Sentences with phrase «finds less teacher»

Students are tested in reading, but empirical research frequently finds less teacher - driven variation in reading achievement than in math, and ultimately this is the case for the present analysis as well.

Not exact matches

High school teachers who believed they were making a difference were found to be less likely to burnout than those who didn't.

Non-Jews wishing to become teachers and scientists and professional men are able to find more or less open opportunities for the exercise of their talents.

What university professor has not had the experience of hearing a student gush with praise about another professor whom he or she personally finds to be a less than excellent teacher?

For all that, he was as such still distinguished in the eyes of his disciples from the many lesser teachers of salvation who lived and worked around him, for he claimed to be the first — without a «model» — to have found this salvation.

I owe it to the fact that my teachers told me to read Science and the Modern World at an early age that I have found these conundrums less confusing than I might otherwise have done.

After reflecting on the shift in parents over the last twenty - five years from more or less confident they were doing okay to isolated and anxious, former teacher Elisabeth Stitt founded Joyful Parenting Coaching (www.elisabethstitt.com) in 2014.

Unfortunately, researchers have found that the more in need of support a student is, the less supportive they find their teacher to be.

I was told by his teacher that he's unable to have lunches that they need to warmed up and that he needs to eat faster because they only have 30 min which ends up being less time after getting in the cafeteria and finding a seat.

«We found it was easier for the teachers and the custodial staff, and it actually costs less,» said Hodge.

Governor Cuomo angered teachers when he said last fall that he intends to break the public school monopoly, and that he found it «incredible» that less than 5 percent of teachers were deemed deficient in the latest teacher performance scores.

He wondered, for example, why teachers» scores were often overwhelmingly satisfactory in the same failing schools where less than 40 percent of the students were found to be college ready.

Cuomo angered teachers when he said last fall that he intends to break the public school monopoly, and that he found it incredible that less than 5 percent of teachers were deemed efficient in the latest teacher performance scores.

The new version would leave the state with the same result as did its predecessor: Charter school students would find themselves in classes taught by teachers whose training was far less rigorous than that demanded of regular public school teachers.

The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

Students who said they felt threatened by their teachers» messages that frequently focused on failure reported feeling less motivated and scored worse on the exam than students who said their teacher used fewer fear tactics that they considered less threatening, the study found.

A growing body of evidence finds that teacher turnover reduces student achievement, either directly because replacement teachers are less effective than exiting teachers or indirectly through the disruptions caused by high turnover rates.

A new study in the journal Early Childhood Research Quarterly finds that kindergartners and first graders with high maintenance temperaments showed less disruptive behavior and more active engagement and on - task behavior in the classroom, thanks to a program that helps teachers, parents, and students recognize and adapt to individual differences.

The story finds Day as mild - mannered English teacher Andy Campbell who must man up when his feared colleague, Ron Strickland (Cube), at his less - than - top - notch school challenges him to a good old - fashioned punch - up over a perceived sleight.

Children and resources will begin to flow to nonunion schools, and unions will find themselves with fewer members, less money, and a growing number of schools and teachers that are outside the traditional system and difficult to organize.

It is in the less desirable and more troubled systems, the nation's urban and rural school districts, that administrators currently have tremendous difficulty finding sufficient numbers of certified teachers.

The study found that specialist primary teachers are six per cent less effective than their non-specialist colleagues, with data showing pupils who were taught by subject specialists saw a drop in their grades.

The authors found that roughly 40 percent of these beginning teachers stay less than six years, the amount of time Florida required a teacher to be employed before becoming eligible for pension benefits.

Teaching lower - achieving students — whether because teachers find it more difficult or less rewarding — is a strong factor in decisions to leave Texas public schools, and the magnitude of the effect holds across the full range of teachers» experience levels.

The study's findings are less about the difference between good and average teachers, which is modest.

One New York City teacher can not be paid more, or less, than any other teacher at the same level of seniority, regardless of the particular teacher's talents and effort or the difficulty of recruiting a teacher for a hard - to - find position such as math or science.

Go back to the beginning of many of those initiatives, whether it's 1:1 iPads or teacher evaluation systems or Balanced Literacy or whatever else, and you'll often find that they weren't based on enough evidence to even take seriously, much less incur all the costs they ultimately did.

