Sentences with phrase «cost teachers more time»

Thus by their very nature, hybrid blended - learning models cost teachers more time than they save.

Not exact matches

The Chicago Board of Education will increase lunch prices for the second time this year, lay off 150 more teachers and cut $ 14 million in transportation costs to help make up an $ 80 million budget deficit, officials said Tuesday.

The school takes those cost savings and plows them back into the school, paying teachers more and extending academic time for students.

The cost of training and the loss of salary due to time spent out of the workforce can easily reduce a teacher's real compensation during her first five years by 25 percent or more.

For more on this topic, please see «Teacher Retirement Benefits: Even in economically tough times, costs are higher than ever»

The results demonstrate that teachers, can with minimal effort and low cost, can «nudge» more parents to make time for regular home reading.

For the families we serve, whose children are more apt to attend low - performing schools and have less - effective teachers than their privileged peers, the time taken for standardized tests is a reasonable cost for receiving vital information about how their children are doing academically.

In contrast, if we unbundle the teacher's role to separate learning and assessment, we can have human graders who are dedicated full - time to grading students» work as soon as it is submitted and who become far more efficient at grading because they don't deal with the time costs of switching between different teaching roles.

A December 2011 study found an ineffective teacher can cost a class of students more than $ 250,000 in lost future income, as reported by the New York Times.

While the costs of returning to school or taking 15 or more semester hours in education courses at a university can be both costly and time - consuming, our program offers a quicker and more affordable path to teacher certification.

Students of color are even more underrepresented among graduates with education majors, at least 82 percent of whom are white.65 This disparity could be related to a number of factors students of color face, including negative experiences with the public education system; 66 the additional costs and time involved for teacher credentialing; 67 or pressure from their families to seek out higher - earning and higher - status jobs and career tracks.68

· Although some methods of managing performance assessments can cost more then machine scoring of multiple choice tests (i.e. when such assessments are treated as traditional external tests and shipped out to separately paid scorers), the cost calculus changes when assessment is understood as part of teachers» work and learning — built into teaching and professional development time.

• To identify a direct and thus causational relationship between teachers and students, all other factors impacting student achievement, including out - of - school factors, would have to be controlled, resulting in a process that would cost more money and time than the state can fund.

The study determined healthier meals cost approximately $ 80 more per year per student; to achieve similar testing improvements through reducing class sizes by hiring more teachers would cost five times as much.

During that time, teachers will need raises, retirement and utility costs will rise, and more instruction materials will all have to be bought.

Teaching teachers takes time, must be continuous, and costs more.

Resources dedicated to teaching and learning Ultimate administrative and budget targets should include student loads that promote personalization, substantial time for collective planning by teachers, competitive salaries for staff, and an ultimate per - pupil cost not to exceed that at traditional schools by more than 10 percent.

The Generation Schools Network, a nonprofit that partners with schools and districts in New York and Colorado to launch new schools, has added up to 30 percent more learning time for students without increasing costs or teacher workload while simultaneously increasing the time for teachers to plan and collaborate.30 Through innovative school schedules that include three types of teachers with dual roles, teachers have up to two hours daily to plan lessons with their colleagues and receive coaching.31 Schools utilizing the Generation Schools Model hire three different teaching teams for distinct teaching roles and stagger the teams throughout the day and year to increase instructional time for students.

Job sharing arrangements, paid time off to care for a sick child or parent, ability to continue your insurance at the standard teacher cost share rate after FMLA time has expired are all steps that could be taken to make the profession more family friendly.

Smaller groups appear to be better - groups of 3 to 4 students are usually more efficient than larger groups of 5 to 7 students in terms of teacher and student time, lower cost, increased instructional time, increased peer interaction, and improved generalization of skills.