3-Instructional-Improvement.pdf wotkbook on school

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1. Instructional
Improvement

2. Research Findings

Schools are complex social
organizations situated within, and
vitally affected by, other complex
social systems including families,
communities and professional and
regulatory agencies

“Challenges to school improvements are
particularly acute in high-poverty settings where
recruiting well-qualified teachers is difficult and

where the emotional and health problems of
students often deflects attention to educational
issues or impedes work on them.”

To succeed, school improvement interventions must attend to the
complex relationships that exist among intervention agents, schools and
their social environments.

3. Instructional Interventions

Interventions introduced
into schools without taking
adequate account of what it

would take to make them

work in classrooms

“MADE AS THOUGH THEIR MERE
INTRODUCTION COULD CHANGE
INSTRUCTION”

Despite the fact that this strategy has rarely worked,
adapting new curriculum materials is one of the most
widely used intervention.

4. Instructional Capacity

AIM TO IMPROVE
WHAT STUDENTS

LEARN

“Capacity building is depicted as key to
better education”

Reformers have assured that increasing instructional

capacity depends on increasing the capacity of
teachers or the materials they use.

5. Capacity & Instruction

+ Focus on the interactions among teachers and students around
educational material, rather than seeing curriculum alone or teachers
alone as the main source of instruction

MATERIAL TECHNOLOGIES

(text & other media)

STUDENTS === TEACHERS

(experiences, understandings, (intellectual &
interests, commitments, personal resources)
engagement)

FUNCTION IS TO PRODUCE WORTHWHILE AND
SUBSTANTIAL LEARNING

6. Teacher's Role

Knowledge, skills and
beliefs are important

for teachers interpret
the materials with
which they work

“INTERPRETATIONS OFTEN CHANGE
THE AIMS, METHODS, AND OUTCOMES
OF A CURRICULUM”

Instructional capacity is a function of what teachers
know students are capable of doing and what teachers

know they are professionally capable of doing with
students.

7. Instructional Capacity Improvement

TEACHER’S
OPPORTUNITIES TO
LEARN ARE LIKELY

TO BE A CRUCIAL
FEATURE OF
IMPROVING
INSTRUCTIONAL
CAPACITY

“If interventions enable teachers to change
what they see in students’ work, how they set
tasks, and how they interpret and deploy
materials”