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www.tie.n et The Highly Effective Teacher’s Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap facilitated by: Maggie Austin & Doug Rowe
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The Highly Effective Teacher’s Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap facilitated by: Maggie Austin & Doug Rowe
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Outcomes: • Participants will gain an awareness and appreciation of the principles of Teaching as Leadership.
• Participants will consider using these resources to enhance their professional growth.
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The goal of Dakota ASSETS is to recruit, prepare, certify, and retain highly qualified candidates to fill teaching shortages in South Dakota high-need schools.
This program is funded by the U.S. Department of Education and is being implemented by TIE via partnerships with the following entities:
Sinte Gleska University Oglala Lakota College
SD High Need
Schools
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Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates who commit two years to teach in low-income communities and become life-long leaders for expanding educational opportunity. Starting in the Fall of 2004, Teach For America has placed teachers in South Dakota in Todd County, Crazy Horse, Little Wound, American Horse, and Saint Francis.
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Over the past decade, Teach For America has identified teachers whose students have achieved significant academic gains in highly challenging contexts – progress well beyond what would have been expected in a single year.
Teacher effectiveness is based on the academic growth of their students
Limited academic gains
Solid academic
gains Significant academic gains
Dramatic academic gains & impact
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WHAT DISTINGUISHES HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TEACHERS?Researchers used an array of iterative quantitative and qualitative studies:• Observations & debriefs• Co-investigative reflective sessions• Teacher surveys• Teacher interviews• Videos• Samples of classroom visuals• Review of lesson plans
and other materialsSignificant academic gains
Dramatic academic gains
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http://www.teachingasleadership.org
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Teaching As Leadership FrameworkSet Big Goals
Invest Students and Families
Plan Purposefully
ExecuteEffectively
Continuously Increase Effectiveness
Work Relentlessly
Setting measurable, standards:aligned ambitious, goals for student achievement
Instilling “I Can” in students
Instilling “I Want” in students
Using role models
Reinforcing academic efforts
Creating a welcoming environment
Mobilizing students’ families and influencers
Developing assessments
Long-term and unit-planning (backwards design)
Lesson planning
Differentiating
Developing behavioral management plans
Designing classroom procedures and systems
Clearly presenting academic content
Managing student practice
Checking for understanding
Reinforcing rules and consequences
Implementing time-saving procedures
Tracking student performance
Gauging progress and gaps
Identifying contributing student actions
Identifying contributing teacher actions
Identifying underlying factors
Accessing relevant meaningful learning experiences
Adjusting course
Persisting in the face of challenges
Expanding time and resources
Sustaining energy
Highly Effective Teachers Employ Six Fundamental Principles, Collectively Labeled Teaching As Leadership.
Six fundamental principles
Twenty-eight specific teacher actions
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80% of my students will master 80% of the math standards for this grade level.• Yes, it does represent a goal that is measureable and meaningful.• Yes, you agree that learning is more than success on district, state, or national
tests. But they do help teachers determine where their students are at the beginning of the year and how much progress they have made over the year.
• However, this goal sets the expectation that it won’t be the case that all of what is presented in math will be successfully learned.
• And it sets the expectation that some students are not going to be successful.
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When I taught, my classroom rule was:
“I would treat students fairly and in turn I expected to be treated fairly by them.”
After reading this book, I would enhance my classroom rule. It always bothered me that students at this age were so cruel to each other, but yet ….
Example from page 136
Respect
Persistence
Empathy
Integrity Responsibility
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Outcomes: • Participants will gain an awareness and appreciation of the principles of Teaching as Leadership.
• Participants will consider using these resources to enhance their professional growth.
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Maggie Austin: 605-394-1876 [email protected] Doug Rowe: 605-394-1876 [email protected]
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