The latter feel obliged to keep tight
control over teachers, and they set tasks for them to maintain minimum standards.
Unlike local - authority - run schools, they are exempt from teaching the national curriculum and have increased
control over teachers» pay and conditions and the length of school terms and days.
The difficulty lies in the lack of awareness of the union's
control over teachers and schools by the American public.
Maryland should recruit successful charter schools to the state and consider granting them greater autonomy and
control over teacher contracts, according to a newly released study by the Abell Foundation, a Baltimore nonprofit that researches education issues.
Not exact matches
Namely, we have no
control over whether or not their previous
teachers taught the standards they were supposed to up to the point when they enter our classroom.
That's key for classrooms, Myerson says, where
teachers want
control over what apps their students can use, and students want something with great battery life and a selection of familiar Windows software.
There are many additional «color of authority» situations, where the person, under the «color» of their position in the church (be it pastor, elder, staff member, Bible study
teacher, the «I've been a Christian for X years» people, the «I've studied the Bible for X years and know what it says» people, or whatever), attempts to impose their opinions and wishes on those
over whom they somehow attempt to assume «authority» and
control.
In schools, the Catholic authorities have meekly handed
over to the politicians
control over the curriculum,
over the admissions of pupils and, in practice,
over the appointment of
teachers.
Television is taking
over the traditional role of
teacher and preacher in our culture, while at the same time becoming
controlled by a few who limit the points of view.
A «Baby Think - It -
Over,» he typically lives with angsty teenagers whose parents or
teachers use him as a very loud form of birth
control.
Teachers were redeployed, leaving governors little
control over appointments, and lowering the morale of the profession.
These criteria were employed in choosing the well adjusted children: Plays well with other children, appears to be a happy child, has reasonable
control over his emotions, can be depended on, is achieving somewhere near his capacity, is able to think for himself, is kind and helpful to
teachers and classmates, is liked and respected by his peers.)
After the battles
over ecclesiastical
control of the seminaries subsided, there was a generation of
teachers whose inner lives still evidenced the marks of piety.
And like many other
teachers at high - poverty schools, those at M.S. 45 had come to believe that with students as potentially disruptive as theirs, strong, dominant
teacher control was the only way to keep the classroom calm and orderly; handing
over the reins would mean chaos.
These databases are extremely useful and valuable, but there does not appear to be a ton of oversight or quality -
control over the available materials, and it would certainly behoove
teachers using them to think as critically about the assignments they're downloading as they would about the assignments they're writing themselves.
Nobody — not your child's doctor, not her gym
teacher, not the director of the school lunch program, not even your child herself — has as much
control over what she eats and how she spends her time as you do.
When it comes to bullying, we should hold adults to a much higher code of conduct than children since child bullies do not have
control over their target's physical or psychological health or future like adults do who may be in the powerful position of
teacher or coach.
Lunch may be packed from home, but you have no
control over what they actually eat or don't eat and
teachers often throw - away the remainder.
At a Manhattan news conference, the Democratic attorney general praised Duffy's efforts to consolidate agencies and bring mayoral
control of schools to New York's third - largest city
over the objection of
teachers unions.
The opt - out effort this year has united different political strains: Republicans and conservatives are skeptical of Common Core as it pertains to a loss of local
control for school districts, while the state's
teachers union is encouraging the movement as well
over concerns of how the results will impact performance evaluations.
De Blasio also delivered an address on the virtues of mayoral
control at the United Federation of
Teachers» annual spring conference
over the weekend.
ALBANY — The head of the city
teachers union dismissed as «a load of crap» state Senate GOP efforts to tie the renewal of a law granting Mayor de Blasio
control over the city school system to an expansion of charter schools.
Key legislative Democrats, with strong
teachers - union backing, have sought to give the Regents, who are
controlled by the Legislature's Democratic majority, sole
control over charter schools.
This limbo was largely the result of a deal that the Bloomberg administration struck with the
teachers» union to give principals more
control over who worked in their schools.
