This article discusses different strategies to close achievement gaps for all schools and districts. It discusses supports in the classroom, how we can outreach for parents at home, what can be don...
https://diigo.com/0bjr6v This article provides instructional strategies for language arts teachers trying to teach writing to their students. While it is well-known that teaching by example is an ...
https://journals.tdl.org/absel/index.php/absel/article/viewFile/90/86 This article provides insight into using SMART goals within the classroom. This includes an explanation of how SMART goals ha...
My SMART goal is for students in mathematics to understand and identify numbers using tens and ones. Therefore, this connects to it because it gives information when you have been trying everything...
Haycock, K. (2003). Closing the Achievement Gap. Helping All Students Achieve, 6-11. Available online at http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar01/vol58/num06/Closing-the-Achie...
http://www.csos.jhu.edu/pubs/edweek/JESPAR%20Closing%20Achievement%20Gap%20Re-Print.pdf In this article, it explores a few reasons why students from high poverty and at- risk minority are falling...
http://www.gram.edu/sacs/qep/chapter%204/4_1EducationAlliance.pdf Education, T. A. (2006). Closing the Achievement Gap: Best Practices In Teaching Mathematics. Charleston, WV: www.educatio...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/12/24/we-are-trying-to-close-the-achievement-gap-all-wrong-teacher/ This article expresses an educators teaching experienced and what they ...
This article provides insight in world education and how, by the implementation of four strategies, any society can offer the best teachers. The evidence described comes from 45 countries who consi...
I chose this article because I think it gives an approachable method for teachers to use in talking about data with other teachers. I also like the methods like the ones practiced in notice and won...
http://webphysics.iupui.edu/papers/jcst_warmup_paper.pdf This is Lauren's selection for this week. Although not everything described in this article applies necessarily to all subjects, the idea...
http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.umuc.edu/10.1016/j.compedu.2009.09.019
This article is about how students especially minorities, ELL's, and from low socio- economic levels need teachers to understand how while limiting gaps is important call for a fundamental shift on...
This article discussed the importance for teachers to have appropriate, specialized trainings and development in order to close the achievement gap. It discussed 4 key elements, they think, need to...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/12/24/we-are-trying-to-close-the-achievement-gap-all-wrong-teacher/?utm_term=.863fb161ff3b This is an interesting article to read. This is ...
https://www.uab.edu/medicine/obgynresidency/images/PDFs/Handbooks/Writing_SMART_Goals.pdf This article focuses on the steps to take when making a SMART goal and when it is important to make a goal.
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1135994.pdf This article focuses on the importance of teacher's setting goals to progress through their careers. Additionally, events (controllable and uncont...
My SMART goal is to have students identify and represent numbers in base ten, I think that this article really opens many doors on what different things I can do with this indicator/goal in order t...
"Low-performing fourth-graders do poorly in writing tests given by computer, but high-performing students do better" What if the reason why students are struggling with writing assignments is how ...
