Sentences with phrase «just teacher benefits»

Republicans are intent on demonizing teacher unions, and ignore the reality that education reform encompasses a wide array of challenges, not just teacher benefits.

Not exact matches

Plus your younger sib has the benefit of drawing on the wisdom of the older one that may have taken many of the same classes (and maybe even the same teachers) just the year before.

I AM pro teacher; it's just many of their benefits, including practically taking an act of Congress to discipline — or heaven forbid fire — one, that I'm against.

Let's just look at the NYS Teachers Retirement System and not all of the millions of other New Yorkers benefitting from the pension exclusion:

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, was invited to be a UK commissioner by the Centre for American Progress, which convened a UK - US inquiry, co-chaired by US former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, to examine how to secure an economic recovery which benefits all, not just the few.

More than just physical benefits Carol Goodrow, a teacher and childrens author and illustrator in Sturbridge, Mass., knows firsthand how running can have an impact on kids lives — both physically and mentally.

Here are just a few key benefits of launching a side hustle from my own side hustle experience as a yoga teacher for a little over a year.

Not as measurable but just as profound, these benefits are the ones that many yoga teachers celebrate.

This screening tool is useful not just for yoga teachers, yoga practitioners can benefit greatly as well from practicing with greater awareness of their body's tendencies and limitations.

When asked how they «reduced their budget gaps» over the past two years, fewer than half had eliminated or limited cost of living raises for teachers, only 30 percent cut automatic step increases, and just 13 percent trimmed benefits.

But just as importantly they will bring with them their practical tools and strategies for observation and feedback that will benefit other school leaders and teachers around the world.

However, it is not just the council leaders and teachers who recognise the benefit of change.

Districts altered their salary structure across the board so that all teachers, not just new ones, benefited.

The average teacher in Milwaukee gets $ 56,500 (beginning teachers get much less), but when benefits are included, the total cost to the district runs just over $ 100,000.

Subsequently, elementary school teachers, seeing the financial benefits of holding such a degree, have caught up, and they are just about as likely to hold that advanced degree as their high school counterparts.

Even teachers who do qualify for a pension after just five years aren't likely to see much in benefits because benefits are heavily backloaded.

On one side, it could encourage teachers who are a few years short of normal retirement age to stick it out in a job they are less than invested in, just to maximize their pension benefits.

It's not just especially low - or high - performing kids who benefit, says David Gibson, codirector of the SimSchool PT3 Project, a Vermont - based organization that develops a desktop game to train future teachers for the classroom.

About 4,800 teachers in Texas and Georgia in the past few years have done just that — or used similar tactics to maximize their retirement benefits.

This means that math and language teachers can benefit from the site's offerings just as much as football and basketball coaches.

Just as we would expect classes like music and physical education to be taught by instructors with some specialization in the domain, students may also benefit by sharing math teachers who are most comfortable with the subject.

It's not just supporting teachers and students — out of school students and adults have also benefited from the centres, which have also been set up in refugee camps in Burundi and Ethiopia.

Getting involved in a robotics program has added another dimension to STEM learning at Queensland's Grace Lutheran College, but it's not just students who are benefiting — the college also provides free training to educators from other schools to help build teacher capacity.

To sum up, our evidence confirms that the students of high - VA teachers benefit not just by scoring higher on math and reading tests at the end of the school year, but also through improved outcomes later in life.

Teacher Patricia Allen has seen her students benefit from the word wall that has a prominent spot in her kindergarten classroom, but she sees an added benefit for herself as well: «In all honesty,» Allen told Education World, «I like the word wall because it offers a visual reminder to me to expose my students to words throughout the day, not just at writing time or other isolated occasions.»

Male Teachers Show That Real Men Read A library media specialist thought posters showing real men reading and men talking about the benefits of reading could be just the thing to encourage more boys to pick up books.

Improving performance: it's not just teachers who recognise the benefits.

Tier 2 offers worse benefits for new teachers: it has a higher minimum service requirement (up from five to 10 years, making it more difficult for new teachers to qualify for a minimum benefit), a higher normal retirement age (meaning teachers have fewer years to collect pension payments over a lifetime), a less generous pension formula (calculating the final average salary from the last eight years of service instead of just four), and a lower COLA.

[5] The turmoil in Wisconsin got the most attention as the state limited bargaining to just wages and benefits and removed larger issues such as class sizes and teacher assignment policies.

Teacher pension plans are already in bed with Wall Street; the «retirement security crisis» narrative ignores data showing that elderly Americans are doing better and better; today's defined benefit pension plans just don't work that well for most teachers; and the costs of today's pension plans are enormous and are affecting schools and other public services.

Teacher quality is the most important in - school factor related to students» academic success, and low - income students benefit most when taught by skilled teachers.9 Just as in other sectors, strategic recruitment in the education sector is critical to identify candidates who are likely to succeed.

As parents and public school advocates join teachers and their unions in this historic battle to ensure our public schools are run for the benefit of the public and not corporate America, we should be just as loud and clear that our schools need far more IAs and that IAs deserve far better pay.

For a new, 25 - year - old teacher just starting out in Kentucky, she must commit to 26 or 27 years of continuous service before her pension benefit will be worth more than her own contributions.

Just as students can benefit from seeing their progress, teachers need ways to track student progress for each student.

Without remedying teacher pay and benefits, the quality of the teacher workforce and the pipeline leading to it will continue to suffer in not just those states that are striking but in all states where teacher and educational conditions are weak.

But ambiguous actions like «provide for effective teacher hiring and recruitment... and retention practices» leaves one wondering if this is just a euphemism for salary and benefit increases (at the same time the district is offering every single parcel of «excess» property it owns for sale in an effort to balance it's huge budget deficit, really?).

Just last year, a study from the Center for Benefit - Cost Studies in Education at Columbia University's Teachers College found that high - quality, research - validated SEL programs return $ 11 for every $ 1 invested.

Furthermore, teacher educators should explore the benefits and drawbacks of different technology media as related to reflective practice, just as they should «experiment with the form, process and method of reflection» itself (Shoffner, 2008, p. 132).

A teacher who teaches for 9 years just falls short, earning neither pension benefits nor Social Security for her time in the classroom.

This is true for all teachers, not just charters, but charters participating in pension plans will have to contribute the same amount as all other schools, even if their teachers aren't benefitting and they weren't responsible for the accumulated debt.

Below I offer just a few of the numerous roles and benefits associated with this simple but complex and compelling teacher...

For maximum benefit, behavior expectations should be consistent from classroom to classroom and teacher to teacher — just like your academic standards.

Just as students benefit from participating in decorating their classrooms, teachers should have input into what happens on those days before students arrive.

PLCs therefore benefit teachers just as much as they do students.

Notably, black students did not seem to benefit much more from having more than one black teacher in grades 3 - 5 as compared to having just one — even a single teacher of the same race seemed to make a big difference.

Inspired by the idea that the field of ELA, as a whole, would benefit from an updated portrait of English teacher preparation, a group of English educators decided to investigate, broadly, just how the discipline of ELA has changed since Smagorinsky and Whiting's (1995) study.

But as the Shanker researchers attest, it's not just students of color who benefit from diverse teachers; all students do.

The new benefits are important, he says, but regular turnover of teachers makes it «easy to feel like I can just be replaced.»

What is becoming clear through empirical evidence is that all students — not just those of color — benefit from increased teacher diversity generally, and Black male educators specifically.

Just like other professionals — engineers, architects, and designers, to name only a few — teachers also benefit from a team approach to improving their craft and from the support that peers provide.