Sentences with phrase «greater teacher effort»

Our results confirm that students in tracked classes seem to have benefited from more - focused teaching and perhaps also from greater teacher effort.

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By investing your time and energy into doing the best job as a teacher, you'll see that the greatest rewards in life come when you put the most effort into your work.

Although it can be hard to watch your child do poorly on a test he didn't study for or lose out on an opportunity because he didn't put in the effort, those consequences can be some of life's greatest teachers.

The formation of New Yorkers for Great Public Schools is just the teachers unions» latest effort to derail meaningful reform in our schools.

It amounts to a great deal of effort and energy and political capital expended on one policy matter, albeit an extremely important one affecting over 1 million students, their parents, teachers, and others, while the rest of the de Blasio Albany agenda sits somewhat neglected.

They say nothing comes without effort, you have worked extremely hard over the decades to become the greatest teacher I have ever come across.

In addition, great work by Gema and Albert Cheng has found that student effort can actually be changed when students are randomly assigned to different teachers who themselves possess different character skills.

All the «red pen» on final exams is perhaps the least «bang for your buck», and greatest waste of effort, that teachers do.

And for more about why reach extension is an essential addition to bold recruiting and dismissal efforts, see our 2010 paper Opportunity at the Top: How America's Best Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great.

The policy's greatest benefits could result not from retention itself, but rather from increased efforts on the part of teachers and even students to avoid being retained in the first place.

It is a pleasure to give the profession its due and to be reminded of a bit of universal wisdom that teachers know better than most: working for the greatest good often demands the greatest effort — and it is often rewarded with equal satisfaction.

In our new report, Opportunity at the Top: How America's Best Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great, Emily Ayscue Hassel and I asked a simple question: «Will our nation's bold efforts to recruit more top teachers and remove the least effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroomTeachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great, Emily Ayscue Hassel and I asked a simple question: «Will our nation's bold efforts to recruit more top teachers and remove the least effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroom?&rGreat, Emily Ayscue Hassel and I asked a simple question: «Will our nation's bold efforts to recruit more top teachers and remove the least effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroomteachers and remove the least effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroomteachers put a great teacher in every classroom?&rgreat teacher in every classroom?»

It also reduces the amount of time and effort other teachers must expend to create or acquire great lesson plans.

Schools that face tougher competition have greater demand for teachers who attended well - regarded colleges, majored in subject areas (especially in math and science), and who put in more effort and show more independence.

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...

For that, I think we need compassion to an even greater extent than ever, when teachers» incomes may be linked to children's achievement and the children do not appear to be motivated or responsive to greater and greater efforts to boost their scores.

The discovery that teachers in some schools may have kept copies of last year's exams and used them to help students prepare for this year's tests, which ask the same questions, knocks off track, at least temporarily, state efforts to raise student achievement through greater school accountability.

If you know of efforts to extend great teachers» reach — by adding students to their classes or otherwise — we'd love to hear about them.

An EI - savvy school leader knows when a teacher has done a great job on a project, and makes an effort to acknowledge it.

However, the most significant concern I hear from prospective candidates and veteran teachers is they want their efforts and opinions to matter and be respected by all members of the greater community.

A number of national organizations, including the Council of the Great City Schools and the National Parent Teacher Association, have taken up that effort, publishing written materials and creating video and audio segments — in multiple languages — designed to explain the standards to parents, in clear, jargon - free terms.

Since we implemented Clever, we've seen a decrease in the level of effort to implement new educational applications, allowing teachers greater access to educational tools in their classroom.

Education reform efforts have been largely focused on one - off interventions, such as improved curriculum, greater choice and accountability, or teacher training.

I was one of the teachers tapped to help with the effort organized by the state Department of Education and the nonprofit it selected, Great Minds.

School leadership is increasingly recognized as another critical factor to drawing and retaining great teachers and improving their individual and joint efforts.

