Common Core Standards Christal Klinger EDU 520: Bishop Current Issues WebQuest: Session 4 A Christian Worldview of Common Core Standards Common Core standards at a national level, assist the education system by the establishment of academic expectations that students must satisfy to continue to the next grade level or graduate from high school, no matter the state or school district. With a set of standards, consistency occurs because all students’ are held to meet the same standards skill in
21 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK School of Education Bethel University MCKENZIE, TENNESSEE Our Vision Guided by the values of the Christian tradition, the education faculty encourages students to seek fulfillment in their personal, social, and religious lives. We provide the tools for developing integrity, leadership skills, and the desire to search for truth and knowledge throughout life. We promote critical thinking, effective communication, appreciation of cultural diversity
Teachers play an important role in society. They are responsible for educating children, the leaders of tomorrow. A teacher is recognised as one of the most influential people involved within the development of a child, responsible for the imparting of both social and academic knowledge. As an aspiring teacher it is important to reflect and critique on the professional identity of a teacher. We must understand the standards that are expected of teachers by revising policies such as the Melbourne
Discovering the relationship between the law and your school It is essential that educational administrators are knowledgeable of the legal structure challenging the issues in schools. In the United States of America, all school communities are governed by state and federal law. It is imperative that administrators are educated on law issues and legal decision-making as it pertains to their school, teachers, and students. Administrators encounter various issues on a day-to-day basis and it
The article’s statement indicates that the new school 's chancellor, C. Farina, wants to return balanced literacy program to NY schools. She refuses the evidence that “ the city’s Education Department turned away from balanced literacy several years ago amid concerns that it was unstructured and ineffective”. Besides, the education experts established that this approach is conflicting with the Common Core Standards. According to the article, the balanced literacy allows children
Salgarayev University of Toronto Introduction School principals practicing instructional leadership model plays a significant role in everyday’s life of an organization. They are usually responsible for the organizational aspects of an educational institution such as monitoring, managing, instructing, controlling, communicating which indirectly affect students’ learning. In fact, researchers have found that there was not a direct connection between the principals’ instructional leadership
Child Left Behind, the seed of standard based teaching took root and developed into greater endeavors like the Common Core Learning Standards. As each state has adopted these standards, teachers and students are becoming more aware and accustomed to using the standards every day in the classroom. In moving with this natural progression comes the notion of standards-based reporting and communication with parents. Schools are shifting from traditional to standards based reporting because it is a better
confidence interval (Walters and Marzano, 2006). That is, district leadership matters. “There is no such thing as a dysfunctional system, because every system is perfectly aligned to achieve the results it produces.” (Heifetz et.al., 2009) Educational Leadership As a leader it is important to recognize that my organizations outcomes are perfectly aligned with the system that is in place. To this end the leaders of the organization must understand his/her philosophy as a leader. It has been
There are discrepancies within the educational curriculum that are not culturally diverse when trying to close the achievement gap. This means through analyzing the evidence from 2002 No Child Left Behind Act, there may need to be a revision. When seeking detailed and comprehensive outcomes, Hess, Stover, Liston, Whitcomb, and Boroko (2007) highlighted the questionings or argument of, what would happen if we take our eyes off the goal(s)? The key aspect that speaks volume in gauging with students
students. The principles do the following: Principles 1-4 deals with the general premise of instruction using best practices, Principles 5-8 gives valuable information on heightening critical thinking skills, and higher order thinking skills, the teacher just works more as a facilitator – example SRAs and learning centers, Principles 9-12 offers information on offering environment that help students to advocate for themselves more, and to create a community within your classroom, Principle 13 dealt