Sentences with phrase «ensuring teacher pay»

The School Teachers» Review Body (STRB) last year said a pay rise higher than 1 per cent will be needed to ensure the teacher pay framework remains competitive.

Last year the School Teachers» Review Body (STRB) said a pay uplift «significantly» higher than 1 per cent will be needed in the course of this parliament «to ensure the teacher pay framework remains competitive».

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The call was the most controversial proposal in a policy document which also suggested scrapping universal winter fuel payments, excluding students and highly skilled workers from the immigration target, ensuring new teachers have at least a 2:1 degree and abandoning automatic pay rises for doctors and nurses.

«If the proposal for License to Practise signals a commitment by a future Labour Government to restore qualified teacher status (QTS) as a requirement for all teachers in state funded schools, to introduce, within a national framework of pay and conditions of service, a contractual entitlement for all teachers to continuing professional development and to re-establish a proper system of professional regulation which ensures that all headteachers have QTS and NPQH and are accredited to lead and manage schools, then this is a basis on which progress could be made.

A real - time electronic poll of members attending the Conference found that: 55 % said that national standards for supply agencies would most help to secure better employment conditions for supply teachers; 83 % said supply agencies do not fully disclose all fees and charges they make for their services; 61 % said supply agencies do not act to ensure their safety, health and wellbeing at work; Nearly a quarter (24 %) said their supply agency does not make them fully aware of how much they will be paid for each assignment and the same number said they were not paid promptly and accurately by their agency; A third said their agency did not make them fully aware of the type of work they were expected to undertake; 15 % said that their supply agency prevents them from seeking work from other sources; 65 % said supply agencies do not respect and develop their professional skills; Nearly a third (32 %) said they would not recommend their main supply agency to other teachers.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

However, she said GNAT would follow up to ensure that the teachers were paid accordingly and urged the Controller and Accountant General to also ensure that the arrears of newly trained teachers were paid.

Mr William Abedi Boadu, Central Regional Secretary of GNAT, who expressed these sentiments in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, advised that in the expected transfers, GES should ensure that funds are secured to pay the legitimate entitlements of the affected teachers to bring about a smooth exercise.

«While there's still more to do this session on charters and the education investment tax credit, and more to ensure every child has access to great schools, Governor Cuomo fought hard to make meaningful reforms to tenure, arbitration policies and teacher evaluation criteria and his vision and hard work paid off.»

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has called on the Conservative Party to help poverty proof the school day and ensure that no child is denied access to educational opportunities on the basis of their parents» ability to pay.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has called on the Labour Party to help poverty proof the school day and ensure that no child is denied access to education opportunities on the basis of their parents» ability to pay.

«The failure of the Government to ensure that all teachers benefit from attractive pay and conditions of service and a manageable workload is hampering the ability of schools to continue to be world class.

The UFT's other legislative priorities this year include new curriculum and teacher training aligned with the education standards that are being developed; restored funding for Teacher Centers statewide; additional funding for community schools and the Positive Learning Collaborative; closing tax loopholes to ensure the wealthy pay their fair share; and increased investment in technology and career and technical education prteacher training aligned with the education standards that are being developed; restored funding for Teacher Centers statewide; additional funding for community schools and the Positive Learning Collaborative; closing tax loopholes to ensure the wealthy pay their fair share; and increased investment in technology and career and technical education prTeacher Centers statewide; additional funding for community schools and the Positive Learning Collaborative; closing tax loopholes to ensure the wealthy pay their fair share; and increased investment in technology and career and technical education programs.

Teachers play a vital role in our society and we must ensure that they are given the support they need — otherwise our schools may miss out on talented and inspirational educators, and in the end it will be the students who will pay the price.

Many agencies, including ourselves, will offer guaranteed pay to ensure work for high quality teachers.

We called for the DfE to pay sustained attention to the task of training and equipping Computing teachers to deliver the new Programme of Study, (which they are helping to do through the BCS / CAS Network of Excellence), and that it ensures it highlights digital literacy in the curriculum at KS1 - 4 following the mention in the proposed Programme of Study.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan told the STRB that it should «ensure that its proposals reflect» the pay restraint policy for teachers» pay next year.

Furthermore, «tutors» — supervising teachers without the specific expertise of the instructors at the Media Center in Manaus — would be placed in every classroom to ensure students paid attention and to help with difficult parts of the curriculum.

It's impossible to picture how the United States will radically upgrade the quality of its three - million - member K - 12 teacher cadre, attract more able people to enter and stick with this field, ensure needy kids» access to the best instructors, or span the curriculum with people who really know their subjects as long as this archaic, civil - service pay system persists.

«Their promise to lift their own cap on public sector pay is meaningless without new, ring - fenced funding to ensure that teachers, as well as support staff, can finally get a real pay rise after years of cuts.»

Superintendents shuttered schools so that teachers didn't have to actually walk off the job — protecting them from repercussions and ensuring they'd lose no pay.

In some Minnesota districts, where pay is based on performance, aggressive professional - development programs help ensure all teachers have the chance to earn the extra pay.

It didn't matter whether the teacher was working in a rural school in the south west or an inner city school in the north east, the national pay scale ensured that every good teacher teaching broadly similar groups of children would receive an equivalent salary.

We think this is essential to ensure that teachers feel confident they are not being short changed by their school, and that their pay is progressing in line with the national average.

It examines finance questions such as who pays the college tuition, and it raises questions of program quality, such as the mechanisms for ensuring well - trained teachers and rigorous courses.

