Sentences with phrase «examining teacher quality»

The last five years have seen an explosion in research examining teacher quality.

The funding will pay for studies examining teacher quality in the cities, including how well - qualified and less - qualified teachers are distributed among schools.

Using data from 15 countries, this groundbreaking work examines teacher quality, work norms, and professional learning opportunities.

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It examined a larger number of students over a longer period of time with more in - depth data than many earlier studies, allowing for a deeper look at how much the quality of individual teachers matters over the long term, the Times reported.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

Clearly, if you want to make decisions about quality of teaching and the impact of school programs, you must examine not what children know on one occasion, like today, but how their knowledge and skills change over the course of their entire exposure to the teacher or the program.

We also examine the effects of court - mandated spending increases on three commonly used proxies for school quality: the length of the school year, teacher salaries, and student - teacher ratios.

Bena Hefflin developed guidelines for selecting quality multicultural children's literature, and Eliza Braden and Sanjuana Rodriguez provide questions for teachers to examine texts with Latino families and stories of immigration that reflect real experiences.

The NAO said its research will examine: «If the system for training new teachers produces sufficient numbers of new teachers of the right quality for schools; and if the department has effective oversight of the market for training new teachers.»

The conference also included moderated discussions examining the measurement of effective teaching, the importance of teacher quality, and the recruitment of high - talent teachers.

Muralidharan's dissertation work examined the quality of India's public service delivery in education and evaluated the design and impact of a performance - pay program for teachers.

The Project, led by Professor Susan Moore Johnson, examines issues related to attracting, supporting, and retaining quality teachers in U.S. public schools.

The Commission will examine factors contributing to teacher recruitment and performance including: incentives to hire and retain high - quality teachers; improvements in the teacher evaluation system to ensure New York is implementing one of the strongest evaluation systems in the country; the use of teacher evaluations for decisions regarding promotion, hiring and termination as required in the teacher evaluation law; and teacher preparation, certification and education programs to ensure that teachers are properly trained to best educate our students.

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.

Her keynote, titled «Personal attributes: Developing the hidden qualities in quality teaching» examined the concept of quality in teaching and the personal attributes of teachers that are central to the teacher - learner relationship.

Amidst a growing call for raising the quality of the U.S. teaching force, The Hechinger Report is examining whether teachers are being adequately prepared.

She noted that many previous studies have examined the effect of teacher quality on test scores, but few have examined the effect of teacher quality on attendance.

On an evaluation of the federal Race to the Top and School Improvement Grant initiatives, she was a content area expert advising on development of protocols, data collection instruments, and reports, examining how states and districts use grant funds to improve teacher quality.

This study examined the quality of the classroom climate and dyadic teacher — child relationships as predictors of self — regulation in a sample of socially disadvantaged preschool children (N = 206; 52 % boys).

When planning high quality professional learning for educators, administrators and teachers should begin by examining the context of the school.

A randomized controlled trial of My Teaching Partner — Secondary — a Web - mediated approach focused on improving teacher - student interactions in the classroom — examined the efficacy of the approach in improving teacher quality and student achievement with 78 secondary school teachers and 2237 students.

The papers that were presented examined an array of issues, including lessons learned on accountability, standards, school turnarounds, teacher quality, research, state capacity, and more.

I bring new evidence to bear on this question by examining the early career paths of high - quality teachers and their less - effective counterparts, as measured by the progress their students make on state tests.

For the most part, they look more deeply at literacy than either policy or measurement researchers by examining specific aspects of literacy instruction (e.g., writing process, qualities of writing, alignment of assessment with constructivist curriculum frameworks in literacy, specificity of state standards) and by situating much of their work in classrooms or in direct interactions with teachers.

Marzano Center support programs include tailored one -, two -, and three - day training sessions with the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Academy for school district leaders; customized support packages for central offices; seminars on inter-rater reliability; certifications in observer accuracy; and a full range of online, high quality, self - study courses that examine all aspects of the common language of instruction within the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model.

None of these studies, however, examined the quality of any lesson plans or other materials that have been developed to help teachers use the digital primary sources, as this study examines.

The authors examine the link between teachers» pension incentives and workforce quality and find no evidence to suggest that the incentives raise quality.

Teacher Policy Research (TPR) is a research partnership between the University of Virginia, Stanford University and the University at Albany that examines the behavior of teachers and administrators with the goal of developing policies that will attract and retain high - quality teachers and leaders, especially in low - performing schools.

