Sentences with phrase «better teacher performance»

«We know that the more times an administrator is in the classroom, the better teacher performance is.

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Helping students make the shift in attitude that Sommers describes can seem daunting in our current educational climate, where performance is valued over learning, and where parents and teachers often resort to questionable motivational techniques («if you don't do well, you'll end up working at McDonald's») to encourage students.

But a recent study by Joseph Allen, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, and Robert C. Pianta, the dean of the education school there, demonstrates that when teachers are trained in how to create a better environment in the classroom, that can have a measurable effect on student performance.

When a child loses weight, he or she often improves academic performance in school, as well as day - to - day social interactions with peers, parents, and teachers.

I've written a lot over the years (really, A LOT - see the Related Links below) about junk food in school classrooms, whether distributed by teachers as rewards for good behavior and academic performance or served as part of birthday or classroom... [Continue reading]

And, what he found is that there were certain teachers who were reliably better able than others to improve their student's performance on these proxy measures.

This food tends to fall into three categories: food brought in for classroom celebrations; the use of food by teachers as a teaching tool or manipulative; and food handed out by teachers or principals as a reward for good behavior or academic performance.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

In general, the results suggest that after adjustment for confounding, there were small but consistent tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with increased IQ, increased performance on standardized tests, higher teacher ratings of classroom performance, and better high school achievement.

Cuomo pushed successfully this year for a new teacher evaluation system more closely linking state testing to performance as well as teacher tenure.

But in recent weeks, Cuomo has indicated he will begin to emphasize a new direction in education after a legislative session that saw yet more changes to the state's teacher evaluation system that linked performance reviews to tenure as well as student test scores and in - classroom observation.

The opt - out effort this year has united different political strains: Republicans and conservatives are skeptical of Common Core as it pertains to a loss of local control for school districts, while the state's teachers union is encouraging the movement as well over concerns of how the results will impact performance evaluations.

«If the Education Secretary genuinely wishes England to do as well as countries such as Finland, to which he frequently refers in the White Paper, he should follow its example by replacing the inspection system with school self evaluation, refrain from the publication of results by school League Tables and the setting of narrow performance targets and allow teachers to choose their own method of teaching reading.

It is going to be the first statewide teacher performance bonus program that actually rewards performance for teachers and incentivizes teachers who perform well.

More than 200 teachers and principals received erroneous scores from the state on a contentious measurement that ties their performance to how well their students do on tests, according to state documents obtained by The New York Times.

We'll get by the character stuff - just show us how you are going to make New York State a better place, where people can go to parks without worry of shut down, where schools will have quality teachers and performance, where roads are taken care of, where bridges don't collapse, where state police do police and are not used to go on witch hunts, where budgets wont be made by more hidden fees and regressive taxes, and the list goes on.

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

Under a new plan pressed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and adopted by the state legislature as part of the budget, half of a teacher's performance review could be based on how well the students do on the exams.

The quality of standardized tests and the English language proficiency of students also need to be considered, Rumore said, as well as how to evaluate teachers on the academic performance of special education students.

I think it can provide teachers with better data, more accurate information, and likewise be a truer picture of a school's accountability and a teacher's performance.

As a meditation teacher, I have taught over 5,000 students in - person and online at Ziva Meditation, where we are all about meditation for better performance.

I can confirm that a strict fruitarian diet can certainly lead to low protein levels... as a strict fruitarian for a number of years (2 - 3 I estimate, but actually 5 if i count the time i ate minimal amounts of salad materials as well...), I had blood tests done at the end of this time and indeed my protein levels were low... Total protein was at 6.5 when the ideal is supposedly 7.5... And apart from this, my sports performance as judged by my teachers, was suffering (though I did not feel this in my own body — I was used to performing at that level and felt it as normal for me... and i was newer to the sport than a lot of them... i had great, better than most endurance... which was very satisfying... but apparently I just did not have the physical strength that others with less endurance may have had...) something which immediately improved as I added more protein to my diet....

Another bright spot is «Heights,» a good movie powered by a grand performance by Glenn Close who plays a Shakespearean actress and master teacher dealing with the vagaries of professional and private life.

A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as well as one of the year's early choices for 2002's Best Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the film).

Director Jake Kasdan (Bad Teacher, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) hails from the typically more performance - oriented world of comedy, which comes through in good ways — Bobby Cannavale's scenery - chewing, insect - infested bad guy; the universally strong comedic leads — and in bad ones.

Whiplash, meanwhile, is an intense psychological drama starring JK Simmons (who won the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe for his performance) as a music teacher and Myles Teller as the ambitious young drummer he pushes to the brink.

May 3, 2012 • For decades, teachers, managers and parents have assumed that the performance of students and employees fits what's known as the bell curve — in most activities, we expect a few people to be very good, a few people to be very bad and most people to be average.

Mads Mikkelsen, in a career - best performance, plays Lucas, a teacher in a small Danish town, left lonely after a poisonous divorce, and working as a classroom assistant after his old school shuts down.

