Sentences with phrase «teacher quality focuses»

Teacher Quality focuses on the need to recruit and retain effective teachers while supporting and enhancing the knowledge and skills of current staff with job - embedded professional learning.

His work on teacher quality focuses on how to identify effective teachers and how to enhance teacher effectiveness.

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An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

The broad sector policy thrust for Education is Sustainable and Efficient Management of Education Service Delivery with focus on teacher development and accountability; improved Quality of Teaching and Learning at all Levels, inclusive and Equitable Access at all Levels, skills Development and Training for Employability through Quality TVET and strengthened Mathematics, Science, ICT and Technology Education.

The Association will focus on signposting schools to high quality resources and in expanding their Chartered Teacher of PSHE programme.

While I completely agree with the aim of this amendment it ignores the spirit of the document, reinforced by the Blunkett review which is also among the papers for consideration, according to which Labour will focus on teacher quality rather than the structure of provision.

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:

But the bulk of the city's school reforms over the past decade have focused elsewhere, on building a pre-kindergarten system, creating new curriculum materials and instructional strategies and, above all, improving teacher quality — work that's largely unrelated to high school attendance.

When Usable Knowledge launched in September — with a handful of stories focused on the Common Core, how teachers can make caring more common, and the best strategies to expand high - quality early education, among others — we had no idea what the response might be.

«The three key ones for us are focused planning time, quality teachers, and an extended day and year,» she says.

In that position, in addition to his management responsibilities, his grant making work focused on education reform and the development of quality teachers and administrators.

«Instead of devising testing schemes, which commonly lead to more retention and dropping out, policymakers should focus on providing all students with appropriately certified teachers, challenging curriculum, high quality facilities, and ample supplies of up - to - date books and materials.»

In the past, administrations emphasised school management; tomorrow the focus needs to be on instructional leadership, with leaders supporting, evaluating and developing high - quality teachers, and designing innovative learning environments.

One of the things that's interesting about this is that we tend to be focussing on teacher quality a lot and thinking about their knowledge of content and pedagogical content knowledge and that's important.

«The Queensland Government is committed to ensuring state schools are equipped with high quality admin and support staff so that principals and teachers can focus on maximising student learning outcomes,» Jones said.

High quality online CPD gives teachers access to training any time, any place, focusing on classroom best practice for a wide range of products.

While we can measure the difference a good teacher makes in the classroom, we can't develop a mathematical formula for creating these heroic professionals, so judges will instead focus on easy - to - measure but inaccurate metrics like teachers» salaries as proxies for teacher quality.

Caroline Wright, director general designate at BESA says: «Our latest research shows that there is a growing desire and need by teachers for high quality CPD: 48 per cent of primary schools and 41 per cent of secondary schools state that CPD will be a focus for 2016/17.

Every discussion of education policy, program design, implementation and evaluation on instruction, teacher policies and education, or school governance focuses on improving educational outcomes for young people and ensuring that all learners have access to a high - quality education relevant to the 21st century.

Teacher evaluations came into focus in 2009 alongside a growing research consensus that teacher quality has dramatic, long - lasting impacts on student sTeacher evaluations came into focus in 2009 alongside a growing research consensus that teacher quality has dramatic, long - lasting impacts on student steacher quality has dramatic, long - lasting impacts on student success.

He said his education initiatives focus on recruiting, training, and hiring teachers, which will help reduce class size and improve teacher quality.

So it's important for districts to think carefully about what they're looking for in teachers and about potential trade - offs if they focus on just one or two aspects of teacher quality.

In response to Morgan's plans, Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: «The workload challenge can be solved by more intelligent accountability, better planning and fewer changes from government — constant short - notice disruption is not conducive to the focus required for good quality teaching.

The Connecticut certification process encourages such innovation, thanks to a statewide focus on teacher quality that has lasted more than a decade.

Rather than today's system, which focuses on «input regulations» such as textbook mandates; seat time rules; cumbersome, outdated certification requirements; and professional development units, public officials should place greater emphasis on vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations, curricular quality, and meaningful accountability.

These national ERAOs and their counterparts at the state level are focused on enacting sweeping education policy changes to increase accountability for student achievement, improve teacher quality, turn around failing schools, and expand school choice.

