Hiring good teachers make a principal's job easier in virtually every aspect.
Not exact matches
Now I am in charge of
making sure all the details are taken care of as
well as
hiring the right people and creating the kind of culture that attracts great clients and
teachers.
•
Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and
hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first t
hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «
best practices» • Identify
teachers who do it
well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map •
Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first t
Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!
In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help
make our schools the
best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that
teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to
hire more
well - prepared and nationally certified
teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and
teachers, principals and parents.
I would change the way that many school systems currently
make decisions - for example, by
hiring and firing
teachers in ways that do not ensure that all children get the
best teachers available.
Most important when
hiring, says Peiser, «We want to
make sure our
teachers want to get
better.
We feel the push to
hire the
best person and to simultaneously
make the right fit and appease local political forces (district offices,
teachers associations, parent groups, neighborhood councils, the current teaching staffs, and so on).
With
better data and clearer strategies, they can
make inroads into solving
teacher hiring and retention challenges that have bedeviled schools for years.
There are smarter,
better ways to approach the challenge at hand: expand the
hiring pool beyond recent college graduates; staff schools in ways that squeeze more value out of talented
teachers; and use technology to
make it easier for
teachers to be highly effective.
The principal is often responsible for interviewing prospective candidates for job openings within their building as
well as
making recommendations to the superintendent for
hiring a new
teacher.
We absolutely
make it a priority to
hire minority
teachers who have backgrounds that are similar to our students — and we've done a
good job of doings so — but there are other qualities that are even more important.
While NPR's Westervelt criticizes Kane for
making a «pretty scathing and strong indictment» of America's education system, what Kane does not understand writ large is that the very solutions for which Kane advocates — using VAM - based measurements to fire and
hire bad and
good teachers, respectively — are really no different than the «stronger accountability» measures upon which we have relied for the last 40 years (since the minimum competency testing era) within this alleged «echo chamber.»
«
Teachers deserve better support and better training than teachers» colleges today provide, and school districts should be able to make well - informed hiring choices,»
Teachers deserve
better support and
better training than
teachers» colleges today provide, and school districts should be able to make well - informed hiring choices,»
teachers» colleges today provide, and school districts should be able to
make well - informed
hiring choices,» he said.
The
hiring process itself, as Mark Biesiada told me,
makes clear that all
teachers are expected to share and generate expertise and to help the team find
better ways to get every kid over that bar.
This
makes it easier to recruit,
hire and retain the
best substitute
teachers for our client districts to increase the substitute pool and daily fill rate.
If you want to give your school a
better chance of
making a
good match when
hiring a new
teacher — and simultaneously grow
teacher leadership — involve
teachers in your
hiring process, Clement advises.
The plan would help charter schools
hire individuals who would
make good teachers or administrators but don't hold a certificate, state officials aid.
Unfortunately, none of these activities helps
teachers improve their instructional practice, which means that school -
hired coaches did not necessarily get to
make the
best use of the strong relationships they built with
teachers.
This unique funding mechanism, utilized by roughly 30 school districts in the country, is based on a belief that school principals are
better equipped to
make financial decisions — on how many
teachers to
hire, for example — than those in the district's North Avenue headquarters.
One of the
best ways to address the shortage is by increasing
teacher retention — if we keep more of our great
teachers in Oakland classrooms, we will dramatically reduce the number of
hires we need to
make each year.
Legal and union requirements and a short funding timeline
made it difficult for some of the schools studied to find and
hire the
best teachers and principals and remove ineffective staff.
In order to
make teaching a first - class profession, faculty support must include
better hiring processes, and evaluation and investments in
teacher pay, as
well as opportunities to research, collaborate, and bring individual passion to the classroom.
Write one that
makes the
hiring manager say, «Interesting... I'd
better pay special attention to this
teacher's aide's resume.»