Sentences with phrase «environments than teachers»

Though there's been little hard research to help guide that requirement, states made what seemed like a safe bet, assuming that teachers who earn a bachelor's degree are more likely to learn how to create a higher quality preschool environment than teachers who do not earn one.

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Though it is difficult to raise children in what might be called a «gender - neutral environment», part of the antidote to the current gender - laden environments in which children tend now to be raised is this view of the work of the Spirit in giving gifts as the Spirit chooses, which encourages those who are the teachers and guides of the young to observe the emerging qualities of spirit in each child and to bring those qualities to full flower rather than trying to redirect any «alpha» qualities in women or «beta» qualities in men towards any «norm.»

Champions partners with principals, teachers, and parents to create more than 470 before - and after - school and year - round learning environments that spark wonder in children.

Cons: Large classes and over-worked, underpaid teachers can provide a less - than optimal educational environment.

The research, from Canvas, the Virtual Learning Environment for academic institutions and companies worldwide, reveals that one in six (17 %) teachers in the UK are spending more than 11 hours a week on marking and assessments.

«Students go from a primary school environment characterised by smaller class sizes and a smaller student cohort... and one main classroom teacher rather than multiple teachers [and specialist staff].

The existence of an orderly learning environment throughout the school — established through positive rather than negative means, whereby there are high levels of teacher consistency about how it is «enforced» and structures in place to ensure that all students are known well by at least one adult in the school — is a fundamental precondition for improved teaching and learning to occur on which the subsequent improvement in student learning outcomes can be based.

Under «Preventive and Reactive Classroom Environment,» teachers receive the top score if they «provide effective management procedures with a comprehensive focus on student learning,» but receive the lowest score if they «react to disciplinary incidents after the fact rather than trying to prevent them.»

Rather than acting as directive teachers, our faculty members were more like coaches in a student - led inquiry environment.

It alleges that a review of the research on charter schools leads to the conclusions that, overall, charter schools: 1) fail to raise student achievement more than traditional district schools do; 2) aren't innovative and don't pass innovations along to district schools; 3) exacerbate the racial and ethnic isolation of students; 4) provide a worse environment for teachers than district schools; and 5) spend more on administration and less on instruction than public schools.

For Glendy Cordero, an Oakland parent and a founding member of the school's design team, sitting down with teachers and having them listen to her dreams for her two children enabled her to hope for something better than the unsafe and chaotic environment that characterized daily life at Calvin Simmons.

As teachers, we are often asked to «do» a lot more than necessary: memorize standards, plan lessons, prepare for various assessments, call homes, provide a warm environment for our students (and visitors), attend faculty meetings with varying effectiveness and relevance, grade mounds of papers, and take what little time we have left to eat and sleep, usually less than we should.

This has to change, however it involves not just teachers and schools but also the government making changes - so we can move towards an environment of teamwork rather than competition.

Cushman: Large high schools; schools organized in such a way that teachers must be responsible for more than 80 students; and a policy environment that reduces students to what can be known about them through a single multiple - choice test.

In such contexts, teachers of refugee students can — and should — «construct school environments that are conducive to creating futures, rather than simply inheriting them.»

Then of course there is the environment effect, which we do know about — the lack of support, a school culture which may require early career teachers to teach out of field (and we know that more early career teachers teach out of field than any other group), student behaviour, the workload, administration workload, all of those kinds of things are clearly issues.

More important than the gadgets themselves, of course, is how the teachers use them to create personalized lessons and a productive environment where each child is engaged.

As a teacher, now lecturer it always amazes me that nobody seems to think carefully about acoustics in teaching areas - given that teachers nearly always have to use voice projection rather than microphones and speakers, it can make a huge difference to the teaching environment if acoustics are bad or the sound is dampened such that the teacher's voice is not heard or worse still the noise when clas changes is so loud it becomes impossible to hear.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

New elementary school teachers who were well - prepared in preservice programs to teach reading expressed greater confidence in their knowledge and skills, fostered richer literacy environments in their classrooms, and helped their pupils achieve higher levels of reading comprehension than did other teachers, according to the National Commission on Excellence in Elementary Teacher Preparation in Reading Instruction.

Looking at only American students» PISA scores, we see that reading engagement had a higher correlation with reading literacy achievement than time spent on homework, relationships with teachers, a sense of belonging, classroom environment, or even pressure to achieve (which had a negative correlation).

It would be useful to have an artificial concentration of those technologies in a teacher education program... with the anticipation that using those technologies in an environment in which they can be reflective is going to prepare teachers in a much more impactful way than when they are in an environment with less opportunity to reflect.

At the same time, the percentage of teachers responding that a calm school environment conducive to teaching and learning was better this year than last year increased by 45 percentage - points.

More than 500 studies have validated that the Marzano Model helps teachers raise student achievement in rural, suburban, and urban environments.

A highly effective principal might improve the school's value - added so that it is more effective than it was in the past, but it is likely to take several years before the combination of staff development, improvements in school environment, and replacement of ineffective teachers can make the school a high - value - added school.1

Darling - Hammond acknowledges that teacher preparation is an area in need of improvement, but she notes that U.S. teachers are worker longer hours in poorer environments than international peers.

Within a learner - centred environment there is a lot more student participation with reflection and responsibility than in a teacher - centred environment.

