Sentences with phrase «impacts teaching quality»

Small group discussions for participants and experts to discuss more deeply a specific topic or policy issue that impacts teaching quality.

NCTAF's research and publications have positively impacted teaching quality in schools and districts across the country for almost 20 years.

Not exact matches

Higher education We await Lord Browne's final report into higher education funding, and will judge its proposals against the need to: - increase social mobility; - take into account the impact on student debt; - ensure a properly funded university sector; - improve the quality of teaching; - advance scholarship; and, - attract a higher proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Genuinely acknowledging and rewarding these other key impact factors, such as societal engagement, teaching excellence, and input and deliberation at key meetings and conference participation could go a long way toward balancing the demands of academic output to publish alone, thus lessening the pressure to spend endless weekends and vacation time writing for quantity rather than quality.

For instance, I spent about 10 years trying to convince 6 out of 8 teaching hospital research groups to consider adopting double data entry or other data quality measures like the 2 other teaching hospitals with zero impact (all in the same city).

It was also agreed that research assessment and evaluation should reflect the values of an organization and that these should include the quality and reliability of research output, but contributions to teaching, open science, peer review, and activities that impact society more broadly should be criteria for judging researchers.

Absent persuasive evidence on the impact of efforts to raise the bar, some people have speculated that the rise of test - based accountability associated with NCLB and the ongoing push to establish more - rigorous teacher evaluation systems have made teaching less attractive and thereby contributed to further decline in the quality of the teaching corps.

«While schools» focus, quite rightly, is focused on providing quality teaching to hit exam targets, studies show that the physical environment within schools can have a massive impact on its learning outcomes.

Clearly, if you want to make decisions about quality of teaching and the impact of school programs, you must examine not what children know on one occasion, like today, but how their knowledge and skills change over the course of their entire exposure to the teacher or the program.

Major studies have confirmed what we all intuitively know: the quality of teaching is by far the biggest factor within schools impacting on the learning and achievement of our children.

More research is showing the incredible impacts teachers have on their students and to me that highlights how important quality teaching can be.

Ofsted's guidance on effective self - evaluation highlights that it needs to be able to capture the impact of the school's actions on the quality of teaching, students» achievement, behaviour and safety.

IMPACT's features are broadly consistent with emerging best - practice design principles informed by the Measures of Effective Teaching project, and are intended to drive improvements in teacher quality and student achievement (see «Capturing the Dimensions of Effective Teaching,» features, Fall 2012).

The inquiry will look into the quality of teaching, the impact of the subject on young people and teacher training for Holocaust education, as well as the absence of teaching regarding other genocides and the implementation of the recommendations made by the Prime Minister's Holocaust Commission.

Looking across our analyses, we see that under IMPACT, DCPS has dramatically improved the quality of teaching in its schools — likely contributing to its status as the fastest - improving large urban school system in the United States as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

«By teaching D&T, we are ensuring that all children are not just passive bystanders in our increasingly technology - driven world, but are informed citizens who understand how design impacts on their quality of life and how technology can be used for the benefit of mankind.»

Our Quality Teaching Framework identifies and describes high impact teaching practices and the CCRP model supports capacity building around these prTeaching Framework identifies and describes high impact teaching practices and the CCRP model supports capacity building around these prteaching practices and the CCRP model supports capacity building around these practices.

This issue's research section offers a first - of - its - kind study examining the impact of instructor quality on student achievement in the higher education sector — finding that students taught by above - average instructors receive higher grades and test scores, are more likely to succeed in subsequent courses, and earn more college credits.

There are legitimate concerns about test quality; the noisiness and variability of calculations; the fact that metrics don't account for the impact of specialists, support staff, or shared instruction; and the degree to which value - added calculations rest upon a narrow, truncated conception of good teaching.

A principal's impact on the quality of the teaching staff (whether negative or positive), for example, probably increases over time as the share of teachers who were hired on her watch rises.

It covers reviews, objective setting, CPD, lesson observations, work scrutiny, learning walks and self - evaluation, and enables us to capture all the data we need to measure the quality of teaching effectively, focusing resources where they will have the most impact.

The PowerPoint was made for a training workshop (Pirelli Stadium) for Low Impact - High gain strategies for all subjects / abilities to enable quality teaching, planning, AFL and Differentiation It also contains resources to help teachers looking to incorporate De Bono «s 6 Thinking hats technique in their lessons.

