Sentences with phrase «better than other teachers»

«Even among the highest - poverty schools,» Koedel explains, «the model is still going to identify some high - performing teachers — teachers that are doing better than other teachers in similar circumstances.»

No study, however, has ever shown that National Board - certified teachers are any better than other teachers at raising student achievement.

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And while it is true that the gift of pastor (or pastor - teacher) is a foundational gift, this does not make it a better gift than any of the others.

But there may also be other places or teachers sacred to us that are best described as auxiliary rather than derivative.

The true knight of faith is a witness, never a teacher, and therein lies his deep humanity, which is worth a good deal more than this silly participation in others» weal and woe which is honored by the name of sympathy, whereas in fact it is nothing but vanity.

The schools they attend are likely to be segregated by race and class and to have less money to spend on instruction than the schools well - off students attend, and their teachers are likely to be less experienced and less well - trained than teachers at other schools.

They argue that schooling the twins together allows them to experience the same teacher and teaching style without one having a «better» or «more fun» experience than the other.

Sometimes it takes more than our own resources to pluck up the courage to follow our hearts, whether it is your mother, grandmother, teacher or best friend it seems there is often a certain individual that above all others has inspired us or spurred us on to make more of our creative lives.

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.

I often hear parents say that their children are so much better behaved for their teachers or other adults than they are for them.

Using the payslips, critical study and comparative analysis clearly shows that teachers with their monthly income (net salaries) can now afford to buy or own appreciably much more than they could 7 yrs ago on the same pay level or rank CONTRARY to what we are mischievously made to believe currently by the NPP and their media cohorts as well as others who get opportunity to share their opinions on both the print and electronic media.

That leaves Rumore well aware that some people want him out of the job, if for no other reason than so they can step in and lead the state's second - largest — and politically influential — teachers union.

She believes that her deafness made mathematics an appealing subject: understanding it relied much less on hearing than other subjects did, and she benefited from good teachers who encouraged her natural mathematical curiosity.

I've gone to many styles of barre classes over the years, and some are wiser than others at when to use a neutral spine versus a tucked pelvis, but I trust that you'll find the teachers that make your low back feel best.

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....

And my teacher said, «Without a light meter you managed to do better than most of my other students do with a light meter.»

The notion that some teachers are better than others, or worth more than others, is stridently resisted.

Our analysis of these data reveals that teachers transfer from one school to another — or exit the Texas public school system altogether — more as a reaction to the characteristics of their students than in response to better salaries in other schools.

Another theory is that California's elementary school teachers feel less well prepared and well qualified to teach science than any other subject and believe they have few opportunities to improve their preparation.

It is currently being rolled - out across NSW and will enable more than 1,000 of the best teachers to mentor and coach other teachers.

In fact, graduates of St. Petersburg did better than any other of the six teacher training programs.

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

b. My data that show St. Petersburg College's undergraduate teacher training program is doing at least as well as, and probably somewhat better than, other undergraduate teacher training programs in Florida.

It is interesting to note, however, that some teachers who receive layoff notices are well into their careers, implying that at least some districts in the state are making judgments about which teachers should be laid off based on criteria other than seniority.

Regardless of the approach, all of the groups unabashedly acknowledge that some teachers are more effective than others and that even the best teachers want to keep improving their practice.

Our efforts to determine which students gain more than others — and thus which teachers and schools are more effective — turn out to depend on conventions (arbitrary choices) that make some educators look better than others.

The other thing that I would suggest is you look after your own mental health — make sure you have a good diet, exercise and sleep — healthy habits rather than destructive habits are really important for teachers who find themselves in stressful teaching situations.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

School administrators seeking to hire new teachers can not be confident that graduates of NCATE - accredited institutions are likely to be better teachers than other applicants.

Teachers said the Progress Learning Charts (PLC) reports are really useful and far better than what other tools have to offer, especially because they get more than a final score and can see where the learning gaps are.

If I had to summarize the current state of affairs, I'd say this: We know that teachers matter and that some teachers are better than others, but we don't know the specific attributes that make some teachers effective and others ineffective.

California is a bit of an outlier here compared to other states — it's a big state and seems to have lower teacher turnover than other states — but it's still worth asking if this system is working well enough for all teachers.

The study found that deeper learning public high schools graduate students with better test scores and on - time graduation rates nine percent higher than other schools, a win for teachers and students alike.

However, some pioneering districts, schools, and teachers achieved better, faster results than others.

Thus, teachers know each other well and are informed about the content of subjects of classes other than their own.

The donation, which is contingent on being matched dollar - for - dollar by other donors, will help fund Teach For America's recruitment of members on more than 200 college campuses as well as its eight - week teacher - training program.

A student in the middle grades may now have as many as five teachers, none of which know her well — one of the reasons big schools, other things being equal, tend to perform less well than others.

It is true that teachers» weekly compensation packages are, on average, often better than in other professions.

That is, charismatic teachers who leave scores of majors in their wake, appear to be no better or worse at teaching the material than their less inspiring counterparts; teachers who are exceptional at conveying course material are no more likely than others at inspiring students to take more courses in the subject area.

Students, rather than the teacher, decide whether a debate, role play, mind map, or some other method best suits the topic at hand.

In other words, any negative effects of being with lower - achieving peers were more than offset in tracked settings by the benefit of the teacher being able to better tailor instruction to students» needs.

The results of our study of New York City public school teachers confirm a simple truth: some teachers are considerably better than others at helping students learn.

A successful undergraduate teacher in, say, introductory biology, not only induces his or her students to take additional biology courses, but leads those students to do unexpectedly well in those additional classes (based on what we would have predicted based on their standardized test scores, other grades, grading standards in that field, etc.) In our earlier paper, we lay out the statistical techniques [xi] employed in controlling for course and student impacts other than those linked directly to the teaching effectiveness of the original professor.

Researchers also found students wanted teachers to step back rather than sit back and «best acquired entrepreneurial - mindedness when they collaborated regularly with their teachers or other adults, and had an authentic audience (often in cross-age settings)».

Who better to guide them than other teachers?

In addition, our analysis does not compare value added with other measures of teacher quality, like evaluations based on classroom observation, which might be even better predictors of teachers» long - term impacts than VA scores.

He recently partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on the «Measures of Effective Teaching» (or MET) project, which was intended to develop metrics capable of determining which teachers are faring better than others, and to determine what factors help determine success.

«Although it's well - documented that teachers had their pay frozen at the beginning of the Coalition Government, education was actually dealt a better hand during the economic downturn than many other professions.

In other words, we ask, if a given student's math teacher spent more (or less) time lecturing than his or her science teacher, does the student perform better or worse on the math test than on the science test?

Best Practices essays should be no longer than 1,000 words and should describe your experiences with an effective lesson plan idea or instructional method, along with tips for other teachers.