Sentences with phrase «influence over teacher»

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Quinn tells WBFO News he believes the powerful New York State United Teachers Union has taken over the city school board, influencing the majority members.

And for the money, which the Department of Justice believes topped $ 474,000 over the course of the bribery scheme to help influence the corporate goals of a Maryland - based power company, Lisa Toscano - Percoco, a school teacher, worked between two and 15 hours per month.

Then on Friday, his attorneys continued that tack, examining the influence Buffalo Teachers Federation President Philip Rumore has over the school system and pressing one board member on how much union support she received during the last election.

Over the past few years, several US states and local school boards have introduced measures that would mean teachers must include the views of those who are sceptical of a human influence on climate change in science lessons.

As teachers, we have great influence over the language that our students internalize during a formative time.

Teachers» unions are often portrayed as one - trick ponies whose political fortune is tied to their support for — and as a result their influence over — Democrats.

The National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) have long exerted tremendous influence over education policy at the...

Whether we like it or not, teachers have an enormous influence over every child's future and it is our responsibility to provide them with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to achieve their goals, contribute to our community and live fulfilling lives.

The authors address three criticisms of value - added (VA) measures of teacher effectiveness that Stanford University education professor Linda Darling - Hammond and her colleagues present in a recent article: that VA estimates are inconsistent because they fluctuate over time; that teachers» value - added performance is skewed by student assignment, which is non-random; and that value - added ratings can't disentangle the many influences on student progress.

My conclusion is that the current impulse to curtail the influence of the teachers unions may return some powers to management that over the years have gravitated to the unions.

ESSA also gave state leaders significantly more autonomy to set policy on other questions, such as teacher evaluation, diminishing the federal government's influence over state policy.

Since then, Fennell has worked to increase the influence over education policies of the National Network of State Teachers of the Year, whose membership comprises current and former honorees.

Specifically, the authors conclude that students taught by a more effective teacher will collectively earn hundreds of thousands of dollars more over their lifetimes, and that good teachers similarly influence college going and teenage pregnancy.

The goal of these school choice «patriots» was to free teachers to practice their craft in new and innovative ways, including by opening their own public or private schools, and to empower parents with greater choice and influence over their children's education.

Researchers generally define VAMs as statistical models designed to measure a teacher's influence — the «value» added or subtracted — on student achievement over time.

The latter may be influenced by students» homes and neighborhoods and may give teachers in middle - class suburban communities an advantage over those teaching in less advantaged communities.

Philadelphia — Asserting that «these kids can't wait,» the federal judge who presided over a special - education case that influenced the development of the federal handicapped - students law charged last week that educators are failing to provide severely handicapped students with the one thing they most need: specially trained teachers.

Students seem to benefit from their teachers» having influence over the curriculum, but only when they act as individuals and not as part of a union.

Unveiled this month, the plan would potentially give the federal government far more influence over classroom practices that traditionally have been left to states, school districts, and individual teachers.

But in schools where teachers acting collectively as a union had a lot of influence over the curriculum, students performed 32 points worse in math, 18 points in science.

As I suggested in my Follow the Money post in August, «our philanthropist reformers» may just be «responding to what has been the outsized influence over the system exercised by private teacher unions, textbook and testing companies, and a web of high - powered lobbyists representing all manner of industry associations.»

Even if teachers are not sufficiently aware of the statistical forces at work to recognize their rather limited influence on test scores in the short run, they may well become aware of this over time.

Teachers, meanwhile, are far more generous in their assessment of their unions» influence and appear to have become less critical of the unions over the past year.

Enhancing our university classes has been the realm of teacher preparation over which we have the most influence.

The extent of teachers union influence over education policy is widely known.

Yet overall private schools are reported by teachers to embody a greater feeling of community, offer more teacher autonomy, and more teacher influence over curriculum.

Estimating the effect of individual teachers» grading standards on their students» achievement gains assumes that these standards remain relatively consistent over time, that they are not unduly influenced by the composition of their class, and that they are not a reflection of some other observable characteristic that might account for any effects we observe.

Key to answering these questions is knowing how much influence teachers have over student achievement and what specific teacher attributes lead to higher student achievement.

The reality is that students change from year to year and they come from families who have a greater influence over student outcomes than teachers do.

Over a hundred PICCS teachers attended the breakout session called «The Influence of Danielson Domains 1 & 3 on Deeper Learning for Students.»

But as seen in California, where the AFT's United Teachers Los Angeles has struck a joint affiliation deal with NEA, the AFT's larger locals are realizing that such triangulation gives them stronger influence over education policy at state and local levels.

Basis Policy Research and ATI have built a partnership supporting the fair evaluation of educator effectiveness by implementing mathematical models that include multiple measures of student growth and which evaluate educator effectiveness using techniques that take into account a variety of factors that may impact student learning but over which the teacher has no influence.

John Fensterwald, EdSource California teachers, more than peers in other states, feel empowered to voice their opinions and say they have influence over decisions and policies in their schools.

That is, part of a teacher's influence on students persists over time, and part of it varies.

A Value - Added Model (VAM) is a multivariate (multiple variable) student growth model that attempts to account or statistically control for all potential student, teacher, school, district, and external influences on outcome measures (i.e., growth in student achievement over time).

Teacher pensions fit this precisely: their unions have significant influence on state politics, and a promise for pension benefits accrues to members slowly over time.

There are a few reasons why affiliates of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers continue to cling on to declining influence over education policymaking.

«In addition, it is clear that over the long term, relative teacher com - pensation plays an important role in influencing people's decisions to enter and leave the teaching profession (Goldhaber, 2000).

Most of the work in classrooms is governed by collective bargaining agreements (which are negotiated in secret) and by state laws (which, while technically democratic, doesn't actually work because of the greater influence of teachers unions and school boards over that of parents and community members).

Teams have no real influence over programs, number of teachers, or extracurricular programs.

According to Ingersoll's data, which tracked teacher turnover over a recent 20 - year span, the annual rate of minority teacher turnover increased by 28 percent, with many teachers leaving due to a reported lack of influence within their classrooms and schools.

Please can teachers have back even a modicum of influence over the curriculum.

In this groundbreaking national opinion study, Education Evolving reports that 91 percent of Americans believe teachers should have greater influence over decisions that affect student learning, while 81 percent indicate they trust teachers to make «schools run better.»

SEDL's policy research focused on the following school reform strategies as they played out in selected states and local districts: resource allocation in local districts, teacher mentoring, policymaker participation in community dialogues on education reform, and the charter school as a policy instrument affecting school - site influence over education reform.

Teachers leave their profession for a variety of reasons, including inadequate administrative support, isolated working conditions, poor student discipline, low salaries, and a lack of collective teacher influence over schoolwide decisions.

Their goal is to help influence the debate now taking place in New Jersey over efforts by Republican Gov. Chris Christie to change the way teachers are evaluated and to overhaul the tenure system.

But because we know, without a doubt, that family poverty exerts a crushing influence over children's lives, it is no small thing when standards - and - accountability education reformers repeat, ad nauseam, that poverty can be totally «overcome» by dedicated teachers.

The value - added model is thought to bring objectivity to teacher evaluations, because it compares students to themselves over time and largely controls for influences outside teachers» control, such as poverty and parental involvement.

I happened to be there, however, and it was as I've described it over the years — a humble, challenging environment, positively influenced by parents who set great examples through hard work and by many teachers including one who truly inspired me and changed my life.

The effective teacher builds perceptions of her own personal influence and power over factors that contribute to student learning.