Sentences with phrase «inadequate training of teachers»

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Some of the concerns raised in Mr. Flanagan's report include: over-testing of students, inadequate professional development funding for teacher training, incomplete and missing modules and the use of test questions that were neither age - level nor developmentally appropriate.

It is the inadequate undergraduate pre-service training of our school teachers.

Teachers complain about confusing directions, topics that are not age - appropriate, subjective scoring, and inadequate training on all aspects of the test.

Over the years, critics of math education in this country have cycled through a set of familiar culprits, blaming inadequate teacher training, lackluster student motivation and faulty curricular design.

As for elementary teachers, who are often trained as generalists in colleges of education, many mathematicians believe that most current math preparation is grossly inadequate.

Well - prepared teacher leaders can help schools meet the challenge of rising standards, but training remains inadequate.

The Connecticut State Board of Education has permitted profiteers in the form of the totally inadequate Relay Graduate School of Education to train and certify prospective teachers for our neediest schools.

The recruitment of 8000 teachers this year is part of a series of interventions intended to mitigate the problem of inadequate school facilities and poor training for teachers.

Current approaches to teaching geospatial technologies (GST) in K - 12 classrooms have been ineffective as a result of inadequate GST training with both in - service and preservice teachers and an absence of development in pedagogical models for teaching GST (Bednarz & Audet, 2003; Doering, 2004; Doering & Veletsianos, 2007a; Sanders, Kajs, & Crawford, 2001).

Principals see a lack of time, inadequate teacher training, and funding as barriers to carrying out social - emotional learning in their schools, a nationally representative survey found.