Sentences with phrase «effective teachers into»

Attempts to send highly effective teachers into troubled schools through higher salaries and bonuses have generally failed.

Districts also can use these effectiveness indicators to recognize outstanding teachers, to promote the most effective teachers into career categories, to focus intensive help for teachers in the lower effectiveness levels, and — if performance doesn't improve — for dismissal.

With that information and incentive, districts could leverage the skills and knowledge of highly effective teachers into greater responsibilities to improve the overall teaching force in districts.

In the case of class size, for example, despite research that does show positive impact — especially for young deeply disadvantaged students, there is also strong research suggesting that there are stronger ways of improving student outcomes (such as getting more effective teachers into the classroom).

Duncan affirmed the education department's commitment to working with districts to get effective teachers into the schools where they are needed most.

They use «proven research - based practices» and they incorporate the successful practices of other effective teachers into their own classrooms.

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.

Not exact matches

Almost 127,000 teachers were evaluated (New York City schools weren't included because of delays in developing their system) and they fell into one of four categories: Highly effective, 50 percent; Effective, 42 percent; Developing, 4 percent; and Ineffective, 1effective, 50 percent; Effective, 42 percent; Developing, 4 percent; and Ineffective, 1Effective, 42 percent; Developing, 4 percent; and Ineffective, 1 percent.

The DOE truly listened over the course of several engaged meetings and discussions, taking into account our concerns — including that of over 1,200 parents and community members who signed the I.S. 109Q Parent Teacher Association's effective petition against the proposal.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

This issue is at the heart of transformational teaching — finding ways to move effective educational practices and initiatives past the tipping point into the realm where teachers, administrators, and policy makers acknowledge their positive impact and agree on the need to integrate them into school systems.

Boosting the salaries of early - career science and maths teachers would be a better — and more cost - effective — way of addressing teacher shortages than ploughing resources into recruitment, new research suggests.

But those enthusiasts are outliers in education, for Direct Instruction, however effective, goes against the grain of generations of teachers trained and flattered into the certain belief that they alone know what's best for their students.

It's the job of the education team to make this as easy and effective as possible on school trips because as one teacher on a recent self - led visit put it: «To actually run around in a castle and hear the noises that are made, to touch the walls, to feel everything — you just can not put that learning into a classroom, it's impossible.»

If you are a teacher who loves to create lessons, but like me, did not know how to turn my already effective lessons into CCSS material, this book will help you do just that.

Even the most effective attempts to push a government - established curriculum into classroom practice will drag out over a decade, because it just takes so much time to communicate the goals and methods through the different layers of the system, and to build them into traditional methods of teacher education.

That said, there's more to effective online education than simply dropping a good face - to - face teacher into a virtual classroom.

Even if you are the kind of teacher who accepts that you are doing your best and it is up to the student to change, this book will give you an insight into how to be more effective and enjoy your work.

Teachers work with a cognitive neuroscientist and Flinders University staff who help translate the theory into effective classroom practice in mathematics.

My most effective means of assisting teachers is teaming with them to develop lessons and ideas into integrated technology lessons.

Inspiration and best practices merge into fun, effective learning as one teacher describes what she and her students discovered during their school's first 1:1 year with iPads.

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.

Everyone likes the idea of boosting the number of effective teachers in schools with large numbers of poor and minority students, but in his testimony before the committee, Ed Next executive editor Rick Hess had a few warnings for those who think the obvious course of action is to encourage states and districts to move effective teachers out of schools with affluent kids and into schools with poor kids.

Successful blended - learning models depend not just on purchasing the right technologies, but also on how well schools and teachers integrate those technologies into an effective blended - learning model.

In an article that appeared in Ed Next in 2008, Bob Costrell and Mike Podgursky investigated the peculiar incentives that are built into teacher pensions, incentives which can encourage teachers to leave teaching when they are still effective or to remain in their jobs when they have burned out.

Let us avoid policies that will casually or reflexively strip - mine effective teachers from some schools in order to push them into others, especially if this will hobble schools that have been working well.

