What makes a piece of performance feedback useful? | @YEC SmartBlogs - 0 views
Educational Leadership:Coaching: The New Leadership Skill:Every Teacher a Coach - 0 views
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Great coaches ask young athletes to go to "great heights" to challenge themselves. They take care to prepare the athlete for each stage of development, but they cannot eradicate risk because it's inseparable from growth. They can, however, intervene to ensure that the risk isn't so great that it outweighs the reward of accomplishment
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The best coaches encourage young people to work hard, keep going when it would be easier to stop, risk making potentially painful errors, try again when they stumble, and learn to love the sport. Not a bad analogy for a dynamic classroom.
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passionate about their sport and understand it deeply
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What if Finland's great teachers taught in U.S. schools? - 0 views
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The role of an individual teacher in a school is like a player on a football team: all teachers are vital, but the culture of the school is even more important for the quality of the school
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If a teacher was the most important single factor in improving quality of education, then the power of a school would indeed be stronger than children’s family background or peer influences in explaining student achievement in school.
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Most scholars agree that effective leadership is among the most important characteristics of effective schools, equally important to effective teaching. Effective leadership includes leader qualities, such as being firm and purposeful, having shared vision and goals, promoting teamwork and collegiality and frequent personal monitoring and feedback. Several other characteristics of more effective schools include features that are also linked to the culture of the school and leadership: Maintaining focus on learning, producing a positive school climate, setting high expectations for all, developing staff skills, and involving parents. In other words, school leadership matters as much as teacher quality.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Add Voice Comments to Google Documents - 1 views
Education Week: Measuring Teaching Effectiveness - 0 views
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ects to identify valid indicators of excellent teaching. These projects are examining the technical quality of several existing assessment instruments, and piloting early versions of new tools, from classroom evaluation tools, to pedagogical content-knowledge tests, to surveys of student perceptions. The data gathered on these tools will be compared with evidence of student outcomes, and combinations of measures will be simulated to determine which “multiple measures” might work best.
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ruments themselves or the means of collecting evidence. The quality must pervade how the measures are implemented, not just what measures are implemented.
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ns that classroom observation will require a substantial effort to provide adequate training for those who will evaluate, rigorous requirements to show that evaluators are applying scoring criteria consistently, and monitoring or quality-checking of scorers to make sure those judgments stay on track over time and in different classrooms.
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12 ways to keep your employees motivated, engaged and unified | SmartBlog on Leadership - 0 views
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Clearly define your vision
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when it’s clear and concise, post it in the places where employees can see important stuff like this.
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Give employees what they want and need.
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Red Shirting Kindergartners | Shanahan on Literacy - 1 views
The 3 Simple Strategies Google Uses to Help Its Employees Learn | Inc.com - 0 views
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They shard their activities into tiny actions and repeat them relentlessly. Each time, they observe what happens, make minor -- almost imperceptible -- adjustments, and improve. Ericsson refers to this as deliberate practice: intentional repetitions of similar, small tasks with immediate feedback, correction, and experimentation."
Science of Learning: Has video grading killed the dreaded red pen? - 0 views
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