Sentences with phrase «clear standards of practice»

The functions of the teachers» colleges may include setting out clear standards of practice, providing for the ongoing education of teachers, investigating complaints involving members, conducting hearings into allegations of professional misconduct and taking appropriate disciplinary action and accrediting teacher education programs.

It struck me that the same philosophy could apply if we had clear standards of practice for regular teachers.

Not exact matches

Nestlé executives have defended these practices, despite them being a clear violation of the World Health Assembly marketing standards.

I would like to respond to lay midwife Valerie Runes» assertion that there are no clear - cut standards regarding the practice of midwifery («Midwife's trial in baby's death is set to begin,» Metro, May 14).

Under standard UK constitutional practice, the transfer of governing authority to a new prime minister is normally mercilessly swift and clear.

It sets out principles of good practice and minimum standards required of participating parks, so that the buyer is clearly informed about what their rights and responsibilities are - especially the length of time that they are allowed to keep the caravan on the park - clear information on pitch fees and other charges and what happens if they want to remove it.

«It also found varying practice, with no evidence that the good and thoughtful approach of some staff was mirrored in clear and consistent standards of treatment, support and communication.

All of this is a long way of saying that while the emerging appreciation of curriculum as a critical lever for improving practice and outcomes is long overdue and gratefully welcome, there remain significant hurdles to be cleared before the sensible recommendations offered by Weiner and Pimental become standard practice.

If clear standards of professional competence do not exist, we typically (and appropriately) hesitate to prohibit some individuals from practicing a profession.

In Boston, MCAS is an important part of a seamless standards - based reform effort that includes clear expectations for what students should learn, curriculum aligned with the standards, high - quality instruction and professional development to help teachers improve their practice, and assessments that provide students with a way to demonstrate what they have learned and how they can apply it.

A universal standard eliminates barriers to business that arise when the business practices of different cultures prove incompatible — clearing the path for the global projects and global collaboration that drive economic growth worldwide.

Having largely steered clear of making education grants in California over the last half - decade, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is weighing whether to invest substantially in helping California's teachers successfully put the Common Core standards into practice.

In terms of the impact of literacy standards and assessments, it is clear that policy tools such as conceptual frameworks, curriculum guides, and assessments can and do influence district and classroom practice.

The goal of these educators in our work together is to identify critical - learning standards across all the grades, develop clear indicators of success, and build an assessment practice that looks at multiple ways of assessing progress.

Requiring regular evaluations of teachers using multiple measures based on clear standards for effective practice, measures of student achievement growth, and other measures such as observations and lesson plans or other artifacts of practice.

With respect to tenure decisions, first of all, you need to have — in the system, you need to have clear standards that you're going to evaluate the teacher against, that express the kind of teaching practices that are expected; and a way of collecting evidence about what the teacher does in the classroom.

Supporting such an integrated system is a clear and coherent image of what accomplished practice is and the body of knowledge embodied in profession - driven standards.

Student achievement is improved by using high - probability instructional practices in the classroom, including establishing clear learning targets for students based on state standards and giving students ongoing feedback on their achievement so that performance improves as mastery of learning is assessed over time.

On the eve of the administration of SBAC testing in our State, it has become clear to me, as interim Commissioner of Education, that there is much validity embedded in the much - heated controversy surrounding Common Core State Standards, mandated standardized testing to measure progress on those standards, and the intended practice of evaluating teacher effectiveness based on those student test results.

I hope that as the specs stabilize, clear standards for how ePUBs are rendered will emerge, and we will have a set of best practices to guide us as be build and distribute ePUBs.

As a standard practice, Clear Lending provide a copy of your appraisal as soon as we receive a copy from the Appraisal Management Company so you can review it prior to closing.

By doing so, the Board is making it very clear to the veterinary profession what standards of practice are expected of them and as such should serve to improve the quality of veterinary medical practice in Pennsylvania.

(More recently, as the risks of 2 °C have become clearer, and stricter targets such as 350 ppm and 1.5 °C have come to the fore, this standard practice has been applied to these targets as well.)

Advocate General Bot pointed out that the wording of that Article makes it sufficiently clear that this should be the exception and not standard practice (§ 65), as is currently the case in Hungary, and that Article 4 (4) of the Framework Decision can not thus be used as a justification for the Hungarian practice.

While an abundance of recommendations, best practices and other guidelines have been issues by Bar Associations and other organizations, there has not been a single, comprehensive document lawyers could look to for clear guidance on what minimal standards should be adhered for on - premise, cloud and mobile technologies.

The introduction of clear, ethical and financial standards in the form of a Code of Practice, will provide a progressive framework for the use of third party funding in arbitration and mediation in Hong Kong, including robust safeguards to protect against potential abuse.

The Society strives to remain abreast of changes in the legal services marketplace that may impact the profession and consumers in Nova Scotia; be aware of the expectations of consumers of legal services; demonstrate commitment to educating and assisting lawyers in achieving the goals of competent and ethical practice; and adopt clear and transparent means for enforcing adherence to these standards.

Despite the clear statements from the Supreme Court of Canada in Canada v. GlaxoSmithKline3 that as long as pricing is within the range of observed comparables, the pricing will be considered to meet the arm's length standard, in practice, disputes will arise over the selection of methods, the identification of the comparables, the adjustments to be made to comparables and whether (and to what extent) the surrounding facts and circumstances need to be taken into account to derive appropriate pricing.

Although it is hard to be certain without more publicly available information, FISC judges likely treat their opinions as non-precedential, as is standard practice for federal district courts.19 The relatively few public FISC opinions do cite earlier FISC opinions and principles of law, 20 but we have seen no clear evidence to suggest that the judges feel formally bound by those earlier opinions in any manner that would set them apart from other Article III district courts.

Whether such services are provided within or connected to the medical home, it is clear that standard pediatric practice must move beyond screening for maternal depression and invest greater energy in securing the provision of appropriate and effective treatment that meets the needs of both mothers and their young children.

In addition, an attachment - based model of «parental alienation» establishes clear domains of professional knowledge that define standards of practice for professional competence in the diagnosis and treatment of this «special population» of children and families.

Furthermore, there can be no «benchmark» commission level because there is no clear standard of performance that can be associated with a REALTOR's duties — notwithstanding identified breaches in the standards of business practice etc..

NAR Standard of Practice 12 - 3 states «care and candor» must be exercised in advertising an offer so that parties to whom the advertising is directed will have a clear, advance understanding of all terms and conditions.

The real story: Standard of Practice 16 - 7 makes it clear that once any exclusive representation agreement has expired between you and a client, it's completely acceptable for any other real estate practitioner to solicit that client's business.

More specifically, Standard of Practice 16 - 7 makes it clear that a past client relationship doesn't prevent another salesperson from soliciting that client's future business.

Standard of Practice 16 - 2 makes clear that «Article 16 does not preclude REALTORS ® from making general announcements to prospects describing their services and the terms of their availability even though some recipients may have entered into agency agreements or other exclusive relationships with another REALTOR ®.»