Sentences with phrase «based teacher placement»

Senate Bill 191, which had already passed the Senate, tied evaluations to student achievement, revamped the tenure - granting process, and based teacher placement on factors other than seniority.

Not exact matches

Bar Harbor - based educational opportunities include a Summer Student Program for high school and college students, high school and college internships, sabbatical placements for science teachers and a year - round array of on - campus courses, conferences and workshops, including the internationally renowned Short Course on Medical and Experimental Mammalian Genetics.

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»

Its purpose was to promote the usage of students» test scores to grade and pay teachers annual bonuses (i.e., «supplements») as per their performance, and «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make other «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»

In some schools, for example, teachers used diagnostic and formative assessment data to make decisions about student placement in remedial reading or math programs, or in school - based tutoring programs.

Student placements at Emerald are based on input from a variety of sources (including recommendations from their previous teacher and requests from parents) with the principal making the ultimate decision.

This design extends reflection on reform - based practices into teachers» first school placements, as science teachers tend to revert back to traditional practices as they experience the reality of the classroom (Simmons et al., 1999).

First, there are often insufficient numbers of high quality, reform - based classrooms available for preservice teacher placements.

The placement with an exemplary VS teacher also enhanced the quality of the experience by providing a model on which future actions can be based.

Mentored field experiences begin with a one - day - a-week school placement in freshman year, include pre-practicum experiences in schools, and culminate with full - time student teaching in a social studies classroom during senior year, affording preservice teachers the opportunity to design and implement inquiry - based, content - rich units of study, and to assess students» learning.

The 2010 law requires districts to reimagine their talent - management and educator - support systems by requiring annual performance evaluations, ensuring tenure is earned and not the guarantee of lifetime employment, and ending both seniority - based layoffs and the forced placement of teachers into schools where they neither want to be nor fit well.

Through a project called Algebra by Design, funded by Lucent Technologies, we are working with teachers in grades 5 - 12 in the Syracuse City School District to (a) increase significantly the number of students who are successful in learning the core ideas of algebra, (b) increase the depth of algebraic understanding of all students and enhance their problem - solving skills in mathematically challenging design projects and activities, (c) provide teachers with experience and collaborative support in the use of Standards - based curricula, design projects, and current and emerging technologies, and (d) prepare new teachers in partnership with practicing teachers through observations, field placements, and semester - long internships.

A university field placement director was also included as a participant using purposeful sampling, based on her vast experience with field experiences and her critical input during the brainstorming stage of this pilot field experience, to ensure that the field experience would meet the goals aligned with the university's teacher education program.

The Teacher as Web Site Developer is an arrangement for linking a university - based instructional technology lab with preservice teacher placements in a pre-K-12 public school claTeacher as Web Site Developer is an arrangement for linking a university - based instructional technology lab with preservice teacher placements in a pre-K-12 public school clateacher placements in a pre-K-12 public school classroom.

In his election campaign, Walker proposed assigning letter grades to schools based on criteria such as graduation rates, passing rates, enrollment in advanced placement courses, test scores, and teacher and administrator evaluations.

We wanted preservice teachers to experience digitally rich, inquiry - based learning environments on campus and in their field placements.

These include establishing evidence - based measures, refining the approach to teacher recommendations, and identifying effective placement protocols.

The Portland, Oregon, teachers» union's new contract «bars the use of student performance on standardized tests as a basis for involuntary transfers, layoffs, placement on the salary schedule, and / or disciplinary language.»

Three widespread practices in particular are in need of major revision: teacher evaluation and tenure systems that do not distinguish effective teachers from ineffective ones; forced placement, where teachers are assigned to schools based on seniority rather than the match of teacher skills to school preferences and needs; and LIFO (last in first out), by which teacher lay - offs are based entirely on seniority rather than teacher effectiveness.

Difficulties in finding appropriate placements, coupled with the number of students who need to be placed, many times force the teacher education programs at our institutions to limit the opportunities for field - based practica prior to student teaching (Allen, 2003; Wilson & Floden, 2003).

Evaluating field - based placements for preservice teachers: Measuring the mentoring qualities of the host teachers, student satisfaction with placement, and gathering program evaluation data for N.C.A.T.E. reaccreditation.

Based on data from a post-student teaching survey, we find consistently strong evidence of large effects of being assigned to high versus low index placements, particularly in terms of teacher candidates» perceptions of the quality of instruction of their cooperating teachers and the quantity and quality of the coaching that they received.

Students cycle through different intensives three times a year, giving teachers multiple opportunities to adjust placements based on individual needs.

More specifically, the bill is to «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»

When students are not progressing or mastering curricular content or skills, functional, curriculum - based assessments are conducted whereby teachers identify and analyze (a) relevant curricular and instructional variables and their relationship to student achievement outcomes; (b) assess curricular (i.e., scope and sequence) placement and performance expectations and outcomes; and (c) complete curricular task analyses and student mastery checks.

They used «digitally rich, inquiry - based learning environments on campus and in their field placements» to support preservice teachers» development of thinking and teaching with technologies.

According to Brian Leiter's ranking of the top producers of new law teachers, 2003 - 2007, Yale was first in graduates who went on to teach law, at least on a «per capita» basis that weighed the total number of placements against the typical class size.