can be achieved and encourages policy-makers and practitioners not to view these two dimensions of effectiveness as being in competition with each other but as constituting the major objectives of any reform policy and/or improvement effort at school and/or national levels.

Author : James Stronge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317926290

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Effective Teachers=Student Achievement by James Stronge Pdf

Research has shown that there is no greater influence on a student's success than the quality of his or her teacher. This book presents the research findings which demonstrate the connection between teacher effectiveness and student achievement. Author James Stronge describes and explains the value-added teacher-assessment research that has emerged in the past decade and demystifies the power and practices of effective teachers.

Author : Gary Sykes,Barbara Schneider,David N. Plank
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135856472

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Handbook of Education Policy Research by Gary Sykes,Barbara Schneider,David N. Plank Pdf

Co-published by Routledge for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Educational policy continues to be of major concern. Policy debates about economic growth and national competitiveness, for example, commonly focus on the importance of human capital and a highly educated workforce. Defining the theoretical boundaries and methodological approaches of education policy research are the two primary themes of this comprehensive, AERA-sponsored Handbook. Organized into seven sections, the Handbook focuses on (1) disciplinary foundations of educational policy, (2) methodological perspectives, (3) the policy process, (4) resources, management, and organization, (5) teaching and learning policy, (6) actors and institutions, and (7) education access and differentiation. Drawing from multiple disciplines, the Handbook’s over one hundred authors address three central questions: What policy issues and questions have oriented current policy research? What research strategies and methods have proven most fruitful? And what issues, questions, and methods will drive future policy research? Topics such as early childhood education, school choice, access to higher education, teacher accountability, and testing and measurement cut across the 63 chapters in the volume. The politics surrounding these and other issues are objectively analyzed by authors and commentators. Each of the seven sections concludes with two commentaries by leading scholars in the field. The first considers the current state of policy design, and the second addresses the current state of policy research. This book is appropriate for scholars and graduate students working in the field of education policy and for the growing number of academic, government, and think-tank researchers engaged in policy research. For more information on the American Educational Research Association, please visit: http://www.aera.net/.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Teacher effectiveness
ISBN : MINN:31951D03628943R

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Education Reforms by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Pdf

Author : Dick Arends,Ann Kilcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135239978

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Teaching for Student Learning by Dick Arends,Ann Kilcher Pdf

Teaching for Student Learning: Becoming an Accomplished Teacher shows teachers how to move from novice to expert status by integrating both research and the wisdom of practice into their teaching. It emphasizes how accomplished teachers gradually acquire and apply a broad repertoire of evidence-based teaching practices in the support of student learning. The book’s content stems from three major fields of study: 1) theories and research on how people learn, including new insights from the cognitive and neurosciences; 2) research on classroom practices shown to have the greatest effect on student learning; and 3) research on effective schooling, defined as school-level factors that enhance student achievement and success. Although the book’s major focus is on teaching, it devotes considerable space to describing how students learn and how the most effective and widely-used models of teaching connect to principles of student learning. Specifically, it describes how research on teaching, cognition, and neuroscience converge to provide an evidence-based "science of learning" which teachers can use to advance their practice. Key features include the following: Evidence-Based Practice – This theme is developed through: 1) an ongoing review and synthesis of research on teaching and learning and the resulting guidelines for practice and 2) boxed research summaries within the chapters. Instructional Repertoire Theme – Throughout the book teaching is viewed as an extremely complex activity that requires a repertoire of instructional strategies that, once mastered, can be drawn upon to fit specific classrooms and teaching situations. Standards-based School Environments – Education today is dominated by standards-based school environments. Unlike competing books, this one describes these environments and shows how they impact curriculum design and learning activities. The objective is to show how teachers can make standards-based education work for them. Pedagogical Features – In addition to an end-of-book glossary, each chapter contains research boxes, reflection boxes, itemized end-of-chapter summaries, and end-of-chapter learning activities. Website – An accompanying website contains a variety of field-oriented and site-based activities that teachers can do alone or with colleagues.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Educational evaluation
ISBN : IND:30000057308755

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Gifted Students and Inclusion by Anonim Pdf

Contains journal articles and excerpts from books published between 1993 and 1996.

Author : Drew Gitomer,Courtney Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1553 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780935302486

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Handbook of Research on Teaching by Drew Gitomer,Courtney Bell Pdf

The Fifth Edition of the Handbook of Research on Teachingis an essential resource for students and scholars dedicated to the study of teaching and learning. This volume offers a vast array of topics ranging from the history of teaching to technological and literacy issues. In each authoritative chapter, the authors summarize the state of the field while providing conceptual overviews of critical topics related to research on teaching. Each of the volume's 23 chapters is a canonical piece that will serve as a reference tool for the field. The Handbook provides readers with an unaparalleled view of the current state of research on teaching across its multiple facets and related fields.

Author : Howard P. McKeon
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780756710071

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Developing and Maintaining a High-Quality Teacher Force by Howard P. McKeon Pdf

Witnesses: Emily Feistritzer, Executive Director, Center for Educational Information, Wash., DC; Katrina Robertson Reed, Associate Superintendent for Administrative Services, District of Columbia Public Schools, Wash., DC; Robert Strauss, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; Beverly Young, Associate Director for Teacher Education and K-12 Programs, California State University, Long Beach, CA; and Marci Kanstoroom, Research Director, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, and Research Fellow, Manhattan Institute, Washington, DC.