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2.5 Monitoring and Evaluation The staff monitors and evaluates curriculum and instructional programs based on student results, and makes modifications as needed to ensure continuous school improvement. 
Suggested Evidence
Related Resources Tools NEW! Online Practical Guide to Designing Comprehensive Teacher Evaluation Systems This website provides resources to support the building of effective teacher evaluation systems. Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality AIMS Website This website provides Arizona teachers, administrators, students, and parents access to the AIMS Hotline phone number for tutoring help, an overview of the AIMS test, sample tests, study guides, and information about tuition waivers. Publisher: Arizona Department of Education Class Set-Up Tool This tool allows teachers to design and print a virtual layout of the classroom and seating charts. Publisher: Scholastic Comparing the Research on Best Practices This activity has practitioners working in pairs to find the intersection of components found in articles on what research says, what research-based best practices are, and what strategies impact student achievement. It is noted that the activity requires at least 30 minutes. Author: Carol Rolheiser and Michael Fullan Publisher: Center for Development & Learning Articles NEW! Formative Assessment and Next-Generation Assessment Systems: Are We Losing an Opportunity? This article discusses the common misconceptions of formative assessment, and then provides descriptions and the distinctions of effective formative assessment instruction. Author: Margaret Heritage Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Council of Chief State School Officers NEW! Providing Feedback with Written Comments Improves Student Learning Skills This article discusses how specific feedback encourages students to be insightful about their role as a learner and provides them guidance in the process of learning. Author: Chris Frawley Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: VCU Training and Technical Assistance Center NEW! Reviving Reteaching This article discusses the purpose of reteaching and describes situations when reteaching can take place. Author: Robert J. Marzano Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) NEW! Tiered Interventions in High School: Using Preliminary “Lessons Learned” to Guide Ongoing Discussion This guide discusses the essential components of RTI, and highlights factors unique to high schools. Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: The National High School Center and the National Center on Response to Intervention Behavior Modification in the Classroom This article provides some methods to define, measure, and change behaviors in the classroom. Author: N. Mather and Sam Goldstein Publication Date: 2001 Publisher: LDonline Bringing Literacy Strategies into Content Instruction [4-12] This document, developed by the Center on Instruction, provides guidance on academic literacy instruction in the content areas, specifically focusing on the effective use of text in content areas. Author: Marcia L. Kosanovich, Debra H. Miller, and Deborah K. Reed Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Center on Instruction Classroom Walkthroughs: Learning to see the trees and the forest Pilter and Goodwin discuss how to effectively use walkthroughs to collect data and provide useful feedback to educators to improve instruction. Author: Howard Pitler with Bryan Goodwin Publication Date: Summer 2008 Publisher: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) Computers, The Internet, and Cheating Among Secondary School Students: Some Implications for Educators This article investigates how secondary students may use the Internet for plagiarizing schoolwork and provides some basic precautions educators can implement in their classrooms. Author: Stacey Conradson & Pedro Hernández-Ramos Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation Every Child Reading: Tips for Schools The Learning First Alliance presents eleven tips schools can use to focus faculty on student literacy. Publisher: Learning First Alliance Extensive Reading Interventions in Grades K-3: From Research to Practice This report summarizes available data on the effects of extensive reading interventions (comprising at least 100 instructional sessions) and related implications for practice. Author: Nancy Scammacca, Sharon Vaughn, Greg Roberts, Jeanne Wanzek and Joseph K. Torgesen Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Center on Instruction Foundations for Success: Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel On March 13, 2008, the National Mathematics Advisory Panel presented its Final Report to the President of the United States and the Secretary of Education. This report contains information for parents, teachers, policy makers, the research community. Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: U.S. Department of Education Hard Questions about Practice The author believes that educators need to look closely at the organizational and instructional practices in schools that affect the learning of students and adults, in order to effectively change practices and improve student learning. Instructional practice and the improvement of instructional practice are complex and require high levels of knowledge and skills across a number of important domains. Success requires that schools have structures that develop the knowledge and skills of administrators and teachers. Author: Richard F. Elmore Publication Date: 2002, May Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) How To Increase Higher Order Thinking This article defines higher order thinking and provides strategies for enhancing higher order thinking skills. Author: Alice Thomas and Glenda Thorne Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: Center for