Sentences with phrase «for the observation portion»

Currently 35 percent of an educator's evaluation is comprised of student achievement data based on student growth; • Lower the weight of student achievement growth for teachers in non-tested grades and subjects from 25 percent to 15 percent; • And make explicit local school district discretion in both the qualitative teacher evaluation model that is used for the observation portion of the evaluation as well as the specific weight student achievement growth in evaluations will play in personnel decisions made by the district.

Not exact matches

Two of the major projects for this IPY will be the creation of permanent permafrost observations and an expansion of the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX), a model experiment that uses easily constructed greenhouses to artificially warm portions of the tundra.

«The Subaru observations of Jupiter so far this year have been timed to coordinate with the greatest benefit to Juno mission,» said Glenn Orton, PI for the portion of the Keck Telescope exchange time with the Subaru Telescope and coordinator for Earth - based observations supporting the Juno project at JPL.

For these most recent observations, the astronomers used only a portion of ALMA's 66 antennas when the telescope was in its lower - resolution configuration.

We've got a live blog going elsewhere on our site with observations on the ceremony from film critics A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, and you can refer to this post for a complete list of winners from the televised portion of the ceremony.

Based on direct observations of conditions in local schools, for instance, some portions of the public may decide that whatever is being spent is not enough.

Lab Reports are partially completed, with Supplies, Introduction, & Procedure portions completed and Observations, Diagrams, & Summary left blank for the student to fill out.

Value - added scores account for up to 50 percent of evaluations in some states, and a smaller portion in many others, with the remainder of teachers» ratings comprised of classroom observations and other measures.

The New Jersey Commissioner of Education developed a list of approved observation and measurement tools from which they recommend districts to use to evaluate teachers for the «teacher practice» portion.

Set the scoring bands at the state level for both the student growth measure and the observation portion of the score.

Air temperature increases similar to those observed aloft since 1960, amplified by associated increases in humidity, account for a significant portion of the enhanced ablation leading to this strongly negative mass balance, but the exact proportion is highly uncertain because of the short span of energy and mass balance observations.

For the core MM (1650 − 1700), we have found that (1) A large portion of no - spot records, which correspond to the solar meridian observations, may be unreliable in the conventional database.

The first observation is that the conference provided an opportunity for a collective of interested non-Indigenous organisations (including the National Mental Health Commission) and representatives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities (including an Arnhem Land Elder and law custodian and members of the sexuality and gender diverse population), to gather in the same space to share their concerns and listen to each other, on an issue that is at catastrophic portions.