Sentences with phrase «even teachers at some level»

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Teachers in Ecuador's public schools often must contend with overcrowding (60 students per class), a dearth of books — even at the university level — and students fainting from hunger (according to the government's own figures, half the nation's children suffer from malnutrition)

Holly Scholz, executive director at Prairieland Montessori in Chicago, says observing student - teacher interactions is something that you should focus on even at the preschool level.

Even though the past 12 months have been marked by teacher strikes, debt crises at all levels of government, and intense partisan debate, public opinion remains quite stable.

Some teachers do hear what the students are saying, Constantine says, and even at the high school level, where some teachers believe that their job is strictly to teach the content and that's it, they are doing icebreaker activities in class that have nothing to do with subject - matter knowledge.

A recent study at the state level asked experts to rank interest groups according to political influence, and the teacher unions came out number one, outdistancing business organizations, trial lawyers, doctors, insurance companies, environmentalists, and even the state AFL - CIO affiliates.

Even pension costs could be reduced, as teachers» pensions are generally set at the level they earned in the last few years of teaching.

Teachers need a way to organize websites, make it easier to control several different computers, smart phones and tablets at once, and have their students navigate the web even if they are not always on the same reading and typing levels.

Assessments that require higher - order thinking skills will likely to be better at differentiating teachers, but even the current low - level tests that states are using are valuable in identifying effective teachers.

Many teachers are firm believers in reading aloud — even at the upper grade levels!

But solid knowledge of content is crucial to good teaching at the secondary level, and for some teachers even at the elementary level.

Not surprisingly, teachers express somewhat more positive views of their colleagues» performance than members of the general public do, but even they report that 10 % of their fellow teachers are performing at an unsatisfactory level and that an additional 21 % are no better than satisfactory.

Most states have set their student proficiency bars at a low level, and no state — not even Florida, which came the closest — has been able to mandate that teacher pay be calibrated to classroom performance.

The average teacher thinks 69 % of his or her colleagues in local schools deserve an A or a B. Even teachers say 5 % of their colleagues in local schools are failures deserving an F, with another 8 % performing at no better than the D level.

Many teachers are firm believers in reading aloud — even at the high school and college levels!

For this reason, Shakespeare studies — especially at senior student level — can become a subject area where teachers are left feeling even more constrained, as they must work against this perceived cultural distance to create a safe environment for creative exploration and interpretation of the text.

At The New Teacher Project (TNTP), we believe it is possible for organizations to implement ground - level reforms on a meaningful scale even while advocating for more fundamental policy changes.

And even though the teacher labor market might be balanced at the state level, subjects or regions within the state may be experiencing shortages.

«I would think California would be at the forefront of this group (of stressed - out teachers) and teachers» stress levels here even higher,» said Linda Darling - Hammond, professor... read more

As advocates pore over the results of teacher surveys being conducted nationally, at the state level, and even at individual schools, observers are beginning to ask questions about how the information can be used to inform policies to improve teachers» working conditions and promote teacher and leadership effectiveness.

If they lose, it will leave Republican caucuses at the state and federal levels even more dominated by Tea Party conservatives and populists, and tilt power in the direction of the teachers unions to boot.

Even more obviously, the two strategies for reform that emerged from the Advisory Committee on Governance, concurrently centralizing and decentralizing school management, could not easily coexist unless administrators and officials were committed at a deeper level to the ideas of democratic localism, teacher leadership, and parental authority over schooling.

The expectation is that the teacher will then train teachers in that practice, and that, in turn, will lead to good implementation at the team, school, or even district level.

Even though policymakers at every level of the system were talking about teachers, they rarely were talking with teachers.

But even if there was buy - in at the administrative level for the change, not every teacher is on board.

Even gifted - friendly teachers couldn't answer this simple question posed at every first parent - teacher conference: «What is your end - of - year F&P reading level goal for my child?»

But she said she was willing to take on a system that was giving passing evaluations to 95 % of teachers even as only 8 % of students were performing at grade level in mathematics.

Invariably, what is labeled «teacher bashing» is nothing more than anger at the teachers unions for blocking every type of education reform imaginable, as well as the unions doing their level best to block school districts» attempts to fire bad and even criminal teachers.

For students who performed at the lowest levels, the effect of having a teacher of the same race was even larger.26

Even in tested subjects, such as science and social studies, the tests may not be administered at every grade level and may not provide the appropriate information for teacher evaluation.

OMG, the study that, when you get to the fine print says, «a TFA «teacher» will have the same or no worse impact on * student test results * as an education major at the same level of experience as the TFA» — it is actually not even that nuanced.

Judge Thomas G. Moukawsher of State Superior Court in Hartford was scathing: He criticized «uselessly perfect teacher evaluations» that found «virtually every teacher in the state» proficient or exemplary, while a third of students in many of the poorest communities can not read even at basic levels.

The best policy is likely to push these decisions about teacher compensation downward below the district level to the school level, as the teachers» present management will likely be better positioned to judge the value and relevance of teachers» (often commendable) efforts to improve their subject knowledge than is the personnel office of a huge, wasteful district like LAUSD, while making these decisions at the state level is even less likely to prove efficient.

In his State of the State speech in January, he derided the state's evaluation system as «baloney,» because even though only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests, more than 95 percent of teachers were rated effective.