Development and Learning Interim Assessments: A User's Guide The author argues that in order to reduce achievement score gaps, we must advocate rebalancing assessment priorities to bring classroom assessment into the equation. Author: Kim Marshall Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: Phi Delta Kappa Interventions for Adolescent Struggling Readers: A Meta-Analysis with Implications for Practice This report focuses on interventions designed to improve students' use of reading comprehension strategies. It also considers the impact of interventions that target improved reading vocabulary, accurate decoding of unfamiliar words in text, and increased reading fluency. Author: Nancy Scammacca, Greg Roberts, Sharon Vaughn, Meaghan Edmonds, Jade Wexler Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Center on Instruction Mathematics Intervention at the Secondary Prevention Level of a Multi-Tier Prevention System: Six Key Principles The author lists and describes six principles necessary for RtI in mathematics at a secondary level. Author: Lynn S. Fuchs, Ph.D. Publication Date: Retrieved November 2008 Publisher: RTI Action Network Meeting the Needs of All Students Through Professional Development Arguing that the needs of all teachers must be meet before schools can begin to meet the needs of all students, this principal advocates for comprehensive, on-going professional development and describes specific factors that have helped at his middle school in San Francisco. Author: John A. Michaelson Publisher: Center for Development & Learning Progress Monitoring in an Inclusive Standards-based Assessment and Accountability System This report describes how progress monitoring can be used to compare student performance against standards and make adjustments in order to help students accelerate their progress towards meeting those standards. Benefits and contextual challenges that must be addressed are discussed. Author: Rachel Quenemoen, Martha Thurlow, Ross Moen, Sandra J. Thompson, and Amanda Blount Morse Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO), University of Minnesota Reducing Behavior Problems in the Elementary School Classroom This guide offers strategies to reduce problematic behavior in elementary schools. Author: Michael Epstein, Marc Atkins, Douglas Cullinan, Krista Kutash, and Robin Weaver Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education Screening for Mathematics Difficulties in K-3 Students [K-3] This report looks at the key features needed to screen kindergarten through third grade students for difficulties in mathematics. Author: Benjamin S. Clarke, Russell Gersten, Nancy C. Jordan Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Center on Instruction Time & Attention in Urban High Schools This publication provided ways to improve time and attention practices across whole systems of urban high schools. Author: Stephen Frank Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Education Resource Strategies Using Classroom Walkthroughs to Improve Instruction This article focuses on specific items principals should look for during a five-minute classroom walkthrough. Author: Nancy Protheroe Publication Date: March, 2009 Publisher: NAESP Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading This report identifies instructional practices in writing shown to improve students’ reading abilities and recommends ways that teachers can improve students’ reading skills through teaching writing. Author: Steve Graham and Michael Hebert Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Alliance for Excellent Education Useful Links Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents This PowerPoint presentation discusses resources and areas of knowledge that can assist in successful academic literacy instruction. Author: Joseph Torgesen Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Center on Instruction Science Resource Page This page provides links to help teachers implement the Arizona Science Standard, including links to the Science Standard, AIMS information related to science, ADE professional development opportunities, state and national organizations, and resources for science teachers. Publisher: Arizona Department of Education Tiered Instruction/Intervention The site offers details and information on the RtI process and articles as well as descriptions of the three tiers. Publication Date: Retrieved November 2008 Publisher: RTI Action Network Tips from Teachers The COMP Resource Library contains “Tips from Teachers” where educators from around the country post helpful hints under the topics of Room and Materials Arrangement, Rules and Procedures, Managing Student Work and Accountability, Maintaining Good Student Behavior, Planning and Organizing Instruction, Conducting and Facilitating Instruction to Maintain Lesson Momentum, Getting the Year Off to a Good Start, Climate Communications and Self-Management. Publisher: COMP Classroom Organization and Mangement Program Other Resources Dr. Archer Video Series “Dr. Anita Archer is a talented author and beloved teacher of teachers. This video series is one of her many gifts to the educational community. Produced with support from the Sonoma County Office of Education, it is made available at no cost thanks to her generous spirit. The series addresses strategic literacy instruction in grades K-8 using a research to practice approach grounded in pragmatic real-world application. Each video is 4 to 8 minutes long, has a particular strategic focus, and was shot unrehearsed in real time. A short viewing guide is included for each video, providing guidance for viewing and feedback for post-viewing applications.” Sonoma County Office of Education Author: Dr. Anita Archer Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: Sonoma County Office of Education ©2005 WestEd. All rights reserved. |
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