The report warns that in the absence of any significant extra government funding, academies may need to reduce teacher numbers, impacting on the quality of education and the scope of subjects being taught.

According to the Australian Council for Education Research and Queensland Department of Education, Training and Employment's National School Improvement Tool (2012), «Research is revealing the powerful impact that school leadership teams can have in improving the quality of teaching and learning... and establishing strong professional learning communities.»

And we would do well to shed the long - held assumption that we know how to help 3.5 million individual teachers become masters of their craft, instead giving consideration to some new ideas about what schools or the teaching profession itself might look like — ideas that could have a much broader impact on instructional quality.

In a new Public Impact policy brief, A Better Blend: A Vision for Boosting Student Outcomes with Digital Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at large scale.

But on the specific issue of attracting high - quality teachers to teach in at - risk schools or with difficult student populations, Jennifer Steele, Ed.D.» 08, says financial rewards have an impact.

To make accurate decisions about the quality of teaching and the impact of school programs, Willett and Singer urge policymakers to examine not what different classes of children know at each grade level, but how the knowledge and skills of specific groups change over time.

It incorporates considerable cost in absenteeism, reduced quality of teaching, and has the propensity to negatively impact student learning.

Classroom management is a major element of the teaching and learning process, making an impact on achievement and pupil motivation, not to mention the quality of a teacher's working life.

So there's an issue about how we've been defining quality teaching and I think that what we're looking for is something that picks up on the ripples, the enduring impact that teachers have on the lives of learners.

However, despite the enthusiasm for both school restructuring and transformational leadership, the findings from international meta - analytic work comparing the impact of various approaches to educational leadership, along with wider developments and concerns over quality teaching and student performance noted in earlier chapters, caused a re-examination of the worth of instructional leadership.

While quantitative input measures show little impact, several measures of institutional structures and of the quality of the teaching force can account for significant portions of the immense international differences in the level and equity of student achievement.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

Design a school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now What?

Explore further: Mathematician devises a means for tying impact of teaching quality to pupil's future earnings

Stanford University Education professor Susanna Loeb spoke about the impact of quality teaching on student attendance at the Graduate School of Education Tuesday.

Public - school teacher salaries increased in real terms by 400 percent in Brazil and by 200 percent in Chile, which had a positive impact on the quality of the teaching force.

From my experience, however, there is another factor, not discussed in the article, which may have a comparable impact on the supply of high - quality teachers: The ease or ability to enter the teaching profession.

But if the teacher's value - added in school A reflects some factor unrelated to his or her teaching ability, such as the quality of students he or she was assigned, then her transfer to school B should not have an impact.

And by impact we mean, for example, stating specific changes in a teacher's classroom strategies or clarity about a changed approach by a middle leader to addressing variation in teaching quality in her team.

A group of teachers visiting multiple classrooms at their own school with the aim of fostering conversation about teaching and learning in order to develop a shared vision of high quality teaching that impacts on student learning.

Inspired Teaching has a direct impact on students by training their teachers to provide high quality, engaging instruction.

«Inspectors should not grade an aspect such as teaching, unless circumstances are exceptional, without considering the broad range of evidence that they can gather during a visit to a lesson — for example, the behaviour of the students and how well they are managed, subject knowledge, the standard of work completed in books, the quality of marking and so on — and use this to come to a view about what teaching is like for those students and its impact on their learning over time.

• A deep - seated belief in the inherent right of all children to a quality education; • A professional life dedicated to improving education for teachers and their students; • A passionate commitment to improving teaching and learning in America; • Unwavering dedication to the professional integrity and competence of teachers; • Visionary and boundless energy, eternal optimism, and expert leadership; • An innate capacity to inspire collaboration and mobilize support that enabled unparalleled achievements in the history of American education reform; and • A clear vision coupled with steadfast commitment and fierce determination which has led to historic milestones in American education and meaningful impact on teaching and learning.

That $ 2.5 billion could have a profound and lasting impact if it were used instead to support a network of «residency schools» that would strengthen the quality of teachers and principals in the same way that teaching hospitals ensure the quality of physicians.

When teachers are that stressed, the report notes, it not only compromises their health and quality of life but also adversely impacts their teaching performance.

Simply put, reading materials impact the quality of teaching in much more significant ways than you might know.

Ravitch analyzes the impact of choice on public schools, attempts to quantify quality teaching, and describes the data wars with advocates for charter and traditional public schools.

We recognise that the largest impact on the quality of educational outcomes is classroom teaching.