Doug Lemov, author of Teach Like a Champion, and Steven Farr, author of Teaching as Leadership, talk with Education Next about their efforts to identify what great teachers are doing in the classroom and to share these techniques with new teachers.

We also observe that higher - performing districts make greater efforts than others to maximize communication and coordination among different central office units in their interaction with teachers and principals.

These projects include efforts to offer greater educational support to foster children, bolster summer education offerings and increase teacher retention.

I have been following Wright v New York, and I support the case because as a mother of four kids, I'm counting on great teachers to be a partner in my effort to prepare my children for the future.

While some students have greater knowledge of a certain topic than others at the outset of a lesson, if teachers are successful in their efforts, all students should, at least, have the same baseline knowledge once a lesson has been taught.

This effort must include a genuine commitment to bringing greater diversity into Oregon's teacher workforce.

Teachers who participated in LEEP made a significantly greater effort to engage children in conversation and to provide opportunities for children to write and use books.

By signing up for our email list, you'll receive updates and action alerts and learn about how you can support our effort to advocate for great schools and great teachers for all children.

The high - performing charters have great teachers, so the real effort would be «How do you recruit the very best, and how do you develop them?»

We heard that the best efforts will not only include recruiting, developing, and retaining great educators with the skills to teach all students, but will also build strong school leaders, create supportive working conditions, and address inequities in resources and supports for teachers.

By supporting current teachers, and putting our efforts into preparing the next generation of educators, we can ensure that students have access to the great education they need and deserve.

Provides high caliber teachers specifically trained to staff urban charters schools and turnaround schools, augmenting the quality of charter school growth and contributing to the success of the critical turnaround efforts taking place within the persistently lowest performing schools, particularly in Greater Boston;

The effort now spans from support for teacher leaders to sitting principals and principal supervisors and accompanied district policies providing greater autonomy to principals and more explicitly focusing the principal's role on instructional leadership.

They get very creative in their fundraising efforts by offering teacher treats as silent auction items, creating great connections for kids.

Leading an improvement effort requires principals who can develop, with others, a clearly defined vision for improvement and who are able to communicate their vision to the school community and energize teachers to fulfill it (Council of the Great City Schools, 2015).

Students taught by such teachers were more likely to report that those same teachers cared more about them, made learning more enjoyable, and encouraged them to make greater effort in their studies.

These moves to undermine reform efforts have created an unholy alliance between the far right that wants no state or federal intrusion into local school districts and the extreme left who mindlessly support teacher unions rather than support great teachers.

Holding hundreds of conversations with thousands of teachers and other stakeholders across the country which helped form the basis of the Department's RESPECT project (Recognizing Educational Success, Professional Excellence and Collaborative Teaching) to transform the teaching profession and inform policy efforts to support great teachers and leaders;

CETE develops and administers educational testing programs that translate industry - leading research into real - world solutions in an effort to assist teachers in identifying strategies that will help students reach their greatest potential.

«Not only does the legislation implement a toothless teacher evaluation system, the bill could jeopardize school district efforts to put great teachers in every classroom,» said Tim Melton, vice president of legislative affairs for StudentsFirst, a Sacramento - based national educational advocacy organization.

A former preschool teacher and school board member, Murray went on to address areas of the law that are not effective for many of our nation's students, suggesting greater efforts to close the achievement gap, especially among students in underserved communities; to reduce redundant and unnecessary testing; focus on preparing students for college and their career; ensure accountability; and also expand access to preschool programs.

Efforts to continuously improve teaching quality will not only affect the greatest number of students, but such efforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizEfforts to continuously improve teaching quality will not only affect the greatest number of students, but such efforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizefforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizations.

We have found that it pays to concentrate staff development efforts on those teachers and staff members who show the greatest interest in the reform.

Great schools are grown from the ground up and the top down: when teachers and leaders come together in a joint effort for whole - school improvement, everybody wins.

But the MPs say that there is no clear long - term plan to address this - and they suggest there should be greater efforts to keep teachers from leaving the profession and moving to other jobs.