Implementing Secondary RTI Models

2015 ◽  
pp. 25-52
Author(s):  
Susan G. Porter
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Secondary Teachers ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Secondary Response ◽  
Academic Challenges ◽  
Effective Implementation

This chapter explores the critical role that superintendents, principals, and other school leaders play in the effective implementation of secondary Response to Intervention (RTI) models in schools and school districts. This chapter also outlines the unique challenges that school leaders often encounter in their efforts to implement RTI reforms in secondary schools, including the unique culture and structure of secondary schools, the mindset and perspectives of secondary teachers, and the complexity of secondary students and their academic challenges. Finally, through research-supported frameworks (e.g., teacher efficacy, distributed leadership models, and educational change process models), this chapter offers tools and strategies for educational leaders who are undergoing RTI reforms in their secondary schools.

Implementing Secondary RTI Models

2016 ◽  
pp. 1910-1937
Author(s):  
Susan G. Porter
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Secondary Teachers ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Secondary Response ◽  
Academic Challenges ◽  
Effective Implementation

This chapter explores the critical role that superintendents, principals, and other school leaders play in the effective implementation of secondary Response to Intervention (RTI) models in schools and school districts. This chapter also outlines the unique challenges that school leaders often encounter in their efforts to implement RTI reforms in secondary schools, including the unique culture and structure of secondary schools, the mindset and perspectives of secondary teachers, and the complexity of secondary students and their academic challenges. Finally, through research-supported frameworks (e.g., teacher efficacy, distributed leadership models, and educational change process models), this chapter offers tools and strategies for educational leaders who are undergoing RTI reforms in their secondary schools.

Listening Skills of Teachers and Classroom Environment of Public and Secondary Schools

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
KATHY JANE B. JUAREZ ◽  
RUBY A. SERRANO
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Secondary Teachers ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

Listening skills of teachers is very significant in the classroom since the students need to be understood and be clarified in their needs. Learning is motivated when a teacher listens to the students and meets the necessities of the students in learning. The purpose of the study was to determine the significance of the relationship between listening skills of secondary teachers and classroom environment in public and private secondary schools of Matanao, Davao del Sur. The study involved 619 fourth year secondary students determined through universal sampling. Employing descriptive correlation with questionnaires, mean, and Pearson r, results revealed that the listening skills of the secondary teachers were related to the classroom environment. It was concluded that the higher the listening skills of the respondents, the higher is the positive effect of the classroom environment to their students. It can also be derived from the result that listening skills and classroom environment are interrelated. It was recommended that teachers should be capacitated to apply the attentive listening and interactive listening skills to upgrade the level of achievement of the students in the classroom.Keywords: Language, listening skills, classroom environment, descriptive correlation, classroom management and Davao City, Philippines

scholarly journals A Practical Guide to Improving School Climate in High Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet VanLone ◽  
Jennifer Freeman ◽  
Tamika LaSalle ◽  
Lola Gordon ◽  
Tiffany Polk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
School Climate ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Academic Outcomes ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
School Environments ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Data Practices ◽  
Perceptions Of School

Research focusing on school climate has shown that healthy, safe, and positive school environments are associated with improved psychological, social, behavioral, and academic outcomes for secondary students. For this reason, it is important for schools to understand how to improve perceptions of school climate through effective, evidence-based interventions. Despite the importance of school climate, secondary schools continue to struggle to implement evidence-based interventions that may improve school climate in these settings. The purpose of this guide is to provide a practical step-by-step guide for improving school climates in high schools within a multitiered system of support (MTSS) framework, specifically focusing on how to use the critical features of MTSS (i.e., outcomes, data, practices, systems) to support effective implementation.

The Practical Wisdom Framework: A Compass for School Leaders

2021 ◽  
pp. 002205742110288
Author(s):  
Karen Elizabeth Bohlin
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Policy Compliance ◽  
Special Cases

Educational leaders are required to respond in real time to questions, quandaries, and cases that involve individuals in different contexts. They face an array of possible choices that exist in tension. Justice and fairness must coexist with mercy and compassion; in enforcing policy, compliance must make room for flexibility in special cases. School leaders are called to adjudicate competing goods and teach others to do the same. This article examines what practical wisdom is, why it matters, and introduces a theoretically grounded Practical Wisdom Framework (PWF) to help school leaders deliberate well to create and sustain formative institutions.

