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How Elementary Teachers Come To Hold And Maintain A Restorative Mindset Toward Students: A Phenomenology, Ashley B. Reynolds
How Elementary Teachers Come To Hold And Maintain A Restorative Mindset Toward Students: A Phenomenology, Ashley B. Reynolds
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Elementary school personnel have both an ethical and legal responsibility to shift disciplinary practices away from exclusion and towards restoration. In order to face the adaptive challenge of increasing teacher self-efficacy around behavior management, a restorative mindset can be developed and maintained. The development of a restorative mindset among elementary school teachers has the potential to alter outcomes for the adults who care for students and for systems hoping to retain talented, invested teachers. The purpose of this study was to describe how elementary teachers come to hold a restorative mindset towards students, including the supervisory practices that support teachers …
The Impact Of Feedback On Teacher Professional Growth, Eric Hutchins
The Impact Of Feedback On Teacher Professional Growth, Eric Hutchins
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Educational administrators seek effective strategies to support teachers' professional growth in the pursuit of enhancing student performance. This dissertation investigates the transformative potential of formative feedback from students and peers in fostering teacher development and improving student learning outcomes. The current teacher evaluation system, primarily focused on accountability measures, often overlooks opportunities for professional growth. Furthermore, the unprecedented challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic have accentuated the need for adaptive instructional approaches to address students' evolving needs. This pre/post quasi-experimental mixed-method study explores the impact of formative feedback on teacher growth. Through surveys and interviews, educator perspectives on the role …
The Relative Age Effect: Ensuring Student Success Regardless Of Birth Month, Geoffrey E. Bruno
The Relative Age Effect: Ensuring Student Success Regardless Of Birth Month, Geoffrey E. Bruno
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This mixed methods study examines the degree to which relative age impacts school performance and achievement for students in Scarborough Public Schools. The relative age effect refers to the impact differences in age among students in the same grade can have on performance in school. Students who turn five in the days just prior to the eligibility date for starting Kindergarten, October 15 in Maine, are nearly one year younger than those who are born in the days immediately after October 15. In addition, some parents choose to delay their child’s enrollment in Kindergarten for one year, a decision called …
The Value Of Peer Supervisory Practices, Josh Tripp
The Value Of Peer Supervisory Practices, Josh Tripp
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Across the country schools have continuously looked to find ways to increase student achievement. In response to state and federal policy, school districts have used evaluative processes and accountability measures to increase teacher effectiveness. Despite a significant body of research that supports the effect of supervisory practices on teacher effectiveness, this focus on formal evaluation has detracted from the time and resources allocated to instructional supervision. Due to COVID-19, schools across the nation have been forced to provide remote learning opportunities to students. Essentially, this new style of teaching has turned all educators, regardless of experience, into first-year teachers. The …
Teacher Performance Evaluation And Professional Growth In The Era Of "Educator Effectiveness" In Maine, Jonathan E. Doty
Teacher Performance Evaluation And Professional Growth In The Era Of "Educator Effectiveness" In Maine, Jonathan E. Doty
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Maine is one of many states that undertook reform to teacher supervision and evaluation in the wake of public attention (e.g., Waiting for Superman) and federal pressure (e.g., NCLB Flexibility Waivers). The Maine Legislature passed An Act to Ensure Effective Teaching and School Leadership (2012), shifting from local discretion to greater state influence on the functions of formative supervision and summative evaluation. As school districts created systems to meet the state’s mandates, they combined growth and employment functions and navigated persistent challenges described in the literature on evaluation and supervision.
The purpose of this study was to examine perspectives …
Choice-Based Assessments And Their Use With 1:1 Technology Devices, Joshua Ottow
Choice-Based Assessments And Their Use With 1:1 Technology Devices, Joshua Ottow
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Choice-based assessments are classroom activities in which students are given some element of choice in how they meet defined learning objectives. As educators seek to adequately prepare students for the rapidly changing world that they will enter after high school, they have placed a greater focus on the types of assessment practices used in the classroom. Choice-based assessments, particularly when used with a 1:1 technology device, may have the impact of increasing student motivation to learn and enhancing the development of skills that they may need after high school (Schwartz & Arena, 2013; Tapscott, 2008). To date, there has been …
Through Their Eyes: Five Maine Principals Explore Their Learning About Leadership, Anita M. Campbell
Through Their Eyes: Five Maine Principals Explore Their Learning About Leadership, Anita M. Campbell
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Rising expectations for school leadership are placing unprecedented pressures on school principals. No longer able to limit their work to the traditional management functions, principals must now lead the improvement of student achievement, staff learning, and community involvement Given the consuming nature of the principalshp, principals have a variety of learning needs. The literature on principals' learning is weighted with prescriptions written by those outside the principalship. Absent from this literature is the voice of the principal himself or herself. The purpose of this research was to explore principals' learning needs "from the inside out" in order to understand what …
Aspiring To The Superintendency: Factors That Influence The Decision, Regina P. Campbell
Aspiring To The Superintendency: Factors That Influence The Decision, Regina P. Campbell
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This study investigates and identifies the factors impacting the superintendency and examines them, positive and negative, as they influence potential and current superintendent certificate holders to complete the process of applying for a superintendency. Three sample groups were used in this study: current Maine superintendent certificate holders, students enrolled in graduate administration classes, and currently practicing superintendents. These three groups were selected because of their unique positioning on the career ladder to the superintendency (Burnham, 1988). The aggregate sample included 236 respondents, comprising 82 superintendents, 90 certificate holders and 64 students. Three survey instruments were designed for this study specifically …