Sentences with phrase «fire a teacher if»
A recent survey found that most principals agreed that they had the authority to fire a teacher if they needed to take such action.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (Reuters)- From Pataskala, Ohio, to Conroe, Texas, local government leaders worry that if Republican tax - overhaul plans moving through the U.S. Congress become law, it will be harder for them to pave streets, put out fires, fight crime and pay teachers.
«Their idea was that if you fire thousands of teachers, teachers» aides, school support workers, nurses, nurses» aides and people that work in the hospitals that somehow the price of oil would go back up,» she told a Unifor convention in Ottawa this week.
For somebody holding a specifically Christian job (pastor, teacher, etc.), it makes total sense to fire him if he drops the faith.
If this teacher is fired, I will invite him or her to Boston University, where I now teach, to explain what he or she was trying to accomplish in challenging students with this assignment.
and if cases are reported they are dealt with and investigated by the authorities and folks go to jail, or teachers fired... you are still trying to deflect the appalling actions of the so called church of christ to protect its own image.
Once a teacher has worked for a minimum period of time, they can not be easily fired even if their performance is shoddy.
She can't add fuel to the fire or get in trouble with teachers if she says nothing.
Hypothetically, if all 49 children came from one or two grade levels, it might be possible to fire two teachers and save about $ 90,000 to $ 100,000 per year in salary and benefits, but nowhere near $ 300,000.
Cuomo: «They (teachers) will do an evaluation if no one gets fired.
The Regents were set to vote to delay the effects of Common Core on high school seniors for five more years, until 2022, and to offer teachers some protections if they are fired during the next two years.
The city runs and depends on all types of people doing all types of jobs, right, so the city's not going to function if there's no one to do service work or people who are teachers or people who are fire fighters and even police officers.
Unqualified teachers «should not be in the classroom» said Labour's education spokesman when asked if his party would fire them.
Last year, police officers and fire fighters employed by the city, and teachers who worked for the city school district, were offered a 10 percent discount if they bought one of the land bank properties.
Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)
And if we had a different pension system — one that allowed teachers to build pension wealth throughout their careers and take it with them whenever they left — then they wouldn't be worried about losing their big payout by getting fired a few years before retirement.
Unfortunately, once a veteran teacher earns «tenure,» state and local policy make it complicated and cumbersome to fire him, even if he has demonstrated time and again that he is a poor educator.
Unfortunately, their support is often in the form of selling «sure - fire» scripted curriculum that «guarantees» growth (if teachers will just follow directions).
Of course, if the governor had not peevishly insisted in the first place on holding teachers» feet to the fire on test scores while simultaneously making watershed changes in their practice, New York would likely never have experienced the immune response we have seen — particularly among affluent parents in the state's politically powerful suburbs.
Teachers in Providence, R.I., walked picket lines last week in a dispute over health - care coverage, while the mayor threatened to fire them if they did not return to work.
I'm not a gambling person, but if I had to place a bet on one sure - fire method for engaging students, increasing test scores, reaching students who fall below standards, challenging students who exceed grade - level standards, accessing students» creativity and originality, maximizing brain connections formed, applying concepts to new situations, and making the learning process more fun for the students and teacher, I would place that bet on... teaching the core curriculum through the arts.
Hart and her fellow principals can hire and fire teachers, but if student scores start slipping, Ronan and his corporate staff will replace the principal and keep the school.
If you haven't come across a money system created by fifth - grade teacher ~ Rafe Esquith ~ you need to read his second book «Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire.»
A cooler - headed Esquith later explained the book's theme on National Public Radio: «If I could care so much I didn't even know my hair was on fire, I was moving in the right direction as a teacher — when I realized that you have to ignore all the crap, and the children are the only thing that matter.»
Susan Schaeffler, the founder and head of the successful KIPP schools in D.C. (all of them start - ups), once told me she thought she could fix one of the worst regular schools in the city if she had the power — which she has at KIPP — to hire and fire teachers at will.
They would get higher test scores if schools could fire more bad teachers and pay more to good ones.
