Student Achievement Gap

Achievement is everything in the era of education we are in today. We want our students to succeed and perform well. We want to see our students score higher on test and perform better in the classroom. As educators we are competitors and we want to know how our students can better compete against other schools in the district. We want assurance that our students are receiving a top-notch education in which the measurements are the results and how they compare to the other schools. Accountability for classroom teachers has made student achievement a very important topic in education today. Preparing students for the next stages of life, which is adulthood, is the ultimate goal for educators. The academic content that students learn

Opportunity and learning are two of the gaps in education that are used to describe gaps. Achievement gap is the third gap used in educational terms. Achievement gap is a term used referring significant and racial economic inequality in academic performance between different groups of students. These groups can be racial such as white students and minorities or gender male and female students. Theses groups can also be economical meaning student from higher income and students from lower income households and communities. It is actually impossible to determine all the factors that contribute to the persistency of these gaps. Closing achievement gaps has been considered to be a major challenge in the education community. Educators, elected officials, policy makers, and others have put this issue at the top of their priority list. The technology we use today has given us the luxury to be able to track school information and we are now able to identify or even expose achievement gaps that in past decades may have been overlooked, ignored, or

The increase of rigor is a great way to help close the achievement gap. Through the increase of classroom engagement will help increase rigor. Classroom engagement is an important part of the reading department at Deerfield Beach High School. Students that are continually engaged have been proven to perform better on test, earn higher grades, are able to stay on task, and value educational outcomes. There are four engagement subtypes that are observed in our reading department. Academic engagement, which can be measured through completion and accuracy of instruction and classroom work. Behavioral engagement refers to students behaving age appropriately while participating in class. Cognitive engagement refers to the teacher relating instruction to life situations, which helps the students find relevance in the instruction that will connect to future goals. Affective engagement refers to students able to find a sense of school pride and belonging to the school along with good relationships with classmates and adults. These meaningful engagements will increase student academic