Poster #35 - Better Teaching: Unpacking Instructional Improvement

• In Event: 79.052 - MTCC Poster Session 19
  In Poster Session: 79.052-4 - Teaching Across Multiple Spaces

Abstract

Decades of school reform have had limited effects on classroom instruction. Policy-makers and practitioners still do not understand the specific instructional changes that occur when teachers become more effective. This paper explores self-reported instructional changes of a group of teachers whose effectiveness, as measured by the Tripod 7Cs framework, improved more than 80% of district teachers over a four-year period. Findings shed light on what teachers consider to be foundational practice improvements.

Authors

• Carolina Buitrago, Tripod Education Partners

• Sarah Phillips, Tripod Education Partners

• Jacob Rowley, Tripod Education Partners

• Lars Dietrich, Humboldt University, Berlin

• Ronald F. Ferguson, Harvard University