If you're not a great teacher after a few years, you might as well quit or be fired.
If we could fire the bottom 5 to 10 percent of the lowest - performing teachers every year, says Hoover Institution economist Eric Hanushek in the film, our national test scores would soon approach the top of international rankings in mathematics and science.
If the state instead threatened to fire or reassign the principals and teachers at failing schools, the results would likely be the same.
There are a number of potential explanations for this finding, including a limited supply of effective teachers (it's rational to keep a mediocre teacher if the likely replacement will be no better), a lack of administrator ability to discern teacher quality (their observations are less predictive of value - added than those of outside observers), or a simple unwillingness to make the unpleasant decision of firing someone.
But if principals were taking advantage of their pre-tenure freedom to fire at will, we'd expect to see the lower - value - added teachers leaving schools at much higher rates than their higher - value - added counterparts, and an increase in dismissals at the tenure decision point between the fourth and fifth years.
If three years of data is used there is about a 25 percent change that a teacher who is «average» would be identified as significantly worse than average, and, under new evaluation systems, perhaps fired.
«If (teachers) don't like it, good,» he fires off.
If a teacher called a press conference or put out a statement blasting a test item, the teacher might be fired for revealing what was on the test.
If your state wins in the sweepstakes of Race To Top then you can start to deal with the process of deciding which of the remaining teachers to fire because of inefficiency.
She figures it's acceptable if we have to break a few eggs (firing of possibly effective teachers) in order to purge the system of the small minority of ineffective teachers.
If this is true, then teachers have the opportunity to light fires every day as they teach from classroom to classroom. STEDI.org provides the tools to light these fires!
The main intent of the new laws is to help identify which teachers are doing a good, bad or mediocre job so that those struggling in the classroom can be given extra support or, if their performance doesn't improve, fired.
And we can't retain and control those billions (that come from teachers» dues) if we allow any changes to how teachers are hired and fired.
If private or charter schools end up with a dud teacher, they can fire them, quickly and easily, even in the middle of the year if the situation is particularly dire — I've seen it happeIf private or charter schools end up with a dud teacher, they can fire them, quickly and easily, even in the middle of the year if the situation is particularly dire — I've seen it happeif the situation is particularly dire — I've seen it happen.
Warped opinions about our nation's public schools include: they are inferior to private schools; they are among the worst in the world in math and science; teachers should be fired if their students don't score at the national average, and on and on.
In his speech he said: «Firing teachers and closing schools if student test scores and graduation rates do not meet a certain bar is not an effective way to raise achievement across a district or a state... Linking student achievement to teacher appraisal, as sensible as it might seem on the surface, is a non-starter... It's a wrong policy [emphasis added]... [and] Its days are numbered.»
She argues that federal programs such as George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind and Barack Obama's Race to the Top set unreasonable targets for American students, punish schools, and result in teachers being fired if their students underperform, unfairly branding those educators as failures.
Unqualified teachers «should not be in the classroom» said Labour's education spokesman when asked if his party would fire them.
«If we have a system that's laying off people without ever looking at their quality or their ability, then we're going to end up with some great teachers getting fired and that's going to hurt the students,» says Stone.
If today's agreement becomes our actual teacher evaluation system, then there will more than likely be massive teacher firings beginning in 2014.
Teachers need to be able to innovate and push the system, but that won't happen if teachers think they can be fired on a whim or principal personality coTeachers need to be able to innovate and push the system, but that won't happen if teachers think they can be fired on a whim or principal personality coteachers think they can be fired on a whim or principal personality conflicts.
Rather than hyper - focusing on the question, Is there a fair way to fire a bad teacher, we should be asking: If rich parents won't tolerate a lemon, why should poor kids have to?
What if the correlation is related to the phenomenon of active and empowered parents pushing the worst teachers out of high - performing schools, who are then placed in low - performing and low - income schools, coupled with a system that can't fire a teacher?
IF CRACK HEAD Mommy's and Daddy's don't feed their kid for weeks and the kid falls asleep during the FCAT, we are going to fire the teacher??? ARE YOU KIDDING?