Sentences with phrase «as teacher biases»

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If, as a progressive Protestant, I am fully committed to the truth, whether or not it is supportive of my Christian biases, should I in fact continue to follow a Jewish teacher of the early part of the first century whose teaching obviously reflected a very different socio - cultural situation than mine?

At the very moment when a student might be gearing up to react to the teacher's comments as a threat, a sign of the teacher's personal disapproval or bias, the Post-it gave the student an alternative frame through which to view those comments — not as an attack, in other words, but as a vote of confidence that the student was capable of high - quality work.

At Concord, he served as the faculty advisor to the nation's first Gay - Straight Alliance (GSA) leading him in 1990 found GLSEN, a national education organization bringing together lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and straight teachers, parents, students, and community members who wanted to end anti-LGBT bias in our schools.

«At the very moment when a student might be gearing up to react to the teacher's comments as a threat, a sign of the teacher's personal disapproval or bias, the Post-it gave the student an alternative frame through which to view those comments — not as an attack, in other words, but as a vote of confidence,» writes Tough.

When it came to professional qualities, «best» teachers were praised for being intelligent, engaging, dedicated, easygoing and strict but fair; «worst» teachers were described as incompetent, lacking in judgement, lazy, unfair and biased.

Opportunities for deep reflection on your hidden biases, intentions as a teacher, and actions in front of a class

Nor, as Frederick Hess explains, is there any scientific evidence that requiring teachers to have certain views about «sexuality or social class» ensures that they teach all students: «Screening on «dispositions» serves primarily to cloak academia's biases in the garb of professional necessity.»

Steiner faults courses in teacher education for what he perceives as ideological bias - specifically, for their contemporary and Western orientation.

The most sophisticated approach uses a statistical technique known as a value - added model, which attempts to filter out sources of bias in the test - score growth so as to arrive at an estimate of how much each teacher contributed to student learning.

As an old speech teacher, I have a bias that PowerPoint falls under the category of visual aid — with aid being the operative word.

This uncertainty motivates our third and final analytic approach, where we measure the bias in teachers» expectations as the difference between students» actual outcomes and whatever we would have expected based on everything we can observe about them in the absence of self - fulfilling prophecies.

As part of the program, district staff members — including school psychologists, social workers, and teachers — received training so they can coach their colleagues on topics like embracing family diversity and preventing bias - based bullying.

To be sure, bias plays a role, as studies are finding that teachers tend to have lower expectations for children of color.

In particular, critics contend that VA measures are likely to be biased as a result of the way that students are assigned to teachers.

So, as adults — teachers and parents — we must help guide children through life's confusing web — both physical and digital — and to encourage them to use critical thinking to discern whether a source of information is biased or offering an honest view.

The Principal Difference — this blog, by the National Association of Secondary School Principals, doesn't shy away from raising important issues such as uncovering myths of student engagement or if elementary teacher bias discourages girls from math and science.

However, facial impressions have consistently been shown to influence our opinions as well as bias decisions in politics [90], leadership [91], law [92], parental expectations and punishments on children [93], military rank promotion [94], and teacher evaluations [95].

Among them are a focus within preschool programs on teaching pre-academic skills; the conceptualization of the role of the adults who provide center - based care as that of a teacher; a bias towards delivering pre-K services through school districts; a press towards common standards and curriculum across pre-K providers; accountability regimens that are tied to children's performance on measures that correlate with later school success; disproportionate spending on four - year - olds as opposed to younger children; and marginalization of the family's responsibility.

There was no evidence of response bias at the school level: the proportion of respondent teachers in low - income, minority, and low - performing schools was the same as in the entire CPS system.

It is certainly likely that some of the disparities are being driven by the bias of teachers and principals, implicit or otherwise, as some studies suggest.

Teacher licensing tests had been suspended in 1985 as a result of a lawsuit by African American educators demonstrating that the state's exams designed by National Evaluation Systems were racially biased and improperly validated (see Examiner, Spring 1987).

Being a former mathematics teacher myself, I'd like to support the second claim as being true, being subject - area biased myself.

And Wilson thinks teachers should support the use of data as a means of protecting against administrator bias.

To try to correct this by statistically controlling for school context variables will produce bias so long as the effectiveness of the teacher is associated with attributes associated with the effectiveness of the school.

Both were piloted with Chicago teachers and students, and were further informed by expert - teacher focus groups, as well as interviews with students and teachers to check for understanding and look for biases.

Nonetheless, the concerns Chetty et al. attempt to counter are whether their «teacher - switching» approach was invalid, and whether the «exclusion of teachers with missing [value - added] estimates biased the [ir] conclusion [s]» as well.

What this means, as per Rothstein, is that «teacher switching [the process used by Chetty et al.] is correlated with changes in students» prior grade scores that bias the key coefficient toward a finding of no bias.»

By ending teacher and parent nominations, for example, districts and schools can remove referral bias as a factor that currently drives black and Hispanic student underrepresentation.

