Sentences with phrase «amount of teacher support»

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Her tweedy, support - hosed teacher Barbara Covett is set up as a distaff Richard III, looking to subvert the beautifuls acting as the royals in her school's social strata — the newest member of which, Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett), attracts the greatest amount of envy and desire.

Building learning from text strategies and other learning supports into the curricula that will also help teachers to teach those skills as part of what students need to know, rather than as extraneous items that compete with the enormous amount of content they need to cover.

EW: If new ELL students are immediately mainstreamed, what is the minimal amount of support they and their teachers need?

Variations in the classroom reflected the amount of support states and districts were able to provide to help teachers understand the standards and change practice accordingly.

Our independent researchers discovered a surprising amount of support for merit pay by teachers in both programs.

The teachers we interview at the three schools are happy teachers; they all emphasize the enormous amount of support they receive.

Through local collective bargaining agreements, teachers have a say in district salary schedules, the number and type of sick and personal leave, the length and timing of the school day and year, the number of students per classroom, the amount and type of support services offered to students, and the professional development provided for teachers.

BC: Yeah, because they're not relying on that one teacher, even though there might be double or triple the amount of kids in the room, there's still two people to deal with what's happening and so the kids got far more support, far quicker.

Not only could this negatively impact a teacher's health, family and career aspirations; the substantial amount of absenteeism depletes the British economy due to the unprecedented costs on the medical and social support systems.

I'm thinking of platforms for collaboration in knowledge creation, where teachers can share and enrich teaching materials; of the amount of data that can be collected to measure students» learning; or of the increasing use of blended learning models in teachers» training, in which online lectures are combined with individualized expert support and feedback from peers.

If you combine the campaign spending of all those entities it does not match the amount spent by the National Education Association, the public - sector labor union that represents some 2.3 million K — 12 public school teachers and nearly a million education support workers (bus drivers, custodians, food service employees), retirees, and college student members.

The tourism industry as a whole has embraced this and offers through visitor attractions, museums, theatre and more an enormous amount of curriculum orientated insights and activities that can support teachers.

Co-PI: Stephanie Curenton Funded by: The Kellogg Foundation Amount: $ 350,000 Dates: 11/1/16 -1 / 31/18 Summary: Funding supports the planning phase of a project to strengthen the teachers of color pipeline in Boston schools through partnering with minority serving institutions in the development of an alternative teacher education program.

Funded by: Charles and Lynn Schusterman Foundation Amount: $ 2,500 Dates: 4/2/17 — 5/1/17 Summary: Dr. Travis Bristol, Assistant Professor in the School of Education, will host a breakfast and discussion at the 2017 AERA Annual meeting designed to bring together senior and junior scholars, as well as graduate students to develop a research agenda for increasing, supporting, and retaining a diverse teacher workforce.

Almost every presentation or speech or conversation about educational reform inevitably includes some reference to the amount of support and training teachers and administrators will need in order to make key reforms real and effective in classrooms.

Funded by: New York City Department of Education Amount: $ 50,000 Dates: 1/1/17 — 6/30/18 Summary: Based on pilot research that Dr. Bristol, a renowned researcher in the field of male teachers of color, conducted on NYC Men Teach, current conditions and supports from schools and the NYC Men Teach program and its impact on male teachers of color will be examined.

That teacher, Allison Levine, helped them plan for a specialized «advisory» that would be devoted to reducing the amount of bullying in their school and supporting those who were being bullied.

Gigante and Firestone (2007) found that teacher leaders» use of demonstration lessons and other instructional support practices was impacted by the amount of time they had available.

They found variability in the amount of support that teachers provided to students, the time students spent on assignments, and the extent to which work was copied.

One recent example of research about the link between the principal and teachers «professional development is provided by the study of IFL (Institute for Learning) implementation strategies in three urban school districts.127 That study found that teachers reported varying amounts of instructional support provided by their principals.

Liam Collins head of Uplands Community College in Wadhurst, East Sussex, said budget pressures amounted to «a cut of 10 teachers, fewer clubs, no pastoral support, a narrowed curriculum, no counselling for students struggling with mental health issues, crumbling buildings, no IT upgrades, no new textbooks and no school planners.

The type and amount of support a new teacher receives should be differentiated based on a teacher's needs, with baseline requirements met at all sites.

The amount of money spent on these tests could be used for teacher salaries and other support staff and services to children.

Forty - three percent of respondents said they somewhat support or strongly support teacher tenure practices, and nearly the same amount said they somewhat oppose or strongly oppose them.

In the published presentation of results, the question about teacher tenure asks: «Do you support or oppose tenure for teachers, the practice of guaranteeing teachers lifetime job security after they have worked for a certain amount of time?»

«It's something that puts huge amount of pressure on schools and individual teachers who are there at the moment covering those lessons in sciences and it's a big problem for students in terms of access to that science specialism as well as access to individual support.»

