Sentences with phrase «giving teachers and principals»
But if IB offers young kids a passage to the future, it gives their teachers and principals a comprehensive tool for today.
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When Ms. Reed took the reins of the school system in 2005 after earning her doctorate, one of the first actions she took was to give teachers and principals training on the effects of poverty on children so that they could better understand some of the challenges their students face in learning.
New York City's school system, the largest in the United States, recently layered on top of NCLB a system of sanctions (up to and including removing principals from their jobs) and financial rewards for both schools and their principals; this system gives teachers and principals alike strong incentives to care about the quality of the teaching in their classrooms.
Assessments are integrated directly into articles to help students engage with the content and to give teachers and principals actionable insights on students» activity.
He gave teachers and principals the opportunity to make choices, some of which we hope increased student learning — although we could not always be sure of that.
Not exact matches
Give an «all about me» handout not only to your child's teacher, but also to the principal and any other teachers or therapists who will interact with her.
The obvious solution is to build nutrition and sustainability into food contracts, give principals more autonomy to make smart decisions, and extend the school day so that our fine, fine teachers have enough time to give our kids what they need.
Cuomo should focus on increasing the discretion principals have to remove bad teachers — and on giving kids the choice to get out of classrooms with poor teachers by going to charter schools.
No consequences for teachers or principals related to student scores on state tests in English language arts and math given in grades 3 - 8 until the start of the 2019 - 20 school year.
The principals union took legal action and won back the right to their placards — but the city decided to give the permits to teachers, as well, according to the Council of School Supervisors & Administrators.
«Aside from that, both principal and subject teachers should be enjoined to ensure that they give the desired guidance to the students on the proper use of Opon Imo in the sense that whoever for any reason among the beneficiaries (students) misapply its uses, it will attract N50, 000 fine and this is backup by legislation of the Osun State House of Assembly.
Elia said she plans to have the toolkit in place before the tests next April to give better guidance for superintendents, principals, teachers and parents.
«It staggers the imagination to think that, given these facts, the DOE can continue to insist that no principal's judgment can be questioned, and that no checks or balances are needed on their powers to destroy a teacher's career,» he said.
According to a 1955 Education article by Leon Mones, then an assistant superintendent in Newark, New Jersey, and a former principal, Symonds and others were openly advocating that the emotional life of the teacher become the focus of teacher preparation, since «it is the teacher's personality that is the tool with which he works rather than the content in which he gives instruction.»
Many elements comprise strong programs, but most principals would agree on this one thing: any programs success depends as much on teacher buy - in — and on training and support given to teachers — as on the program itself.
Given my interview with Hertzberger, I was not surprised when teachers and principals came up to me after the presentations and expressed how they wished they would be able to create such transformative learning environments.
«It was a great experience for me; it gave me more appreciation for what teachers and principals go through,» added Mrva.
«Graduate teachers deserve to know that they have the skills to succeed in the classroom just as students, parents and principals deserve to know that new teachers have been given the best possible skills.»
«Our students must use the school - designed homework notebook in which teachers initial each assignment given (as a means of checking that students have properly recorded the assignment) and that parents initial to indicate that they have looked at the completed assignments,» said principal Heather Hamtil of St. Vincent DePaul Academy in Kansas City, Missouri.
«This is not a test, this is a in - school, in - classroom skills check that won't be publicly reported or anything like that that relates to NAPLAN, but will give teachers, principals and parents a consistent platform to say: is my child, is my student actually meeting the type of standards we would expect after around 18 months or so at school?
Influences that Derail Student Learning TribLive, 4/12/13 «Richard Weissbourd, a lecturer in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is showing — through research in a range of classrooms — how teachers, principals, school boards and legislators can rescue such kids from dead - end lives before they give up on schools.»
So each month we speak to researchers, they give us a snapshot of the findings, and the implications for teachers, principals, people working on the ground.
Sherry notes that as governor, «Romney proposed education reform measures that lifted the state cap on charter schools and gave principals more power to get rid of ineffective teachers.»
