Sentences with phrase «by rewarding teacher»

The Child Care WAGE$ ® Project is designed to provide children more stable relationships with better educated teachers by rewarding teacher education and continuity of care.

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Certainly there are not parties every day at school or birthday cupcakes but candy is actually handed out quite often at my daughter's school as a reward by her teacher and this may be enough to make the kids not eat their fruits and veggies.

By investing your time and energy into doing the best job as a teacher, you'll see that the greatest rewards in life come when you put the most effort into your work.

Another notable feature in both the proposed and final rules — one likely to be of special interest to elementary school parents — is a requirement that wellness policies set nutritional standards for foods and beverages that aren't sold but instead made available to children at school, such as offerings at classroom parties or treats given out by teachers as a reward.

Each month students are selected by teachers and rewarded for «random acts of kindness» with a special breakfast («Breakfast of Champions») with school principal Deb Powell.

To recap, the reader's child has just entered public school and she's dismayed by the cafeteria food, the snacks in the kindergarten classroom (Rice Krispie Treats and Cheetos), and the fact that her son is receiving Dum - Dums as rewards from the gym teacher.

Now let's turn to the Dum - Dums that are handed out by the school's gym teacher as a reward.

And though she has cracked down on candy rewards given out by teachers, she also just instituted a program where kids get coupons for free shakes if their class has a high rate of homework compliance.

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]

For older kids, Tough eschews our current tactic of offering students extrinsic rewards, and instead encourages teachers to nurture intrinsic motivation, fueled by the basic human need for competence, autonomy, and relatedness (or connection).

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.

This percentage does not account for additional treats sent home with children, given to them by teachers as rewards, or purchased in school at bake sales.

Stimulated by more positive reinforcement, kids who have been out of control can learn to rein in their behavior and enjoy more rewarding relationships with parents and teachers.

Excerpt: «Becky is committed to strengthening our educational system in Tennessee by attracting and rewarding good teachers.»

After all, if these staff members were motivated by financial reward they would probably not have become teachers in the first place.

The New York State Master Teacher Program was established last year by Governor Cuomo to identify, support and reward exceptional STEM educators throughout New York State.

«By rewarding donations that support public schools, providing tax credits for teachers when they purchase classroom supplies out of pocket, and easing the financial burden on families who send their children to independent, parochial or out - of - district public schools, we can make a fundamental difference in the lives of students, families and educators across the state,» he said.

Cuomo's policies will punish teachers, students, and schools in communities disadvantaged by poverty, segregation, and under - funding, while they will reward the hedge fund managers who invested more than $ 10 million in last year's election and stand to profit from their charter school investments,» Hawkins said.

We are going to continue the transformation of our system and reward performance by creating a teacher excellence fund.

Commenting on the statement on licensing teachers by Tristram Hunt, Shadow Education Secretary, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «When this proposal was made by the last Government in 2010, it was in the context of a national framework of pay and conditions of service which recognised and rewarded teachers as highly skilled professionals and which provided them with rights and entitlements to working conditions which supported them in focusing on teaching and learning.

These reforms — accompanied by an unprecedented financial investment — will put students first by bringing accountability to the classroom, recruiting and rewarding our best teachers, further reducing over-testing, and finally confronting our chronically failing schools,» Mr. Cuomo said in a statement.

«There needs to be publication of headteachers» pay and rewards, proper scrutiny by local authorities and a detailed review of the system by the School Teachers» Review Body.

And according to Gerald Stancil, a Johns Hopkins physical chemistry Ph.D. who recently retired from a teaching career at New Jersey's Orange High School, the benefits and salary earned by a high school teacher with a doctorate compare favorably with median earnings at colleges and universities — although teacher salaries and reward for advanced degrees vary greatly in different parts of the country.

The U.S. should also improve our education system, especially by making science, technology, engineering and math more attractive for students and by rewarding quality teachers.

The pupil learns by noting that the teacher rewards the student for correct answers and rebukes for wrong ones.

