Not exact matches
From
boosting their confidence to improving their relationships with their peers and
teachers, the interpersonal and educational
benefits of these experiences can not be overlooked.
A study of Illinois
teachers by Maria D. Fitzpatrick found that, when given the opportunity to purchase pension credits to
boost their
benefits, they were only willing to pay 19 cents for a dollar of future compensation.
For example, when St. Louis spent $ 166 million to enhance the retirement
benefits it offered to
teachers, it saw a temporary, one - year
boost in retention among
teachers already eligible for retirement.
Teacher and tech enthusiast Jon Schwartz espouses the
benefits of blogging for teaching elementary English - Language Learners and
boosting student engagement.
Given that 55 % of K - 12 spending funds
teacher salaries and
benefits, you can't cut costs without
boosting the productivity of good
teachers — which requires increasing class size.
Students,
teachers and others interested in eLearning can
benefit from using Mind Maps to
boost productivity.
But smaller classes provide many more
benefits than a morale
boost for
teachers.
Schools can
benefit from up to # 150,000 in grant funding to
boost arts - based teaching through partnerships with cultural organisations using the
Teacher Development Fund.
The perceived
benefit of such a practice is to
boost scores on the real test which will make both the students and their
teachers appear highly competent.
Malen and colleagues (1989) list six purported
benefits of site - based management: (1) stakeholders, particularly parents and
teachers, will be able to influence school policy decisions; (2) employee morale and motivation will be
boosted; (3) school - wide planning processes will be strengthened; (4) instruction will improve; (5) effective schools» characteristics will develop; and (6) students» academic achievement will improve.