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Research shows that the biggest indicator of student achievement is the classroom teacher. The second indicator is the building leadership. Sadly, a poor teacher can negatively impact a student for the next three years of their educational career even if they have good teachers the following three years. This reiterates the importance of great teachers. The above article presents solid information and research about good teaching and its impacts.
So, before you can identify what good teaching is you have to establish what criteria to use. The Iowa Core Curriculum has identified 5 Characteristics of Effective Instruction. These characteristics are all part of good teaching. Alone they do no guarantee high test scores but rather are uniform characteristics of what good teachers do...and do well. More information will be coming out about these characteristics but we certainly hope that a parent would notice these Characteristics of Effective Instruction in classrooms at HDHS.
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Fourth quarter starts at HDHS on Monday, March 29th. This is a fresh start for all students of the final 4th quarter of the school year. It is hard to believe that we are in the final lap of the school year. As the fourth quarter starts I look forward to senior activities and the culmination of another positive school year. We are also gearing up for an exciting year next year with the implementation of the 1:1 laptop initiative.
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