principals share leadership‚ and time management. Principal as an Instructional Leader The principal is an instructional leader‚ a teacher of all teachers. Instructional leadership can be broken into two categories: direct and indirect instructional leadership. Examples of direct instructional leadership that a principal should provide are staff development‚ teacher observations/evaluations‚ and supervision. Also providing subordinate’s instructions about their tasks and including what is expected
Free Teacher Education Leadership
TEACHER‚ TEACHER Teacher‚ Teacher is a play by Ellison Carroll in two acts which explores two different ways of teaching and learning. The traditional method of teaching is exemplified by Hamilton Cade‚ a young man who has been a teacher at many schools. The second method which is activity based learning or practical learning is tried by Charles Carter‚ an air force pilot but currently a handyman. Both Cade and Carter are hired by Niles Putnam‚ an architect‚ to teach and take care of his challenged
Premium Education Learning Teacher
Looking back at elementary school‚ I realize I made many poorly thought through mistakes just for the sake of fitting in. I never put into perspective how these actions would change my attitude towards others and my own self-esteem. Probably‚ the most impactful of these mistakes was when I decided to have my hair cut short. When I was at Mariposa Elementary School‚ I always wanted to fit in. I wanted to have what the other‚ more popular girls had‚ play with what they played with‚ wear what they
Premium High school Education School
NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY MATL Action Research Project VERIFICATION COVER SHEET MATL Student Name and NSU ID ARP School Site Where Project was Implemented: ___________________ Elementary School Dates of Implementation: AUGUST 2008 – JANUARY 2009 School Site Address and Phone: ARP One-sentence Problem Statement: By incorporating cooperative learning‚ guided reading and Reader’s Theatre‚ this research educator improved nineteen second grade at risk students reading comprehension levels by increasing
Premium Reading Second grade Dyslexia
students. There is a crucial difference between simply putting students into groups to learn and in structuring cooperative interdependence among students. Why Use Cooperative Learning? Extensive research has compared cooperative learning with traditional classroom instruction using the same teachers‚ curriculum‚ and assessments. On the average: Students who engage in cooperative learning learn significantly more‚ remember it longer‚ and develop better critical-thinking skills than their counterparts
Premium Learning Education Educational psychology
CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING INTRODUCTION: What is self-esteem? Self-Esteem means different things to different people. There is no universal meaning in self-esteem. Everyone of us have a personal meaning of self-esteem. How does self-esteem affect in our personality? How we overcome self-esteem? And how self-esteem developed in self? Self-esteem is a term used in psychology to reflect persons overall emotional evaluation of his or her own worth. It is a judgment of one self
Premium Self-esteem Maslow's hierarchy of needs Abraham Maslow
Parent Involvement in Elementary Education This paper is an attempt to provide an interdisciplinary solution to the issue of parental involvement and it ’s association with student achievement in elementary education. I chose to research this issue due to my concern for the children in my community that return to elementary school each year after the beginning of the school year; many times several weeks after the start of school. In fact‚ parents continued to register their children to return
Free High school Education Parenting
How do each of the four organizational climate constructs relate to school effectiveness? The Importance of four organizational climate in the school effectiveness is very large. It is essential to recognize that large-scale organizational improvement does not occur in a vacuum or sterile environment. It occurs in human systems‚ organizations‚ which already have beliefs‚ assumptions‚ expectations‚ norms‚ and values‚ both idiosyncratic to individual members of those organizations and shared
Free Culture Sociology
once said‚ “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." [This is an excellent way to start off your essay! This quote is sure to grab your readers’ attention.] William Arthur Ward greatly inspired the classifications I chose to use in this essay; dedicated teachers or “great” teachers‚ typical or “good” teachers‚ and undedicated or “bad” teachers. While there are many qualities of a dedicated teacher; the one quality that
Free Teacher Education
RESEARCH BRIEF PREPARED BY DEBRA HEATH FEBRUARY 2006 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SIZE LITERATURE REVIEW All of the research findings cited in this Brief refer to elementary schools. Some studies focus exclusively on elementary schools. Other studies present results on elementary schools in combination with secondary schools. The findings cited in this Brief represent dozens of studies conducted in a range of settings. Kathleen Cotton reviewed 103 studies. Klonsky’s review references
Premium Primary education High school Primary school