Sentences with phrase «about rewarding teachers»

The common - sense reforms we're advocating are about rewarding teachers with the greatest success in the classroom — whether that's a tenured math teacher with 10 years of experience or a new science teacher with two.

This is about rewarding teachers, with the aim of retaining great staff and improving student outcomes.»

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I've written a lot over the years (really, A LOT - see the Related Links below) about junk food in school classrooms, whether distributed by teachers as rewards for good behavior and academic performance or served as part of birthday or classroom... [Continue reading]

And if you're particularly concerned about the junk food offered to your kids in their school classrooms, such as food served at birthday celebrations, class parties and as teacher rewards, be sure to check out «The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom.»

I've seen this blog around the internet, but just started reading some more posts here since your story about teachers handing out unhealthy foods as rewards?

I wince when I hear about teachers rewarding kids with candy and see ice cream and pizza parties being used as incentives.

I responded to the reader in a series three posts: Part One offered advice for bringing about change at the classroom level (e.g., teacher rewards and snacks); Part Two dealt with changing the school - wide food culture (fundraisers, wellness programs, etc.); and Part Three talked about change at the district level.

I wish teacher's (especially of the little ones) realized that the best reward they could give their students is some special time with them, and that it doesn't ever need to be about food.

One Comment about Obama's speech today on testing students and rewarding teachers for the performance of the students: The Chicago Tribune recently ran an article stating that the Chicago and Illinois schools were RECLASSIFYING JUNIORS AS SOPHOMORES SO THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TO TAKE THE TESTS.

But as a teacher I had no inclination to instruct it; my impulse as a teacher has always been more about basic self - care / preventative healthcare than developing prowess at complex and advanced postures (even though the latter has been a rewarding aspect of my own practice).

About Blog To supply teachers with math resources that will make every learning experience a challenging, rewarding and successful one for all middle school students.

In a time - variable, learning constant competency - based (or mastery - based) system, much as the type Sal Khan has talked about, a teacher's job will be richly rewarding around these types of activities.

In an exclusive e-interview with Education World writer Cara Bafile, Kohn shares his views on classroom rewards and punishment and talks about how teachers can encourage intrinsic motivation.

Read about ways four teachers reward students» good behavior and motivation.

Much as we value and should reward fine teachers, those who lead them will need to be paid substantially more if we are serious about finding and keeping great principals.

In other words, algebra teachers were being rewarded merely for getting students to learn 10 percent more about algebra than they knew before studying that subject at all.

In our zeal to measure educational output and teacher quality — to reward those who do it well and punish those who don't measure up — we remain resolutely incurious about what exactly kids do in school all day.

• Believe in the value of what you are teaching and make sure your students understand why it is important; so preparation is paramount • Show your students you care about their wellbeing and progress; that is your job; there is nothing they despise more than a teacher who doesn't care • Admit when you don't know or when you're wrong; they need to see you're a learner too • Collaboration with your colleagues is powerful support and very rewarding.

She proposes rewarding teachers equally with school - based bonuses, a nonstarter with Rhee, who is zealous about getting rid of those she calls «bad teachers.»

Teacher chats to a Californian educator about how teachers at her school are reaping the rewards from an in - house PD program that utilises a teachers teaching teachers delivery model.

Video: Robert Costrell talks with Education Next about the ways that teacher pension plans punish short - term and mobile teachers and reward teachers who spend their entire career teaching in one state.

ACDE President, Professor Brenda Cherednichenko, has defended the proposal saying it's not a bid for extra cash for universities but about framing, rewarding and recognising teacher professional learning in the early transition years.

Despite widespread pessimism among educators about whether merit pay systems can effectively reward good teachers, most of the limited empirical evidence has been surprisingly positive.

It urged the nation to get serious about teacher standards, reinvent teacher preparation and professional development, put qualified teachers in every classroom, encourage and reward teacher knowledge and skill, and create schools organized for student and teacher success.

Money from a $ 26 million reward fund, averaging about $ 2,000 a teacher, will be divided among the 38 percent of the state's schools that improved by more than 10 percent on certain measures over the past two years.

