Sentences with phrase «model of a single teacher»

Value - added analysis built around the model of a single teacher leading a class of 25 students might make it impossible for schools to pursue more personalized instructional models, or models in which a team of professionals is responsible for raising achievement.

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While many people tend to believe a single woman raising a son alone will have significant difficulties, and raise a boy who is gender - confused or worse, the fact is that there are male role models all around most boys, whether in the form of grandfathers, uncles, teachers, pastors, or mentors.

On the basis of these survey results, we created three measures: (1) the principal's overall assessment of the teacher's effectiveness, which is a single item from the survey; (2) the teacher's ability to improve student academic performance, which is a simple average of the organization, classroom management, reading achievement, and math achievement survey items; and (3) the teacher's ability to increase student satisfaction, which is a simple average of the role model and student satisfaction survey items.

First and most obvious, we've organized the entire, massive K — 12 system around an age - based, grade - level, 180 - days - per - year calendar; around mostly self - contained and generally low - tech classrooms; and around a pedagogical model centered on a single teacher teaching a uniform curriculum to twenty to thirty children for a prescribed amount of time each day, children who don't have much in common except that they're more or less the same age and (usually) live in pretty much the same community.

Now, in its second year, the school has shifted away from a single - provider model to instead making teachers the primary designers of the blended - learning models in their individual classrooms by using a wider range of tools.

A teacher leader program can be built around a single model of release time - only full - time release teacher leaders, or only part - time release teacher leaders, or only teacher leaders who have no release time from the classroom.

This model is designed to help teachers incorporate the highest - impact instructional practices: classroom discussion, debate, and repeated reading of text to ensure the greatest literacy achievement in a single school year.

FEATURES Access 468 activities for Grades K - 8 Hands - on activities that model concrete representations of abstract mathematical concepts Teacher support that provides in - depth discussions of mathematical content Easy - to - use resources that offer classroom - tested lesson plans targeting big ideas of math INCLUDES Access to a searchable library of 468 Super Source lessons Single - user license

Whereas traditional evaluations tend to be one - dimensional, relying exclusively on a single observation of a teacher in a classroom, more comprehensive models capture a richer picture of a teacher's performance.

That's especially true when the one promoting a single model of teaching was once Teacher in Residence at the DfE.

Commonly used models have standard errors as high as 36 % for a single year of data, and they would require a decade of data to reduce the likelihood of mislabeling a teacher to 12 %.

Approach: The unified and single approach of the Haberman Educational Foundation is to teach and implement a research - based model for how teachers and principals are identified and interviewed, particularly those educators who serve students at risk and in poverty (for purposes of this RFP, «research - based» is defined as those results of staff development that apply research to educator decision - making; see NSDCProcessStandards www.nsdc.org/library/standards2001.html.)

To date, more than 250,000 students are now served in this growing portfolio of reform models, which include single - gender academies, partnership schools, in - district teacher led academies called «pilot» schools that operate under a reform labor contract and charter schools.