The inclusion of a number of almost ridiculous coincidences within the storyline (ie Dwight's ex-wife is Ethan's daughter's teacher, Ethan eventually hires Dwight as his lawyer, etc) certainly doesn't help matters, although it does remain fairly easy to overlook such concerns thanks to the uniformly effective performances (Phoenix is especially good here).

Though Haneke is Austrian, some of his best - known films, including «Cache» and «The Piano Teacher,» feature French players, and he has set «Amour» in Paris and elicited shattering performances by two superb actors we have been watching all our movie lives, Emmanuelle Riva and Jean - Louis Trintignant.

Like the Staten Island educator at the center of this film, The Kindergarten Teacher pushes boundaries and crosses lines as it navigates its way through a tricky story of a five - year - old boy (newcomer Parker Sevak), who shows an unreal gift for poetry, and his teacher, Lisa (a career - best performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also one of the film's producers), who struggles in her adult - education class to be a poet as well, if only to add a bit of culture to a home life that offers her little by way of intellectual stimuTeacher pushes boundaries and crosses lines as it navigates its way through a tricky story of a five - year - old boy (newcomer Parker Sevak), who shows an unreal gift for poetry, and his teacher, Lisa (a career - best performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also one of the film's producers), who struggles in her adult - education class to be a poet as well, if only to add a bit of culture to a home life that offers her little by way of intellectual stimuteacher, Lisa (a career - best performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also one of the film's producers), who struggles in her adult - education class to be a poet as well, if only to add a bit of culture to a home life that offers her little by way of intellectual stimulation.

We get a boilerplate psychoanalysis of the toll his reticence takes on his life through a parade of treacherous father figures (a gay, Red teacher (Michael Gambon), an FBI man (Alec Baldwin), a military muckety - muck (De Niro)-RRB-, women wronged (Jolie, a luminous Tammy Blanchard, Martina Gedeck), and finally a boy of his own (Eddie Redmayne in the film's best performance), whose pillow talk might undermine daddy's most important mission.

Bolstered by another admirable performance by Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland fits into the genre of tales of young boys whose lives are affected for the better through the unconventional tutelage of an older teacher, who drives them to be the best they can be, even through the difficult moments in life.

Most pragmatically, English immersion is effective in closing the performance gap between ELLs and their peers nationwide, and is financially viable and scalable — unlike the many bilingual transition programs that require untenable complements of teachers and resources and produce mixed results at best.

Some found good teachers were more gregarious, adventurous, frivolous, artistic, polished, cheerful, kind, and interested in the opposite sex than teachers rated poorer in performance.

The teacher in question may very well agree intellectually with everything said, but they still must contend with the conflicting emotions that can surface when their job performance is analyzed and critiqued.

This year we are implementing a new performance - management framework for teachers that will provide them with comprehensive data on areas of strength and areas that need development, as well as reward high - performing teachers with bonuses as large as $ 14,000.

They concluded that performance on standardized tests from 1999 to 2002 was «significantly positively correlated» with «a school's ability to ensure a clean and safe physical environment,» «evidence that its parents and teachers modeled and promoted good character education» and opportunities «for students to contribute in meaningful ways to the school and its community.»

Insights from research There are however some general insights that have emerged from the research: first, the best professional learning programmes for teachers should involve multiple approaches for providing feedback (selected from the seven listed in the panel on this page); second, it is critical that teachers are properly trained as observers; and third, observations and feedback for professional learning should be a parallel and separate process to appraisals for performance management.

By employing head - mounted cameras on students, and using time - lapse photography, they say it's now possible to get a much more comprehensive perspective of overall classroom ambience to better measure teacher performance.

The issue is not whether teacher education improves the performance of graduates, but whether we ought to - as best we are able - bar from teaching those who have not completed an approved preparatory program.

High - performing teachers improved their performance as well, especially those within reach of the significant financial incentive created by the system.

This includes using it to identify who is or isn't a good teacher — at times — performance pay keeps cycling back into educational discussions, and the tests are not designed to evaluate teacher performance,» she says.

Schools operating under the alternative contract would be free to evaluate teachers based on student performance and evaluation, as well as classroom observation and other evidence.

Because of this, a very good teacher with a large number of teaching colleagues can do less to raise school - wide student performance than a teacher of the same quality in a school with fewer teachers.

And teacher after teacher insisted that kids make better, healthier progress if they focus on consistent, incremental improvements over their own past performance.

Is suggests Australia should make better use of its most expert teachers, having them cut back on student classes in favour of instructing other teachers how to identify and practise the best ways to improve student performance.

By comparing teacher attrition and performance on each side of the performance cutoffs, we can get a better sense of how the threat of dismissal or prospect of a raise affects teachers» behavior.

To better understand the debate about tying teacher effectiveness to student test performance, look at the VAMs system and how it is used.

He said that reading the portfolios and working with new teachers not only gives him a good picture of the certification candidates but also helps him assess his own performance, even after 25 years in the classroom.