Sentences with phrase «encourage effective teachers»

Not only are teachers being paid benefits by the state well before Social Security's retirement age, but these provisions, along with the state's early retirement with reduced benefits based on years of service, may also encourage effective teachers to retire early.

A principal of a school with a greater number of struggling students might engage with district leaders to create incentives that encourage effective teachers to transfer to her school.

How about a policy — for example, offering additional compensation to encourage effective teachers to transfer to low - performing schools?

For one, there is a case to be made that districts, particularly those serving a lot of students living in concentrated poverty, need additional funds to encourage effective teachers to work in more challenging schools.

But a new study published by Thomas Dee and James Wyckoff provides the first empirical evidence that the controversial policy could be encouraging effective teachers to stay in the classroom — and improve their practice.

Not exact matches

Safe Ground is working with Kids VIP and Pact to look at ways of encouraging teachers to be more effective in helping children with parents in prison.

That's why having teachers or other adults present and encouraging kids to try new foods is so effective.

«This likely reflects IMPACT's design to retain more effective teachers and encourage low - performing teachers to leave.»

So I encourage my undergraduates to think critically about what they do and to think about how they can work with other teachers, work together to apply fair and effective models around behaviour.

A comprehensive system of merit pay could reward the best teachers and encourage the least - effective teachers to leave the profession.

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.

In the three years that we have been using the TAP system, we have found that the school - wide rewards part of the bonus encourages teachers to work together to make everyone more effective.

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.

A classroom where 28 people value creativity is 28 times more effective in encouraging creativity than a classroom where a teacher assumes sole responsibility.

This resource is designed as a visual aid to assist teachers to develop and deliver an effective and aligned assessment plan as part of their teaching program, which will encourage student growth.

To encourage development of effective peer and self assessment skills, teachers should model the «TALK» and «LEARN» approaches frequently with students.

Performance - based pay would be tied to an «effective evaluation system that includes peer review so that superior teachers can be rewarded, average ones encouraged, and poor ones either improved or terminated.»

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.

How can I encourage teachers to use effective and dynamic teaching methods for all students?

Administrators, for their part, are finding these programs to be effective at encouraging experienced teachers to transfer to the most challenging schools.

Much more effective, he says, is encouraging students to follow their natural interest in technology and then bring them together with teachers whose expertise in subject matter provides content for projects involving technology.

In the world of K - 12 education, incentive pay for teachers — programs that reward good teaching and encourage the most effective educators to share their talents with the highest - need students — have become the reform du jour.

Skeptical readers may worry that better teachers engage in more of the practices encouraged by TES, but that these practices are not what make the teacher more effective.

At a time when effective instruction from a teacher is at last becoming respectable again, here we seem to be encouraged by the writer to respect students» «individual differences» and to plan for individual progression.

Back by popular demand, teachers will be encouraged to explore effective ways to support colleagues in teaching computing; better understand the computing programmes» attainment targets; get to grips with assessment and progression; and develop imaginative and creative ways to embed computing across the curriculum.

The teacher in an effective problem - based learning environment needs to act as a facilitator, be a role model, model questioning and support and encourage the students.

Encouraging teacher development can be a key factor in running an effective leadership system within schools.

«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...»

Judy Clark the Talk Advisor from the National Literacy Trust explains the importance of talking prior to writing and provides some tips on effective ways of raising pupil attainment in writing at primary level Following Class 2 storytelling hopscotch, we see teacher Nannette Stormont encouraging her pupils to write, in pairs, their own version of a favourite fairy tale.

Lead by example The most effective schools create a culture where learning is openly modelled by all senior staff, where experimentation and research are actively encouraged and supported, and where even the most experienced teachers are open to constructive feedback.

Read more about the Student Success Act... The Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act will:

Encouraging parent participation in educating their children will help you to be a more effective teacher.

This is a good bet for new preschool programs (and related regulations); efforts to curb the «school - to - prison» pipeline; and initiatives to encourage a more equitable distribution of effective teachers.

«I want to know that the best teachers are sticking around, and if the minimally effective teachers are choosing to go elsewhere, I'm encouraged by that, too.

For educators and policymakers across the country struggling to implement effective education reforms in the context of increased accountability, the lesson of Chicago is that accountability can and does encourage teachers and principals to pay greater attention to the lowest - performing students in their classrooms.

This layout is effective for traditional instructional methods because it encourages focus on the teacher and the lesson.

The draft accountability rules, to be released this summer, will encourage states to identify high - and low - performing teacher preparation programs across all kinds of educational models, not just those based in colleges and universities; urge a transition from current input - based reporting requirements to a focus on more meaningful outcomes; and likely limit program eligibility for TEACH grants — which are available to students who are planning to become teachers in a high - need field in a low - income school — to only effective teacher preparation programs.

She also points out that the best mentors manage their time and resources efficiently, build trusting relationships with their mentees, stick to the basics of effective teaching, weigh in on topics for new teacher training, and encourage their protégés to take part in professional learning communities.

This was required in another bill Kline's committee passed last year, the Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

Title I provides flexibility in developing plans to support the development and implementation of school improvement activities, and state and local districts are strongly encouraged to use Title II, Part A funds to improve equitable access to effective teachers.

When asked individually to indicate which of the three technology tools was the most effective for eliciting and encouraging their reflective teaching practice, the beginning teachers in this study tended to vary their responses across the interview dates.

First, the technology tools were assigned a ranking from 1 - 3, with 1 being the highest, indicating the order in which each beginning teacher placed the three cards as effective for encouraging reflective practice.

Brown - Ferrigno and Muth (2004) identify several effective practices principals can take to encourage teachers who are considering becoming administrators.

Which of the three technologies (videotaping teaching, online discussions, and portfolio development) is most effective for eliciting and encouraging meaningful reflection among the beginning teachers?

Committee Mark - Up on the Student Success Act, H.R. 3989 and the Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act, H.R. 3990 NSBA submits comprehensive recommendations to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

The foundation has also drawn to a close its multi-year Measures of Effective Teaching project that among other things encouraged linking teacher evaluations to student performance, including test scores.

Glenn Rothner, a lawyer for the unions, asked Fraisse, «Did you do anything to encourage highly effective teachers to teach in lower income schools?»

Encouraging homegrown teachers can even be an effective component of a grant application.

Race to the Top encourages states to develop innovative ideas around several themes, including recruiting, evaluating and retaining effective teachers and principals.