After many long and painful years of pay freezes, pay cuts and pay caps it is time for a pay increase to ensure that all of Scotland's teachers receive the enhanced salary that they deserve.»

If current recruitment and retention trends continue, teachers» pay will need to increase «significantly more than one per cent» to ensure an adequate supply of good teachers, according to the School Teachers» Reviteachers» pay will need to increase «significantly more than one per cent» to ensure an adequate supply of good teachers, according to the School Teachers» Reviteachers, according to the School Teachers» ReviTeachers» Review Body.

Line managers and teachers can also discuss, agree, and then set clear objectives for pay progression, ensuring the process is transparent for both the school and teacher.

The release quotes CER leader Jeanne Allen saying, «the real fight» is not whether teachers are paid well enough and schools are adequately funded but how to «ensure money follows students and doesn't continue to get wasted on a bloated bureaucracy and top - heavy school districts that have grown dramatically faster than enrollment.»

The new rules issued to teachers also tell them they should ensure pupils are not made to pay for stationary or meet the cost of expensive school trips.

Once their children enter a school, educated parents are also more likely to pay attention to the quality of their children's teachers and may attempt to ensure that their children are adequately served.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

During his eight years in Tallahassee, the governor established a far - reaching accountability system, including limits on social promotion in elementary school; introduced a plethora of school choice initiatives (vouchers for the disabled, vouchers for those in failing schools, tax - credit funded scholarships for the needy, virtual education, and a growing number of charter schools); asked school districts to pay teachers according to merit; promoted a «Just Read» initiative; ensured parental choice among providers of preschool services; and created a highly regarded system for tracking student achievement.

This means state accountability systems must also be aligned to individual teacher's classroom goals: Help all students meet proficient or higher performance; help all students make significant progress from wherever they were performing in the prior year; and pay laser - like attention to ensuring struggling students are on track to reach proficiency.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, defends the law on the grounds that «unions have a right to collect a fair share from the people [they] represent» regardless of whether the people want to pay, so that the AFT can «ensure that we're able to speak for all workers.»

Ensuring quality teachers in every classroom by recruiting, training, retaining, and rewarding teachers and school leaders; creating career ladders and increasing pay for effective teachers who serve as mentors, teach in high - need subjects, such as math and science, and who excel in the classroom; and by identifying ineffective and struggling teachers, providing them with individual help and support, and removing them from the classroom in a quick and fair way if they still underperform.

Consistent with the TeachStrong coalition's ESSA guidance for state actors, these states are leveraging ESSA's flexibility to support efforts around recruiting teachers of color; improving the teacher preparation experience; providing induction and mentoring to novice teachers; increasing teacher pay; and creating or encouraging career pathways, with the goal of ensuring that all students — and especially students in low - income schools — are taught by high - quality, prepared, meaningfully supported teachers.2 The author also notes what other initiatives and actions policymakers and advocates should watch for and consider as they work to modernize and elevate the teaching profession.

As a nation, we should strive for better - prepared and paid teachers for every student, a more demanding curriculum for all students, and fairer ways of ensuring that all schools have sufficient funds to offer these opportunities.

Adopting a state teacher pay scale that ensures that the starting pay for Tennessee teachers is no less than $ 40,000 in any district is a critical first step.

As parents and public school advocates join teachers and their unions in this historic battle to ensure our public schools are run for the benefit of the public and not corporate America, we should be just as loud and clear that our schools need far more IAs and that IAs deserve far better pay.

Here's what I told them: As a teacher, I would love for someone to ask me to imagine what it would be like to work in a place that ensures that all teachers have the chance to improve their craft, and be rewarded for getting better; a place that lets all teachers make the best use of their talents by focusing their time and energy on parts of their job that they do best; a place that lets great teachers multiply their impact by giving more students access to their teaching for more pay; and a place that offers excellent teachers leadership roles that are not far removed from students.

We need community organizations that empower the parents and that work with districts to ensure that teachers and school principals are accountable to do the job they are paid to do.

We have asked the STRB to ensure that, should it decide to limit its recommendations on the basis of any concerns over affordability, it sets out what should, in its view, be the appropriate levels of pay for teachers and school leaders in the absence of such concerns, in order to inform the political discussions which will then ensue.

«The teacher pay gap is wider than ever,» subtitled «Teachers» pay continues to fall further behind pay of comparable workers» is a 29 - page report released by the Economic Policy Institute, whose mission is «to inform and empower individuals to seek solutions that ensure broadly shared prosperity and opportunity.»

For students of color — who are disproportionately first - generation students74 — low pay can make it difficult to repay student loans, purchase a home, or support family.75 For teachers who are their family's breadwinner, salaries are often so low that they may qualify for means - tested assistance just to afford the daily necessities of life.76 High - achieving students of color are often heavily recruited by many far more lucrative sectors, ensuring that they are well - aware of other available career opportunities.

Awarding only 25 percent of teachers pay bumps introduces an element of competition into schools, which, as many educators say, is contrary to what teachers do to ensure their students» academic achievement.

Merit pay has even less of a track record of ensuring achievement and, in some studies, has actually reinforced the inequities we find among teachers in higher and lower income schools.

As we have Ofsted Inspectors around, I would also like to pay tribute to the head teacher of the virtual school for the immense amount of work that she and her team have undertaken to ensure no child taken into care is permanently excluded by a school.

«We must ensure that teachers see today's award in their pay packets and that it is not just a headline figure ignored by schools when making these decisions.»

Whether it implements the plan at the state or local level, Oregon should ensure that performance pay structures thoughtfully measure classroom performance and connect student growth to teacher effectiveness.