Sentences with phrase «keeping teacher quality»

These patterns suggest that increasing exposure to black teachers is beneficial at best and neutral at worst for all students in terms of discipline, and that increasing teacher diversity while keeping teacher quality constant would have a modest positive effect on the reading achievement of black students while having an opposite effect on the math achievement of white students.

For many years, talented women had few career alternatives to nursing and teaching; this kept teacher quality artificially high.

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In addition, we like to keep the student / teacher ratio low to ensure you get a high quality program.

And yet teachers have no desire to keep in the profession people who are clearly not up to the job, patients don't care who provides their healthcare so long as it's good quality and free at the point of delivery, and no police officer would defend being able to receive # 100 just for answering a telephone call.

You have to decide where you want to do your teacher training from, keeping in mind your budget as well as the quality of yoga teaching.

Here are Lennartz's tips for choosing and keeping quality teachers at your studio.

However, teachers should keep a few things in mind when creating quality rubrics:

And to be sure, you can find examples of unions — of police, firefighters, even teachers — who have agreed to freeze wages or reduce benefits in order to protect the quality of services or keep colleagues from being laid off.

If school districts — most of which are experiencing what promises to be only the beginning of a serious teacher shortage — are going to attract and keep quality people, they do need to offer competitive salaries and performance - based incentives.

The government can keep a quality check on the course material produced in the capital city of their state by ensuring courses produced are not only through experience teachers but are also developed with a right mix of visual experience to help students better relate to them.

If teachers keep an eye on their students and provide strong support to them, more quality courses will be delivered.

The research keeps coming back to this critical point: student progress is the yardstick by which teacher quality should be assessed.»

It explains how a child or group of children can learn how to do these skips, tells you where to source quality jump ropes, provides links to websites where you can source great video demonstration clips and also provides you with a useful individual pupil record sheet - where children can record their progress and teachers can keep a record of school skipping records.

Research shows that high quality teaching and leadership teams learn from each other's practices, experiences and support, and that's why we will always keep you, the reader, at the heart of Teacher magazine, providing educators and educational leaders with a strong voice and a platform to share and collaborate.

Perhaps flow is the secret to transforming schools, retaining quality teachers, and keeping kids in school.

The WINGS teachers keep detailed logs of their interactions with students in an online data system, which supervisors use to evaluate the teachers and ensure quality.

Four Rules to Keep Your Best Subs Coming Back Learn what schools can do to guarantee the highest quality education possible in the absence of the permanent classroom teacher.

A computer - based evaluation system, in which teachers keep detailed logs of their interactions with kids, helps Laird and the four program directors (one per school site) track their performance and maintain quality.

Our provision of high quality continuing professional development for teachers is designed to help them keep up to date with use of new technologies available for the subject.

To improve the quality of teaching by keeping teachers» knowledge up - to - date the MESH system is testing: • Pooling quality - assured knowledge for teachers (subject content and pedagogy) • Providing open access, updatable, trusted, research summaries.

Sign our petition today and demand that schools have the funding needed to keep teachers in the classroom, support staff in our schools and provide the quality education that our students deserve.

With Study.com students can access quality videos and assessments with each lesson and teachers can keep resources organized and ready for differentiation.

There are now several new gate - keeping measures to test teacher quality introduced by universities in the last two to three years.

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Kati Haycock, who leads the Washington - based advocacy group Education Trust, called the November change an «about - face» that let states «keep sweeping under the rug the gaps in teacher quality that contribute so heavily to longstanding achievement gaps.»

There are a number of potential explanations for this finding, including a limited supply of effective teachers (it's rational to keep a mediocre teacher if the likely replacement will be no better), a lack of administrator ability to discern teacher quality (their observations are less predictive of value - added than those of outside observers), or a simple unwillingness to make the unpleasant decision of firing someone.

It has quality standards that are high and in keeping with those proposed by the Obama administration under Preschool for All, including the requirement of a licensed teacher in each classroom, no more than 10 children per adult, and an approved and appropriate curriculum.

