Sentences with phrase «increase teacher action»

To increase teacher action on strategies, we made the following practices a part of our professional development work:

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His spokesman called the teachers union's action an «irresponsible, special interest lawsuit» that would undermine progress that has been made to stop «skyrocketing property tax increases on homeowners and businesses.»

The increase is well short of what education advocates like former Hannibal school teacher and Citizen Action of New York Board Member Bill Spreeter say is needed.

His spokesman called the teacher's union action an «irresponsible,» «special interest lawsuit» that would undermine progress that's been made to stop «skyrocketing property tax increases on homeowners and businesses».

An early intervention program for Kindergarten students, a program involving professional learning teams working together to increase teacher knowledge, and an action research project looking at how to use data to support student learning and feedback.

Over time, discourse in the video clubs shifted from a focus on the teacher to increased attention to students» actions and ideas, toward increasingly detailed analyses of student thinking.

The program's primary objectives were to increase student interest in and enthusiasm for STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) through role modeling and to create an action - research philosophy that guides teacher and student collaboration and incorporates measureable outcomes.

Written by Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent, founders of the Leon restaurant chain, the Plan is made up of actions and recommendations that aim to help head teachers increase revenue and school meal take up whilst improving school food culture and access to good food.

In the first five years of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, much attention has been focused on implementation issues — from how to manage the increasing number of schools and districts «in need of improvement» or in «corrective action,» to problems with testing programs, adequate - yearly - progress reporting, and the law's highly - qualified - teacher requirements.

While change is hard, the opportunity that these actions provide to increase teacher agency — and to transform professional learning opportunities — is worth it.

A Foundation Phase Action Plan aims to put in place a number of supportive approaches to improve consistency of delivery, including updating initial teacher training, increasing parental engagement, more support materials, as well as school - to - school support.

Seventy - seven per cent of teachers are not content with the 2017 pay increase; 49 per cent were prepared to take strike action on the 2017 pay increase; and 50 per cent are expecting a substantial pay offer in 2018.

A more practical plan of action might be to couple increases in teacher salaries with tougher accountability.

For its lowest - performing schools, states should take even stronger action, such as requiring the curriculum to be submitted to the state for review, sending teams to observe instruction and provide coaching (per Regenstein's inspectorate), developing a model curriculum (or placing online the curricula of high - performing schools), and / or offering professional development and courses to increase teachers» knowledge of the domains they should be teaching.

As a result of union action, the average salary for teachers increased modestly.

Consistent with the TeachStrong coalition's ESSA guidance for state actors, these states are leveraging ESSA's flexibility to support efforts around recruiting teachers of color; improving the teacher preparation experience; providing induction and mentoring to novice teachers; increasing teacher pay; and creating or encouraging career pathways, with the goal of ensuring that all students — and especially students in low - income schools — are taught by high - quality, prepared, meaningfully supported teachers.2 The author also notes what other initiatives and actions policymakers and advocates should watch for and consider as they work to modernize and elevate the teaching profession.

The latest Ofsted inspection schedule places increasing importance not on what school leaders and teachers do but on the difference they make by their actions and improvement strategies — and this is seen to be raising the bar in terms of a tough approach

We distributed school leadership between specialists and grade - level team leaders; and we discussed increasing students» achievement in a collaborative team setting where teachers internally focused on what actions they could take to make improvements.

Insight in action At the onset of a district effort to identify teachers leaders in each school, one middle school principal dedicated half of the school year to increasing understanding of teacher leadership and its importance among the school's entire instructional staff.

It creates opportunities, she said, for teachers unions «to leverage evaluation standards related to student achievement for gains related to salary» and would likely increase the frequency of an impasse in negotiations «and concerted actions like strikes.»

should reflect expectations not just for teaching, but learning outcomes — helping a teacher see how additional or alternate actions and choices would serve to increase (or continue to increase) student ownership, engagement, and understanding.

But ambiguous actions like «provide for effective teacher hiring and recruitment... and retention practices» leaves one wondering if this is just a euphemism for salary and benefit increases (at the same time the district is offering every single parcel of «excess» property it owns for sale in an effort to balance it's huge budget deficit, really?).

