Sentences with phrase «individual teachers control»

And while Microsoft's research is targeted to the bottom line ($ 8.6 billion is on cloud computing, the profit center of the future), IES spends almost nothing examining the most important aspect of schools: the decisions and actions that individual teachers control or make.

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Efforts are also under way to bring under control any individual teachers who express creationist sentiments in the classroom, especially if they make use of unapproved materials.

These experiments have their roots in a technique Cohen developed as an assistant professor at Yale in the late 1990s that he called wise intervention — brief, controlled interactions that served to counteract students» fears that their teachers were judging them not as individuals but as members of a stereotyped group.

Steiner agreed but set four conditions, each of which went against common practice of the day: 1) that the school be open to all children; 2) that it be coeducational; 3) that it be a unified twelve - year school; 4) that the teachers, those individuals actually in contact with the children, have primary control of the school, with minimum interference from the state or from economic sources.

From these statements three principles emerge about self - administration: Schools must be free of state control as part of a free cultural life, teachers must be centrally involved in the running of the school and in decision making, and the school should be organized along republican principles in which teachers are equal but delegate specific responsibilities to individuals and committees.

Other provisions include an agreement to implement yet to be finalized changes in employee health care intended to save at least $ 3.4 billion, a loosening of regulations intended to allow greater control by individual principals and teachers, an increase in parent / teacher interactions, changes in teacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher Rteacher interactions, changes in teacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher Rteacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher RTeacher Reserve.

This allowed me to control for the influence of each individual student's background, assess the influence of the actual resource level and teacher characteristics each student faces, and look at the institutional features that are relevant to individual students.

Following an existing literature on teacher and school value - added, this recent charter school research controls for student demographics and baseline academic achievement in order to estimate the effectiveness of individual schools.

They tried to isolate how much any individual teacher adds or detracts by comparing how the students scored on end - of - year tests to how similar students did with other teachers, controlling for a host of such things as test scores in the prior year, gender, suspensions, English language knowledge, and class size.

«What I had no control over were the insensitive teachers who created roadblocks to their achievements, who assaulted their developing senses of self, who refused to take the time or expend the energy to teach to an individual rather than from a standardized student model.»

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That mix would be less specific to each teacher, and would include a factor that individual teachers can't fully control, but it would encourage teachers to work as a team.

Chinese teachers influenced by Confucian thinking tend to regard the possibility of overachieving or underachieving as under one's individual control rather than being predestined by natural ability.

letting teachers teach, treating each student as an unique individual, limiting standardized testing, banning those with profit motives from our schools, addressing poverty as a roadblock to learning, and maintaining local, community control of schools.

In response to the publication by head teachers of the moderation reports, a spokeswoman for the AQA exam board said: «Ofqual found that while individual schools marked their controlled assessment work accurately according to the marking criteria, the national picture showed that some marking had been optimistic.

Much of this is used to fund a political agenda over which individual teachers have little control.

Cut the public ed district administrators by 90 % and devolve power and control to the individual school buildings and teacher boards.

This is in part because there are many other influences on student gains other than individual teachers, and in part because teachers» value - added ratings are affected by differences in the students who are assigned to them, even when statistical models try to control for student demographic variables.

Furthermore, when teachers create individual behavior systems, they often create more confusion for students who are struggling with self - control.

Individual school turnarounds are hard to do because principals usually don't control budgets (which usually means teachers) or personnel decisions (also teachers)-- those are governed by the central office, by state laws influenced by lobbying by affiliates of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and collective bargaining agreements that protect veteran teachers regardless of their perfteachers) or personnel decisions (also teachers)-- those are governed by the central office, by state laws influenced by lobbying by affiliates of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and collective bargaining agreements that protect veteran teachers regardless of their perfteachers)-- those are governed by the central office, by state laws influenced by lobbying by affiliates of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and collective bargaining agreements that protect veteran teachers regardless of their perfTeachers, and collective bargaining agreements that protect veteran teachers regardless of their perfteachers regardless of their performance.

Education Week reported: «Over the objections of teachers» unions and many Democrats, Louisiana's Republican governor and GOP - controlled legislature have crafted one of the most exhaustive education overhauls of any state in the country, through measures that will dramatically expand families» access to public money to cover the costs of both private school tuition and individual courses offered by a menu of providers.»

Apparently relying on standardized test scores that are influenced by economic and social factors beyond a teacher's control are deemed the best way to evaluate an individual teacher....

Student outcomes are affected by a range of factors outside of the control of an individual teacher.

