Put simply, this means that the best teachers close achievement gaps, while the worst teachers widen them.38 And these results are not just a matter of which teachers receive the less
challenging teaching assignments: A major, multiyear study from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation showed that high - performing teachers remained so across schools, regardless of whether those schools were high - or low - poverty.39
Not exact matches
If this teacher is fired, I will invite him or her to Boston University, where I now
teach, to explain what he or she was trying to accomplish in
challenging students with this
assignment.
And we could determine whether and where there are equity gaps in effective
teaching, the level of
challenge of student
assignments, and much else that might be addressed in order to narrow the achievement gap.
First, he begins in the right place: rewarding teachers for performance and modifying the current
teaching incentive structure to pay teachers more for taking on the most
challenging assignments.
As much fun as my students had with these
assignments, my confidence in my «innovative»
teaching methods has been shaken recently by some innovators who
challenge us to consider the potential for innovation within our students.
The course is designed around frequent
assignments that
challenge degree candidates to collect data about their
teaching, and craft and implement action plans for improvement in response to those data.
Teacher Case Study — 8th Grade It was already mid-September and I was sorry I ever told my principal that I wanted a change and a
challenge in my
teaching assignment.
The emerging consensus about effective professional development suggests that teachers need opportunities to work with colleagues who face similar
challenges, including other teachers from their schools and those who have similar
teaching assignments.
The Calculator resulted from an
assignment in the Energy and Resource Productivity class
taught by Dr. Sangwon Suh at the Bren School that
challenged students to understand the return on investment for businesses and consumers to implement energy saving technologies.
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