Under the Uganda
Teacher School Effectiveness Project, supported by a US$ 100 million grant from the Global Partnership for Education, the country has introduced an electronic inspection system.
Not exact matches
«
Teacher Effectiveness Training» is one approach which has been productive with both professional (public and private
school) and volunteer (church
school)
teachers.
Since the professional
effectiveness of
teachers, ministers, social workers, counseling psychologists, nurses, and psychiatrists depend so much on their skills in relating and communicating, graduate
schools training them should make extensive use of growth groups.
In 2000, long - time
teacher Marlene Pearson was asked by the National Marriage Project to review the
effectiveness of several marriage and relationship programs used in
schools.
«New York City's results prove that Governor Cuomo's evaluation system measures
teacher effectiveness when implemented in good faith — making it a critical tool to improve
schools for kids.
«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate
teacher and principal
effectiveness, and to hold
schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.
Most public
school teachers are feeling embattled these days, with public criticisms of their
effectiveness and calls for tougher evaluations and promotion criteria.
The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in
Teacher Effectiveness The New Teacher Project (TNTP), 2009 Extensive research of teacher evaluation systems in 12 schools districts highlights our pervasive and longstanding failure to recognize and respond to variations in the effectiveness of our te
Teacher Effectiveness The New Teacher Project (TNTP), 2009 Extensive research of teacher evaluation systems in 12 schools districts highlights our pervasive and longstanding failure to recognize and respond to variations in the effectiveness of
Effectiveness The New
Teacher Project (TNTP), 2009 Extensive research of teacher evaluation systems in 12 schools districts highlights our pervasive and longstanding failure to recognize and respond to variations in the effectiveness of our te
Teacher Project (TNTP), 2009 Extensive research of
teacher evaluation systems in 12 schools districts highlights our pervasive and longstanding failure to recognize and respond to variations in the effectiveness of our te
teacher evaluation systems in 12
schools districts highlights our pervasive and longstanding failure to recognize and respond to variations in the
effectiveness of
effectiveness of our
teachers.
It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the
effectiveness of charter
schools and merit pay for
teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.
In a 1956 review of the research on «
School Personnel and Mental Health,» J. T. Hunt, a professor at the University of North Carolina, noted that «efforts to identify personality differences between superior and inferior school personnel, to isolate a «teacher personality,» or to predict either competence or effectiveness of student teachers by means of psychometric or projective instruments, led to limited results.&
School Personnel and Mental Health,» J. T. Hunt, a professor at the University of North Carolina, noted that «efforts to identify personality differences between superior and inferior
school personnel, to isolate a «teacher personality,» or to predict either competence or effectiveness of student teachers by means of psychometric or projective instruments, led to limited results.&
school personnel, to isolate a «
teacher personality,» or to predict either competence or
effectiveness of student
teachers by means of psychometric or projective instruments, led to limited results.»
The general disregard for curriculum as a means to improve
teacher effectiveness and student outcomes is reflected in the observation that «many
teachers do not have access to strong, standards - aligned curriculum; in fact, most
teachers spend hours every week searching for materials that haven't been vetted and aren't connected to ongoing, professional learning activities in their
schools.»
Five - year evaluation study on the
effectiveness of A + arts - integrated
school reform strategies in Oklahoma
schools, based on a survey of students,
teachers, and professional - development faculty.
We have also found that
teachers,
schools, and charter management organizations within BCRC vary in their
effectiveness in supporting the development of non-cognitive skills.
It turns out that the
effectiveness of
school - wide bonus programs may, in fact, depend on the number of
teachers with tested students in a
school (see Figure 1).
Muralidharan evaluated four different facets of the program including the impact of performance pay on learning, whether it led to any negative consequences on the
teachers, the difference between group incentives and individual, and the relative
effectiveness of
teacher performance pay versus spending the same money on additional
school inputs.
In general,
teacher evaluation refers to the formal process a
school uses to review and rate
teachers» performance and
effectiveness in the classroom.
The (c)(3) organized and trained community members, educating them, policymakers, and the general public on
school reform and
teacher effectiveness issues.
Some organizations direct their activities only to district and / or charter
school issues, such as improving
teacher quality and
effectiveness, developing new public charter
schools, or closing and transforming failing district
schools to create new high - quality
schools of choice.
This is according to new research commissioned by the All - Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Financial Education for Young People and funded by Martin Lewis OBE (founder of MoneySavingExpert.com), which conducted a survey of secondary
school teachers to investigate the reach and
effectiveness of financial education in
schools.
In a new study, researchers find that seniority - based layoff policies — the norm in public
schools — lead to higher numbers of
teacher layoffs than would be necessary if administrators were allowed to make
effectiveness the determining factor in issuing layoff notices, rather than length of service.
* The country has come to understand the wide range of
teacher quality and its crucial link to
school effectiveness and student achievement, thanks in part to research ranging from Hanushek back to Bill Sanders» early work in Tennessee.
