Sentences with phrase «teacher quality calls»

Kate Walsh with the National Council on Teacher Quality calls the steps and lanes salary schedule a «flawed system» because it doesn't take performance into account.

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Though it is difficult to raise children in what might be called a «gender - neutral environment», part of the antidote to the current gender - laden environments in which children tend now to be raised is this view of the work of the Spirit in giving gifts as the Spirit chooses, which encourages those who are the teachers and guides of the young to observe the emerging qualities of spirit in each child and to bring those qualities to full flower rather than trying to redirect any «alpha» qualities in women or «beta» qualities in men towards any «norm.»

Peter Dada, Akure The All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools has called on the Federal Government to take the future of pupils of secondary schools in the country seriously by providing better education through employment of quality teachers.

And yet teachers have no desire to keep in the profession people who are clearly not up to the job, patients don't care who provides their healthcare so long as it's good quality and free at the point of delivery, and no police officer would defend being able to receive # 100 just for answering a telephone call.

Teachers at the Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, have today called for the introduction of a contractual entitlement for all teachers to high - quality continuing professional development (CPD) throughout their Teachers at the Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, have today called for the introduction of a contractual entitlement for all teachers to high - quality continuing professional development (CPD) throughout their teachers» union in the UK, have today called for the introduction of a contractual entitlement for all teachers to high - quality continuing professional development (CPD) throughout their teachers to high - quality continuing professional development (CPD) throughout their careers.

The Alliance for Quality Education, United Federation of Teachers and New York State United Teachers recently started a petition calling for a ban in New York on standardized testing in pre-K through 2nd grade.

On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.

Calling for an end to the unfair distribution of teacher quality across New York City public schools, StudentsFirstNY organizers and hundreds of New York City public school parents came together today to demand action to address the disproportionate number of unsatisfactory - rated teachers in schools with the highest needs.

Instead of the privatization schemes pushed by Cuomo and Republican candidate Rob Astorino, Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones are calling for fully funded, quality public education, qualitative assessments instead of the punitive high stakes testing model, and an end to the attack on teacher's unions.»

Together, they called on Mayor de Blasio, Schools Commissioner Fariña, and other officials across the City and the State to deliver on the promise of a quality education and great teachers for all students, regardless of the school they attend or the neighborhood they live in.

Its executive director, Jenny Sedlis, called de Blasio's proposals «a start» but also said there were «glaring omissions» on teacher quality and school choice.

A New York Daily News editorial features findings from the new report from StudentsFirstNY and calls for reform to address the unsatisfactory distribution of teacher quality in New York City.

In an op - ed published by the NY Daily News, Executive Director, Micah Lasher, calls on the commission to boldy confront problems and focus on improving teacher quality:

He calls on teachers and schools, in no uncertain terms, to abandon ever - changing «fads, programs, and innovations,» and zero in on what he calls the «three essential elements» of high - quality schooling: coherent curriculum, effective whole - class instruction, and purposeful reading and writing.

Through e-mail, Web sites, online grade books, blogs, wikis, and, yes, even telephone calls, technology gives teachers the ability to make parents partners who help assure students» timely, quality work.

If the technology is well doen, questions or other tasks are alinged to standards that call for deep learning then I think technology has the potential to support teachers in gathering quality evidence..

Sweeping calls for testing, intervening in persistently low - performing schools, and policing teacher quality made it the most ambitious legislation on K — 12 schooling in American history.

With all the media chatter about test scores, merit pay, failing schools, and teacher quality, it's sometimes easy for those outside the school system to forget that it's people — just everyday people with a calling for education — who make up that system.

In the Washington Post this weekend, Richard Whitmire worries that the race to embrace a style of school reform he calls «Michelle Light» — the kinds of teacher quality reforms identified with Michelle Rhee, but pursued in a gentle, cooperative way — may not be able to accomplish much.

Just provide the data to teachers and principals — and continue to train the latter on how to conduct high - quality teacher observations — and call it a day.

Third, the governor's initiative also calls for changing state and district incentive structures that drain quality teachers and resources from the schools that need them the most.

One teacher message board that put the call out for quality detention activities drew suggestions including everything from having students finish a series of math problems, to the oldest detention activity in the book: seated silence.

Despite spending # 700 million a year on recruiting and training new teachers, the government is missing crucial targets, with the report calling for it to «demonstrate how new arrangements are improving the quality of teaching on classrooms».

In an attempt to curtail criticism of college - based teacher - training programs and improve the quality of their graduates, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is calling for a national evaluation system for prospective educators, as well as the development of a database that links their alma maters to pre-K-12 student perfoteacher - training programs and improve the quality of their graduates, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is calling for a national evaluation system for prospective educators, as well as the development of a database that links their alma maters to pre-K-12 student perfoTeacher Education is calling for a national evaluation system for prospective educators, as well as the development of a database that links their alma maters to pre-K-12 student performance.

