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Download full textProject Tomorrow, 2024
In the 2023-24 Speak Up Research facilitated by Project Tomorrow®, 75% of high school students and 66% of middle school students say their principal use of technology in class is to complete an online quiz or assessment. While online testing provides many benefits to educators and schools in terms of efficiency and potentially greater access to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Technology Uses in Education, Curriculum Development
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Direct linkJaquith, Ann – Educational Forum, 2015
This article argues that a principal's actions can create site-based conditions that can grow a staff's capacity to improve instruction, depending on how a principal conceives of, organizes, and structures learning opportunities for teachers. The article analyzes the leadership of one principal as an example of how leaders can develop…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Instructional Leadership, School Based Management, Capacity Building
Kotelawala, Usha – Teacher Educator, 2011
Through growing formative research, lesson study has emerged as a powerful practice that affects teachers' practical analysis of learning and teaching. Such research, however, also recognizes challenges to its implementation. In a methods course, lesson study has the potential to provide valuable links between teacher education and practice. In…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Jones, Karrie A.; Vermette, Paul J.; Jones, Jennifer L. – Education, 2009
Planning engaging and effective lessons for middle and high school learners is one of the fundamental components of successful secondary teaching (Skowron 2001; Butt, 2006). While Wiggins & McTighe (1998) have set forth a framework for "backwards planning" in unit design, this article provides a framework for employing backwards planning in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Middle School Students, Integrated Activities, Cognitive Structures
Penuel, William R.; McWilliams, Harold; McAuliffe, Carla; Benbow, Ann E.; Mably, Colin; Hayden, Margaret M. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2009
This paper compares and contrasts the impacts of three professional development designs aimed at middle school Earth science teachers on how teachers plan and enact instruction. The designs were similar in their alignment to research-based practices in science professional development: each design was of an extended duration and time span,…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Teacher Surveys, Earth Science, Active Learning
Christman, Jolley Bruce; Brown, Diane; Burgess, Sarah; Kay, Joseph; Maluk, Holly Plastaras; Mitchell, Cecily – Research for Action, 2009
At the request of the Accountability Review Council, Research for Action identified effective organizational practices used by better performing schools serving substantial numbers of low income middle and high school students in the School District of Philadelphia. These practices are organized into three spheres: Conditions for Teaching,…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Organizational Effectiveness, Effective Schools Research, Best Practices
