Improving Student Learning And Achievement

What were the learning outcomes for the lesson? How did the learning outcomes meet the needs of individual students?

Engaging students in the classroom can be a difficult task. Understanding the process of how students learn can help a teacher adapt the lesson to meet the needs of all students. I will encounter students that are not intrinsically motivated so I will need to find different ways to motivate each and every student. Understanding how my students learn can provide me with insights as to how to help each student learn which will minimize classroom management problems.

Year-End Progress Update - Describe the final results of your action plan and how successful you were in meeting your goal and impacting student achievement.

Student achievement for children is dependent upon the mental processes that are developed and nurtured through educators, culture, and society. Society plays a major role in cognitive human growth and development. It is important for educators to understand that children need opportunities to develop and expand their cognitive abilities. Vygotsky’s theory about mental tools suggest that every child has the ability to develop skills that will enable them to think in complex ways.

The biggest area of need I identified from the survey and discussed with my administrator was the ongoing, “formal, extensive” professional development in

Schools recognise that highly effective teaching practices are the key to improving student learning. Planning and delivering sessions with differentiated outcomes and activities is particularly crucial for enabling learners with literacy, language, numeracy and ICT needs to achieve. Separating schemes of work and lesson plans will meet the individual needs, aims and experiences of learners.

After reviewing my data, I found that there was a modest increase in student achievement. There was a 6% increase in student scores from the pretest to the first quiz of the section. Although it is technology incomplete data because we have not finished the chapter, I feel that this is a good start. I believe this came from two areas. The first is that students were doing more hands on work which, in economics, is important for students to have a good understanding of the material and theories. The second reason is that I put in more time to better understand and teach these economic theories. Obviously, if I am better able to communicate the material to my students, they will have an easier time understanding it. Comparing last years SLO

Time for teachers to collaborate and improve their own practice. Teachers should be supported with the resources and skills to provide high quality tier 1 practices. The professional environment should be safe, one where teachers can express concern and ask for support, without it being punitive.

Understand How the Students Learn: All students do not learn the same way. There are a few theorist who decided that there were certain ways students learned. Some are teacher centered and others students centered. I myself believe heavily in the behaviorist theory, because I feel that the classroom is a more controlled environment. That theory was the way that worked for me best as a student, however; I understand that times are changing, more classes are student centered. The way that I have decided to combine the two to first figure out what will best work for my students. They may learn better by constructing their own knowledge through research or working together with others to build onto what they already know. I will be sure to expose

technology. At the same time, we must give every student access to a college degree.

I have lived in Morgan Township my whole life and went to Morgan Elementary as a child. Through these years I have seen first hand how much teachers cared about their students. Many teachers formed one on one relationships with kids including me. Suddenly, the teachers seem more like your friends. This is something that I feel is very important when wanting to have a successful school district. In addition, Ross has always held students to a higher academic standard than most schools in the area. Which I feel in some cases is needed. Ross does an excellent job promoting academic success. Whether it be coming in early for help, or study skills. Ross provides amazing tools for students in achieving this goal. Another truly amazing aspect about

Some of the interventions that were suggested do not have research to support their effectiveness. By exploring these intervention. I learned how important it is to take the time to investigate curriculum to see if it specifically meets the needs of a district.

It is important to continuously evaluate the effectiveness of any learning or training program to ensure that the goals or objectives can successfully be met. Evaluation of the merits of a learning or training program are embedded into all of the phases of ADDIE. Evaluation of a course can happen in several different ways- reflective analysis, garnering learner feedback, using formative and summative assessment materials to judge effectiveness of learners are having with the materials and content. This paper will discuss feedback I’ve received regarding the creation of my online course: Maximizing Student Engagement.

Professional development principles Ben embraces are Rigor, Relationships, Relevance and Realness. Mr. Rhodes continually emphasizes that work needs to have relevance and rigor in assignments and that the relationships teachers build with students is essential for success. Specific content used for staff development goals are Glenn Singleton’s work (Equity), National Achievement Gap, High Performing Schools, 90/90/90 Studies, 21st Century Skills, Marzano’s Instructional Strategies, and Heidi Hayes Jacobs’ literacy work. A variety of activities for teaching new skills to teachers occurs throughout the year. These include study groups, guest speakers, ERO (staff development classes), open classroom visits, master teachers sharing best practices in literacy, differentiated instruction, , math, and culturally responsive teaching, conference opportunities, mentors, district content area inservices, building inservice days, monthly district content area meetings, partnerships with universities, Collaborative Action Research for Equity (C.A.R.E.) cadre, and monthly building equity meetings. Mr. Rhodes uses the district Teaching Learning Cycle (Plan-Teach-Monitor- Adjust) to evaluate and assess the learning goals and make improvements. Ben also meets with Ben and the leadership team about the goals and creates the timeline to provide training and analyze progress. Evaluation of the learning goals using the SIP (as a living document) and individual goals are important

What do think when you hear student success? Many people think different things. For example, student success could be a student having a good job in something they specialized on, and are living on their own without anybody's help. There are several different ways student succeed and ways to change schools in order for their students to succeed as well in this article. For instance, Anaheim High Schools can improve student success if we have longer school days, make the student be interested in school and on what they are learning, and having more after school programs that interest kids and will keep their minds off of bad things.