Sentences with phrase «effective teachers serve»

In his speech today, Obama identified three key priorities he wants to guide the legislative process: fair and thorough accountability and assessment, empowerment of teachers and principals to pursue innovative ideas, and a focus on persistently low - performing schools to ensure the most effective teachers serve students most in need.

She is involved in several research projects, including a study examining the relationship between national culture and student achievement, creativity, and productivity, and an ongoing international comparative study of effective teachers serving disadvantaged students in the United States and China.

Not exact matches

For almost a decade, Dr. Pfund served as the Associate Director of the Delta Program in Research, Teaching, and Learning and the co-Director of the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching helping to train future faculty to become better more effective teachers.

Us eful guidance can also be gleaned from the practices of effective teachers, for example, the 49 techniques recently set down by Doug Lemov in Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College, a book that serves as the antithesis of what most institutions espouse.

For example, the idea that the success of LEAs will be determined based on: «the number and percentage of participating students by subgroup who have daily access to effective and highly effective teachers» is problematic in the way that it potentially limits the innovative staffing models possible to serve students if educator is defined as one being co-located with the student.

The public, on the other hand, is best served when administrators put the most effective teachers in the classroom, and ask the least effective to find other lines of work.

On Top of the News Cincinnati Public Schools to put top teachers at weak schools 06/14/10 Cincinnati.com Behind the Headline An Effective Teacher in Every Classroom Summer 2010 Education Next Cincinnati teachers who receive special training to serve as «lead teachers» will no longer be able to return to their home schools, but -LSB-...]

Even if local personnel policies might partially buffer the impact on low - income children by re-assigning ineffective teachers and paying effective teachers to take their place, such salary incentives are expensive (with the costs being borne disproportionately by schools serving low - income children) and have been only partially effective where they have been tried.

Debate continues about the validity of these findings, but there is no denying that these programs operated in a far different social and demographic setting than programs today and that they were «hothouse» programs: Run by top - notch specialists, the programs served fewer than 200 children, cost at least $ 15,000 per child per year in today's dollars, often involved multiple years of services, had well - trained teachers, and instructed parents on effective child rearing.

The series serves as testimony to the idea that learning is most effective as a partnership among communities, schools, teachers, children, and the parents who love them.

Last month, Education Secretary Arne Duncan made a speech at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in which he lamented the fact that many high schools that serve disadvantaged students and students of color lack highly effective teachers.

Based on this assessment, teachers can choose strategies that will serve as effective scaffolds between the students» «given» and the «new» of the text.

For the families we serve, whose children are more apt to attend low - performing schools and have less - effective teachers than their privileged peers, the time taken for standardized tests is a reasonable cost for receiving vital information about how their children are doing academically.

AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School, a pre-K — only charter school that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional skills.

The seemingly ever expanding teacher workload outside teaching time does see each of the aforementioned tasks becoming difficult in terms of effective turn - around for pupil growth and serves to develop the culture of «task performance» rather than a personal learning journey.

We work with education leaders to measure the effectiveness of teachers, principals, and schools; to examine the equitable distribution of effective teaching; and to understand the factors that help educators have a greater impact on the students they serve.

In 2012, Darby served as a Curriculum Specialist at Teach For America's New York City Institute where she fell in love with coaching teachers to develop the knowledge, skills, and mindsets to become highly effective educators.

In this way, districts can pay highly effective teachers more, particularly those working in schools serving high concentrations of low - income students.

Chiefs for Change (CFC), a coalition of over two dozen state and district education chiefs, serving 5.3 million students and 330,000 teachers, and dedicated to excellence and equity for all students, urge Congress to fund the Title II, Part A (Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants) at no less than $ 2.055 billion, the FY 2017 appropriation.

The University of Maryland's Douglas Besharov calls them «hothouse programs,» noting that they were «run by top - notch specialists,... served fewer than 200 children, cost at least $ 15,000 per child per year in today's dollars, often involved multiple years of services, had well - trained teachers, and instructed parents on effective child - rearing.

Ensuring quality teachers in every classroom by recruiting, training, retaining, and rewarding teachers and school leaders; creating career ladders and increasing pay for effective teachers who serve as mentors, teach in high - need subjects, such as math and science, and who excel in the classroom; and by identifying ineffective and struggling teachers, providing them with individual help and support, and removing them from the classroom in a quick and fair way if they still underperform.

Florida International University's Lisa Delpit has noted that the skills which make a teacher effective with proficient, affluent students will not necessarily translate to schools serving a different student population.

Few teachers find their work effective or satisfying when they simply «serve up» a curriculum — even an elegant one — to students with no regard for their varied learning needs.

Likewise, a teacher of the same race may serve as a more effective role model, boosting students» confidence and enthusiasm for learning.

There was a massive gap between the percent of effective teachers (92 %) in schools that serve primarily white students versus 82 % effective teachers in schools serving primarily students of color.