FISHING ACTIVITIES AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RACHUONYO NORTH SUB-COUNTY, KENYA

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 109-117
Author(s):  
GRACE AUMA OJIJO ◽  
Lucy Kibera
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Government

This study investigated the influence of fishing related activities on academic performance of secondary school students in Rachuonyo North Sub-County. The specific objectives were to examine the activities associated with fishing and determine how they influenced academic performance of secondary students in the Sub-County. The study targeted students and principals of the 49 secondary schools in Rachuonyo North Sub-county. The research used simple random sampling to select 14 public secondary schools and 20 Form Three students from each of the sampled schools. The total sample size was 292 respondents. Primary data was collected and analysed using quantitative and qualitative methods and then presented in tables in percentages. Data analysis was done using SPSS and the Microsoft Excel software. The study established that students participated in fishing activities while attending school. Major fishing activities that students engaged in included: actual fishing an agreement  index of 82.9% of students; repairing of fishing nets which was supported by 74.2% of students; setting of nets in the lake which was supported by 84.4% of students; and removal of fish from the nets which was agreed to by 83.9% of students. Some (91.7%) of the students believed that their counterparts who engaged in fishing activities tended to perform poorly in their classwork.  The study has recommended that parents, School Boards of Management and the communities along the beaches collaborate with each other in order to keep students from engaging in fishing activities for this likely to improve school attendance and academic performance of students. The Government should enforce compulsory basic education as well as provide it free to all children at this level of education.

Helping High Ability Students Overcome Math Anxiety through Bibliotherapy

1997 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 164-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Hébert ◽  
Joseph M. Furner
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Students ◽  
Math Anxiety ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
High Ability ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Affective Factors ◽  
High Ability Students ◽  
Learning And Instruction

Affective factors play a critical role in mathematics learning and instruction. Evidence of negative attitudes and high levels of anxiety toward mathematics is abundant. Since math anxiety is widespread and the need for the understanding of mathematics is critical to success in school, secondary teachers need practical classroom strategies to use to relieve these anxious feelings in their high ability students. Bibliotherapy is one such strategy through which secondary students may gain helpful insights to deal with their math anxiety. The article provides a lesson plan featuring Math Curse and then suggests available literature dealing with math anxiety.

scholarly journals Walking the Talk: LGBTQ Allies in Australian Secondary Schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Vicars ◽  
Samara Van Toledo
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Safe Schools ◽  
School Cultures ◽  
Sexual Culture ◽  
School Settings ◽  
Narrative Methodology

Sexual culture(s) are an active presence in the shaping of school relations, and LGBTQ issues have long been recognized as a dangerous form of knowledge in school settings. Queer issues in educational domains quickly attract surveillance and have historically often been aggressively prosecuted and silence enforced. This paper examines the intersections of straight allies in promoting an LGBTQ visibility and agency in Australian secondary schools. Drawing on interviews with “straight”-identified secondary students, a narrative methodology was utilized to explore the presence of student allies for making safe schools. Drawing on straight secondary students' responses to LGBTQ issues in their schools, firsthand accounts of intervening in heteronorming school cultures focus on experiences of being an ally to address LGBTQ inclusivity in Australian secondary schools.

scholarly journals Effect of School Management on Students’ Perceived Academic Achievement among Seventh-Day Adventist Secondary Schools in North-East Tanzania

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Allen Senguo ◽  
Onesto Ozias Ilomo
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
School Management ◽  
Seventh Day Adventist ◽  
Effective School ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
North East ◽  
Teachers And Parents

This study investigated the effect of school management on students’ perceived academic achievement among Seventh- day Adventist secondary schools in in North-East Tanzania. The study employed survey research design, whereby a self-administered questionnaire was distributed to 311 randomly selected students and their responses were analyzed through the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. The study established that school management was effective in planning, motivating and encouraging students to work hard toward maximized academic achievement. However, the school management was perceived ineffective in accepting ideas from students and involving parents in decision making. Students were satisfied with their academic achievement and believed that their academic competence keeps increasing from day to day but were undecided whether teachers and parents are satisfied with their academic achievement. Finally, students’ academic achievement is positively influenced by effective school management. Based on the conclusions, the researchers recommended that, while school management is effective in planning, motivating and encouraging students to work hard toward maximized achievement, the school leaders need to improve on acceptance of constructive ideas from students and involving parents in decision making processes. While students were satisfied with their academic achievement and they were undecided whether teachers and parents are satisfied with their academic achievements, there is a need to enhance the interaction between students and their parents and teachers for them to grasp how parents and teachers perceive their academic achievement. Finally, while students’ academic achievement is positively influenced be effective school management, there is need for school leaders to improve their managerial practices which will enhance the level of academic achievement by students in the respective schools.

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