And realistically there's over 30 years of really good research that's been conducted into what effective teachers do and in particular what classroom management practices are effective as well.

As our fourth graders took the first round of MCAS tests, one of our most effective teachers burst into tears at a staff meeting and proclaimed, «No more Lone Ranger!»

A new working paper [PDF] by HGSE Associate Professor Martin West and colleagues does just that, and the findings suggest that when the overall prospects for job seekers are limited, more effective teachers make their way into the classroom.

Despite the many teachers in the ABC school system that have already embedded the use of computers and the internet into their lessons the effective use and integration of these technologies are still quite slow.

And yet, in our observation of highly effective teachers, we sometimes see two teachers go into their classrooms with similarly strong plans and come out with different results.

Districts from California to Texas to North Carolina are tapping into these new funds to address two of the thorniest issues in education today: how to develop fair and accurate ways to measure effective teaching, and how to find sustainable strategies to balance the distribution of experienced teachers, who now tend to be disproportionately represented in high - performing (and typically more affluent) schools.

For instance, writing in Education Next, economist Jake Vigdor showed that teacher take - home salaries are more heavily backloaded late into one's career than is the case for other professionals, despite little evidence that more experienced teachers were more effective in the classroom.

Divided into multiple, and flexible sessions that can be administered according to your school's individual needs and schedule, this interactive professional development helps teachers and administrators understand and implement the inclusion model while developing effective co-teaching relationships.

Shanker acknowledged that the goals of teacher unions and the needs of students and effective schools could sometimes come into conflict.

«So, again pulling out the research about what are the goals for mathematics, what is global research about the effective teaching and learning of mathematics... while at the same time encouraging or expecting our teachers to provide our students with high challenge tasks and gradually build more and more of them into their repertoire...»

I think they said they were happy to do it as long as they felt that whilst they were preparing late into the evening they could then feel like this could be an effective lesson, the students could appreciate it and that they, the teachers, would feel that they were making progress on behalf of their students.

Here, I'll concentrate on teacher - student feedback, but should point out that my research into highly effective departments and schools has shown that successful leaders provide high - quality feedback to their staff, an important influence on the quality of teaching in their schools.

Mike leads great learning with teachers and schools across the United States and the world on topics such as choice - based differentiated learning, blending social - emotional learning into daily academic work, supporting students with effective and respectful discipline practices, and teacher wellness and balance.

The school's principal, Kevin Mackay, says mentoring is the main focus for the development of early career teachers into effective educators.

However, the truth is, being a teacher (online or offline) or an author of didactical content is a profession, so there is a lot more to take into account when you want to deliver a cool and effective learning course.

To be effective, teachers of young children must strategically weave instruction into activities that give children choices to explore and play.

This is why we're inviting teachers to come to us with their ideas on how to make teaching and school processes more effective, and enter our competition that will help turn these visions into solid solutions for the benefit of themselves, and other schools.»

BTR is implementing a model that emphasizes training teachers on - site in actual classrooms with students and lead teachers, similar to the way medical residents grow into effective doctors by working directly with patients under the guidance of veterans.

RV: In this section of the keynote, Nan talks about Paul Witty's 1947 research into the 12 personality traits of an effective teacher.

So the effective teaching profile contains, I think something like 50 teacher behaviours that are categorised, that fall into around seven or eight categories.

Used effectively under the direction of passionate and experiential teachers, Artificial Intelligence will be a tool that helps us strive towards a new age of enlightenment, which in turn, will transform the teaching and learning process into something more immersive, engaging, and effective than ever before.

From observing conditions there and in other cities, we believe that bargaining and related union activity have not only hampered urban public schools with such things as cumbersome contracts, but have introduced practices into the education system that are counterproductive, fomenting a demoralizing pattern of acrimony between teachers and administrators that is fundamentally at odds with effective education.

The authors assert that teachers can not be effective without integrating technology into their practice.

Kerry's passions and the focus of her work include empowering teachers, students and parents to learn with open education resources; educating school communities about the power and privacy concerns that come with social media use, and diving headfirst into learning more about new and effective practices in education.