There is a strong resistance to moving swiftly to formal capability processes as many head teachers would prefer that a poor performer leaves after finding another job — they believe that the inclusion of a formal capability process in a reference would sink any chance of the less than competent teacher leaving quietly.

Racially segregated high - poverty schools tend to be overrun with social problems, have a hard time finding and retaining good teachers, are associated with high dropout rates, and are less effective than diverse schools at intervening in problems outside of school that undermine learning.

We find that prospective teachers are graduating from less - selective colleges than noneducation majors, and that in the last 20 years the gap in institutional selectivity between education and noneducation majors has widened.

They were strongly supported for PD, but what they found was that many of them said that although they felt they needed PD in their out - of - field areas, they felt uncomfortable going to a designated PD in their out - of - field areas because they felt that they knew so much less than the other teachers that were there...

For example, some studies have found that less - effective early - career teachers are more likely to exit than more - effective novice teachers, even in the absence of high - stakes evaluations.

Both teacher educators and reformers tend to propose solutions that begin after the candidate has graduated and becomes the teacher of record (e.g., increasing supports, adding more professional development, and finding less challenging placements).

Related to the first theory of «high expectations,» we find students assigned to a teacher who shares their race and gender are more likely to say their teacher pushes them to work hard, requires them to explain their answers, not to give up when the work gets hard, and accepts nothing less than their full effort.

The authors find that if the RIF - notified teachers made the average salary in their district, it would only be necessary to lay off 1,349 teachers in order to attain the same budgetary savings, or roughly 20 percent less than the actual number of teachers who received layoff notices.

Education Sector's 2011 survey, for example, found that more than 40 percent of teachers want their unions to focus more on teacher performance and student achievement and less than half consider unions to be absolutely essential.

A 1987 study found that less than 20 percent of the questions developed by secondary - school history teachers required the integration of ideas.

Since we find no support for the notion that schools reduced pupil - teacher ratios in order to counteract the potential negative impact of teacher retirements, we suspect that the teachers who took up the ERI were less effective than the ones who replaced them or than the ones remaining in the school.

Products without any research (much less rigorous research) will continue to be available to teachers and find their way into classrooms.

On the front end, we found that states assume less than half of all new teachers will teach long enough to qualify for a pension (that is, they won't reach the «vesting» point).

IO: The key findings were that, as we predicted, the students with better relationships (self - reported and teacher - reported) versus those with worse relationships were more prosocial and they were also less aggressive and less oppositional, or showed less oppositional behaviour.

If we understand non-response as a proxy for conscientiousness or effort, then Albert has found that students become more conscientious when they have teachers who are more conscientious and less conscientious when they have teachers who are less conscientious.

National survey finds declining support for increased school spending and teacher salaries; thinks schools do not do as well at attending to the needs of the less - talented as those of the more - talented.

To the extent that parents have less information on a particular teacher characteristic, our findings may underestimate parent preferences for this characteristic.

