Sentences with phrase «for teacher promotion»

The Florida Education Association gathered 17 top teachers and together they came up with an evaluation system that would provide more meaningful, productive evaluations that teachers could use to improve, would provide ongoing support and opportunities for teacher promotion, and would even allow for a fair, equitable system of merit pay.

Under the state directives, evaluation results will be used for teacher promotion and retention decisions.

Or they might use the measures as a basis for teacher promotion or dismissal.

Not exact matches

«The stark facts remain that BME teachers are under - represented in the teaching profession particularly at the most senior levels, they are paid less than their white counterparts, they experience widespread discrimination when applying for jobs or promotion and often have to endure racist comments and abuse at work.

Maidamma commended the state government for the timely payment of salaries and promotion of teachers.

Some of the teachers said the claim by the state government that the written test was for promotion to the position of a permanent secretary was a booby trap for them.

Seven in ten (70 %) BME teachers do not feel progress has been made in ensuring that BME teachers are treated fairly when applying for jobs or promotion, a conference organised by the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has heard.

Most public school teachers are feeling embattled these days, with public criticisms of their effectiveness and calls for tougher evaluations and promotion criteria.

His support for charters outraged teachers unions, while his promotion of the Common Core curricula and testing standards irked conservatives.

Occasionally they'll run promotions for teachers.

The role of these regional policies has been crucial, since they have been supporting the endowment of resources and ICT infrastructure in schools, plans for teacher training, the production of content and digital materials, and the promotion of pedagogical innovation projects.

Last week, Gates Foundation education chief Vicki Phillips wrote a «letter to our partners» urging that states give students and teachers time to adjust to the new Common Core standards before using those standards as factors «in high - stakes decisions on teacher evaluation or student promotion for the next two years, during this transition.»

Amrein and Berliner identified 28 states where test scores are used to determine various consequences, such as bonuses for teachers, the promotion of students, or allowing children to transfer out of a failing school.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

promotion and funding of teacher exchanges between city and suburban school districts and training of teachers in techniques for successful interracial classrooms;

In addition, Florida embraced sensible education reforms such as alternative teacher certification, the curtailment of social promotion for students lacking basic literacy skills and the revamping of literacy instruction.

The promoted individuals are identical to the baseline career teacher in terms of age at entry into teaching and initial salary; the difference is that they are promoted to these administrative posts at the median promotion age for their respective positions (age 38 for school leadership, age 45 for superintendents).

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Throughout the country, and with the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, commonly known as the No Child Left Behind Act (which requires research - based assessment), student performance on these tests has become the basis for such critical decisions as student promotion from one grade to the next, and compensation for teachers and administrators.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

«There have been waves of merit pay initiatives in the past, and every time someone recommends it anew, it's as if it's never been done before,» says Johnson, who recently coauthored Redesigning Teacher Pay: A System for the Next Generation of Educators, a book garnering much attention in the education world by advocating a radically different approach to teacher pay that encourages teacher career development through a four - tier system of proTeacher Pay: A System for the Next Generation of Educators, a book garnering much attention in the education world by advocating a radically different approach to teacher pay that encourages teacher career development through a four - tier system of proteacher pay that encourages teacher career development through a four - tier system of proteacher career development through a four - tier system of promotion.

For tenured teachers, evaluation scores determine eligibility for some promotions or additional tenure protection, or, in the case of very low scores, placement in a peer assistance program with a small risk of terminatiFor tenured teachers, evaluation scores determine eligibility for some promotions or additional tenure protection, or, in the case of very low scores, placement in a peer assistance program with a small risk of terminatifor some promotions or additional tenure protection, or, in the case of very low scores, placement in a peer assistance program with a small risk of termination.

The promotion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures as a cross-curriculum priority in the Australian Curriculum provides both a challenge and an opportunity for teachers.

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.

Baltimore's teacher - pay system, jointly crafted by the district and its teachers» union, offers teachers higher pay and promotions for good performance and for taking on additional responsibilities.

The promotion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures as a cross-curriculum priority provides both a challenge and an opportunity for teachers.

During his eight years in Tallahassee, the governor established a far - reaching accountability system, including limits on social promotion in elementary school; introduced a plethora of school choice initiatives (vouchers for the disabled, vouchers for those in failing schools, tax - credit funded scholarships for the needy, virtual education, and a growing number of charter schools); asked school districts to pay teachers according to merit; promoted a «Just Read» initiative; ensured parental choice among providers of preschool services; and created a highly regarded system for tracking student achievement.

