New York City's merit pay program came to a halt when researchers at the RAND Corporation found the program did not raise student achievement in mathematics or reading in any grade, nor did
it improve teacher job satisfaction.
This Kellogg Foundation - funded work aims to improve outcomes for 1,797 pre-school through 3rd grade students, increasing family engagement, while strengthening their attendance, cognitive and language development, and pre-literacy skills, as well as
improving teacher job satisfaction.
Not exact matches
Almost 70 per cent of
teachers said that outdoor learning has had a positive impact on their
job satisfaction and 72 per cent reported
improved health and wellbeing.
It also had a positive impact on
teachers» work - life, with 79 per cent of
teachers reporting positive impacts on their teaching practice, almost 70 per cent of
teachers saying that outdoor learning has had a positive impact on their
job satisfaction and 72 per cent reporting
improved health and wellbeing.
... Developing higher levels of resilience will allow
teachers to bounce back quickly from set - backs, have more confidence in their ability, reduce impact of stress and hopefully work to
improve teachers»
job satisfaction.»
The overwhelming majority said that the
teacher development process was effective in:
improving the achievement of their students (88 percent), their own teaching effectiveness (89 percent) and their
job satisfaction (75 percent).
Mentors help prevent
teacher attrition and
improve job satisfaction — and there's new evidence that they can boost student learning too.
Put bluntly, why should a tenured classroom
teacher go to the effort of altering her long - standing instructional protocols to adopt new technologies when her pay, professional status, and
job security are only remotely related to
improving her effectiveness or her clients»
satisfaction?
In most K - 12 districts, performance evaluations either provide powerful feedback and coaching that
improve teacher effectiveness and
job satisfaction, or add to the list of documentation - heavy administrative burdens.
If there is one takeaway from this experience, it's that when we put
teacher growth at the center of evaluation, instructional practice,
job satisfaction and student performance
improve.
Teacher preparation programs should collect data from program graduates on
job satisfaction and how preparation schools may
improve their programming.
As competition for top educators increases and
teacher turnover and staff shortages rise, assuring a welcoming onboarding experience can
improve employee engagement,
job satisfaction and retention.
There are real challenges around recruitment, retention and
improving teachers»
satisfaction with their
jobs, particularly in our most disadvantaged schools.»
CLASS - based professional development programs are not only built on a strong research foundation — they've been proven by dozens of studies to impact classroom quality,
improve child outcomes, and increase
teachers»
job satisfaction.