Sentences with phrase «get higher quality teachers»

Ideally, in the short term, we would concentrate on how to get the highest quality teachers to the students who need them the most.»

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In addition, we like to keep the student / teacher ratio low to ensure you get a high quality program.

Working with school leaders, new high - quality training opportunities will be developed to boost career progression and support the record number of teachers in our schools to become leaders in their field, including: extending on - the - job training and support for trainee and new teachers to two years, so they get the best possible start to their career; and creating early career development opportunities for teachers through a new framework that schools will follow, developed in partnership with teachers, school leaders and education experts.

If all we're doing is saying [teachers] have to work until six instead of three, we're not necessarily going to get the highest quality performance,» Johnson said.

Therefore, it's up to charter school leaders and teachers to prove to parents that their children are getting a high - quality education and laying the foundation for a life of opportunity.

Everyone has a stake in getting assessment right by ensuring that there are enough teachers to maintain high - quality marking.

Education secretary Justine Greening said: «Getting the best people to train as teachers and into our classrooms is a crucial part of giving every child the high - quality education deserve.

Coupled with the general finding that effective teachers are the key to a high - quality school, it is natural to infer that the children most in need are systematically getting the poorest teachers.

It retains NCLB's federal framework for testing reading and math in grades 3 - 8 and again in high school, in addition to science in elementary, middle, and high school, while getting the federal government out of the business of trying to judge teacher or school quality or how to «fix» schools.

Let me now revisit a fifth potential asset, which is also the main reason that small - government conservatives should favor the Common Core or other high - quality «national standards»: This is the best path toward getting Uncle Sam and heavy - handed state governments to back off from micro-managing how schools are run and to return that authority to communities, individual schools, teachers, and parents.

The report recommends various measures to help close the achievement gap, including: more investment in early years education; ensuring all schools have access to good examples of top quality teaching and leadership; good careers guidance for all pupils; extra support for teachers, such as a mortgage deposit scheme to help high - performing school staff get on the housing ladder; and promoting and measuring character development, wellbeing and mental health in schools.

The teachers can work together on training, planning and evaluation so pupils at both schools get access to the same high quality teaching.

In order to achieve this, the Commission suggests the government should mandate all schools in the ten lowest performing local authorities to take part in area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the highest - quality teachers into the schools that need them most.

It does not address the changes we need to see in teacher compensation, the organization of the school day, the role of instructional leadership, and a range of other key factors crucial to getting the teacher - quality equation right in a workforce of 3,000,000 facing 200,000 teacher hires a year, due to high rates of turnover and mounting retirements.

What teachers get out of PowerSave Schools: high quality resources and opportunities for project - based, real - world learning.

Our specialist recruiters then work hard to narrow down the results to create the right shortlist of staff for you: despite the decrease in teachers applying to train, we've got the resources available to match high quality candidates to any vacancy.

Look for them to push for systems in which schools could get good ratings for either high proficiency rates or strong growth; to embrace squishy «other indicators of student success or school quality» (such as «teacher engagement») and make those indicators count for as much as possible; and to lobby for school categories that all sound positive.

More importantly, the lack of strong statements from Rhee and Henderson about the alleged test cheating also casts a dark cloud on what both can claim to be successes in crafting policies and practices that will help D.C. children get high - quality teachers and strong, comprehensive college - preparatory curricula for decades to come.

Winners had to show they were reforming their education systems to fix the worst schools, get quality teachers in each classroom, have high standards and measure students and schools against those standards and impose data systems to be able to measure what works and what doesn't.

With exceptional teachers, high - quality facilities and a nurturing environment, our focus is on getting students to and through college.

They have targeted strategies to get strong teachers and leaders into high - poverty / high - minority schools and can swiftly remove ineffective teachers; they are closing low - performing schools and offering high - quality choices through both traditional and charter schools; and they have adopted demanding graduation standards and assessments so that students leave high school capable of attending college and ready for careers.

The result of this long slide in teacher quality can be captured in multiple snapshots: the declining U.S. ranking on international education comparisons (down to middle of the pack), the embarrassing number of military applicants who get rejected (more than one in five does not meet the minimum standards for Army enlistment) and the astonishing rates of those needing remedial classes in college (as high as 40 percent).

His passion can be seen in every opportunity he gets to create high - quality instructional opportunities for teachers, students, and instructional leaders.

The middle grade years are the last best chance to get students ready for success both in high school and beyond, but these grades are often overlooked in both research and resources The MSM initiative takes on this challenge by turning high - quality research into strategies for districts, schools, and teachers to improve reading, writing, and math instruction.

