Sentences with phrase «from teacher bias»

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A historian... without any theological bias whatever, should find that he simply can not portray the progress of humanity honestly without giving a foremost place to a penniless teacher from Nazareth.

Kids should be encouraged to ask questions of what they learned from all their teachers (especially religiously biased teachers)

A historian without any theological bias whatever would find that he simply can not portray the progress of humanity honestly without giving a foremost place to a penniless teacher from Nazareth.»

If the socioeconomic status and demographic characteristics of the classrooms taught by National Board teachers differ from those of noncertified teachers, measures of teacher quality that rely on student performance may be biased.

We demonstrated that a regression - based statistical correction for the proportion of the students in each teacher's class that are English - language learners, have education disabilities, are from low - income families, and so forth, wrings most of the bias out of classroom observations.

The bias in classroom observation systems that derives from some teachers being assigned much more able students than other teachers is very important to the overall performance of the teacher evaluation system.

The NRC report suggests several possible reasons, including a lack of knowledge about such opportunities among teachers and administrators; a bias among principals for more traditional methods; and institutional resistance from district professional development staff who might see their own jobs disappear if teachers bypass their programs and engage in training created from afar.

Furthermore, tests should be created with the input of classroom teachers throughout the design process, from start to finish, to actively solicit our feedback on alignment, bias, and logistics.

This gives the assistant principal a fresh start with no bias from the old teachers (it is a different role and perspective to go from an AP to a principal at the same school).

The Principal Difference — this blog, by the National Association of Secondary School Principals, doesn't shy away from raising important issues such as uncovering myths of student engagement or if elementary teacher bias discourages girls from math and science.

Results avoid bias from within - country selection and are robust to continental fixed effects and to controlling for non-performance-based forms of teacher salary adjustments.

A new study conducted by economists from SPA and Johns Hopkins University's Department of Economics found sweeping bias in teachers» expectations of black students.

Given that a majority of teachers hail from a middle class European - American background, the biggest obstacle to successful culturally responsive instruction for most educators is disposing of their own cultural biases and learning about the backgrounds of the students that they will be teaching.

Using 2008 data for almost 5,000 pupils from the Millennium Cohort Study, it demonstrates biases in teachers» average ratings of sample pupils» reading and maths «ability and attainment» which correspond to every one of these key characteristics.

There is already clear evidence, from the DfE's school workforce statistics and elsewhere, of bias against women teachers in academies, which is wholly unacceptable in a predominantly female profession.

After hearing anecdotally from educators about the impact home visits had on teacher goal setting and teacher expectations, Flamboyan began to question the deeper impact of home visits on teachers» negative implicit biases vis - à - vis students and families.

The internal barriers are those that are teacher induced and come from each individual teacher's own biases and experiences with technology.

Teachers are never asked to directly compare the work of a pupil from their school with a pupil from another school, to prevent any possible bias creeping in.

Intensifying the training will not prevent teachers from exercising their biases in the classrooms, or not caring about students as a whole.

Free from physical constraints and preconceived biases, teachers can concentrate on building questioning, listening, and responding skills when noticing student mathematical thinking.

As many states work to implement new teacher evaluation systems, a new report by the Brown Center on Education Policy indicates a bias in evaluations resulting from principals who give their teachers an unfair boost based on the students they're assigned to teach, not their instructional capability.

Borgonovi and Achiron offered this advice: «Training teachers to recognize and address any biases they may hold about different groups of students — boys and girls, socio - economically advantaged or disadvantaged students, students from different ethnic or cultural traditions — will help them to become more effective teachers and ensure that all students make the most of their potential.»

My «fairest» interpretation of the current albeit controversial research surrounding this particular issue is that bias does not exist across teacher - level estimates, but it certainly occurs when teachers are non-randomly assigned highly homogenous sets of students who are gifted, who are English Language Learners (ELLs), who are enrolled in special education programs, who disproportionately represent racial minority groups, who disproportionately come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and who have been retained in grade prior.

In sum, efforts to compare teachers working in schools that serve children from widely varied backgrounds are vulnerable to bias.

More specifically, the district and its teachers are not coming to an agreement about how they should be evaluated, rightfully because teachers understand better than most (even some VAM researchers) that these models are grossly imperfect, largely biased by the types of students non-randomly assigned to their classrooms and schools, highly unstable (i.e., grossly fluctuating from one year to the next when they should remain more or less consistent over time, if reliable), invalid (i.e., they do not have face validity in that they often contradict other valid measures of teacher effectiveness), and the like.

Then I insert a group of teachers (as Audrey described) who represent 20 % of a population and teach a disproportionate number of students who come from relatively lower socioeconomic, high racial minority, etc. backgrounds, and I assume this group is measured with negative bias on both indicators and this group has a moderate correlation between indicators of r = 0.50.

That is, only those teachers teaching classrooms inordinately stacked with students from racial minority, poor, low achieving, etc. groups might yield relatively stronger correlations between their value - added and observational scores given bias, hence, the low correlations observed may be due to bias and bias alone.

College entrance exams, such as the ACT or SAT, are «culturally biased» and discourage prospective teachers of color from entering the profession.

Finally, unions have historically played a role in defending teachers from administrative incompetence and bias.

Realizing that Success Academy's own marketing materials are heavily biased, we also sought news articles, employee reviews, and independent reports that highlight potential counter-narratives from teachers, parents, and other stakeholders.

Having started with the Boys» Reading Commission report from the National Literary Trust for 2012, Emmett cites the commission's determination that boys may have trouble finding material that interests them and, on Page 22, a note reading: «Some teachers and librarians asserted that it is a supply issue and linked it to the female bias of the publishing industry.»

To reach these ambitious goals, Lions Quest and partners will train teachers from more than six local schools in social and emotional learning and overcoming patriarchal norms, gender biases and stereotypes in the initial pilot.

First, it is recognized explicitly in TRAILS that the use of information from multiple sources is important for obtaining a complete picture of behaviour and functioning and reducing mono - informant information bias.11, 12 Adolescents, their parents, teachers and peers all tend to observe partly different aspects of behaviour and functioning that are all likely to be relevant for understanding the presence, severity and determinants of mental health of adolescents.

As African American boys experience a much higher rate of suspensions and expulsions from preschool settings than do other children (Gilliam 2005), these relationship - building techniques are particularly relevant for teachers as they reflect on their own practices and biases — especially toward African American boys — in early childhood classrooms.

In the same way that students have private channels to address their biggest needs, teachers can also log in to Ripple Effects from home to work on biases that they find difficult and embarrassing to discuss in public.

Implicit bias exacerbates the problems arising from teachers» gaps in training and contributes to racial and gender disparity in preschool expulsions.