Among the plan's strategic priorities is strengthening instruction for special education students.
Teachers, knowing that up to 20 percent of their annual rating would depend on how well their students do, might teach to these tests, but because they test higher-order thinking skills, that could actually strengthen instruction, he said.
"The new standards will help to strengthen science education in Kansas and over time, help teachers to strengthen instruction of evolutionary content".
Assessments can strengthen instruction, of course.
He also said that strengthening instruction in Spanish, math and Mexican history was more urgent than computers and English.
At a time when we should be strengthening our instruction, let's not let personal pride overshadow educational values.
Thus, it is necessary to strengthen mentors' instruction abilities.
The law has a new program for strengthening American history instruction by, for example, providing grants for training teachers.
Indeed, a report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on strengthening science education through a teacher learning continuum (2015) concluded that the development of science teacher leaders can be an important mechanism to support ambitious science instruction.
Self-regulation is an outgrowth of co-regulation, whereby the development of self-regulation in a child's early years can be strengthened with support, instruction, reinforcement, and coaching provided by caregivers (Murray et al. 2016b).
