Educational leaders need to be effective and efficient concerning curriculum in an educational setting (Diamond, 1997). Constructing a solid curriculum is intensive, demanding, and is significantly time consuming. Educational leaders assume numerous functions but none have a more notable influence on students than the engagement in the construction of the curriculum one teaches (Diamond, 1997). ...
As technology makes advances worldwide many upgrades in hardware and software are introduced into our classrooms across the United States. These advances bring many promises of unique, fun, challenging, and educational forms of learning. Some of this learning takes place through experimentation, such as through virtual labs in our science classrooms; other forms of learning ...
In 1997-98, Winona State University experienced what many educational institutions do: change. The leadership styles used for these changes are outlined and referenced by Richard Bowman. These leadership styles are offspring of D.R. Conner’s “Leading at the Edge of Choaos”, and are titled: anti-change, rational, panacea, bolt-on, integrated, and continuous. Also in 1998, McREL began ...
1. The purpose of the article called “Determining the negative effect of teacher attendance on student achievement” by Robert C. Woods and Ray V. Montagno is to suggest that teacher absence has a large and detrimental affect on student performance. Unfortunately, the research cannot adequately address the problem, so the reader really cannot understand the ...
When teachers first began to use computers in a classroom setting, schools wished to evaluate whether the use of educational technology had a significant and consistent impact on student achievement. This achievement was to be measured not only in the students ability to use technology, but that by using it, there was a measurable increase ...