As governor, Romney proposed education reform measures that lifted the state cap on charter schools and gave principals more power to get rid of ineffective teachers.
In an excerpt from his new book, Class Warfare, published in this weekend's Wall Street Journal, Brill argues that reformers need to find a middle ground for teachers and principals that gives them a work life somewhere between the status quo and an unsustainable sprint.
Now a new study by University of Michigan economist Brian Jacob finds that when given the authority, principals make dismissal decisions that put a premium on teacher effectiveness and student achievement.
In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.
«The first year, not all teachers wanted to participate, and we gave them that option,» Marj Trumble, principal of the Center told Education World.
This is not surprising in some ways, given problems in current educational practice: we tend to provide less funding, have fewer outstanding teachers and principals, and require less rigorous coursework in schools that serve lower - income students.
«This is our version of trying to think like school principals and teacher - leaders to create a schedule that will give people time to collaborate and work together.»
How many teachers and principals should receive extra compensation, be protected from layoffs, be given additional responsibilities, and encouraged to stay on the job?
Once the survey was done, Huntington and the other 50 middle and high schools that took part in the initiative were given reports in clear, accessible language that summarized the results, plus a set of resources and customized strategies that teachers and principals could use to make changes based on their results.
They have the power to send information home in students» backpacks and, even more importantly, to instruct school principals, counselors, and teachers to give parents information about these options at school - sponsored events such as back - to - school night and during parent / teacher conferences.
... You'll see the rollout of a statewide data system that will give a lot more useful information to teachers and principals about student performance and a lot more useful data for policymakers.
> Because principals differ in the generosity and degree of variation in the ratings they give, we placed all the ratings on the same scale by subtracting from each teacher's rating the average rating given by that teacher's principal and then dividing by the principal's standard deviation.
What's needed, he says, are policy changes, giving the best teachers incentives to go into the most demanding schools and allowing principals to have more control over hiring and evaluating teachers and more flexibility and control over their budgets.
The results of this analysis confirm that the relationship between higher teacher turnover and lower average valueadded in a given grade is stronger as principal quality rises.
«What the Common Instructional Framework has done for teachers is given them a framework so that they can strategize with other teachers about content, interventions, and student success,» explains Dr. Janice Lombardi, Trinidad Garza's principal.
They shared smaller incentives among large numbers of teachers and principals rather than giving larger awards to the highest - achieving staff.
States and districts are currently given billions of dollars each year in Title II funding to improve teacher and principal quality without any accountability at all.
Furthermore, he contends, «If a teacher doesn't think that their principal is giving them a fair evaluation because of some vendetta, they can have an external expert with no personal ax to grind watch and give feedback.»
«If a principal or school board mandates a shift to block scheduling without involving teachers or if many teachers find switching from a 45 - minute to a 90 - minute format difficult and aren't given appropriate training, student outcomes in very similar schools could be different.»
The second half of the sample was asked a more complex question, which required giving weights to test scores and evaluations from four different sources: principals, parents, students, and fellow teachers.
Districts can move up timelines for teacher resignations and transfers and give principals in hard - to - staff schools first dibs on new entrants and transfers.
The second study shows how training and support for principals in how to observe and give feedback to teachers can lead to gains in student achievement.
These schools hold students accountable for achievement; extend the school day, week, and year; and give principals the autonomy to hire the most skilled teachers.
The new instructional practices demanded by the standards would have been reflected and reinforced through teacher observations, with feedback given by trained coaches and principals.
Some 71 percent of high - school juniors and seniors rate their teachers as «excellent» or «good,» while only 36 percent give their schools similarly high marks, according to a survey released last week by the National Association of Secondary School Principals and Sylvan Learning Centers.
States and districts can establish a policy of «mutual consent» that gives principals the right to choose their own teachers... States and districts can eliminate seniority - based layoffs, which should consider effectiveness instead, and make it easier to transfer or remove ineffective teachers who can not improve.»
«If a teacher is focused on taking attendance, starting a lesson, catching up a student who was absent yesterday, and scheduling a principal's observation, taking the perspective of 25 students in a given class is very difficult.»