Sentences with phrase «increasing teacher quality»

The Victorian and Federal governments, for example, concerned with increasing teacher quality, have proposed introducing performance pay.

Accelerated learning, which enables high school students to earn credit for college classes, is credited with increasing the rigor of STEM classes, increasing teacher quality for all courses taught by AP — trained educators, increasing college acceptance and completion, and reducing remediation and college tuition costs.

State superintendents can explicitly prioritize grow - your - own initiatives in their communications and recommendations, linking it to other key areas of focus like diversifying teaching and increasing teacher quality.

TAP aimed to improve schools by increasing teacher quality, and provided multiple opportunities for professional development, school leadership positions, structured feedback, and mentoring.

Restructuring schools and increasing teacher quality don't get you very far without a strong principal.

While reducing class sizes and increasing teacher quality have also been estimated to increase student achievement by roughly 0.1 standard deviation, the costs of such programs far exceed those of the literacy hour program, which focuses only on changing teachers» practices.

Replacing low - VA teachers is therefore likely to be a more cost - effective strategy to increase teacher quality in the short run than paying to retain high - VA teachers.

Michelle Rhee, for example, first used her TFA experience to develop The New Teacher Project in a parallel attempt to increase teacher quality in urban areas by recruiting new types of teachers, and now to help improve one of the nation's worst - performing urban districts.

However, the real goal of the TAP program, that is, boosting student achievement through increased teacher quality, does not appear to have been met.

NCTQ's ranking scheme is the latest addition to a world - wide movement to monitor, measure and (hopefully) increase teacher quality and improve student achievement levels.

Not exact matches

The evangelist increases the quantity of people in the church; the pastor - teacher increases the quality.

«There is incredible momentum behind raising standards for students and teachers and for increasing the number of high quality charter schools,» Sedlis said.

Education advocates, including Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education, says the $ 807 million dollar school aid increase Cuomo is seeking is less than half of what's needed just to maintain the current level of teachers and programs.

Billy Easton, with the Alliance for Quality Education, an advocacy group to increase school funding that is allied with the teachers unions, says his group is happy that the governor has created the commission.

«To ensure the best and brightest are teaching our children, the State Education Department will increase the standards for teacher certification to require passage of a «bar exam,» in addition to longer, more intensive and high - quality student - teaching experience in a school setting,» Mr. Cuomo said.

«MMCI significantly increased a teacher's odds of attaining the level of quality interactions needed for pre-k programs to most meaningfully contribute to children's social and academic outcomes,» said Kelly Maxwell, senior program area co-director for early childhood at Child Trends and co-author of the report.

Teacher quality and student achievement in both math and reading increased substantially after the departure of low - performing teachers — those dismissed by IMPACT, or those who left voluntarily following their first «minimally effective» rating.

A recent study published in the journal Social Science and Medicine suggests that teacher burnout is directly associated with increased stress levels in students, which affects performance and quality of life in schools for all.

Successful programs do exist for recruiting quality teachers (targeting males, minorities, and people with specialties) in high - need areas; eliminating barriers for them to move to where they are needed; and increasing the ability of low - wealth districts to pay for them.

1decision is part of Headway, a social enterprise established to provide children and teachers with the most up - to - date, sophisticated, high quality and engaging learning materials possible — increasing their accessibility to all schools.

But as long as states and / or the federal government increase demands on teachers while canceling some of these very programs, the problem rural and remote schools face in attracting and retaining quality teachers is just not likely to fade.

Regardless of how you do your lesson planning, one thing is for sure: Teachers are under increasing pressure to use higher - quality curriculum.

NCLB, signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002, increased the federal government's role in public education adding requirements for accountability, high quality teachers,...

We also examine the effects of court - mandated spending increases on three commonly used proxies for school quality: the length of the school year, teacher salaries, and student - teacher ratios.

Small turnover increases can quickly offset small productivity gains to ultimately lower average teacher quality.

Where the sound quality in the classrooms is poor, teachers have to shout to make themselves heard (increasing their stress and ill health), and children may not hear what is being said.