Indeed, some have suggested that ending social promotion in Chicago simply transferred responsibility for poor student performance to the students, parents, and after school and summer programs, in effect removing the burden from teachers (see Figure 1).

Some 85 percent of teachers and almost 90 percent of principals agreed that, as a result of the new criteria for promotion, «Nearly all teachers [in this school] feel extra responsibility to help students meet standards.»

Beginning in the 2000 - 2001 school year, the district began using a range of variables around the promotion cutoff to make promotion decisions; recommendations from teachers and principals, for example, were then incorporated into the promotion decisions.

TARBORO — Edgecombe County Public Schools is pursuing a new way to recruit and retain teachers that may lead to promotions and increased pay potential for high - achieving teachers in the district.

High - stakes testing refers to the use of assessment data to make decisions about enrollment, retention, promotion, incentives for children or teachers, or other tangible rewards or punishments (Madaus, 1988; Meisels, 1989).

Its purpose was to promote the usage of students» test scores to grade and pay teachers annual bonuses (i.e., «supplements») as per their performance, and «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make other «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»

The professional learning is not grounded in the latest science of what and how works best for investing in teachers to promote positive student outcomes, but also richly tied to the literature in support of promotion of teacher health and well - being.

For example, the publisher of the SAT10, used in the current Policy, says that for student promotion decisions, test scores «should be just one of the many factors considered and probably should receive less weight than factors such as teacher observation, day - to - day classroom performance, maturity level, and attituFor example, the publisher of the SAT10, used in the current Policy, says that for student promotion decisions, test scores «should be just one of the many factors considered and probably should receive less weight than factors such as teacher observation, day - to - day classroom performance, maturity level, and attitufor student promotion decisions, test scores «should be just one of the many factors considered and probably should receive less weight than factors such as teacher observation, day - to - day classroom performance, maturity level, and attitude.

It also addresses the impact of new graduation and promotion standards for ELLs, the challenges teachers face, and steps the New York City public schools need to take to overcome these challenges....

This led to a series of interventions: a standards - based report card, enforcement of promotion policies, and inservice training and communication with teachers about raising expectations for young children «s learning

The line between the value of formative assessment and diagnostic testing is blurred when there is pressure to ensure positive results for teacher evaluations, school grades, promotion, and graduation.

Career Lattices — PICCS schools offer educators opportunities to grow while remaining at their school, including a clear promotion process based on performance as well as leadership roles such as becoming a mentor teacher or coach for a professional learning community or data team.

As you noted, high stakes testing — using tests for student promotion, teacher evolution, and even school closure — has certainly increased the controversy surrounding the Common Core.

The teacher will also serve as an advisor that supports his / her advisory students to meeting our 6 yearly promotion requirements and creating a sense of community amongst this cohort for.

Teachers, for the most part, are better supported and have better promotion prospects than ever before.

The DfE found that most teachers want more training for promotion to senior leadership positions, even though professional development is generally difficult to fit into a timetable.

In 2016, LMU's School of Education received AACTE's Best Practice Award in Support of Multicultural Education and Diversity.131 According to AACTE, all of the teacher preparation programs at LMU are «grounded in principles such as the promotion of social justice, cultural responsiveness, inclusion, value and respect for all individuals, and leadership that is moral, intellectual, responsible, and caring.»

«It can be a partner with you in advocating for a greater size workforce, against privatization, against merit promotion, for teacher tenure, for higher wages, for massive government, for increasing bonded indebtedness, for increasing taxes?»

The twenty plus school sites that I have visited this spring are at risk of not having enough paper, in danger of needing to cancel 5th and 8th grade promotion celebrations, and worried they may need to cancel overtime for teachers tutoring students.

The Broad education agenda emphasizes the promotion of charter schools, the adoption of corporate methods for school leadership, and changes in the way teacher are compensated.»

Interview job applicants and make effective recommendations on hiring; write and conduct annual performance reviews for teacher assistants and teacher aides; use independent judgment to prepare written reports that may lead to promotion or disciplinary action

Standardized tests should not be used as the basis for decisions on student promotion, teacher and principal evaluation, and school probation and closings.

Now, if we could just get schools and districts to stop using standardized tests — which have ALL THE SAME PROBLEMS — for such high - stakes purposes as student promotion and retention, graduation, and teacher evaluation, we'd really be getting somewhere.