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Gill, Matt; Outka, Janeen; McCorkle, Mary – South Dakota Department of Education, 2015
Student growth is one of two essential components of South Dakota's Teacher and Principal Effectiveness Systems. In the state systems, student growth is defined as a positive change in student achievement between two or more points in time. "The South Dakota SLO Handbook" provides support and guidance to public schools and school…
Descriptors: Guides, Public Schools, School Districts, Statistical Analysis
Indiana Department of Education, 2012
The 2011 Education Agenda put students first by focusing on the individuals who most strongly influence student learning on a daily basis. In order to identify and achieve greatness in the classroom, Indiana needs fair, credible and accurate annual evaluations to differentiate teacher and principal performance, to support professional growth, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Scoring Rubrics, Observation
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Courtade, Ginevra R.; Lingo, Amy S.; Whitney, Todd – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2013
The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of special education and general education teachers working together to develop and implement story-based lessons on the academic engaged time of students with moderate intellectual disability and autism. A multiple probe across participants' design was used to measure teacher implementation of…
Descriptors: Regular and Special Education Relationship, Story Telling, Teaching Methods, Moderate Intellectual Disability
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Mawhinney, Lynnette – Ethnography and Education, 2008
The structure of the teaching profession leaves teachers professionally and personally isolated from other adults. This article will discuss the results of an ethnography focused on the rare informal social interaction that occurs among teachers in a United States' school, with a particular focus on the lunch hour. Specifically, this article…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction, Ethnography
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Wills, John S.; Sandholtz, Judith Haymore – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: In response to state-level test-based accountability and the federal No Child Left Behind Act, school administrators increasingly view centralized curriculum and prescribed instructional strategies as the most direct means of increasing student performance. This movement toward standardization reduces teachers' autonomy and…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Professional Autonomy, Federal Legislation, Observation
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Sleeter, Christine E. – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: A challenge for teachers who support teaching for and about democracy is doing so while being pressed into directives rooted in corporatocracy, a political manifestation of neoliberalism. The accountability movement today, particularly No Child Left Behind, is rooted in much more firmly in corporatocracy than democracy.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Democracy, Second Language Learning, Masters Theses