Sentences with phrase «helping teachers improve»

Jeez, sometimes it seems to me that as soon as some «school reformers» hear about a good idea, they want to take it, manipulate it to their own ends, and crush the life out of it (see Gates Foundation Minimizing Great Tools For Helping Teachers Improve Their Craft and Videotaping teachers the right way (not the Gates way)-RRB-.

In this companion to the best - selling Qualities of Effective Teachers, you'll find numerous strategies for examining the practice of teaching, helping teachers improve their skills, and establishing an environment that supports good teaching.

The partnership focuses on helping teachers improve students» mathematics achievement in Milwaukee Public Schools.

Third, the students who saw the biggest gains had teachers who were lower performing overall, suggesting that having the same students twice may be particularly useful for helping teachers improve.

These professional conversations are critical for helping teachers improve their practice.

The profession must therefore focus on supporting teachers, providing them with career options and helping teachers improve throughout their careers.

I am not discounting the importance of using student achievement in assessing teacher quality and in helping teachers improve.

Helping teachers improve and encouraging them into our toughest schools is a simple idea but a difficult task.

«But how you motivate, support, and create a climate of mutual trust and accountability is equally important to helping teachers improve their practice.»

But CEL has helped professional learning community members see that they have to make time, not find time for getting into classrooms and helping teachers improve practice.

With more than 3 million public school teachers in the United States, it is not possible to improve education simply by dismissing those who earn unsatisfactory ratings without also helping teachers improve their practice.

I'm fortunate to be a part of an organization that cares as passionately about helping teachers improve the quality of teaching and education in Arizona as much as I do.

We hope the new Commissioner will take the lead in pushing for an evaluation system that is fair, rigorous, and focuses on helping teachers improve.

«Teacher evaluation policy should reflect the purpose of helping all teachers improve, not just low - performers,» the report says.

In defending her bill, Liu said that «buy - in from teachers» is critical for evaluations to be useful in helping teachers improve.

The learning - focused principal is intent on helping teachers improve their practice either directly or with the aid of school leaders like department chairs and other teaching experts.

She is absolutely passionate about all areas of literacy and loves helping teachers improve literacy instruction and seeing students develop a love and skill for reading and writing.

Helping teachers improve their practice can take many forms but one essential skill principals need to succeed is to know how to give teachers effective feedback.

The overhaul is as much about helping teachers improve as it is about getting rid of the ineffective ones.

The alternative is a system where time and money are invested in evaluation with the goal of helping teachers improve.

Even still, Ippolito believes that literacy coaches can have an important role as change agents in middle and high schools by helping teachers improve their practices.

We still need school systems to ask the basic questions that these measures could help answer: Is the professional development you're providing actually helping teachers improve?

While teacher prep may not be that great, we aren't very good at evaluating or helping teachers improve after they get into the profession either.

The software then analyzes the data and searches for patterns that help teachers improve student performance.

Before coming to Stanford, Yeager had taught English at a low - income school in Tulsa, and he was especially motivated to find ways to translate some of this innovative research into practices that could help teachers improve the lives of their students.

To be successful, though, we will need people on the other side of the table who are interested in creating a system that will truly help teachers improve, not in leaving a legacy of blame.

If the DOE's major focus is on penalizing its employees for their perceived shortcomings, rather than to devise a process that will help all teachers improve, it is doing a disservice to the schools and the children they serve.»

«Researchers create new tool that measures active learning in classrooms: Analyzing classroom noise may help teachers improve teaching methods.»

Since you are the reason the school exists, we would like your feedback to help our teachers improve, so we ask you to do this teacher evaluation with honesty.»

DCPS also introduced LEAP, an intensive professional development program to help teachers improve their skills.

Because Preventing Classroom Discipline Problems can also be used as a training handbook, every chapter ends with a set of exercises and checklists designed to help teachers improve their skills and prevent discipline problems in their classrooms.

In Boston, MCAS is an important part of a seamless standards - based reform effort that includes clear expectations for what students should learn, curriculum aligned with the standards, high - quality instruction and professional development to help teachers improve their practice, and assessments that provide students with a way to demonstrate what they have learned and how they can apply it.

Most of us concur that critical thinking may be the most important of the 4Cs, so we need strategies that help teachers improve their pedagogy around critical thinking.

Defining what it means to be an effective teacher remains a major hurdle for the Obama administration, which wants states to help teachers improve their skills, get rid of ineffective teachers, and identify and train effective teachers.

Like other schools in the Algiers charter network, Behrman was implementing the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP), a national initiative to help teachers improve their instruction methods by learning from experienced colleagues designated as mentor teachers and master teachers.

The evaluator suggests a few resources and ideas to help the teacher improve in those areas.

And the system emphasizes career support that helps all teachers improve.

The goal is to help teachers improve.

In addition to instructional coaches, as mentioned above, peers can offer valuable insights to help teachers improve their practice.

There should be signed agreements with the teachers, students, and their parents that the still or video footage of the students will only be used to help the students learn, and help the teacher improve the creation of learning environments — and not to be published on youtube or social networking.)

As states move deeper into standards - based reform, they are experimenting with a variety of way to help teachers improve classroom instruction.

The Mirage details an uncomfortable truth: as much as everyone from Capitol Hill policymakers to school instructional coaches wishes they knew how to help teachers improve, they don't.

So, we paint a clear picture of what great teaching looks like and partner with our deans and principals, along with external partners like Doug Lemov's Teach Like a Champion team, to provide network - wide professional development and individualized coaching support to help our teachers improve their practice and reach all students.

Our goal is to develop multiple measures of effective teaching that teachers design and endorse, that unions agree are fair, that don't cost very much, and that help all teachers improve.

However, if the coach is helping a teacher improve in an area, that needs to be confidential.

In the latest LFA / Share My Lesson blog, we offer six elements to help teachers improve their skills.

What's more, TFA has long defended a relatively «content - neutral» approach to teacher training — despite persuasive research showing that methods courses in specific disciplines, like the teaching of science or the teaching of writing, help teachers improve student learning.

His book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn.

How do we identify great teachers and help all teachers improve their craft?

IPI is a personalized professional learning approach that leverages existing expertise within schools to help teachers improve their craft.