Sentences with phrase «ability of teacher policy»

The ability of teacher policy perceptions to predict instruction is limited.

Not exact matches

They make it clear that unless the preparation provided to teachers and the consultations we provide to parents are grounded in some form of definitional consensus, our field will undermine its ability to play a greater role at the table of school reform and policy development.

Gibson offered a brief outline of his platform, stating, «I believe our state can rally around four points: growing the economy through meaningful tax cuts and policy changes, achieving excellence in education by returning power to parents, students and teachers, cleaning up corruption and restoring our faith in our ability to be self - governing and protecting our freedoms while improving on the safety and security of all New Yorkers.»

«We plan to communicate our findings to school teachers, administrators and policymakers to facilitate the implementation of evidence - based policies that support children's ability to meet their daily physical activity and nutritional recommendations,» said Khan.

It includes a sample discipline policy statement, techniques for improving lesson delivery, a questionnaire for assessing school discipline problems, a pretest teachers can use to assess their ability to diagnose and prevent discipline problems, and an entire section spelling out the legal parameters of many discipline issues.

Spillane argues that problems in implementing education policy are due primarily to insufficient attention to the «sense - making» needs of educators, by which he means the ability of teachers and administrators to understand the task assigned to them.

They enact teacher evaluation and turnaround policies whose efficacy and impact rest entirely on the ability of officials to execute them competently and aggressively in the face of contracts, embedded routines, and recalcitrant cultures.

But the notion of paying teachers on the basis of their ability to improve test scores, often termed «merit pay,» while earnestly debated by education policy researchers, is strongly opposed by teachers unions and is a political nonstarter in many parts of the country.

Another example: in Teacher Quality and Student Achievement: A Review of State Policy Evidence (1999), Darling - Hammond reviews what the research says about the relationship between student achievement and many different teacher variables, including teacher's general academic ability, intelligence, subject - matter knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, experience, and certification Teacher Quality and Student Achievement: A Review of State Policy Evidence (1999), Darling - Hammond reviews what the research says about the relationship between student achievement and many different teacher variables, including teacher's general academic ability, intelligence, subject - matter knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, experience, and certification teacher variables, including teacher's general academic ability, intelligence, subject - matter knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, experience, and certification teacher's general academic ability, intelligence, subject - matter knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, experience, and certification status.

All these developments, operating together in mutually reinforcing ways, will work to sap the organizational strength of the teachers unions, undermine their political power, and weaken their ability to block in the policy process.

Kevin Courtney, the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, welcomed the report, and claimed government education policies were hindering the ability of schools to tackle sexual harassment and bullying because they «left no time for pastoral care or PSHE within the curriculum or school day».

The school leadership operates with broad local control, exemptions from District policies and some waivers from the teachers union contract, including the unique ability to replace staff at the end of each school year.

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Many in the education policy space are drawn to the idea that students» motivational beliefs about their capacities could boost their engagement in the classroom.21 Specifically, if teachers can reframe students» beliefs about their ability, then students are less likely to fear or refrain from taking on a challenging task and will instead approach their work with optimism, in spite of its apparent difficulty.

As concerns grew in the 1980s and 1990s in New York state that the average academic ability of teachers was in decline — a nationwide phenomenon that policy experts attributed in part to expanding career opportunities for women, who make up the vast majority of the teaching profession — the state set about finding ways to reverse this trend.109

As a result, they have been taking on union - backed policies of «tenure» that give teachers, almost regardless of ability, effective jobs for life.

It is tempting to use a quiet, brilliant child who has already mastered most of the academic work of the classroom as a tutor or teacher's assistant, especially when there are 30 children in the class, school policies discourage acceleration or ability grouping, enrichment materials are not available, and the gifted education program has been cut.

By reforming compensation policies in a way that accounts for the abilities of great teachers to improve student outcomes, we will ensure excellent teachers are richly compensated, and mediocre teachers have a strong incentive to improve.»

In terms of programmatic goals and policies, the administrators in charge of the teacher certification programs indicated that there was a programmatic expectation that students would graduate with the ability to integrate technology in the classroom in accordance with NETS - T.

Recently, I posted a critique of the newly released and highly publicized Mathematica Policy Research study about the (vastly overstated) «value» of value - added measures and their ability to effectively measure teacher quality.

Earlier this week a group of pro-charter pastors from West Louisville in conjunction with the extreme right - wing anti-public education think tank, the Bluegrass Institute of Public Policy, held a press conference to call on the Interim Commissioner to authorize a state takeover of Jefferson County Public Schools and to end the ability of the Jefferson County Teachers Association (JCTA) and the other JCPS employee unions to bargain collectively.

Iowa recently passed an Act 10 - inspired law with similar policies affecting public - sector workers and their unions.1 Other states and members of Congress are considering enacting such policies, and with its ruling on Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the U.S. Supreme Court may act to weaken public - sector unions and teachers» ability to collectively bargain.2

Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post suggests there's another defense of these policies: Yes, the protections afforded to teachers seem insensible, she argues, but giving school districts the ability to fire bad teachers won't help much when we can't afford to attract good teachers to replace them.

B.C. argues court ruling favouring teachers robs government of ability to set education policy, The National Post

Seeking the position of substitute teacher in XYZ High school where my remarkable ability to receive and implement directives correctly, adapt to laid down curriculum and lesson plan, teach all subjects comprehensively, maintain orderliness in classroom following school policies and give reports daily to the principal as commented by my past employers, will be employed.

For instance, most elementary and high schools that employ the services of a substitute teacher look out for criterions such as; ability to receive and implement directives correctly, adapt to laid down lesson plan, well rounded in the basic subjects; if not all, maintain order in classroom following school policies and giving reports daily to the principal.