These sections of the federal law place identifying and addressing childhood trauma and other variables linked to poverty alongside policy options for recruiting and retaining effective teachers and school leaders, maximizing the impact of early childhood education, using data to improve student achievement, and serving students with disabilities.

Enrollment has increased by over 200 students, scholars consistently perform well above grade level in math and literacy and gain admission to college - preparatory secondary schools, and the school serves as an effective training ground and research site for developing teachers.

Pete, is a certified Master Somatic Coach, and has designed and delivered many programs that support teachers, administrators and directors of technology in developing the skills they need to be more effective in their work and to have their technology vision embraced by those they serve.

Dr. Robert Marzano, researcher and author, «I am honored by the Department's selection, and will work closely with my partner, Learning Sciences International, to serve the needs of Florida's districts with our model that incorporates contemporary research in effective teaching practices, the development of expertise over time and the key concept of deliberate practices to districts» teacher evaluation systems.»

Previously, Castenzio was the Director of Teacher Development at the Center for Urban Teaching (CfUT) in Milwaukee, WI, where he served as a resource for aspiring urban teacher candidates and beginning teachers, equipping them with the training necessary to be highly effective in the urban claTeacher Development at the Center for Urban Teaching (CfUT) in Milwaukee, WI, where he served as a resource for aspiring urban teacher candidates and beginning teachers, equipping them with the training necessary to be highly effective in the urban clateacher candidates and beginning teachers, equipping them with the training necessary to be highly effective in the urban classroom.

For one, there is a case to be made that districts, particularly those serving a lot of students living in concentrated poverty, need additional funds to encourage effective teachers to work in more challenging schools.

Leadership program at the UIC College of Education as effective tools in building teacher and staff capacity to serve students.

Three of the four most effective schools reported having an active site council in which parents served on the committee with teachers and other school staff and helped to make decisions concerning school practices.

She founded and was principal of a school for children with special needs in Singapore, and later founded and served as Executive Director of Live and Learn, the largest educational consulting firm in Singapore, an organization dedicated to training and supporting teachers to provide effective inclusion services.

And if the teacher can handle those 40 kids, they are better served by that one highly effective teacher than splitting that class into two classes of 20 [where] you can't guarantee both are highly effective teachers.

They add that «teachers and students are not well served when a teacher is rated effective or higher even though her [sic] students have not made sufficient gains in their learning over the course of a school year» (p. 4).

Moreover, if researchers can identify, in particular, why some teachers are more effective with under - served populations, school reform efforts might greatly benefit.

Jackson currently serves as the chief executive officer of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, founded at the College Board and Teachers College, Columbia University.

The expansion of learning time can serve as one effective vehicle to modernize our schools because it allows teachers, principals, community organizations and leaders, and parents to build multiple curriculums to best educate our children to succeed in the 21st century.

This relationship — which includes such factors as setting clear expectations, providing support and encouragement, and recognizing staff for a job well done — is much larger in high - need schools, and, for the most effective principals, can even close the teacher turnover gap with schools serving more advantaged students.Grissom, J. A. (2011).

To express support for improved systems of teacher supervision and evaluation and provide recommendations for federal, state, and local policymakers to help schools ensure effective, fair, and meaningful teacher evaluations that improve their capacity to enhance the learning of the students they serve.

The focus of TFA is on teachers and providing effective instruction to under - served students.

I think it would also be helpful to link PLCs with researchers of effective education tactics so that teachers could learn about new innovative strategies to better serve their students.

The organization takes a holistic approach to selection, rather than «using a blunt instrument like cut scores on Praxis or content exams, which can dramatically impact diversity in a negative way,» says Anne Mahle, who currently serves as senior vice president for public partnerships but led recruitment for many years.149 Although the average GPA of corps members is 3.42, TFA maintains a relatively low cutoff requirement of 2.5 and instead places greater emphasis on candidate evaluations designed to measure characteristics that TFA's research has shown its most effective teachers share.

While these «in - the - moment» kinds of reflections serve a purpose and come as a part of being a teacher, reflection that is planned and deliberate is more effective.

Finally, Dr. Jeff Duncan - Andrade, professor of Raza Studies at San Francisco State University and a high school teacher in East Oakland, California, closed the day with a moving talk on critical pedagogy in urban settings in which he shared his own experiences and strategies for effective teaching in schools serving poor and working - class children.

The findings also acknowledged that schools in poorer communities face unique academic challenges that result in an achievement gap and need to be addressed; a desire to learn more about serving special needs students and funding those services; and the necessity for policies to recruit and retain highly effective teachers.

We can not develop a more comprehensive and effective approach to serving ELL students without teachers who understand the cultural nuances of immigrant populations.

«Whether it is serving as a curriculum coach, leading effective implementation of the Common Core State Standards, or mentoring fellow teachers through the certification process, NBCTs have a ripple effect on teaching and learning that extends well beyond their classrooms.»

Provide Continuous Professional Development: In addition to ESL teachers of record, all staff serving ELL students must be provided continuous professional development in effective, research - based practices serving ELLs.