They tend to employ teachers who are more inexperienced than the hires at affluent schools, and they often are not adequately trained for the intense environments they will face, making them more likely to leave, said Linda Darling - Hammond, a professor emerita at Stanford who heads the Learning Policy Institute, an education think tank.

The degree of planning that is required at BAHS is greater than that of traditional learning environments, as teachers must have every step mapped out before the course begins to accommodate the various trajectories of student coursework.

That's a tall order in the best of times; and it's even more difficult in a policy environment in which teachers are under great scrutiny and subject to greater accountability than ever before.

The majority of heads surveyed were «philosophers» (51 per cent)-- mostly former English literature teachers with no experience outside education — who saw their role as enablers of better teaching rather than prioritising staff management, revenue and better working environments.

While teachers are valuable and should, in an ideal world, be paid well, teachers often accept lower pay at private schools because the work environment can be more supportive than that at some public schools.

A child with an average teacher who comes from a literate, economically secure, and stable family environment will, on average, have better achievement than a child with a superior teacher but with none of these contextual advantages.

Video has proven to be a useful tool for teachers to consider students» thinking (Franke, Carpenter, Fennema, Ansell, & Behrend, 1998; Gearhart & Saxe, 2004) and can provide a more dynamic environment in which to consider students» thinking than can text.

Under learner - centered environments, learners take control of their learning and are challenged to work harder than their teacher.

«With President Obama's promise to connect 99 percent of American students to the Internet within five years, creating learning environments that are truly responsive to students and teachers is more possible than ever before,» said Bruce Reed, president of The Broad Foundation.

Overall, evaluation results were mixed; CSP classrooms increased teacher qualifications compared to non-CSP classrooms, which saw a reduction in teacher qualifications over the same period.43 CSP classrooms reported higher ratings across some measures of child development, but lower scores on environment rating than non-CSP classrooms.

He begins the article with a reflection on the fighting in Fallujah: «19 - and 20 - year - old Marines were trusted to make extraordinary split - second decisions in an environment more dangerous and confusing than most Read more about What Teachers Can Learn from the Marines -LSB-...]

Although Rhee refrained from prescribing her system to California schools - which she admitted constitutes a vastly different environment than the District of Columbia - she did outline her recipe for change that involves ousting any teacher that can't produce effective test scores.

First - year teachers often feel underprepared when they first enter the classroom, and are less likely than more experienced teachers to report being well prepared to implement state or district curriculum.45 As a result, nearly one in seven new teachers leaves the classroom before completing their third year, with most citing classroom management, the burden of curriculum freedom, and unsupportive school environments as their greatest stressors.46 Too often, teachers begin their careers in a sink - or - swim situation, with little to no formal induction or support system and inadequate professional learning.47 By providing new teachers with evidence - based professional learning — including through comprehensive, high - quality induction programs — schools and districts can create a more supportive pathway to success in the classroom.

He sponsored this legislation and many state senators voted to arm teachers, custodians, and lunch ladies because it is cheaper than providing enough increased state funding so that schools can hire trained professionals to support safe and healthy learning environments for our children.

The first year of teaching is often a blur of lessons learned in the hot seat while students fail to learn all that they could.13 Nearly 1 in 7 new teachers leave the classroom before completing their third year, with most citing classroom management, the burden of curriculum freedom, and unsupportive school environments as their greatest challenges.14 According to the National Center for Education Statistics, teachers with three or fewer years of teaching experience are less likely than more experienced teachers to report being very well - prepared to maintain order and discipline in the classroom.15 Additionally, new teachers were less likely than more experienced teachers to report being well - prepared to implement state or district curricula.16 Residency and induction programs can provide essential practical training in classroom management, assessment and data literacy, and differentiation or special education techniques.17

Even before setting foot in SBC One, I knew that city charter schools would be a safer environment for my children than district schools, and that they would never allow a violent teacher to remain in the classroom.

Held to a higher standard of accountability than traditional public schools, but with the benefit of added autonomy that puts local school leaders and teachers in charge, Tennessee's public charter schools are empowered to create a challenging and focused learning environment for students, while giving parents even more direct and meaningful opportunities to participate in their children's education.

Job Description: Work with lead teacher and collaborate, implement, and plan for an ability grouped class for 4th - 6th grades of no more than 8:1 student to teacher ratio, while providing students with a safe and effective learning environment.

Virtually all the characteristics and resources that educators talk about as desirable in a school — high standards and expectations, good teachers, involved parents, a safe and orderly environment, a stable student and teacher population — are more likely to be found in economically mixed schools than in high - poverty schools (Kahlenberg, 2001).

Illinois, on the other hand, uses student and teacher data from the 5Essentials Survey to differentiate schools.65 A 10 - year Chicago study found that schools that were strong in at least three of the five survey elements — which include effective leaders, collaborative teachers, supportive environment, involved families, and ambitious instruction — were significantly more likely to improve student learning than schools that were weaker in these domains.66

It stems from research showing schools that are rated highly on measures of effective leaders, collaborative teachers, involved families, supportive environment, and ambitious instruction are far more likely than others to show improvements in students» learning gains.»

In our study, these teachers earned higher scores than any other group on «construct rigidity» and «emotional reaction,» suggesting that they may be less adaptable to changing environments than are other types of learners and may process and react to environmental change more negatively.

Teachers want to work in supportive environments, where they have scope for creativity as well as rigor, and where colleagues collaborate, rather than compete, with one another.