Sentences with phrase «involves holding teachers accountable»

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To fix the NCLB accountability system, we need to find ways of holding accountable the individuals, that is, the students and teachers, who are involved in the education process.

Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job of the teacher to make them learn.Every school policy and instructional decision which is made without involving students — and this is almost all of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an authoritarian, top - down system with no voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?

74 percent are worried that the new assessments will begin — and students, teachers and schools will be held accountable for the results — before everyone involved understands the new standards and before instruction has been fully implemented with the standards.

«The model here is the model I'm trying to create throughout the city: Principals who are not scared to be held accountable, teachers who will motivate you, and parents who get involved.»

But the conflict arises from the fact that it's also good for kids if teachers, as well as all other adults — principals, administrators, I mean everybody involved, including parents — are held accountable for student performance.

The first argument against its use relates to how it might be applied for accountability — that teachers should not be held fully accountable for any one test or data point, given the range of factors and measures involved in student learning.

We did not, for example, randomly assign programs or even particular programmatic components to schools and teachers; to do so would have violated what we have learned from the last 20 years of research on school change — that school staffs must be involved in creating the programs for which they will be held accountable.