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The purpose of the research presented in the study is twofold: (1) to summarize findings through a comprehensive review of the teacher leadership literature and (2) to develop a conceptual framework based on that summary that can guide both current practice and future inquiry about teacher leadership. Teacher leadership has been defined in a ...
First, “leadership is second only to classroom instruction among all school-related factors that contribute to what students learn at school” (p. 7). Second, “leadership effects are usually largest where and when they are needed most” (p. 7). Without a powerful leader, troubled schools are unlikely to be turned around.
Too much homework may diminish its effectiveness. While research on the optimum amount of time students should spend on homework is limited, there are indications that for high school students, 1½ to 2½ hours per night is optimum. Middle school students appear to benefit from smaller amounts (less than 1 hour per night).
School-Based Risk Factors. A school in which students are performing at a much higher (or much lower) level than might be predicted using such standard measures as family SES is often described as an “outlier.”. Studies of outlier schools have overwhelmingly concentrated on positive outlier schools. Variously referred to as studies of ...
The primary focus of phonics instruction is to help beginning readers understand how letters are linked to sounds (phonemes The smallest parts of spoken language that combine to form words. ) to form letter-sound correspondences and spelling patterns Refers to digraphs, vowel pairs, word families, and vowel variant spellings.
School Culture: The Hidden Curriculum. By: Craig D. Jerald. Walk into any truly excellent school and you can feel it almost immediately — a calm, orderly atmosphere that hums with an exciting, vibrant sense of purposefulness. This is a positive school culture, the kind that improves educational outcomes.
Beyond leadership, Leu says that revamped curricula and preservice teacher education will support teaching new literacies to students. “We’ve got to coach current teachers to become newly literate, understand how to use the Internet, so they can pass along a lot of those skills, and then we have to implement effective instructional models ...
Effective Practices for Homework. By: Kathy Ruhl, Charles Hughes. A review of the research on the effective use of homework for students with learning disabilities suggests that there are three big ideas for teachers to remember: (1) the best use of homework is to build proficiency in recently acquired skills or to maintain skills previously ...
Teachers can further strengthen their instruction and protect their students’ valuable time in school by scientifically evaluating claims about teaching methods and recognizing quality research when they see it. This booklet, distilled from the monograph Using Research and Reason in Education: How Teachers Can Use Scientifically Based ...
Common myths about 21st-century literacies. Myth: 21st-century literacy The ability to understand oral language, read fluently, and write well. is about technology only. Reality: Although technology is important to literacy in the new century, other dimensions of learning are essential.