The release in January of the Teaching Commission's report, «Teaching at Risk: A Call to Action,» presents us with an opportunity to reconsider the importance of teacher quality as a critical variable in the current effort to implement standards - based reform and high - stakes accountability.

Much as lawyers and doctors ensure quality within their professions through bar examinations and board certification, the AFT and the NEA call for higher certification standards for new teachers (but rarely for current teachers), apprenticeships, peer review, and rewards for teachers who earn additional credentials, such as National Board certification.

The Committee advises that high quality training is available to teachers and calls for more to be done to extend its reach to subjects other than history, arguing that this kind of cross-curricular approach will strengthen the teaching of the Holocaust.

Called Parachute Teachers, Cherry Rice's idea is, at its core, actually pretty simple: Parachute finds high - quality subs, handles background checks, offers basic training, and does the scheduling.

The conservative call for practicality must be understood as an attempt to sabotage the forms of teacher and student self - reflection required for a quality education, all the while providing an excuse for a prolonged moral coma and flight from responsibility.

Another letter, issued by a coalition called the Education Equality Project, advocated addressing school system failures through greater accountability, school choice, and changes in compensation that would promote teacher quality.

This reflects the call by government for a more clinical focus on teacher preparation whereby would - be graduates are required to observe and be engaged in classroom practices in a systematic and sustained manner with quality teachers; teachers who are identified and upgraded as lead or mentor teachers.

In light of these findings, Plan UK is calling for greater support for teachers to prevent incidents of unwanted sexual contact, as well as high - quality statutory sex and relationships education to teach young people about issues of consent and healthy relationships, and ensuring bullying policies address gender and sexual violence, providing a safe environment for pupils to report concerns.

We call on the DfE to recognise the importance of Early Years» representation on school senior leadership teams and governing boards, as well as bringing a stronger focus on Early Years pedagogy to initial teacher training in order to protect, strengthen and improve the quality of Early Years provision in schools.»

Called Book Banter, administrators at Central Elementary School in Wilmette Public Schools District 39 started the program four years ago and have seen improvement in the amount and quality of teacher - parent dialogue, staff members at the K - 4 school told an audience at the 2007 Association for School Curriculum Development (ASCD) conference.

His comprehensive plan called for expanding early education opportunities for all children, improving teacher quality, supporting school innovation, and putting a college education within reach of many more students.

Amidst a growing call for raising the quality of the U.S. teaching force, The Hechinger Report is examining whether teachers are being adequately prepared.

Kati Haycock, who leads the Washington - based advocacy group Education Trust, called the November change an «about - face» that let states «keep sweeping under the rug the gaps in teacher quality that contribute so heavily to longstanding achievement gaps.»

We decided to take a look at student debt among teachers specifically, because we see it as a crossroads of several big trends: chronic concerns over teacher pay amid calls to improve teacher quality; the rising cost of higher ed; the increasing reliance on loans to pay for it; and changing policies from the Trump administration.

A disciple of e-learning, Droste now runs a nonprofit consulting business called Virtual On - line Training and Teaching that shows teachers and school administrators throughout the world how to run quality cyber classrooms.

The position statement, called «The Early Childhood Challenge: Preparing High - Quality Teachers for a Changing Society,» is the Washington - based membership group's effort to weigh in on the preparation of early - childhood...

The best of these studies, so - called value - added studies that concentrate on the determinants of growth in achievement across individual classrooms, find that differences in teacher quality have a profound impact.

In 2014, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) received a federal Teacher Quality Partnership grant for a proposal called Transforming Teaching through Technology (TTtT), winning Year 1 funding of nearly $ 1.7 million, renewable for up to 5 years.

However, among the various influences that schools and policymakers can control, teacher quality was found to account for a larger portion of the variation in student test scores than all other characteristics of a school, excluding the composition of the student body (so - called peer effects).

Backers call the evaluations a way to help ensure quality teachers, and that repeated delays in using test score data were becoming a problem.

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

Riley and others also ignore another culprit: Low - quality teachers and lackluster school leaders — or, «the other knuckleheads, as Fordham Institute scholar Peter Meyer calls them — who perpetuate cultures of low expectations by failing in reading instruction and failing to properly manage classrooms.

August 13, 2014 (Minneapolis)-- Educators 4 Excellence - MN, a teacher - led organization that seeks to elevate the voices of teachers in policy discussions, called for four key changes to Minnesota's decade - long implementation of Quality Compensation (Q Comp).

«These results call into question the fixed and formulaic approach to teacher evaluation that's being promoted in a lot of states right now,» said Morgan Polikoff, one of the study's authors, in a video that explains his paper, «Instructional Alignment as a Measure of Teaching Quality,» published online in Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis on May 13, 2014.

She said she grew alarmed when she started seeing principals and teachers whom she called «high - quality, dedicated people» forced out.