Sentences with phrase «competent teachers»

However, we have a desperate need for competent teachers.

* The placement of qualified, competent teachers in every classroom offers the most promise for improving schools.

However, the most competent teachers - and the ones we remember best - are those who demand the best from their students and put up with no nonsense.

Principals also play a critical role in addressing widespread teacher shortages by creating school environments that attract and retain competent teachers.

I have known, for instance, very competent teachers, whose style did not align well with the adopted evaluation tool.

This is because principals would be able to identify and reward the very best teachers while, at the same time, identifying the least competent teachers for remediation or dismissal.

Getting there demands good schools, too, with competent teachers, hard - working students, attentive parents, and a solid curriculum.

Let's just hope it is exposed sooner rather than later for the sake of students and so that we still will have competent teachers around willing to «pick up the pieces»!

Through natural selection, more competent teachers would remain and less effective ones would leave.

I've also taken multiple courses offered online and at conferences from published authors who are also competent teachers (and as an educator, I can tell the difference).

Our nation's schools are desperate for competent teachers.

For long - term success, schools and districts need to cultivate a pipeline of competent teacher leaders who are trained to share their on - the - ground experience and play an active role in peer - to - peer learning and support.

For example, principals or deans prefer competent teachers who have more experience in teaching.

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a nearly $ 13 million grant to a group of New Orleans universities and non-profits to recruit, prepare, and develop nearly 900 highly - effective, culturally competent teachers from diverse backgrounds by 2020.

It would also eliminate the rigid «adequate yearly progress» requirement, which haunts teachers and administrators, along with the «highly qualified teacher» provision, which keeps competent teachers out of the classroom for a lack of proper licensing.

Practitioners who provide education and training should acquire the skills, attitudes and knowledge required to become competent teachers and facilitators of learning.

There is probably a little more order and discipline at Calvary than in a typical public school, but Calvary's students work hard, and they learn math, history, and science from competent teachers.

Evaluations of specific teaching approaches (such as Bloom's Mastery Learning or Engelmann's Direct Instruction) suggest that almost all teaching methods can be effective for at least some students if implemented by committed and highly competent teachers.

The Department of Education has bribed states with «Race to the Top» funds to adopt its standards, established prohibitive teacher - licensing requirements that keep competent teachers out of the classroom, and even inserted itself into the prosecution of on - campus sex crimes.

Xi also stressed efforts to train competent teachers and establish a system for cultivating talent.

In his words, «No matter how competent the teacher, the academic achievement of lower - class children will, on average, almost inevitably be less than that of middle - class children.»

It will train students to teach specific subjects, prepare students to be competent teachers through field - based training from their first day on the job, and provide continued resources and supports necessary to enable students to remain in teaching.

There is a strong resistance to moving swiftly to formal capability processes as many head teachers would prefer that a poor performer leaves after finding another job — they believe that the inclusion of a formal capability process in a reference would sink any chance of the less than competent teacher leaving quietly.

We had assessments of their social behaviour: how socially competent the teachers thought they were, and how they viewed themselves, and how their peers viewed them, in terms of their social status.

«I liked the Jay McTighe series because it provides a «stretch» for very competent teachers looking for a learning opportunity beyond the basic courses available in our catalog,» said Raftery.

It involves the initial observation of an experienced and competent teacher role model followed by postobservation discussion to clarify and usually expand upon the teacher candidate's observation insights.

In what ways did PTP teachers demonstrate the trait that culturally competent teachers know, respect, teach about, and help students feel anchored in their individual culture, history, and language?

A study of school mathematics curriculum enacted by competent teachers in Singapore secondary schools is a programmatic research project at the National Institute of Education (NIE) funded by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Singapore through the Office of Education Research (OER) at NIE.

The members of Working Group E are investigating the knowledge and competence that faculty members and leaders in educational institutions need to possess with respect to learning technologies in order to prepare competent teachers and school leaders, given the expectation that technologies and societal priorities are likely to change.

We believe that all children can learn no matter how challenging conditions are, and we believe the key to their success is combination of committed and competent teachers working together with a skilled and visionary leader.

Aim to work as a teacher and develop skills to become a good motivator, administrator and educator which will make me an all - round competent teacher

Recent studies have shown that there might be as much as seven years difference in levels of achievement in a single classroom - providing engaging learning materials for such a wide spread is a challenge for even the most competent teacher.

«Reform is not restricted to recruiting and retaining competent teachers.

any student who continues to make slow progress then receives Third Wave intensive evidence - based effective instruction from a highly competent teacher.

«The issue of ensuring quality and competent teachers in public schools is something crucial and doable, but it requires courage, sincerity and honesty as guiding principles.

To reiterate, if all recruitment efforts have been exhausted and minority candidates are not an option for districts, then the enlistment of culturally competent teachers should become the focus of the administration.

As Connecticut Teacher of the Year Kristen Record said, «The group's goal doesn't seem to be about keeping competent teachers.

Apparently this was an opportunity for the Churches to supply a greatly felt need in the education of American children; but could competent teachers, an effective program, and adequate texts be supplied?

But, becoming a competent teacher is all that's usually needed to pass muster, and that isn't exactly rocket science — unless, I suppose, you happen to be teaching rocket science.

To be a competent teacher, I need to keep abreast of the current technology and the changing social and economical trends in the country and the region.

To be effective at institutions like mine, it's not enough to be a good researcher and a competent teacher.

The third contrasts parental choice with other «possibilities» — like rigorous academic standards and competent teachers — again giving the impression that they are alternatives to vouchers rather than (as is in fact the case) entirely complementary.

The competent teacher, with a base of knowledge about teaching and learning, makes the decision about what works best with her group of students.

After all, efforts to pin down teacher educators regarding «essential» knowledge or skills illuminate the slipperiness of our conception of the competent teacher.

In fact, at one of those schools both the principal and the assistant, in separate interviews, said that having to employ less than competent teachers was the biggest drag on the school's continuing success.