Sentences with phrase «hold teachers accountable based»

New York has a 3 - to 4 - year probationary periods for new teachers and a new evaluation system, which established an expedited process allowing schools to hold teachers accountable based on teacher evaluation results.

Not exact matches

Elia told reporters after the Regents meeting that teachers still would be held accountable in their jobs on the basis of the «transition» ratings.

Evaluating teachers based on the student test results is bad for everyone: «It's like if the measure of your health and wellness were what you weighed every day — and so, if you were held accountable only for what you weighed, you'd be tempted to take diet pills,» he says.

Standards coupled with assessments can thus provide the basis for holding students, teachers, and schools accountable for student learning in K — 12 education.

I can continue to confer with my students on a regular basis, but they can start to keep each other accountable and have rich and deliberate conversation with each other, which is a more authentic healthy reading habit than being held accountable to a teacher.

If the curriculum makes clear what all students are to be taught and should learn by particular times in their schooling, for example, by the end of Year 6, and if all teachers and students are held accountable for meeting these time - based expectations, then overall levels of achievement should improve.

This defect strikes at the very heart of the argument that teachers ought to be held accountable for student achievement based on these tests.

I commented at the forum that this broad - based alliance is essential, sinces separately we are accused of «fronting for the teachers» union» (parents), «not wanting to be held accountable» (teachers), «goofing off in school» (students) or «being out of touch in their ivory towers» (researchers)!

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

It does not hold the adults who care for our children accountable; it does not allow teacher evaluations based on whether students are being given the tools to succeed; it does not allow for differential pay for teachers serving in our most challenging schools, and it gives lifetime tenure usually after two to three years — making it nearly impossible to lay off ineffective teachers.

Her «robbing students» claim is based on the fact that the governor is tying a funding infusion to the elimination of the archaic, child - unfriendly, and industrial - style seniority system, in addition to a mandate to hold teachers accountable for student learning.

It seems to us that whenever someone proposes actually holding teachers accountable for teaching (e.g. allowing principals to walk into their classrooms more than once a year to evaluate them; having real consequences for ineffective teaching or egregious behavior; etc.) there is a tsunami of push - back and vitriol that is knee - jerk, sadly effective and incredibly depressing if you know the very real impact their «teacher protection at all costs» policies have on students, especially low - income students who get the worst of the worst in our «zip code» - based system.

Colorado's law will hold teachers accountable for whether their students are learning, with 50 % of a teacher's evaluation based on students» academic growth as measured partially by test scores.

An education reform bill circulating this week would require kindergarten screening exams and teacher evaluations based partly on test scores, but doesn't update the state's system for holding schools accountable for student performance.

This transparency, in turn, can help reformers and their allies in state houses set high proficiency targets, and in turn, leverage an important tool for holding districts and schools accountable for providing all children with comprehensive college - preparatory content, for evaluating how well teachers and school leaders are doing in helping all students in their care succeed, and for providing all children with the high expectations they need to thrive in an increasingly knowledge - based economy.

The Obama administration, with Race to the Top and the waiver process, decided instead to put their full weight behind the new Common Core State Standards, fund the development of new tests set to those standards, hold teachers individually accountable for the performance of their own students against the Common Core State Standards, implement the new tests and urge states to use teacher evaluations based on test results to fire teachers whose students did not perform satisfactorily.

In other words, principals are being evaluated and held accountable given the extent to which their observations of their teachers match their teachers» VAM - based data.

[1] And along with all other students, they are included in standards - based reforms — policies that hold their schools and teachers accountable for what they do or do not learn.

(b) The purposes of establishing charter schools are: (i) to stimulate the development of innovative programs within public education; (ii) to provide opportunities for innovative learning and assessments; (iii) to provide parents and students with greater options in selecting schools within and outside their school districts; (iv) to provide teachers with a vehicle for establishing schools with alternative, innovative methods of educational instruction and school structure and management; (v) to encourage performance - based educational programs; (vi) to hold teachers and school administrators accountable for students» educational outcomes; and (vii) to provide models for replication in other public schools.

They know that most teachers want to be effective and that data - based performance assessments should be combined with classroom observation and other subjective measures not only to hold teachers accountable but also to help them improve their performance.

In our Teacher Scholars Voices blog this month Kirsti and Juliet ask: «What does it look like to take an asset - based approach to teaching African American boys reading while holding them accountable to specific learning goals?»