Sentences with phrase «kinds of teacher tenure»

The U.S. Department of Education should fund research and pilot demonstration programs that will provide empirical evidence of how effective different kinds of teacher tenure policies are on raising teacher quality and student achievement

Not exact matches

They can be used in a variety of classrooms and can be carried out by any kind of teacher (tenured and / or nontenured) The explanations are explicit and understandable.

In California, a teacher can receive tenure after two years — no other profession provides that kind of job security.

• Unions are not interested in children getting a good education — they insist on tenure (aka a job for life) and seniority for all teachers — good and bad — and are vehemently against any kind of pay for performance.

With respect to tenure decisions, first of all, you need to have — in the system, you need to have clear standards that you're going to evaluate the teacher against, that express the kind of teaching practices that are expected; and a way of collecting evidence about what the teacher does in the classroom.

These days, with the federal Race to the Top program and state legislation loosening teacher tenure, many districts across the country are looking for a new kind of school leader — principals with an intense focus on evaluating teachers, helping them improve, rewarding those deemed «most effective,» and firing ones who are persistently substandard.

I think it's also possible that — having watched a lot of school districts over the years — not having a moment at which you have to make a tenure decision could allow districts to just keep fairly mediocre teachers along, without doing the due diligence of making a decision in the early years that would protect kids from teachers just kind of hanging on.

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.