Improving Instructional Alignment to Standards for Student Learning: The Impact of a Virtual Coaching Program

• In Event: Using Video to Support Teacher Learning

Abstract

Over the last decade, states have adopted new college- and career-readiness standards that call for the mastery of ambitious content and raise expectations for student success and classroom instruction in math and English language arts (ELA). Feedback on Alignment and Support for Teachers (FAST) is a virtual coaching program that uses classroom videos and instructional logs to support teachers in reflecting on and improving the alignment of their instruction to these new state standards. The study presented here is a two-year, randomized controlled trial designed to assess the impact of the FAST program on fourth-grade math and fifth-grade ELA teachers’ instruction and their students’ learning.

Authors

• Michael S. Garet, American Institutes for Research

• Toni M. Smith, American Institutes for Research

• Rui Yang, Facebook