Pages of Download Grade 2 Practice Sheets: 1 - Cover 2 - For the Teacher 3 - 6 - Measurement Length 7 - 11 - Measurement Height 12 - 15 - Place Value 16 - 20 - Ordinal Numbers 21 - 25 - Smallest / Largest Number in a set of numbers 26 - 29 - Greater than 30 - 33 - Less than 34 - 36 - Greater than / Less than 37 - 39 - Add or subtract write the sign in the blank 40 - 45 - Adding using place value (example: 4 + 13 + 5) 46 - 51 - Adding with words - Example - what is 150 more than 200 52 - 55 - Skip Counting 56 - 59 - Skip Counting - Missing Numbers on a Number line 60 - 65 - Reading Graphs 65 - 71 - Solving Word Problems 72 - 76 - Time 77 - 83 - Coin Identification and Coin counting 84 - 88 - Counting Dollars and coins 89 - 92 - Geometry 93 - 96 - Fractions 97 - 115 - Answer Keys 116 - 118 - Terms of Use and Credits Pages of Download Grade 3 Practice Sheets: 1 - Cover 2 - For the Teacher 3 - 6 - Measurement Length 7 - 11 - Measurement Height 12 - 19 - Place Value 20 - 24 - Find the smallest / largest number from a set of numbers 25 - 28 - Number Words 29 - 32 - Skip Counting - complete the sequence 33 - 37 - Counting dollars and coins 38 - 48 - Reading thermometers - temperature 49 - 53 - Reading graphs 54 - 57 - Reading Calendars 58 - 62 - Numerators and Denominators 63 - 67 - Fraction Circles 68 - 72 - Fractions of a solid 73 - 78 - Word Problems 79 - 83 - Data Tables 84 - 88 - Multi-Step Word Problems 89 - 92 - Rounding to the nearest ten 93 - 96 - Rounding to the nearest hundred 97 - 100 - Rounding word problems 101 - 103 - Probability 104 - 107 - Geometry - identifying shapes 108 - 110 - Height of a triangle 111 - 113 - Angles identifying right, acute, and obtuse 114 - 117 - Symmetry and Angles 118 - 121 - Perimeter 122 - 125 - Area 126 - 129 - Elapsed Time 130 - 155 - Answer Keys 156 - 158 - Credits and Terms of Use Pages of Download Grade 4 practice sheets: 1 - Cover 2 - For the Teacher 3 - 6 - Measurement Length 7 - 11 - Patterns 12 - 15 - Parallel and Perpendicular Lines 16 - 26 - Reading Temperature 27 - 31 - Reading Graphs 32 - 36 - Coordinate Graphs 37 - 41 - Skip Counting - complete the sequence 42 - 46 - Place Value 47 - 50 - Number Words 51 - 55 - Powers of 10 56 - 60 - Adding using Place Value 61 - 70 - Fractions 71 - 75 - Fraction Word Problems 76 - 80 - Convert Fractions to Decimals 81 - 85 - Convert Decimals to Fractions 86 - 90 - Height of a figure 91 - 95 - Missing Number in an equation 96 - 100 - Balancing Equations 101 - 105 - Data Tables - ordering numbers 106 - 110 - Data Table Addition 111 - 115 - Data Table Time 116 - 120 - Data Table Subtraction 121 - 125 - Estimation Word Problems 126 - 130 - Ratio Word Problems 131 - 134 - Probability 135 - 140 - Spinner Probability 141 - 145 - Arrays 146 - 173 - Answer Keys 174 - 177 - Credits and Terms of Use Pages of Download Grade 5 Sheets: 1 - Cover 2 - For the Teacher 3 - 7 - Units of Measure 8 - 12 - Reading Graphs 13 - 17 - Number Words 18 - 22 - Place Value 23 - 27 - Decimal Place Value 28 - 32 - Rounding Numbers 33 - 37 - Complete the sequence, skip counting 38 - 42 - Solving Equations 43 - 47 - Variable Equations 48 - 52 - Simplify Expressions 53 - 57 - Finding the Mean 58 - 62 - Mean, Median, Mode 63 - 67 - Greatest Common Factor 68 - 72 - Fractions 73 - 77 - Comparing a set of Fractions 78 - 83 - Comparing Multiple Fractions 84 - 93 - Fraction Word Problems 94 - 98 - Estimating / Estimation Word Problems 99 - 103 - Possible Outcome Problems 104 - 108 - Distance Word Problems 109 - 113 - Division Word Problems 114 - 118 - Ratio Word Problems 119 - 124 - Coordinate Graphs 125 - 130 - Perimeter 131 - 135 - Area 136 - 145 Elapsed Time Clocks and Watches 146 - 171 - Answer Keys 172 - 175 - Credits and Terms of Use

The same survey found that less than half of teachers consider unions to be absolutely essential.

A new study finds that when recessions hit, both men and women are less likely to want to become teachers and instead turn to fields like accounting and engineering.

Indeed, our review findings would suggest that if professional development is explicitly focused on improving an observed teacher practice instead of being focused explicitly on addressing a pupil need, then it is less likely to be effective at improving outcomes for students.

Elementary - school teachers who are covered by collective - bargaining agreements spend less time instructing students in the classroom than do their peers who are not covered by contracts, but they devote more time to classroom preparation and administrative tasks, a new study by two University of Oregon researchers has found.

In private schools, teachers who hold certification are paid 1.4 percent less than uncertified teachers; charter schools give a similarly negative premium, but this finding is not statistically significant.