For this reason, we focus primarily on information from the principal survey, which likely reflects teacher behaviors or qualities that parents might learn from observing the teacher's classroom or speaking with friends and neighbors who have had experience with the teacher in the past.

There's certainly plenty of work to do to improve the quality of the new evaluation systems, improvements that are likely to bring the differences in teacher performance into sharper focus.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today unveiled plans to revamp its high school grantmaking strategy to focus squarely on three pillars: identifying and promoting higher standards for college readiness, improving teacher quality, and fostering innovations to aid struggling students.

Given this reality, many education leaders have rightly made it their priority to recruit high - quality teachers to work with their students, and many of the leading education reform efforts focus on teachers.

Finally, although the lion's share of teacher - quality research since the Coleman Report has focused on the connections between teacher quality and student test scores, new evidence is shining a light on the extent to which teachers affect other long - term non-test student outcomes as well.

TEAC accreditation audits focus on three quality principles: evidence of teacher candidate learning, evidence that the assessment of such learning is valid, and evidence of the program's own continuous improvement and quality control.

Although better principals may also attract and hire more - effective teachers, the absence of reliable quality measures for new teachers and the fact that many principals have little control over new hires lead us to focus specifically on turnover.

If anything, the half century of research on student achievement has strengthened arguments for a policy focus on teacher quality.

Certainly, one part of the problem is that, 50 years later, we are still debating the extent to which education policy ought to focus on teacher quality, and on the performance of individual teachers in particular.

In this situation, the coordinator functioned more as facilitator, understanding that success meant focusing on the people by first identifying students and their specific needs, then giving teachers the helm in developing strategic, quality instruction.

Meanwhile, our study focused elsewhere, on the quality of teacher preparation.

While teacher quality (and the quality of teacher preparation) is at the heart of the effectiveness of almost any reform, conflating STR with class size reduction fails to focus on the mechanisms thought to be at work in smaller classes.

We've since created additional apps which complement one another to help schools save even more time, so teachers can reduce their workload and focus on providing their students with the highest quality lessons and work on maintaining a healthy work life balance.

Three major developments of the past 20 years are now bearing fruit: 1) the creation of standards and accountability; 2) research on how the brain develops in early childhood and its implications for pre-K education and child care; and 3) an emerging focus on the single biggest factor in student achievement - teacher quality.

More focused instructional and teacher quality strategies — like implementing the Common Core standards or improving teaching through better evaluation systems — are more likely to result in big gains, it seems to me.

«The provisions dealing with teacher quality in No Child Left Behind have done a wonderful job of focusing attention on the issue of teacher quality in the United States,» said Jack Jennings, the director of the Washington - based Center on Education Policy, a nonpartisan advocacy group that sponsored the gathering.

In the Jan. 30 speech, he said he would form a group including business, labor, and political leaders to craft a 21st Century Education Plan focusing on school finance, teacher quality and compensation, and urban schools.

Most research on the impact of early - childhood programs has focused on structural measures of quality, such as the teacher's educational level or staff ratios, or on the effects of classroom quality, broadly construed.

And other promising, recent reforms have shown that a lack of focus on teacher quality typically leads to disappointment.

While the conversation would be broad, the agenda should be narrow and focus on three immediate needs: 1) radically improving the quality of candidates coming to the field; 2) identifying the specific content of coursework necessary to improve teacher knowledge; and 3) and detailing the practical experiences that new teachers need in order to ensure they are effective in the types of classroom contexts in which they plan to teach.

If our major policy focus is to improve student achievement by improving teacher effectiveness — accounting for 30 per cent of the variance in student achievement — we must attract higher - quality applicants to the teaching profession, improve our teacher education institutions and courses, esteem and grow those teachers who demonstrate expert potential, and mandate teacher development programs for less effective teachers.

Officials in Georgia, for instance, contend that the state wants to turn its teacher - quality focus toward output - based measures of teacher effectiveness, rather than credentials.

Satisfied and energetic teachers spend their time focused on students and quality curriculum; exactly the outcome I was looking for at our school.»

While reducing class sizes and increasing teacher quality have also been estimated to increase student achievement by roughly 0.1 standard deviation, the costs of such programs far exceed those of the literacy hour program, which focuses only on changing teachers» practices.