VAM, viewed as reducing bias and error, is increasingly used by states and districts as a major factor in teacher evaluation, retention, promotion, and compensation.

As the demographics of classrooms and school buildings continue to evolve, it is important to examine the extent to which race may influence how teachers interpret and respond to students» behavior and to guard against potential bias.

The basic skills tests required for entry into teacher preparation in the state — only a small part of the selectivity measures described above — have recently come under fire for being biased against African American and Latino test takers, as their passage rates are significantly lower than those of white test takers.

E4E teachers came to D.C. on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination to share with Secretary DeVos that the Federal Department of Education has a critical role to play in protecting the civil rights of all students and as a result must continue to highlight the disparities that exist in school discipline, investigate districts where those disparities may be caused by bias, and support the implementation of strategies to reduce punitive discipline.

Unions say there is no objective way to evaluate teachers, arguing principals can be biased and incompetent, and test scores are influenced by factors outside of a teacher's control (such as poverty).

The discipline guidance challenges us all, individual teachers, schools, districts, states and the nation to look at students as individuals who we aim to serve regardless of their behavior, ending unnecessary exclusion and bias discipline so that every child is valued and known.»

That's why Teach Plus is offering a home for teachers interested in an organization, as Coggins puts it, «with a bias toward high performers» — eduspeak for wanting to support and reward the best rather than focus on defending the worst.

Specifically, PSEL defines effectiveness in this area as ensuring that students have equitable access to effective teachers and supports, developing policies that fairly address student misconduct, and confronting biases and «low expectations associated with race, class, culture and language, gender and sexual orientation, and disability or special status,» among other tenets.

St. Charles began its efforts to improve minority participation in gifted and talented programs in much the same way as countless other districts, focusing on how to remove one of two potential roadblocks in the way of qualified minority students — biased teachers or biased tests.

Intensifying the training will not prevent teachers from exercising their biases in the classrooms, or not caring about students as a whole.

No surprise, I guess, that none of the other «issues» about which the EVAAS has been continuously questioned and critiqued were addressed in this article (e.g., about fairness and the teachers who are not TVAAS eligible, validity or the lack of relationships between the TVAAS and other indicators of quality in Tennessee, subject and grade level bias, as written about here and here, etc.).

The student voice, as subjectively biased as it must necessarily be, may offer the greatest hope for monitoring one's emergent mastery as a teacher and thus for providing motivation that carries one through the exuberantly arduous turmoil of teaching.

However, subjective measures such as teacher recommendations may hold back the same students if teacher bias is involved (Card and Guiliano 2015; Quazad 2014; Donovan and Cross 2002; Figlio 2005).

Accordingly, there is much research about how such survey data can be gamed and manipulated by instructors (e.g., via the use of external incentives / disincentives), can be biased by respondent or student background variables (e.g., charisma, attractiveness, gender and race as compared to the gender and race of the teacher or instructor, grade expected or earned in the class, overall grade point average, perceived course difficulty or the lack thereof), and the like.

Difficult working conditions, low status, gender bias, and teaching in hierarchical conditions often prompt teachers to look for alternative work and / or resist any attempts to enhance increased professionalism — such as professional development — especially when teachers are not paid for extra hours or when they see professional development as not resulting in either improvements in their own practice or leading to promotion.

While the antics of anti-Trump teachers, such as the recent viral video of a Southern California teacher beating a President Trump piñata, make headlines, classroom bias is much more deeply embedded, especially in the Common Core...

Given the socially constructed indicators used throughout this study were undoubtedly subject to score bias by manipulation and artificial inflation as teachers (and their evaluators) were able to influence their ratings.

More importantly, observations are inherently biased because they are based on subjective determinations by school leaders and others who are prone to think that their approach to teaching is superior to anyone else's (even if teachers being evaluated have demonstrated that they improve student achievement as measured by test score growth).

As many states work to implement new teacher evaluation systems, a new report by the Brown Center on Education Policy indicates a bias in evaluations resulting from principals who give their teachers an unfair boost based on the students they're assigned to teach, not their instructional capability.

While, as a whole we might be less concerned about bias when such factors are included in VAMs, there (likely forever will be) cases where bias will impact individual teachers.

One main concern is reference bias, or the effect of survey respondents» reference points on their answers.37 Students, for example, attending competitive schools often rate themselves as having less self - control or as less hardworking because of their schools» rigorous expectations.38 Accordingly, some experts caution that using SEL to classify schools could ultimately punish high - performing schools while rewarding low - performing schools.39 Additionally, teachers may misinterpret behavior, erroneously rely on first impressions, or incorrectly equate their opinion of a student with the student's social - emotional skills.40

Teachers who understand their own biases says Sachs, are in a better position to view their students» experiences as valuable and meaningful and integrate the realities of the students» lives, experiences, and cultures into the classroom and subject matter.