Category » Teachers

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  Addressing dropout related factors at the local level: Recommendations for teachers

  1/1/08 - Smith, S.C.

  As educators and practitioners continue to seek effective interventions to prevent dropout, they must focus on identifying, monitoring, and addressing risk factors that are influenced by teachers (e.g., academic performance, peer and adult interactions, attendance, and behavior).

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  Approaches to evaluating teacher effectiveness: A research synthesis

  1/1/08 - Goe, E., Bell, C., Little, O.

  This research synthesis examines how teacher effectiveness is currently measured and provides practical guidance for how best to evaluate teacher effectiveness. It evaluates the research on teacher effectiveness and the different instruments used to measure it. In addition, it defines the components and indicators that characterize effective teachers, extending this definition beyond teachers' contribution to student achievement gains to include how teachers impact classrooms, schools, and...

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  Barriers to the preparation of highly qualified teachers in reading

  1/1/07 - Susan Smartt, Daniel Reschly

  This brief discusses scientifically based reading instruction in relation to federal policy mandates. It focuses on strategies and standards for ensuring that teachers are qualified to teach reading and provides recommendations for improving the teaching of reading.

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  Becoming Culturally Responsive Educators: Rethinking Teacher Education Pedagogy

  1/1/06 - Cathy Kea, Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley, Heraldo V. Richards

  This practitioner brief deals with designing teacher education programs (TEPs) that are mindful of student diversity. It applies to all teacher educators, teachers and parents. Despite the steadily increasing numbers of culturally and linguistically diverse student populations in schools, not all TEPs readily embrace multicultural education or culturally responsive teacher education pedagogy. In this brief, the authors demonstrate the need for rethinking current approaches to teacher...

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  Communication framework for measuring teacher quality and effectiveness: Bringing coherence tot he conversation

  1/1/07 - Coggshall, J.

  This communication framework was developed to promote effective dialogue about the measurement of teacher quality and effectiveness. It facilitates communication about policies regarding teacher effectiveness by helping to build a shared understanding of the terminology used in the discussion. Through a brief overview of teacher quality and the various instruments that can be used to collect evidence of its many facets, the framework illuminates both the possibilities and the limitations of...

• Coteaching

  Lisa Dieker

  This site deals with information on Co-teaching and the various ways in which this can be accomplished. There is even a discussion on how to do online collaboration so that those unable to do so within their current situation may find this option available.

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  Cultural Identity and Teaching

  1/1/05 - Kim Kennedy White, Shelley Zion, Elizabeth Kozleski

  This On Point is the second in a series of three On Points that explore issues around culture and teaching. The first On Point operationalizes the way in which NIUSI defines culture and how to think about educational settings and scenarios from the point of view of culture. While this On Point focuses on teacher’s identity, the third On Point in this series addresses how classrooms are enriched by the funds of knowledge and assets that children and their families bring with them from their...

• Field experience models

  The National Technical Assistance Center for Personnel Preparation in Special Education Minority Institutions of Higher Education (Monarch Center),

  These resources provide descriptions of field experiences approaches, models, and assignments that have been effective for use with future special education professionals. Discussions of challenges, barriers, and accomplishments are also included.

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  Great teachers, great teaching

  1/1/08 - Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning,

  This issue of Changing Schools examines what it takes to ensure that every child experiences the benefits of a great teacher, and that every teacher provides great teaching.

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  Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction:Results from the Second Year of a Randomized Controlled Study

  1/1/09 - Eric Isenberg , Steven Glazerman , Martha Bleeker , Amy Johnson , Julieta Lugo-Gil , Mary Grider , Sarah Dolfin , Edward Britton , Melanie Ali

  The report, Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Results from the Second Year of a Randomized Controlled Study, compares outcomes of teachers offered intensive induction activities with full-time mentors to those of teachers with less intensive, less structured induction activities using an experimental study design. This second report includes information from10 districts in which teachers were offered one year of comprehensive induction services ("one-year" districts) and 7...

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  Improving instruction through effective teacher evaluation: Options for states and districts

  1/1/08 - Mathers, C., Olivia, M., Laine, S.

  This brief discusses the measures used in teacher evaluation and focuses on their strengths, limitations, and current use. It underscores aspects of evaluation policies currently aligned with best practices and illuminates areas in which policymakers can improve evaluation rules, regulations, and implementation—thereby improving teacher instruction and student performance.

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  Improving literacy outcomes for English Language Learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework

  1/1/06 - Koelsch, N.

  This research brief outlines existing barriers regarding teacher expectations, tracking, and placement of English language learners and offers key policies and useful strategies in building capacity and developing learning environments conducive for all students in obtaining academic success.

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  Key issue: Increasing teacher retention to facilitate the equitable distribution of effective teachers

  1/1/09 - Lasagna, M.

  The term teacher retention refers to the ability to keep teachers on the job, thus reducing or eliminating teacher turnover. This Key Issue offers strategies to improve the retention of qualified and effective teachers in hard-to-staff schools.

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  Key issue: Preparing teachers effectively for at-risk schools

  1/1/09 - Lasagna, M.

  This Key Issue includes strategies used in the preparation of beginning teachers for at-risk schools.

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  Key issue: Recruiting teachers for schools serving english language learners

  1/1/09 - Garcia, P., Potemski, A.

  As the number of ELLs continues to grow in a more diverse range of districts, education leaders will have to develop creative and comprehensive recruitment strategies to ensure that all ELLs in the district can be served by highly qualified teachers. This Key Issue includes strategies and resources that can help.

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  Leading Gen Y teachers: Emerging strategies for school leaders

  1/1/09 - Behrstock, E., & Clifford, M.

  This brief provides research-based strategies for supporting and retaining Generation Y teachers. It examines the policies and practices that the private-sector has adopted to attract top Gen Y talent to their workplaces and applies these to 10 strategies for school leaders to support effective teachers. Each strategy is adapted to meet the particular workplace needs of Gen Y.