We would be better served if we abolished all standardized testing completely, invested all the money saved
into hiring more teachers, and then gave those teachers the tools to come up with the solutions to teaching in their classrooms.
Not exact matches
We have poured
more money
into schools,
hired an army of new
teachers to reduce class size, expanded professional development, and retained
more experienced
teachers — everything that the
teacher unions have in mind when they repeat their mantra that we know what works and just need the resources to do it.
The answer's pretty simple: A large - scale reduction requires
hiring massively
more teachers, dipping deeper and deeper
into the applicant pool.
A large - scale reduction requires
hiring massively
more teachers, dipping deeper and deeper
into the applicant pool.
What's needed, he says, are policy changes, giving the best
teachers incentives to go
into the most demanding schools and allowing principals to have
more control over
hiring and evaluating
teachers and
more flexibility and control over their budgets.
My dream is to be able to
hire other
teachers to make
more videos (with a wider variety of topics and themes) and turn unicoos
into a platform that supports
teachers to practice a flipped classroom.
All new
teachers hired after a specific date are put
into the different tier with reduced benefits, while senior
teachers hired before the date remain in the better,
more generous plans they were
hired into.
For
more than three years, the de Blasio Administration has promised that forced placement of
teachers was not an option and that principals would be able to decide which
teachers were
hired into their schools.
I've heard from researchers that the United States is obsessed with class sizes and puts a lot of resources
into throwing
more teachers into schools to lower these ratios, whereas other countries might
hire fewer but
more qualified
teachers.
Superintendents were also pleased with the idea to pay beginning
teachers more, citing the difficulty they anticipate in
hiring new
teachers into the profession.
«For the average charter school facility in New Jersey, with an average enrollment of 274 students, this translates
into $ 388,532 — enough to
hire more than eight additional
teachers,» said the analysis released by the New Jersey Charter School Association, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and the Colorado League of Charter Schools.
There are also urban districts that have not done that: that have, like San Francisco, put
more money
into the schools serving high - need kids with a weighted student formula; that have really worked to have a better, stronger
hiring process; that have put in place induction [mentoring], and stronger feedback, and
teacher evaluation systems.