Sentences with phrase «improving teacher»

As described in further detail in the discussion of the proposed rule for § 1302.92, this proposed change will ensure teaching staff receive effective professional development, based on a growing body of research demonstrating the effectiveness of intensive professional development for improving teacher practices in early care and education settings [301302303] and research demonstrating that such strategies support are associated with improved teacher practice in the classroom and a positive increase in classroom quality.

JENSEN LEARNING («Teaching and Engaging with Poverty in Mind» 3 Days) • Reading First State Grants (Title I, Part B1) • Improving Teacher Quality (Title II, Part A) • Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged (Title I, Part A) • Rural and Low - Income Schools Program (Title VI, Part B2) • Alaska Native Education (Title VII, Part C) • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) / Special Education State Grants

A randomized controlled trial of My Teaching Partner — Secondary — a Web - mediated approach focused on improving teacher - student interactions in the classroom — examined the efficacy of the approach in improving teacher quality and student achievement with 78 secondary school teachers and 2237 students.

Although there is considerable advocacy for improving teacher capacity, the research literature indicating the effectiveness of structured professional development for practicing educators is not robust (Yoon, Duncan, Lee, Scarloss, & Shapley, 2007).

This blueprint builds on the significant reforms already made in response to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 around four areas: (1) Improving teacher and principal effectiveness; (2) Providing information to families to help them evaluate and improve their children's schools; (3) Implementing college - and career - ready standards; and (4) Improving student learning and achievement in America's lowest - performing schools by providing intensive support and effective interventions.

JENSEN LEARNING («Teaching with the Brain in Mind» 4 Days) • Improving Teacher Quality (Title II, Part A) • Innovative Programs (Title V)

With respect to grant funds to states for improving teacher quality, the bill phases in several modifications to the funding formula.

Interestingly, we find that these measures are only weakly, if at all, associated with the likelihood of being hired, suggesting considerable scope for improving teacher quality through the hiring process.

He said the department was exploring ways to bolster counseling through existing federal programs, such as Title II funds, which are geared toward improving teacher and principal quality.

But even if these reforms were not in place, the work of improving teacher training and support would still pose a key element of any improvement plan for education.

In this chapter, I will address school - and district - level leadership for teacher workforce development through improving teacher learning and capacity.

His comprehensive plan called for expanding early education opportunities for all children, improving teacher quality, supporting school innovation, and putting a college education within reach of many more students.

By the time the 2012 elections moved into full swing, the Obama administration was issuing waivers to states exempting them from the most punitive parts of NCLB in exchange for sketching out their own state plans for improving teacher quality, academic standards and creating better accountability systems.

This book is compiled by Education Week and offers information and opinion on Obama's key educational priorities, which includes expanding early education, improving teacher quality, supporting school innovation, making math and science a national priority, addressing the dropout crisis, and improving college access and affordability.

Her work with over 100 schools, districts, organizations has supported a wide range of initiatives centered on improving teacher and student learning.

Secretary of State Damian Hinds has announced the DfE's initial response to the report «Strengthening Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and Improving Teacher Career Progression», at Friday's Nation...

Part of one of our projects is looking at improving teacher assessment.

To learn how peer mentoring can provide your school with an affordable and effective tool for enhancing the learning environment while improving teacher morale and supporting training efforts, contact this author at [email protected] or explore one of the additional resources below.

Her encounters with classmates — many whom had been teachers — further focused her thoughts on improving teacher training through research and building interpersonal communication skills.

This led some economists of the time to conclude that «input - based» policies such as providing more money to schools, reducing class sizes and improving teacher qualifications had «failed», and that improvements in schools now depended on giving teachers direct incentives to raise student performance:

How important is it for the Federal Government to focus on improving teacher graduates?

Maybe we'd make more progress in improving teacher prep programs if we were more upfront about what we didn't know and encouraged more experimentation and data - collection so that we can learn more.

