There are substantially
more students per every teacher in California than there are in Vermont.
The advantage of having
more students per teacher is offset by other factors that reduce reliability in middle school.
Take a tip from some of the pioneer districts currently running successful distance learning programs like the one in Riverside, California; there is no escaping the fact that
the more students per teacher, the less individualization per student.
Not exact matches
In fact, compared with elementary schools, middle grade schools often have
more students per grade, lower levels of
student autonomy, less positive
teacher -
student relationships, and
more competition and less cooperation among
students.
Confidence and well - being The improvement of social skills following a successful school trip is dramatic; Learning Away's recent survey of UK schools found that 87
per cent of
students felt
more confident trying new things, whilst 60
per cent of
teachers noticed increased confidence, resilience and well - being.
While there may be other mechanisms through which increased school spending improves
student outcomes, these results suggest that the positive effects are driven, at least in part, by some combination of reductions in class size, having
more adults
per student in schools, increases in instructional time, and increases in
teacher salaries that may help to attract and retain a
more highly qualified teaching workforce.
Pension contributions amount to 17 percent of a
teacher's salary, on average, or
more than $ 1,100
per student nationwide (see Figure 1).
More than 80
per cent of secondary
students felt that the residential had helped improve their relationships with their peers and
teachers.
The resources available for this study ($ 500,000, or roughly $ 8,000
per teacher) would certainly have been
more than enough to perform a rigorous analysis of the performance of National Board
teachers vis - à - vis unsuccessful candidates, using a random sample of the two groups and adjusting for
students» socioeconomic status and previous achievement levels.
By contrast, negative
teacher -
student relations seem to undermine
students» confidence and lead to greater anxiety: On average across countries,
students are about 62
per cent
more likely to get very tense when they study, and about 31
per cent
more likely to feel anxious before a test if they perceive that their
teacher thinks they are less smart than they really are.
More than 46 per cent of pupils also said they revise for five or more hours every week, and one - fifth of students said they don't feel supported by teach
More than 46
per cent of pupils also said they revise for five or
more hours every week, and one - fifth of students said they don't feel supported by teach
more hours every week, and one - fifth of
students said they don't feel supported by
teachers.
More than 40
per cent of
teachers reported a decline in support from the Department in relation to
student behaviour and welfare.
In this four - year longitudinal class - size study,
more than 7,000
students in 79 schools were randomly assigned to one of three classroom situations: small class (13 to 17
students per teacher), regular class (22 to 25
students per teacher), or regular class with a full - time
teacher's aide.
And with forty school visits, ten workshops for K - 12
teachers, two week - long field trips, an annual openhouse event at CSU, and even a television show on a station operated by the city «sPoudre School District, Jones and the Little Shop of Physics bring hands - on scienceto
more than 15,000
students per year.
Research (by Irenee Beattie, Josipa Roksa, and Richard Arum) that examined appellate court cases from 2000 to 2002 found that, on average, those cases emerged from secondary schools with 29 percent nonwhite
students compared to 37 percent nonwhite
students in the national population of secondary schools (the latter weighted for enrollment size to be comparable to the court case data); appellate cases also emanated from schools with
more educational resources
per student (
student /
teacher ratios of 16.3 compared to 17.5 nationally).
By teaching
more students and achieving excellence in teams,
teachers can earn
more from existing
per - pupil funding, even after new costs for technology and additional paraprofessional support.
Students with a positive relationship with their
teachers showed 18
per cent
more prosocial behaviour towards their peers and were up to 38
per cent less likely to be aggressive towards their peers, compared to pupils who felt ambivalent or negative toward their
teacher.
Teachers can then, at a glance, see marks, listening duration and
more, for individual
students or classes, and order them to previous attainment — allowing them to spot exemplary or deficient patterns in knowledge
per student and use this to build a
more complete profile of their learning.
There is one focused course of study (history, language - English and Spanish - and the arts; mathematics, science, and technology; and health); everyone is enrolled in it; an appropriate path for each
student is developed (every child has a «personal learning plan»); most
teachers have responsibility for no
more than 50
students (this on a
per - pupil budget that is the same or less than in nearby public secondary schools).
Learning Away's recent survey of UK schools found that as a result of going on a school trip, 87
per cent of
students felt
more confident trying new things, whilst 60
per cent of
teachers noticed increased confidence, resilience and wellbeing in their
students.
Researchers Martin West and Ludger Woessmann have pointed out that several nations that perform impressively on international assessments, including South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan, boast average middle - school class sizes of
more than 35
students per teacher.
Of course, some
teachers really do buy school supplies with their own money (which should make people wonder what kind of education system would make that necessary after spending an average of
more than $ 12,000
per student each year).
If policymakers had maintained the same overall
teacher - to -
student ratio since the 1970s, we would need 1 million fewer
teachers, training could be focused on a smaller and
more able population, and average
teacher pay would be close to $ 75,000
per year.
We also control for the total number of minutes
per week that the
teacher reported teaching the math or science class, as
more total instructional time could have an independent effect on
student learning.
On the positive side, the schools would stay open: They would remain in their current locations; the
students and
teachers were welcome to return; and, best of all, because they would be fully public, the schools would receive
more than $ 10,000 in government aid
per student.
