What Do Teachers Need to Achieve the Standards

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Josephine Taylor

ELT Medelln

August 12-13, 2011


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Policies vs. reality


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Teachers

lives


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Public vs. private


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Urban vs. rural


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Objectives

Review the goals of the National BilingualismProgram

Understand the role of teachers in achievinghigh standards

Identify target areas to achieve the standardsin Colombia

Identify some best classroom practices toserve as models for Colombian teachers


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How much do you know?

What are the goals of the NBP?

What level (CEF) should teachers reach?

What level should students(11th grade) reach?

What level should newteachers-in-training reach?

What is the target date?


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How much do you know?

What CEF levels should students reach?

Grades

1-34-56-78-9

10-11


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How to reach the standards?

McKinsey and Company (2007). How theworlds best performing schools come out ontop.

Looked at OECD (Organization for Economicand Cooperative Development) countriesstudent results through PISA (Programme forInternational Student Assessment)


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McKinsey Report

Over 30 countries

Why some school systems consistentlyperform better and improve faster thanothers

What do the 10 top countries have incommon?


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Activity

Tick the items that you believe matter mostin being a top-performing school system.


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What matters most?

3 things matter most, and they have to do mainly withTEACHERS:

Getting the right people to become teachers

Developing them into effective instructors and Ensuring that the system is able to deliver the best

possible instruction for every child


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Teacher Selection and Training

Attract the best in their fields to becometeachers

Pay good (not great) starting salaries

Make teaching preparation programscompetitive BEFORE people begin People dont choose teaching because they couldnt

qualify for other areas

Avoid a surplus of trained teachers


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How to select candidates?

High overall level of literacy and numeracy(content knowledge)

Strong interpersonal and communicationskills

Willingness to learn and motivation toteach


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Lets compare:

teacher

selection


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Great Instruction

Coaching classroom practice

Moving teacher training to the classroom

Recruit best teachers to be school leaders

Enabling teachers to learn from each other


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How to develop greatinstruction

Finding the best educators and givingthem the space to debate and createbetter curriculum and pedagogy


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Delivering great instruction

Giving thousands of teachers (or hundredsof thousands) within one school system thecapacity and knowledge to deliver thatgreat instruction reliably, every day, acrossthousands of schools, in varyingconditions, with little supervision


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Coaching and PD

Most of the best school systems focus on PD

School systems must change what happens in theclassroom with individual teachers Awareness of specific weaknesses Understanding of specific best practices demonstration

of best practices in an authentic setting Teachers need to be motivated to make the necessary

improvements and to make a difference


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Coaching and PD

All three must happen and must be based in theclassroom realities of teachers.

External ideas rarely result in classroom change.

Most other professions do most of their trainingdirectly in the work setting very little teachertraining generally takes place in teachers ownclassrooms where is the place for it to be the mostrelevant and the most effective.


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Professional Development

David Cooper Professional Development: AnEffective Research-based Model

3 conclusions based on the research

What the teacher believes about teaching beforebecoming a teacher influences what the teacherdoes when teaching

PD must help teachers look at their belief systems.


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Activity

What are some of thecommon beliefs

that

Englishteachers

have

in Colombia?


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Research on PD

Teachers are positive about allopportunities to learn.

Evidence strong suggests that teacherswant PD.

PD should enable teachers to share andlearn from each other.


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Research on PD

PD should be directly focused on thecurriculum and programs teachers areteaching.

PD must be focused on what teachersare doing every day, the specificmaterials and programs they are using.

General training is much less effectivethan specific training.


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Lets

compare:

professional

development


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Best Practices

CONSTRUCTIVISM

TEACHING FOR UNDERSTANDING

SIOP (Sheltered Instruction ObservationProtocol)


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Best Practices

Student-centered learning

Interaction

Engagement


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Best Practices

Building background (relating existingknowledge to new knowledge)

Clear objectives and outcomes

Ongoing assessment


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Best Practices

Integration of language skills

Application of content to real problems

Less is more, deeper learning is better


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Lets

compare:

best

practices


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High standards for all

Intervention at the level of the student,identify poorly performing schools

Clear curricular standards for what

students should achieve

Two mechanisms to explore quality ofteaching and learning:

Examinations School review or inspections


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Lets

compare:

standards


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Objectives

Review the goals of the NationalBilingualism Program

Understand the role of teachers in

achieving high standards

Identify target areas to achieve thestandards in Colombia

Identify some best classroom practicesto serve as models for Colombianteachers


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Thank you!

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