It gives you insights into various aspects of yoga and rewards you with a reputed and outstanding yogic career by enabling you to become a certified yoga teacher.

Upon successful completion of the 300 Hour Yoga Program at Rishikul Yogshala, you get rewarded with 300 RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) certificate that is recognized by the ministry of Yoga Alliance.

It's a satisfying, addictive loop that feels rewarding thanks to A) varied layers of progression both based on how much money you earn and how accomplished you are at each job; B) the overabundance of Things to collect and use; C) tons and tons of fetch quests given to you not only by your Life teacher, but by random NPCs (all of whom have their own names and personalities, in true Animal Crossing style).

Education World takes a look at a wide variety of rewards used by teachers in the classroom.

Children and young people are being short changed by this government as they can not receive their entitlement to high quality education when talented teachers are leaving and potential recruits can find jobs in other graduate occupations which recognise and better reward their talents.»

This week, Education World takes a look at a wide variety of rewards used by teachers in the classroom.

«Why not reward teachers who use technology by providing them with better equipment, software, and so on, as they show an increased interest and proficiency?

The book makes three recommendations: a much smaller, selective, intellectually engaged, and better compensated teaching force supported by technology; an open, transparent, and accountable system of preparation and professional development that drives out inferior providers and rewards success; and increased responsibility for teacher development in the hands of principals, who may be the strongest determinant of teacher quality on the job.

If teacher spend more time rewarding good behavior, those who misbehave might learn that by behaving they earn even more attention than by misbehaving.

Associating teacher evaluations with student performance, and rewarding teachers accordingly, is now all but taken for granted in state after state — and by prominent national figures, including President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

High performance by either teacher or pupil is seldom rewarded.

Approved by the district's board of education last week, the plan is expected to put millions more dollars into rewards for teachers whose students show better - than - average improvement compared with similar groups of students.

Most want the psychic and financial rewards of having excellence recognized at work — hard to come by if they remain teachers.

Teachers should be rewarded for producing useful student outcomes, most notably, student learning gains, measured by value - added standards (i.e., improvement) rather than by levels of achievement at the end of a course.

These are likely to be characteristics that will not be rewarded by teachers in the school setting.

And to transition successfully to a student - centric system powered by digital learning, those teachers will need to be contributing in more meaningful and rewarding ways than ever before.

Moreover, by including principals in the school - wide performance bonus system, they too will have an incentive to ensure that the most - effective teachers are rewarded.

The shortcomings of this study, the paucity of independent research on the National Board, and the large investments being made by states in rewarding National Board - certified teachers highlight the need for a rigorous and arm's - length cost - benefit study of National Board certification.

They are less able to distinguish among teachers in the middle of this distribution (the middle 60 — 80 percent), suggesting that merit - pay programs that reward or sanction teachers should be based on evaluations by principals and should be focused on the highest - and lowest - performing teachers.

By testing students, releasing the results to the public, and attaching rewards and sometimes a few weak sanctions to those results, accountability reformers have attempted to tighten the screws on local school boards, administrators, and classroom teachers.

As they put it: «Bourdieu argued that cultural capital, that is familiarity with the dominant cultural codes in a society, is a key determinant of educational success because it is misperceived by teachers as academic brilliance and rewarded as such.»

Illustrations by James Yang Offering financial incentives to improve education — providing money rewards to students, teachers, schools, or districts as a way to motivate them to try harder and do better — is one of the hottest topics in education today.

This pay structure seeks to enhance the professional expertise of teachers by rewarding them for meeting certain professional standards — with the expectation that meeting such standards will boost student achievement.

The authors also point out that sustained programs of professional development and support are required «if the substantial rewards promised by the research evidence are to be secured,» so that each teacher can «find his or her own ways of incorporating [feedback] into his or her own patterns of classroom work and into the cultural norms and expectations of a particular school community.»

Teachers can celebrate and reward good learning by recognizing the «best mistake of the day,» «best question of the day,» and good group work.