Group lesson study when executed well is one professional development exercise that can help contribute to improving teacher efficacy and...

If our major policy focus is to improve student achievement by improving teacher effectiveness — accounting for 30 per cent of the variance in student achievement — we must attract higher - quality applicants to the teaching profession, improve our teacher education institutions and courses, esteem and grow those teachers who demonstrate expert potential, and mandate teacher development programs for less effective teachers.

Hanushek and Haycock agree that incentives can play a role in improving teacher quality in urban schools, but both warn that incentives may be only a small part of the answer.

Another part of her job is reviewing and improving teacher lesson plans and activities, as well as observing their work in the classroom.

If micro-credentials end up just modularizing and digitizing current approaches to PD — or, worse yet, focus on practices unlikely to boost student outcomes — then they will miss the ultimate mark of improving teacher effectiveness and student outcomes.

The heavily weighted criteria (for example, implementing standards, improving teacher and principal effectiveness, turning around the lowest - achieving schools, supporting high - performing charters) formed a coherent and comprehensive core.

There's never one answer or one solution that will «fix education,» but improving teacher quality would be a great step in the right direction.

«These findings represent the strongest evidence to date that improving teacher compensation relative to other jobs would improve teacher quality by attracting more capable people into the classroom,» says West.

We must go much further in improving teacher quality.

This alarming statistic is supported by the fact that last year # 37.5 million was spent on teacher development and retention and # 34.2 million on improving teacher quality.

Group lesson study when executed well is one professional development exercise that can help contribute to improving teacher efficacy and student achievement.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

The fragmented teacher labor market has implications for how we think about improving teacher preparation, not to mention how school districts go about hiring new teachers.

In students» perceptions, being «nice» or «good» (equal results), «helpful» and friendly» were listed as the top three teacher attributes contributing towards improving the teacher - student relationship leading to memorable learning experiences.

It embedded «improving teacher and principal effectiveness based on performance» into its rubric for scoring applications and awarded the category more than 10 percent of the total available points.

«Our analysis shows that long working hours is one of the main barriers to improving teacher retention, an issue that is consistent with our previous reports in this series, and that working hours have been increasing over the last five years.

With this level of diffusion, it's difficult to imagine any sort of any sort of coherence or structure, and the push for improving teacher preparation must grapple with how any preferred reform efforts would be implemented across such a fragmented market.

The first report, released last year, termed the Danielson Framework «a reliable tool for identifying low - quality teaching» and said it «has potential for improving teacher evaluation systems.»

Most of the action and nearly all the opportunities for improving teacher evaluations lie in the area of classroom observations.

College and university presidents can play an integral role in improving teacher - preparation programs by investing in them philosophically and asking their faculties to do the same, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley told higher education leaders last week.

Still, the Massachusetts senator has outlined a series of education proposals, putting flesh on the reform bones in some areas, such as his plans for improving teacher quality and...

No estimates of the impacts of class size reduction suggest impacts anywhere near as large as those related to improving teacher quality.

My current research illustrates how intervening to improve the social dynamics of a school (particularly by improving teacher - student relationships) can help close achievement gaps.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today unveiled plans to revamp its high school grantmaking strategy to focus squarely on three pillars: identifying and promoting higher standards for college readiness, improving teacher quality, and fostering innovations to aid struggling students.

I'm of the mind that we're still not fully or fairly articulating — at least in the policy world — what it means to be a great and improving teacher.

The AFT's Weil expressed strong concern that the goals of evaluation reform — improving teacher practice and student learning — have gotten lost in the technicalities of developing algorithms and rubrics and the speed with which these systems are being implemented.

It would mean believing generations of schools, school systems, PD providers, institutions of higher education, and parents were wrong when it comes to assessing and improving teacher performance.

To date, most ed - reform efforts have been aimed at mere structural change — expanding the reach of school choice and charter schools, improving teacher quality, or insisting on test - driven accountability.