Sentences with phrase «several teachers reported»

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Several years ago, the National Education Association reported that about twenty percent of our public school teachers could profit from psychotherapeutic help because of minor emotional difficulties.

Using the one teacher for several schools in certain subjects would save money on salaries, according to the report.

Low family income during the early childhood has been linked to comparatively less secure attachment, 4 higher levels of negative moods and inattention, 5 as well as lower levels of prosocial behaviour in children.2 The link between low family income and young children's problem behaviour has been replicated across several datasets with different outcome measures, including parental reports of externalizing and internalizing behaviours,1 - 3, 7 -9,11-12 teacher reports of preschool behavioural problems, 10 and assessments of children based on clinical diagnostic interviews.7

«The Common Core Task Force Report has 21 common sense recommendations we've been seeking for several years including reducing the amount of testing and testing anxiety, making sure curriculum and exams are age appropriate and not placing such a heavy emphasis on teacher evaluations and student performance on the standardized test scores.»

As a result of the testimony given, the report recommends the state Department of Education immediately address several concerns, such as expediting waivers from the U.S. Department of Education «to relax onerous and rigid testing restrictions placed on certain students,» especially with English as a Second Language students and students with disabilities; producing all missing or incomplete curriculum modules; aligning assessments proportionally to curriculum actually implemented; and increasing funding for the professional development of teachers.

report, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «It is shameful indictment of the economic and social policies of the last five years, being continued by the Government, that young people have the worst economic prospects for several generations.

The report profiles several charter schools that utilize sophisticated computer technology to individualize instruction, reinforce students» basic skills, and provide immediate data on student progress, all of which helps teachers to fine - tune instruction and students to learn at their own pace.

The report also makes several recommendations, including improved teacher professional development, resources for schools, and resources for industry.

Although only 253 female teachers responded to several thousands of surveys distributed, of those respondents, 88 per cent of those had been in the teaching industry for more than 10 years and 90 per cent were principals or school leaders, NESLI reported.

A Labor Economics Office NT report (Department of Employment, March, 2015) attributes high teacher turnover to several factors, including the high cost of living in remote areas, and relocation due to spousal employment in industries such as the Defence Force.

Several years ago, the superintendent of a school district in Pennsylvania, proposed that teachers issue report cards grading parents on how involved they are in their children's education.

The report includes several randomised controlled trials and documents how dosage (participation in certain activity), fidelity (ongoing support), quality of implementation (support from principals) and acceptability (teachers» participation and attitudes to that activity) influence students» academic and behavioural outcomes, and teachers» attitudes and practices.

The data collection for the Coleman Report included several questions about where teachers in a school grew up and went to high school and college.

The NRC report suggests several possible reasons, including a lack of knowledge about such opportunities among teachers and administrators; a bias among principals for more traditional methods; and institutional resistance from district professional development staff who might see their own jobs disappear if teachers bypass their programs and engage in training created from afar.

A recent report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) tracked teacher retention across the Miami - Dade County Public Schools as one of several indicators correlated with teacher qTeacher Quality (NCTQ) tracked teacher retention across the Miami - Dade County Public Schools as one of several indicators correlated with teacher qteacher retention across the Miami - Dade County Public Schools as one of several indicators correlated with teacher qteacher quality.

He applauded the commission's report for addressing several problems facing teachers, including keeping teachers from leaving education.

Several remedies to overcome recruitment and retention obstacles are listed in the NEA publication, including the development of a new program that would recruit teachers from existing school support personnel, said Sigun Eubanks, NEA's teacher recruitment specialist and one of the contributors to the report.

In a series of valuable reports, including several recently released, ERA found, for instance, that initial reforms led to the dismissal of thousands of teachers; NOLA teachers today report lower job satisfaction, less job security, and less autonomy; average teacher salaries are lower and there are fewer teachers per pupil; and the teaching force has grown less black, experienced, and local.

Children in the intervention schools showed improvements across several domains: self - reports of hostile attribution bias, aggressive interpersonal negotiation strategies, and depression, and teacher reports of attention skills and aggressive and socially competent behavior.

Stress among teachers has reached unprecedented levels, and according to the latest MetLife Survey of the American Teacher (PDF), over half of teachers reported «great stress at least several days a week.»

Next, Rainey and several teachers attended an awareness session and reported on the innovation at a faculty meeting.

While many teachers report feeling ill - equipped to establish collaborative relationships with parents, there are several strategies that can be employed to strengthen these ties.

While these stories (e.g., Partelow, 2016; Rich, 2015) and a highly - publicized recent report (Sutcher et al., 2016) generally discuss teacher shortages as a national problem, we argue that the popular conception of a «teacher shortage» is not borne out by historical data; in fact, the production of newly - minted potential teachers has increased steadily over the past several decades, and only about half of these recent graduates have been hired as public school teachers in a typical year.

