Download or read book Effects of Elementary General Education Teachers Special Education Teachers and Math Interventionists Collaborating in a Professional Learning Community written by Jennifer Rae Brown Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative research study examined how math interventionists and special education teachers collaborated with general education teachers. I focused on improving access to the core general education mathematics curriculum for elementary students with mathematics difficulty. Differing educational perspectives, divergent learning theories, and instructional approaches, as well as various curriculum materials, make collaboration between multiple teachers complex work. To foster collaboration and attend to the instructional needs of students with mathematics difficulty, I provided an eight-week professional development series. The series included the following topics: developing co-teaching roles and responsibilities, understanding principles of Cognitively Guided Instruction, understanding the Five Practices, creating rich math tasks, and using a multi-tiered system of support so students with mathematics difficulty could improve understandings. Data collected included interviews and observations before and after the professional development, as well as audio recordings during collaboration meetings and during professional learning community meetings. I found that for the teachers in this study, teachers' perception of student need and teachers' ability to create a learning trajectory affected the co-teaching relationship. I found that when participating teachers co-designed instruction by reframing math tasks and planned using the Five Practices, they focused on instruction to help students with mathematics difficulty attend to gaps in understandings. I also found that professional development supported math instruction through lesson summary enactment and lesson summary discourse patterns. Providing focused and intentional instruction, so students address and resolve mathematics difficulty is a worthy and important goal. This study endeavored to highlight ways mathematics educators and teacher leaders can support teachers and students who have mathematical difficulties.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elementary Mathematics Specialists written by Maggie B. McGatha and published by IAP. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elementary mathematics specialists are teacher leaders who are responsible for supporting effective PK–6 mathematics instruction and student learning. The Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE), the Association of State Supervisors of Mathematics, the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, in a 2010 joint position paper on Elementary Mathematics Specialists (EMSs), all advocate for the use of EMSs to support the teaching and learning of mathematics. The specific roles and expectations of EMSs will vary according to the needs of each setting, “but their expertise and successful experience at the elementary level is critical” (p 1). Elementary Mathematics Specialists: Developing, Refining, and Examining Programs that Support Mathematics Teaching and Learning is AMTE’s latest resource supporting the important work of EMSs. It has five sections related to the preparation and professional development of EMSs: (a) Overview and Current State of Affairs; (b) Models of EMS Program Development & Delivery; (c) Supporting EMSs in the Field; (d) The Mathematics Specialist Research; and (e) Future Directions. The book provides support to EMS practitioners, program providers/developers, and researchers seeking to answer important questions about how to prepare Mathematics Specialists, support them in the field, and research their effectiveness.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Index to Journals in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Professional Learning Communities at Work written by Richard DuFour and published by Solution Tree. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides specific information on how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities, describing the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.
Download or read book The Science of Learning and Development written by Pamela Cantor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential text unpacks major transformations in the study of learning and human development and provides evidence for how science can inform innovation in the design of settings, policies, practice, and research to enhance the life path, opportunity and prosperity of every child. The ideas presented provide researchers and educators with a rationale for focusing on the specific pathways and developmental patterns that may lead a specific child, with a specific family, school, and community, to prosper in school and in life. Expanding key published articles and expert commentary, the book explores a profound evolution in thinking that integrates findings from psychology with biology through sociology, education, law, and history with an emphasis on institutionalized inequities and disparate outcomes and how to address them. It points toward possible solutions through an understanding of and addressing the dynamic relations between a child and the contexts within which he or she lives, offering all researchers of human development and education a new way to understand and promote healthy development and learning for diverse, specific youth regardless of race, socioeconomic status, or history of adversity, challenge, or trauma. The book brings together scholars and practitioners from the biological/medical sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, educational science, and fields of law and social and educational policy. It provides an invaluable and unique resource for understanding the bases and status of the new science, and presents a roadmap for progress that will frame progress for at least the next decade and perhaps beyond.
Download or read book Handbook of Effective Literacy Instruction written by Barbara M. Taylor and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly readable handbook synthesizes the best research on K-8 literacy instruction and distills key implications for classroom practice. Noted contributors provide clear recommendations for creating effective, motivating classroom environments; teaching core components of literacy; integrating literacy with content-area instruction; and building a schoolwide literacy program that helps all students succeed. Helpful figures, tables, resource lists, reflection questions, and concrete examples from real classrooms make the book an ideal tool for teacher training and professional development. Numerous reproducible worksheets and checklists can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.
Download or read book PLC written by Douglas Fisher and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a powerful and results-driven Professional Learning Community (PLC)? The answer is collaborative work that expands the emphasis on student learning and leverages individual teacher efficacy into collective teacher efficacy. PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design calls for strong and effective PLCs plus—and that plus is YOU. Until now, the PLC movement has been focused almost exclusively on students and what they were or were not learning. But keeping student learning at the forefront requires that we also recognize the vital role that you play in the equation of teaching and learning. This means that PLCs must take on two additional challenges: maximizing your individual expertise, while harnessing the power of the collaborative expertise you can develop with your peers. PLC+ is grounded in four cross-cutting themes—a focus on equity of access and opportunity, high expectations for all students, a commitment to building individual self-efficacy and the collective efficacy of the professional learning community and effective team activation and facilitation to move from discussion to action. The PLC+ framework supports educators in considering five essential questions as they work together to improve student learning: Where are we going? Where are we now? How do we move learning forward? What did we learn today? Who benefited and who did not benefit? The PLC+ framework leads educators to question practices as well as outcomes. It broadens the focus on student learning to encompass educational equity and teaching efficacy, and, in doing so, it leads educators to plan and implement learning communities that maximize individual expertise while harnessing the power of collaborative efficacy.
