Sentences with phrase «less effective teachers»

The initiatives respond to the concern that disadvantaged students may be taught by less effective teachers and that this could contribute to the achievement gap between disadvantaged students and other students.

Many were replaced by a parade of less effective teachers, including many short - term substitutes.

The evidence at first seems contradictory, as the quality of instruction appears to decline following turnover despite the fact that most work shows higher attrition for less effective teachers.

The alternative being replacing an ineffective teacher by an even less effective teacher.

Less effective teachers know the same things, but don't act to change their practices.

It has long been recognized that low - income students of color generally receive less effective teachers.

Given that there is a significant difference between the achievement of students taught by effective teachers and those taught by less effective teachers, what changes in policy would you recommend?

Students who have the most effective teachers make gains three times as large as those with less effective teachers, according to experts such as Stanford University's Eric Hanushek, whose specialty is economic analysis of educational issues.

An interview with Dan Goldhaber about new research on the impact of disadvantaged kids being assigned less effective teachers.

[2] With the exception of how many years a teacher has taught, however, what separates highly effective teachers from less effective teachers has proven to be a tough nut to crack, and, relatedly, far less evidence exists about how to move teachers from the lower side of the effectiveness curve to the higher side.

It may, for example, be helpful to assign more students to the most effective teachers, to give less effective teachers a chance to improve, to equalize access to high - quality instruction, and to pay highly effective teachers more.

Low - income students get less effective teachers: Disadvantaged students receive less effective teaching, on average, compared with other students.

Amid budget cuts in U.S. public schools, the spotlight is on how to make less effective teachers more effective — fast.

However, New York City revamped the system in 2012 to make it more challenging for educators to receive tenure, and this in turn has led less effective teachers to voluntarily exit the school system.

Further, policies must be structured in ways that tease out the attributes and skills of excellent educators and identify and develop these in less effective teachers.

What's your feeling about the statement «it is abundantly clear that effective and less effective teachers plan differently» (p. 48)?

Quality - blind layoffs can cost students entire months of learning: When schools lay off teachers based on seniority instead of performance, they lose better teachers and keep less effective teachers more than 80 percent of the time.

He said the Dance of the Lemons results in the transfer of less effective teachers to economically disadvantaged schools because an «(ineffective) teacher can exist without parent pressure at a lower - end school.»

For her part, Laughner has no problem being judged based on her students» test scores and says she doesn't want to be «lumped in» with less effective teachers.

The Court of Appeal acknowledged that the challenged statutes increase the number of ineffective teachers in California schools and that low - income and minority students in California are disproportionately taught by less effective teachers.

He concluded that «The teaching - quality imbalance especially hurts the neediest students because «rather than assign them more effective teachers to help close the gap with white students they're assigned less effective teachers, which results in the gap being slightly wider in the following year.»

If our major policy focus is to improve student achievement by improving teacher effectiveness — accounting for 30 per cent of the variance in student achievement — we must attract higher - quality applicants to the teaching profession, improve our teacher education institutions and courses, esteem and grow those teachers who demonstrate expert potential, and mandate teacher development programs for less effective teachers.

They get less effective teachers.

Poor children are often assigned to less effective teachers and have fewer resources in their schools.

To support the development of young students — particularly in low - income schools, which are at risk for having less effective teachers and less engaged students — researchers are looking to classroom interventions focused on social - emotional learning.

Has Newark been having the «right» turnover — i.e., have less effective teachers been leaving at higher rates than more effective teachers?

The more effective approach would be to look at the same data and say, «What might help to elevate the less effective teachers?

Among elementary school teachers for whom direct measures of effectiveness in raising student achievement were available, less effective teachers were also more likely to be dismissed.

A report by the Sutton Trust in 2011, found a 40 per cent difference between pupils learning from a teacher of high quality than from a less effective teacher.

Can student test performance reliably identify more and less effective teacher - preparation programs?

It's taken as an article of faith in the education reform community: we're screwing poor kids by giving them less effective teachers than their more affluent peers enjoy.

Less effective teachers, when they earn tenure, are assigned classrooms of students just like more effective teachers.

When we looked at the persistent component of teacher effectiveness, we found that the best teachers have a large positive impact on their students» academic performance relative to that of a less effective teacher.

Can outcomes like student test performance reliably identify more or less effective teacher - preparation programs?

Unfortunately the same is also often true when someone student - teaches with a less effective teacher.

Ashton references studies showing a great teacher can help students achieve 1.5 years of learning in just one year, while a less effective teacher can cause students to lose half a year.

The higher the poverty rate, the more likely students are to be taught by a younger, less effective teacher.

High poverty schools have a greater share of the less effective teachers (who are mostly novices).

Given that the school is unlikely to replace this exceptional teacher with an equally good performer, the grade 5 cohorts will average lower achievement in the years after she leaves because one - third of the students will now have a less effective teacher than did the students in the previous cohorts.

Students enrolled in successive classes taught by effective teachers show greater gains in student performance than student groups taught by less effective teachers (Sanders & Rivers, 1996).

Compounding this, students with disabilities typically have access to less effective teachers and less rigorous coursework.

«We share the deep concerns of parents, educators and advocates that New York City's decision to fill staffing vacancies using the Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR) will do the opposite: assign struggling and less effective teachers to disproportionately serve students of color and low - income students.

The rationale is straightforward: Larger classes for the best teachers benefit the pupils who are reassigned to them; they also help the less effective teachers improve their instruction by enabling them to concentrate on fewer students.

Professor Burgess, however, is more prosaic: «It is likely to be true, if unhappy, and unsurprising... that pupils from disadvantaged families on average are taught by less effective teachers.»