The board and state Education Department generally have
control over education decisions in the state, but recent legislation regarding the
teacher evaluation system has caused a flurry of controversy.
De Blasio's ostensible allies among the Senate Democrats are more aligned with the
teachers» union view that mayoral
control gives parents and local school boards too little power
over city schools.
Similarly, first - grade INSIGHTS classrooms had higher
teacher practices of classroom organization and lower classroom off - task behaviors
over the school year compared to
control classrooms.
It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little
control over (including the local supply of high - performing
teachers), as well as those they do
control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful
teacher evaluation).
By setting high, clear learning goals and giving
teachers and local officials full
control over how best to achieve those, the Common Core ensures educators have autonomy
over what is taught, and how it's taught, in their classrooms.
When online learning is used as the primary driver of instruction,
teachers inevitably give up
control over many aspects of curriculum planning and lesson delivery; and in low - quality implementations of blended learning, the
teacher's professional judgment ends there.
After extensive research on
teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide
teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of
teachers» ability to care,
control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores
over multiple years.
Obviously early career
teachers, when they go into teaching they don't have a great deal of agency in terms of
control over what they do, the way they teach and certain decisions, and so
over time they are assuming more
control over what they teach and how they teach, although sometimes allocation is never really in the
control of any
teacher.
In doing this the
teachers really have a significant amount of
control over their professional learning in the school.
Oddly enough,
teacher preparation programs occasionally argue against being held accountable for things like placement rates because they don't believe they have any
control over how many of their
teachers receive jobs.
Not having to deal with the noise of other classrooms and hallway distractions is a big attraction for many
teachers, and
control over classroom temperature is another plus.
For instance, a federal or state education chief is a non-local actor with
control over a public school's
teacher evaluation progress or college - and - career ready curriculum.
And it seems that when students no longer view scores as a label bestowed upon them by a
teacher, but instead see them as something they own and have
control over, the urge to fudge the data dissipates.
«By way of example, the
teacher survey undertaken by Murdoch University in 2012 invited participants to respond to statements such as: «NAPLAN promotes a socially supportive and positive classroom environment» and «NAPLAN has meant that students have
control over the pace, directions and outcomes of lessons in my class».
As most parents and
teachers know, children gain increasing
control over their emotions, attention, and behavior across the early years.
Taming the Three T's The anonymous quote Hold a tight rein
over the three T's — thought, temper and tongue — and you will have few regrets got Max Fischer thinking about what happens when
teachers let go of their
control of any of the three.
If the bill becomes law, Indiana will join a handful of other states that already have
teacher controlled beards with independent authority
over licensing and certification.
LANSchool 7.6 gives
teachers control over the computers in their classroom.
Rocketship leaders will fix a disconnect they see between what happens in the online learning lab and the classroom, to give
teachers more
control over the students» digital learning and further individualize the teaching.
• too much school time is given
over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; •
teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy,
teacher freedom, and local
control by distant authorities; and • judging
teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and
teachers are now expected to provide their students.
In the words of an Education Week reporter, «Both national unions have endorsed the charter idea within fairly narrow limits, requiring district
control over the schools and collective bargaining for the
teachers within them.»
If you follow news about the District of Columbia Public Schools closely, you could be forgiven if you thought
teacher turnover had increased since the schools were handed
over to mayoral
control in 2007.
UTLA president A. J. Duffy sensed an opening, negotiating with Villaraigosa to grant
teachers greater
control over curriculum and pedagogical practices.
Voice of Experience: Taming the Three T's The anonymous quote Hold a tight rein
over the three T's — thought, temper and tongue — and you will have few regrets got Max Fischer thinking about what happens when
teachers let go of their
control of any of the three.
In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and
teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including
control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).
In public schools,
teachers claim their level of
control over their teaching is 4.8 on a 6 - point scale, while charter and private school
teachers rate their level of
control at 5.6 on a 6 - point scale.