Sentences with phrase «lower teacher attrition»

Providing a dynamic environment of resources and community support, enabled by information and communications technologies, may be one way to help achieve lower teacher attrition and, as a result, better student outcomes.

School leaders who support teachers with instructional resources, teaching materials, and professional learning opportunities have also been associated with lower teacher attrition rates.

The deeper, longer recession after the financial meltdown in 2007 - 9 appears related to even lower teacher attrition rates.

For example, principals who do not «view themselves as traditional, omnipotent, «top - down» administrators» have been associated with low teacher attrition rates.

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From high to low and back again, teacher attrition in Colorado has stayed in a relatively small band of 3 - 4 percentage points.

In other words, IMPACT's minimally effective rating increased the attrition of lower - performing teachers from 20 percent to 30 percent, an increment of 50 percent.

Because teachers have such high attrition rates in the early years of their career, the median state assumes that more than 70 of teachers will be gone before even this lower break - even point.

In fact, teaching fellows have slightly lower attrition rates in the first two years than traditionally certified teachers.

Thomas Dee and James Wyckoff found that dismissal threats increased the voluntary attrition of low - performing teachers by more than 50 percent.

The researchers also found that dismissal threats shaped the district's teaching workforce through the voluntary attrition of low - performing teachers.

Some 95 percent of Teacher U's 2010 graduates and 98 percent of its 2011 graduates met the 70 percent targets, he said, although the graduation rate over the two - year master's program is lower, between 70 percent and 80 percent because of attrition, Hostetter noted.

Mindful of problems with permission, attrition, and absences, we asked each teacher, in the fall, to select four average - achieving and four low - achieving children, based on teachers» perceptions of reading performance (or emergent literacy performance), to complete pretests.

There is no doubt in my mind that Mayor Bill de Blasio is taking the right approach to helping schools that have been struggling with low test scores, graduation rates and teacher attrition.

Moreover, these high attrition rates mean that Black and other students of color often end up with inexperienced teachers, also resulting in lowered test scores.

Mitra describes how a high school in California that serves many low - income students and English language learners (and with a high dropout and teacher attrition rate) involved students extensively in its school reform efforts.

Not surprisingly, then, principal quality influences teacher attrition even more in schools with large proportions of low - income and minority students.

In this paper, Dee and Wyckoff (2013) presented what they termed to be «novel evidence» to suggest that the «uniquely high - powered incentives» linked to «teacher performance» via DC's IMPACT initiative worked to improve the performance of high - performing teachers, and that dismissal threats worked to increase the voluntary attrition of low - performing teachers, as well as improve the performance of the students of the teachers who replaced them.

... Not surprisingly, our schools end up with high teacher attrition and low student achievement.

As Elias is making the state's case against the lower court ruling, he points to the high teacher attrition rate, saying California loses 22 percent of the workforce in the first four years of teaching.

Nine out of 10 Ross students receive free or reduced - price lunch, and the school has faced an all - too - familiar slate of challenges — a yawning achievement gap, low enrollment, teacher attrition, and minimal parental engagement.

On the Path to Equity includes a state - by - state breakdown detailing the number of teachers leaving the profession, as well as a low and high estimate of teacher attrition costs.

As part of the school improvement planning process, districts will be required to differentiate their retention data of top performers, growth of teachers and leaders from lower levels of effectiveness to effective, and attrition of less effective teachers and leaders.

The authors, Thomas Dee and James Wyckoff (2013), present what they term «novel evidence» to suggest that the «uniquely high - powered incentives» linked to «teacher performance» worked to improve the «performance» of high - performing teachers, and that «dismissal threats» worked to increase the «voluntary attrition of low - performing teachers.»

How do alternative teacher certification programs like Teach for America (TFA), which require a two - year commitment from corps members to teach in low - income urban and rural schools, contribute to teacher attrition?

Two recent studies show D.C.'s performance pay system has a positive impact on both teacher and student performance, and increased the voluntary attrition of low - performing teachers.

This phenomenon would be expected to act synergistically to enhance teacher quality over time, as lower rates of attrition particularly would tend to increase the experience level and overall effectiveness of the teaching force, especially in large urban districts, and save funds on teacher training at the same time.

Salaries also appear to influence teacher attrition — teachers are more likely to quit when they work in districts with lower wages.

Most scholars who have studied these issues such as Richard Ingersoll of the University of Pennsylvania and Linda Darling Hammond of the Learning Policy Institute, conclude that the shortages result from teacher attrition more than the underproduction of teachers, and that attrition is a consequence of low teacher compensation and benefits, poor induction and working conditions, as well the general blaming and shaming of teachers for the problems of society and the accountability systems that have been developed reflecting this view.