Sentences with phrase «by rewarding the best teachers»

The government says its planned changes to pay will improve standards, by rewarding the best teachers and that its academy programme gives schools freedom to innovate and deliver the best education for children.

Not exact matches

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.

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]

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.

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

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.

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.»

«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.

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.

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.

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

These include reducing licensure barriers, improving the quality of professional development and teacher preparation, luring and retaining good teachers by recognizing and rewarding them, and so forth.

By paying teachers according to their credentials and the number of years they have been on the payroll rather than how well their students perform, the rewards go to the credentialed careerist, not necessarily to the meritorious teacher.

The cry is for good teachers to be rewarded and bad teachers to be tossed out of classrooms, based on student achievement assessed by scores on standardized tests.

The validity of the scale depends on the teachers» shared understanding of what good looks like matching the same set of skills rewarded by the exam board markers.

This year's report is also expected to include recommendations on bonuses for teachers after Morgan asked that additional flexibility for schools to reward good performance be considered by the body.

Finding a better way to reward teachers was admirable, but not by riling the unions so much.

Here's what I told them: As a teacher, I would love for someone to ask me to imagine what it would be like to work in a place that ensures that all teachers have the chance to improve their craft, and be rewarded for getting better; a place that lets all teachers make the best use of their talents by focusing their time and energy on parts of their job that they do best; a place that lets great teachers multiply their impact by giving more students access to their teaching for more pay; and a place that offers excellent teachers leadership roles that are not far removed from students.

But after giving five years of 14 - hour workdays in a high - stakes environment with high expectations and little reward, all of the best teachers, one by one, left during my two - year tenure there.

It says the change will drive up teaching standards by giving head teachers flexibility to reward the best teachers.

Schools where students performed well were rewarded with more money, and where students performed poorly, teachers and administrators could be fired by an outside authority.

In The October 1st edition of the Wall Street Journal, there is an article which claims that a push is coming from the Obama administration to improve teacher quality by rewarding colleges of education that produce teachers whose students do well on standardized tests.

Party leader Nick Clegg told the Daily Mail online that «quite a fierce debate» had taken place in government over the issue and suggested that the scope to reward the best teachers had been «resisted» by the Conservatives.

Lessons learned by Pitt County include the importance of having teacher leaders also be classroom teachers (to bolster their credibility) and the reality that financial bonuses are important to attract teachers to tough schools, but not sufficient; teachers seek nonmonetary rewards as well.

Classroom teachers might manipulate students into behaving how they want them to, while noncertificated or paraprofessional staff can manipulate students by offering them exclusive rewards for good behavior.

Many of the foundation's core ideas — which revolve, among other things, around figuring out the best way to evaluate teachers and reward them for success in boosting student achievement — have been embraced by the U.S. Department of Education and its secretary, Arne Duncan.

A spokesperson for Nicky Morgan told Schools Week: «We want to make sure the review body is looking at how, within the fiscal context, we can make teaching as attractive as possible and keep the best teachers by encouraging and rewarding them.»

Two new grants created in the 2011 budget exemplify the ways we can direct funding to encourage innovation and support successful programs and educators: the Excellence in Performance Grant for Teachers provides 15 million dollars over two years for districts to reward their best teachers, and the Innovation Fund Grant — which gave ten Indiana schools, districts, and organizations each a portion of 5 million dollars to support ground breaking new programs, like the one at Herron High School, a charter school here in Indianapolis led by Janet McNeal, who joins us Teachers provides 15 million dollars over two years for districts to reward their best teachers, and the Innovation Fund Grant — which gave ten Indiana schools, districts, and organizations each a portion of 5 million dollars to support ground breaking new programs, like the one at Herron High School, a charter school here in Indianapolis led by Janet McNeal, who joins us teachers, and the Innovation Fund Grant — which gave ten Indiana schools, districts, and organizations each a portion of 5 million dollars to support ground breaking new programs, like the one at Herron High School, a charter school here in Indianapolis led by Janet McNeal, who joins us tonight.

In this report Harris makes «Recommendations to Improve the Louisiana System of Accountability for Teachers, Leaders, Schools, and Districts,» the main one being that the state focus «more on student learning or growth --[by] specifically, calculating the predicted test scores and rewarding schools based on how well students do compared with those predictions.»

While some seek to demonize teachers, Governor Cuomo believes the exact opposite wanting to reward excellence in teaching and by recruiting the best and brightest into the profession.

During the 30 - day comment period on the proposed rules, which ended Aug. 28, the department received 1,135 comments on 19 criteria by which states would be judged, from how friendly their charter school climates are to how they reward good teachers.

In addition, teachers can offer a safe and supportive learning environment for their students by using immediate and specific praise, as well as tangible and intangible rewards on a consistent basis.

The foundation finances the Education Innovation Laboratory, run by Harvard economist Roland Fryer, which carries out large - scale experiments in schools districts, focused on teacher pay for performance and rewarding students for good test scores and grades.

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.