Sentences with phrase «incentive for teachers»

The Good Teacher Next Door program's goal is to promote home ownership and give a large financial incentive for teachers to buy a HUD owned home in hopes their presence will help revitalize targeted neighborhoods.

Any plan that determines merit by absolute achievement levels risks creating an incentive for teachers to leave behind students in low - performing schools or classrooms and head for the higher - performing hills.

Critics, however, argue that the cost of due process does, in practice, lead districts to retain ineffective teachers and as a result tenure not only allows poor teachers to stay in the classroom but also reduces the incentive for teachers to be as effective as they could be.

In a surreal political moment, California State Senators Henry Stern (D - Los Angeles) and Cathleen Galgiani (D - Stockton) have introduced the «Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act of 2017» which offers a novel incentive for teachers to remain in the profession.

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) literacy standards for content area teachers provide incentive for teachers to focus on instructional techniques to meet students» rigorous literacy needs across the...

e. Any incentive for teachers included in a compensation system developed and implemented by a local school division must meet the following criteria: 1) designate incentive payments as a range or tiers for target groups, such as differentiating between the teacher of record or teachers in support positions; 2) have a maximum payment to a teacher of $ 5,000 per year; 3) prorate payments for teachers who have taught for less than a full school year; and 4) performance evaluations for participating teachers must be completed in a timeline that provides sufficient time to distribute incentive funds to teachers and submit reimbursement requests to the Department of Education no later than June 1, 2015, for the first year and June 1, 2016, for the second year.

Researchers designed the bonuses to be large enough to function as a legitimate incentive for teachers whose average salary, according to a union official, is between $ 40,000 and $ 50,000.

Education advocates say it could be because there's not enough incentive for teachers to stay.

«It is good that the government is rethinking their approach to bursaries and adding an incentive for teachers in some subjects to remain in teaching,» she said.

Common ground: They all try to provide an extra incentive for teachers who want to keep teaching.

But this means the potential of being fired for poor performance must be there too — right now there is very little incentive for teachers to improve their skills, or do their best every day, unless they are super-heroes (and fortunately there are a lot of these in teaching, bless them), because a system with no consequences for poor performance does not inspire greatness.

In this plan, overall compensation is less back - loaded, which decreases the monetary incentive for teachers to stick it out for a big payout at retirement.

Since scoring standards will differ for the various forms, there will be no incentive for teachers to steer students to the less challenging forms.

When teachers see their role as delivering the same curriculum to all students, and the onus for successful learning is placed solely on students themselves, there is little incentive for teachers to go to the trouble of identifying where learners are in their long - term learning progress.

But also, the evidence of current student work and its improvement shared among the staff became a powerful incentive for teachers to continue to improve their practice.

Aldeman: Our analysis of state pension plan data suggests that vesting is not currently an incentive for teachers, and AFT has not refuted that central finding.

That's a very powerful incentive for teachers to engage in meaningful and purposeful professional development.

Flat salary schedules that treat all teachers and teaching positions the same, regardless of challenge or need, provide no extra incentive for teachers to work in harder - to - serve schools.

And they create an incentive for teachers with scores just below the «highly effective» threshold, because scoring above it makes them eligible for a significant increase in pay.

These spikes act as an incentive for teachers to stay in the classroom until their pension wealth reaches its peak and then push them into retirement shortly thereafter, as pension wealth accumulation turns negative.

This provides a financial incentive for teachers to continue delivering the best standards of education in the classroom, because this will provide great teachers with incentives to remain as teachers rather than taking management responsibilities which come with larger salaries.

Cuomo is projecting a 3.8 percent increase for school aid, which amounts to about $ 807 million, including formula - based aid to districts and targeted funding streams for pre-kindergarten, after - school programs and merit incentives for teachers.

The task force recommends that the state invest $ 23 million in the continuation and expansion of P - TECH schools as well as making them permanent in state statute, increasing BOCES participation and incentives for teachers to join such vocational schools, and investing $ 12 million to continue and expand early college high schools as well as make them permanent in state statute.

«Early retirement incentives for teachers don't hurt — might help — test scores.»

«Clearly, resources matter — but this research suggests that improving incentives for teachers can have a bigger impact.»

Denver has market incentives for teachers of English Language Acquisition.

Providing incentives for teachers to make their students learn more may encourage teachers to do so, but, perhaps more importantly, it will compensate them for the extra effort required to improve the skills that will help their students achieve.

The next round must get to measuring teacher effectiveness based on student achievement, promoting professional development that is based on research and effective practice and improves performance, providing incentives for teachers who are effective, and requiring removal of teachers who, even with solid professional development, can't or don't improve.

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The most conventional interpretation of such performance differences would be that the program provided effective incentives for teachers and that the evaluations carefully discriminated among teachers of high and low quality.

The system also provided incentives for teachers to further their education.

«Instead, as district leaders are discovering for themselves,» Haycock writes, «a better solution lies in a creative combination of targeted incentives for teachers and policies that empower administrators and school leaders to recruit and retain effective educators.»

Relative to typical teacher - evaluation systems, IMPACT creates substantial differentiation in ratings and uses concrete incentives for teachers to improve their ratings.

Those include a reduction in class size at the primary level, a back to basics movement, the return to a phonics - based reading program, and the provision of incentives for teachers who agree to work in disadvantaged areas.

The heart of the program is a set of financial incentives for teachers and students based on AP examination performance.

The Advanced Placement Incentive Program (APIP) is a novel initiative that includes cash incentives for both teachers and students for each passing score earned on an Advanced Placement exam.

As the accountability system continued to unfold under the next governor, Gray Davis, monetary incentives for teachers and schools were attached to test - score gains on the Stanford 9.

Maxwell - Jolly also suggests providing incentives for teachers with ELL expertise, such as an extra preparation period, or giving them time to mentor other teachers in these tools and techniques.

The enthusiasm, commitment, and testimonies of these teachers often helped governors see the value of supporting the NBPTS effort with incentives for teachers.

• State Resources for Teaching Specific Student Groups • Incentives for Teachers to Work in Targeted Hard - to - Staff Schools

«IMPACT provides a unique opportunity to examine the effects of a multi-faceted system of teacher evaluation and supports, coupled with non-trivial incentives for teacher performance.

Recent policy debate has centered on defining measures of teacher quality, including student outcomes, and structuring incentives for teachers based on performance.

Reinstating incentives for teacher recruitment and retention will be a critical component of a thoughtful strategy to address the emerging teacher shortage.

The money includes $ 30 million for K - 12 schools to provide incentives for teachers and principals who commit to working in New Orleans - area public schools for at least three years.

To illustrate the ways pension plans create incentives for teachers, I created a list of things teachers would do if their sole motivation was maximizing their pensions.

That number is small compared to the Atlanta and Philadelphia scandals, yet with more state policies — like teacher evaluations, merit pay, and takeovers of schools with poor ISTEP + scores — riding on students» scores on state tests, state officials, education experts, and parents told StateImpact Indiana they see these pressures to get results as incentives for teachers who can't hack it to bend the rules on state tests.

Research has shown that the students of National Board Certified Teachers learn more than students in other classrooms, which is why many states and districts offer financial incentives for teachers to pursue certification.

Indeed, increasing teacher pay and providing other financial incentives for teachers is crucial to keeping them in the classroom, especially those in high - poverty schools.

Many states and districts offer financial incentives for teachers to pursue certification as a means to improve student achievement.

The South Dakota package also included support for beginning teachers, direct reciprocity among states to make it less onerous for teachers from other states to teach in South Dakota, and financial incentives for teachers to earn National Board Certification.