The focus of this paper is on two broad categories largely under the control of individual districts and schools — opportunities for ongoing professional learning, feedback and collaboration, and opportunities for differentiated teacher roles and leadership that facilitate career advancement and address teacher and student needs.

[citation needed] Such individuals claim that many problems with modern schooling stem from the weakness in school discipline and if teachers exercised firm control over the classroom they would be able to teach more efficiently.

During the first four years of the CREATE study, researchers developed individual interventions and tested them in tightly controlled experiments and randomized field trials with classroom teachers in the middle grades.

Why do New Haven's children, the majority of whom are poor children of color, need teachers trained only to control them, when Connecticut's schools of education focus on developing children based on their individual needs and strengths?

These models, which consider student growth on standardized tests, fall roughly into four categories: «value - added models» that do not control for student background; models that do control for student background; models that compare teachers within rather than across schools; and student growth percentile (SGP) models, which measure the achievement of individual students compared to other students with similar test score histories.

Value - added models are statistical models that generally try to isolate the contributions to student test scores by individual teachers or schools from factors outside the school's or teacher's control.

To be sure, a variety of societal and individual factors — such as the income level of a student's family — also affect educational outcomes.30 But when controlling for these factors, teacher quality makes a significant difference for students» test scores and other educational outcomes.

As a result, we can control for individual student fixed effects simultaneously with individual teacher fixed effects, thereby alleviating biases due to endogenous assignment of both peers and teachers, including some dynamic aspects of such assignments.

Once we control statistically for the quality of individual teachers by the use of teacher fixed effects, we find large returns to experience for middle school teachers in the form both of higher test scores and improvements in student behavior, with the clearest behavioral effects emerging for reductions in student absenteeism.

Straightforward yet deeply thoughtful structures like this ensure that students feel in control of their emotions and their ability to learn, and teachers are better able to reach each individual student and support his or her growth.

Teacher measurement will probably never become more than a carefully controlled process of estimating a teacher's individual efficiency... [This is]... sufficiently convenient and euphonious, and has now been used widely enough, to warrant its continuation.Teacher measurement will probably never become more than a carefully controlled process of estimating a teacher's individual efficiency... [This is]... sufficiently convenient and euphonious, and has now been used widely enough, to warrant its continuation.teacher's individual efficiency... [This is]... sufficiently convenient and euphonious, and has now been used widely enough, to warrant its continuation.»

Both teachers focus their in - person time with students on small - group and individual work, allowing them to personalize instruction and give students more choice and control over their learning.

But controlling for numerous factors, including students» backgrounds, the researchers found that the value - added scores consistently identified some teachers as better than others, even if individual teachers» value - added scores varied from year to year.

When these systems fail to effectively measure performance and instead apply pressure on principals, teachers, support staff, and counselors on factors they can not control, those systems create pressures that drive even motivated individuals away from high - need areas.

The Whispercast 3.0 update allows for administrator oversight while still putting more control in the individual teacher's hands.

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• Track record of providing instructional support within special and general education classrooms as required to meet the students» needs • Skilled in student evaluation and need assessment • Substantial knowledge of and ability to cater for students» age related developmental cognitive, social and psychological needs • Proficient in facilitating the teacher in conducting classroom related activities • Expert in developing and maintaining cooperative working relationships with students and colleague teachers • Effective in devising interactive supportive learning activities to reinforce the lesson being taught • Well versed in filing in for the lead teacher in case of leave or absence and implementing the devised lesson plan effectively • Particularly effective in supervising the children during lunch and playtime, ensuring ample and healthy social interaction among peers • Competent at lesson planning, classroom control, assignment marking, lesson reinforcement and activity facilitation • Profound ability to develop need based individualized educational plans and implement the same in light of pre-determined long term learning objectives for each pupil individually • Proven skills in record keeping, developing individual student progress charts and portfolios along with demonstrated ability to maintain open communication channels with the students» parents and teachers to discuss progress • Track record of providing excellent teacher support in all classroom and lesson planning related activities • Committed to delivery of highest standards of classroom support, maintenance of an interactive atmosphere and provision of specially designed AV aids for special needs students

SI Appendix, Table S6 shows that whether we examined self - control as measured by observers, teachers, parents, or children's self - reports, individual differences in childhood self - control were significantly related to each of the adult health, wealth, and public safety outcomes; that is, the results were not sensitive to the use of any particular source of information about children's self - control and were robust to the data source in measuring self - control.

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Individual differences in children's effortful control abilities, assessed using behavioral and parent rating measures, were negatively associated with child externalizing problems reported by mothers, fathers, and preschool teachers.