Included: Three troops - turned - teachers talk about the rewards, difficulties of their new.

They were asked about what it's like to be an early career teacher, what's rewarding and what's challenging about their jobs, what impacts on their wellbeing and what support they could use.

And in the past few years, as debates about merit pay for school teachers have come up, major public figures such as Bill Gates and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have questioned the wisdom of rewarding teachers for degrees.

Similarly, about a third of states support differentially rewarding effective teachers.

Read about four teachers» ways of rewarding students» good behavior and motivation.

According to Oliver, the company also provides subs with feedback about their performance, runs «substitute teacher of the month» competitions, and rewards quality subs with retention bonuses and other awards.

High - stakes testing refers to the use of assessment data to make decisions about enrollment, retention, promotion, incentives for children or teachers, or other tangible rewards or punishments (Madaus, 1988; Meisels, 1989).

In «Part Five: Three Perspectives On Launching A Residency from California State University, Fresno» Drs. Paul Beare, Cathy Yun and Lisa Bennett write about the university's important partnerships with both rural and urban school districts, their focus on teacher professional development and the rewards and challenges of building three different residencies — each with a unique focus.

Teacher unions have been cautious about Duncan's calls for expanded charter schools and new ways of evaluating and rewarding teachers.

It also talks about rewarding the best teachers, giving... which will actually help to actually make teachers seem more professional and make them feel more professional, give them more prestige.

But those are findings about new teachers and high turnover under the current system that rewards teachers for sticking around for 20 - 25 years.

New York City's school system, the largest in the United States, recently layered on top of NCLB a system of sanctions (up to and including removing principals from their jobs) and financial rewards for both schools and their principals; this system gives teachers and principals alike strong incentives to care about the quality of the teaching in their classrooms.

«There are a lot of members who are equally concerned about retaining and rewarding our police and other state employees as they are about keeping or retaining our teachers,» said Horn.

It is also about how the district (and the sector more broadly) compensates and rewards teachers for their impact on student learning.

Gulati gushed about another Chalkable asset, Learning Earnings, that allows teachers to offer rewards (such as hall passes and lunch) to incentivize positive student behavior.

However, while leaving decision making about pay scales in district hands, the state should ensure that the factors in local salary schedules reward effective teachers.

Related, and on this point we agree, «teacher pay incentives is one area that we know a good deal about, based on analysis of actual policy variation, and the results are not terribly promising... experiments generally show performance bonuses, a particular form of pay for performance, have no significant student achievement effects, whether the bonus is rewarded at the individual teacher level» (p. 89).

She just recently testified before South Carolina's K - 12 Subcommittee of the House Education and Public Works Committee, specifically «about legislation regarding improving teacher evaluations and rewarding effective teachers in the public school system in S.C.» It worked so well in D.C., right?!?

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) strips the power of rewards and sanctions from the U.S. Department of Education in implementing Title I. Gone are any federal sanctions or rewards intended to influence states» decisions about their content standards, assessments, and teacher - evaluation systems.

While the measure received some criticism from legislators who worry about how it will be funded, McGrath said the department hopes the plan — which rewards teachers for improved student achievement and supplements income for hard - to - fill positions — will keep the state's best teachers from leaving for higher salaries in Wyoming or outside the profession.

Hearing teachers speak about skills students have mastered and skills students are still challenged by is very rewarding.

Obama's agenda has amplified ideas that have been simmering around the country, including those championed by Republicans, among them the push to give parents more choice about where children attend school and to blast apart a long - standing system that rewarded teachers for longevity but not necessarily effectiveness.

As Missouri's state Teacher of the Year and an inductee of the National Teachers Hall of Fame, he enjoys speaking to regional and national audiences about the challenges and rewards of teaching.

«In the process of creating No Child Left Behind, as people thought about these strategies and rewards, they actually undermined teachers» motivations.

Along with taking in - home clients and teaching classes at Fido, Laura is the facilitator for Teacher's Pet at Detroit Animal Care and Control where she teaches homeless and at - risk youth about reward - based training and animal welfare.