With New Jersey several months into the second year of a new teacher - evaluation system, the Christie administration has released its first report on how the first year went for tens of thousands of affected teachers.

Jay - my analysis of the MET reports and dealings with several district supers who came from MET districts is the purpose of the report was to force teachers to use Charlotte Danielson's OBE oriented practices in the classroom or be deemed ineffective.

The 144 - page report ties pro-voucher forces and religious conservatives to campaigns in several states to put new re-strictions on how unions — including teachers» unions — raise money for political purposes.

Although the final MET report will include several additional «competitors» (including scoring of live and videotaped classroom instruction), this initial report compares only two: value - added scores and the surveys of students» perception of teachers» skills and performance — not the strongest basis to call something «among the best.»

Hoffman reports on a literature review of effective teaching by Rosenshine and Furst (1973) in which they found several teacher behaviors consistently related to student achievement: clarity, variability, enthusiasm, task orientation, teacher directness, student opportunity to learn criterion material, use of structuring comments, multiple levels of questions, and criticism (which was negatively related to achievement).

A kindergarten teacher reported that each staff member was able to participate in several professional development activities during the year.

These studies echo several of the findings found in the NCTAF report, including evidence of the positive effects of STEM PLCs on deepening teacher knowledge of disciplinary content and pedagogy, influencing teacher classroom practice, and inconclusive evidence on the impact of STEM PLCs on student achievement.

«Because District officials could not find any reports on file, they concluded several schools may not have submitted required annual reports of operation providing basic information on their curriculum, teachers» education, accreditation, and school facilities.»

Programs that prepared teacher leaders to engage in unspecified instructional support to teachers (Fancsali, 2004; Fortner & Boyd, 1995; Frechtling & Katzenmeyer, 2006; Harris & Townsend, 2007) reported that teacher leaders designed and / or facilitated professional development as one of several strategies for supporting classroom instruction.

An AFT report «Passing on Failure» delineates several reasons for student failure: «immaturity, weak curriculum and instruction, excessive absenteeism, lack of effort, failure of teachers and administrators as well as parents to use practices that promote high achievement, and failure due to a combination of factors listed above.»

Recent media reports of teacher shortages across the country are confirmed by the analysis of several national datasets reported in this brief.

Since the EEF guidance report was published, several teachers have asked me if the guidance encourages mastery.

This paper reports on a project designed to provide experimental evidence on several questions regarding resource allocation in primary education: the impact of pupil - teacher ratios, tracking, and

The chapter provides several suggestions on how teachers might respond to and report formative data.

But when The Hechinger Report visited several Summit schools earlier this year, few teachers cited the technology when explaining what made their schools unique.

The majority of teachers reported that they did not use several instructional strategies that might address these issues, such as those relating to student choice, student inquiry, the use of technology and varied texts, and student discussion of text materials and what they have learned.

Reporting on research conducted with participants of two graduate summer courses on video production, Girod, Bell, and Punya (2007) wrote, «Related to the pragmatics of teaching and the pace at which most teachers work, participants appreciated the opportunity to explore digital video design in this summer experience but several only laughed when asked if they would continue to design videos during the regular school year» (p. 27).

FastBridge Learning offers several reports that teachers can use to see what skills a student has mastered and what ones still need to be learned.

Several weeks ago NBC News reported that the American Psychiatric Association was working with teachers around the country to help them identify troubled students.

In the report, the authors study several factors including what they defined as human resources; pupil to teacher ratios, average class sizes and teacher wages as they relate to quality.

When the district made the decision at 4:45 a.m., roughly 1,270 teacher absences had been reported, and several hundred more were anticipated, district spokesman Daniel Kemp says.

Several reports are provided to teachers to allow them to adjust their instruction after a mid-way test point, to better meet the needs of their students.

According to the lawsuit and a report from the district hearing officer, the student who created the fake email sent it to several teachers and asked them to use a provided link to log in.

In 2006, Sharon E. Russell, a professor at California State, Dominguez Hills, published one of several reports that highlighted the difficulties in tracking the impact of the teacher preparation reforms and argued for creating a system to connect teacher performance with student achievement as a way to see if they were working.

Teachers have reported cuts to spending on books, ICT, SEND provision, and non-EBacc subjects in their schools, in a week where funding will dominate the agenda at several education union conferences.

This report highlights several common characteristics and many unique differences among the teacher - voice organizations and fellowships.

Their report, «The Mirage: Confronting the Hard Truth about Our Quest for Teacher Development,» found that the surveyed teachers spent an average of 19 school days each year in teacher development sessions, but only three out of 10 teachers improved their performance as evidenced by several factors including evaluation ratings and classroom observTeacher Development,» found that the surveyed teachers spent an average of 19 school days each year in teacher development sessions, but only three out of 10 teachers improved their performance as evidenced by several factors including evaluation ratings and classroom observteacher development sessions, but only three out of 10 teachers improved their performance as evidenced by several factors including evaluation ratings and classroom observations.