Not exact matches
School leaders can sometimes find it hard to recruit specialist
teachers for
certain subject areas
and, as a consequence, end up asking
staff to teach «out of field».
It is essential to effective use of the «
teachers observing
teachers» strategies that
school administrators enable a culture that nurtures a collegial exchange of ideas
and promotes a
certain level of trust, explained Dennis Sparks, the former executive director of National
Staff Development Council which is now known as Learning Forward.
To express concern regarding the difficulty of
school leaders to
staff teaching positions in
certain subject areas
and geographic regions,
and to offer policy recommendations that will help ensure each student is taught by highly prepared
and effective
teachers.
For example, if 100 students leave a district - run
school at a cost of $ 8,596 per head (the district's per - pupil expenditure minus
certain administrative costs), that
school's cost for paying
teachers,
staff and building expenses doesn't actually decline by that amount.