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However, I do get anxious whenever teacher assessments are aggregated and compared as if they are high - quality summative data, because teacher assessments are subjective.

More importantly, it is unfair to high - quality teachers, especially younger teachers, who don't get immediate reward for their performance, have to wait 20 years or more to reap the full benefits, may not get the full benefits if they leave the profession (which is possible in an age in which one can change careers at least three times during their working lives), and must deal with laggard colleagues being paid equal pay for less - than - stellar work.

He has also pointed to the central importance of high - quality teachers to making sure that the disadvantaged get the best chances in school.

We can't get as high quality teachers paying so little.

5 High quality teaching must be an essential component of every school's pupil premium policy, with those pupils getting the best teachers

As Dropout Nation has noted ad nauseam, few of the accountability systems allowed to replace No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provision are worthy of the name; far too many of them, including the A-to-F grading systems put into place by such states as New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality education.

But there are some inspirations we could draw from the country, such as trying to get more high - performing students into the classroom as teachers or being more explicit in the character qualities we want students to develop — without obsessing over how to measure them.

So yes, if we could get many of these students access to targeted, high - quality and effective after - school programs, that would be a great help to teachers in challenging classrooms like hers.

Given that defined - benefit pensions (along with near - free healthcare benefits, near - lifetime employment rules in the form of tenure, and seniority - and degree - based pay scales) have been proven to be ineffective in either spurring improvements in student achievement, are a disincentive in rewarding high - quality work by teachers (who get the same levels of compensation as laggard colleagues), and actually serve as a disincentive to luring math and science collegians into teaching, it is high time to scrap this and other aspects of traditional teacher compensation.

«How can we expect to get the kinds of high quality teachers that we need when we can't even keep our own teachers in North Carolina?»

Which gets to this reality: Even if you provide teachers with all that they need — including high - quality curricula, strong school leaders and data — teachers will still have to figure out some things on their own.

For too long, our most underserved students have gotten shortchanged out of access to a high - quality education — from disparate funding formulas to teacher contract issues.

The U.S. Department of Education is contemplating issuing new rules that could prod states to ensure that poor and minority children get access to as many high - quality teachers as their more - advantaged peers.

We've got true content experts creating high quality tools for other teachers, so we know they're going to be great.»

So my key role becomes getting the results we need by ensuring high quality rigor and high quality instruction in the classrooms as well as providing the support that teachers need.»

But we had better get used to the idea, beginning with an overhaul of the bachelors degree along with more leadership from higher education in improving K - 12 teacher quality and making more seamless the transition from secondary to post-secondary work.

This brings opportunity for teachers to work together on training, planning and evaluation so pupils at both schools get access to the same high - quality teaching.

After analyzing the data and writing each case we found that four components stood out as consistently prominent across all the schools: a broad and deep curriculum designed for all students with little tracking or ability grouping (meaning that most students get the same high quality learning experiences in all classes); a teaching staff with advanced content knowledge; a mission - focused administrative structure with a flattened hierarchy that invited collaboration with and among teachers and students; and supports for underrepresented students, such as advisories with personalized college planning, tutoring or summer research programs on college campuses.

Our unique formula allows us to bring you high - quality coaching, proven instructional strategies, and a method to ensure strategies get implemented - all in a way that is personalized to the needs of your teachers and students.

But in fact, the ability to keep teachers and develop them into excellent teachers is the more important goal and strategy for getting a high - quality teaching force.

If we were a highly developed nation that is high - achieving, we would be offering free teacher education to everyone that wants to teach, in high - quality [preparatory programs]... and getting rid of the [programs] that can't meet the bar, so that everyone comes in ready and competent.

But the teachers» complaints go far beyond compensation, and when viewed in the context of their other demands, it's clear that the strike gets at the heart of some of the biggest issues facing America's children: access to effective teachers, high - quality learning materials, and modern facilities.

Even with the gamesmanship by states, No Child's accountability rules have shown that far too many schools are dropout factories, failure mills, and warehouses of mediocrity; that far too many teachers are not capable of providing high - quality instruction; that school leadership at all levels is often abysmal; and that the fierce urgency of right now is not only necessary, but paramount to helping all kids get the education they need to fulfill their potential.

Yet the evidence has shown this isn't the case: The few instances of gains happen largely because of other matters, notably that poor and minority kids finally got high - quality teachers.

focused on developing district expertise regarding the state standards and how our curriculum can become a document that breaks the adage of «if you continue to do what you've always done... you will continue to get what you have always gotten...» As I speak here today, I am humbled by the number of high quality teachers, principals, department heads and specialists behind