Creating a support organization to improve the services and / or conditions for teachers and students in gifted programs and whose actions increase opportunities for a wide - range of diverse gifted learners;

The focus of this action research was to increase teacher use of the 10 -2-2 strategy during direct instruction.

«We have formed a coalition by creating a snowball effect, where teachers are a part of the combined actions to increase rigor and relevance building their own capacity to achieve results.»

The training session, organized by the Governor's Office of Economic Development and the STEM Action Center, presented teachers with 11 technologies aimed at closing achievement gaps and increasing college readiness in mathematics.

If schools were to action a small increase in their staffing budgets beyond the amount specified, they could employ more staff, deploy other staff to share the workload and release many teachers from the constraints that we are all so accustomed to.

Instructional coaches and teacher leaders are often tasked with facilitating team or PLC conversations that lead to actions to increase student success.

In an analysis of the actions of Missouri's state legislature, which increased teacher pensions nine times during a ten - year period from 1991 - 2001 (netting each teacher about $ 75,000 in future benefits and imposing a $ 5.4 billion long - term liability to the state), researchers saw little evidence of any real analysis.

Despite what the lack of action on this issue suggests, however, there is widespread public support for increasing the selectivity of teacher preparation programs: 60 percent of Americans believe that preparation programs should make their entrance requirements more rigorous.11 While there has been some recent evidence of a shift, the average SAT scores of college students pursuing education degrees have historically been lower than those of students entering other professions.12

This user - friendly resource presents high school teachers with a logical progression of pedagogical actions, classroom norms, and collaborative teacher team efforts to increase their knowledge and improve mathematics instruction.

This user - friendly resource presents grades K — 2 teachers with a logical progression of pedagogical actions, classroom norms, and collaborative teacher team efforts to increase their knowledge and improve mathematics instruction.

Recent ASCD titles include Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement: Research on What Works in Schools (2004); Classroom Management That Works: Research Based Strategies for Every Teacher (Marzano, Marzano, & Pickering, 2003); What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action (2003); A Handbook for Classroom Instruction That Works (Marzano, Paynter, Pickering, & Gaddy, 2001); and Classroom Instruction That Works: Research - Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement (Marzano, Pickering, & Pollack, 2001).

It illustrates a teacher's actions to increase the quality in her teaching.

«We want to express our appreciation to the Education Committee for their strong support of viable actions to increase minority teacher recruitment and retention in our state.

- Training teachers and staff in classroom management to increase communication and work with students to reflect on how their actions impact others; and

Through regular meetings, special events, group actions and online communication, we aim to increase access to resources that help teachers and schools in their efforts to form safe, inclusive environments that welcome and support individual differences of identity and self - expression.

However, we can only determine if a teacher's actions have impact by measuring what matters most — the level at which students have gained increased understanding, and how they appropriately exercise their newfound knowledge or skill.

This action research proposes that by coaching teachers in identifying and implementing appropriate instructional strategies in the acquisition of academic vocabulary will improve the English proficiency leading to increased reclassification rates of English Learners.

Bautista and Boone (2015) discovered that high self - efficacy is linked to desirable teacher actions and increased student achievement.

Reflecting on the themes, concerns, and action strategies identified in these interviews, the following recommendations guide principals and teacher leaders to increase support for highquality arts education programs.

The focus of this action research was to use collaborative inquiry groups to change teacher practice to become more autonomy supportive in order to increase student engagement in the classroom.

This action research project focused on one proven strategy that could both increase content mastery and develop ownership of learning: teacher - delivered verbal feedback.

By shifting focus from influencing singular teacher actions through individual classroom observations to increased involvement in and supervision of teacher teams, principals can have greater impact on the actions of teachers and as a result, student learning.

When ecology teacher Paul Ritter at the Pontiac Township High School in Pontiac, Illinois realized the U.S. is beginning to experience increasing amounts of unused or pharmaceuticals in the water supply he swung into action by working with his students to organize a local program to keep drugs out of the environment that may well serve as a model for others across the country.

«We have a whole - school focus on increasing student wellbeing by improving literacy, numeracy, engagement, and achievement,» stated Louise Knights, Karama's KidsMatter Action Team Leader and a Senior Teacher.