Sentences with phrase «boosting teacher performance»

They are unable to attract talented entrants and fail to add value to their graduates (either by boosting teacher performance or teacher's lifetime incomes).

Conversely, a Washington incentive program tied to the district's teacher - evaluation system boosted teacher performance but didn't have a noticeable impact on teacher retention for the most effective teachers.

Not exact matches

Her company crunches achievement data to make assessments of students, looping together the entirety of their work to help teachers make decisions that will boost performance.

My own children have been subjected to relentless test prep, bribery, teacher - induced guilt trips and even overt falsehoods designed to boost their performance on the standardized test that's linked to school rating / teacher performance.

Lawmakers last year agreed to linking Common Core - based testing to the results of teacher performance evaluations, a measure that was sought by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and linked to a boost in school aid.

Senate Democrats on Tuesday renewed their push to have the submission of teacher performance reviews no longer be linked to a boost in state aid for school districts.

In recent days, a new push is being made to unlink the development and approval of teacher performance reviews with a boost in state aid.

Chancellor Carmen Fariña is launching a new collaboration - based program to try to boost academic performance, the latest in a series of programs encouraging more school visits and meetings between teachers.

Performance incentives may cause schools and teachers to redirect their efforts toward the least costly ways of raising test scores, at the expense of actions that do not boost scores but may be important for students» long - term welfare.

This multiple - measures system boosts performance among teachers most immediately facing consequences for their ratings, and promotes higher rates of turnover among the lowest - performing teachers, with positive consequences for student achievement.

A few studies do show some preliminary evidence that teachers who receive high - quality feedback subsequently go on to boost student performance.

But with schools searching for new ways to boost performance among low - income, low - performing students, some districts have found that incentives to draw the best teachers and administrators to the worst schools are paying off.

Such pay innovations should also boost student achievement and, because they are based on performance, strengthen the argument for dramatically raising teacher salaries — at least for those with the highest levels of professional expertise.

Key elements included a new principal evaluation system, a pay - for - performance teacher evaluation system, a Leadership Development Fellows Academy for principals, an Accelerating Campus Excellence plan that seeks to attract educators to «struggling» schools, and an emphasis on dramatically boosting the number of students earning career certifications.

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

Although education was the focus of the 60 - day legislative session that ended May 2 — lawmakers boosted spending for public schools by $ 650 million and raised performance standards for students and teachers — it did not produce a solution to the classroom crunch.

The programme also exposes dishonest marking in secondary schools by highlighting several cases in which teachers had changed pupil assessments or coursework to artificially boost a school's performance.

Kuepa wants to contribute, through the introduction of blended learning, to improve performance, leverage teacher capacities and boost productivity and competitiveness among young workers in Latin America.

Councils currently have control over recruitment of teaching staff and the Association of Headteachers and Deputes in Scotland (AHDS) argues that handing this power over to head teachers will allow them boost performance.

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Moreover, the purpose of this guide is to enhance learning spaces, boost student performances, and positively extend teachers» influence.

Efforts to force teacher quality reform got a boost last year when the Los Angeles Times revealed the performance of the district's 11,500 elementary school teachers — by name — during its powerful, controversial and much - needed series on the low quality of the district's instruction.

If we could find ways of keeping good teachers in the classroom — perhaps by giving these successful teachers the additional compensation it would take to encourage them to make teaching a lifelong career — then we could probably boost student performance significantly.

by Eric Hanushek This analysis considers the economic impact of replacing ineffective teachers with effective ones, and estimates the gains to U.S. gross domestic product that would result from boosting academic performance.

A recent report from the Learning Policy Institute, a research and policy organization in Palo Alto, cites studies that found «that teachers of color boost the academic performance of students of color,» on measures such as improved reading and math scores, graduation rates and greater aspirations to attend college.

The Governor's plan, the full details of which should be revealed next week when he submits his budget to the legislature, also includes boosting beginning teacher pay to $ 35,000 by 2015, increased funds for early childhood education and textbooks, and a variety of pay - for - performance incentives that would be implemented by 2018.

Certified teachers remain one of the best options for boosting student performance, as school districts and the public consider alternative choices to traditional schooling.

Those are by far the exception; the vast majority of charter schools are boosting student performance, encouraging greater parental involvement, increasing teacher satisfaction, and broadening the curriculum with classes such as music and art without sacrificing core subjects.

«ESI is dedicated to helping substitute teachers continually boost their skills and improve their classroom performance, which helps us ensure the children of Yavapai County can reach their fullest potential,» Carter added.

The report's authors, of the National Center on Performance Incentives (NCPI) at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of Education, stress that their research design was just one of many possible approaches to giving teachers incentives to boost student achievement.

This looks like bad news for proponents of merit - pay for teachers: New York City's Department of Education on Sunday announced it would abandon a three - year, $ 56 million performance - pay program aimed at boosting classroom performance.

Then she learned her kids were given an artificial boost and when the final scores come out later this summer for the purposes of judging school and teacher performance, they won't look quite as good.

An expert on educational methods, Lemov says the best way to boost student performance is by improving teacher quality.

Boosting teacher and principal performance in high - needs schools is a solution to the achievement gap that's hard to fault.

When Finland's leaders sought to improve their students» academic performance, they instituted measures that included reducing class size, boosting teachers» salaries, and eliminating standardized testing.

Better English teachers not only boost a student's reading and writing performance in the short term, but they also raise their students math and English achievement in future years.

Districts that implement comprehensive mentoring and induction programs boost teachers» confidence and capabilities, increase teacher retention and improve student performance, while reducing district recruiting costs.