Teacher working conditions also affect teaching quality and instructional practices.
Not exact matches
Dogara said that the welfare and
working condition of
teachers must
also be upgraded to enable Nigerian citizens compete with the global world and produce citizens that can achieve development that the country seeks.
Mulgrew said that the talks have focused not only on wages but
also on improving
working conditions and giving
teachers a greater professional voice at the school level.
We should
also ask which types of virtual schools
work, under what
conditions, with which students, with which
teachers, and with what training.
«Part of this is
working with the
teachers to help them to create those
conditions to allow for that, but
also to help them to help the students to understand that it's perfectly normal to find something difficult and confusing and that actually might be quite an important part of the process of updating the way they think about something,» he says.
If we improve the
working conditions for principals and
teachers, we
also improve the learning
conditions for students, as the two are inseparable.
More can
also be done to align
working conditions of preschool and primary school
teachers; increase flexibility and responsiveness to individual communities, families, and children while at the same time strengthening coherence of services; overcome structural and informational roadblocks to co-operation and continuity; and to better facilitate collaboration among staff, managers, parents, and the community based on reciprocal communication, inclusivity, mutual trust, and respect.
Low wages and difficult
working conditions also inhibit schools from hiring and retaining the
teachers that their students need.
It
also implies a
teacher working in
conditions that enable them to access their «best self».
«Because these investments can indirectly affect student progress through critical channels such as
teacher working conditions, we'll
also evaluate the significance of facility spending on reducing instructor turnover,» McFarlin said.
The framework for our overall project
also points to the mostly indirect influence of principals «actions on students and on student learning.223 Such actions are mediated, for example, by school
conditions such as academic press, 224 with significant consequences for teaching and learning and for powerful features of classroom practice such as
teachers «uses of instructional time.225 Evidence - informed decision making by principals, guided by this understanding of principals «
work, includes having and using a broad array of evidence about many things: key features of their school «s external context; the status of school and classroom
conditions mediating leaders «own leadership practices; and the status of their students «learning.
We heard that the best efforts will not only include recruiting, developing, and retaining great educators with the skills to teach all students, but will
also build strong school leaders, create supportive
working conditions, and address inequities in resources and supports for
teachers.
A comprehensive strategy for addressing
teacher turnover — from supporting beginning
teachers to improving
working conditions — is
also key.
Martin
also noted that it is important to address
teacher pay, benefits and
working conditions, as well as
teacher autonomy and respect, if we are going to solve the growing problem of
teacher shortages both nationally and in Wisconsin.
Just as increasing
teacher pay will increase the diversity of the teaching profession, altering other elements of
teacher working conditions will
also help boost diversity.
«It can't just be the same type of support because, just as we differentiate learning for students based on their living
conditions, we
also need to do that for
teachers based on their unique
working conditions.»
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Teacher (& Student)
Working Conditions):
These favorable
work conditions are
also predictors of higher levels of student growth and improved academic achievement.27 New
teachers, especially, can benefit from additional time, tools, and support — possibly provided as part of residency and induction programs — during their critical first years in the classroom.
The survey was administered again in North Carolina in 2004 but moved online and expanded to include 72 questions that not only captured
teachers» perceptions of
working conditions but
also actual
conditions of
work (e.g., the number of hours spent outside of the school day on instruction and types of professional development courses taken).
The value of this frame of reference was recently described by Ann Byrd, director of the South Carolina Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement: «Not only will we get a closer look at the
working conditions of
teachers and administrators in our own state, but we will
also have the opportunity to compare our situation with neighboring states who have conducted similar research» (Center for Teaching Quality, 2005, p. 2).
District representatives across the state of North Carolina have
also received training to present
working conditions data with the goal of helping their respective schools better understand and respond to
teacher working conditions challenges.
In other words, improved
working conditions are not only central to
teachers» well - being and satisfaction, but they are
also important to the success of the students they serve.
The research
also indicates that
teachers, regardless of their background and experience, view
working conditions similarly.
The final budget bill cut state K - 12 spending by nearly $ 800 million, over7 percent — the largest amount in Wisconsin's history — and limited local governments» abilities to make up for these cuts through property taxes.14 That same year, Gov. Walker passed major tax cuts primarily targeted toward corporations and the wealthy that totaled $ 2.33 billion over 10 years.15 Gov. Walker and Act 10 proponents argued that the bill's reforms would allow schools to offset these cuts by reducing
teachers» benefits and hiring lower - paid
teachers, preventing budget cuts from affecting students.16 Gov. Walker
also argued that eliminating requirements to bargain over salary structures, hiring, and
working conditions would give schools additional flexibility needed to attract and retain higher - quality
teachers.17
Teachers» perceptions of their
working conditions are
also predictive of one - year actual departure rates and student achievement, but the predictive power isfar lower.
The laws specifically mention that
teachers for public schools, county workers
working under hazardous
conditions, and even volunteers
working for a profitable business can
also qualify for occupation injury compensation benefits.