Keedy (1999) indicated that the teacher leader who was selected by the school principal received greater support from her school
administrator than the other teacher leader, and that this support was one of the factors that contributed to her effectiveness as a facilitator.
Not exact matches
There is nothing worse
than getting a call from a
teacher or an
administrator indicating that your child has been bullying
other kids at school.
LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, New England's largest conservation organization and a leader in nature - based education for more
than 60 years, this month debuts a new, easy - to - use online program catalog for
teachers, science coordinators,
administrators, and
others looking for educational enrichment programs and field trips.
Education Week is reporting on an Empire Center's report that says over the past decade «public schools hired nearly 15,000
teachers and almost 9,000
administrators, guidance counselors and
other support workers over the last 10 years as enrollment dropped by more
than 121,000 students.
Programs in Professional Education (PPE) is a series of intensive programs in professional development that serve more
than 2000
teachers,
administrators, and
other school leaders each year.
School
administrators seeking to hire new
teachers can not be confident that graduates of NCATE - accredited institutions are likely to be better
teachers than other applicants.
This includes actions such as test papers being incorrectly opened, pupils cheating, over-aiding of pupils by test
administrators, changes being made to a pupil's test script by someone
other than the pupil or «inflation / deflation of
teacher assessment judgements».
We invite you to explore more
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According to interviews with more
than a dozen
teachers and school
administrators in five different districts, students in New York are taking more practice tests, and they're spending more time on math and reading — and less on
other subjects — since Common Core was put into place.
The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of
teacher and
administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified
teachers or
teachers in subject areas
other than those for which they possess certification.
Finally, more
than 300,000
teachers, along with principals and
other school
administrators, needed to be educated about the new standards before they could implement them.
In the discussion of findings in this study, Printy (2008) speculated that
teachers» altered their instructional practice based on their relationships to
other teachers, rather
than the input of
administrators, such as principals or department chairs.
The
teachers choose their leader (usually called a director or lead
teacher rather
than principal), who is also primarily a
teacher, but most of the management is done by the
teachers in various committees (personnel, finance, curriculum & standards, operations, public relations, and a few
others), sometimes with the help of an
administrator whom the
teachers hire.
I believe we may have more
than a «quiet crisis» on our hands; if those four phone calls are in any way indicative of the frustration that hundreds of
other parents,
teachers,
administrators, and state directors are experiencing, it is only a matter of time before the unmet needs of the children (and adults) will make it a noisy crisis indeed.
This year,
administrators fired 75 of those
teachers with poor appraisals and gave more
than 700
others rated minimally effective one year to improve.
At times,
teachers listen to
other teachers more
than they listen to
administrators.
An estimated 150
teachers, school
administrators, parents and
others from around the state came to the conference at the University of Washington Tacoma to learn about charters, which are public schools that permit significant decisions to be made at a school level, rather
than by a school district or state officials.
Unfortunately
other teachers and
administrators are spending more time fighting NCLB
than they are spending on narrowing this gap.»
Students, parent,
other teachers and staff,
administrators, school board members and even our superintendent have come back to tell me this educational opportunity created more learning
than anything else I have done in my 17 years of teaching.
«When
teachers are helping
other teachers, it's a little bit of a different feeling
than when an
administrator is working with a
teacher.
The second thing that might be even more interesting: When revenues were growing in public schools, they had a preference for non-teaching staff, but when revenues were falling, they actually laid off
teachers more
than they laid off
administrators and all
other staff.
The complaint goes on to state that the school, which currently enrolls 70 students in grades K - 8, fails to educate students in any subjects
other than basic reading, writing and math; it lacks a system to provide special education; it's understaffed and the
teachers it does employ are underqualified; it doesn't have a functioning library; and
teachers and
administrators use excessive and exclusionary discipline on the children.
And there is no better way to complete the public schooling monopoly — to let the
teacher unions,
administrator associations, and
other adult interests do one - stop shopping for domination —
than to centralize power in one place.
June Jordan, under some special regulations that SFUSD adopted when small schools were the miracle fad du jour a few years ago, is exempt from many
teacher hiring rules, so that the
administrators have far more control over who teaches there
than at
other high schools.
While schools were hiring many more
administrators and
other non-
teachers,
teacher salaries stagnated — and
teachers were more likely
than non-
teachers to be fired.
«PLC» resonates with
teachers and
administrators the most because it assumes (a) the professional expertise of
teachers, (b) the ongoing, collaborative generation of knowledge rather
than the top - down delivery of knowledge, and (c) strong relationships among
teachers who support and respect each
other.
Berry cited a CTQ survey of
administrators from more
than 30 school districts and nonprofits that held federal leadership grants that revealed a narrow approach to
teacher leadership: ``... The vast majority of interviewees could not envision
teachers leading in roles
other than instructional coach or, perhaps peer evaluator.»
At his last job in New Orleans, with a final salary of $ 252,000, he managed to work a total of 131 days, while all the
other teachers and
administrators were required to work no less
than 183 days.
The state, along with the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools and various
other charter schools, had asked the judge to put the 1st Circuit ruling on hold, warning that the ruling will dramatically impact more
than 16,000 charter school students and thousands of
teachers,
administrators and
other staff.
In Chicago, 100 percent of the
teachers at Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy voted to boycott the Illinois Standards Achievement Test, backed by the full support of the Chicago Teachers Union, which called it «an obsolete test [that] has no use to educators or administrators... and serves no purpose other than to give students another standardized test
teachers at Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy voted to boycott the Illinois Standards Achievement Test, backed by the full support of the Chicago
Teachers Union, which called it «an obsolete test [that] has no use to educators or administrators... and serves no purpose other than to give students another standardized test
Teachers Union, which called it «an obsolete test [that] has no use to educators or
administrators... and serves no purpose
other than to give students another standardized test.»
Since 1977, CS&A has helped more
teachers,
administrators, and coaches «make the match» with independent schools
than any
other organization in the country.
For more
than a decade, the debate over public school reform has created friction between
teachers unions,
administrators, school boards, parents, policymakers, and
other stakeholders in public education and has fueled disagreements over how to improve the quality of teaching and learning for children.
More schools use CS&A to find
teachers and
administrators than any
other organization.
One elementary
teacher stated, «
Teachers will listen more to other teachers rather than a curriculum developer or administrator saying, «You should
Teachers will listen more to
other teachers rather than a curriculum developer or administrator saying, «You should
teachers rather
than a curriculum developer or
administrator saying, «You should do this.
We place more
teachers and
administrators in independent and like - kind schools
than any
other firm in the country.
In his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to
teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for
teachers in the country — four years — which gives school
administrators more opportunity to judge a
teacher's capability
than do those in most
other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the
teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how
teachers are evaluated and require school
administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluations.
It's quite an experience to sample the different ways in which
teachers,
administrators, museum directors, neurologists, and
others have made use of what is essentially a simple claim: rather
than the mind / brain having a single all - purpose computer (which yields a single IQ score), it is better described as consisting of a number of relatively independent computers of information, which we call the «multiple intelligences.»
I'm including in my definition of parenting your interactions and relationships with
other parents,
teachers, coaches, school
administrators, and children
other than yours — any
other person in your child's world.