This year, highly
effective teachers got a $ 1,200 bonus from the state, while effective instructors received $ 800.
Effective teachers get to know their students, including their learning interests and needs.
All sides of the educational policy debate now accept that the key determinant of school effectiveness is teachers — that
effective teachers get good achievement results for all children, while ineffective teachers hurt all students, regardless of background.
And the first question is a push / pull question: «in your experience, only
effective teachers get tenure.»
My prediction — and my hope — is that as the flaws in these new systems are revealed — as known
effective teachers get low scores and known ineffective teachers receive value - added merit - pay bonuses — the public will demand that these systems are dismantled before they do any more damage.
An effective teacher gets to know each student well enough to love that student unconditionally.
«Lots and lots of schools reward incompetence so that the least
effective teachers get the easiest class... whereas if you're good, you get more piled on your plate,» Frazin says.
Not exact matches
Aside from
getting a second and third job, being an
effective teacher also means furthering your own education.
For example, if a
teacher gets an «
effective» on one component of the system and «highly
effective» on the other, the result will be «highly
effective.»
Tenure will only be granted when a
teacher gets five consecutive years of
effective ratings.
New York City implemented the plan for the first time last school year; according to Tuesday's data, about 92 percent of
teachers were rated «
effective» or «highly
effective,» and just over 1 percent of
teachers got the lowest rating, «ineffective.»
Highly
effective teachers, by contrast, can
get cash bonuses in some school districts.
Avella, who received 53.17 percent of the turnout, or 25,864 votes, said he has not heard from Padavan, who
got 22,781 votes, since the election, which Avella said he won in part because of support from the United Federation of
Teachers as well as an
effective campaign operation that included knocking on 7,000 doors.
For instance,
teachers rated «highly
effective» two years in a row will
get a $ 20,000 bonus.
To
get tenure, the
teacher must score at the top two levels —
effective or highly
effective — in all three areas for two consecutive years.
«They've made it very difficult for
teacher to
get in the «highly
effective» or «
effective» rating, that's the problem,» Rumore said.
What it is wanting for is reasonable ways for them to
get from where they are to becoming an
effective teacher.»
The issue raised by the release of value - added information is simply how quickly and how assuredly we
get to a more rational system of evaluations — for both
teachers and administrators — and to a more rational personnel system that guarantees an
effective teacher in every classroom.
In classrooms where
teachers are
effective learning - state managers, students know what to expect and often look forward to
getting out of their seats periodically and interacting with others, ultimately refreshing their learning states.
One creative way for
teachers to help to
get students engaged in the process of developing
effective learning strategies is to apply a metaphor we call «explain it to your brain.»
Implementing an
effective blended - learning program may require hiring outside help, visiting other school systems, or running semester - or year - long pilots to
get teachers onboard.
I think we need to be clear what we mean by personalized learning - to me it means that students
get what they need when they need it and
effective formative assessment can help both
teachers and students do that...
They implemented the MMTSP in hopes of
getting stronger
teachers into the district and asked us to partner with them to see if the effort has been
effective.
Greene says that the most
effective merit pay system is the one that
gets you the best
teachers.
We've had some success in the last 10 years: reading scores have gone up some,
teachers are using more
effective literacy practices, and we've
gotten a lot more parents involved,» a lot more parents reading to their kids, talking to their kids, and communicating with their kids»
teachers.
Aside from the fact you can not have
effective teaching and learning in a disorderly classroom or school, developing an orderly learning environment also provides a mechanism for
getting teachers working more consistently and towards a common end.
In an article appearing in the Summer 2010 issue of Ed Next, Rick Hanushek and Kati Haycock debate the best ways to
get more
effective teachers into high - need schools.
«In collusion with the District «s governing boards and superintendents,» the petition says, the
teachers» union has blocked lawful evaluation of
teachers and the «corrective action» needed to ensure that students
get effective teachers.
On the one hand, sensible steps to encourage district and union officials to
get more
effective teachers in high - poverty schools is obviously a good thing.
The hardest part of capacity building is not identifying
effective instructional methods or putting this information in the hands of
teachers, but
getting teachers to change what they do every single day.
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Defining what it means to be an
effective teacher remains a major hurdle for the Obama administration, which wants states to help
teachers improve their skills,
get rid of ineffective
teachers, and identify and train
effective teachers.
Now, we looked at doing that but we've actually moved away from that recommendation because of what the research says in relation to intervention strategies and the fact that
getting my
teachers to run the intervention and manage classes wasn't an
effective teaching strategy in terms of how they were dealing with student improvement.
The next round must
get to measuring
teacher effectiveness based on student achievement, promoting professional development that is based on research and
effective practice and improves performance, providing incentives for
teachers who are
effective, and requiring removal of
teachers who, even with solid professional development, can't or don't improve.
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Veteran
teachers who work in other settings may wonder what all the fuss is about, and Lemov's definition of
effective teaching as
getting big test gains in low - income schools may be too narrow for some.
Coupled with the general finding that
effective teachers are the key to a high - quality school, it is natural to infer that the children most in need are systematically
getting the poorest
teachers.
Duncan affirmed the education department's commitment to working with districts to
get effective teachers into the schools where they are needed most.
But how do we
get teachers who are
effective in boosting student achievement?
So, itis a much deeper relationship betweenthe
teacher and the student, in which, ultimately, I think you can be muchmore
effective, because you can
get atthe root of some of the problems.
She also kept sticky notes handy, so if she saw a
teacher using a particularly
effective teaching strategy or behavior management approach, she could immediately write down a compliment and stick it on the
teachers desk, before she
got back to her office and became distracted.
In fact, we might
get more academically qualified and pedagogically
effective teachers if we simply eliminated completion of an approved program from licensure requirements.
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teachers can choose from among many types of driving questions, but sometimes we
get stuck when trying to come up with a great one because there are so many considerations in the design process that informs the crafting of an
effective driving question.
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So I think the «I do, We do, You do» is a really
effective way... because what it does is it hones
teachers» ability to focus on the I do — «I need to explain this really clearly because I want all the kids to
get it».
Ultimately, using a combination of approaches rather than a single strategy is likely to prove most
effective in helping
teachers get the training they need to feel confident they are providing all their students with the instruction they need to succeed.
We've had some success in the last 10 years: reading scores have gone up some,
teachers are using more
effective literacy practices, and we've
gotten a lot more parents involved — a lot more parents reading to their kids, talking to their kids, and communicating with their kids»
teachers.
If we pay some of that money to our best
teachers for taking in more students, we accomplish three goals at once — we save money, we
get more students in classrooms with highly
effective teachers, and we give our best
teachers a real raise, not just for being good, but for taking on more work.
Based on the reforms that occurred immediately prior to and during the Klein administration, it is clear that there has been a concerted effort to alter regulations, policies and practices to improve the overall quality of New York City
teachers and especially ensure that students most in need of
effective teachers are more likely to
get them.
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