Sentences with phrase «compensate teachers based»

Just as we should compensate teachers based on more than the number of years of service, we should be able to evaluate teacher performance and impact fairly and transparently.

In other words, whereas consequential decisions to retain, promote, and compensate teachers based on their value - added to student achievement surely involve error, the districts we studied are using state - of - the - art value - added systems that minimize such error as much as is presently possible.

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»

The board and Miles adopted a pay - for performance system that compensates teachers based on how well students do.

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over-placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»

Not exact matches

This is the basic measure of value - added assessment in use today; teachers in many states across the country are evaluated (and sometimes compensated or fired) based on similar measures.

For example, while the Teacher Incentive Fund has historically focused on compensating teachers for their performance, we should also encourage districts to start compensating more teachers based on the difficulty of their job and the supply of people who can do it well.

Market - driven compensation allows schools to compensate teachers on the basis of their performance and the performance of their students.

Elementary - and secondary - school teachers in the United States traditionally have been compensated according to salary schedules based solely on experience and education.

Yes, she would augment that system with better - educated (and compensated) teachers, a strong core curriculum, a different (curriculum - based) approach to assessment, greater emphasis on behavior and attitudes and a number of collateral «social» changes such as better families and home environments.

Recognizing that an effective teacher is the most important school - based factor impacting student achievement, the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET) is committed to ensuring a highly skilled, strongly motivated and competitively compensated teacher for every classroom in America.

'' (Washington) is completely silent on the issue of compensating, promoting and retaining teachers and principals on the basis of evaluations where student growth is a significant factor,» a reviewer complained.

Teachers in the United States are compensated largely on the basis of fixed schedules that reward experience and credentials.

We now allow local school systems to create local salary schedules for teachers and principals that permit us to compensate, promote, and terminate teachers as a result of rigorous annual evaluations that are based on student learning.

Local boards will now be able to compensate, promote, and dismiss teachers and principals on the basis of annual evaluations of student learning gains.

Nearly all (89 percent) school districts compensate teachers according to a uniform salary schedule that pays teachers based solely on years of experience and the level of degrees earned.

Also troublesome for Hobbs and other teachers in Kingsport is that, beginning this year, they will be compensated based in part on those state test scores.