Sentences with phrase «good teachers value»

To the extent that good teachers value these protections, taking them away would make it harder to recruit and retain good teachers (much like a decrease in pay would).

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Very often what we personally value in our teachers, and what we judge best in our colleagues, is not what others, not even our best friends, may need or desire.

Vocational advisement, if it is to be of real educational value, should consist not in one or a few interviews on entering or leaving school, but in a continuing dialogue between the student and his parents and teachers in all fields as well as with professional guidance officers.

Solidarity is the best teacher of common cultural values.

As well, despite attending Catholic schools, the indoctrination factor was minimal; apparently, looking back my particular school was one of the first to fall under the shadow of those encroaching secular values... less habits and collars, more suits and cute young teachers to have a crush on

They would have paid their bloodtax, done their own part in the immemorial human warfare against nature; they would tread the earth more proudly, the women would value them more highly, they would be better fathers and teachers of the following generation.»

Teachers who do this well set aside time for revision, offer specific comments for improvement while conveying the belief that the student is capable, and then value the revision effort.

Helping students make the shift in attitude that Sommers describes can seem daunting in our current educational climate, where performance is valued over learning, and where parents and teachers often resort to questionable motivational techniques («if you don't do well, you'll end up working at McDonald's») to encourage students.

I'm sending my oldest to public school and it was a hard decision because my values lie elsewhere, but so far, minus a couple glitches I have worked out with her Kindergarden teacher already, so good.

The center promotes good values through Bible stories shared by committed and dedicated teachers.

Promote the parent as the child's first most important teacher for helping children not only acquire necessary academic skills and knowledge as well as teaching and sharing values, encouraging and supporting creativity and fostering curiosity and a love for learning.

As well as wanting to be recognised as highly skilled professionals deserving of good terms and conditions, teachers responding to the survey asked that you begin to value, trust and listen to them.

If it makes students more demanding and less tolerant of courses which are poor value, and if it increases pressure on universities to weed out underperforming academics and lousy teachers, that's to the good.

suggests that class size reduction policies are not the best option in terms of value for money to raising pupil attainment, compared to others such as increasing teacher effectiveness.

Despite the Government extolling the virtues of people working longer, older teachers, particularly women, feel under - valued and are often pressurised to leave their jobs well before their pension age, the Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has heard today.

«The teacher who is good for me can be bad for someone else; it depends on the student's values, needs and approaches to schooling.»

No one organization that can tell you a certain teacher is better than another, because each person's values of what it means to be good or qualified can be radically different.

Just accepting something at face value because you've heard it a few different times or even because a teacher or a professor says it is generally not the best way to acquire knowledge, so kudos to Melissa for asking that question and for getting some clarification.

There's a good chance that you have someone — such as a pastor or teacher — whose opinions and perspectives you place a lot of value in.

A teary appreciation of the value of a good teacher, the joy of music and the payoffs of discipline and hard work.

Take - up rates well below 100 percent suggest that many teachers ascribe less value to the medical benefits offered than they cost.

When a teacher posts high value - added scores in reading and math, we say, «That's a good (or «highly effective») teacher.»

In response, a number of reform efforts are focusing on creating small schools or schools within schools where students are known and valued as individuals by other students as well as by teachers and staff.

«Teacher retention and a reward systems that values staff rather than penalising them are key to the long term and sustainable success of a good education system and more Trusts, as well the Secretary of State, should take note of the approach introduced at TSAT schools.»

«An induction process is the best way to send a message to your teachers that you value them and want them to succeed and stay,» write Breaux and Wong.

He also authored «Valuing Teachers: How Much is a Good Teacher Worth?»

Institutions capture much of the value that teachers create in the classroom; the cost of education restricts access to those who need it most; and present e-learning solutions are mediocre at best.

Google is also introducing lesson plans and other activities for teachers to help better guide their classroom use, so this platform will be receiving a lot of attention for its educational value.

Teachers couldn't teach without teaching assistants, and parents — who know only too well the value of the work they do — will be horrified at the way they are being treated.

New teachers from good education programs recognize the value of teaching and learning from each other.

Many teachers see the value in calling parents to report good news.

«We overwhelmingly are told, from our novices to our most veteran teachers, that this is something they value, and they feel like they have become better teachers because of the work with a coach,» remarks Debbie Collins.

You want to give teachers agency so that they feel good about being in the school, and they feel that their creativity, experience, and knowledge about their students is valued.

It is easy to make lists of hundreds of values, skills and attributes that make for good teachers, but there are two skills that separate the good teachers from the great ones.

A value - added system might also identify a school's best and worst teachers by tracking their students» gains in the course of a year.

These results suggest either that the academic considerations parents value are better captured by principal ratings or that parents have difficulty observing how much value a teacher adds to reading and math test scores.

One of the consequences of it not being addressed is that teachers who understand how the system works and value high evaluation scores will do their best to be assigned to schools with high ability students, and within schools will do their best to get assigned the best students.

The debate misses important nuances about the evolved role teachers will play in the education system of the future, as well as the value technology will provide to enhance teachers» abilities to reach all of their students and practice at the top of their craft.

While I have consistently explained that value - added data systems have real limitations, they do provide a systematic way to identify teachers whose students are at least improving in math and reading at better - than - average rates.

If high - income parents are more likely to make a request, and such requests are for better teachers on average, then the availability of requests could exacerbate the achievement gap between students from low - and high - income families, even if all families equally value academic achievement.

That is, if value - added scores were the sole criteria used to make this decision, you're going to dismiss a small number of teachers who would have become good or even possibly great.

Without widespread agreement on what good teachers need to know and be able to do, and given the skepticism among professional educators about the fairness or value of standardized assessments, NCATE has little leeway for assessing outcomes without inspiring controversy.

Reporting on the statistics The effects of this disastrous triumvirate on the education pipeline is made apparent in the NSEAD Survey Report 2015 ‑ 16, that asked how, over the last five years, has government policy impacted on art craft and design education, looking at curriculum provision in art and design, the value given to art and design in schools and colleges, professional development opportunities and the well ‑ being and workload of art and design teachers.

Teachers in the United Kingdom also use arrow cards to support place value skills and concepts, and this useful tool is beginning to catch on in the United States as well.

Measures of teachers» value added in previous years are an even better predictor of future gains in students» achievement than are principal ratings.

This problem is particularly acute because NCATE's subject - matter standards were drafted by its constituent specialty associations — and those groups, like the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the National Council of Teachers of English, have a track record of promoting methods of instruction whose value has not been well established.

If you follow the increasing use of Value - Added Measures (VAMs) and Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs) in state -, district -, school -, and teacher - accountability systems, read this very good new Mathematica working paper.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

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States and districts should have been focusing on the real end goal — differentiating the best teachers from those who are merely satisfactory and those who continue to struggle — a task that would not have required complicated mathematical formulas designed to measure each teacher's «value - added» to student achievement.