Sentences with phrase «costs teachers time»

This costs teachers time, (gas) money, and unnecessary stress and hardship.

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.

«Hundreds of teachers are spending all or part of their time on union work, costing taxpayers # 15million a year.

«The NASUWT raised questions about the provision of study leave and additional non-contact time for newly qualified teachers who chose to pursue the Masters qualification, about the impact that the scheme could have on teacher workload and working hours for newly qualified teachers, the external mentors and the school workforce generally, and about the costs associated with the scheme.

«Isn't it time the Government intervened and looked at the real cost of this — which is damage to children's education but also # 1.3 bn spent last year on agency teachers?

Flanked by Stringer and chancellor Carmen Fariña at Tuesday's press conference, de Blasio further broke down how the $ 23 million would be spent: $ 5 million on hiring costs that will be shared by 50 middle schools, $ 7.5 million to upgrade existing arts facilities, and a $ 3.1 million fund directed to schools with certified full - time arts teachers, at $ 1,000 a teacher.

The increase would barely enable districts to maintain services, officials say, at a time when student needs and mandated costs for employee salaries, health care premiums and teacher retirements are on the rise.

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Keep track of your weekly «cash on hand» costs: As teachers, we're out all the time.

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

In their research, Leslie Huling and Virginia Resta found: «If a bad hire costs a company nearly 2 times the employee's initial salary in recruitment and personnel costs as well as lost productivity, then each teacher who leaves the profession during the induction years likely costs taxpayers in excess of $ 50,000.»

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.

The most frequent response was that there were none, but main areas of concern were: accessing activities during leave, as a temporary relief teacher or someone not currently teaching; location (internet access and travel); cost; the tracking process; time; and, finding suitable or quality activities.

The recent blockades in Calais caused major disruption at a peak time in the school trip calendar, leading to disappointment, cost and frustration for pupils, teachers and parents across the UK.

Overall, year - round education offers schools an exciting, almost cost - free opportunity to improve quality time between teachers and students.»

These respondents were told that «Individual student costs go toward teacher and administrator salaries, building construction and maintenance, extracurricular activities, transportation, etc.» With this prompt, we anticipated, respondents would have an easier time answering the question.

Substitute costs are in addition to the financial burden of guaranteed leave time: teachers typically are given a lump sum payment for any unused leave when they retire.

Small districts, the argument goes, still require a full - time librarian, counselor, nurse, physical - education teacher, and so on, and thus some minimum level of fixed costs is unavoidable.

«The return on investment for teacher time and the opportunity cost of spending it one way rather than another is rarely taken into account,» Goldstein observes, leading to teachers» skepticism about the relevance of policy research.

Requiring the coursework and a passing grade on a licensure test serves only to incur costs in time and money to future teachers, potentially closing the profession to some candidates.

He defeated Bennett Kayser in what the L.A. Times» Howard Blume called «a high - cost, bitter proxy campaign between charter advocates and the teachers union, a face - off with implications well beyond Los Angeles.»

By appealing to tutors» sense of service, providing a small but livable stipend, organizing low - cost housing for tutors, and above all, by giving tutors a chance to work in a high - performing school as a means for evaluating their interest in education reform and teaching careers, Match can compete alongside Teach For America for the best college graduates in the country and hire three to four tutors for what they pay a full - time teacher.

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

The vast majority fear that teachers don't have time for it and that it would cost too much and be too risky.

«Teachers are already pushed for time in the day so we developed a program that is practical to implement, requires no extra helpers, and costs nothing,» the academic adds.

For - profit voucher schools have lowered their costs by hiring part - time teachers (who are often teaching full - time in municipal schools), paying lower salaries, and enlarging class sizes.

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

«We're hoping it will lead to engagement in professional development, supported by the school or the employer and by teachers in their own right, which is something teachers already do to a very large extent, particularly in their own time at their own cost,» Bates said.

At the time, Paul Peterson noted «One of the most straightforward ways school districts can obtain cost savings without harming students is to eliminate extra pay for teachers who earn a master's degree.»

This improves equity of workload for teachers and, over time, may reduce staffing costs.

Like NCLB and other previously promised panaceas, the cost is high - stakes, time - consuming tests culminating in teacher dread, parental confusion and some combination of student anxiety for kids who are achievement - motivated and indifference for those who are not.

These advantages include greater flexibility at a lower cost than traditional testing, quicker feedback for students, parents, and teachers regarding student performance (typically, test results are not available until months after students have taken standardized tests), and considerable time savings over traditional methods.

The advantage is that once you pay the one - time transaction costs of finding these teachers, the ongoing expenditures related to persuading them to participate, and securing permission from families and principals, decline.

In Minnesota, failing to reach a contract agreement with teachers on time can cost a school district — and not just in terms of labor - management reputation.

Last week, Dave Eggers and Ninive Clements Calegari, founders, according to their official ID, of the 826 National tutoring centers and producers of the documentary «American Teacher,» wrote an essay for the New York Times titled The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries.

The return on investment for teacher time and the opportunity cost of spending it one way rather than another is rarely taken into account.

The optimistic — one might say unrealistic — answer is to make schools so engaging, and the student - teacher relationship so supportive, that adolescents will be intrinsically motivated to work hard, despite the other demands on their time and attention, and despite the social costs they might pay.

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.

At the same time, the cost - effectiveness of the board's approach, its focus on what teachers should know and be able to do rather than on the student outcomes or achievement associated with teaching, and its methods of assessing teacher quality, are features that have attracted strong criticism — issues we will return to later in this article.

John added: ««By far the greatest cost in delivering good practical science is teachers» time, a cost that schools are already committed to, so in the end, it is for headteachers and science heads to decide.

This would not only save time but reduce cost too, as teachers would be able to receive training while on their job.

Machine marking greatly reduces the time and costs of marking and offers immediate feedback to teachers.

Aside from training courses offered by the TDA, the cost of which may be prohibitive in times of funding cuts and coalition claw - backs, there are organisations offering targeted CPD at no cost to the school or the teacher.

In a new paper, «Stress in Boom Times: Understanding Teachers» Economic Anxiety in a High Cost Urban District,» [3] authors Elise Dizon - Ross, Emily Penner, Jane Rochmes and I, build on an economic survey of Americans conducted by Marketplace Edison Research to better understand the economic anxiety of teachers in San Francisco, as a case for better understanding the impact of fast economic growth on professionals in fields in which salaries do not keTeachers» Economic Anxiety in a High Cost Urban District,» [3] authors Elise Dizon - Ross, Emily Penner, Jane Rochmes and I, build on an economic survey of Americans conducted by Marketplace Edison Research to better understand the economic anxiety of teachers in San Francisco, as a case for better understanding the impact of fast economic growth on professionals in fields in which salaries do not keteachers in San Francisco, as a case for better understanding the impact of fast economic growth on professionals in fields in which salaries do not keep pace.

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

Money from the school's PTA reimbursed the mileage costs and the assistant principal and I covered the classrooms when the teachers used their comp time.

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.