The application of MBE scientific research in the classroom is the most promising and innovative way to examine, elevate, and enhance teacher quality, student achievement, and the learning experience today.

An article examining the relationship between the quality of teacher - child relationships and children's writing quality in Early Childhood Research Quarterly (2013).

Though this multimedia case study can help teacher educators address other difficulties raised at the beginning of this paper — providing preservice teachers with quality field observations and providing them with a common experience to reflect upon together — our focus in this paper has been examining more closely lessons we have learned about how to provide preservice teachers access to the complexities of classroom teaching.

The state would have to examine ways to compensate high quality teachers in rural areas where there may not be a low performing school to move to, Hall said, otherwise smaller districts will likely suffer from a lack of quality teachers.

Members of the State Senate Education Committee examined current local and state compensation strategies for classroom teachers, noting that recruitment and retention of high quality educators hinges at least in part on the pay teachers receive.

Articles will examine areas where equity is a challenge, such as financial resources, teacher quality, technology instruction, and access to a challenging curriculum.

The review includes recommendations for programs to make changes to improve the quality of teachers entering the profession and highlights exemplary programs for states and institutions to examine.

Ronald H. Heck, University of Hawaii - Manoa Examining the Relationship Between Teacher Quality as an Organizational Property of Schools and Students» Achievement and Growth Rates Educational Administration Quarterly 2007 43:399 - 432

As part of the field test, the state will be examining technological capacity and the quality of test questions, while helping students and teachers prepare for next year's first operational test, said Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction in a press release.

In 2011, I wrote about «The Teacher Quality Roadmap,» a study conducted by the National Council on Teacher Quality that examined the relationship between advanced degrees and other «extra coursework» on teacher effectiTeacher Quality Roadmap,» a study conducted by the National Council on Teacher Quality that examined the relationship between advanced degrees and other «extra coursework» on teacher effectiTeacher Quality that examined the relationship between advanced degrees and other «extra coursework» on teacher effectiteacher effectiveness.

«Coweta Charter Academy plans to use this vital funding to examine our pay scale and ensure we are adequately paying our teachers for their hard work and attract high - quality educators.

In this study, we compare the teacher quality distributions in charter schools and traditional public schools, and examine mechanisms that might explain cross-sector differences in teacher effectiveness as measured by teacher value - added scores using school and teacher level data from Florida.

Child outcomes data helps providers, teachers and program administrators improve the quality of services at the program level, and when examined broadly, helps state EI and ECSE administrators understand and improve services within districts and across the state.

Earlier studies released by the MET project had examined three potential measures of teacher quality: observations of teachers keyed to teaching frameworks, surveys of students» perceptions of their teachers, and a value - added method, which attempts to isolate teachers» contributions to their students» academic achievement.

In addition, she has worked with teachers to design quality assessments; link curriculum, assessment, and grading and reporting practices; differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all learners; and examine student work to move student learning forward.

This discovery was highlighted in a StudentsFirstNY report released last month that examined the distribution of teacher quality across NYC and found that students in schools with high poverty or percentages of minority students were more likely to have teachers rated «Unsatisfactory.»

This study examined the effects of a comprehensive elementary school - wide social - emotional and character education program, Positive Action, on teacher, parent, and student perceptions of school safety and quality utilizing a matched - pair, cluster - randomized, controlled design.

Teacher, parent, and student data were analyzed to examine indicators of school quality such as student safety and well - being, involvement, and satisfaction, as well as overall school quality.

The National Council on Teacher Quality examined what aspiring teachers learn about reading instruction in college.

Most studies have been in - depth case studies of the earliest programs; to date, only one comprehensive study (of the Teacher Quality Partnership grant) examines characteristics and impact across several programs nationally.

An earlier report for the Center for American Progress, «Reforming Public School Systems through Sustained Union - Management Collaboration,» examined cases of school reform that resulted from collaborative partnerships between teachers unions and administrators working together in innovative ways to improve teaching quality and student performance.

New York University; New York, NY $ 355,000 over three years on behalf of the Institute of Human Development and Social Change to analyze how teachers with different levels of teaching qualifications are distributed across NYC UPK classrooms with different compositions and levels of quality, and to examine how administrators and teachers use data about classroom quality to improve professional development and classroom practice.