While appealing even to people opposed to the rest of the corporate education reform «package,» the standards minimize student - centered and culturally - relevant curricula generated at regional levels — and popularized thanks to the work of the Civil Rights and Women's movements — and they shift power away from teachers, parents, and communities.

In his State of the State speech in January, Mr. Cuomo said that the state's evaluations were «baloney» because 96 percent of teachers were rated effective, even though only about a third of students in the state were reading or doing math at grade level, according to the assessments.

In this report, the authors, members of the Teachers Learning Collaborative, present the results of a three - year collaborative effort to create an innovative literacy curriculum framework that would support teachers» dual — and often competing — commitments in literacy instruction: (a) to make sure that all students have the opportunity to learn literacy skills and strategies with texts that are at their instructional level, and (b) to make sure that all students have access to, and instruction with, texts that are appropriate to their age level, even if the students are unable to read such materials without Teachers Learning Collaborative, present the results of a three - year collaborative effort to create an innovative literacy curriculum framework that would support teachers» dual — and often competing — commitments in literacy instruction: (a) to make sure that all students have the opportunity to learn literacy skills and strategies with texts that are at their instructional level, and (b) to make sure that all students have access to, and instruction with, texts that are appropriate to their age level, even if the students are unable to read such materials without teachers» dual — and often competing — commitments in literacy instruction: (a) to make sure that all students have the opportunity to learn literacy skills and strategies with texts that are at their instructional level, and (b) to make sure that all students have access to, and instruction with, texts that are appropriate to their age level, even if the students are unable to read such materials without support.

Even so, there is plenty of room for more aligned instruction for most teachers in both mathematics and ELA at all grade levels.

Coaches Training is 15 - hour workshop (Thursday evening through Saturday at noon) for Montessori experienced adults (coaches, level heads, school leaders, and others) interested in supporting teachers and schools.

Even with the gamesmanship by states, No Child's accountability rules have shown that far too many schools are dropout factories, failure mills, and warehouses of mediocrity; that far too many teachers are not capable of providing high - quality instruction; that school leadership at all levels is often abysmal; and that the fierce urgency of right now is not only necessary, but paramount to helping all kids get the education they need to fulfill their potential.

For example, even if the teachers have become capable of framing very explicit language objectives at vocabulary, sentence, or discourse levels, the rubrics that teachers tended to use for the written samples were extremely broad for use of linguistic resources so that if students had missed the instruction on the target language for the assignment, they would have difficulty recovering the intended outcome whether on the vocabulary, sentence, or discourse level.

Criticized as a perfunctory checklist of expectations that doesn't help teachers improve, the system awarded 99.3 % of L.A. Unified teachers the highest rating in 2009 - 10 — even though only 45 % of district students that year performed at grade level for reading and 56 % were proficient in math.

Even though the vast majority of teachers at all schools in the project voted to engage in schoolwide reading reform, the schools clearly have a long way to go to raise their reading scores to «breaking the mold» levels, with current mean standardized reading comprehension scores across schools, for example, standing at 40 in grades 2 and 3, and at 37 in grades 4 and 5.

Even a teacher who is content to use geospatial tools at the current, shallow level of representation (Figure 3) will be nudged toward more sophisticated uses, whether via student project work with geospatial tools or by adopting materials produced by teaching colleagues, curriculum support staff, or social studies education researchers.

My teacher, Mrs. Weiss, made math even more fun for me because we can work at our own pace, and I like doing challenging things like the next level of math.

The third teacher, a middle - school teacher, scored 23 out of 70 «value - added» points, even though he switched from teaching language arts to teaching social studies at the middle - school level.

Our Teacher Advisory Group, citywide teacher survey, and retention grants put Oakland teachers in the driver's seat to identify gaps and implement solutions, because research shows that engaging educators at the school level can increase teacher retention [2] and even lead to ideas for broader system - wideTeacher Advisory Group, citywide teacher survey, and retention grants put Oakland teachers in the driver's seat to identify gaps and implement solutions, because research shows that engaging educators at the school level can increase teacher retention [2] and even lead to ideas for broader system - wideteacher survey, and retention grants put Oakland teachers in the driver's seat to identify gaps and implement solutions, because research shows that engaging educators at the school level can increase teacher retention [2] and even lead to ideas for broader system - wideteacher retention [2] and even lead to ideas for broader system - wide fixes.

High - quality tutoring can meet each student at his or her individual level, 22 a level of differentiation that is impossible for even the most dedicated of teachers to provide.23 Essentially, every student with an educated, engaged parent has access to one - on - one tutoring at home, which is perhaps one of the reasons why homework compounds the advantages enjoyed by middle - class children.24 For students who, for a variety of reasons, may not have access to that kind of academic assistance at home, receiving more tailored instruction from their schools can help to level the playing field and close achievement gaps.25

In ELA classrooms, teachers are using more complex text with their students — text that is difficult even for students who are reading at «grade level.»

Analyze student data by looking at the high - level view across an entire district, or drill down by teacher, student attributes, or even view individual student performance.

The second objective involves a broad teaching / learning goal that is shared by the CLR community (e.g. all teachers of mathematics at the school), and that goes beyond any particular topic or grade level and may even be cross-disciplinary.