Sentences with phrase «for weak teachers»

The obvious policy solution is more pay for good teachers, more dismissals for weak teachers.

And, increasingly, we're getting solid evidence of what reforms may help: teacher evaluations based on student performance, higher pay and prestige for good teachers, dismissals for weak teachers.

Now, it strikes me as ludicrous for the unions to sit quietly by and share the blame for timid, tepid leadership, or when unions passively take the blame for weak teachers when teacher preparation programs produce graduates of dubious merit.

Not exact matches

I thought he was a weak teacher at best, a heretical charlatan using the Gospel for his own personal gain (and a jet) at worst.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

In addition to being academically weak, these teachers are dissatisfied with their job and will use more effort on searching for another job than on their actual teaching.

«Teachers are standing up for their students and themselves against largely red states with weak labor laws and where governors and legislators have opted for tax -LSB-...]

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

Maria Bustillos objects to «firing «weaker» teachers for the sake of a barely perceptible increase in students» «lifetime income.

After visiting the schools, Gustafson reported that all four — each an independent «mom - and - pop» operation with no links to national groups — faced a host of challenges, including strained budgets, low enrollments, curriculum problems, inexperienced staff, weak professional development for teachers, and board members ignorant of testing and other academic essentials.

However, the combination diminishes student learning, particularly for minorities and low income children, who are most likely to have weaker teachers.

Once he's engaged, a teacher can challenge him to use a different, weaker skill set for another part of the lesson, helping him develop those parts of his brain.

But today the absence of a common core is a critical handicap, particularly for the neediest kids, weakest teachers, and least advantaged schools.

They can spend time effectively on learning, access online platforms for essay service and assignment help and work on his weak areas with expert guidance from scholars and teachers.

When she puts bad and weak teachers on notice, she doesn't realize that she's targeting a historic avenue of middle - class employment for African Americans in the city.

If differentiation is wrongly interpreted to mean that teachers should hold lower expectations for weaker students and always set them easier learning tasks, then the students will simply fall more and more behind.

He made sure that the push to hold educators accountable for results stopped short of challenging protection of dismal teachers and stymied efforts to send strong teachers into weak schools.

DB plans remain the norm in the public education sector, however, despite the fiscal problems and the weak economic rationale for mobile professionals like teachers, many of whom move out of state or out of the profession and lose much of their accumulated benefits.

In addition to a north - south divide in school standards, in its annual report, Ofsted noted: an improvement in primary schools, but with weaker secondaries, teacher shortages affecting many schools, a need for better leadership in underperforming schools, free school standards «broadly in line» with other schools, early education as «never stronger» and a decline in prison education.

Everyone else, he adds with regret in his voice, was often left with a «lifetime of bad memories and demeaning experiences,» like being picked last for basketball scrimmage or being ridiculed by teachers and fellow students for being too weak or too slow.

For instance, one study of the 345,000 - student Miami - Dade County, Fla., school system finds that the most effective principals appear to be particularly adept at weeding out weak teachers and keeping strong ones.

While harsh on teacher unions, Brimelow makes excuses for journalists whose coverage of the unions is weak or limited: «On those rare occasions when reporters do cover the teacher unions, they find themselves overwhelmed by the arcane and incomprehensible.»

In the past half century, this country has tolerated a weak licensing system for prospective teachers.

The weakest support was for paying teachers more if their students demonstrate knowledge gains on state tests (63 percent support, 25 percent strongly).

On the other hand, it is disappointing to observe that weak undergraduate teachers do not make up for their limitations in the classroom with disproportionate research excellence.

They are places where authorizers can see with their own eyes that weak instruction, mediocre curricula, poorly prepared or demoralized teachers, and often well - meaning but ineffective leaders add up to poor educational experiences for their charges.

From this position, I can help the teacher capitalize on these abilities as we work to compensate for weaker areas.

Schools in poor neighborhoods have to pay as much for a teacher with weak preparation and no experience as schools in more upscale neighborhoods pay for a teacher with a doctorate and twenty years» experience.

The study finds that student achievement improved significantly, especially for the students who had the weakest teacher.

The report criticizes as «weak» the college education of prospective teachers and calls for major revisions in teacher - training programs, including a more rigorous general education, fewer education courses, revised financing formulas for colleges of education, and the development of alternative - certification plans.

Goals around increasing the numbers of teachers in mathematics, science, special education and other hard - to - staff subjects were dismissed as weak because they included no steps for achieving them or benchmarks by which progress could be measured.

On their own, teachers are in a weak and sometimes risky position with the incoming principal, to argue for continuing attention to the initiatives they have been working on with the outgoing principal and that are showing signs of progress.

No principal can improve opportunities for students without the authority to hire and retain good teachers and to weed out weak ones.

Writing instruction for teacher candidates: Strengthening a weak curricular area.

It is often assumed that to improve, teachers should work to develop the weakest aspects of their practice, and for some teachers, these aspects may indeed be so weak that they should be the priority for professional development.

An AFT report «Passing on Failure» delineates several reasons for student failure: «immaturity, weak curriculum and instruction, excessive absenteeism, lack of effort, failure of teachers and administrators as well as parents to use practices that promote high achievement, and failure due to a combination of factors listed above.»

Compliance by students will be weak so incentives should be considered for the teacher or staff member who returns the highest number of Pledges (Rate of return is not expected to exceed 10 %)

On balance, the evidence suggests, students benefit when collective bargaining rights for teachers are stronger, not weaker.

Reformers such as former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle A. Rhee argue that for too long, weak teachers have used poverty as an excuse and that an effective educator can transcend circumstances.

Statewide assessments across the US are essentially «final exam» tests to find out how much kids have learned, rather than diagnostic tests designed to help teachers teach [except in an after - the - fact way to perhaps adjust instructional practice for the next group of kids, a relatively weak form of diagnostic testing for individual teachers].

Nathan Saunders, the second - ranking leader of the Washington Teachers» Union, has been an outspoken critic of D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee and WTU President George Parker, denouncing Rhee for her performance - based salary proposals and Parker as a weak and credulous labor leader.

But his teachers used technology to identify his weak spots, customize a learning plan just for him and coach him through it.

Perhaps Merrow is right to point to our divergent state policies and lack of support or respect for teachers as weak areas of our educational system.

As a school administrator for more than 20 years now, I find it is easier to support and help the weaker teachers in my school improve than to try to weed them out and recruit new ones.

That would mean paying more to London teachers (where schools are good) and less for much of the urban north (where they are weaker).

... the Feinberg recommendations are still rather weak sauce, especially in light of the fact that it still keeps in place state laws and processes that make it almost impossible for school and district leaders to fire teachers who don't belong in classrooms.

Do low reading scores recorded years after a group of teachers enter the classroom, for instance, mean their training program had a bad curriculum or weak instructors?

Sure, Supt. John Deasy has managed to at least talk the talk on systemically reforming the district (even as he makes rather weak moves as striking a deal with the AFT's City of Angels local on a teacher evaluation plan that does little to actually measure the performance of teachers based on their success with the students they instruct in classrooms) and has even allowed for families at 24th Street Elementary to exercise the district's own Parent Trigger policy and take over the school.

In my position as Head Teacher, I was very excited about this project, but felt a certain amount of trepidation over, in what some may see, as handing the reins for school improvement over to the teachers, with what could be seen as quite a weak system of accountability.

Wisconsin lost out in this year's «Race to the Top» competition for federal dollars largely because its proposals on teacher development were rated as weak.