National leaders of teachers unions, long opposed to change, are willing to talk about once - taboo subjects such as making it easier to
get weak teachers out of classrooms.
Not exact matches
I refused to wear glasses and blamed it on «my glasses are old and they don't help me see anyway» excuse to my
teachers, which was true as my eyes were just
getting weaker and I needed a new glasses prescription.
The only real
weak link in the film, if you can
get past the overly formulaic story, is Roselyn Sanchez as Peyton's ballet
teacher and Joe's love interest.
If your child is
weak in mathematics and strong in music, we usually
get him a math
teacher and not a piano
teacher.
The
teacher you remember from your youth is not the easy grader who let you
get away with a
weak performance; it is the tough one who gave you a challenge and was not easy to please.
Teaching children to read is central to a
teacher's calling, but a large body of evidence shows that
teachers get weak training in individual learning differences and in teaching reading to students with diverse backgrounds and abilities.
At those good schools, she said, the state
teacher evaluation system could actually
get in the way of
getting rid of
weak teachers.
Similarly, initially low - achieving students are challenged more to
get a good grade with tough
teachers, but particularly when they are among the
weakest members of a class.
The
teacher who hopes to
get students generating hypotheses will first need to cover and identify logic and faulty logic, errors of attack,
weak reference misinformation, media influence, and statistical limitations.
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.
To ensure that my students learn, I work closely with other
teachers (in and out of my school district) who are
getting the job done (students perform well on standardized assessments), I research constantly in areas I feel
weakest, and I invest in my own professional development.
When it was signed almost a year ago, Newark's new
teacher contract was touted as a national model for rewarding strong
teachers and for improving or in some cases,
getting rid of
weaker ones.