Sentences with phrase «difficult decisions teachers»

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In a letter to parents seen by NBC 6, the school said: «Today, a difficult and necessary decision has been made regarding Ms Jocelyn Morffi, our first - grade teacher.

Since all three factors help in attracting and retaining teachers, it becomes difficult to calculate the degree to which each factor separately affects a teacher's decision to return to that school the following year.

Teaching lower - achieving students — whether because teachers find it more difficult or less rewarding — is a strong factor in decisions to leave Texas public schools, and the magnitude of the effect holds across the full range of teachers» experience levels.

Moreover, teacher feedback on suspension forms for white students included notes that compassionately described extenuating circumstances that might have caused the behavior, i.e. «John's parents are going through a difficult divorce, and this may have affected his decision - making.»

Additionally, many primary school teachers admit to having limited content knowledge themselves, especially in the fields of physics and chemistry, which makes curriculum decisions even more difficult.

Because districts» budgets have already been trimmed elsewhere in the past few years, many school boards now face the difficult decision of whether to lay off teachers in order to balance their books.

So it's not just about teachers, it's about teachers and the resources they have that can help them make what are very difficult decisions about «what's a good assessment for me to give at this point in time?»».

Nor should they automatically be chosen to be the mentors for new teacher: such a decision places the mentors in the difficult position of being both a mentor and a supervisor, if they are a subject coordinator — and these roles are significantly different and can lead to a conflict of interest.

We found that for 72.5 % of teachers, the ability to stay focussed is particularly difficult, as well as dealing with challenging situations (48.8 %) and making importance decisions (36.3 %).

Because it is very difficult for a charter school to opt out of a state plan once it has enrolled teachers, whether a school is currently participating generally reflects a decision it made before it opened its doors.

Although the decision to leave the school was a difficult one, rather than seeing his departure as a goodbye, Mahoney sees joining HGSE as a lecturer and associate director for the Harvard Teacher Fellows (HTF) Program as an extension of the work he did in Springfield.

If we hadn't had that agreement with the association, the veteran teacher's decision could have been more difficult.

Some preservice teachers made decisions to adjust instruction when an app was either too difficult or not sufficiently challenging in relation to students» content knowledge and skill level.

The task has proven so difficult that last August, the federal Education Department gave states and districts until the start of the 2013 - 14 school year to have the systems fully implemented for use in teacher compensation and retention decisions.

Without viable assessment mechanisms, comparing approaches and making decisions about actions to take in teacher education is difficult.

I now know firsthand how uplifting and difficult being a teacher can be, and how myriad policy decisions affect the work I do every day: implementing the rigorous standards known as the Common Core; modifying No Child Left Behind / ESEA to address its shortcomings, such as simplified curricula due to testing; establishing new evaluation systems that rate teacher effectiveness and, I hope, provide us with support and feedback to get even better.

The Vergara decision, if allowed to stand, will make it even more difficult to attract quality teachers to struggling schools.

The new testing model brought great relief to many teachers and students, but also difficult decisions.

During the presentation, Jeffers shared an example of how collaboration guided the union and the district through a difficult Reduction in Force (RIF) policy that bases RIF decisions both on a teacher's work experiences as well as performance on evaluations.

Over time, teachers begin to execute these skills with ease and without much thought, eventually freeing up the mind to pay attention to or make decisions about other, more difficult instructional challenges.15

The journal Perspectives includes a regular feature called Brutal Choices in Curricular Design «designed to explore the difficult curricular decisions that teachers of legal research and writing courses are often forced to make in light of the realities of limited budgets, time, personnel, and other resources.»