Sentences with phrase «better teacher accountability system»

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In choosing this year's «Better Balance,» for example, the editors signaled that something is awry in the existing balance between the «hard» elements of standards - based reform (namely the academic standards, assessments, and interventions that make up a state's accountability system) and such «soft» components as teacher training, instructional materials, and classroom environment.

At their best, walkthroughs are viewed as a part of an ongoing formative assessment process that finds teachers and administrators engaged in a system of reciprocal accountability.

Rather than today's system, which focuses on «input regulations» such as textbook mandates; seat time rules; cumbersome, outdated certification requirements; and professional development units, public officials should place greater emphasis on vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations, curricular quality, and meaningful accountability.

It doesn't erase the need for rigorous standards, tough accountability, vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations (and training, etc.), stronger school leaders, the right of families to choose schools, and much else that reformers have been struggling to bring about.

That model, I think, is now well known across the state: standards - based curriculum, radically better assessments,... a fair but rigorous accountability system which, as you know, the Regents will soon put into regulations creating the framework of evaluation for principals and teachers.

Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said:» We need to see real and significant changes to teachers» working lives, both in terms of pay and conditions as well as reducing the punishing accountability system that is overburdening the profession and blighting children and young people's educationTeachers (NUT), said:» We need to see real and significant changes to teachers» working lives, both in terms of pay and conditions as well as reducing the punishing accountability system that is overburdening the profession and blighting children and young people's educationteachers» working lives, both in terms of pay and conditions as well as reducing the punishing accountability system that is overburdening the profession and blighting children and young people's education.»

If you follow the increasing use of Value - Added Measures (VAMs) and Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs) in state -, district -, school -, and teacher - accountability systems, read this very good new Mathematica working paper.

Despite their rhetoric expressing concern about the role that standardized tests play in our education system, politicians persist in valuing these tests almost exclusively when it comes to accountability — not only for schools, as has been the case since the inception of No Child Left Behind, but for teachers as well, with a national push to include the results of these tests in teacher evaluations.

Ohio needs to resolve its long - term funding crisis, develop a more coherent system of preschool through higher education, adopt stronger academic standards and graduation requirements, create a better pool of teachers and principals, and ensure that all schools are held to the same accountability standards, the group says.

Middle school principal Yesenia Cordova has data from Texas» statewide accountability tests, the district's own system, and the weekly common assessments that are benchmarked to the state tests, as well as marks given by classroom teachers on homework and quizzes.

Her work centers around five essential school priorities: • Supporting school leadership • Using data transparently for accountability • Coordinating a multitier system of support • Providing embedded professional development based on best practices • Engaging parents and families This free one - hour webinar is sponsored by Learning Ally, a national nonprofit providing resources, training, and technology for teachers and schools; and 80,000 human - voiced audiobooks for students with learning & visual disabilities.

By the time the 2012 elections moved into full swing, the Obama administration was issuing waivers to states exempting them from the most punitive parts of NCLB in exchange for sketching out their own state plans for improving teacher quality, academic standards and creating better accountability systems.

They could also result in new accountability systems that incentivize different behaviors among teachers that change how schools in this country work (for better or worse).

Over time, such accountability systems included ever - stronger incentives to motivate school administrators, teachers, and students to perform better.

With the preponderance of evidence showing that schools and teachers respond to incentives embedded in accountability systems, we believe option 1 is the best choice.

To be sure, this new accountability system has been difficult to swallow at times, not just for politicians, but for parents and teachers as well.

With a clear focus on homework from OFSTED: «Teachers use well - judged teaching strategies, including setting appropriate homework that, together with clearly directed and timely support and intervention, match pupils» needs accurately» we have to guard against schools driving homework to «death» whereby teachers feel they have to set homework for the sake of it to satisfy accountability measures and / or internal monitoring Teachers use well - judged teaching strategies, including setting appropriate homework that, together with clearly directed and timely support and intervention, match pupils» needs accurately» we have to guard against schools driving homework to «death» whereby teachers feel they have to set homework for the sake of it to satisfy accountability measures and / or internal monitoring teachers feel they have to set homework for the sake of it to satisfy accountability measures and / or internal monitoring systems.

The proposal explains the state's A-F accountability system as well as Indiana's system for evaluating teachers, both of which are relatively new.

An accountability system must define appropriate expectations for participants in the system (e.g., schools, districts, the state and federal governments, as well as students and teachers).

One key opportunity under ESSA is that seven states will be able to pilot new systems of assessment and accountability that, if designed well, have the potential to support strong, teacher - led practices that integrate teaching, learning, and assessment.

And teachers are entitled to an accountability system that facilitates better teaching.

The controversial National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)-- created by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and funded (in part) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as «part of a coalition for «a better orchestrated agenda» for accountability, choice, and using test scores to drive the evaluation of teachers» (see here; see also other instances of controversy here and here)-- recently issued yet another report about state's teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.Teacher Quality (NCTQ)-- created by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and funded (in part) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as «part of a coalition for «a better orchestrated agenda» for accountability, choice, and using test scores to drive the evaluation of teachers» (see here; see also other instances of controversy here and here)-- recently issued yet another report about state's teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.»