Retain high - quality teachers: Districts should increase the salaries of highly effective teachers — particularly in high - needs schools — to keep our best teachers in the classroom.

I'm talking about things like teacher licensing mandates, which researchers have long found do not improve teacher quality and traffic in disproven education fads (but do provide easy - access cash cows for state departments of education and teacher colleges since teachers are required to keep buying their products to maintain certification); ever - increasing testing and data - entry mandates; centralized curriculum mandates like Common Core; centralized teacher evaluation and ratings systems; and the massive data entry required to document things like student behavior problems and special education services.

Add in certification rules that keep mid-career professionals with strong math and science skills out of teaching, near - lifetime employment policies and discipline processes that keep laggard and criminally - abusive teachers in the profession, and practices that all but ensure that low - quality teachers are teaching the poorest children, and shoddy teacher training perpetuates the nation's educational caste system.

WALLINGFORD, CT — The state's largest teachers» union is criticizing a plan by state Education Commissioner Betty Sternberg to offer bonuses and an exchange program to keep quality teachers from fleeing city schools.

Well, its a policy that, if used to support keeping quality teachers in the classroom, need not be broken.

Your editor has long criticized the law's Highly Qualified Effective Teacher provision for being a rather wishy - washy element that merely allowed states and districts to simply allow laggard teachers to keep their jobs by magically certifying them as high quality.

The report recommended that: policy makers ensure curriculum and assessments are aligned at state, district and local levels; districts survey teachers on test prep activities and keep those that are highly rated, while dropping those that aren't; districts expand access to technology so students can develop skills before taking tests and teachers can support them; and districts only use interim tests aimed at predicting performance on end - of - the - year tests, if teachers believe they are high - quality.

For example, in the teacher quality lawsuits, we're helping families fight against unjust laws that keep poorly - performing teachers in the classroom and make it harder for schools to keep their best teachers.

One reason is that the principal is the single most important factor in determining whether a school can attract and keep the high - quality teachers necessary to turn around struggling schools.

The state and the unions argued that the laws help school districts attract and retain teachers while the plaintiffs countered that they keep in place ineffective teachers whose instructional skills deny students the promise of a quality public education.

When bargaining again, OUSD and OEA would be wise to prioritize a clear and transparent framework for teacher leadership in Oakland to keep quality teachers here, rather than training them up and sending them off to greener pastures.

This research - based model allowed us to develop our skills through the first three years, and needs to be a part of any effort to keep quality teachers at demanding schools.

Teachers teach for a host of reasons that go well beyond money, but the net effect of refusing to compensate educators is that the highest quality candidates become more difficult to attract and keep in the profession.

I want to keep high quality teachers in the classroom — I don't want to chase them out into administration or other jobs.»

That could keep good quality teachers in the classroom longer to help mentor this younger generation of teachers.

We need to keep high quality veteran teachers, and to do that we need to pay them appropriately — and we have not,» he said.

In fact classroom overcrowding and teachers kept due to seniority instead of quality and student progress is detrimental to their education.

22 — rank of North Carolina among the 50 states in average teacher pay in 2003 - 2004 («How to Build an Economy that Works for All: Attract — and Keep — High - Quality Teachers in the Classroom with Competitive Pay,» N.C. Justice Center, October 2016)

In this piece, University of Alaska Fairbanks Researcher Barbara Adams writes about how rural schools in Alaska and around the country face challenges in hiring and keeping high - quality teachers.

The teacher - quality shop is well positioned to guide program - related professional development, while the CTE office can effectively maintain administrative components like keeping the work - based learning industry - aligned.

The North Carolina senator wants to make NCLB more flexible so that officials «can focus on the schools that are truly failing and keep quality teachers in specialized fields.»

«We need to create quality neighborhood schools where we can continue to keep our students in the same classroom while improving the conditions around them, from better facilities to specially trained principals and teachers to updated curriculum.

«How can we expect to get the kinds of high quality teachers that we need when we can't even keep our own teachers in North Carolina?»