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Ira David Socol; Pamela R. Moran – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Transforming schools through mastery learning may solve education's existential crisis, offering today's learners the relevance and individualization they need while returning to the most ancient form of assessment, proving that learning has occurred. Mastery learning requires significant change to all the norms and practices of school, altering…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Networks
Ahn, Ruth; Shimojima, Yasuko; Mori, Hisayoshi; Asanuma, Shigeru – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
The high performance of Japanese students, as demonstrated on international tests, is well-known, but the professional learning of Japanese teachers has received less attention. Ruth Ahn, Yasuko Shimojima, Hisayoshi Mori, and Shigeru Asanuma describe the professional development requirements for teachers across their careers. Novice teachers are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration
Bavis, Peter – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
In 2010, Evanston Township High School in suburban Chicago, Illinois, dramatically changed its freshman year for incoming students. The school detracked freshman English, history, and biology courses for the vast majority of students, thus removing barriers for historically under-represented student groups and providing greater access and…
Descriptors: High School Freshmen, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Minority Group Students
Gabriel, Rachael – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Today we look to determine teaching quality through a combination of observation, surveys, and test scores. These measures fail to answer the most important question about quality teaching: How is it accomplished? How has this teacher used questioning today, and what drove their decision to do so? How has this teacher structured independent…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Innovation, Educational Change, Educational Quality
Hathaway, Nan E.; Jaquith, Diane B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
Leading education thinker Sir Ken Robinson says transformation is essential to bring creative thinking into schools and recommends three major changes: Dispense with subject hierarchy, focus on curricular disciplines instead of subjects, and elevate personalization. Change will come when students take ownership of their learning to fit their needs…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Transformative Learning
Blumenreich, Megan; Falk, Beverly – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
This article reports on a study of teachers who have engaged in systematic research about their practice. It describes the inquiries of two urban teachers into challenges and dilemmas common to many who work with diverse groups of students. The accounts presented reveal how teachers are able to construct new knowledge about teaching when they…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Educational Research, Teacher Researchers, Educational Practices
Suskind, Dorothy C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
The author, a 5th-grade teacher at an independent boys' school, gives a first-person account of how her constant assessments and requirement that her students be active participants in their own learning gainsays the need for high-stakes, standardized testing. She posits a "living assessment" that is intertwined, interactive and…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Active Learning, High Stakes Tests, Standardized Tests
Plonczak, Irene; Brooks, Jacqueline Grennon; Wilson, Gloria Lodato; Elijah, Rosebud; Caliendo, Julia – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
STEM Studio at Hofstra University is a clinical practice site that brings together public school pupils and preservice teachers in settings with three features that lead to enhanced learning of all participants: classroom structures using multidisciplinary STEM tasks as platforms for learning; design challenge templates for diverse student…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Innovation, Preservice Teachers, Interdisciplinary Approach
Spillane, Nancy K.; Lynch, Sharon J.; Ford, Michael R. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
The authors report on a study of eight inclusive STEM high schools that are designed to increase the numbers of students in demographic groups underrepresented in STEM. As STEM schools, they have had broader and deeper STEM coursework (taken by all students) than required by their respective states and school districts; they also had outcome…
Descriptors: STEM Education, High School Students, Disproportionate Representation, Access to Education
Moran, Clarice M.; Young, Carl A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
Flipping the classroom is one of the hottest new educational ideas that promises to increase student engagement. However, recent research suggests that not all content areas are equal when it comes to flipping. English language arts and humanities-based subjects may not benefit as much as math and science classes and, in fact, decrease student…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Performance Factors, Fidelity, Instructional Innovation
Gardner, Nancy S.; Powell, Rod – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
The authors, two high school teachers, endorse the Common Core State Standards saying they will improve teaching and learning. The Common Core, they say, not only help students acquire the skills for success in life after high school, but they offer consistency in a student's educational journey and let employers know what to expect.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Educational Improvement, College Readiness
Childress, Stacey; Benson, Scott – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
The best hope for accelerating much needed improvement in student achievement is by using a range of pedagogical and technological innovations that deliver personalized learning to each student. The authors examine three school initiatives across the country that are using technology and new teaching methods successfully to drive student…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Student Improvement, Technology Integration, Teaching Methods
Faulkner, Valerie N. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
The Common Core math standards promote several important differences in how math concepts are taught and should be talked about. These changes will make it easier for younger students to comprehend and adapt to more complex concepts in the later grades. This guide should help elementary teachers make changes and adaptations that are in line the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, State Standards, Mathematical Concepts, Elementary School Teachers
Cogan, Leland S.; Burroughs, Nathan; Schmidt, William H. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
Researchers at the Center for the Study of Curriculum at Michigan State University have developed a tool to help teachers implement the Common Core State Standards in mathematics by letting standards, not textbooks, guide their instruction. Using the web-based Textbook Navigator/Journal, teachers can pick a standard and ask which portions of the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Program Implementation, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Guides
Parsons, Seth A.; Dodman, Stephanie L.; Burrowbridge, Sarah Cohen – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Students in today's classrooms vary greatly in background, cultures, language proficiency, educational skills, and interests. To best meet students' diverse needs, teachers must differentiate their instruction. The authors argue that the current differentiation conversation focuses almost exclusively on lesson planning, but instead…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Student Diversity, Lesson Plans, Instructional Innovation
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