Sentences with phrase «effective teaching corps»

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Kids taught by Teach for America corps members show growth among the top quartile of Indiana students, and 90 percent of TNTP's teachers are rated by supervisors to be as or more effective than other first - year teachers.

Although the Teach for America corps members were statistically significantly more effective than comparison teachers, the difference was modest -LRB-.07 student - level standard deviations in math.)

North Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee all independently concluded that TFA corps members were the most effective out of recent graduates from other teacher preparation programs with which they had worked.151 A controlled study conducted by Mathematica found that students taught by TFA teachers earned higher math scores than students taught by non-TFA teachers with similar years of experience; the TFA - taught students learned approximately 2.6 months of additional material in math during the school year.152 Similarly, another study found that TFA first to third grade teachers» students grew 1.3 additional months in reading compared with their peers who had non-TFA teachers.153

A 2015 study by Mathematica Policy Research found that Teach For America corps members who had an average of 1.7 years of teaching experience in elementary grades were as effective as other teachers in the same schools, who averaged nearly 14 years of experience.

People who think that Teach for America is not the best model for improving the country's teacher corps:» d) Are ageists that consider young teachers incompetent by definition and ignoring an extremely effective method for getting smarter people into the schools