Teachers have no idea how much money their local school districts spend
per student, they just want
more spending.
These classes have fewer
students per teacher, allowing for
more individualized attention.
Teachers surveyed in the 2015 Education Next poll estimated that their local school district spends a little
more than $ 7,000
per student.
If the size of our
teacher force had merely kept pace with
student growth and we spent the extra money attracting
more - accomplished individuals to the field, today's average
teacher salary would be close to $ 100,000
per year.
The ANOVA on time spent in whole group, F (2, 60) = 8.66, p <.01, indicated that
students with
teachers rated as least accomplished spent
more time in whole - group instruction (M = 47.94 minutes
per day) than
teachers rated as moderately accomplished (M = 28.98 mpd) or
teachers rated as most accomplished (M = 24.69 mpd).
ISSUE 3: Bonuses for AP
Teachers Arizona Department of Education will be administering an AP incentive program in which $ 450
per passing score is distributed to schools serving 50 % or
more FRL
students and $ 300
per passing score goes to all other schools.
The ANOVA on time spent in small - group instruction revealed an effect for level of
teacher accomplishment, F (2, 60) = 3.08, p =.05, with
students in the classrooms of
teachers rated as most accomplished spending
more time in small - group instruction (M = 48.25 minutes
per day) than
students with
teachers rated as moderately accomplished (M = 38.67 mpd), who, in turn, spent
more time than
students with
teachers rated as least accomplished (M = 25.35 mpd).
For example, both elementary and secondary
teachers in Michigan reported spending over three hours
per week on comprehension strategies and having
students respond to what they read, and slightly
more than one - half hour
per week on basic skills, such as phonics and word recognition.
Tukey post hoc tests revealed that
students of
teachers in the most effective schools spent
more time daily in small - group instruction (M = 59.02 minutes
per day) than
students of
teachers in the moderately effective schools (M = 26.10 mpd) or least effective schools (M = 37.94 mpd).
When excellent
teachers reach
more students,
per - pupil funds are freed to cover higher pay and other priorities — in some cases for all
teachers, not just the best.
«New York spends
more per pupil than any other state and double the national average, and yet we still fail to give
students in Brownsville quality
teachers who are supported and have the proper tools to succeed.»
And a middle or high school
teacher in the bottom 5 percent can do even
more harm, as he or she may have 150
students per year.
Within a series of prior posts (see, for example, here and here), I have written about what the Every
Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed in December of 2015, means for the U.S., or
more specifically states» school and
teacher evaluation systems as
per the federal government's prior mandates requiring their use of growth and value - added models (VAMs).
As
per a
more detailed post about this lawsuit, «The state's largest association for
teachers filed a second lawsuit on behalf of a Knox County
teacher, calling the use of the Tennessee Value - Added Assessment System (TVAAS), which uses
students» growth on state assessments to evaluate
teachers, unconstitutional.
At the average annual
per - pupil expenditure of approximately $ 11,800, 30 fewer
students could mean an annual loss of just
more than $ 350,000, enough to pay six
teachers» salaries.
Maybe if we covered fewer standards
per year in greater depth and gave classroom
teachers the education and tools (not just cute tricks) to effectively implement some level of real differentiated instruction,
more students could gain by staying in heterogenous classrooms
more of the time.
«We are able to get a lot
more skills covered in 45 minutes
per day when we do it schoolwide because instead of just using two or three
teachers to cover two to four skills, we can cover 21 skills,» said Slovacek, who reassesses all 338
students every three weeks and rotates them to new groups as they master each skill.
Many districts that were spending less
per student at that time have been locked in at lower
per - pupil spending levels, and leaders of such districts have said this has made it difficult to keep up with other districts that can spend
more on
teachers and programs.
When
teachers reach
more students, additional
per - pupil funds become available to support those
teachers» work.
Fordham today released a paper by Michael Hansen projecting the impact on
student learning if excellent eighth - grade
teachers — those in the top 25 percent — were responsible for six or 12
more students per class.
Math
teachers accelerate
students» fulfillment of our mission by providing
more time to engage with adults in concentrated periods of study including school - wide Enrichment Week, two hours of After School
per week and daily Advisory.
You would have to have a lot
more teachers per student, which is costly on the front end.
At least two Special Education Assistants (SEAs) will be assigned
per teacher, unless
more SEA support is necessary to balance the
teacher - to -
student - needs ratio.
: The worst
student to
teacher ratios in the country; near the worst
per pupil funding in the US; low starting salary schedules that shortchange new
teachers so the oldest
teachers can be overpaid, though all do the same work; LIFO policies so that younger
teachers are always fired first no matter how good they are and no matter how poor senior
teachers are;
teacher layoffs expected at every recession, with waves of recessions expected indefinitely; bad funding in the absence of recessions and worse funding in recessions; constant loading with additional requirements and expectations; poor and worsening
teacher morale; poor and worsening working conditions; ugly architecturally uninspired facilities and often trashy temporary classrooms; inadequate learning materials, resources and technology; inadequate administrative support with the worst
student / administrator ratios in the county; inadequate librarian, psychologist, behavioral specialist, counselor, nurse support due to the worst ratios; inadequate
student discipline structures; and much
more...
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teacher ratios in the country; near the worst
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