Researchers for the Dallas Independent
School District, for example, studied the correlation between
teacher effectiveness and student performance on formal assessments.
Given our enthusiasm for NCTQ's efforts, we were curious to discover whether its ranking of
teacher preparation programs was consistent with the estimates of preparation
effectiveness of selected education
schools in Florida that Matthew Chingos and I reported in a 2011 article published in the Economics of Education Review.
Manno focuses on three of these nonprofit organizations that have had helped to lift charter
school caps, implement «parent trigger» policies, and reform
teacher effectiveness provisions.
As importantly, it appears that existing survey - based measures of non-cognitive skills, although perhaps useful for making comparisons among students within the same educational environment, are inadequate to gauge the
effectiveness of
schools,
teachers, or interventions in cultivating the development of those skills.
There's a tendency among education reformers and economists who study data on
teacher effectiveness to say, «See,
teacher effectiveness varies dramatically from one
teacher to another, even in the same
school.
Existing research consistently shows large variations in
teacher effectiveness, much of which is within
schools as opposed to between
schools.
Students who scored in the top quarter of the sixth - grade math exam averaged anywhere from 19 to 26 on the high
school ACT math test; the variations correlated with the
effectiveness scores of their high
school math
teachers.
Among the more salient conclusions are: 1) that what children bring to
school is vastly more important than what happens thereafter, as the Coleman Report found; 2) in examining all of the variables that impinge on student academic performance (
teacher effectiveness, socio - economic advantage, appropriate evaluation criteria, etc.), none is demonstrably more significant than time spent learning «one - on - one»; and 3) that only an individualized computer program can address all these issues effectively and simultaneously.
He is particularly interested in enabling
schools to secure sustained
effectiveness through evidence based CPDL that encourages
teachers to think critically and act strategically to respond to the professional challenges and dilemmas they encounter.
K - 12's new evaluation and pay systems focus on «
effectiveness» and whether
teachers teach in a high - poverty
school, but most pay little or no attention to what a
teacher actually teaches.
Voucher supporters, charter advocates, standards nuts,
teacher -
effectiveness fanatics — we all fundamentally believe that fantastic
schools staffed by dedicated educators can help poor kids climb out of poverty and compete with their affluent peers.
David Hopkins, who Morris appointed to the key role of head of the Standards and
Effectiveness Unit at the Department for Education and Skills, believes that «when students begin to take ownership of the learning behavior, you see something quite transformational taking place inside the
school, because then it is the students who actually control learning rather than the
teacher.»
The Strategic Data Project (SDP), based at Harvard, will help states and districts assemble and analyze their student and
teacher data, providing policymakers with much needed information about trends on student graduation and college - going, the
effectiveness of
teachers and
schools, and human capital management.
There will not be enough information about
teachers who are new to a
school system to obtain reliable estimates of their
effectiveness based on past performance — they will simply be deemed «average.»
In extreme cases, the
school or
teacher in question is simply assigned the average level of
effectiveness.
The authors point out that the Cincinnati system of evaluation is different from the standard practice in place in most American
school districts, where perfunctory evaluations assign the vast majority of
teachers «satisfactory» ratings, leading many to «characterize classroom observation as a hopelessly flawed approach to assessing
teacher effectiveness.»
To the extent that
teacher effectiveness is partly a function of some
teachers being better suited for some students,
schools, and contexts, efforts to redistribute
teachers without attending to context could readily reduce the overall quality of teaching.
It is first worth noting that the inclusion of the
teacher effectiveness measures does little to change the estimated effects of the
teacher,
school, and district characteristics discussed above.
If it does not, we will end up drawing false conclusions about the relative
effectiveness of these students»
teachers and
schools.
There remains, as Klein is the first to remind us, vast work still to be done on raising
teacher effectiveness, on improving
school leadership, and on removing the blight posed by our weakest
schools.
It will be impossible to explain to the satisfaction of educators why two
schools (or
teachers) with similar achievement gains nonetheless received different ratings of their
effectiveness.
Moreover, even small differences in measured
effectiveness can have practical consequences for
schools and
teachers, depending on how these assessments are used.
Simply by giving up the extra payment awarded to
teachers with master's degrees,
school districts in Florida could save better than 3 percent of their teaching personnel costs without losing any of their classroom
effectiveness.
You won't find much about union support, but you will learn more about how officials and average citizens are coming to see that
teacher and
school effectiveness can be measured and improved.
We found that principals in a western
school district did a good job of assessing
teachers»
effectiveness.
Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small
schools, or parental choice, or
teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.
These within -
school differences likely understate the overall import of
teacher effectiveness because, as recent evidence suggests, there are also differences in
teacher quality across
schools.
First, it should be conceded that Duncan has a great idea, rewarding states willing to undertake reforms such as launching high - quality charter
schools (while closing bad ones) and using data to evaluate
teacher effectiveness.
It is possible that principals» ability to identify the best - performing
teachers would be enhanced by a
school system where the principals had more responsibility for monitoring
teachers»
effectiveness.