Should PBL be the main course or the dessert? A long-standing axiom of PBL is that the placement of the methodology is critical to enabling students to learn content and skills at high levels and to emulate the "real world." PBL promotes authenticity by giving students the opportunities
Let the Students Become the Teachers The main premise of John Hattie’s Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement (2013) is that the most effective way for children to learn is for the teacher to guide students to become their own teachers.
Listen to Jenni Donohoo and Megan Tschannen-Moran discuss demystifying collective efficacy on the Leaders Coaching Leaders podcast with Peter DeWitt: What Is the #1 Factor Influencing Student Achievement?–Collective Teacher Efficacy! Amazing things happen when a school staff shares the belief that they are able to achieve collective
Power from Within Collective teacher efficacy (CTE), the perceptions of teachers in a school that the efforts of the faculty as a whole will have a positive effect on students (Bandura, 1977, 1986, & 1997), has a 1.57 effect size (Eells, 2011, Hattie, 2014). It
Walk into almost any classroom and you’ll observe teachers asking questions, calling on students who raise their hands, and evaluating the respondents’ answers as to their correctness. This right-answer orientation to classroom questioning relegates a potentially powerful assessment strategy to an uninviting, low-impact routine for
Schmoker (2007) shares a quote related to PBL that is typically held up as an example of the model teacher making the changes necessary for students to be competitive in the Unites States: He [a teacher] is always innovating. He has initiated interdisciplinary teaching, heavy use of technology, hands-on activities, and
Behavior improvement plans have been a part of the special education world for many years now and are helpful in supporting students with special education services related to behavior and progress monitoring the federally mandated supports that must be in place for students with medical
Contributed by Kathleen Fulton As the school year comes to an end, teachers deserve a big pat on the back for a job well done. Most teachers are naturally thinking back on what worked with their kids this year, and what they hope to do better