Sentences with phrase «in teacher judgment»

Careful to differentiate between student achievement and learning, Shulman also advocates for greater public trust in teacher judgment.

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Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a chilIn Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a chilin history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a chilin judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

Nonetheless a continuing and increasingly important task of ordinary teachers and parents will be to develop in young people the trained perception and critical judgment that will enable them to use published materials profitably and responsibly.

As growing numbers of ministers and teachers began to speak a word of judgment against the society of their day, a movement arose at Grinnell College, in Iowa, crying for the complete reconstruction of society on the basis of the New Testament teachings.

Those who «teach» will receive a more severe judgment in that day — «My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation» (James 3:1)

Reminding the church that it was still subject to the judgment of God, he said that «every vehicle of God's grace, the preacher of the word, the prince of the church, the teacher of theology, the historic institution, the written word, the sacred canon, all these are in danger of being revered as if they were themselves divine.

I SWEAR in the presence of the Almighty and before my family, my teachers, and my peers that according to my ability and judgment I will keep this Oath and Stipulation: TO RECKON all who have taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents and in the same spirit and dedication to impart a knowledge of the art of medicine to others.

Magee says the union and the commissioner are getting along better now, and she realizes that problems need to be fixed, but says teachers are not ready yet to change the judgment they made in the spring.

Give your students the space to explore mindfully in an evidence - rich environment, allow the conclusions to come (perhaps) many years later and be the teacher who allowed comprehensive rhetoric and occasional argument without judgment and watch the conversation flourish.

States will also benefit from supporting Peer Assistance and Review models that identify teachers who are struggling, provide them with intensive, expert assistance from mentor teachers in their content areas, and make a timely judgment about continued employment that is grounded in useful evidence, intensive support, and due process.

Using their judgment also allows for more teacher voice in the process and leverages teachers» expertise.

Issues of language are complex in Timor - Leste, but judgment aside, the decision to make Portuguese an official language — and the language of instruction — was made despite the fact that the majority of teachers in Timor - Leste do not speak Portuguese.

In more than two - thirds of the states, teacher unions, school districts, and other interested parties have filed similar lawsuits that seek judgments resembling the stunning result handed down in New YorIn more than two - thirds of the states, teacher unions, school districts, and other interested parties have filed similar lawsuits that seek judgments resembling the stunning result handed down in New Yorin New York.

When online learning is used as the primary driver of instruction, teachers inevitably give up control over many aspects of curriculum planning and lesson delivery; and in low - quality implementations of blended learning, the teacher's professional judgment ends there.

By extension in my judgment, the book is as appropriate to teachers as it is to leaders of schools.

By demonstrating that I trust their judgment, have confidence in them, will acquire whatever resources they need, and will support them in their work, teachers will do their best and kids will benefit.»

The main focus of coaching and mentoring conversations for school improvement is to build the competency and capability of teachers, so that they can take steps towards achieving the school's strategic vision and priorities in the curriculum, teaching and learning, and assessment, and can effectively make judgments about students» progress and outcomes.

The content list is broad enough to accommodate teachers» judgment and creativity, and is a good and potentially useful model for basic content standards in other Coalition schools.

It is interesting to note, however, that some teachers who receive layoff notices are well into their careers, implying that at least some districts in the state are making judgments about which teachers should be laid off based on criteria other than seniority.

The «performance - based» pay experiments in places like Denver, Cincinnati, Minneapolis, and Douglas County, Colorado, turn out to be linked primarily to supervisor or peer judgments, not to a teacher's track record in improving student learning.

Nevertheless, there is still a story to be told, and the essential part of it is that the program that education reformers have tried to promote now for decades — introduce more choices of schools for students, enable competition among schools, open up paths for preparing teachers and administrators outside schools of education, improve measures of student achievement and teacher competence, enable administrators to act on the basis of such measures, and limit the power of teachers unions — has been advanced under the Obama administration, in the judgment of authors Maranto and McShane.

• At day's end, there are just three ways of awarding «credit» for work done in (or out) of school (and conferring diplomas or equivalency certificates based on that credit): «seat time» as traditionally measured in Carnegie units; the judgment of classroom teachers; or «demonstrated mastery» based on credible external assessments.

What is unique about National Board Certification is that it assesses not only the knowledge teachers possess but also the actual use of their skills and professional judgment in the classroom as they work to improve student learning.

Ultimately supervising teachers learn to «call the question» (as they say in Rochester, New York), making a judgment about a novice's performance.