Download or read book What Works in Schools written by Robert J. Marzano and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2003 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools can and do affect student achievement, and this book recommends specific-and attainable-action steps to implement successful strategies culled from the wealth of research data.
Download or read book Strategies for Teaching Learners with Special Needs written by Edward A. Polloway and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2005 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, non-categorical special education methods book retains the key features that have made it a bestseller within the special education field for more than 20 years. The authors give substantial coverage to generic methods and to all curricular content areas. In the new edition increased emphasis is given to effective, research based teaching strategies that will enable students with special needs to be successful in any classroom environment-inclusive classrooms, resource, and self-contained classrooms.
Download or read book The Impact of Co teaching on Mathematics Achievement of Middle School General Education Students written by Jarrod Bingham and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To accommodate the presence of special education students in general education classrooms, many schools have implemented collaborative teaching or co-teaching, a model in which two or more teachers share responsibility for a group of students. While myriad research has demonstrated that this model benefits special education students, very little researchers have examined the effect of co-teaching upon the general education student, who often outnumber the special education students. The purpose of this quantitative causal-comparative study was to investigate co-teaching’s impact upon the mathematic achievement of general education students. The independent variable in this study was students’ placement into either a) co-teacher classrooms or b) single teacher classrooms. The dependent variable was students’ scores on the STARâ assessment by Renaissance Learningâ. Students’ scores on a previous administration of the test were covariates in the study. In addition to making the aforementioned comparison, the researcher looked for significant differences between the test scores of cotaught females and cotaught males. The researcher used an ANCOVA to run these analyses and observed no significant difference between the test scores of the treatment and control groups. The results also failed to yield a significant difference between the males and the females. While there was no significant difference among the general education students, the researcher implied that the fact that general education students did not perform at a significantly lower level might actually validate the collaborative teaching model. Future researchers should consider either duplicating this study with a larger, more diverse sample or conduct a similar study that also examines the efficacy with which collaborative teaching is being implemented.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bridging the Gap Between Arithmetic Algebra written by Bradley S. Witzel and published by Council For Exceptional Children. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although two federal panels have concluded that all students can learn mathematics and most can succeed through Algebra 2, the abstractness of algebra and missing precursor understandings may be overwhelming to many students … and their teachers. Bridging the Gap Between Arithmetic & Algebra responds to this need for instruction and interventions that go beyond typical math lesson plans. Providing a review of evidence-based practices, the book is an essential reference for mathematics teachers and special education teachers when teaching mathematics to students who struggle with the critical concepts and skills necessary for success in algebra. Audiences: General education (mathematics) teachers, special education teachers, administrators, teacher educators.
Download or read book A Guide for ensuring inclusion and equity in education written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Activating the Untapped Potential of Neurodiverse Learners in the Math Classroom written by David Johnston and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All students deserve access to a rich and meaningful math curriculum. This book guides middle and high school teachers toward providing all learners – including neurodiverse students – with the support necessary to engage in rewarding math content. Students who receive special education services often experience a limited curriculum through practices that create long-term disadvantages and increase gaps in learning. The tools and strategies in this book help teachers better understand their students to move them closer to their potential. Chapters include differentiation, assessment, classroom structure, and learning targets. Both general education math teachers who have not been trained in special education support and special education teachers with a limited background in standards-based math pedagogy will learn new skills to improve their teaching from this practical resource.
Download or read book The Effectiveness of a Professional Learning Community on Student Achievement in Elementary Reading and Mathematics in a Large Urban School District written by Jacqueline Hayles Landry and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study was to determine the impact of a Professional Learning Community on student achievement as measured by the state's criterion referenced reading and mathematics achievement tests. Data for this study were extracted from the school district's student database. Two cohorts of 90 students each were randomly selected from a population of approximately 600 students in 3 schools that participated in a Professional Learning Community (treatment) and 3 schools that did not (control). Professional Learning Communities known as PLCs, can serve as a major theoretical framework to promote the improvement of classroom teachers' instructional practice, teacher effectiveness and student achievement. Reading and mathemtics mean scale scores were extracted at three time points (year 1, year 2, and year 3) across three grades (grade 3, grade 4 and grade 5). Test for equality of variance found that no statistically significant difference existed between the mean scale scores of the two cohorts at the beginning of the study. The findings revealed that both cohorts trend toward increased academic achievement from year to year individually; however, when compared to each other, no statistically significant difference existed. Further research is indicated to examine each PLC for implementation, support and leadership as they relate to the PLC and a focus on instruction and learning.