The book makes three recommendations: a much smaller, selective, intellectually engaged, and better compensated teaching force supported by technology; an open, transparent, and accountable system of preparation and professional development that drives out inferior providers and rewards success; and increased responsibility for teacher development in the hands of principals, who may be the strongest determinant of teacher quality on the job.

«Children in the classroom get increased educational quality, and younger teachers get mentors.»

These national ERAOs and their counterparts at the state level are focused on enacting sweeping education policy changes to increase accountability for student achievement, improve teacher quality, turn around failing schools, and expand school choice.

The first decade of the 21st century has also had a dominant strategy: incentive - based reforms, such as increasing competition among charter and district schools, merit - pay plans to improve teacher quality, and school - level accountability based on testing.

This seems illogical, or at least counterproductive, since research also shows that achievement would rise, achievement gaps would narrow, lifetime income would increase, and economic growth would surge if only we had the courage to identify and then replace the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the teacher quality distribution.

This, in turn, would increase the school system's total teacher experience level, and, ultimately, the school system's total teacher quality.

School boards and superintendents are faced with a situation where they lose enrollment so quickly that the only thing they can do is close schools, lay off teachers according to seniority not quality (thanks to «last in, first out» requirements), increase class sizes, and slash their central office staffing and support levels.

These public displays of high - quality work enhance academic engagement and pride, among both students and teachers — and they increase the community's pride in the school building itself.

Thus, jettisoning DB pensions, as the authors recommend, can be expected to cause increased turnover and attrition of our most - effective teachers, hurting productivity and quality, in other words, exactly the wrong solution for our schools.

New technologies increase competition for quality lectures, practice, and assessments in education, and lower the entry barriers for innovative teachers.

CCSSO's effort aims to «significantly increase» the percentage of school districts in targeted states in which curriculum and materials adoptions are of high quality and aligned to state standards; and to increase the percentage of professional - development and teacher - prep programs that include training on those curricula.

We are underinvesting in teacher quality in the sense that a dollar increase in teachers» pay would yield more than a dollar of benefit to society in the form of student achievement gains.

The strength of this relationship may be gauged by comparing the change in quality associated with changes in the school's position in the national test - score ranking: the results show that an increase of 50 percentile points is associated with an increase of 0.15 standard deviations in student perceptions of teacher practices (see Figure 1).

Discover how some teachers have creatively applied the flipped learning model to increase quality class time in PE, woodworking, dance education, and elementary classrooms.

A principal's impact on the quality of the teaching staff (whether negative or positive), for example, probably increases over time as the share of teachers who were hired on her watch rises.

Funding inequities, which allow some districts to have state of the art facilities and programs, complete with new computers for all students, quality free athletic programs, and comparatively high teacher salaries, while other districts are forced to cut teachers, increase class sizes, institute pay - to - play athletics, and do away with busing and art programs, need to be addressed.

Education policy advisers from the Obama and Romney campaigns will join AEI's Frederick M. Hess to discuss the best ways to allocate limited resources, improve teacher quality, increase accountability and maximize student achievement during the next presidential term.

But CMOs also suffer from many self - inflicted problems as they scale: many are dealing with very high teacher turnover, increasing standardization and bureaucracy, and difficulty maintaining consistent quality, especially in their high - school models.

Georgia teachers will receive a 3 percent pay raise and funding for the state's Quality Basic Education Act will be increased as a result of the legislature's adoption of the first major tax increase in 18 years.

An academically stronger licensing system for teachers would raise the academic quality of our teaching force, strengthen the school curriculum, and, in turn, increase student achievement.

Every point higher a state «raises the bar» will mean more teachers screened out of the profession, without any real increase in average teacher quality.

When teachers are able to balance their time and workloads efficiently, and can actually devote time to teaching, their job satisfaction is likely to increase significantly — this is vital not only for ensuring students are receiving a high quality education, but also for encouraging staff retention.

Second, Kirabo Jackson and Elias Bruegmann find that having more effective teacher peers improves a teacher's own performance; a 1 - standard - deviation increase in teacher - peer quality is associated with a 0.04 - standard - deviation increase in student math achievement.

Why doesn't accreditation improve the quality of teacher preparation programs as judged by measurable increases in learning outcomes for the students in the classes of their graduates?