The real secret to producing successful readers does not lie in a single reading program or method, but in the judgment and skills of the teacher and in the teacher's ability to use that judgment and those skills as he or she sees fit.

The firm's evidentiary submission relied principally upon two organizations to select teachers, curriculum specialists, and administrators to serve on professional judgment panels that constructed the resource ingredients that would ultimately help determine the cost of an adequate education in Kentucky.

Under present systems for evaluating teachers in New York State and elsewhere, unsupported assumptions about teaching and learning often result in unfair judgments, concludes James A. Gross in Teachers on Trial: Values, Standards, and Equity in Judging Conduct and Comteachers in New York State and elsewhere, unsupported assumptions about teaching and learning often result in unfair judgments, concludes James A. Gross in Teachers on Trial: Values, Standards, and Equity in Judging Conduct and ComTeachers on Trial: Values, Standards, and Equity in Judging Conduct and Competence.

With all of the high - stakes testing in our schools, and the resulting judgments and consequences for students and teachers, it is no wonder that schools are taking time away from activities like recess, breaks, art, music... to spend more time on academics.

Others have since suggested that the use of the five - point scale to grade student work depends too much on assumed «common sense» notions of achievement that — in reality — are based on arbitrary teacher judgments with very little consistency between teachers, classes and schools, offering parents little in the way of useful information (London, 2012).

By instructional leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the school are properly aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of instructional materials.

More recently, The Third Circuit, in a case from Pennsylvania, affirmed a school board's motion for summary judgment in response to a teacher's claim that officials violated her free speech rights for terminating her employment over comments she posted on her blog (Munroe v. Central Bucks School District, 2015).

For example, there is no satisfactory way to make judgments about which method of teaching reading is superior — whole language or phonics — without factoring in the socioeconomic, school, and teacher characteristics of each of the groups of students in the experiment.

When Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed a new teacher evaluation system in January that would rely heavily on the judgment of outside consultants, rank - and - file teachers and principals across the city exploded in outrage.

Teachers are thus free to provide students with whatever tools and knowledge their professional judgment and experience identify as most helpful for meeting the goals set out in the Standards.

While these findings provided some support for what has been termed «the war on teachers» (Giroux, 2013; Goldstein, 2015), in which the «intelligence, judgment, and experience that teachers might offer in [current education] debates» are ignored (Giroux, 2013, p. 3), a more holistic look at my findings provides some support for Eric Hanushek's (2011) proposition that there «is not a war on teachers en masse.»

Teacher judgment — informed by knowledge of research and use of formative data — should always be a factor in decision making

In the post-1940 era, teacher education attempted to use psychological assessments to police teacher personality and to substitute those for local school administrators» judgments about teacher selection and behavior.

Or would they think that high - stakes testing was directed at them: limiting autonomy in the classroom, placing excessive pressure on students and teachers, and undermining professionalism by assuming that teachers» own judgments of students» performance were wrong or inadequate?

Parents have the right to petition to have students placed into or out of bilingual education programs, but they may in practice defer to the judgment of teachers or administrators.

Currently, many teachers view observation as the same thing as evaluation when in fact these structures (informal, formal and walkthrough observations) provide a means for gathering what Charlotte Danielson, Dr. Robert Marzano and others experts refer to as a preponderance of evidence in order to make a reasoned judgment about a teacher's overall practice.

The policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

These studies suggest that black teachers are powerful role models, particularly for black boys; that they are more likely than white teachers to recognize competence in their black students; and that subjective judgments by teachers play a vital role in determining success at school.

For each teacher, the raters examined each item on each scale separately, providing a judgment about whether there were many, some, or few instances of that attribute in the data set (or if there were data, they coded the item as could not determine.

These qualitative data provide convincing evidence that in the teachers» own judgments, their content knowledge for teaching mathematics, and their understandings of their students» mathematics thinking were both enhanced throughout the yearlong oTPD program.

A lot depends on teachers» training, judgment, and professionalism — and on the supervision, evaluation, coaching, professional development, and collaboration that principals are successful in orchestrating.

Principals often became defensive about their judgments and wouldn't let teachers participate in the process.

They talked of parents who feel unwelcome in the school building, and of parents who feel the teachers and school leaders pass judgment on them.

The summary grades determined by algorithms that differ from those chosen through teachers» professional judgment are in bold.

An individual teacher may moderate their own judgments, but as soon as you try to compare judgments from multiple teachers for accountability or performance management purposes, you're in trouble.

Trusting teacher's judgments: A validity study of a curriculum - embedded performance assessment in Kindergarten — Grade 3.