While NPR's Westervelt criticizes Kane for making a «pretty scathing and strong indictment» of America's education system, what Kane does not understand writ large is that the very solutions for which Kane advocates — using VAM - based measurements to fire and hire bad and good teachers, respectively — are really no different than the «stronger accountability» measures upon which we have relied for the last 40 years (since the minimum competency testing era) within this alleged «echo chamber.»

Well, at least one school district in Florida is kissing the state's six - year infatuation with its VAM - based teacher accountability system goodbye.

Over my career, going from being a teacher to being in the administration, I am ever more conscious of the importance of the improvement part of the accountability system, and making sure that folks are paying good attention there.

Add to that a fear of Ofsted and a dysfunctional accountability system leaves many teachers working well into the evening and through every weekend.

«An educational system solely built on compliance, accountability and pressure runs the risk of boiling over and losing its best teachers.

On Wednesday, she said the strict accountability system was putting teachers off working in the toughest schools, adding that the two «crucial» objectives of transparency and school improvement needed to «marry up» better, particularly in regions that had the most struggling schools.

As Secretary Rod Paige so well noted in his first annual report to Congress on Meeting the Highly Qualified Teacher Challenge in June 2002, the teacher preparation system is «broken», and, although Texas has done a better job than most states in raising teacher preparation standards and accountability, we are no exception to this generaliTeacher Challenge in June 2002, the teacher preparation system is «broken», and, although Texas has done a better job than most states in raising teacher preparation standards and accountability, we are no exception to this generaliteacher preparation system is «broken», and, although Texas has done a better job than most states in raising teacher preparation standards and accountability, we are no exception to this generaliteacher preparation standards and accountability, we are no exception to this generalization.

As Dropout Nation has noted ad nauseam, few of the accountability systems allowed to replace No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provision are worthy of the name; far too many of them, including the A-to-F grading systems put into place by such states as New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality education.

The group's waiver application has sparked controversy among other state superintendents, who see a district waiver as giving too much power to locally - run districts, as well as teachers unions that argue they were not consulted in constructing CORE's academic accountability system, known as the School Quality Improvement Index.

«The government should look to and learn from the light touch accountability systems of high - performing countries such as Finland and New Zealand which are based on trusting schools and teachers to do the best by their students, rather than the issuing of threats or penalties.»

The toolkit is not meant to be prescriptive; rather it is designed to enable you to become better advocates for teacher evaluation and accountability systems that are transparent, fair, comprehensive, and improve teaching and learning.

Will increasing accountability, especially if the systems are viewed as unfair, have the unintended effect of reducing collaboration among teachers and scaring away good candidates from the profession?

BBA recognizes that teachers and schools operate within a complex system of factors and actors that influence student well - being, and that effective accountability helps strengthen each factor and ensure that each maximizes its positive impact.

Certainly one can appreciate Petrilli's desire for better forms of accountability; Dropout Nation has continually argued for more - expansive accountability, including greater scrutiny of the nation's university schools of education (whose failures in recruiting and training aspiring teachers are one of the culprits behind the nation's education crisis), and using college completion data in K - 12 accountability systems.

Texas policymakers» desire to raise standards for teacher preparation programs and to find new and improved ways to train better teachers resulted in legislation (S.B. 174) in 2009 that amended the Texas Education Code as well as Chapter 229 of the Texas Administrative Code to create the Accountability System for Educator Preparation (ASEP).

He describes the nation's main education law as an «impediment to reform,» citing ESEA's outdated testing regimen, accountability measures, and teacher quality determinations, all of which fail to align with the widely adopted Common Core State Standards as well as recent state efforts to overhaul their teacher evaluation systems.

Most scholars who have studied these issues such as Richard Ingersoll of the University of Pennsylvania and Linda Darling Hammond of the Learning Policy Institute, conclude that the shortages result from teacher attrition more than the underproduction of teachers, and that attrition is a consequence of low teacher compensation and benefits, poor induction and working conditions, as well the general blaming and shaming of teachers for the problems of society and the accountability systems that have been developed reflecting this view.

In this report Harris makes «Recommendations to Improve the Louisiana System of Accountability for Teachers, Leaders, Schools, and Districts,» the main one being that the state focus «more on student learning or growth --[by] specifically, calculating the predicted test scores and rewarding schools based on how well students do compared with those predictions.»

The Forum's list also takes up numerous hot - button topics for the state's public schools, demanding «transparency and accountability» from North Carolina's growing school choice sector, better recruitment of top teachers and principals, an overhaul of the state's oft - maligned «A-F» school grading system and a renewed emphasis on racial equity, as well as others.

«We need to see real and significant changes to teachers» working lives, both in terms of pay and conditions as well as reducing the punishing accountability system that is overburdening the profession and blighting children and young people's education,» said NUT deputy general secretary Kevin Courtney.