EdWeek's state education blog summed things up: «Evers received a large amount of support from the state's teachers union and campaigned on increasing public school funding and building more wraparound services for the state's poor, black, and Latino students.

Although access to the books will likely increase the amount of informational text students read, books alone do not provide support for the teacher.

The results could amount to a cautionary flag about paying teachers for the performance of their students, a reform strategy the Obama administration and many states and school districts have favored despite lukewarm support or outright opposition from teachers» unions.

At the National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL) we believe that as states transition to the Common Core, it is imperative that the implementation of these new standards include policies and supports that increase the amount of time teachers have for collaboration and professional development.

Obviously there's been a tremendous amount of policy around [teacher] evaluations at the state level, and we haven't seen nearly as much activity in this beginning educator support arena.

The nature of that support can vary — for example, by the amount of time teachers spend with their mentors and by whether they are observed and receive feedback or simply meet to talk about teaching at various times each semester.

An education community model such as PLC - MAP can provide support for high quality science and mathematics content integrated with sound pedagogy and learning theory, simply from the vast amount of distributed expertise that is available from mentor teachers, intern teachers, community college professors, education researchers, and scientists.

But at the end of the [d] ay, the most important thing is not the amount of time; the most important thing is the quality and the intensity of the evaluation and support process that goes on for beginning teachers.»

From where Casey sits, the criticism of Brown and others about the unwillingness of the AFT to embrace any reform of the obsolete process for teacher dismissals — including the Big Apple affiliate's successful opposition to Bloomberg's effort this year to give the city's schools chancellor final say over dismissing those alleged and convicted of criminal misconduct (and those engaged in inappropriate behavior with students)-- amounts to» a vicious slander» geared to «chip away at public support for the due process rights» and to «distract» people from the city's failures to put more effort into firing such teachers.

RESOLVED, that the School Reform Commission authorizes The School District of Philadelphia, through the Superintendent or his designee, to execute, deliver and perform an amendment of Contract No. 0344 / F18, originally entered in to with Carnegie Learning, Inc., pursuant to Resolution B - 9, approved by the School Reform Commission on March 15, 2017, by increasing the amount of the contract by an additional $ 3,160,000.00 from $ 6,326,174.00, approved by Resolution B - 16, to an amount not to exceed $ 9,486,174.00, and by extending the term of the contract from its original scheduled expiration date of June 30, 2018, through June 30, 2019, to provide professional development services to K - 8 and Algebra I teachers in support of the District's math initiative.

From the union's perspective, the fact that more teachers no longer wanted to publicly declare that they would vote for a union meant that management's aggressive tactics were working, and that they had lost a significant amount of support.

Some proponents of teacher evaluation reforms have conjectured that if districts would eliminate the bottom 5 to 10 percent of teachers each year, as measured by value - added student test scores, U.S. student achievement would increase by a substantial amount — enough to catch up to high - achieving countries like Finland.3 However, there is no real - world evidence to support this idea and quite a bit to dispute it.

Date: March 2015 Purpose: to support conferences to deepen teacher understanding of the Common Core standards Amount: $ 500,000 Term: 4 Topic: College - Ready Regions Served: GLOBAL NORTH AMERICA Program: United States Grantee Location: Washington, District of Columbia Grantee Website: http://learnzillion.com

Principals and assistant principals spend an overwhelming amount of their day either talking to teachers about instruction, observing instruction and planning or securing resources to support instruction.

To support these administrators and their tireless teachers, I read everything I can and am constantly digging through copious amounts of research...

During his tenure in New York, King ushered in practices such as teacher evaluations tied to student performance and supported the Common Core State Standards and aligned assessments, all of which garnered a significant amount of public pushback.

The results indicated that mathematics teachers participating in mentor - supported professional development increased the amount and level of technology use in their practice.

Blaming cheating on the test amounts to infantilizing teachers, moving teaching 180 degrees away from the kind of professionalization that teacher advocates often profess to support.

Once teachers have been selected, OTO provides facilitation training, a comprehensive OTO training manual, and a tremendous amount of other support and resources.

I am writing about keeping teachers in the classroom in nyc by paying teachers higher salaries thoutere are teachers who have the same credentials and are not paid accordingly the bd of ed get more than the teacher who worked in childcare with the same credential possibly same amount of years working also the support team such as the asst teacher salary are much lower than the paraprofessional in the bd of ed salaries should be the same in this profession teachers stay because of the children they care about.

So, few teachers and PLCs are receiving just the right amount of support.

AISL values its teachers and staff and provides an amount of support I have never seen.

Preschool teachers vary substantially in the amount of on - the - job training and supervision they receive, and few receive any systematic training in how to support social - emotional development and enhance children's self - regulation skills in the preschool context.»

This study found that mental health programs in schools can be implemented with relative fidelity by regular school teachers with only 2 days of teacher training and a small amount of ongoing coaching and support.