Making teaching visible through learning opportunities

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 (8) ◽  
pp. 54-58
Author(s):  
Bradley A. Ermeling ◽  
Ronald Gallimore ◽  
James Hiebert
Keyword(s):  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Teacher Behaviors ◽  
Regular Part ◽  
School Systems ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Recent Policy ◽  
Specific Learning ◽  
Rate Teacher

Observing teaching with a practiced, professional eye can yield valuable insights into the specific learning opportunities that students are (or are not) provided. However, recent policy initiatives have emphasized using formulaic rubrics and checklists to rate teacher behaviors and evaluate their use of particular instructional moves. Rather than investing so much time and money in such an approach, which is designed to evaluate teachers’ performance, school systems should focus on helping educators observe teaching in more sophisticated ways and make such focused observation a regular part of their professional routines.

scholarly journals Using mobile technology to facilitate formative assessment and support learning in apprenticeship programmes

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richie Ryan ◽  
Gina Noonan ◽  
Eddie McElheron
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Formative Assessments ◽  
Bring Your Own Device ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Time Investment ◽  
Increasing Trend ◽  
Smart Mobile ◽  
Technology Review ◽  
Specific Learning

Regular formative assessments can encourage students to spread learning effort throughout entire programmes and afford more feedback opportunities to tutors (Gibbs and Simpson, 2004; Nicol and Macfarlane‐Dick, 2006), while the proliferation of smart mobile phones has contributed to an increasing trend for ‘bring-your-own-device’ (BYOD) activities in higher education (Johnson et al., 2015; Merga, 2016; Sundgren, 2017).As students take more responsibility for their own learning, technology has a greater role to play in facilitating and supporting solutions that can provide more flexible learning opportunities. Quizlet - one such technology, is a web-enabled mobile learning application that repurposes study-sets for use in any of its eight different quiz modes. For a relatively modest time-investment by the tutor, students are provided with a re-usable, interactive, mobile learning resource that can be personalised to suit specific learning needs.This technology review focuses on Quizlet and our experience of using it to increase levels of student engagement and improve learning outcomes in craft apprenticeship programmes.

Reconceptualising Scaffolding for New Media Contexts

2009 ◽  
pp. 243-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Yelland ◽  
Jennifer Masters
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Sports Drink ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Learning Scenarios ◽  
Specific Learning

This chapter will discuss the ways in teachers can support their student’s learning in new media contexts with the use of effective scaffolding techniques. The authors present two learning scenarios of children to illustrate the ways in which scaffolding pedagogies are deployed in order to enhance learning opportunities that incorporate the use of new media. In Scenario One, the Year 2 children (approximately 7 years) use digital technologies to communicate their ideas and investigations through stop-motion animation. In Scenario Two, the Year 1 children (approximately 6 years) edit digital video to create an advertisement for a new sports drink. This work is important since the use of computers and other new technologies in schools remains peripheral and is frequently an afterthought to be aligned with specific curriculum objectives and mandated learning outcomes. An important question for educators is how can we ensure and describe the learning that takes place in contexts that incorporate new media. Implicit in this is that teachers and students will guide and support each other in order to complete tasks that exemplify specific learning outcomes. Our findings suggest that the main challenges and issues for teachers with regard to new media are centered on how they might incorporate them into their pedagogical repertoire and of finding effective ways to support student learning.

Measuring Grit in Adolescents With and Without Disabilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-77
Author(s):  
Allison R. Lombardi ◽  
Graham G. Rifenbark ◽  
Jennifer Freeman ◽  
Michael W. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Career Readiness ◽  
College And Career Readiness ◽  
Noncognitive Skills ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Scale Functions ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
College And Career ◽  
Age Appropriate ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Recent Policy

In recent policy initiatives focused on college and career readiness, Grit is often lumped with other noncognitive skills deemed as important. Yet, very little is known about the relationship between Grit and disability among adolescents. In this study, we examine measurement invariance of the Grit scale in a sample of adolescents with and without disabilities ( n = 5,039). Findings show the scale functions similarly for students with and without disabilities, and the Perseverance factor of Grit significantly predicted grade point average for both groups. Implications for practice suggest use of the scale in school-wide data collection efforts that might be driven by college and career readiness policy initiatives that emphasize measuring noncognitive skills in all students, and an age-appropriate transition assessment in secondary special education.

scholarly journals Agricultural Market Integration in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (115) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Andrle ◽  
Patrick Blagrave
Keyword(s):  
Market Integration ◽  
Market Price ◽  
Econometric Analysis ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Proximate Determinants ◽  
To Come ◽  
Recent Policy ◽  
Robust Evidence ◽  
Over Time

We assess the degree of cross-market price discrepancy (a proxy for market integration), its evolution over time, and proximate determinants, using monthly price data for 21 agricultural goods and 60 markets in India. Econometric analysis shows that cross-market price integration is positively associated with the level of transportation infrastructure, and distance between market pairs. There is no robust evidence that price integration has increased in recent years, suggesting that any positive effects of recent policy initiatives are either small, outweighed by the identified determinants of integration, or yet to come.

Significance of Cultural Dimensions in Urban Planning Process for Sustainability of Pilgrimage Towns in India

2017 ◽  
pp. 132-155
Author(s):  
Varma Anurag ◽  
Shaleen Singhal
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Recent Policy

This chapter raises the significance of integration of cultural attributes in the urban planning process for sustainability of pilgrimage towns. It identifies the spatial connotations of cultural practices, processes and events to review synergies between culture and urban planning. Two Indian pilgrimage towns of Vrindavan and Haridwar with congruent cultural context but diverse urban setting have been examined. Eight significant diverse attributes of both case studies are discussed for examining linkages of cultural dimensions with urban planning, and sustainability of indigenous urbanism of Indian pilgrimage towns. Recent policy initiatives in India envision an increasing inclusion of cultural and heritage aspects in urban development, but are constrained by paucity of empirical spatial research on Indian pilgrimage towns.

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